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Alpha Theta to Campbell March 1946.jpg
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…

MS13960.127-11134.Folder6.JPG
Scanned images of an eight page pamphlet entitled A Veritable Encyclopedia of History published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.

The printed pamphlet is held in physical format as part of Manuscript Collection 1396,…

Atkins to Campbell ALA 1938.jpg
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…

MS1396.0127-11178.Folder6.JPG
Digital reproduction of a letter dated 02 October 1950 from Ellen Coolidge Burke at Alexandria Library in Alexandria, Virginia to Lucille Dickerson at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.

In her letter, Burke requests information about…

Ellen Coolidge Burke to Lucille Dickerson re Alexandria PL desegregation 02 October 1950.jpg
Scanned image of a letter dates 02 October 1950 from Ellen Coolidge Burke of Alexandria (Va.) Library to Lucille Dickerson at Jones Memorial Library. In the letter Burke seeks information about the Jones library, erroneously believing the library to…

MS13960.127-11132.Folder6.JPG
Scanned image of a handwritten note referencing the cost of moving furniture from the Dunbar Branch and College Hill Branch of the Jones Memorial Library on 28 July 1946. The note is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the…

Campbell to Settle Oct 1923.jpg
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…

Front cover of The Dunbarian 1954 yearbook.jpg
Digital scan of the front cover and an interior page from the 1954 issue of The Dunbarian yearbook for Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School…

Dunbarian newsletter 1(7)19270608.pdf
Digital reproduction of Dunbarian newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 7, 08 June 1927. The six-page newsletter is held in photocopied format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia as Pamphlet File 2784.

Included on page two of the newsletter are…

19230612 Commencement Exercises Dunbar High School.cover.jpg
Scanned reproduction of four page program for commencement exercises at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1923. Dunbar High School opened in 1923 and this program is for the first graduating class.

The Fifty-Niners Chronicle Vol 7 No 4 Oct-Dec 2017.jpg
Biographical sketch of former Dunbar High School librarian Susan Elizabeth Fain Davis from page one of The Fifty-Niners Chronicle, Quarterly Newsletter of Dunbar High School Class of 1959, Volume 7, No. 4, October-December 2017.

The printed…

JMLMS1396.Folder1.AssociatedPublishers.1.jpg
Manuscript Collection 1396 is the Dunbar High School Library Papers. Four folders are included in this collection.

The papers are from the Dunbar Branch of the Jones Memorial Library. The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 at the Paul Laurence…

Jones Memorial Library 2023 Annual Report.pdf
Annual report of the Jones Memorial Library for the period 01 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

MS1396.0127-11166.Folder6.JPG
Scanned image of a typewritten Periodical List dated 28 January 1936 with note "Ordered from Miss Janet W Snead-City-Jan 28/35" and stamped "Dunbar Branch Lynchburg, VA Jones Memorial Library'. The lists includes 24 periodical titles.

Minute Book Geo. M. Jones Library Association.cover.jpg
Digital images of founding documents for the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. Originals are held in printed format in the library's collection.

MS1396.0127-11195.Folder6.JPG
Digital reproduction of correspondence between the City of Lynchburg, Virginia and Lucille Dickerson for the period 25 March 1947 to 28 September 1948.

In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the…

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Exhibit panels for the 2024 "Four Women: Dunbar Branch Centennial" exhibit at Jones Memorial Library.

1923 Nov 9 train librarian for Dunbar branch.jpg
Jones Memorial Library Board meeting minutes 09 November 1923

1947 March 19 dispose of Dunbar books.jpg
Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees Minutes 19 March 1947

1923 March 13 establish Dunbar branch.jpg
Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees Minutes 13 March 1923

1946 Sept 18 minutes Lee Jr HS loan books.jpg
Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees Minutes 18 September 1946

1946 June minutes re Payne and Dunbar.jpg
Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees Minutes 10 June 1946

JML BOT minutes Dec 1945 - close Dunbar branch.1.jpg
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…

JML Board minutes 24 November 1943.jpg
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…

JML Board minutes 31 January 1944.1.jpg
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…

JML Board minutes 25January 1933.jpg
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.

JML Board Minutes 07 November 1921.jpg
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.

McDevitt Wilsons 1923.1.jpg
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…

JML to IRS.3Schedule of Employee Salaries 1941-44.jpg
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…

JML BOT minutes 21 January 1943.1.jpg
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…
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