Minna P. Gill
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| Born | January 7, 1896 |
| Died | January 18, 1964 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | librarian |
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Minna Partridge Gill (January 7, 1896 – January 18, 1964) was an American librarian and suffragist.
Gill was a Washington D.C. native who was active in the women's suffrage movement and participated in many demonstrations for women's rights in the 1910s.[1]
Gill was the daughter of scientific illustrators DeLancey Walker Gill and Mary Irvin Wright Gill.[2][3] She was named for her grandmother Minna Partridge Wright. She attended George Washington University, and received a B.B.A. from the University of Texas where her thesis was Trade investigations, as conducted through merchandising departments of newspapers.[4][5]
She worked as a librarian during the 1920s and 1930s, working for Science Service. Science Service (now called Society for Science) was an organization also known as The Institution for the Popularization of Science; it was organized under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They published a regular newsletter and would publish material from the scientific community straight to microfilm to make it available without using up paper or library shelf space.[6] Gill was the organization's sole librarian, preparing various bibliographies about the meat industry in the United States and freight rates for agriculture as two examples. She also contributed to a straight-to-microfilm book that collected packing industry pamphlets of the times.[7] Gill oversaw the "biographical morgue" of notable scientists and other famous people which Gill estimated covered 10,000 people in 1940.[8] The organization was reported to have a library of approximately 6,000 volumes in 1934.[9]
Gill later worked in the Smithsonian Institution library starting in 1942 when she was appointed assistant librarian in charge of the catalog.[10] She retired in 1955 as chief of the catalog section.[1][11]
Gill was an amateur artist and active in the Washington Arts Club and the alumni association for Alpha Phi sorority.[1] She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution which she joined in 1919.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Minna P. Gill undated". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "De Lancey Gill | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ McMahan, V.E. (1995). The Artists of Washington, D.C., 1796-1996. Artists of Washington. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-9649101-0-2. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ Trade investigations, as conducted through merchandising departments of newspapers. OCLC 25595828. Retrieved 2021-05-25 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "Cherry Tree : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ Peterson, Ivars (2005-01-31). "Fashioning a World Brain". Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 22 (5). Wiley: 10–11. doi:10.1002/bult.25. ISSN 0095-4403.
- ^ Packing industry pamphlets, 1874-1964. OCLC 229893989. Retrieved 2021-05-25 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2015-09-03. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ United States Information Service (1934). Libraries in the United States Government, Washington, D.C. ... United States information service. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ "Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30 1943". Internet Archive. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30 1956". Internet Archive. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "Texas Branch of DAR Starts Three Day Meet in Austin on Monday". The Austin American. October 31, 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "Clubs - Janet Montgomery Chapter". The Washington Post. July 13, 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 25 May 2021.