Kingstowne Music Club (Mss. Gr. 140)

The records of the Kingstowne Music Club consist largely of performance programs, minutes, and reports of the organization's activities from 1939 to 1966. Some of this material is missing for a few years in the 1940s. Reports from the organizational meetings at which the Club was founded are present, as are the original Constitution, drafted in 1939, and the revised Constitution, dated 1952. The Club kept thorough membership lists, updated yearly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. From the programs, it is possible to see exactly what music was performed, by whom, and where. Clippings from the local newspaper show reporting of the events. Material from the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Rhode Island State Federation of Music Clubs documents the Club's affiliation with those organizations. There are thank-you letters from high school students to whom the Club awarded scholarships to the University of Rhode Island Summer Music Camp in 1959. The records also contain six half-tone negatives of publicity photographs of guest musicians.

There is no indication here that the organization disbanded after 1966, but the records simply stop at that year.