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.
A woman speaks while a male sign language interpreter to her right interprets in the Great Hall at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. A sign on a podium in the foreground reads, 'D.C. Public Library, Deaf Awareness Week.' The man standing at the far right is Hardy Franklin, then director of the DC Public Library.
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
Contact sheet of negatives showing three images of a reading room and lobby in the recently completed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Patrons are visible in two of the images., Photographs were taken by architect Mies van der Rohe's firm by David L. Hirsch
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.
Unused site plan for the first floor of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Labeled areas include former fiction, former sociology, former general reference and first stack level., see also dcpl_archives_0002, dcpl_archives_0003, dcpl_archives_0004, dcpl_archives_0006, dcpl_archives_0007
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.
Contact sheet of four negatives showing three images of construction of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library taken from the corner of G and 9th Streets NW. The final image shows a view from the street into the completed library., Photographs were taken by architect Mies van der Rohe's firm by David L. Hirsch
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.
Librarian Mary Ternes works at a Lektriever file storage machine in the Washingtoniana Division of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. The machines were used to store and access the Washington Star photograph and clippings collections.
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.
Unused site plan for the second floor of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Labeled areas include art, Washingtoniana, offices, film screening room, 4th stack level, parents' and illustrators' collection, former children's room, adult education, a staff women's restroom, second floor lobby, and a skylight., see also dcpl_archives_0002, dcpl_archives_0003, dcpl_archives_0004, dcpl_archives_0005, dcpl_archives_0006
