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LAPL
The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with around 19 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the largest population of any public library system in the United States. The system is overseen by a Board of Library Commissioners with five members appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles in staggered terms. In 1997 a local historian described it as "one of the biggest and best-regarded library systems in the nation." History The Los Angeles Library Association was formed in late 1872, and by early 1873, a well-stocked reading room had opened in the Downey Block at Temple and Main streets under the first librarian, John Littlefield. The original library consisted of two rooms. The larger room was called the "Book Room," and the smaller room was called the "Conversation Room," which contained newspapers, tables, chairs, and spittoons for the chess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Letitia Jones
Mary L. Jones was the Los Angeles City Librarian until she was fired in 1905 to be replaced by a man, Charles Fletcher Lummis. This decision would set off a firestorm across the city called the Great Library War of 1905. Jones had a B.A. degree from University of Wisconsin (1885) and had studied under Melvil Dewey at the New York State Library School where she graduated in 1892. She then served as a librarian at the University of Illinois and the State Library of Iowa. In 1899, she came to Pasadena and began work at the Los Angeles Public Library, where she served as assistant librarian under Harriet Childs Wadleigh, Los Angeles City Librarian. Jones was hired as the City Librarian when Wadleigh retired in 1900. Jones was the first Los Angeles City Librarian working for the Los Angeles Public Library who was both a college graduate and a graduate of library school. Jones was asked to resign in June 1905 by the Board of Library Directors. She delivered a letter to the Board saying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Kelso
Tessa Kelso (May 1863 – August 14, 1933) was an American publicist, journalist, and head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. A local Methodist minister accused her of "sin" when the library stocked a book that offended him. She sued him for malicious slander, and the case was settled in her favor, in 1895.James Sherma"Tessa Kelso: Sinful City LibrarianLAPL Blog (September 14, 2014) Early life Teresa Laura Kelso was born in Dayton, Ohio, and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Ephraim Walter Kelso and Mary Ellen Breisford Kelso. She moved to California in 1886. Career Kelso started her working life as a journalist and publicist. She joined the American Library Association (ALA) in 1886, to cover their annual meeting in Milwaukee that year for the ''Cincinnati Illustrated News''. She became an active member of the organization.Clare Beck"Adelaide Hasse: The New Woman as Librarian"in Suzanne Hildenbrand, ed.,''Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburger's Department Store
May Company California was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a subsidiary of May Department Stores and merged with May's other Southern California subsidiary, J. W. Robinson's, in 1993 to form Robinsons-May. May Company California was established in 1923 when May acquired A. Hamburger & Sons Inc.. (founded in 1881 by Asher Hamburger). The company operated exclusively in Southern California until 1989 when May Department Stores had dissolved Goldwater's, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and transferred its Las Vegas, Nevada store to May Company California. Two well-known stores were the flagship Downtown store on 8th Street between Broadway and Hill streets, and the May Company Wilshire at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The 1926 garage building at 9th and Hill Streets was one of the nation's first parking structures (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1001). The Wils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Warren
Althea Hester Warren (December 18, 1886December 19, 1958) was the director of the Los Angeles (California) Public Library from 1933 to 1947 and president of the American Library Association in 1943-1944. Martha Boaz, Fervent and Full of Gifts: The Life of Althea Warren' (New York: Scarecrow Press, 1961); Dorothy Drake and Virginia Milbank Fromme, ''Althea Warren, Librarian,'' N.P.: California Library Association, 1962, and "Happy 125th Birthday, Althea Warren," ''Library History Buff,'' as cited at California History Hall of Fame: Althea Warren She was inducted into the California Library Association's Library Hall of Fame in 2013. Biography and career Warren was born on December 18, 1886 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Lansing Warren and Emma Blodgett. She attended the University of Chicago from 1904 to 1908. After traveling abroad in Europe, Warren started library school at the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1911. She was a branch manager in a "poor neighborhood" in the Chic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Kelso At The Pleasure Of The Board
Tessa is a feminine given name, sometimes a shortened form of Theresa. It may refer to: People * Tessa Albertson (born 1996), American actress * Tessa Balfour, Countess of Balfour (born 1950), British aristocrat * Tessa Blanchard (born 1994), American professional wrestler * Tessa Bonhomme (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player * Tessa Brooks (born 1999), American musician and influencer * Tessa Dahl (born 1957), English author and actress * Tessa Dare, American novelist * Tessa de Josselin (born 1989), Australian actress * Tessa Dunlop (born 1974), British television presenter, radio broadcaster and historian * Tessa Ferrer (born 1986), American actress * Tessa Fowler, Vanuatuan politician * Tessa Ganserer (born 1977), German politician * Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff (born 1994), German countess * Tessa Hadley (born 1956), British author * Tessa Hofmann (born 1949), German sociologist * Tessa Howard (born 1999), English field hockey player * Tessa Humphries, Australian actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lummis 2 (1886–1985), British Anglican Church clergyman and historian
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Lummis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ben Lummis (born 1978), New Zealand pop and R&B singer *Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928), American journalist, historian, and poet *Cynthia Lummis (born 1954), American politician, U.S. Senator (State of Wyoming); state treasurer 1999–2007 *Dayton Lummis (1903-1988), American actor *Suzanne Lummis (born 1951), American poet; granddaughter of Charles Fletcher Lummis *Trevor Lummis (contemporary), English writer and historian *William Lummis Canon William Murrell Lummis MC (4 June 1886 – 2 November 1985) was a British military historian most noted for the research he conducted on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Rorke's Drift.Roy Dutton''Forgotten Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Martinez (librarian)
Elizabeth Martinez (born April 14, 1943) is a librarian whose career has focused on bringing diversity, multiculturalism and equality to public libraries and information policy. In 1966 she was the first Mexican American librarian to serve in the state of California. Martinez has served as a library administrator, professor, Executive Director of the American Library Association, and other roles throughout her career. Education Martinez began her studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles where she obtained a B.A. in Latin American studies in 1965. While there, she took a children's literature course for the English requirement, but finding a lack of representation for indigenous people and cultures from around the world in the course she began contemplating how literature from non-European nations can be better disseminated to the masses. In 1966 Martinez received her Master of Arts in Library Science degree from the University of California. She later conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Library
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornerstone Of Old Building, Los Angeles Central Library, Laid 1925, Photographed 2012
The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure. Over time a cornerstone became a ceremonial masonry stone, or replica, set in a prominent location on the outside of a building, with an inscription on the stone indicating the construction dates of the building and the names of architect, builder, and other significant individuals. The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of eastern architecture and metaphorically in sacred architecture generally. Some cornerstones include time capsules from, or engravings commemorating, the time a particular building was built. History The ceremony typically involved the placing of offerings of grain, wine and oil on or under the stone. These were symbolic of the produce and the people of the land and the means of their subsistence. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) contains the central business district of Los Angeles. In addition, it contains a diverse residential area of some 85,000 people, and covers . A 2013 study found that the district is home to over 500,000 jobs. It is also part of Central Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles is divided into neighborhoods and districts, some overlapping. Most districts are named for the activities concentrated there now or historically, e.g. the Arts, Civic Center, Fashion, Banking, Theater, Toy, and Jewelry districts. It is the hub for the city's urban rail transit system plus the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink commuter rail system for Southern California. Banks, department stores, and movie palaces at one time drew residents and visitors of all socioeconomic classes downtown, but the area declined economically especially after the 1950s. It remained an important center—in the Civic Center, of government business; on Bunker Hill, of banking, and along Broadway, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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