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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. …

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…

Dunbar Front Elevation.pdf
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…

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.…

MS13960.127-11111.Folder6.JPG
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…

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,…

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.

MS13960.127-11150.Folder6.JPG
Digitized images of a booklet titled "Library List" issued by the Julius Rosenwald Fund in December 1929, Nashville, Tennessee.

This item is part of the Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, Folder 6, added to the collection in…

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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