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• For greater knowledge, on more subjects, use your library more often. Illinois WPA Arts Project, 1936-1941. Prints & Photographs Division
• Noyes Library for Young Children. Kensington, Maryland. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011. Prints & Photographs Division
• Bethune-Cookman College. Students in the library reading room, Daytona Beach, Florida. Gordon Parks, 1943. Prints & Photographs Division
• Public library in Antonito, Colorado, near the New Mexico border. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library and Innovation Center in New Castle, Delaware, defines itself as "a community learning and resource hub." Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division
• Silence. Lithograph by Mabel Dwight, 1939. Prints & Photographs Division
• Patterson Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library System. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011. Prints & Photographs Division
• The easily identifiable J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, Dallas, Texas. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014. Prints & Photographs Division
• Public library in the southwestern section of Mississippi, in the piney woods. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1937. Prints & Photographs Division
• "Bookmobile" bus belonging to the Perry County Public Library in Hazard, Kentucky. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020. Prints & Photographs Division
• Creating the first fully developed children's department in 1899 is one of the historic milestones claimed by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Library. Photo, 1900-1905. Prints & Photographs Division
• Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little Free Library in the Dunbar Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division
• Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011. Prints & Photographs Division
• Reading room for the blind, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. By National Photo Co., 1919 or 1920. Prints & Photographs Division
• Main public library building, Detroit, Michigan. Cass Gilbert, architect. Postcard by Albertype Co., 1921-1930. Prints & Photographs Division
• Mother Marianne Library, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, Hawaii. Photo by Jack Boucher, 1991. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Curb service, 10,000 current books, convenient, free, time saving : Chicago Public Library, Randolph St. corridor. Illinois WPA Art Project, 1936-1941. Prints & Photographs Division
• Reading Room, Billings Memorial Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. H.H. Richardson, architect. Photo, approx. 1890. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library. Herbert Hoover Federal Building in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division
• Paola Free Library, Paola, Kansas. Photo by Dan Collins, 1984. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• The Guernsey Branch Library, in Guernsey, Wyoming. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library of Congress when it was located in the U.S. Capitol. Copy of watercolor by William Bengough, 1897. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library of Congress, Washington. By Detroit Publishing Co., 1902. Prints & Photographs Division
• Hubbard Free Library, Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine. Copy of photo from approx. 1880. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Modernist stairway and bookstacks inside the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016. Prints & Photographs Division
• Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tennessee. Photo by Detroit Publishing Co., 1906. Prints & Photographs Division
• Main entrance. Boston Public Library. Massachusetts. 1895. Prints & Photographs Division
• Interior view of library reading room with male and female students sitting at tables, reading, at the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Photo by Frances B. Johnston, approx. 1902. Prints & Photographs Division
• George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2012. Prints & Photographs Division
• Map of Libraries, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1926. Geography & Map Division
• "Open Free to All" is carved over the door of the Carnegie Public Library in Taunton, Massachusetts. Drawing by Albert R. Ross, approx. 1903. Prints & Photographs Division
• Paxton Carnegie Library, Paxton, Illinois. Drawing, 2011. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Carnegie Library, Guthrie, Oklahoma. Cross section drawing, 1973. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Carnegie Free Library, Union, South Carolina. Photo by Jack Boucher, 1987. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Princeton University, Library, Princeton, New Jersey. Photo by Jack Boucher, 1964. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Public library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Prints & Photographs Division
• Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island. Photo by Cervin Robinson, 1970. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Cook Memorial Library, the public library of Tamworth, New Hampshire. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2017. Prints & Photographs Division
• Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo by Detroit Publishing Co., approx. 1910. Prints & Photographs Division
• Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2007. Prints & Photographs Division
• Riggs Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Historic American Buildings Survey. 1969. Prints & Photographs Division
• The People's Library, set up by the Occupy Wall Street protest movement in Zuccotti Park, New York City. Photo by Teri Sierra, 2011. Prints & Photographs Division
• Newspaper reading room of public library. Omaha, Nebraska. Photo by John Vachon, 1938. Prints & Photographs Division
• Dusk view, Rawlings Public Library, Pueblo, Colorado. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library tent at the Farm Security Administration mobile camp for migratory farm workers, Odell, Oregon. Photo by Russell Lee, 1941. Prints & Photographs Division
• Parmly Billings Library (Western Heritage Center), Billings, Montana. Photo by John Margolies, 2004. Prints & Photographs Division
• Juneau Public Library, Juneau, Alaska. Photo by Jet Lowe, 1991. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Historic library in the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2017. Prints & Photographs Division
• An upright polar bear in Cincinnati, Ohio, not at the zoo, since it's stuffed, but at Cincinnati's main library. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016. Prints & Photographs Division
• Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa. 1909. Prints & Photographs Division
• Buffalo, New York, Public library. Children's room. Photo by Levin C. Handy, approx. 1900. Prints & Photographs Division
• Tower of the Central Library, Los Angeles, California. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2013. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library, Dickason Street, Columbus, Wisconsin. Photo by John Margolies, 2008. Prints & Photographs Division
• Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011. Prints & Photographs Division
• Carnegie Library, Cordele, Georgia. Photo, approx. 1916. Prints & Photographs Division
• Nampa Public Library, Nampa, Idaho. Photo by John Margolies, 2004. Prints & Photographs Division
• Louisiana Industrial Institute and College Library with students reading, Ruston, Louisiana. Photo, 1900-1920. Prints & Photographs Division
• The public library, with a creative book-themed facade, in Houston, Minnesota. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2019. Prints & Photographs Division
• Book room, Carnegie library, St. Joseph, Missouri. Photo, 1900-1905. Prints & Photographs Division
• You wouldn't guess that this is a public library, but it is, in Skynomish, Washington. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division
• Library (C425), looking SW - Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Babbitt Housing Area, Hawthorne, Nevada. Photo by Joe C. Freeman, 1992. Historic American Buildings Survey. Prints & Photographs Division
• Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2012. Prints & Photographs Division