Name/Title
Charlotte Bathrick Collection - Finding AidEntry/Object ID
2018.011.49Scope and Content
Charlotte Bathrick Collection
Finding Aid produced May, 2018
Repository
Historic Red Hook
7562 North Broadway
Red Hook, NY 12571
Accession Number
2018.011
(old accession number 2003-001)
Title
Charlotte Bathrick Collection
Extent
One record box, two document boxes and photos in photo album
Dates
1901-1991 [inclusive]
1930s-1980s [bulk]
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions
Languages
English
Scope and Content
The collection documents the Historical Club of Upper Red Hook, compiled by Charlotte Bathrick, the club’s last secretary. It includes minute books, histories, by-laws and a complete run of yearbooks which document the officers, the members and papers presented during the 90 years of the Club’s existence (1901-1991). Also included are photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings documenting the Club’s activities and some personal photos from Charlotte’s family, the Hubbards.
Record Box # 1:
Minutes books: 1936-39, 1939-40, 1941-46, 1946-50, 1950-60, 1960-70, 1970-79, 1988-1991. Plus two audiocassette tapes: 1) Clara Losee, 80th anniversary of Club 2) Bathrick interview 2002.
Also included: Donation by Shirley Brown (no date) of 1984, 85, 86 and 90 yearbooks.
Document Box #2:
Handwritten Yearbooks 1901-2, Printed Yearbooks 1903-1954.
Document Box #3:
Yearbooks 1960-1991 & Folders as follows:
Club Histories
Annual program summaries
Newsclippings
F. Palmer Hart Christmas pamphlets
Club correspondence
60th and 75th anniversary luncheon/dinner
Club Business
Club By-Laws
1934 Minutes
Reformed Church activity
Photographs in Photo Album – See Accessioned Photos 2017-2018
Biographical/Historical Note
In 1935 Mrs. Arvine (Charlotte) Hubbard Bathrick married Arvine (‘Batty’) Bathrick who had grown up on a farm in Upper Red Hook. They were very active in the St. Johns Dutch Reformed Church.
The Historical Club was founded in 1901, first briefly known as the ‘Monday Club,’ organized by Mrs. E. C. Perrine and the ladies of St. Johns Reformed Church, first for the purpose of studying the history of their church, then for studying Holland and eventually ‘world-wide subjects.’ For the first half of the 20th century it was considered a ‘closed club.’ You had to be invited to join and members were usually wives of well-off farmers and professional men, socially conservative, overwhelmingly Dutch Reformed. It became more inclusive by mid-century and was dissolved in 1991 (check?).
Provenance
There is a deed of gift signed by Charlotte Bathrick and dated Feb 15, 2003.
Copyright Notice
Courtesy of Historic Red Hook
Related Materials
Roger Leonard conducted an audio interview of Charlotte Bathrick Oct 24, 2008. See his collection of CD’s.
See p 242 in Roger Leonard’s book Upper Red Hook for an account of the Historical Club and p 300 for Bathrick genealogy.
There is a Bathrick folder in the Genealogy Files.
Processed by
Finding Aid Author: Claudine Klose, 2018
