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Title	Blanche Hammond and Katherine Abbott
Description	Photograph of Blanche Hammond and Katherine Abbott, staff members, Omaha Public Library. The women are laughing, leaning against an automobile. Blanche Hammond, on the left, is wearing a dark-colored, middy style jacket, with white stripes edging the sleeves, collar, and pocket. Katherine Abbott, on the right, is wearing a white blouse and checked skirt. (Middle row, right-hand photo, on album page.)
Digital Publisher	Omaha Public Library
Date	1918-1919
Subject	Hammond, Blanche Wilson, Katherine Abbott Librarians Public libraries -- Nebraska -- Omaha Omaha Public Library Photographs
Digital Format	image/tif
Image Number	lib_00048-7
Source	Photograph; b&w; 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
Rights	https://omahalibrary.org/policies/fee-schedule-for-license-of-high-resolution-digital-images/
Historical Notes	Blanche Hammond began work at the library in 1894 after high-school graduation. She took library classes at the University of Wisconsin in summer school. She was head of Circulation, was an alternate in the Reference and Reading Rooms, and was in charge of the Children's Room for one year before becoming a cataloger in 1899 (all at Main Library). She retired in December, 1949. Katherine Abbott was born in Wyoming, Nebraska, in about 1881, and graduated from South Omaha High School. She worked five years in the South Omaha Library, a year (1916-17) in the U.S. Bureau of War Risk Insurance and American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington, D.C., one year at the University of Chicago High School Library with Hannah Logasa, former Omaha Public Library employee (1921-22), and seven years at Omaha Public Library in the reference and circulation departments, and as head of the catalog department(1919-1921). She attended the School of Library Science at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., (1924-25) and resigned from Omaha Public Library in September, 1925. She married William Wallace Wilson in November, 1926.
Object File Name	lib_00048-7.tif
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