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A portrait of Edward Bumgardner, longtime member of the Lawrence Public Library Board of Directors and major donor and patron of the Lawrence Public Library. The photograph shows him at about 25 to 35 years of age, wearing a dark suit and polka dot…

Annual report of Lawrence Public Free Library for the year 1912 naming members of the board and staff. The document contains financial and book statements for the year. Treasurer and librarian reports are included.

An image of the interior of the Carnegie building that housed the Lawrence Public Library from 1904-1971. This picture shows the children's department housed in the basement. A long table with a globe is visible in the foreground. In the…

An image of the interior of the Carnegie building that housed the Lawrence Public Library from 1904-1971. This picture shows the children's department housed in the basement. A long table is visible in the foreground. In the background are the…

An image of the exterior of the Carnegie building that housed the Lawrence Public Library from 1904-1971. This picture shows the expansion to the building made in 1937, where the back was squared off and the basement was remodeled

An image of the interior of the Carnegie building that housed the Lawrence Public Library from 1904-1971. This picture shows the librarian's desk in the foreground with the book stacks in the background. On the right, the reading room is visible…

An image of the interior of the Carnegie building that housed the Lawrence Public Library from 1904-1971. This picture shows the librarian's office with a desk, a calendar from the year 1938 and the grandfather clock gifted by Mrs. Charles Robinson…

Annual report of Lawrence Public Free Library for the year 1909 naming members of the board and staff. The document contains financial information and accessions for the year. Treasurer and librarian reports are included.

A letter from the finance committee of the Lawrence Public Library stating that the financial statement on the 1905 Annual Report is correct by their calculations

The annual report, published in the Daily Kansas Tribune, of the first year of the Lawrence Library Association. The report recounts how the association was formed, its arrangments to puchase J.S. Boughton's library collection, and the advances that…

A short newspaper article reccounting the details of the first meeting of the Lawrence Library Association and the temporary appointment of officers.

A floorplan of the proposed basement added to the Lawrence Public Library building in 1991. This basement would house the reading room, typing room, genealogy room and additional storage.

A two page spread showing the layout of the Lawrence Public Library after its 2014 renovation. It shows the different areas of the library, including adult fiction, media, teen zone, children's corner, computer lab, local history, etc.

This image shows the layout of the Lawrence Public when it first opened in the Carnegie building before it was renovated in 1937. On the left wing of the library is the reading room; on the right is the reference section. In the center is the…

Annual report of Lawrence Public Free Library for the year 1908 naming members of the board and staff. The document contains financial statements and accessions for the year. Treasurer, librarian, and public reports are included.

An image of the Frazer's Hall, where the Lawrence Library Association held many of its lectures and entertainments, including the lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prof. L.L.A. Oscanyan. The image shows a drawing of Frazer's Hall and a list of the…

A portrait of the literary society Friends in Council, of which Helen Griswold Banks, Nellie Griswold Palmer, and Mary Simpson were members. The photograph shows the ladies of Lawrence. On the lower right side are grouped Nellie Griswold Palmer…

A short article announcing the funeral of J.S. Boughton, five days after his death.

A photograph of the home of George A. Banks, where Helen M. Griswold moved with her Daughter Nellie Griswold after her marriage to George Banks. It was later residence to Nellie Griswold Beatty and her son Jerome Griswold Beatty.

A colorful program of the various activities taking place in the library in celebration of the opening of its renovated building.

A photograph of Lillian J. Constant's grave marker at the Mount Hope Cemetery (Topeka, Kan.). It shows a simple stone with her name and dates of birth and death engraved.

A photograph of the Griswold residence, where Dr. J.F. Griswold, Josiah Trask, Mr. Thorpe, and Harlow W. Baker were killed during Quantrill's Raid in 1863. The house survived the burning of the town. Allegedly, some men were sent to set fire to the…

An obituary in The Daily Gazette of Helen Griswold Banks, Quantrill's Raid widow and city librarian from 1867-1870.

A portrait of Helen Mary Hewitt, who would marry Jerome Griswold and later George Banks. The photograph shows her aged 18 to 25 wearing a flowered bonnet and black dress with a fur collar.