Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club Collection, 1929-1986.

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Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club Collection, 1929-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40969189

The collection contains material gathered by Lyceum members. It includes personal keepsakes of members and material related to the Lyceum collected or published in the United States after the Lyceum was closed in Cuba. It also includes programs of exhibitions, copies of statutes, calendars of activities, photographs of social gatherings and flower arrangements, yearbooks, and a felt banner made for the Lyceum in the 1950s. There is some material on Elena Mederos de González, the last president of the Lyceum, and correspondence of Dr. Rosa Abella who was responsible for initiating the gathering of this collection.

6.00 boxes (3.00 linear feet)

University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7431661

University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library

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Abella, Rosa M. , 1920-2007

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Lyceum y Lawn Tennis Club

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A women's society dedicated to promote cultural understanding, social consciousness, social service, and social events; founded by fourteen women in 1929, it was originally called the Lyceum. In 1939 the Lyceum merged with the Tennis de Señoritas, another women's organization, and it became known as the Lyceum Lawn and Tennis Club. The Lyceum Lawn and Tennis Club sponsored lectures and conferences, recitals, art and photograph exhibitions, and a variety of classes in literacy and vocational tra...

Otto G. Richter Library

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Mederos, Elena, 1900-1981

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