Here are fifteen things you never knew about early librarian Mary Foy!
- Foy had only a high school degree when she became librarian of the Central Library in 1880. She apprenticed under older librarians working in the Oakland and San Francisco public libraries.
- She was the first female librarian in Los Angeles, replacing an earlier male appointee.
- Foy campaigned...





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