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1.	Albany Park Branch Library, exterior view, ca. 1930's	Public libraries; Storefronts;	A window display sign stating, "Borrow The Brains of the Best Writers on Your Line of Work / The Public Library Will Give You Information on Any Subject," welcomed visitors to the Albany Park Branch s

2.	Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, October 3, 1977	Public libraries; Facades; Facades; Traffic signs & signals; Automobiles;	After nearly 70 years of continuous service with only minimal maintenance repairs, the Chicago Public Library's central library building was showing signs of age: space was inadequate for the large bo

3.	Racine Wagon & Carriage Company, Chicago Public Library Delivery Station carriages, ca. 1890	Public libraries;Carriages & coaches;Wagons;Horses;Cobblestone streets; Storefronts; Business enterprises;	As Chicago's reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 progressed and residential districts extended further from the downtown area, it became apparent to the library's directors that the Chicago Pu

4.	Woodlawn Branch Library, exterior view, ca. 1920s	Public libraries	Branch library service in Woodlawn began in 1915 in a one-story library that was moved into a store-front building as library use increased. Staff had to conduct library operations in the basement of

5.	Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, exterior view, ca. 1985	Public libraries;Facades;	Chicago Public Library's regional library for the North Side was named for Conrad Sulzer (1804-1873), who immigrated to Chicago from Switzerland and was one of the earliest known settlers of the Lake

6.	Legler [Regional] Library, exterior view, ca. March 1924	Public libraries; Street lights; Facades; Utility poles; Telephone lines	Comprising over 36,000 square feet, the Legler Branch Library became a popular social and cultural meeting place for Chicagoans living on the West Side. Based on these factors and large circulation st

7.	Hardin Square Branch Library, ca. 1930s	Public libraries; Sports & recreation facilities; Trees; Bushes;	Considered one of the best of the library branches located in the city's park field houses, the Hardin Square Branch provided benches at its entrance and outdoor walkways so that patrons could enjoy t

8.	Hild Regional Library, 4544 N. Lincoln Avenue, ca. 1981	Public libraries; Facades	Hild Regional Library opened in April 1931, as the second regional library in the Chicago Public Library system. An innovation of Chief Librarian Henry Legler, regional libraries were designed to serv

9.	Site of the Chicago Public Library Central Library, Randolph Street, looking southwest toward Lake Michigan, ca. 1893	Horses; Carts & wagons; Lakes & ponds; Coastlines; Utility poles;	Horse-drawn wagons brought supplies to the site of the new Central Library in the winter of 1893.

10.	Ravenswood Branch Library, 2010 W. Montrose, ca. 1927	Public libraries; Women; Librarians; Workers; Storefronts	In 1927, the Chicago Public Library opened its first branch in Ravenswood. The library, however, had been offering books to the community through delivery and deposit stations since shortly after the

11.	Austin Branch Library, exterior detail, ca. 1928	Public libraries; Facades; Doors & doorways;	In 1928, the Austin Branch Library was relocated to a building at 5615 West Race, which was renovated in the late 1970's. Among the Austin Branch's special collections are a Tool Lending Collection, t

12.	Austin Branch Library, exterior view, ca. early 1930s	Public libraries; Facades; Doors & doorways; People;	In 1928, the Austin Branch Library was relocated to a building at 5615 West Race, which was renovated in the late 1970's. The Henry W. Austin Branch's facade includes a semicircular arched doorway in

13.	Timothy B. Blackstone Memorial Branch Library, exterior view, 1904	Public libraries	In January 1904, Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone presented the Chicago Public Library with its first full-service branch library at 4904 South Lake Park Avenue. The building was named in memory of Timothy

14.	Chicago Public Library Delivery Station at Horder's News Depot, Lake Street between 41st and 42nd Streets, ca. 1890s	Public libraries;Carriages & coaches;Cobblestone streets; Storefronts; Business enterprises;	In June 1884, the library inaugurated a new Delivery Service, establishing delivery stations in businesses such as the Horder's New Depot. Pictured here are E.Y. and Ada Horder with their children Ivy

15.	Circular Requesting Donations to the New Free Library of Chicago, 1871.	Circulars; Newspapers	Ironically, the total devastation of the city by the 1871 fire led directly to the establishment of Chicago's Free Public Library. Money and supplies poured into Chicago as the world responded to the

16.	Traveling Branch from the Legler [Regional] Library, ca. 1960s	Public libraries	Legler Library operated two bookmobiles, one called the "Mini-Van" and the other the "Traveling Branch." In the early 1970s, these bookmobiles made regular stops on the West Side. Black and white phot

17.	Workmen building the upper stories of the Chicago Public Library, Central Library, ca. 1896	Public libraries	Many of the artisans and craftsmen who built the first Central Library were immigrants to Chicago. Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Hungarians, Italians, and Turks brought the skills of their native homel

18.	Book room in the Old Water Tank, ca. 1873	Public libraries; Water tanks; Reading rooms;	Measuring 58 feet in diameter and 28 feet high, the Book Room in the water tank was originally able to accommodate 3,157 volumes. Its most important feature, however, was that it was fireproof. Black

19.	Story Hour in Welles Park, 1940's	Public libraries; Parks; Trees; Storytelling; Children; Librarians;	Not all library activities took place within library walls. Hild Regional Library regularly produced a children's story hour in Welles Park. Each week, librarians prepared impromptu dramatizations of

20.	Old Water Tank, exterior view, ca. 1870	Public libraries; Water tanks; Reading rooms;	On January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library formally opened the doors to its first home in this water tank, which stood on a lot at the southeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets. Black and whit

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