Lilly de Jongh Osborne | |
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| Born | November 9, 1883 |
| Died | March 14, 1975 (aged 91) Guatemala City, Guatemala |
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Lilly de Jongh Osborne (November 9, 1883 – March 14, 1975) was a Costa Rican writer, lecturer, collector, and scholar specializing in Mesoamerican arts, crafts, and textiles. She published several works in this field. Some of her many artifacts are part of the collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Born in San José, Costa Rica, Osborne was the daughter of Dutch parents, Juan J. and Jenny G. de Jongh. She graduated from the Colegio de Senoritas (San Jose, 1900). She had been a member of various organizations including the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, El Ateneo de El Salvado, Society of Woman Geographers, and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.[1] The Guatemalan textiles which she collected in the mid to late 1930s are housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.[2] She has published extensively in this field.[3]
She married Edmund Arthur Osborne (1873–1941). There were three children, Stanley, Leslie, and Elsa.[1] Osborne died in Guatemala City, Guatemala 1975.[4]
