Records, 1939-1941.

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Records, 1939-1941.

These papers focus on the activities of Dr. William Hayne Mills during his service on behalf of the Citizens Library Association of S.C., 1939-1941. They include articles, printed material, and correspondence primarily relating to establishing a statewide library system for South Carolina. Correspondence includes letters to members of the association and others, including Nancy C. Blair, Mary E. Frayser, Maude Query Kelsey, Henry J. Woodward, Marion A. Wright, and Governor Burnet R. Maybank.

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Woodward, J. Henry

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Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), 1899-1954

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U.S. Senator, 1941-1954, and governor of S.C., 1939-1941; Democrat; born in Charleston, S.C.; served in U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; married, in 1923, to Elizabeth de Rossett Myers (d. 1947) and, in 1948, to Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank (b.1924). From the description of Scrapbook, 1947-1950. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 64576774 Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate ...

Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983

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South Carolina attorney who practiced law in Conway, S.C. and elsewhere; native of Marion; retired to Linville Falls, N.C., ca. 1950; died 1983; Wright was an advocate of public libraries as a tool to improve literacy during the 1930s and 1940s. From the description of Marion A. Wright papers, 1936-1982. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30679833 Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) of South Carolina was an attorney, author, member of the board of directors of t...

South Carolina Library Association

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Blair, Nancy C.

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Citizens Library Association of South Carolina

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These papers were created by Dr. William Hayne Mills during his service on the Citizens Library Association board of directors. During his one year term as its president in 1941, working with the South Carolina Library Association, a major effort was made to introduce legislation which would establish 4 statewide library systems. Dr. Mill's advocacy was particularly strong because he anticipated that the work projects administrative statewide library project would be reduced in 1941. ...

Mills, W. H. 1872-1942.

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Frayser, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1875-1968

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Kelsey, Maude Query

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