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Berkeley's initial public library building, funded by a Carnegie grant in 1903, was designed by John Galen Howard, the Beaux Arts architect of the University of California. The library's expansion requests in 1913 and the subsequent voter-approved library building tax in 1921 and 1925 foreshadowed its need for growth.
[6] This library contains over 60 million manuscript items, 600,000 volumes, 2.8 million photographs, 43,000 microforms, and 23,000 maps. The library originated in 1905 as a center for Latin-American History and Western Americana when it acquired the collections of Herbert Howe Bancroft and gained prominence under the leadership and research of ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Berkeley Public Library: Berkeley Public Library. June 25, 1982 2090 Kittredge St. ...
The library is home to the Mark Twain Papers, an extensive collection of the private manuscripts, sketches, essays, poems, notes, photographs and letters of Samuel Clemens’ works as Twain. [2] At the library's entrance is a statue of Clemens holding a copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , sculpted by Gary Lee Price . [ 3 ]
The current Riverside Public Library is adjacent to the site of the elaborate original. 89: Roseville Roseville: Apr 25, 1911: $10,000 557 Lincoln St, Roseville, CA 95678 Designed by W. H. Weeks, now a museum. 90: Sacramento: Sacramento: Feb 26, 1914: $100,000 828 I St, Sacramento, CA 95814 Part of the Central branch, Sacramento Public Library ...
(The Berkeley Public Library also has a tool-lending library at their nearby South Branch.) The Temescal branch of the Oakland Public Library operates this facility, which lends tools, free of charge, to library patrons for repairs and home-improvement projects. The Tool Lending Library also has instructional materials (books, videos, etc.) and ...
Berkeley Historic Civic Center District - Roughly bounded by McKinney Ave., Addison St., Shattuck Ave., and Kittredge St. Berkeley Public Library - 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley Women's City Club - 2315 Durant Ave. Boone's University School - 2029 Durant Ave. Bowles Hall - Stadium and Gayley Way; California Hall - Oxford St.
Berkeley City Club; Berkeley Community Theater; Berkeley Historic Civic Center District; Berkeley Piano Club; Berkeley Public Library; Berkeley Rose Garden; Berkeley School of Theology; Berkeley station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) Berkeley station (California) Bevatron; Boone's University School; Bowles Hall