- Title
- Jacinto City Scrapbook, volume 1 (1958-1959)
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- Date Original
- 1958 - 1959
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- Branches and Locations
- ["Jacinto City","West University","Channelview","Baytown"]
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- Type
- ["scrapbook"]
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- Subject
- ["Histories","Friends of the Library Groups","Grand Openings","HCPL Staff","In The News","Open Houses","Mary P. Butler Owensby","Library Directors","National Library Week"]
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Jacinto City Scrapbook, volume 1 (1958-1959)
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The new Harris County library branch in Jacinto
City is attracting many readers since it opened last
Wednesday.
Records show 144 persons registered and 289
were withdrawn the first three hours it was open. Ihe.
library has between 2600 and 3000 volumes.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1958
Subscription $2. 00 per year
Library building opens
at Jacinto City Sunday
Jacinto City will open its first
permanent library in an open
house beginning at 3:30 p. m.
. Sunday, June 29.
The library, which will have
about 2,700 volumes, will be
' in the building formerly used as
. a city hall. It is on Mercury
St. nexjt to the Recreation
Building.
Mayor Bert Holder of Jacinto
City will cut the ribbon in the
v ceremony, and F. F. Parrish,
* chairman of the library board,
, will be master of ceremonies.
Miss Mary Butler, Harris County
librarian, also will take part.
' The cpen house will last until
t 5:30 p. m.
The library will open for
business at 9 a. m. Wednesday,
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July 2, with Miss Dorothy Boyer
as librarian. It will be open
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
mornings from 9 until 12 o’clock
and on Monday evenings from
6 tp 9.
Mrs. G. W. Thompson,
library board member and pub¬
licity chairman for the
ceremony, said that almost 200
of the books in the library have
been donated and will stay per¬
manently in the Jacinto City
Library. " Any books given for
the purpose will be kept in the
library, but the county’s
volumes will circulate, ” she
said.
Library facilities for Jacinto
City formerly were provided by
the Harris County Bookmobile.
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Exterior of the Jacinto City Library
Jacinto City Branch of the Harris County Library
Mrs. George Bowyer, Jacinto City, from Mrs. McLuen (Councilman McLuen's wife)
Letter from Tiwania McLuen to Dorothy Bowyer
Letter from Tiwania McLuen to Dorothy Bowyer, continued
Letter from Dortohy Bowyer, Librarian, to Norman Racusin, RCA Record Division
Minutes from the first meeting of the Jacinto City Library Board
Minutes from the first meeting of the Jacinto City Library Board
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Minutes from the first meeting of the Jacinto City Library Board, continued
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Draft of letter from the Jacinto City Library Board to Harris County Judge Bob Casey and the Commissioner's Court
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Minutes from the Library Board Meeting
Minutes from the Library Board Meeting, continued
Guests at Open House
Guests at Open House, continued
Guest List Library Opening
Guest List Library Opening, continued
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Guest List Library Opening, continued
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Guest List, continued
Guests at Open House
Letter from County Librarian Mary P. Butler to Mrs. E. L. McGowan, member of the Jacinto City Library Board
Jacinto City News ; JC Library to have book sale ; Jacinto City Library Branch being planned ; Jacinto City Library plans progressing
Jacinto City book donors
Jacinto City Library will have formal opening June 29, New branch library ; Branch library to open ; Suggested list of reference books for Jacinto City Library
Open House, Jacinto City Library
New library branch does brisk business first day ; 1958 Ribbribbon cutting at Open House Jacinto City Library ; Library building opens at Jacinto City Sunday
2 cities in Harris operate libraries
Book notes ; Library success in Jacinto city ; Library popular ; Browse in new library ; Library to sell books
Jacinto Library to display collection of foreign dolls ; Jacinto City Branch bookmark ; Jacinto City Library ; Branch library patronage totals 4719 in southest
Book week bookmark
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