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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…

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 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.

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…

Womans Community Club to Campbell April 1946.jpg
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…

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 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…

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…

Houston PL Ideson to Campbell 1923.jpg
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…

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…

MS13960.127-11132.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…

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…

MS1395.1.1.jpg
Digital reproduction of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript collection 1395 held in physical format at the library.

The collection includes a two-page typewritten letter from R. B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell dated 16 March 1927, the outer mailing…

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…

Letter HALL to J. MAUD CAMPBELL - MS 1395.pdf
Finding Aid to a letter from R. B. Hall to J. Maud Campbell dated 16 March 1927 held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The letter concerns a proposed apartment building for professional women in Lynchburg.
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