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701. Construction site, second floor for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-04-02
Description:
Photograph is taken from an elevated position from the corner of present day Washington and 4th Streets. The exterior of the second floor is almost complete. Scaffolding and cranes have been raised in height to begin working of the third floor. A wooden frame arch support is now in place above what will be the main entrance to the library.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

702. Construction site of the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-07-01
Description:
Photograph is taken from present day corners of Washington and 4th Streets. The exterior wall are completed. Work continues on the main entrances for both Saint Paul Public Library and James J. Hill Reference Library. A building cranes are still visible on site.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

703. Construction site of the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-11-03
Description:
The photograph is taken from present day corners of Washington and 4th Streets. The entrance to the library is now free of construction equipment.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

704. Construction site of the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-12-01
Description:
The photograph is taken from an elevated position on present day Kellogg Boulevard. Building materials are piled up in the worksite. Note the three horse drawn wagons on the building site.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

705. Construction site, fourth floor for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-06-01
Description:
Photograph is taken from an elevated position of present day Washington and 4th Streets. Foundation for the stair case and entrance of the library has begun. Workers present at the near corner between first and second floors (blurred), on the trusses just left of the photo's center and on the far right edge. Work on the roof of the James J. Hill Reference Library has begun.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

706. Construction site, fourth floor for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-06-01
Description:
Photograph is taken from an elevated position of present day Kellogg Boulevard, looking towards Washington and 4th Streets. The power lift has been extended to a further height to deliver building materials to the upper floors. Building bricks and aggregate for concrete are still present on the building site. Building cranes are almost obscured within the walls of the library. Note the addition of a service entrance to the James J. Hill Reference Library. The Cathedral of Saint Paul is visible in the upper left portion of the photograph.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

707. Construction site, fourth floor for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-07-01
Description:
Photograph is taken from an elevated position of present day Kellogg Boulevard, looking towards Washington and 4th Streets. The exterior walls for all four floors are now completed. Roof trusses are now being set in place. Cranes are still visible in the section of the library facing Washington Street, as is a worker with a wheelbarrow on top of the library. Frames for the windows are visible in the construction yard.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

708. Construction site for the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library and the James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-05-01
Description:
Photograph is taken from elevated position of present day Kellogg Boulevard. On the right side of the photograph is the James J. Hill Reference Library. Interior scaffolding and supports are visible for both library buildings.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

709. Construction site for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-10-04
Description:
The photograph is taken from an elevated position on present day Kellogg Boulevard. The roof work is complete. A moving cover is in place over the skylights. Most of the windows have frames and are being sealed. Near photo's center, a man works on scaffold suspended from roof. Also a bell sits to the right edge of the pile of building materials, although neither the Central Library nor any branch of the Saint Paul Public Library is known to have a bell.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

710. Construction site for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-10-04
Description:
The photograph is taken from present day 4th Street. Work continues on the main entrance to the Saint Paul Public Library. Some windows remain open for delivery or removal of building materials.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

711. Construction site for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-11-03
Description:
The photograph is taken from an elevated position on present day Kellogg Boulevard. A wooden staircase allows easy access to the second floor of the library. An advertisement on the barricade reads in part "Gordon Pure Fur?".
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

712. Construction site for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1916-01-05
Description:
The photograph is taken from an elevated position on present day Kellogg Boulevard. Window glass has been installed in the window frames.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

713. Construction site, first floor of library for Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1914-11-19
Description:
Photograph is taken from present day 4th Street. The first floor of the library is almost complete. Various materials are seen around the foundation of the library. Frame work for a power lift, for moving building materials, is being constructed between the existing scaffolds.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

714. Construction of the staircase for the main entrances of James J. Hill Reference Library and Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915-09-02
Description:
The photograph is taken from the present day corners of Washington and 4th Streets. The entrance on the far left of the photograph is for the James J. Hill Reference Library. The entrance to the center of the photograph is for the Saint Paul Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

715. Construction, excavation and foundation walls of the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1913-12-01
Description:
The bedrock is exposed and being drilled, cut and removed from the construction site. Foundation walls are shown in their wood and metal frames. Various types of construction tools, including type of power-operated drill are shown.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

716. Clipping Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1889 - 1910
Description:
The clipping files in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

717. Clipping Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Clipping Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

718. Clipping Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939?
Description:
The Clipping Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

719. Circulation Room of Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1916
Description:
Completed ceiling decoration in the then-Circulation Room of the Central Library of the Saint Paul Public Library. Windows look out to Market Street. Today this room is known as the Non-fiction Room.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

720. Circulation desk of the St. Cloud Public Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1978
Description:
Books are stacked awaiting processing at the circulation desk of the St. Cloud Public Library's Carnegie building. The building stood at 124 Fifth Avenue South from 1902 until it was torn down in 1981. This image was part of a presentation used to persuade the community that the library had outgrown its space and needed a new building. Circulation staffer Yvette Spoden Stueve is seen here at the typewriter.
Contributing Institution:
Great River Regional Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

721. Circulation desk of the St. Cloud Public Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1978
Description:
This is the circulation desk of the St. Cloud Public Library's Carnegie building which stood at 124 Fifth Avenue South from 1902 until it was torn down in 1981. This image was part of a presentation used to persuade the community that the St. Cloud Public Library had outgrown its space and needed a new building. Reference Librarian Sara Magee is seated in the back at the desk facing the camera.
Contributing Institution:
Great River Regional Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

