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A group of children assembled in front of the Dixwell Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. Built in the early 1920's, Dixwell was at 555 Dixwell Avenue.

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

A group of children in the reading room of the Dixwell Branch Library at 555 Dixwell Avenue.

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.

A patron and staff at a service desk in the Congress Branch of the New Haven Free Public 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.

The exterior of the Davenport Branch, opened in 1922 at 261 Portsea Street.

A wooden counter with an opening for transactions. The New Haven Free Public Library occupied the Third Congregational Church building from 1891 to 1911.

Several people reading at tables in a library reading room. The Dixwell Branch moved to this location at 555 Dixwell from 213 Division Street in the early 1920's, and operated there until 1968.

A view of the Dixwell Branch Library at 555 Dixwell Avenue.