Piublic Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

[LIB11089] Atkinson, photo repros, Laconia, N.H. No. 371.

1906 Carnegie Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

[LIB11088] Made in Germany, published by Fred P. Meader, stationer.

1908 Public Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

[LIB11087] Posted in 1908, this card was mailed to Goldie M. Bunker, Barnstead, New Hampshire.

1911 Public Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

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In the early 1900s, Rochester Postmaster Osman Warren contacted Andrew Carnegie to secure his help in providing financial help in building a new library. The Carnegie Institute responded with a check for $20,000. The brand new library was built on the site of what was the Main Street School. The library was built in the new Georgian revival style using brick and granite, and the inside was finished with golden oak and cypress. The library opened on October 2, 1905, and 150 people registered the first day. Miss Lillian Parshley was the first librarian, serving until her death in 1945. Velma Foss, Miss Parshley's assistant, was the second librarian of the Rochester Library. [Wikipedia]

1974 Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

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1941 Public Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

[LIB2722] - Mr. O. B. Warren, Rochester’s postmaster, in 1902 or 1903, started a correspondence with Andrew Carnegie of New York, in an effort to interest him in building a library building for Rochester. Mr. Warren mentioned that our town was settled in part by Scottish immigrants. On December 25, 1903, an announcement was made on the front page of the Rochester Courier that a check for $17,500 (later changed to $20,000) would be sent to Rochester from Mr. Carnegie. {More, including photos, in the website]

1907 Public Library, Rochester, New Hampshire

[LIB2474] - One hundred and one years before the start of the first Free Public Library, a Social Library was founded on the 12th of March, 1792. A small number of citizens gathered at the house of Col. John Goodwin and subscribed a paper in which they declared that "learning tended to enlarge the views and soften the tempers of humankind." They all agreed to a form a social library. Each member paid eighteen shillings (about $2.50) toward the first purchase of books. Some members, in lieu of money, contributed an equal value in books. There were twenty three paid members by the end of 1792. [Read more at the library website]

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1938 Public Library, Rochester, Minnesota

[LIB1578] In December 1865, library service began in Rochester, when interested citizens organized the Rochester Library Association. The sum of $1,000 was raised by subscription for the purchase of books, which were housed in the store owned by W.W. Ireland on what was then known as the Haney Block. [read more here]

Public Library, Rochester, Indiana

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The Cole Bros. Circus from Rochester, Indiana : A Complete History From 1934-1940

Public Library, Rochester, Minnesota

[LIB0407] In December 1865, library service began in Rochester, when interested citizens organized the Rochester Library Association. The sum of $1,000 was raised by subscription for the purchase of books, which were housed in the store owned by W.W. Ireland on what was then known as the Haney Block. [Website]