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Title: Severance Club records
Collection number: 1394
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8 boxes (4 linear ft.)
Date: 1909-1992
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.
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.
Creator:
Severance Club
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.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- 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.
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.
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.
The 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).
[Identification of item], Severance Club Records (Collection 1394). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
2976834
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Severance Club--Archives.
Clubs--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Harold Hadley Story Papers (Collection 995). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.