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Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family. Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt , was a governor of Pennsylvania . Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. , who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909; and Anne Morton McMichael (born July 31, 1861, in Pa.).
Triana was laid down on 27 December 1943, under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull No. 2559, as the Liberty ship SS Elinor Wylie, by California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, for the McCormick Steamship Lines; launched on 24 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. William O'Brien; renamed Triana on 21 May 1945; acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping ...
The "Career Girls Murders" was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, 1963. [1]
Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
Prior to computerization, library tasks were performed manually and independently from one another. Selectors ordered materials with ordering slips, cataloguers manually catalogued sources and indexed them with the card catalog system (in which all bibliographic data was kept on a single index card), fines were collected by local bailiffs, and users signed books out manually, indicating their ...
Viewership for the film 'Hillbilly Elegy' and readership for the memoir have skyrocketed after J.D. Vance was announced as Trump's VP pick.
Prior to achieving statehood on November 11, 1889, the Territorial Library reported a collection of 10,448 volumes. [9] The new state legislature passed a bill creating the state library on March 27, 1890. [10] The state library's collection was organized under the Dewey Decimal Classification system in 1898, and a card index was created in ...
Mary Wortham Carlisle was born on April 4, 1882, in Richmond, Virginia, at her maternal grandparents' home.Her father, Calderon Carlisle Esq., was a well-known and successful international lawyer as well as legal counsel for the Spanish, British, and Italian legations in Washington, D.C., directly descended from the Earls of Buchan, Macleod Chiefs of Scotland, and a colorful tapestry of ...