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California Club : The new building

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    California Club photographs

    Visual Materials

    photCL 259

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    [Dinner Menus from the California Club

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    Thirty-three, four page menus from dinners given at the California Club. This collection contain scattered isses from 1977-1983. The California Club is a prestigious members-only private social club established in 1888 in downtown Los Angeles, the second-oldest such club in Southern California.

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    Book Club of California news-letter

    Rare Books

    231110a

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    California Federation of Women's Clubs

    Manuscripts

    And Los Angeles District.

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    New England Women's Club 1868-1918

    Manuscripts

    The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.

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