722. Circulation desk, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1949-12
Description:
"The charging desk of the main library of the Minneapolis Public Library on a busy morning. At Registration desk, Violet Lux and Constance Burns Hoefer; at Information desk, Violet Lied; at Charging desk, Dorothy Joseph, Donna Hendrickson and Mary Lou Ofstied; in background of Charging desk, Charlotte Matson; pages at table, Frank Schneider, and Carol Leigh. Margaret McGuire is on the patron side of the desk in the Krimmer coat and Glenn M. Lewis, librarian in foreground, December 1949."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

723. Child using the card catalog, East Central Regional Library, Cambridge, Minnesota

Description:
The card catalog with drawers of cards indexing the library materials were replaced with microfiche readers at East Central Regional Library Headquarters by 1987. Founded in 1959, ECRL is the oldest existing regional public library system in Minnesota. Headquartered in Cambridge, it is a consolidated library system with 14 libraries and Outreach Services and serves residents in Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine counties.
Contributing Institution:
East Central Regional Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

724. Children's Room storytelling area and toy storage, St. Cloud Public Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1979
Description:
Interior view of the storytelling and toy storage area at the second St. Cloud Public Library building at 405 West St. Germain.
Contributing Institution:
Great River Regional Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

725. Children's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1916?
Description:
The Children's Room, filled with plants, in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

726. Children's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1916?
Description:
The Children's Room, filled with plants, in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

727. Children's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1959-07-21
Description:
"Mrs. Janet Johnson of the Twin City Dairy Council explains a model dairy farm exhibit loaned by the Council to the Minneapolis Public Library Children's Room. Alyce Mee Underhill, head of the central children's room, is behind Mrs. Johnson. July 21, 1959."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

728. Children's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
The Children's Room in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

729. Children's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
The Children's Room in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

730. Children's Readmobile, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991 - 2008
Description:
View of the Hennepin County Library's Children's Readmobile. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

731. Children's Readmobile, Hennepin County Library and Minneapolis Public Library, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991 - 2005
Description:
The Children's Readmobile, jointly operated by the Hennepin County Library and the Minneapolis Public Library. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

732. Children's Readmobile Bookmobile, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991-04-18
Description:
View of the Hennepin County Library's Children's Readmobile parked in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

733. Children's Readmobile Bookmobile, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991-04-18
Description:
View of the Hennepin County Library's Children's Readmobile parked in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

734. Children's Readmobile Bookmobile, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991-04-18
Description:
View of the Hennepin County Library's Children's Readmobile parked in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

735. Children's Readmobile Bookmobile, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1991-04-18
Description:
View of the Hennepin County Library's Children's Readmobile. The first Readmobile was purchased in 1991, with a second added in 2003.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

736. Children looking at fish bowl at Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920-08-13
Description:
A group of five children are crowded around a fish bowl at the Minneapolis Public Library Seven Corners Branch
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

737. Child listening to a book on cassette using headphones, East Central Regional Library, Cambridge, Minnesota

Description:
A young reader in the children's section of East Central Regional Library, Cambridge, Minnesota, enjoys the opportunity to listen to a book on cassette while he reads along. By 1974, audio cassette players were available in all of the branch libraries for loan, with a $20.00 refundable deposit and a $2.00 per day charge. In the mid-1990's, East Central Regional Library lent audio cassettes of recorded books. Within a few years, books on compact disc became the format of choice for listening to recorded books. Founded in 1959, ECRL is the oldest existing regional public library system in Minnesota. Headquartered in Cambridge, it is a consolidated library system with 14 libraries and Outreach Services and serves residents in Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine counties.
Contributing Institution:
East Central Regional Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

738. Champlin Public Library, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1973
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Public Library, a branch of the Hennepin County Library. The library moved into this building in 1973.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

739. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940 - 1950
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

740. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1973-10
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

741. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1973
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

742. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1970 - 1980
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

743. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1980 - 1990
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

744. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930-1950
Description:
Bookmobile driver, Carl Hagen, carrying delivery boxes into the Champlin branch of Hennepin County Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

745. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1973-1994
Description:
Exterior view of the Champlin Public Library, a branch of the Hennepin County Library. The library moved into this building in 1973.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Negatives (photographic)

746. Champlin Branch, Hennepin County Library, Champlin, Minnesota

Date Created:
1994
Description:
Exterior view of the main entrance of the Champlin Public Library. The library moved into this building in 1994.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

747. Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1893-11-15
Description:
Minneapolis Public Library's Central Library at Tenth Street and Hennepin Avenue. This building opened in 1889 and was in service until a new building replaced it in 1961.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

748. Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1889 - 1950
Description:
A sign from Minneapolis Public Library's Central Library at Tenth Street and Hennepin Avenue. "Rest Rooms - Entrance outside 10th St., Rear of building." This building opened in 1889 and was in service until a new buildling opened in 1961.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

749. Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1990 - 2002
Description:
This exterior view of the Central Library of Minneapolis Public Library shows the dome of the planetarium and a scupture entitled The Scroll, by John Rood. This facility, at 300 Nicollet Mall, was built in 1961 and housed the library until 2002.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color transparencies

750. Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1936?
Description:
Patrons browsing in the Central Minneapolis Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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