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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."

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."

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A group of children in the Scranton Branch Library, which was situated in two basement rooms of the Jessie I Scranton School, 200 Orchard Street, New Haven.

The exterior of the Beecher Mansion, which housed the Mitchell Branch Library. It was the home of Ebenezer Beecher, founder of the Diamond Match Company, until 1910.