1907 Public Library, Jersey City, New Jersey

[LIB0353] - On May 13, 1889, seven men met in the City Hall office of Mayor Orestes Cleveland to organize the first free public library for Jersey City. These newly appointed library trustees chose as their president Leonard Gordon, M.D., a long-term advocate for a public library. Their first task was to file a suit to force the city's Finance Board to appropriate the funds mandated by state law. Read more about this great library here.

1908 Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, Menomonie, Wisconsin

[LIB0278] - The Mabel Tainter Theater, originally named the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building, is a historic landmark in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and is registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Read the Wikipedia article here.

Millicent Library, Fairhaven, Massachusetts

[LIB0274]- The Hugh H. Leighton Co., manufacturers, Portland, ME., U.S.A. 1046, Made in Germany.

Warder Public Library, Springfield, Ohio

[LIB0237] - The Clark County Public Library had its first real beginnings around the year 1841 with what was then known as the Springfield Lyceum. Various short-lived Library Associations followed and the library found a more permanent home on the second floor of Black's Opera House. The library housed 3,300 volumes when it opened to the public at this location in 1872. As patronage and the collection expanded, the need for yet another move set in and the library relocated in 1877 to the second floor of the Union Hall Building, which was situated on what is today Fountain Avenue.
Local entrepreneur Benjamin Warder gave the library a new location on the south-west corner of East High and South Spring Streets in 1890 with a building constructed in memory of his parents, and dedicated to the people of Springfield. This location now houses the Warder Literacy Center. Read more about this library history here.

The Library at Mount Vernon, Virginia

[LIB0194] - The Library contains many of George Washington's books, with his own book plates in them; also a map of Mount Vernon, carefully platted by himself. The globe and the clock are original. From a watercolor by F.J. Mayfield. [From the back of the card]

Exhibition Room, The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY

[LIB0176] - The Library will serve as a depository for the historical material, personal papers and books accumulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his long service in Public Office.

The Library was established as an agency of the U.S. Government by a joint resolution of Congress approved July 18th, 1939. [Back of the card].

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This memorial to Haryy Elkins Widener, Class of 1907, houses almost half of the world-famous Harvard book collection of over six million volumes. [From the back of the card] - [LIB0153]

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