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…
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.
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"
A group of girls in front of the Rethmore Home. Disadvantaged children from New York City would come to the Rethmore House for two weeks in the summer to breathe in fresh air in the New Jersey suburbs.
Newspaper article appearing in the Press Journal in on August 8, 1963 giving background information about Clifford Demarest and describing items donated to the library in his honor.