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The New Haven Free Public Library at 133 Elm Street, designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1911.

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Students are sitting at tables and browsing shelves, while a librarian helps a student in the background. Handwritten on reverse: "Nathan Hale Branch. 1926. Louise Maltby at the desk."

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The reading room on the western side of the Ives building. Handwritten on reverse: "New Haven Public Library Open Shelf room. 1926. Florence Russell at the desk."

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A group of children reading in a reading room. Handwritten on reverse: "John Davenport Branch. 1926. Children's room. Ethel Dempsey, librarian."

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

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The Third Congregational Church at 129-133 Church Street, the New Haven Free Public Library's second location.

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The interior of the Nathan Hale Branch, which was in the Nathan Hale School from 1925 to 1989.

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A group of children in a corner of the children's section of the Congress Branch Library.

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A group of people, mostly children, gathered outside a wood framed building. The Congress Branch moved from 427 Congress Avenue to the Carlisle Street School at 156 Carlisle Street in 1918.

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A group of children on the porch of a house. The Dixwell Branch operated here until it moved to 555 Dixwell Avenue in the early 1920's.
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