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Four Women Exhibit Photos

Images used in Jones Memorial Library's 'Four Women: A Dunbar Centennial' Exhibit held at the library from February 27 to August 31, 2024.

Jones Memorial Library Board Meeting Minutes 14 January 1924

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 14 January 1924. The minutes reflect that Anne Spencer, recently hired as Librarian for the Dunbar Branch, received a salary of $840 for the year 1924, which translated to $70 a…

Tags: 1924, Anne Spencer, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, minutes, salaries

Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes 22 January 1925

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 22 January 1925. The minutes reflect activity of the library and its branches. Included in the minute was approval of a salary increase of $5.00 for three librarians,…

Tags: 1925, Anne Spencer, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, libraries, minutes, salaries

Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes 21 January 1943

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 21 January 1943. The minutes show that members voted to refuse a salary increase requested by the Lynchburg School Board for the branch librarian at the Robert E. Lee Junior…

Tags: 1943, Claudine Kizer, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, minutes, records, Robert E. Lee Junior High School, salaries, trustees

Jones Memorial Library Internal Revenue Service application

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Digital reproduction of letter and schedule attachement from Jones Memorial Library to the Internal Revenue Service in 1945. The library was seeking approval as a charitable organization under IRS regulations. Included with the letter was a schedule…

Tags: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, Anne Spencer, compensation, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, library history, Maud Campbell, salaries, taxes

Letters to Publishers

Digital reproduction of letters from Jane Maud Campbell, Head Librarian of Jones Memorial Library, to book publishers. Campbell wrote in 1921 to McDevitt-Wilson's and Valiant publishing companies to request pricing on specific titles for use at the…

Tags: 1923, book purchasing, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, libraries, library history, Maud Campbell, McDevitt Wilsons, publishers, segregation, Valiant

Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes 07 November 1921

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 07 November 1921. At this meeting, members voted to offer the position of Head Librarian to Jane Maud Campbell of Boston, Massachusetts for a salary of $3,000 per year.

Tags: 1921, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, Maud Campbell, minutes, salaries, trustees

Jones Memorial Library Board Meeting Minutes 25 January 1933

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 25 January 1933. At this meeting, which was held during the Great Depression, members voted to reduce employee salaries by 1/12th for the year 1933.

Tags: Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Great Depression, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, minutes, records, salaries, trustees

Jones Memorial Library Minutes 31 January 1944

Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes for 31 January 1944. During the meeting, members agreed to a proposal from the Lynchburg School Board to contribute half of the salaries of the librarians at the Dunbar Branch and…

Tags: 1944, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, libraries, library history, Lynchburg City Schools, Lynchburg School Board, minutes, records, salaries, segregation

Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes November 1943

Digital reproduction of board minutes for Jones Memorial Library dated 24 November 1943. At the meeting, members voted to notify the Lynchburg School Board that the Jones board deemed it inadvisable to continue its full contribution of librarian…

Tags: 1943, College Hill Branch, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, Lynchburg City Schools, Lynchburg School Board, minutes, salaries, trustees

Alpha Theta Sigma Letter to Maud Campbell and Reply from Campbell

Digital reproduction of a letter from Alpha Theta sorority in Lynchburg, Virginia to Jane Maud Campbell, Head Librarian of Jones Memorial Library.

In the letter, the sorority seeks a meeting with Campbell to discuss library services to…

Tags: 1946, Alpha Theta Sigma, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, libraries, library history, Maud Campbell, public libraries, segregation

Woman's Community Club Letter to Maud Campbell

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Digital reproduction of a handwritten letter from the Woman's Community Club of Lynchburg to Jane Maud Campbell, Head Librarian of Jones Memorial Library.

The letter was written in April 1946 seeking relocation of the Dunbar Branch library…

Tags: 1946, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, library history, Maud Campbell, public libraries, segregation, Woman's Community Club

Anne Spencer Conference Report

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Digital reproduction of a handwritten report by Anne Spencer, Librarian of the Jones Memorial Library Dunbar Branch.

In the report dated March 15, 1927 , Spencer recounts her attendance at a Conference of Librarians held at Hampton, Virginia. …

Tags: 1927, Anne Spencer, Conference of Librarians, conferences, Dunbar Branch, Hampton Institute, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, Maud Campbell, Rachel Davis Harris, reports, segregated libraries

Josephine Humbles Letter to Maud Campbell

Digital reproduction of a letter from Josephine Humbles of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Young Women's Christian Association. Humbles wrote to Jane Maud Campbell at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg in March 1925 regarding a visit…

Tags: 1925, Anne Spencer, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Hampton Institute, Jane Maud Campbell, Josephine Humbles, librarians, Maud Campbell, YWCA

Dunbar Branch February 1924 Report

Digital reproduction of the February 1924 branch report by librarian Anne Spencer for the Jones Memorial Library Dunbar Branch. This report was the second monthly report issued for the branch, and the first report with Spencer as sole author.

Tags: 1924, Anne Spencer, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, library branches, library history, reports, segregation

American Library Association Survey on Government and Administration of Public Library Service to Negroes

Digital reproduction of two letters and a survey from 1938.

In a November 1938 letter from Eliza Atkins to Jane Maud Campbell at Jones Memorial Library, Atkins requests Campbell's participation in an American Library Association survey on library…

Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes December 1945

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Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees meeting minutes from 05 December 1945.

In the meeting, Head Librarian Jane Maud Campbell recommends closure of the Dunbar Branch and the board votes to explore transfer of the…

Tags: 1945, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, library history, Maud Campbell, minutes, racial segregation, Robert E. Lee Junior High School

Anne Spencer Resignation Letter

Digital reproduction of resignation letter and envelope from Anne Spencer to Jane Maud Campbell, director of Jones Memorial Library. The letter is dated 1946.

In the letter, Spencer resigns from her position as librarian of the Dunbar Branch at…

Tags: 1946, Anne Spencer, correspondence, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, envelopes, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, Letters, library history, Maud Campbell, racial segregation, resignation

Letters to Louisville

Digital reproduction of a series of letters between Jane Maud Campbell, librarian of Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, and George T. Settle and Rachel Davis Harris of the Louisville Free Public Library. The letters are written in 1923 and…

Tags: 1923, 1924, Anne Spencer, correspondence, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, George Settle, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, Letters, libraries, library history, Louisville Free Public Library, Maud Campbell, Rachel Davis Harris, racial segregation

Rachel Davis Harris letter

Digital reproduction of a letter from Rachel Davis Harris of Western Colored Branch, Louisville Free Public Library, to Jane Maud Campbell at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg.

The 1924 letter shares that Harris has returned to Louisville…

Tags: 1924, Anne Spencer, correspondence, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, Letters, Louisville Free Public Library, Maud Campbell, Rachel Davis Harris

Houston Public Library letters regarding American Library Association questionnaire

Digital reproduction of two letters from 1923 regarding a questionnaire for an American Library Association report about services to black Americans at public libraries.

The first letter is from Julia Ideson, librarian at the Houston Public…

Tags: 1923, ALA, American Library Association, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School Library, Houston Public Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, Julia Ideson, Maud Campbell, public libraries, public libraries in Virginia, racial segregation

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