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1905
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29
Free Library Port Jervis NY 1905
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LIB864096
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21
Carnegie Library, Greencastle, Indiana, 1905
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21
LIB113025
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JAN
08
Public Library, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1905
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JAN
08
LIB258611
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JAN
03
Morrison Reeve's Library, Richmond, Indiana, 1905
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JAN
03
LIB110797
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02
Public Library, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1905
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JAN
02
LIB774449
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30
Public Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1905
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JAN
30
LIB693272
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18
1905, Library, Medford, Massachusetts
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18
[LIB456091]
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1905, Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, Califonia
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SEP
01
[LIB988234]
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21
1905, Library, Summit, New Jersey
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[R955558]
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16
1905 Free Public Library, Perth Amboy, New Jersey
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FEB
16
1905 Free Public Library, Perth Amboy, New Jersey From 1888, the Library has been housed in five different buildings. Our Library was built on its present site on Jefferson Street, in 1901, on land donated by J. C. Mc Coy, of the Raritan Copper Works and constructed with the aid of a $20,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, a $1,000 donation from Adolph Lewisohn to purchase new books, and an agreement by the City to provide for the Library’s upkeep. [from the website] [LIB11216]
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OCT
17
1905 De Peyster Library, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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OCT
17
[LIB11159] - The Watts-de Peyster Library, built in 1897, faced College Avenue. 1897-1898 - First College library building constructed in Richardsonian Romanesque style at a cost of $16,055 plus $990 for a steam heating plant and $5,150 for steel book stacks; Named Watts-de Peyster Library after Frederick de Peyster and John Watts, father and maternal grandfather of donor, John Watts de Peyster (1821-1907); Library collections were formerly housed in the Literary Society buildings and in the college library, ground floor/Old Main; M. (Michael) O'Connor of Hudson, NY., Architect; George H. Oster of Lancaster, Builder. Original cornerstone laid May 1897 is located in lobby along with busts of John Watts and John Watts de Peyster. A sculpture of the donor's ancestor Abraham de Peyster was located in front of the building along College Avenue. It was moved to its present location along Buchanan Avenue in 1937. The building has been demolished.
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NOV
08
1905 Chittenden Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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NOV
08
[LIB10.030]
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OCT
17
1905 Public Library, Wrentham, Massachusetts
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OCT
17
[LIB9951]
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