Mabel Gillis correspondence, 1917-1948.

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Mabel Gillis correspondence, 1917-1948.

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Correspondence to and from Mabel Gillis, primarily to local and county librarians during the Great Depression. These letters reveal many of the problems facing libraries during hard financial times, among them the common reluctance of elected officials to provide funding.

1 manuscript box; 15 1/2 x 12 x 3 in.

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California state library

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History The Spanish settled in California in 1769. The first permanent settlement was started when soldiers and sailors established permanent residence in San Diego. San Jose de Guadalupe was the first pueblo in California. It was founded November 29, 1777 by five colonists who had come to California with explorer, Juan Baptista de Anza. From 1769 to 1822 California was under Spanish rule. In 1822, California declared independence...

Hitt, Eleanor.

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Henshall, May Dexter.

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Ferguson, Milton J. (Milton James), 1879-1954.

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Topping, Elizabeth R.

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Flower, Gretchen.

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Collins, Ida M.

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Adams, Lila G.

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Kobler, Marjorie H.

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Margo, Dorothy D.

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Gillis, Mabel Ray.

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Mabel R. Gillis was born in Sacramento, California on September 24, 1882, and graduated from U. C. Berkeley in 1902. Two years later her father, State Librarian James L. Gillis, asked her to join the staff of the California State Library as an assistant in the Extension Department. In this capacity she greatly expanded the library's services to the visually impaired. Upon the death of her father in 1917, Mabel was promoted to Assistant State Librarian; under this position one of her responsibili...

Sabin, Lillian.

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Merrill, Rosa M.

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Woods, Charles F.

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Swartzlow, Carl R.

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Danielson, Ella T.

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Bailey, Anne Belle.

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Davis, William, Mrs.

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Robinson, Elizabeth.

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Given, H. R.

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