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, Folder 6 at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Scanned image of a letter dates 02 October 1950 from Ellen Coolidge Burke of Alexandria (Va.) Library to Lucille Dickerson at Jones Memorial Library. In the letter Burke seeks information about the Jones library, erroneously believing the library to be integrated. Burke is also seeking advice on how to desegregate the Alexandria Library. On 05 October 1950, Dickerson replied to Burke stating that the Jones was not integrated and closed her reply with "Good luck to you."
Digital reproduction of a letter dated 02 October 1950 from Ellen Coolidge Burke at Alexandria Library in Alexandria, Virginia to Lucille Dickerson at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In her letter, Burke requests information about the racial integration of the Jones Memorial Library. An unsigned response on 05 October 1950 from Jones Memorial Library to Burke clarifies that the library is not integrated.
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 African-Americans in Lynchburg given the pending transfer of the Dunbar High School Branch library to the Lynchburg City Schools.
In her reply, Campbell declines to meet the authors.
Digital reproduction of two letters and a survey from 1938.
In a November 1938 letter from Eliza Atkins to Jane Maud Campbell at Jones Memorial Library, Atkins requests Campbell's participation in an American Library Association survey on library services to blacks.
In her December response to Atkins, Campbell shares information about the Jones Memorial Library's Dunbar Branch services. Also included is a six-page survey with handwritten responses entered in pencil. It is not known if the survey responses were submitted to ALA.
Scanned image of a Spring 2004 reproduction of An Open Letter to the People of Lynchburg dated 27 April 1967. The letter protests the policies of the Lynchburg newspapers to exclude news coverage of Dunbar High School and to exclude announcements of deaths and funeral arrangements for Negro citizens.
The open letter was signed by several members of the Jones Memorial Library board of trustees at the time, including the board president Robert C. Watts, Jr. and members Charles G. Baber, B.C. Baldwin, Jr., C.R. Pettyjohn, and James R. Gilliam, Jr.
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. The conference was for black librarians serving in segregated libraries in the United States. Spencer notes attendance at a session led by Rachel Davis Harris where Davis shared her experience with establishing the Dunbar Branch in Lynchburg in 1924.
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 Dunbar High School.
While the letter is dated March 14, 1946, the envelope is postmakred several weeks later on April 7, 1946.
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. At the time, Spencer was Librarian for the Jones Memorial Library Dunbar Branch.
This letter is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.
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
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, a segregated school serving African American students in Lynchburg during the Jim Crow era.
The Dunbar Branch was established by Jane Maud Campbell, director of the Jones Memorial Library. Campbell requested assistance from the Louisville Free Public Library, which was a leader in training African American librarians, to get the branch established. Librarian Rachel Davis Harris traveled from Louisville to Lynchburg to establish the branch and help train Anne Spencer, the Dunbar Branch's first permanent librarian. Spencer served as librarian at the branch from 1924 until 1945.
Included in Folder 1 are a variety of lists published by the Louisville Free Public Library to aid librarians in purchasing books for collections serving African Americans. Also included in the folder are two handwritten lists with additional titles; these lists may have been compiled by Jones Memorial Library staff. Of note is a 24 page typewritten list compiled by Reverend Thomas Blue and Rachel Harris of the Louisville Free Public Library titled "A List of Books Selected From Titles in the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library Recommended for First Purchase." This list includes marks suggesting that staff from Jones Memorial Library intended to purchase particular titles, with handwritten numbers suggesting the quantity of each title ordered. It is possible that these titles were ordered for use at the Dunbar Branch in Lynchburg.
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 Lynchburg Public Library, an email from Dodge to Malone on 24 February 1999, and a letter from Wayne Rhodes of Jones Memorial Library to Malone on 24 February 1999. The letter from Rhodes shares dates and decisions made by the board of the Jones Memorial Library regarding establishment of the Dunbar Branch and its history.
Malone is a library historian. Publishing as Cheryl Knott she is the author of "Not Free, Not For All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow."
Scanned images of a three page handwritten list stamped "Dunbar Branch" containing the surnames of authors and titles. The list appears to include titles that the library purchased for the Dunbar Branch collection in 1945.
This list is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.
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.
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.
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.
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 two news stories about the Dunbar Branch Library. One column is titled "Dunbarian Students Appreciate Library and Their Librarian". In the next column a story is titled "Dunbar Library News" noting that the library was closed in July and August of 1926 due to low circulation.
Digital reproduction of postcard from Gladys Pannell to Jones Memorial Library and response from the library dated 11 October 1950.
In her message, Pannell requests information about what facilities are available to "colored" patrons in Lynchburg, Virginia. The librarian refers Pannell to the librarian at Dunbar High School.
The original postcard and copy of the library's response are held in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Scanned images of an envelope, letter, and form addressed to Jane Maud Campbell at Jones Memorial Library. The letter from Greenville Public Library on 22 March 1930 references a summer school course for "Negro Public Library assistants". It is unknown if anyone from the Jones Memorial Library attended the training program.
The correspondence is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.
Scanned images of a handwritten list entitled "Hampton Institute Library School Stories About Negroes for Children list". This item is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.
The list is sorted alphabetically by author last name and includes recommended titles to include in a library serving African Americans in the early 1900s.
