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| Title | Lake View Branch Library, exterior view, June 9, 1942 |
| Description | The Lake View Branch Library was designated a bomb shelter at its opening on September 12, 1942. Large barrels of crackers and emergency supplies were found in the basement of the building nearly 40 years later, as the Library was preparing the building for renovation. The box-like 1940s architecture of the Lake View Branch Library's facade changed with a 1988 renovation: a glassed greenhouse-style loggia with an entrance ramp to the building's brick front was constructed, along with a new elevator, a first floor children's library, and a new auditorium. The library's name was changed at the opening of the newly renovated building to the John Merlo Branch Library, after a past Alderman and State Senator. Black and white photo, 26 x 16 cm. |
| Neighborhood/Streets | Lake View (Chicago, Ill.)
Belmont Avenue (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject.TGM1 | Public libraries
Facades
Automobiles
Billboards
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| Subject.LCSH | Library buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Design and construction -- History -- Photographs
Chicago Public Library -- Lake View Branch -- Photographs
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| Date of Original | 1942-06-09 |
| Time Period | 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949 |
| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Repository Number | PHOTOGRAPH SPE-CPL Archives Photographs Lakeview 1.8 |
| 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 | 10 x 6 in. |
| Format | image/jpeg |
