Image / Balcony gallery, Carnegie Library Building, San Diego Public Library, 1902-1916

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Title: Balcony gallery, Carnegie Library Building, San Diego Public Library, 1902-1916
Publication Information: Digitized by San Diego Public Library
Contributing Institution: San Diego Public Library
Collection: Central Library History
Rights Information: https://cdm16736.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/custom/copyright
Description: The second floor of the library contained an art gallery, a lecture room with a seating capacity for 100, a museum,a trustees' room and two small rooms for special study. The central part of the second floor consisted of an open space with a balcony around it. Daylight from skylights reached the delivery room on the first floor. However by 1916 the library was so crowded that a reading desk was built around the balcony railing. Title supplied by cataloger.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: C_8_B10
http://cdm16736.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16736coll1/id/15
Subject: San Diego Public Library--History
San Diego Public Library Carnegie Building (San Diego, Calif.)--History
Time Period: 1900s
Place: San Diego, CA
Source: Photograph: 8 x 10 in., San Diego Public Library, Special Collections Photograph Collection, Box 10.

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