Vivian Davidson Hewitt photographs 1944-2003 [photographs}

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Vivian Davidson Hewitt photographs 1944-2003 [photographs}

Vivian Davidson Hewitt Photographs are housed in one box. The majority of the photographs document the life of Dr. Hewitt in Pittsburgh during the 1940s, from her graduation from Carnegie Library School through her librarianship with the Carnegie Public Library. Newer photographs are mostly of friends and family as well reunions at Geneva College. Many of the pictures are labeled on the back.

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Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Library School.

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Geneva College.

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Wray, Wendell, 1926-2003.

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Hewitt, John H., Jr.

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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

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Hewitt, Vivian Davidson, 1920-

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Dr. Vivian Davidson Hewitt, the first African American librarian employed by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, was Head Librarian for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former president of the Special Libraries Association. Born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1920, Dr. Hewitt attended the Carnegie Library School, graduating in 1944. Upon the completion of her library degree, Dr. Hewitt was employed by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, beginning her career at the Wylie Aven...

Lee, Nancy Howell

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