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Discussions for a Presidential library for President Johnson began soon after his 1964 election victory. In February 1965, the chairman of the Board of Regents at the University of Texas at Austin, William H. Heath, proposed building the library on the university campus, along with funds to construct the building and the establishment of the Johnson School of Public Affairs on the campus. [2]
In 1996 the 1,250 members of the Mercantile Library voted for and approved the Library's move from its downtown St. Louis location to the Thomas Jefferson Library building. On October 2, 1998, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis was formally rededicated. The Mercantile Library now resides on the first two ...
In 1865, Ira Divoll, the superintendent of the St. Louis Public School system, created a subscription library in the public school library that would later evolve into the St. Louis Public Library. Divoll believed that a library should work in tandem with the public education system and offer citizens an opportunity for self-improvement and ...
The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and resting place of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States (1945–1953), his wife Bess and daughter Margaret, and is located on U.S. Highway 24 in Independence, Missouri.
The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. [1] Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Special Collections library within the Thomas Jefferson ...
The cost to the United Way will be $26 per registered child to get Imagination Library books for one year, and $130 per registrant to provide all 60 books from the library over five years, the ...
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St. Louis: Mar 12, 1901: $1,000,000 1301 Olive St. Designed by Cass Gilbert and opened in 1912, renovated 2010–2012. 27: St. Louis Barr St. Louis: Mar 12, 1901 — 1701 S. Jefferson Ave. Continues to be used as a Public Library. (2013) 28: St. Louis Cabanne St. Louis: Mar 12, 1901 — 1106 Union Blvd. Continues to be used as a Public Library ...