Interior of the Linden Hills branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, showing the Adult Fiction section. The branch moved into this building at 2900 West Forty-third Street in 1931, with a stock of 10,000 books. In 2000 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior of the Linden Hills branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, showing the Adult Fiction section looking toward the circulation desk. The branch moved into this building at 2900 West Forty-third Street in 1931, with a stock of 10,000 books. In 2000 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Minneapolis Public Library bookmobile parked in a lot at Fiftieth Street and Knox Avenue in April 1966. Founded in 1885, the Minneapolis Public Library grew to include a Central Library and fourteen branches. In 2008 the library was merged into the Hennepin County Library system.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Interior of the Linden Hills branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, from the Reading Room looking toward Adult Non-Fiction and entrance. The branch moved into this building at 2900 West Forty-third Street in 1931, with a stock of 10,000 books. In 2000 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The Children's Room of the Linden Hills branch of Minneapolis Public Library. The branch moved into this building at 2900 West Forty-third Street in 1931, with a stock of 10,000 books. In 2000 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
First Street North, looking south, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Hays Theatre was demolished in 1977, and the St. Cloud Public Library was constructed in its place.
Facing the intersection of West St. Germain and Fourth Avenue South. The old U.S. Federal Building and Post Office, which at the time of this image was being used as St. Cloud's City Hall is at upper left.
Back of the library looking southeast down Fourth Avenue. The eastern curve of the ""ring road"" encircling the central business district of St. Cloud, which was created as an urban renewal project in the early 1970s, can be seen here.
Children and children's librarian Barb Lantis dressed in Halloween costumes are gathered for story hour in front of a fireplace in the children's room of the St. Cloud Public Library in 1976. The St. Cloud Public Library's Carnegie building stood at 124 Fifth Avenue South from 1902 until it was torn down in 1981.
Exterior view of the Little Falls Public Library, housed in a Carnegie building built in 1904, in Little Falls, Minnesota. The library is a branch of the Great River Regional Library headquartered in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Corner of Fourth Avenue South and West St. Germain, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Hays Theatre was demolished in 1977, and the library was constructed in its place. On the right is the old U.S. Federal Building and Post Office, which at the time of this image was being used as St. Cloud's City Hall.
Librarians Bill Hecht and Cheryl Seelen assist a patron at the circulation desk of the Little Falls Public Library. Housed in a Carnegie building built in 1904 in Little Falls, Minnesota, the library is a branch of the Great River Regional Library headquartered in St. Cloud, Minnesota.