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The front of the Ives Library at 133 Elm Street. Library patrons and a worker shoveling snow are visible in front. Handwritten on reverse: "Natl Lib. Week, 1958."

One of the elliptical staircases in the entry vestibule of the New Haven Free Public Library.

A plaque in the entryway of the library at 133 Elm Street, commemorating Mary Ellen Ives's gift of $300,000 to New Haven for a new library building.

A corner of a meeting room shortly after construction of the Ives Library building.

An elevated view of the New Haven Free Public Library and the New Haven County Courthouse. Cars are parked along both sides of Elm Street. A streetcar is visible in the center of the street.

The rear of the Ives building sometime before an addition was added in 1990.

The exterior of the Ives library during renovation, from 1988 to 1990.

The New Haven Free Public Library from Temple Street, showing the stack wing.

The exterior of the Ives building at 133 Elm Street. A police officer is standing under a gas lamp, and a woman is walking east on Elm Street.

Typewritten on reverse: "Delivery Room. Public Library. Feb. 13, 1937."