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JML BOT minutes 14 January 1924.1.jpg
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…

JML BOT minutes 22 January 1925.1.jpg
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,…

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…

Anne Spencer report to Maud Campbell March 1927 re Hampton Conference of Librarians.1.jpg
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. …

Humbles to Campbell March 1925.jpg
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…

JML Dunbar Branch Feb 1924 report.jpg
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.

Anne Spencer resignation 1946.1.jpg
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…

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…

RDHarris to MCampbell March 1924.1.jpg
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…

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…

JMLPAM1206.The Dunbar High School Story by Chauncey Spencer.pdf
Digital reproduction of a typed manuscript entitled "The Dunbar high School Story!!" by Chauncey E. Spencer. The original manuscript is held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia as PAM1206.

In the manuscript, the author provides…

MS13960.127-11146.Folder6.JPG
Digital images of a typewritten letter addressed to Anne Spencer from C.G. Woodson, Director of The Journal of Negro History. The letter dated 30 April 1927 is an appeal for funding to support The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.…

Anne SPENCER Memorial Foundation Inc Papers - MS 1783.pdf
Finding aid to the Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation, Inc. Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The papers include minutes, photographs, notes, and articles about Harlem Renaissance poet and Lynchburg resident Anne Spencer.

JMLMS1396.2-5.ReportofDunbarBranch-January1924.jpg
Scanned image of the Jones Memorial Library's Report of Dunbar Branch for January 1924 submitted by Anne Spencer and R.D. Harris.

The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 in the Dunbar High School in Lynchburg and was the first branch of the Jones…

JMLMaloneCorrespondence.1.jpg
Scanned images of three letters regarding the establishment of the Jones Memorial Library Dunbar Branch in 1924 from scholar Cheryl Knott Malone.

The correspondence includes a letter from Cheryl Knott Malone on 19 February 1999 to Lynn Dodge at…

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…

Dunbar High School Library Papers - MS 1396.pdf
Finding aid to the Dunbar High School Library Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dunbar High School Library was a branch library of Jones Memorial Library. The library provided library services to city residents at the…
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