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California missions." The Association's mission was taken up by the Landmarks Club with acknowledgment of her previous work, and she stayed on as a member of the organization's advisory board. She was also an officer of the Historical Society of Southern
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In April 1895, Kelso offered her resignation to the library's board of trustees. They asked her to withdraw her resignation at the same meeting, recognizing her experience and the lack of similarly qualified replacements on short notice. Her resubmitted resignation was accepted at a later meeting
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Kelso was striking in appearance, with short hair and glasses, often seen smoking in public, and not wearing a hat, as women generally did at the time. She and
Adelaide Hasse worked and lived together from 1892, commuted to the library together on bicycles, and both moved east after they jointly
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as assistant librarian, and offered a training class for young women who wanted to be librarians. She attended the World
Congress of Librarians in Chicago in 1893, but this was criticized by city newspapers as frivolous, as when the Los Angeles Herald called her "the expensive appendage of an
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With no previous library experience, Tessa Kelso was hired as head librarian of the Los
Angeles City Library in 1889. She was the fourth consecutive woman to hold the head librarian role there;
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