1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. Books

4. References

Margaret Titcomb (1891–1982) was an American librarian and writer.

Early life and education

Margaret Titcomb was born in Denver, Colorado on February 24, 1891, and was adopted by George W. Titcomb. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY and went to school at Packer Collegiate School Institute. She went to college at Columbia University and the University of Hawaii where she studied subjects on Natural History, Anthropology and Spanish.^[1]

Career

After College, Margaret became a Library Assistant at The American Museum of Natural History in 1924. From there, she got a job working at the Bishop Museum in 1931. While she was working at the Bishop Museum, Margaret was able to enhance the museum library by turning the museum's library cataloging system into an analytic bibliography which was published between the year 1964-1969 by G. K. Hall.^[1]

Books

During her career, Margaret wrote several books about Hawaii. They are The Native Use of Fish in Hawaii (1952); The Voyage of the Flying Bird (1963); Dog and Man in the Ancient Pacific (1969); The Ancient Hawaiian's: How They Clothed Themselves (1974) and Native Use of Marine invertebrates in Old Hawaii (1979).^[2]

References

• Jewish names for God
• Jewish National Book Award
• Jewish national movements (disambiguation)
• Jewish National & University Library
• Jewish Naturalization Act 1753
• Jewish New Zealander
• Jewish New Zealanders
• Jewish Nobel
• Jewish Nobel laureates
• Jewish Nobel Prize
• Jewish Nobel Prize winners
• Jewish nose stereotype
• Jewish orthodoxism
• Jewish Orthodoxism
• Jewish Orthodoxy
• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
• Jewish Party
• Jewish Party (disambiguation)
• Jewish Party of Romania
• Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
• Jewish people of Poland
• Jewish People's and Peretz Schools
• Jewish People's Institute
• Jewish People's School
• Jewish People's Schools