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Caption on the back reads: "The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, designed in modern Renaissance style and built at a cost of $9,000,000, was opened in 1911, though the Library had its origin in 1848. Its more than 80 branches are supported from city taxes, the central reference library from private endowment." Postcard was never mailed.
Caption on the back reads: "The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, designed in modern Renaissance style and built at a cost of $9,000,000, was opened in 1911, though the Library had its origin in 1848. Its more than 80 branches are supported from city taxes, the central reference library from private endowment." Postcard was never mailed.