Pomona Public Library, Pomona

Pomona Public Library
In the Municipal Complex
625 S. Garey Avenue
Pomona, CA 91769
909-620-2043
http://www.youseemore.com/pomona/about.asp

Mon-Weds: 12p-7p
Sat: 12p-5p
Free

The Pomona Public Library features changing Library Exhibits as well as Art Gallery Exhibits.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Collection
The handwritten manuscript of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town on the Prairie is the heart of the Pomona Public Library’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Collection. The donation resulted from the friendship between Mrs. Wilder and Miss Clara Webber, the Pomona Public Library’s children’s librarian from 1948-1970.

The collection also includes the original typewritten manuscript of By the Shores of Silver Lake and Remember Me, one of Michael Landon’s scripts of the television series Little House on the Prairie. Also on display are also copies of the original correspondence between Mrs. Wilder and Miss Webber, signed first editions of the “Little House” books and copies of the books in other languages.

The manuscript, facsimiles of the letters between Mrs. Wilder and Miss Webber and other items from the Wilder Collection are on permanent display in the alcove off the Children's Room.


Doll Collection
The Doll Collection numbers over 900 dolls. Most of the dolls are from other countries and many of them are antiques. The collection began when Miss Clara Webber, the children’s librarian from 1948-1970, donated her personal collection of dolls. Many of her dolls depicted literary characters. Other people donated more foreign, literary and historical character dolls.

Most of the dolls are on permanent display in cases throughout the main floor of the Library. The Pomona Public Library is proud of its unique collection of dolls and is pleased to have them on display for the community to enjoy.

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