The Athena Club Records document the activities of the club from its founding to the mid-1990s. The record types consist of Vermont Federation of Women's Club handbooks, yearbooks, minutes of meetings, scrapbooks, reports, ephemera, clippings, account books, and postcards from around the world.

Collection contains ledgers of member accounts and treasurer's records, scrapbooks of photographs and clippings, a scrapbook related to the restoration of the clubhouse, and papers including board meeting minutes and reports.

Lilian Baker Carlisle (1912-2006) was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and has been an active contributor to Vermont's cultural political science as a state representative, lecturer and author. This collection consists of correspondence, papers and scrapbooks covering a broad range of topics, including material on the state bicentennial, Burlington area health services and Chittenden County historical interests.