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Four Los Angeles City librarians, including Mary Foy and Althea Warren, in a library, Los Angeles, 1938-1958

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Title: Four Los Angeles City librarians, including Mary Foy and Althea Warren, in a library, Los Angeles, 1938-1958
Alternative Title: Libraries and Librarians
Date Created and/or Issued: [1938-1958]
1938/1958
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Four women who are and were librarians for the Los Angeles Public Library seated in a room with books in bookcases visible against the 2 walls behind them. Mary Foy is 3rd from the left and Althea Warren is 4th from the left.
Mary Emily Foy was the first woman head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, appointed to the job in 1880 at the age of 18. She had graduated the year before from Los Angeles High School. She served for only four years but left a legacy for Los Angeles librarians to remember. [Wikipedia]
Althea Hester Warren was the director of the Los Angeles Public Library from 1933 to 1947 and president of the American Library Association in 1943-1944. [Wikipedia]
Written on back of photo: Four City Librarians Los Angeles Public Library. From left: (1) [...], [2] Mary Foy, (3) [...], (4) Althea Warren
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b20_f19_001a.tif
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Subject: African American librarians
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Warren, Althea Hester, 1866–1958
Foy, Mary Emily, 1862-1962
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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