Finding Aid to the New London Academy Papers
Finding aids
New London Academy (Forest, Va.)
Finding aid to the New London Academy Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The papers include minutes, clippings, programs, newsletters, and physiology exam from the school in the 1800s and 1900s.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2024
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLMS2071FA
Finding Aid to the Lynchburg Female Academy Certificates for Mallie Bohannon
Finding aids
Bohannon, Mallie, 1856-1930
Finding aid to the Lynchburg Female Academy Certificates for Mallie Bohannon held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2024
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLMS2061FA
Integration Timeline of Public Libraries and Schools in Virginia
racial integration
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 1962, not 1950
Smith, Deborah A. (Deborah Ann), 1967-
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2024
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLintegration timeline.1-2
Dunbar High School 1923 Commencement Program
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
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.
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va,)
1923
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va,)
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Seven Hills School Clippings
Seven Hills School (Lynchburg, Va.)
The Seven Hills School clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0077. This file includes clippings related to the Seven Hills School. There are 103 clippings and photos in the file.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLNA0077.001-201
E.C. Glass High School Clippings
E.C. Glass High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
The E.C. Glass High School clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0055. This file includes clippings related to the E.C. Glass High School.
There are 951 clippings and photos in the file.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
Creator
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLNA0055.001-951
Lynchburg Parent-Teacher Association Clippings
Parent Teacher Association (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
The Lynchburg Parent Teacher Association clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0111. This file includes clippings related to the
Lynchburg and Lynchburg Area Parent-Teacher Association, Lynchburg Federation of Parents and Teachers, Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers.
There are 103 clippings and photos in the file.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLNA0111.001-103
Lynchburg City Schools Clippings
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
The Lynchburg City Schools clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0060. There are 553 clippings and photos in the file.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim. H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLNA0060.001-557
Robert E. Lee Junior High School Clippings
Robert E. Lee Junior High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
The Robert E. Lee Junior High School clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Robert E. Lee Junior High School was located where the current Robert S. Payne Elementary School is today at 12th and Floyd Streets.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0062. There are 43 clippings and photos in the file.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLNA0062.001-043
Dunbar High School clippings
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lynchburg News & Advance
The Dunbar High School clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0056. There are 113 clippings and photos in the file. Some photos do not include a clipping.
Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
Woodford, Kim H.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLNA0056.001-113
Image of Dunbar High School library 1953-1954
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library -- Dunbar Branch
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 library in 1953-1954.
A physical copy of the yearbook is held at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1954
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JML.Dunbarian1954.libraryphoto
Biographical sketch of Susan Elizabeth Fain Davis
Davis, Susan Elizabeth Fain, 1918-2005
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
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 newsletter is part of Jones Memorial Library' s pamphlet collection
Dunbar High School Class of 1959
Dunbar High School Class of 1959
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2017
Dunbar High School Class of 1959
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLPAM.Fifty-Niners.Oct-Dec2017.1
The Dunbar High School Story!!
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Jones Memorial Library -- Dunbar Branch (Lynchburg, Va.)
Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975
Spencer, Chauncey E. (Chauncey Edward), 1906-2002
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 clarifications about the history of Dunbar High School and the Dunbar Branch library that operated at the high school in the 1900s.
Spencer, Chauncey E. (Chauncey Edward), 1906-2002
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1981
Spencer, Chauncey E. (Chauncey Edward), 1906-2002
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLPAM1206
Dunbar High School Architectural Plans
Dunbar High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Architectural drawing
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 Library established a branch library in the high school building in 1924.
Craighill & Cardwell Architects
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
April 1921
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
JMLAA.DunbarHighSchool.1921.CraighillCardwell.1-4
Lynchburg City and Jones Memorial Library Correspondence
correspondence
public libraries -- integration
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 Dunbar High School Library. At the time, Dunbar High School Library provided services to "colored" residents of the city.
In the series of exchanges, city officials seek information about library services for "the use of the colored people in the City of Lynchburg."
Included with the correspondence is a list of libraries in the city and which racial populations they serve and a letter from the Lynchburg City Manager to the League of Virginia Municipalities, requesting information about library statistics in the state.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
City of Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1947-1948
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLLynchburgCityCorrespondence
Finding Aid to the Maria Wilson Marye Lecture Notes
Finding aids
Marye, Maria Wilson, 1836-aft.1900
Finding aid to the Maria Wilson Marye Lecture Notes held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The notes include twelve copy books of lecture notes on American writers compiled by Marye, who ran the Lynchburg Female Academy from 1883 to 1893.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2024
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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JMLMS1744FA
Bass School Photos
William Marvin Bass School (Lynchburg. Va.)
