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Cleveland Public Library Image Collections
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Cleveland Public Library Neighborhood Branches
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Charles W. Chesnutt and his family
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Cleveland Views
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Maps and Atlases of Greater Cleveland
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Cleveland Public Library Art Collection
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Cleveland Parks
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Newbell Niles Puckett Collection
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Architecture Collection
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W. Ward Marsh Lantern Slides
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CPL Archives
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Maps (Ohio, USA, International)
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African-American Families Photographs
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Folk Arts
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Chess Images
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Baseball History
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Broadway
Broadway Branch 5417 Broadway
Commercial building, architect unknown Library service was transferred from the 1906 Carnegie building (which closed December 31, 1987) to rented facilities at 5417 Broadway on April 11, 1988.
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Broadway 1906: Carnegie Building Exterior
Broadway (Carnegie) Branch, built 1906
The 1906 Cleveland Public Library Annual Report described the original Carnegie building as modern French Renaissance. The red brick and stone building is a decagon in shape.
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Broadway 1906: Carnegie Building Interior, circulating department
Broadway (Carnegie) Branch, built 1906
The photograph shows the Loan Desk, the rotunda and several of the ten pilasters and columns in Roman Doric order. Some of the plaster busts of writers can be seen, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington...
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Broadway 1910: Carnegie Building, Children's Room
Broadway (Carnegie) Branch, built 1906
In 1922, the bank building next door to the branch library was enlarged and extended to meet the wall of the Children's Room.
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Broadway 1994: Children's Program
Broadway Branch 5417 Broadway
The Broadway Branch Summer Reading Club program, 1994. Julie Auerbach, storyteller.
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Broadway 1995: Exterior
Broadway Branch 5417 Broadway
Library service was transferred from the 1906 Carnegie building (which closed December 31, 1987) to rented facilities at 5417 Broadway, a commercial building, on April 11, 1988.
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Brooklyn Branch
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
In contrast to the imposing, early Carnegie Branches, Brooklyn Branch was a "convertible" type building: plain brick, semi-fireproof with factory skylights. If the Library needed to move to another neighborhood,...
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Brooklyn Branch 1919: interior
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
In contrast to the early Carnegie Branches, Brooklyn Branch was a "convertible" type building: plain brick, semi-fireproof with factory skylights. If the Library needed to move to another neighborhood,...
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Brooklyn Branch 1919: adult room
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
The Adult Room and Reference Alcove
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Brooklyn Branch 1919: fireplace
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
The painting over the fireplace is "Palace Portico," oil on canvas, painted by branch architect and Cleveland artist Ora Coltman.
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Brooklyn Branch 1919: interior
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
In contrast to the early Carnegie Branches, Brooklyn Branch (built 1919) was a "convertible" type building: plain brick, semi-fireproof with factory skylights. If the Library needed to move to another...
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Brooklyn Branch 1919: interior
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
Brooklyn Branch opened in 1919. The Reference Room is on the left and the Circulating Room is on the right.
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Brooklyn Branch 1926
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
In contrast to the early Carnegie Branches, Brooklyn Branch was a "convertible" type building: plain brick, semi-fireproof with factory skylights. If the Library needed to move to another neighborhood,...
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Brooklyn Branch 1952: Summer reading club
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
The theme for the summer reading club in 1952 was Cowboy Small's reading roundup.
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Brooklyn Branch 1961: bookdrop
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
To return a book, it sometimes takes two, especially if they are twins Sarah and Sandy Page, age 16, of 2901 Delman Ave. at the bookdrop of Brooklyn Branch Library, West 25th and Mapledale. July 19, 1961...
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Brooklyn Branch 1966: front entrance
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
In contrast to the early Carnegie Branches, Brooklyn Branch was a "convertible" type building: plain brick, semi-fireproof with factory skylights. If the Library needed to move to another neighborhood,...
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Brooklyn Branch 1966: interior
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
A view of the adult room. The painting over the fireplace is "Palace Portico," oil on canvas, painted by Ora Coltman
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Brooklyn Branch 1966: lending desk
Brooklyn Branch 3706 Pearl Road
Lending Desk, Miss C. Nowacki, April 29, 1966.
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Brooklyn Branch 1984: interior remodeling
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
Brooklyn Branch remodeling work, August 1984.
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Brooklyn Branch 1984: renovation
Brooklyn Branch, 3706 Pearl Road
Tradesman fits carved lintel over entryway, August 1984.
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