ALHAMBRA’S HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY CONNECTION

Join the Alhambra Historical Society on Wednesday, May 22, 7 p.m. at the Masonic Center, 9 West Woodward Avenue, corner of First Street, in Alhambra to hear Alhambra Civic Center Library’s Reference librarian Michael Whitley talk about the relationship between these two organizations.

Michael Whitley has been a reference librarian in Alhambra since 2008.and has helped the Society access the library’s historical resources. The most important resource is the almost complete holdings of the Alhambra Post Advocate dating from 1899, and its holdings of the San Gabriel Valley Messenger and the Los Angeles Times. The library also has city directories and phone books from 1883; Alhambra High School yearbooks from 1920; and some annuals from Mark Keppel and San Gabriel High Schools. Among the library’s rare books are the History of Alhambra to 1915 by Margaret Patterson, published in 1935; and Early Alhambra by Alberta Clinger and Evelyn Jayne, published in 1964.

In addition to this interesting talk, Mary Cammarano, of the San Gabriel Historical Association, will install the officers for the Society’s 2019-2020 year.

Please join the Historical Society for this informative talk, the installation ceremony and enjoy refreshments during “Meet and Greet,” beginning at 7 p.m. At 7:30 the meeting and program will begin. Admission is free.

For further information about this meeting, or the Alhambra

Historical Society and its Museum, please call 626 300 8845.