Small child watching the removal of 1950 Lancaster Library plaque from the Fig Avenue location, Lancaster, California Small child watching removal of 1950 Antelope Valley Library plaque from the Fig Avenue location, Lancaster, California
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Description
A young girl watches as Melvin McCartney removes the 1950 Lancaster Library dedication plaque from it's place beside the library entrance. A National Library Week advertisement can be seen in the background, ""Reading is the key to understanding, National Library Week, April 12-18, 1964. The Library was relocated that year to a new location on Kingtree Avenue and Avenue J. On back of photo: ""#27199, 1964, Lancaster Library"". The Lancaster Library was also known as the Antelope Valley Regional Library.
McCartney, Melvin Public Libraries--California--Lancaster--History County of Los Angeles Public Library--History Lancaster Library
Place
Fig Avenue, Lancaster, California?] Lancaster (Los Angeles county, California : inhabited place) Los Angeles (California, United States : county) California (United States, North and Central America : state)
Source
8 x 10 in. black-and-white photograph; Lancaster Collection box 1
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