Line of people, mostly children, stretching toward the DC Public Library bookmobile, parked on Douglas Street at Kenilworth Avenue NE on a winter day. The photo was taken from the exit door of the bookmobile. The pedestrian bridge over the Anacostia Freeway is visible in the background.
Children wait in line to enter a DC Public Library bookmobile at East Capitol and 53rd streets SE. A sign in the background advertises the Capitol View Carry-Out eat-n-park located in a building with an awning and signs advertising Coca-Cola visible in the right background of the photo.
Children and adults wait to enter a DC Public Library bookmobile. The caption states that the vehicle was parked in a busy grocery store shopping center. A bicycle leans against the bookmobile in the left middle ground.
Thompson School students and teachers walk down the steps of the Central Library of the DC Public Library. The field trip was part of a cultural enrichment program of school visits to public library branches. In the right foreground a boy lunges to grab the teacher's purse. Other people enter the building under its awning and walk down the library steps., Photograph by Washington Post staff photographer A. Ellis
Children sit and read at tables at Benning branch library. Tables are set up in the middle of the room, surrounded by shelving. Paintings hang on the wall above the bookshelves. Adults browse the shelves in the background.
Facade and entrance of the Central Library of the DC Public Library. From left to right, the facade bears the words, 'this building a gift of Andrew Carnegie,' 'Washington Public Library,' 'dedicated to the diffusion of knowledge,' and below, 'science, poetry, history.' A car is parked on K Street NW.
Architectural drawing of the DC Public Library 'First Unit' building at 499 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The drawing is signed by Robert P. Hooton., Building was demolished in 1982
View of the Delivery room, later the circulation desk area, on the main floor of the Central Library. A long counter extends into the background on the left side of a wide open area . A staircase on the right leads to the mezzanine level., The back of the photograph credits Martin Baltrotsky, Commercial Photographer of College Park, Maryland; Date inferred from other Baltrotsky images
View of the Woodridge Branch of the DC Public Library from the west showing the east side of the building and the library's northern entrance. The U.S. flag flies above the library.
View from inside a DC Public Library Schools Division book delivery truck of a conveyer belt moving trunks of books into a school building from the back of the truck. A man stands on the lift gate at the rear of the truck next to a conveyer belt., Title from captions of other photographs in the series.
Partial exterior of the Woodridge Branch of the DC Public Library showing a bank of windows to the left of the entrance. Houses, cars, and trees are visible to the east of the library.
Children in cold weather clothes enter the Fort Davis Branch Library, later known as Francis A. Gregory Library. Two female staff members stand at the circulation desk in the right middle ground. A second version of this image is dated January 27, 1961., In 1986, the Fort Davis Regional Library was renamed at the request of its staff and the community to honor Francis Anderson Gregory, who served for 12 years as president of the Public Library's Board of Trustees, and was the board's first black president. Gregory lived in the Fort Davis neighborhood for more than 30 years, before his death in 1977.
Exterior of the Palisades Branch Library., Date on the photograph indicates the opening year of the library and not the year that the photo was taken; Prior to being a library, the Library was a one-room schoolhouse called the Conduit Road School and was originally named the Conduit Road Sub-branch; Date of photograph based on when the library was renamed 'Palisades Branch' in 1950 and when it moved to a new location in 1964
Children in cold weather clothes peruse the shelves in a DC Public Library bookmobile parked at Georgia Avenue and Madison Street NW. An adult man and woman are visible in the background. A book display above their heads promotes the books, 'Winnie the Pooh' and 'Tim to the Rescue.
View of the empty second floor lecture hall in the Central Library. Rows of chairs in theater-style seating face a raised stage which holds several chairs. Light bulbs line the perimeter of a recessed skylight. Light enters from windows lining the lecture hall., The back of the photograph credits Martin Baltrotsky, Commercial Photographer of College Park, Maryland; Date inferred from other Baltrotsky images
Children in cold weather clothes enter the Fort Davis Branch Library, later known as Francis A. Gregory Library. Two female staff members stand at the circulation desk in the right middle ground. A second version of this same image is dated January 30, 1961., In 1986, the Fort Davis Regional Library was renamed at the request of its staff and the community to honor Francis Anderson Gregory, who served for 12 years as president of the Public Library's Board of Trustees, and was the board's first black president. Gregory lived in the Fort Davis neighborhood for more than 30 years, before his death in 1977.
View of the front of the Southwest Branch of the DC Public Library. The front doors of the library are open, Date on the photograph indicates the opening year of the library and not necessarily the year that the photo was taken
A line of adults and children wait to enter the DC Public Library bookmobile. The open exit door is visible to the left of the photo. In the middle ground, a boy sits on the ground next to a dog, two large baskets, and a bag.
View of the Children's Room of the DC Public Library Central Library. Bookshelves line the walls and stand in the middle of the room. A model ship and a Christmas tree decorate the room. A child sits at the central table.
