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Baker, Adelaide Lovett

 Person

Biography

Adelaide Lovett Baker was born in Kentucky in 1898. Baker founded the Houston Art League (today the Junior League of Houston) in 1925. The Organization promotes voluntarism and fosters women's potential through social engagement activities that benefit disadvantaged sectors of the population.

Source: Junior League of Houston, about, https://www.jlh.org/about/, accessed May 13th, 2020.

Find a Grave, Adelaide Lovett Baker, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109715612/adelaide-baker, accessed May 13th, 2020.

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Adelaide Lovett Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 9518
Dates: 1918-1926
Scope and Contents

A photocopy of Edgar Odell Lovett's address to the Houston Art League, April 12, 1918; and the 1926 Annual Report of the Fourth Annual Series of Thursday Art Reviews, Houston, Texas.