Showing posts with label postcard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postcard. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Monday, December 20, 2010
1937 Public Library from Voorhees Pool, Civic Center, Denver, Colorado
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Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
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c1905 Cambridge Public Library, Massachusetts
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Friday, December 17, 2010
1928 Curtis Memorial Library, Meriden, Connecticut
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1912 Forest Park Library, Springfield, Massachusetts
Forest Park neighborhood residents outgrew the provisional circulating library that was set up at Park Memorial Baptist Church and residents wanted a full service branch library. In 1908, industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided $50,000 for three branch libraries that included Forest Park Branch Library. Carnegie required that neighborhood citizens subscribe for land to match his donation of money for the building. Over 500 prominent Forest Park citizens subscribed for land and soon Forest Park Branch Library was completed in 1909. [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/branches/fp.html]
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
1926 Carnegie Library, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
In 1902, the library circulated 9,586 books and in 1919 it rose to 24,000. By 1932, circulation rose to 71,426, then increased slowly to the 1971 count of 75,173. In 1972, the board considered the renovation and modernization of the library, but found that was not feasible. The board looked at adding on to the west to preserve the library's architecture, but when the Erickson firm offered to sell its grocery store building at Main and Marshall Streets for $150,000, the board opted to make the move.
The city purchased the Erickson building and sold the Carnegie library to the adjacent Dairy State Bank. The old library was razed in the summer of 1985. The new library was dedicated in April of 1978.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
1904 Von Ranke Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
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The David E. Howe Library, Wellsville, New York
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1948 Library, Detroit, Michigan
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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The Cornell Library, Ithaca, New York
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Friday, October 29, 2010
1906 Carnegie Library, Syracuse, New York
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Library Building, A. & M. College, Stillwater, Oklahoma
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