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Historical Society of Pottawattamie County Member Journal
August 1998 Historical Society newsletter.
Photograph of Ione Armstrong Galvin
Portrait of Ione Armstrong Galvin, librarian at the Council Bluffs Free Public Library
Photograph of Robert W. Turner
Portrait of Robert W. Turner, President of the City National Bank and Council Bluffs Public Library Board of Trustees.
Library Staff Picnic
Photograph of the Library Staff picnic at Fairmount Park, 1929. Names written on back of photographs
Pearl Street, looking north
Postcard of Pearl Street, looking north from the Council Bluffs Public Library.
New children's library is gay and bright wonderland
The new children's library . . .provides a new setting for the world of children's books. Note how the shelf areas, reading tables and the circulation department are all designed to fit "little people." - Nonpareil Photo.
Expansion year at the library. Room space . . .
Room space . . . at the library was created by closing the north entrance at Willow Avenue. It provides a secretary's office and through doors at rear is the microfilm material section. Miss Ardis Hansen is at left. --Nonpareil Photos.
The public library's new bookmobile . . .
The public library's new bookmobile . . .rolled into Council Bluffs Saturday and work began immediately to stock the shelves and give the $29,473 vehicle its "shake down" cruise. About to enter the new vehicle are Mildred Smock, librarian, and Mrs.…
Public library to display 197-piece art collection
Arranging pictures . . . for the Council Bluffs Public Library's art exhibit are Librarian Miss Mildred Smock and assistant, Mrs. Amerlia O'Neill. --Nonpareil Photo.
Bookmobile stocked and ready for use
Supplying bookmobile shelves . . . with about 4,000 new books is bookmobile librarian Mrs. Barbara Jansen. -Nonpareil Photo.
Public library
Wally Tuel . . . a patron of the Council Bluffs Public Library, views one of the periodicals on display. Mildred Smock, librarian, explains procedure for use of the periodicals.--Nonpareil Photo.
Library has book problem
Library facilities . . . are explained by Mildred Smock, librarian, to the board of trustees: N.T. Sondag, Philip J. Wilson, Robert W. Turner, Willard Nyquist and Mrs. Harry C. Voss. --Nonpareil Photo.
New children's library is gay and bright wonderland...Childrens's room -- (continued from page 1)
Picture book desk . . . in foreground are of special design for young readers who life the wide pages of picture books. At the table, left to right, are Lorraine Hodge, 7, and Rita Walsh, 7. In background, at "browsing" shelf, is Margie Hodge, 10.…
New children's library is gay and bright wonderland...Childrens's room -- (continued from page 1)
Entrance to the new children's library . . . strikes the visitor with its brightness and color. Just inside the entrance is the circulation desk. Seated is Mrs. Ruth Plummer, assistant in the children's department. --Nonpareil Photos.
Council Bluffs Public Library File #1
Patrons standing at the card catalog.
Council Bluffs Public Library File #1
Patrons and Mildred Smock standing by "Fiction" and "Recordings."
In 1950s, Bluffs library in a period of expansion
(Article in separate file from photograph used.)
Browsing in the newly opened . . . Mark Twain Room are (from left) Margie Hodge, 10, Lorraine Hodge, 7, and Rita Walsh, 7, all students from St. Francis School. -1952 Nonpareil file photo.
Browsing in the newly opened . . . Mark Twain Room are (from left) Margie Hodge, 10, Lorraine Hodge, 7, and Rita Walsh, 7, all students from St. Francis School. -1952 Nonpareil file photo.
Sale of books to aid library
Friends of the Library will sell books and records donated by the community May 14 through 17 at the Public Library. Looking over one of the older books on sale are Susan Klohn, Walter Pyper, Helen Kistle and Doris Nachman. The group will have a…
Old volumes need care, books in danger
Spanning the range . . . from texts to are are old books at Council Bluffs libray. Among the volumes are a 250-year-old textbook (left), an 1814 treatise on bridge-building (right) and a controversial 1937 book of photographs from Nazi Germany's 1936…