[Scrapbooks] : [Women's Civic Action] : St. Louis, Missouri and environs: (ca. 1958-1990). Two large commercial albums, the first about 15" x 12", the second slightly smaller. Purposed as scrapbooks holding dozens of ephemeral articles, clippings and more than 75 original photographs to the rectos and versos of about 50 brown paper leaves. Contents typically adhesive mounted to pages. Many contents loose or leaning in that direction. Milld handling wear, overall well preserved and each about very good.

A pair of dense scrapbooks singularly documenting activities of the Lady Lions Council of Greater St. Louis, an organization which unified 18 individual wives’ auxillary clubs of the male-only Lions Club chapters in and around the city in April of 1958. The scrapbooks begin with the Council's inception and continue up until 1990. 

The first volume documents 1958-1971 ; the second 1971-1990, recording the service activites of the Council's membership, with an emphasis on its work with the blind, including the Missouri School for the Blind. More than 75 photographs depict members and activities, often during dinners and meetings, and dozens of ephemeral articles and clippings providing a rich unfiltered glimpse into a largely unheralded women's social aid club active in St. Louis during the mid-to-late 20th Century.