CLUB WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA: Official Directory and Register - Giving the Officers and the Names and Addresses of All Members. Published by the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and printed in San Francisco by the Calkins Publishing House, 1907.

This was the INAUGURAL ISSUE of the CLUB WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA DIRECTORY AND REGISTER, covering the 1906-1907 club season. Subsequently it was published intermittently in 1912-1913 and 1915. The final issue was published in 1916.

Hardcovers, burgundy cloth covered boards, embossed gilt titling to the front and rear boards, 192 pages plus some bound-in ads here and there (including one for BENIOFF "The Lady's Tailor", whose direct lineage leads to Marc Benioff, the gazillionaire oligarch).

In 1907 Women's Clubs blossomed all over California - this was their heyday. Clubs in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Alameda, Napa, Oakland, Los Angeles, Whittier, Azusa, and everywhere else. Clubs such as the Shakespeare Club, Forum Club, Philomath Club, Friday Club, Oleander Study Club, and everything else! Find your city, find your club, it's here. But women only!

GOOD condition: The gilt on the covers is rubbed and faded, otherwise the book is solid, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

The California Women's Clubs, with the motto "Strength United is Stronger", played a major role in California granting women the right to vote in 1911, a full nine years before all U.S. women were given the Constitutional Right to Vote (and perhaps 115 years before the U.S. Supreme Court will take it away!)

From the Editor's Preface of this Inaugural Issue:

******It is with great pleasure that we present to the Club Women and their friends of the Pacific Coast this Club Directory and Register... Club women have become so united in their interests they are obliged to know how and where to communicate with each other.

The one thing that has gained the clubs the influence they have has been the extended association of the Women's Clubs... The club movement is one of the great factors in our social development and no effort will be spared to advance its interests. This Club Directory and Register will be in the hands of every club member, and will bind more closely the bonds between all club women. Trusting it will entirely fill the requirements for which it has been compiled, it is presented with best wishes by THE PUBLISHER.******