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[Unknown Library Interior #10 B]

Photograph of a librarian's desk with a purse, typewriter, card catalog, miscellaneous office supplies is set perpendicular to the wall with bookshelves, wall calendar, a thermometer, and a framed illustration. A magazine display rack with a taped up newspaper clipping and a glass jar are in the foreground.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman and Two Children Search Through National Geographic Magazines]

Photograph of two unidentified children standing behind a seated unidentified woman looking through National Geographic magazines in her lap. One of the children is holding a few magazines, and the table in the foreground is covered in National Geographic magazines. Many boxes of materials are stacked behind the children. The wall behind the woman includes a door and an illegible letter titled Library Rules.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Hangs Up the Phone]

Photograph of an unidentified woman hanging up a phone on a desk; the desk backs up to a window and is covered with office supplies, a yellow book, a typewriter and microfiche machine. The wall behind her is a bookshelf with labels along the shelves: General Works, Philosophy, Religion, Pure Science, Language, and Technology,
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Library Interior #10 A]

Photograph of a corner of the library with a magazine display rack with a taped up newspaper clipping, three bookshelves, a poster involving various breeds of horses surrounding a world map, and a doorway to another library room of bookshelves. On top of the left most bookshelf is a clear jar with a handwritten label with legible text reading Building Fund, and a dollar bill is in the jar.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman and Children Gather Children's Books]

Photograph of an unidentified woman and an unidentified child collecting books, including An Elephant in My Bed by Klein, Suzanne, from the Children's section. Two unidentified children are standing at a table covered with National Geographic magazines in the foreground.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Woman Inside a Library #2]

Photograph of three unidentified women standing together behind a library staff desk in a peaked roofed library room with one window high on the wall behind them. There are a few bookshelves around the room with images of buildings's exteriors on the end of the shelves. The top of one bookshelf and the right wall are adorned by sculptures.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Library Exterior #2 B]

Photograph of an unknown building with a peak roof supported by nine white arches forming a covered walkway. The covered exterior wall is covered with a mural and/or graffiti on either side of a floor-to-ceiling windowed entryway. A blue pick-up truck and parts of three more vehicles parked along the street in front of the library.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Library Interior #7]

Photograph of an unknown library's interior showing a central short bookshelf with two globes and some books on top, partial views of three seating areas, floor-to-ceiling windows as the back wall, and bookshelves filling the remainder of the view.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Women Stand in a Kitchen at a LibraryParty]

Photograph of three women standing in a kitchen; two of the women are each holding cups. Behind them are kitchen cabinetry, a stove, a sink, and shuttered windows. Similar photos in this collection show they are at a dinner party in the Austin Public Library staff room. The women have been identified as Biruta Kearl (left), Mary Elton (center), and Laurie Mahaffey (right).
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Girl Walks to Reading Area]

Photograph of a young unidentified girl holding two books is walking into the seating area with a couch, two benched chairs covered with jackets, bags, and periodicals, and a wooden chair by a globe. In front of the girl is a glass display table with a branch of leaves and blue flowers on top of it. The background shows a stand-alone book display with illegible yellow sign (possibly reading Williams ?? Corner), a bookshelf displaying periodical magazines, a bookshelf with a Large Print Books sign, an open book displayed on a table under hanging artwork between two bookshelves, two tables with chairs, and blue bookshelves filling the remainder of the space.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Reads to Children for Story Time #3]

Photograph of an unidentified woman sitting in a corner reading an open Children's book to a group of five unidentified children sitting on carpet squares on the floor and two unidentified children are walking around. The walls behind her are a large window and bookshelves; the foreground show a broad leaf plant.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Researches in the Madison County Library]

Photograph of an unidentified woman reading material with two stacks of paper and a purse on the table. Behind her are various bookshelves; the short bookshelves in front of the windows are topped with displayed books and three framed art pieces: a flower bud, bluebonnet landscape, and a beige landscape. The building's wood beamed awing and another unidentifiable building are visible through the windows.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Reads to Children for Story Time #5 - Distance Photo]

Photograph of an unidentified woman reading an open Children's book to an unidentified group of children with an adult sitting on the floor of the library. The group is sitting in front of a wall of bookshelves as seen down a walkway between four rows of bookshelves and an open Dictionary display stand in the foreground. The corner of a table is seen peaking out behind the left column of bookshelves.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Works at a Counter]

Photograph of an unidentified woman working at an L-shaped counter covered with media containers, papers, and a sign that is partially legible to read Available for Loan -? Films - Film? - Projection Equipment - ? Players. The counter is separated from the rest of the library interior by glass walls. Bookshelves, hanging artwork, couches, tables with chairs, a card catalog, kites hanging from the ceiling, and a seated group of unidentified individuals are seen through the glass walls.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Reads to Children for Story Time #4 - Distance Photo]

Photograph of an unidentified woman reading an open Children's book to an unidentified group of children with an adult sitting on the floor of the library. The group is sitting in front of a wall of bookshelves as seen down a walkway between four rows of bookshelves and an open Dictionary display stand in the foreground.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Stands by the Leon County Library Sign]

Photograph of an unidentified woman standing under a sign for the Leon County Library on a brick exterior wall. Next to her is a door to the library with painted hours of business.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Hangs a Come to Chimera Poster]

Photograph of an unidentified woman hanging a poster for the Summer Reading Program named Come to Chimera. Come to Chimera was a Texas Summer Reading Program / The Texas Reading Club (TRC) that was sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in 1978.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Reads to Children for Story Time #2]

Photograph of an unidentified woman sitting in a corner reading an open Children's book to a group of unidentified children sitting on the floor. On the floor next to the woman are a small tree and a yellow Story Time paper; the walls behind her are a large window and bookshelves.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Library Interior #3]

Photograph of an unoccupied room with a desk in the center, open door covered with book cover art to the left, two sets of connected bookshelves are perpendicular to the back wall (the inner shelves have images of buildings down the sides), the right inner bookshelf has a sculpture on top (possibly a giraffe) and a sculpture is suspended from the ceiling above it.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unknown Library Interior #8]

Photograph of an unknown library's interior showing a yellow sign of a magnifying glass advertising inter-library loans, a countertop, bookshelves of various materials filling the room, and kites hanging from the ceiling.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Browse Children's Section #2]

Photograph of Doris Clark, APL Overdues Supervisor, standing behind another unidentified woman holding an open book and pulling another book off the shelf with games and materials piled on top under two architectural paintings. The Children's section includes another long short bookshelf behind the women and red chairs at a short circular table with four books on top and a small desk with one book on top. The back wall shows an interior door and two exterior doors.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Women Attend a Meeting]

Photograph of four unidentified women sitting at two tables facing an unknown speaker. One woman is shuffling papers. The women are inside in a downstairs room. The photograph has a blue hue to the image.
Date: [1977..1988]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marble Falls Library Exterior #2]

Photograph of the Marble Falls Library building from across the street. The building has a mural of people on the left corner, an arched entryway roof with Marble Falls Library sign, and a flat roof awning over a half-walled walkway.
Date: [1977..1981]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History