“Council on Books Holds Third Annual Meeting.” Publishers’ Weekly.

“Council on Books Holds Third Annual Meeting.” Publishers’ Weekly.

New York:

February 10, 1945.

In 1945, Publisher’s Weekly reported on the Council on Books in Wartime’s annual meeting and included rare photographs of many of the key actors in the production and distribution of the ASEs. In the righthand photograph, the Army’s Chief Librarian, Col. Ray Trautman, sits near the Navy’s librarian, Isabel DuBois. DuBois was one of the only women at meetings for the Council on Books in Wartime, and she struggled to be taken seriously.

From the Collection of Molly Guptill Manning