Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive).

Correspondence, biographical material, writings including the manuscript of Portrait of a Librarian: William Howard Brett, a thesis on Eastman by Alice Wright, and other papers.

.25 linear ft.

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Cleveland Public Library

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The Art and Architecture Vertical File has been maintained throughout the 20th century by the librarians of the Fine Arts Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Like most vertical files, the librarians focused on maintaining clippings that related to the subject matter of the department, but there were also tangential clippings kept by the librarians related to various antiquities. Vertical files throughout history were kept by librarians as a reference resource of ...

Brett, William Howard, 1846-1918

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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...

Wright, Alice Edwards.

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Eastman, Linda Anne, 1867-1963

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The first woman to head a metropolitan library system in the U.S., Eastman, as librarian of the Cleveland Public Library (1918-1938), was responsible for innovations in library service. She taught library science at Western Reserve University and was active in the American Library Association. From the description of Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006585 ...