Houston Public Library letters regarding American Library Association questionnaire

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Identifier: JMLHoustonPLletters.1-2
Barcode: JMLHoustonPLletters.1-2
Source Identifier: 733
Title: Houston Public Library letters regarding American Library Association questionnaire
Description: 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 Library, to Jane Maud Campbell, librarian at Jones Memorial Library. In the letter Ideson requests Campbell's participation in a survey about library services to blacks.
The second letters is from Campbell to Ideson, reporting that Lynchburg does not yet provide public library services to black residents.
Date: 1923
Creator: Ideson, Julia; Campbell, Jane Maud, 1869-1947
Subject: racial segregation; American Library Association
topic: 1923; ALA; American Library Association; Dunbar Branch; Dunbar High School Library; Houston Public Library; Jane Maud Campbell; Jones Memorial Library; Julia Ideson; Maud Campbell; public libraries; public libraries in Virginia; racial segregation
Digital Format: image/jpeg
Language: English
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights Holder: George M. Jones Library Association