Collection Timeline

1921 to c1902.

1921
Photograph shows view of Carnegie library in Detroit, Michigan. Includes advertisement for Berry Brothers, varnishes and paint specialties.

2011 September.
A charming one-room library, it is Montgomery County's oldest, and is now an historic landmark surrounded by old trees and turreted Victorian homes. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Documentation compiled after 1933
Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. The second Carnegie library in Oklahoma, it grew from the efforts of the organizers of one of the earliest libraries in Oklahoma, to which it is successor. It is remarkable for the number of ways in which it diverges from Andrew Carnegie's ideas of what a library building should be. Survey number: HABS OK-14

[between 1936 and 1941]
Poster showing a mortarboard and a pair of glasses superimposed over a globe, promoting use of libraries. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

c1902.
Title from item. Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title from item. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53209".