The Peter Pan Room was designed for children to use. Note the national flags hanging from the pipes as a decoration and the reading benches by the fireplace. At this time, the Peter Pan Room was located in the east wing of the Carnegie building...
Children wait at the Peter Pan Room circulation desk to check out books. The Peter Pan Room was located in the East Wing of the Anderson Carnegie Library building.
Vacation Reading Club graduates were invited to attend a program in November during Children's Book Week and had their pictures taken on the Anderson Carnegie Library Building steps.
Party for graduates of Anderson Library's Vacation Reading Club, 1926. These children performed in a play called "Bookland", written by Margaret Wade. Scenery and costumes were made by library staff.
Vacation Reading Club graduates were invited to a November National Book Week party and had their pictures taken on the library steps. The children in costume were characters in the play "Bookland."
Dual picture postcard, with Anderson Post Office and Anderson Public Library. Post Office picture shows the second floor added in the 1929 remodelling.
Seen looking north east from 10th and Jackson, the Anderson Public Library occupied this location for 82 years, when it moved to 12th and Main, the site of the former Main Street Elementary School and (more recently) Sears Roebuck. The Library...
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Main Street School, built in 1888, was located on the corner of Twelfth and Main Streets. It was demolished in the 1940s. Sears Roebuck was built on this site; later that building became the Anderson Public Library
The best-selling author Fred Mustard Stewart was a native of Anderson, Ind. He is shown here at a book signing in the Anderson Public Library's Indiana Room.
