Draft:Tuesday Afternoon Club
Glendale Tuesday Afternoon Club should link here
The Tuesday Afternoon Club was a social and philanthropic organization of women in Glendale, California. It started as a bridge club. It dissolved in 1999.[1][2]
The group established Glendale's first reading room and library in 1906, predecessor of the Glendale Public Library.[3] A theater was built adjacent and operated under various names before closing in the 1970s and being demolished.[4]
Afrer F. Priest designed it clubhouse. The group help findraise for a new library.
Mrs. C. E. Hutchinson headed its music section.[5]
The Los Angeles Public Library has a photo of attendees at the club's dedication[6] and of the club buildings.[7]
https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002j7qsw photo of some members
Nell Walker Warner was an art curator for the group. Sam Hyde Harris was an art instructor for the group.
Did it have a branch in Portland, Oregon that Saidie Orr Dunbar was a member of? "gardening club" seems like Women's Club[8]
- ^ https://cfverdugos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2017-Tuesday-Afternoon-Club-Scholarship-Cover-Sheet.pdf
- ^ "Case ES005476 the Tue. Afternoon Club of Glendale - Trellis: Legal Intelligence + Judicial Analytics".
- ^ "Carnegie Libraries of California - Glendale, California".
- ^ "Los Angeles Theatres: Villa Glen Theatre".
- ^ Lyons, Louis S.; Wilson, Josephine (1922). "Who's who Among the Women of California: An Annual Devoted to the Representative Women of California, with an Authoritative Review of Their Activities in Civic, Social, Athletic, Philanthropic, Art and Music, Literary and Dramatic Circles".
- ^ "00060680".
- ^ "00060666".
- ^ "Tuesday Afternoon Club records - Archives West".