Women for Winnemucca Records

The Women for Winnemucca Records consists of materials created and collected by the group. The administrative series consists of minutes of meetings, newsletters, correspondence, bylaws, and membership rosters. The minutes provide excellent detail of the structure of the organization and how it carried out its civic projects. In many ways, it is illustrative of how modern civic groups organize and thrive with enthusiasm for their charge and later decline due to the pressure of modern life on the activities of its members. These records demonstrate the enormous achievements a small group can attain with the support of its community.

The financial records consist of treasurers' reports, ledger sheets and books, bank statements and cancelled checks, and forms and correspondence from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over the non­profit status (501(c)(3)) of Women for Winnemucca. The completeness of this subgroup thoroughly documents the income and expenses of WFW.

Series 3 comprehensively documents the heart of WFW's purpose: the projects for which and by which WFW raised money for its civic gifts. The series includes files for Christmas decorations, auctions, and rodeo parades. The files show how projects were organized and carried out. One file provides a history of the rodeo parade and names of grand marshals; others list names of parade participants and their order of march. Similarly, the auction files list names of donors, items to be auctioned, and names of purchasers.

Series 4 is an anomaly and consists of the bylaws of the Buckaroo Hall of Fame and Heritage Museum, Winnemucca (BHF). It was probably acquired as an example of organizational bylaws at the time bylaws were drafted for WFW. It has been included in the collection because of a lack of any other records documenting BHF.