Tessa Kelso
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Teresa Laura "Tessa" Kelso was an American librarian, publicist and journalist who was head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. A local Methodist minister accused her of "sin" when the librar
Teresa Kelso
Melvil Dewey
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Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake Placid Club, a chief libraria
Tessa Kelso
…Kelso objected to the New York Library Association (NYLA) planning to host their annual Library Week and conference at the Lake Placid, NY estate of Melvil Dewey, stating, "For many years women librarians have been the special prey of Mr. Dewey in a series of outrages against decency, having serious and far…
Dewey c. 1921
The interior of the New York State Library, late 19th century
Lake Placid from the Whiteface Mountain gondola