Collection Timeline

1886 to Not available

1886
digitized image of [Reading Room, Billings Memorial Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont]

1895
digitized image of Main entrance. Boston Public Library

1900
digitized image of [Carnegie library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
digitized image of Buffalo, N.Y. - Public library - children's room

1902
digitized image of The Library of Congress, Washington
digitized image of [Interior view of library reading room with male and female students sitting at tables, reading, at the Tuskegee Institute]

1903
digitized image of [Carnegie library, (Taunton, Mass.). Elevation]

1905
digitized image of Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Ark.

1906
digitized image of [Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tenn.]

1909
digitized image of Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa

1916
digitized image of Carnegie Library, Cordele, Georgia

1920
digitized image of Reading room for blind, Library of Congress, [Washington, D.C.]

1921
digitized image of Main public library building - Detroit

1926
digitized image of Libraries, Washington D.C.

1936
digitized image of For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more often
digitized image of Curb service 10,000 current books - convenient, free, time saving : Chicago Public Library, Randolph St. corridor.

1937
digitized image of Public library in the southwestern section of Mississippi, in the piney woods

1938
digitized image of Newspaper reading room of public library. Omaha, Nebraska

1939
digitized image of Silence / Mabel Dwight.

1941
digitized image of Library tent at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp for migratory farm workers. Odell, Oregon. The girls working in the library receive credit in the Junior Campers League for work in the library

1943
digitized image of Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students in the library reading room

2004
digitized image of Parmly Billings Library (Western Heritage Center), angle 1, Montana Avenue, Billings, Montana
digitized image of Nampa Public Library, 11th Avenue, Nampa, Idaho

2007
digitized image of Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

2008
digitized image of Library, Dickason Street, Columbus, Wisconsin

2011
digitized image of The People's Library set up by the Occupy Wall Street protest movement in Zuccotti Park, New York City
digitized image of Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia
digitized image of Noyes Library for Young Children, Kensington, Maryland
digitized image of Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut
digitized image of Patterson Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library System located on the eastern side of Library Square, Baltimore, Maryland

2012
digitized image of Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland
digitized image of George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, is part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Baltimore, Maryland

2013
digitized image of Tower of the Central Library, Los Angeles, California

2014
digitized image of The easily identifiable (thanks to its huge artistic sign) downtown J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, across from City Hall

2015
digitized image of The Guernsey Branch Library, part of the Platte County library system, in Guernsey, a town in northeast Wyoming
digitized image of Dusk view of the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, built from 2000 to 2003 in Pueblo, Colorado
digitized image of The public library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
digitized image of Public library building in the town of Antonito in Conejos County, Colorado, near the New Mexico border

2016
digitized image of Modernist stairway and bookstacks inside the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana
digitized image of An upright polar bear in Cincinnati, Ohio not at the zoo, since it's stuffed, or at the city's Museum Center, which owns the specimen, but at Cincinnati's main library

2017
digitized image of Historic library in the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh
digitized image of The Cook Memorial Library, the public library of Tamworth, New Hampshire. The 1895 Queen Anne Victorian building began as a private "social library" established by Parson Samuel Hidden; the building was given to the village in memory of Charles Cook, a prominent local businessman and politician

2018
digitized image of The Route 9 Library and Innovation Center in New Castle, Delaware, defines itself as "a community learning and resource hub"
digitized image of Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little Free Library (also known as a "birdhouse library") in the modest Dunbar Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona
digitized image of You wouldn't guess that this is a public library, but it is, in the little Wenatchee National Forest town of [Skykomish], Washington
digitized image of Library. Herbert Hoover Federal Building located in downtown Washington, D.C.

2019
digitized image of The public library, with a creative book-themed facade, in the small city of Houston, Minnesota

2020
digitized image of An appropriately decorated "Bookmobile" bus belonging to the Perry County Public Library in Hazard, a coal town of 4,500 or so population in the hills of southeastern Kentucky

Not available
digitized image of Mother Marianne Library, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI
digitized image of Paxton Carnegie Library, 254 South Market Street, Paxton, Ford County, IL
digitized image of Paola Free Library, 101 East Peoria Street, Paola, Miami County, KS
digitized image of Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
digitized image of Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC
digitized image of Redwood Library, 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
digitized image of Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, ME
digitized image of Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Babbitt Housing Area, Library, U.S. Highway 95, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV
digitized image of Juneau Public Library, 292 Marine Way, Juneau, Juneau Borough, AK
digitized image of Princeton University, Library, Nassau Street between Witherspoon & Tulane Streets, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ
digitized image of Georgetown University, Healy Building, Thirty-seventh & O Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC