Image shows a group of patrons studying at a table set up in the exhibition hall of the Providence Public Library. The table sits between display cases. The Exhibition Hall was located near the Reference department on the first floor of the Empire Street building.
Image shows exhibition cases inside the Providence Public Library. A sign reading "American Indians" sits on top of a case.
Image shows the Periodicals department in the Great Hall area of the Providence Public Library. Patrons read at a long table in the foreground. Library workers stand behind the Information desk. Behind the information desk an open doorways leads to a reading room.
Image shows a group leaving the Empire Street entrance of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows the east corridor in the Providence Public Library. The ornate pilasters support the vaulted coffered ceiling. Doors leading to a reading room are at the end of the corridor.
Image shows a discussion group sitting around a large conference table. A portrait hangs over a book case.
Image shows a window in the Director's office on the third floor of the Washington Street side of the Providence Public Library. Papers and office supplies crowd the desk and book cases in the room. Drapes are pulled to one side of the window.
Image shows the renovation of the Director's Office in the Washington Street side of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows the delivery desk in the Great Hall of the original Washington Street building in the Providence Public Library. Librarians sit at a long desk helping patrons. Three young men stand reading behind the desk. Two display cases labeled "View of costumes of Galicia, Hungary" stand in the foreground of the room.
Image shows the delivery room of the Providence Public Library. The room has ornate coffered ceilings. Rows of wooden benches are in the foreground. The delivery desk was located in the Grand Hall of the original Washington Street building.
Image shows the delivery room of the Providence Public Library. The room have ornate coffered ceilings. Rows of wooden benches are in the foreground. The delivery desk was located in the Grand Hall of the original Washington Street building.
Image shows the "delivery room" of the Providence Public Library. Patrons stand around a circulation desk where to librarians sit. a man reads a book in front of bookshelves. The delivery room was located in the Great Hall of the original Washington Street building.
Image shows the delivery room in the Grand Hall of the Providence Public Library. The room have ornate coffered ceilings. Rows of wooden benches are in the foreground.
Image shows librarians working at the delivery desk inside the Providence Public Library. Framed portraits and a large clock hang on the back wall. The delivery desk was located in the Grand Hall of the original Washington Street building.
Image shows the dedication ceremony of the Central Library addition. Men wearing suits sit in wooden armchairs on stage while another speaks at a podium. A patterned curtain hangs behind them. The men are identified on the back from left to right: "Rabbi William G. Braude, John T. Winterich, Edward Turgeon, Phillip B. Simonds, Jr., Governor Dennis J. Roberts, Theodore Francis Green, Henry F. Chafee, John H. Cushman representing Mayor Walter H. Reynolds, Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D.
Image shows the dedication ceremony of the Washington Street addition of the Providence Public Library. Men wearing suits sit in wooden armchairs on stage while another speaks at a podium. A patterned curtain hangs behind them. The men are identified on the back from left to right: "Rabbi William G. Braude, John T. Winterich, Edward Turgeon, Phillip B. Simonds, Jr., Governor Dennis J. Roberts, Theodore Francis Green, Henry F. Chafee, John H. Cushman representing Mayor Walter H. Reynolds, Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D."
Image shows the dedication ceremony of the Empire Street addition of the Providence Public Library. Men in suits sit on wooden armchairs on stage. Two men stand at a podium. Men are identified from left to right are: Phil Simonds, President of Board of Trustees, Clarence E. Sherman, E. Turgeon, Bishop Russell J. McKinney, Theodore Francis Green, Phil Simonds Jr. Rev. Albert Thomas, D.D.
Image shows the Data Processing/Cataloging department on the fifth floor of the Providence Public Library under renovations. Library workers stand on the far side of the room behind a metal wall frame.
Image shows library workers in the Data Processing department on the fifth floor of the Providence Public Library. Office supplies are stored on shelves against the walls of the room. After the 1980's renovation this space became the room across from staff elevator.
Image shows the custodian's room and vault in the basement of the Washington Street building of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows a detail of cracked marble in the Providence Public Library.
Sheet of contact prints showing patrons reading in the Providence Public Library. Two images have been clipped from the sheet.
Image shows facilities worker renovating the third floor of the Providence Public Library near the business management office and elevators.
Image shows construction inside the Providence Public Library near the Reader's Advisory desk on the Empire Street side of the ground floor. Two library facilities workers stand near two ladders near the desk.
Image shows a view of the "conference alcove" on the first floor of the Providence Public Library. A man identified as Mr. Sherman sits at a microfilm reader. A woman sits working at a desk behind file cabinets. Patrons browse book stacks in the background. The office was located in the Grand Hall along Greene Street.
Image shows patrons using the computer lab in the Empire Street building of the Providence Public Library.
Image shows a detail of an ornate column capital of the Providence Public Library. The face and wings of a cherub and an open book decorate the capital of the column.
Detail of the face of a grandfather clock in the Providence Public Library
Image shows shelves of city and telephone directories in the reference room of the Providence Public Library. A small card catalog sits on a wooden table at the end of the directory book case.
Image shows library workers assisting patrons at the circulation desk near the Empire Street entrance of the Providence Public Library.
