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Title: Moving the collections, Carnegie Library Building, San Diego Public Library, 1952
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952-06
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: Over 125,000 books and 100,000 pictures, magazines and documents were packed by library staff in cardboard boxes, lifted through a second-story window and moved down a conveyor belt borrowed from a roofing company. One hundred palettes and two hand-operated fork lift trucks were borrowed from the Navy and the boxes were then trucked to Balboa Park's Food and Beverage Building. Title supplied by cataloger.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: CM_001_B8
http://cdm16736.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16736coll1/id/34
Subject: San Diego Public Library--History
San Diego Public Library Carnegie Building (San Diego, Calif.)--History
Time Period: 1952
Place: San Diego, CA
Source: Photograph:8 x 10 in., San Diego Public Library, Special Collections Photograph Collection, Box 8.

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