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1. Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, October 3, 1977 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 book...
2. Ravenswood Branch Library, 2010 W. Montrose, ca. 1927 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 area...
3. Workmen building the upper stories of the Chicago Public Library, Central Library, ca. 1896 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 homelands,...
4. Book room in the Old Water Tank, ca. 1873 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 and...
5. Story Hour in Welles Park, 1940's 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 one...
6. Austin Branch Library at 5642 West Lake Street, exterior view, ca. 1912 Austin Branch Library at 5642 West Lake Street, exterior view, ca. 1912 Public libraries;Storefronts; The Chicago Public Library's Austin Branch Library was opened to the public on the second floor of this business block on the city's West Side on Jan. 30, 1910. Note the prominence of "Library Building"...
7. Trailer Service from the Legler Regional Library, ca. 1940 Trailer Service from the Legler Regional Library, ca. 1940 Public libraries; Automobiles The Legler Library at 115 South Pulaski Road began an experimental trailer service to area industries on April 19, 1940. The first three industrial plants to receive the service were Binks Manufacturing...
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