Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Severance Club
- Abstract:
- The Severance Club of Los Angeles was a cultural conversation group founded in 1906. The club met regularly on the second and fourth Fridays of each month. The meetings generally began with a presentation from a speaker followed by discussion. The collection contains correspondence, meeting notices, membership lists, and other printed materials related to the activities of the Severance Club.
- Extent:
- 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Severance Club Records (Collection 1394). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection contains correspondence, meeting notices, membership lists, and other printed materials related to the activities of the Severance Club. Includes a reel-to-reel recording of a memorial for Harold Hadley Story, 1963.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Severance Club of Los Angeles was a cultural conversation group founded in 1906; it was named in honor of Caroline M. Severance (1820-1914), a reformer and women's club pioneer; the club's first president was John Randolph Haynes, Los Angeles physician, civic leader, and benefactor of the Haynes Foundation; the club met regularly on the second and fourth Fridays of each month; the club's meetings generally began with a presentation from a speaker followed by discussion.
Biographical NarrativeThe Severance Club of Los Angeles was founded on June 22, 1906, and has met on the second and fourth Friday of each month ever since. The Club was named in honor of Caroline M. Severance, 1820-1914. In Boston, Mrs. Severance founded the first women's club in the United States (1868), and in Los Angeles, the Friday Morning Club (1891), the first Unitarian Church, and the first kindergarten.
Membership of the Club is by invitation. The meetings open generally with a talk by a qualified speaker, and the speech is followed by discussion among the members.
These records of the Club were donated by Mrs. Esther Schou, Second Vice-President of the Club from 1974 to 1978, and at present its archivist. For more information on the early years of the Club, consult additional related materials in Collection 995, box 5, folder 1 (Harold Hadley Story papers).
- Acquisition information:
- Boxes 1-7 of the Severance Club records were donated in 2004 by Esther Schou, who was second Vice-President of the club (1974-78) and also its archivist (1984-1993). Box 8 was donated in 2011 by Nancy Coleman, the daughter of Severance Club members.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Severance Club Records (Collection 1394). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988