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Street view of the front of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly building at its first location. The first free-standing library building in Tenafly.

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…

The library moved into space in the Tenafly Municipal Complex in 1963.

Looking straight toward the entrance to the library. Tenafly Borough Hall (not in photo) is to the left.

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…

Interior view of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly building on Washington Street with Mrs. A.V. Huyler (Virginia C. Huyler), President of the Library Association, sitting at table reading a book. The second photo gives the same…

Citizens were asked to public support the library with tax dollars in 1919. The official vote took place on December 29, 1919 and the library then became the Tenafly Free Public Library.

Handwritten list of all 90 members of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly in 1913.

Letter from officers of the Tenafly Free Library Association announcing results of Library operations for year ending May 1913. Accounting of the status of the library including income, number of books owned and borrowed and number of borrowers.

Newspaper article details the dissolution process of the Tenafly Library Association as well as the initial formation and meeting of the Tenafly Public Library. Tokens of appreciation are given to two members of the association who were instrumental…