This blog represents a collection of postcards that focuses on libraries in the United States and throughout the world.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Library, Atlantic City, New Jersey
[LIB2743] - In November of 1901, a plan for a public library was embraced by Atlantic City residents in a landslide referendum, with 6,062 voters in favor and only 30 opposed. Thus the Atlantic City Free Public Library was established, using as its nucleus 1,000 books from a small, privately-run library opened a few years earlier by the Women's Research Club, a cultural organization that still exists today. [From the Website]
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Carnegie library
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