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Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard Collection

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Showing 1721–1760 of 2,598 items
  • Parlin-Ingersoll Library
    ImageParlin-Ingersoll Library, Canton, IL Completed in 1958, this modern limestone and granite building is a gift to the City of Canton from Charles D. and Elizabeth M. Ingersoll. Completely air conditioned and including all modern facilities, this library was designed to accommodate 40,000 volumes. It replaces the original Parlin Library (1891) donated by William Parlin.
  • Parlin Library
    Image | 1910Parlin Library, Canton, Ill.
  • Parlin Library
    Image | 1906Parlin Library, Canton, Ill.
  • The Patterson Library
    Image | 1973Caption on the back reads: "The Patterson Library and Art Gallery. 40 South Portage Street. Westfield, New York 14787. Chartered 1896, Library Building dedicated 1908" Postcard was never mailed
  • Paulding County Carnegie Library
    ImagePaulding County Carnegie Library, Paulding, Ohio
  • Pawtucket, R.I., The Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library
    ImageOn Front: Pawtucket, R.I., The Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library. Postcard was never mailed.
  • Peavy Memorial Library, Eastport, Me.
    Image | 1905-1916No caption on back. Postcard was never mailed
  • Pekin Public Library
    Image | 1920Public Library, Pekin, Ill.
  • Pennsylvania Log Library, Grant
    ImageD.A.R. This building is the Pennsylvania Log Library, located at Grant, Alabama. It is the library of the Kate Duncan Smith D.A.R. School. With the exception of attractive windows and the use of nails, the building was constructed exactly as similar structures a hundred years before. This is one of Alabama's last "old-fashioned house raising" efforts.
  • Penrose Public Library
    ImageView of Penrose Public Library, Holly Sugar Building, May-D & F Dept. Store and Antlers Plaza Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • Peoria Public Library
    Image | 1910Peoria Public Library, Peoria, Ill.
  • Peoria Public Library
    Image | 1914Peoria. Bradley Polytechnic Institute. Public Library.
  • Pequot Library
    ImageTHE PEQUOT LIBRARY, 720 Pequot Road, Southport, Connecticut. Opened in 1894, the Romanesque Revival building was designed in the manner of Henry Richardson. Its fine collections include books on Colonial history, with many of the volumes being originals from Colonial New England. There is also a magazine file with numbers as far back as the 1730's. The Auditorium, scene of p...
  • Perry Public Library
    Image | 1920No caption on back. Postcard was never mailed.
  • Peru Public Library
    Image | 1948Public Library Peru, ILL.
  • Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI
    Image | 1915Peter White Public Library, City Park, Marquette, Mich.
  • Philadelphia Free Library
    Image | 1946Caption on the back reads: "One of the largest library buildings in the world. It has a book capacity of more than 1,500,000. The building contains reference, periodical, map, print, music, newspaper, exhibition, lecture, reading and public document rooms, special rooms for children and the blind, and an open air roof arranged as a formal garden." Postcard was never mailed.
  • Philadelphia Public Library, Pennsylvania
    ImageLOGAN CIRCLE AND PUBLIC LIBRARY ON PARKWAY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
  • Philadelphia Public Library, Pennsylvania (1)
    ImagePUBLIC LIBRARY, Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    Image | 1956Phoenix Public Library. Central and McDowell, Phoenix, Arizona. This magnificent new library building constructed at a cost of over a million dollars, contains over 145,000 books, offers a complete reading room for the blind, nine sound-proof study rooms, ramps for wheelchairs, and a 300-seat auditorium.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImagePhoenix Public Library
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImageCrystal Canyon of the Burton Barr Central Library. Visitors enter the library through a five-story glass atrium. A reflecting pool and three glass elevators that leave streaks of colored light as they ascend, add drama to the entrance. Phoenix Public Library dedicated May, 1995.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImagePhoenix Public Library, Phoenix, Arizona. Located on the Civic Center grounds, it is one of the most modern and complete in the Southwest. A few of its special features are air-conditioned throughout, ramps for wheelchair patrons, an auditorium seating 350, study carrels, rooms for recorded music, Braille books, recordings, projected books on film for invalids, and a most in...
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImagePhoenix Central Library, Dedicated May, 1995.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImageShade sails of the Burton Barr Central Library. Sails on the north side of the library control the glare of the Arizona sun and act as a wind buffer without obstructing the view of the Phoenix landscape. Phoenix Public Library dedicated May, 1995.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImageNew Library Building, Phoenix, Arizona. Looking for the Sun? You'll find it spending the winter in Phoenix.
  • Phoenix Public Library
    ImageCarnegie Library, Phoenix, Ariz.
  • The Pictograph in the Library of Congress
    Image | 1916Part of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "THE PICTOGRAPH, BY JOHN W. ALEXANDER, MURAL PAINTING IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Pictograph, or picture writing, by which the primitive American Indian records on the painted buffalo robe his rude story of the war trail and the chase." Postcard was never mailed
  • The Pierpont Morgan Library
    ImageCaption on the back reads: "The Pierpont Morgan Library. Architectural rendering by McKim, Mean & White, ca. 1902. Watercolor over pencil; acc. no. 1958.24. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York" Postcard was never mailed
  • Pine Bluff Public Library
    ImageLibrary, Pine Bluff, Ark.
  • Pine Bluff Public Library
    ImagePublic Library, Pine Bluff, Ark.
  • Pittsburg Carnegie Library
    ImagePittsburg, Pa., Carnegie Library in Schenley Park
  • Pittsburgh Carnegie Library, Pennsylvania
    ImageCarnegie Institute and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - combining under one roof - Carnegie Museum, with over 5 million natural history and anthropological specimens
  • The Plaza Library, Kansas City, Missouri
    ImageCaption on the back reads: "THE PLAZA LIBRARY; On the perimeter of Kansas City's famous Country Club Plaza." Postcard was never mailed.
  • Portland, Me. Public Library
    Image | 1910No caption on back. Postcard was never mailed.
  • Portland, Me., Public Library
    ImageNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
  • Portland, ME. Public Library.
    Image | 1908No caption on back. Postcard was mailed on July 1, 1908
  • Portsmouth Public Library
    Image | 1907No caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed
  • Portsmouth Public Library (2)
    Image | 1906No caption on the back. Postcard was mailed on November 20, 1906
  • Post Library, Fort Lee, Virginia
    ImageCaption on the back reads: "POST LIBRARY, FORT LEE, VIRGINIA; Over 28,000 volumes of books available to servicemen and dependents.
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