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Beverly Hills Library Library Presentation Amy (Ppt)
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Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Mission:
To identify, collect, preserve, exhibit and make available to the public information that documents the history of the City of Beverly Hills.
Gail Stein, Archivist, Eeverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection, at the L.A. as Subject Archives Bazaar
Beverly Hills Public Library
Historical Collection:
Collection spans the 1840s to the present
Photographs, correspondence, newspapers, telephone directories, biographies, maps, posters, government and political documents, architectural plans, data on public works, texts and ephemera.
Open to the public by appointment
Reproductive service available
Beverly Hills Public Library
Historical Collection:
Key collections:
Pierce Edson Benedict
Greystone (Doheny Mansion)
Will Rogers
Beverly Hills City Directories (1926-present)
Wright MacMahon Secretarial School
Cartography: Maps & Plans
Surveyor Field Books (1920s-1960s)
Beverly Hills High School yearbooks, newspapers and other city materials
The Historical Collection: uncover the fascinating early history of Beverly Hills...
Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas,The first property in Beverly Hills,
Photographs coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Bean fields on Hammel and Denker Ranch, 1880s,
Photgraphs courtesy of the Beverly Hills Historical Collection
The History of the Beverly Hills Public Library in the Historical Collection:
Bessie Yancey, the first librarian of Beverly Hills
Photographs courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Coldwater Canyon School, site of the first library
Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
c. 1963
Then...
Now...
Library building, opened 1965
Recent ExhibitsFBI Exhibit
Dining out in Beverly Hills exhibit
Photographs Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Fine Arts Collection
The Friends made possible the founding of the original Art Research Library from a huge sale of hundreds of paintings in 1966...
Coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection
There are over 167 works of art
around the library...
Fine Arts Collection
Fine Arts Collection
Dorathi Bock Pierre Dance Archives
Databases including...
AFI Catalog
Art Bibliographies Modern
Art Sales Index
As of Fall 2006, the Arts Collection included...over 22, 822 reference volumes, over 200 artist's books, 507 catalogues raissons, 683 special collections volumes, 1541 scores, 26, 518 circulating items great selection of auction catalogs and salex indexes
Additional Library Special Collections
California history collections
Enchanted Woods children's collectionof rare books created byFriend of the Library Rita Lipkis
Enchanted Woods Collection
Enchanted Woods Collection
And don't forget the library's unique general circulating
collections...
For example, the circulating collection contains approximately 2000
Persian books