http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8xw4rxk No online items Friday Morning Club Records mssFMC Brooke M. Black The Huntington Library August 2020 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Friday Morning Club Records mssFMC 1 mssFMC Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library Title: Friday Morning Club records Creator: Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.) Identifier/Call Number: mssFMC Physical Description: 45 Linear Feet(54 boxes and 108 volumes) Date (inclusive): 1770-2012 Date (bulk): 1890-1990 Abstract: Records and papers belonging to the Friday Morning Club, a women's club in Los Angeles, California, from their beginning in 1891 to their dissolution in 2012. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Friday Morning Club records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Immediate Source of Acquisition The collection is made up of several gifts: Burnham Estate in July 1937; Florence Kreider in the 1950s; The Friday Morning Club in September 1985; and Virginia T. DeZell, last president of the club, in January 2007, and December 2012. Biographical / Historical The Friday Morning Club was founded in 1891 by Caroline Severance, Los Angeles suffragist, reformer, and social activist. Caroline Severance and a group of women met at the Hollenbeck Hotel on April 16, 1891 to form a women's club and decided upon the name Friday Morning Club. Caroline Severance would become the club's first president, a position she held until 1894. After moving their meetings to various hotels for several years, the club broke ground on their own clubhouse in September 1899, on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles; it opened in 1900. The club had committees on art, science, literature, home economics, and many others. They also focused much of their work and efforts in philanthropy, volunteering, and the betterment and beautification of Los Angeles. By 1906, the club had over 1,000 members. In 1923 the club re-built a new, bigger clubhouse on the same site. In the 1970s, they sold the building but continued to meet. Due to a steadily declining membership, the club dissolved in 2012. Scope and Contents 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. Processing Information Processed by Brooke M. Black from December 2019 to March 2020. Arrangement Organized in the following series: I. Subjecy files; II. Publications; III. Albums and bound volumes; IV. Photographs, certificates, awards, and objects. Appraisal Friday Morning Club Records mssFMC 2 mssFMC During processing in 2020, 4 linear feet of out of scope material, which included some modern financial records and duplicates of publications, were deaccessioned. Related Materials Huntington Library also has a portrait of Caroline Severance. Plate reads: Portrait of Caroline M. Severance. Founder Friday Morning Club 1891. Painted by Orpha Klinker. Frame hand-carved by Rosemary Dokay. Tag reads: Portrait: 1042, Caroline Severance, Acc: 1990.6014.01, Loan The Friday Morning Club. Subjects and Indexing Terms Feminists -- United States Suffragists -- United States Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Women -- Societies and clubs Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Women in charitable work -- California -- Los Angeles (Calif.) Women philanthropists -- California -- Los Angeles (Calif.) Women volunteers in social service -- California -- Los Angeles (Calif.) Womens' rights -- United States Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Business records -- California -- 20th century Clippings (information artifacts) Financial records -- California -- 20th century Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century Manuscripts -- California -- 19th century Manuscripts -- California -- 20th century Minute books -- California -- 19th century Minute books -- California -- 20th century Newsletters -- California -- 20th century Photographs -- California -- 19th century Photographs -- California -- 20th century Scrapbooks -- California -- 20th century Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935 Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902 Graham, Margaret Collier, 1850-1910 Percival, Olive, 1869-1945 Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914 Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932 Watkins, Louise Ward, 1890-1974 Wills, Charlotte LeMoyne California Federation of Women's Clubs Friday Morning Club Records mssFMC 3 mssFMC Subject files 1770-2012 Subject files 1770-2012 Physical Description: 9.2 Linear Feet(22 boxes) Scope and Contents The Sujbect files series is chiefly made up of material that came directly from The Friday Morning Club's file cabinets. They cover the dates 1770 to 2012. In this series you will find financial documents; annual reports; manuscripts, essays, and speeches about The Friday Morning Club and other related topics (women's rights, suffrage, etc.); newspaper clippings; information about the Club's events, and charity and philanthropy work; and the club's dissolution. The series also includes several boxes of membership applications and cards from 1901 to 1985. There is also some correspondence including letters written by Caroline Severance and Susan B. Anthony. There are also several subject files about prominent members and past club presidents including: Jane E. Collier, Caroline Foster, Jessie Benton Fremont, Florence Kreider, Daisy Clark King, Margaret Collier Graham, Caroline Severance, Rebecca Spring, and Charlotte Le Moyne Wills. Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Box 1, Folder 1 A Look at the Friday Morning Club by Mildred Gambrell Adair 1966 October 28 Box 1, Folder 2 Agreement between Friday Morning Club and O. Stewart Taylor 1895 January 14 Box 1, Folder 3 Andrew D. Cooper Company 1990-1991 Box 1, Folder 4-9 Annual reports 1974-1996 Box 1, Folder 10 Appraisal of Friday Morning Club 1927-1933 Box 1, Folder 11 Appraisals 1980-1993 Box 1, Folder 12 Archives 2002 September 26 Box 2, Folder 1 Audit reports 1972-1982 Box 2, Folder 2 "B" 1985-1995 Box 2, Folder 3 Ballots 1980-1998 Box 2, Folder 4 Bazaar 1974-1982 Box 2, Folder 5 Board of Directors meeting 1982-1985 Box 2, Folder 6 Board of Education letter undated Box 2, Folder 7 Bonuses 1994-2004 Box 2, Folder 8, Bookkeepers worksheets 1981-1987 Box 3, Folder 1-2 Box 3, Folder 3 Bulletin advertising 1973-1983 Box 3, Folder 4 Burglary 1973 Box 3, Folder 5 "C" 1994 Box 3, Folder 6 California group 1966-1972 Box 3, Folder 7 California Women of the Golden West and Mrs. C. G. Spence 1937 Box 3, Folder 8 Caroline M. Severance: Feminist and Reformer, 1820-1914 by Sara Marie Stanley 1978 March 24 Box 3, Folder 9 Certification of Dissolution 2007-2012 Box 4, Folder 1 Charlotte Le Moyne Wills papers 1817-1908 Box 4, Folder 2 Charter Day 1956-1981 Box 4, Folder 3 Christmas Tea 1988-1992 Box 4, Folder 4 Mrs. O. P. Clark 1934-1944 Box 4, Folder 5 Clippings 1770-1988 Box 4, Folder 6 Jane E. Collier 1916 April 14 Box 4, Folder 7 Committee lists 1900-1999 Box 4, Folder 8-9 Contracts 1966-2004 Box 4, Folder 10 "D" 1985 Box 4, Folder 11 Virginia T. DeZell 1985-2007 Box 4, Donations 1995-2009 Folder 12-13 Box 5, Folder 1 Estate correspondence 1975-1987 Box 5, Folder 2 Events 1976-1994 Box 5, Folder 3 "F" 1974-2002 Box 5, Folder 4 Fashion show 1974-1983 Friday Morning Club Records mssFMC 4 mssFMC Subject files 1770-2012 Box 5, Folder 5 Caroline Foster 1853-1967 Box 5, Folder 6 Foundation Fund 1920-1921 Box 5, Folder 7 Bessie Bartlett Frankel 1968 February 9 Box 5, Folder 8 Jessie Benton Fremont 1897-1967 Box 5, Folder 9-12 Friday Morning Club miscellaneous 1971-2012 Box 6, Folder 1 Friday Morning Club by Margaret M. Fette 1892 Box 6, Folder 2-3 Friday Morning Club members 1894-1960 Box 6, Folder 4 Friday Morning Club Roll of Honor approximately 1918 Box 6, Folder 5 Friday Morning clubhouse inventory 1970-1985 Box 6, Folder 6 "G" 1985-1993 Box 6, Folder 7 Helen Gale 1943-1972 Box 6, Folder 8 Mrs. Boris A.