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Born in Utica, New York in 1871, Clara Whitehill Hunt devoted much of her
career to children's library services. She graduated from the
Utica Free Academy in 1889, then from the New York State Library
School in 1898. She spent three years a a public school
principal, then began working with Newark, New Jersey's Free Public
Library in 1898. Beginning in 1903 at the Brooklyn Public
Library, she became the Superintendent of Work with Children and spent
thirty-seven years in the position. Not only was she the manager of
children's services, but she also created the Brownsville Children's
Library, the first library devoted exclusively to children. For thirty
years she watched her collections grow and actively promoted library
services for children. In 1922, Clara Hunt presented the very first of the
American Library Association's Newbery Awards.
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