Images of the William Marvin Bass School in Lynchburg, Virginia from the collections of the Jones Memorial Library.
The school is located at 1730 Seabury Avenue and is named in honor of William Marvin Bass, former teacher and principal. The building was completed in 1951.
Images come from a notebook collection of school photographs with construction details entitled " Lynchburg Public Schools Data" and from a framed drawing of the school.
Lynchburg City Schools
Johnson, Stanhope S.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
1900s
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
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JML_BassSchooldrawing
Finding Aid to the Dry Run School Petition and Response
Finding aids
Dry Run School (Blacksburg, Va.)
Finding aid to the Dry Run School Petition and Response held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The papers are from 1912 regarding the school in the Blacksburg area.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
MS1436FA
Finding Aid to the William Marvin Bass and Fairview Elementary School Collection
finding aids
Bass, William Marvin, 1878-1963
Finding aid to the William Marvin Bass and Fairview Elementary School Collection held at Jones Memorial Library. The collection includes genealogical charts and records of the Bass family as well as records related to a portrait of William Marvin Bass, former principal of Fairview Elementary School.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
MS1413FA
Finding Aid to the Seven Hills School Collection
Finding aids
Seven Hills School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Finding aid to the Seven Hills School Collection held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The collection includes by-laws, reports, faculty manuals, examinations, newsletter, minutes, clippings, photographs and videotapes.
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
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English
MS1351FA
Page from the Biggers Primary School attendance book
Biggers Primary School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Records (Documents)
Excerpted page from Manuscript Collection 1177, Biggers Primary School attendance records. The page records attendance for the period May 19 to June 13, 1890 with names of boys and girls with their ages.
George M. Jones Memorial Library
Biggers Primary School (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library
1890
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
PDF file
English
MS1177189005190613
Finding aid to the Virginia Public School Register and Scrapbook
finding aids
Biggers Primary School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Records (Documents)
Finding aid to the Virginia Public School Register & Scrapbook held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The register is for Biggers Primary School for 1889-90.
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
PDF file
English
MS1177FA
Finding aid to the Woman's Club of Lynchburg, Virginia Collection
Finding aids
clubs--Women
Lynchburg Public Schools
Finding aid to the Woman's Club of Lynchburg, Virginia Collection held at Jones Memorial Library including minutes, photographs, clippings and a 1914 survey of the physical plants of the Lynchburg Public Schools
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
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English
MS1137FA
Finding aid to the Quill and Scroll Society papers
Finding aid
E.C. Glass High School (Lynchburg, Va.)
Education
Journalism
Finding aid to the E.C. Glass High School Quill and Scroll Society papers held at Jones Memorial Library. The Quill and Scroll Society was a national honor society for high school journalists.
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
PDF (Computer file format)
English
MS1098FA
Finding aid to the Frances Adams Deyerle collection
finding aids
Deyerle, Frances Adams (1898-1994)
Lynchburg City Schools (Va.)
Finding aid to the Frances Adams Deyerle collection which includes manuscript notes and draft of a book on the history of Lynchburg's public schools.
George M. Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library
PDF (Computer file format)
English
MS1096FA
E.C. Glass High School Dedication Program
E.C. Glass High School (Lynchburg, Virginia)
high schools
ceremonies
Schools
Lynchburg (Va.)
Program for the October 1953 dedication of E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
October 1953
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.)
Creative Commons 2.0 non commercial, non derivative
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
MS 1092 finding aid
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia), “Finding aid to the E.C. Glass High School Collection,” Digital Collections, accessed February 24, 2023, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/106.
TIFF image
English
MS 1092 E.C. Glass High School Collection, folder 1-6 Lynchburg City Schools (Building)
E.C. Glass High School, 2111 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, VA 24501
Finding aid to the E.C. Glass High School Collection
Finding aids
E.C. Glass High School (Lynchburg, Virginia)
High schools
Education
Finding aid to the E.C. Glass High School Collection held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Lynchburg City Schools (Lynchburg, Va.), “E.C. Glass High School Dedication Program,” Digital Collections, accessed February 24, 2023, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/113.
PDF file
English
MS1092FA
Finding aid to the Virginia School of the Arts (1985-2011) Collection
finding aids
Virginia School of the Arts (Lynchburg, Va.)
high schools
performing arts
Manuscript finding aid to the Virginia School of the Arts (1985-2011) Collection held at Jones Memorial Library
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
2023
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
PDF file
English
MS1052FA