Kraft Memorial Public Library, RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA CA

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Red Bluff is the county seat of Tehama County, California.

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bluff,_California]

1917 Denkmann Library, Rock Island, Illinois

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The Rock Island Public Library holds the distinction of being the oldest public library in the state of Illinois.

[Source: http://ripl.lib.il.us/about.htm]

1960s Lawson McGhee Library, KNOXVILLE TN

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The Public Library System we know today can be said to date from the opening of Lawson McGhee Library on October 28, 1886.

The first Lawson McGhee Library was a subscription library. At least four earlier public libraries had been created in Knoxville between 1804 and 1873, with the last of these library associations, known as the "Public Library of Knoxville," having been founded in 1873. Its assets were merged into those of Lawson McGhee Library in 1885 prior to the Library opening. Although the founding date for the Knox County Public Library System could arguably be 1873, one unbroken element of the continuity, the name Lawson McGhee Library, can be clearly dated to 1886.

[Source: http://knoxrooms.sirsi.net/rooms/portal/page/21462_About_the_Library]

1960s Ayres-Alumni Memorial Library, Taylor University, UPLAND IN

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Taylor University

Public Library BURLINGTON MA

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The consolidation of the town's schools into a single new building (the Union School) provided an opportunity to move to a larger building. When a former summer resident, Edward Barker, donated a sum of money to the town for library purposes in 1896, there were sufficient funds to convert the old Center School (now the Burlington Town Museum) at the corner of Cambridge and Bedford Streets into a library. The Library and Reading Room, as it then was known, opened on June 29, 1897 and remained there for over seventy years.

[Source: http://www.burlingtonpubliclibrary.org/libraryhistory.htm]

c1915 Public Library OAKLAND CALIFORNIA CA

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The Oakland Free Library opened to the public as a municipal entity November 7, 1878. It was the second public library founded in California (after Eureka) under the Rogers Free Library Act of 1878, an act of legislation allowing cities to levy taxes for the support of public libraries. The library had its origin in the Oakland Library Association, a subscription library established ten years earlier in 1868. Once the Rogers Act made it possible, the Trustees of the Oakland Library Association put into action the plan that would transfer all of its assets - building, books, furniture, and librarian - to the city of Oakland.

[http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/about/history.html]