History & the Arroyo Seco Library….

So today I thought I’d draw your attention to a document relevant to the historical origins of our beloved Arroyo Seco Library.  This document is a letter to the Editor of the Highland Park Herald published in 1912.  The letter details progress made on the project to purchase land and build a library for the Highland Park neighborhood. 

This little piece of historical trivia began as a newspaper article, became a clipping held in the Vertical File collection at the Arroyo Seco Library, was scanned and so became a pdf file, and was added to an online collection of such scanned items called the California Index.  This is all by means of pointing out the California Index (find it on LAPL’s website via the database link) is an excellent source of unusual and unexpected documents that have been collected over the years at the various branches of the library.  Take a look at it sometime.