Choirs (Music)--Beaumont (Tex.)

Abstract This collection is comprised of records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks related to Gladys Harned Quilliam and Jewell Harned. Gladys Quilliam and Jewel Harned were both prominent members of the musical community in Beaumont, Texas. Sisters and Tennessee natives, they moved to Beaumont, Texas as children and grew to become proficient musicians and teachers. Gladys and Jewell were both teachers at the local Harned Studios. They were also both heavily involved in local music...

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The Melody Maids were a girls' choir which traveled the United States and the world to perform for military bases from 1942 to 1972. Led by Eloise Rush Milam, the Melody Maids learned not just music, but also decorum and manners. This collection holds almost 200 scrapbooks made by Ms. Milam and the Maids during the group's thirty years of existence and the decades of celebrations and reunions that followed..