Image shows the west side of the Providence Public Library at the corner of Washington Street and Greene Street. Trees grow along the sidewalks.
Image shows the west side of the Providence Public Library at the corner of Washington Street and Greene Street. Trees grow along the sidewalks.
Image shows an employee of the Providence Public Library, identified as Wally Slack working on the renovation of the building. He stands on scaffolding and is demolishing a brick wall of the library.
Image shows a librarian, or vocational counselor, assisting a patron in the vocational counselor office of the Providence Public Library. The office has an open doorway and glass walls.
Image shows a librarian, or vocational counselor assists a patron in the vocational counselor office of the Providence Public Library. The office has an open doorway and glass walls.
Image shows an east view of the Updike Room inside the Providence Public Library. Books are enclosed inside bookcases with glass doors. Open books are on display inside a glass display case in the foreground. Framed prints hang on the walls above the bookcases.
Image shows a long meeting table in front of a marble fireplace inside the Trustees' Room of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows a long meeting table in front of a marble fireplace inside the Trustees' Room in the Washington Street side of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows water damage to a corner of the Trustee's Room in the Washington Street building of the Providence Public Library. Paint is missing from the walls. Drapes are gathered at the edge of the window seals. Washington is visible through the windows.
Image shows water damage to a corner of the Trustee's Room in the Washington Street building of the Providence Public Library. Paint is missing from the walls. Drapes are gathered at the edge of the window seals. Washington and Greene Streets are visible through the windows.
Image shows water damage to a corner of the Trustee's Room in the Washington Street building of the Providence Public Library. Paint is missing from the walls. Drapes are gathered at the edge of the window seals.
Image shows a framed oil painting portrait hangs over a marble fireplace mantel of the Trustee's Office of the Providence Public Library. Two small statues stand on either side of the mantle below the painting. Bookends support books on a table in the foreground.
Image shows the temporary Boys' and Girls' Library in the Grand Hall of the Washington Street side of the Providence Public Library. Wooden book cases are temporarily set up in the Hall.
Image shows a man looking at a San Francisco telephone directory. The man sits with his back to the viewer.
Image shows children sitting in a circle on a checkerboard tiled floor. A librarian kneels down on the ground leading a preschool story hour. Children are identified on the back of photograph as: Gary Anderson, Paul Werner, Ellen De Muia, Angela Gord, Stephen Pascarella, Joan Seymour, Pauline Seymour, and children's librarian Cynthia Ward.
Image shows a poster that displays a line chart of book circulation statistics from 1944 to 1954.
Image shows a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves line the right wall of the room. Benches line the left and rear wall.
Image shows a reading room in the Providence Public Library. A wooden armchair and desk are place near bookshelves that run the length of the side wall.
Image shows the "Standard Library", a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves run along the wall on the left side of image, wooden benches run along the right. Wooden arm chairs and stools are lined in the center of the room.
Image shows the "Standard Library", a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves run the length of the wall on the left side of image, wooden benches run along the right. Wooden arm chairs and stools are lined in the center of the room.
Image shows the "Standard Library", a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves run the length of the wall on the left side of image, wooden benches run along the right. Wooden arm chairs and stools are lined in the center of the room.
Image shows a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves line the right wall of the room.
Image shows a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves line the right wall of the room.
Image shows the "Standard Library", a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves run the length of the wall on the left side of image, wooden benches run along the right. Wooden arm chairs and stools are lined in the center of the room.
Image shows a narrow reading room in the Providence Public Library. Bookshelves line the right wall of the room. Benches line the left and rear wall.
Image shows two young women carrying books down the Grand Marble Staircase in the Washington Street side of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows book stacks in the Providence Public Library.
Image shows an interior view of the stackhouse. Empty stacks fill the room.
Image shows the south reading room and reference stacks in the Empire Street building of the Providence Public Library. Technical Services offices are above the reference stacks.
Image shows Billings Toys and Music on 46 Snow Street in Providence, RI. Sheet music, Baseball equipment, Sleds, Wagons and other toys are on display in the storefront windows. This was the site of the Providence Public Library between the first location at Butler Exchange and before it's central branch location on Empire Street.
