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.
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).
[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.
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