Erika Glover, picture library director, dies

Erika Glover, the director and co-founder of The Granger Collection historical picture library in Manhattan, has died. She was 79.

The image library said Monday that Glover died of heart and kidney failure Nov. 16 at her home in the two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Glover and her husband started the collection in 1964 with just six file cabinets. It now includes more than 6 million images, including prints, photographs and color transparencies. The library sells the images primarily to documentarians, textbook publishers and other media professionals.

Her husband, William Glover, died in January.

The collection is named for the Rev. James Granger, who wrote an 18th-century history of England that left pages blank so readers could add images of their own choosing.