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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…
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,…
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…
Jones Memorial Library Internal Revenue Service application
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
In the letter, the sorority seeks a meeting with Campbell to discuss library services to…
Woman's Community Club Letter to Maud Campbell
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…
The letter was written in April 1946 seeking relocation of the Dunbar Branch library…
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…
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.
Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes December 1945
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…
In the meeting, Head Librarian Jane Maud Campbell recommends closure of the Dunbar Branch and the board votes to explore transfer of the…
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…
In the letter, Spencer resigns from her position as librarian of the Dunbar Branch at…
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…
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…
The 1924 letter shares that Harris has returned to Louisville…
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…
The first letter is from Julia Ideson, librarian at the Houston Public…
Integration Timeline of Public Libraries and Schools in Virginia
Visual timeline with key dates for integration of public libraries and schools in Virginia in the 1900s.
CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in…
CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in…
Dunbarian Vol 1 No 7
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…
Included on page two of the newsletter are…
The Dunbar Story
Scanned reproduction of an undated typewritten manuscript entitled "The Dunbar Story: An Examination of the School's Search for Excellence in a Segregated Society." A print version of the manuscript is held in the pamphlet files of Jones Memorial…
Image of Dunbar High School library 1953-1954
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…
The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School…
Biographical sketch of Susan Elizabeth Fain Davis
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…
The printed…
The Dunbar High School Story!!
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…
In the manuscript, the author provides…
Dunbar High School Architectural Plans
Digital reproduction of set of four architectural plans for the 1921 construction of Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Dunbar High School served "colored" students in the city during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Jones Memorial…
Dunbar High School served "colored" students in the city during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Jones Memorial…
Some Books and Pamphlets, Music, Magazines and Newspapers by Negro Writers, Composers and Editors in the Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library
Digitized copy of a pamphlet published in 1921 entitled "Some Books and Pamphlets, Music, Magazines and Newspapers by Negro Writers, Composers and Editors in the Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library".
This document is part of…
This document is part of…
Lynchburg City and Jones Memorial Library Correspondence
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…
In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the…
Report of Dunbar Branch January 1924
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…
The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 in the Dunbar High School in Lynchburg and was the first branch of the Jones…
Cheryl Knott Malone Correspondence
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…
The correspondence includes a letter from Cheryl Knott Malone on 19 February 1999 to Lynn Dodge at…
Booklists for Dunbar Branch, MS1396 Folder 1
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…
The papers are from the Dunbar Branch of the Jones Memorial Library. The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 at the Paul Laurence…
Finding Aid to the Dunbar High School Library Papers
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…
Dunbar High School Library was a branch library of Jones Memorial Library. The library provided library services to city residents at the…