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News & Advance (Lynchburg, Va.), Swimming in Lynchburg - News & Advance clippings, George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.), 1945-1980

News clippings and photographs from Lynchburg's News & Advance daily newspaper with coverage of swimming related topics in the Lynchburg area.…

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Southall, Amanda, "100 Years of Learning: The Jones Memorial Library", George M. Jones Memorial Library, May/June 2008

Magazine article

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