July newsletter 2018

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MONROVIA LEGACY PROJECT

The Monrovia Legacy Project was approved by the City Council in September, 2015. It is part of the Monrovia Historical Society and the City of Monrovia. The Legacy Project team has worked tirelessly on organizing and digitizing our City Historians' photographs and documents to make them available via the online collection. For more information or to order prints, please email: monroviahistoricalsociety1896@gmail.com Monrovia Legacy Project Online Collection The Legacy Collection is now live and ready for you to enjoy! It’s taken nearly three years to organize, digitize and load our City Historian’s collections of historic photographs and papers to create this online collection. You browse over 5,000 historic photos and nearly 1,000 documents on our city’s history. You can find it on the City’s website at monroviapubliclibrary.org (look for Monrovia Historical Collections and Monrovia Legacy Project on the next page). Dive in an explore it — click on ‘Photos' to see individual records. Click on ‘’Documents” find the link to open each document. Search for things of special interest using “Keyword Search” - use quotation marks to narrow your search. Contact the Monrovia Historical Society (home of the Legacy Project) with any questions — monroviahistoricalsociety1896@gmail.com. Second’s Gazette


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