Miss Mary Churchill Brown, 1953 Miss Mary Churchill Brown, for 33 years head of the Sargeant Memorial Room, Norfolk Public Library (1927-1960), shown here at work at the Freemason Street library in 1953. Although City Librarian William Henry Sargeant began the Sargeant collection in 1896, it was not given a separate room until 1927. Miss Brown was its first director.

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