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Title
[Castro Hill Branch, Alameda County Free Library] (7 views)
Date Created and/or Issued
[1923?]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (2009-2152). Castro Hill Branch, Brooder Branch, Alameda Co. Free Library -- view 2 (2014-4379). Shows interior of room -- view 3 (2014-4380). Castro Hill Branch, Alameda County Free Library, has a unique and attractive reading room and library in a building formerly uses a a chicken brooder -- view 4 (2014-4887). Brooder Branch, Alameda County -- view 5 (2004-0467). California, Brooder Branch, Alameda County Free Library. Brooder Branch on a day visited by the University of California Library School class -- view 6 (2014-4888). Shows unidentified woman in front of building -- view 7 (2014-4889). Castro Hill Branch, Alameda County Free Library, has attractive quarters in a remodeled chicken brooder.
Castro Hill Branch was established July 17, 1915. Located in building (formerly a chicken brooder) on Mrs. J. A. Due's place (on rural route in vicinity of Hayward) beginning in 1918.
Also have negatives: no. 4819c (5x3 in.) for 2009-2152; no. 6210 (4x5 in.) for 2014-4380; no. 25,146 (4x5 in.) for 2014-4887; no. 4819b (3x5 in.) for 2014-4888; and, no. 4819b (3x5 in.) for 2014-4889.
Mrs. May Dexter Henshall;
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
Photographic prints ; 7 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001525978CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Public libraries--California--Alameda County
Reading rooms--California--Alameda County
Alameda County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Alameda County
Alameda County (Calif.)

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