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Bookmmark-type promotional piece created to alert library patrons to various circulation and other library statistics during Library Week.

handwritten on the photo: Best Love and Wishes from Annie, January 19, 1895

A group of men stand with their high wheel or penny farthing bicycles. Penny farthing bicycles, very large wheel in the front with a very small wheel in the back, were popular in the 1880s.

Birthday card given to the library and staff to celebrate the completion of the 2nd year in the new building in the municipal complex.

Snow piled up on the Carriage Maker & Horse Shoe building and the first school house. 1888

Group of people bobsledding.

The library was originally housed in an unused room on the 3rd floor of the Browning School, built in 1904 on the site of the David Westervelt house, until it found it's own home in 1912. This photo shows the rear of the Browning School where the…

This image shows the steel beam construction or the Edna Kawulitzki Art Gallery, 2000-2001. This section of the library was built behind an area known as the lounge. The lounge had two sets of arched windows which became the entrance into the Art…

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

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.