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Title: Librarian and Children at Mabel Gillis
Creator: Sacramento Public Library
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Pictured in October 1961, a young librarian issues a library card at the Mabel Gillis Branch of the Sacramento City Library, located at 4001 Sixtieth Street. According to the then City Librarian, Miss Dorothy Drake, libraries in the early-60s were experiencing an upsurge in the youth readership based on the publishers’ increased efforts to make books more readable for younger ages.
Type: image
Identifier: PH-SPL-GIL-1-10
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/3240
Subject: Libraries
Librarians
Children
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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