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Copy of Certificate of Incorporation for the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly. Handwritten on the back of the document: "Recorded in Hackensack, Nov. 1911", "Recorded in Trenton, Dec 7, 1911"

Letter written by the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly to encourage Tenafly residents to vote for public funding of the library in Tenafly.

Copy of official by-laws of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly written and accepted in 1911.

Ruth Garomon, Library Director from 1950-1970

Callie York, first librarian, from 1910-1932. In 1920, Mrs. York became the first head librarian of the Tenafly Free Public Library. She served in that capacity until 1932 when she died of pneumonia.

Outdoor concert held at the library in an area that became the Children's Picture Book Room. What appears as a circular window become an arched open doorway from the main area of the Children's Room to the Picture Book Room.

Audience is sitting in what became the Peace Plaza looking toward the library building. The performers are standing in the area that became the Picturebook Room of the Children's Room.

The first library building was originally used as the post office and was located across the train tracks from the Tenafly Train Station (pictured on the far right of this image). It is the single-story red-roofed building near the center of this…

First Schoolhouse in Tenafly NJ was built in 1872 . Located on the corner of Tenafly Road and Clinton Avenue. circa 1886.

The basement of this school became the foundation of the Tenafly High School building built in 1921.

Tenafly Bottling Company Deliver Truck. Early 1900s. Young men and women taking a ride.