Champlin, Peggy
CHAMPLIN, Peggy
CHAMPLIN, Peggy. (Margaret Derby). American, b. 1925. Genres: History, Biography. Career: Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, NY, assistant librarian, 1947-49; Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL, librarian, 1949-50; California State University, Los Angeles, science reference librarian and coordinator of computerized reference services, 1972-86; Autry Museum of Western Heritage, library assistant, 1990-91. Publications: Raphael Pumpelly: Gentleman Geologist of the Gilded Age, 1994. Contributor to biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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