1960, Escalator, Architecture, Seattle Central Public Library Building

 

1960, Ramsey County Bookmobile, Public Library, Minnesota

 

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Porter Memorial Library Machinas ME

 

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John Tyler Library, Salem NJ, 1912

 

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Carnegie Library Caribou ME

 

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Pillsbury Free Library, Warner New Hampshire NH

 

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The slate-roofed, brick and granite building was built on a site donated by Nehemiah George Ordway, a native of Warner who had gone west and become Governor of the Dakota Territory. The site was the location of the Kearsarge Hotel which had burned and was considered not worth rebuilding because all the shade trees had burned also.

At the dedication ceremonies on October 2, 1891, George Pillsbury said in his speech it was his wish that “All the people of Warner, young and old, rich and poor alike, may realize therefrom all the benefits that a free public library can give.” History of the Library