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Chicago Public Library Delivery Station at Horder's News Depot, Lake Street between 41st and 42nd Streets, ca. 1890s
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| Title | Chicago Public Library Delivery Station at Horder's News Depot, Lake Street between 41st and 42nd Streets, ca. 1890s |
| Description | 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 and Harry. Library messengers were dispatched twice a day to pick up and deliver book orders left by patrons with the store's proprietors. At first, the storekeepers were paid a small fee for their work. It was soon found, however, that the delivery stations brought such large numbers of people into the stores, that the increase in business more than repaid the proprietors for the trouble of operating the service. By 1887, the system's delivery stations, now numbering eight, accounted for 127, 000 volumes in circulation. Reproduction from a photograph, sepia-tone, 6 x 9 in. |
| Neighborhood/Streets | West Garfield Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Lake Street (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject.TGM1 | Public libraries
Carriages & coaches
Cobblestone streets
Storefronts
Business enterprises
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| Subject.LCSH | Chicago Public Library -- Delivery Station -- Photographs
Horder's News Depot (Chicago, Ill.) -- Photographs
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| Photographer/Artist | Moffett
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| Time Period | 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899 |
| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Repository Number | PHOTOGRAPH SPE-CPL Archives Photographs Ds 1.4 |
| Language | eng |
| Collection | Chicago Public Library Archives
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| Rights | http://www.chipublib.org/aboutcpl/cplpolicies/policies/photo_reproduct.php |
| Type | Digital image |
| Original Format | Architectural photographs
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| Size | 6 x 9 in. |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Subject.LOCAL | delivery stations
businesspeople
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