Paducah Public Library documents and Paducah papers, 1901-1913.

Paducah Public Library (Paducah, Ky.)

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The donation of $35,000 for a public library in Paducah from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie came as a direct result of the efforts of the Reverend G. W. Perryman, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Paducah. The Paducah City Council agreed to Carnegie's stipulation that they must provide ten percent of that sum annually for the maintenance of the library, and they acquired land for the building in 1901. The library opened in 1902 as the Public Library of Paducah, and was late...

Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...

Perryman, G. W.

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Cook, John William

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Palmer, Elbridge, 1833-1896.

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Yeiser, D. A.

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Lang, James M., 1857-1933.

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Bagby, E. W.

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