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1. Young People's Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Edmundson, Ed. G.
Date Created:
1949-10
Description:
"High school youngsters watch the football game on a television set in the Young People's Room, Minneapolis Public Library, Ocober 1949."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Book stacks, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Hibbard, C. J.
Date Created:
1920 - 1939
Description:
The book stacks in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library were not open to the public.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Music Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Hibbard, C. J.
Date Created:
1923
Description:
The Music Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library. "Grace Nelson at desk, at table (back to front) Ruth Wedermann center table in fur coat, Sadie Fisher Petersen (singer); table far right, Frances Kelley (pianist)."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Seven Corners Branch, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Hibbard, C. J.
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
Children play a game under the supervision of library staff at the Seven Corners Branch of Minneapolis Public Library. The Seven Corners (Cedar-Riverside) area was teeming with new immigrants and the library was quite busy. This branch, at 300 Fifteenth Avenue South, was in service from 1912 to 1967.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Technical Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Hibbard, C. J.
Date Created:
1910 - 1920
Description:
The Technical Room in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library is shown filled with male patrons. In the foreground is a tray of volumes labelled "U.S. Boy's Working Reserve."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Clipping collection, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Kairies, A. E.
Date Created:
1920 - 1930
Description:
Patrons using the clipping collection in vertical files in the Central Minneapolis Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Library Hospital Service, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Kairies, A. E.
Date Created:
1928
Description:
Librarian Mrs. Elva Bailey, first head of the Minneapolis Public Library's Hospital Service, is shown bringing a cart of reading material to a Children's Ward in Minneapolis General Hospital in 1928.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Parent-Teacher Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Kairies, A. E.
Date Created:
1923
Description:
The Parent-Teacher Room in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Kammerdiener, J. H.
Date Created:
1926-12-13
Description:
"Art Department of the Minneapolis Public Library, Dec. 13, 1926. Before the Music Department was moved from the front room. Leonora Mann (left) and Ruth Thompson (right) at the charging desk. Phot made by J.H. Kammerdiener and given by him to the Minneapolis Collection, April 1942."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Hennepin County Department, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Ryan, George Miles
Date Created:
1922 - 1961
Description:
The Hennepin County Library service began in 1922 and originally had its offices in the downtown Minneapolis Public Library (Old Main). County services continued to operate out of the Minneapolis Central Library downtown from 1961-1973, when the County's library services moved to the Southdale Library. They later moved to the Ridgedale Library building in 1981, where they continue today.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Sifford, Bruce
Date Created:
1889 - 1910
Description:
A patron looking at slides in the Art Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Technical Room, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Sifford, Bruce
Date Created:
1920 - 1930
Description:
A woman consults cookbooks in the Technical Room of Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Visual Aids Departmen, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Sifford, Bruce
Date Created:
1948-11
Description:
"Margaret Fletcher, Assistant in charge of Visual Aids, discusses selection of a film with Mrs. Allan Moore, while the Rev. Elder C. Anderson and George Grenander "preview" a film in a home-made projection unit, constructed from a cardboard carton. Visual Aids Service, Minneapolis Public Library, November, 1948."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1910-1930
Description:
Patrons using stereoscope viewers in the Art Department of Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1927?
Description:
Miss Todd in the Art Department of Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1939
Description:
Mrs. Mary Wyatt and another woman view art prints in the Art Department of Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1889 - 1910
Description:
The Art Department in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Art Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929-02-28
Description:
"Mrs. Margaret A. Norton, 1912 Lyndale Avenue South, is pictured coloring slides in the Minneapolis Public Library Art Department. Making and coloring of slides is now part of the library WPA project. WPA workers have made 7,500 slides in recent years. In 1938, the lilbrary circulated 106,729 slides free."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Book binding machine, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1949-10-01
Description:
A clipping taped to the back reads, "Students visit the book bindery. Mrs. Zoe Oberg, at machine, demonstrates repair work to Roy Holmquist, Wesley Rust, Dorothy Risser and Marlene Cihlar."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Book stacks, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1920 - 1939
Description:
The book stacks in Minneapolis Public Library's original Central Library were not open to the public.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Branch Department, Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1936-12
Description:
The Branch Department in the Central Minneapolis Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Business Branch, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 - 1920
Description:
Interior of the Business Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Business Branch, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 - 1920
Description:
Mrs. Dietrichson and Luella Berger (in white blouse) in the Business Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Business Branch, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930 - 1939
Description:
A note on the back of the photo reads, " The business and municipal branch of the public library, 508 Second Avenue South, is a haven for business men and women who are too busy to hurry off to the main library to get help with their problems. R. E. Raymond, right is one of score of persons who drop in to receive the experienced at of Miss Maud Briggs (center) and Dorothy Ware (at left).
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Camden Branch, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1919 - 1920
Description:
Children and youth are gathered in a reading area of the Camden Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, which was housed in the John D. Webber Memorial Fieldhouse in Webber Park from 1910�1954. It was renamed Webber Park Library in 1954 and razed for a new library building in 1979.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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