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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SDLIB_220720_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2022_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (37 photos from 2022)
2. SDLIB_220720_004.JPG: Carnegie Society [ donor wall ]
3. SDLIB_220720_012.JPG: Ivan Messenger Belfries - Balboa Park, early 20th century
4. SDLIB_220720_016.JPG: Alfred Mitchell Road to the River, ca 1930
5. SDLIB_220720_017.JPG: Mary Belle Williams Kate Sessions, ca 1935
6. SDLIB_220720_029.JPG: Bill Bender
7. SDLIB_220720_038.JPG: Photographs from the West Side
8. SDLIB_220720_039.JPG: Park Drive. Looking south from Juniper St. [ A notice in the exhibit says the "Park Drive" label is probably in error and it was probably taken on 6th Avenue. ]
9. SDLIB_220720_045.JPG: Looking east towards the park.
10. SDLIB_220720_053.JPG: Formal Rose Garden, containing 87 varieties and over 6,000 plants.
11. SDLIB_220720_059.JPG: Photo taken from Cabrillo Bridge looking south.
12. SDLIB_220720_064.JPG: Cabrillo Canyon. Looking north from bridge.
13. SDLIB_220720_075.JPG: An aviary located near Sixth and Ivy.
14. SDLIB_220720_093.JPG: Alfred Mitchell Cabrillo Entering the Harbor of San Diego, 1929
15. SDLIB_220720_096.JPG: Lydia Knapp Horton Untitled, 1890
16. SDLIB_220720_101.JPG: Elliot Bouton Torrey Marine, early 20th century
17. SDLIB_220720_107.JPG: With the help of Anita Engles, Executive Director of the American Bookbinders Museum, we have decided that this unmarked, vintage paper cutter is either an Advance Pony Lever Cutter or a Challenge Lever Cutter with a Finger Gauge. As for the year it was manufactured, this remains a mystery.
18. SDLIB_220720_118.JPG: Ralph Mocine Untitled, early 20th century
19. SDLIB_220720_132.JPG: Helen Price Reading Room
20. SDLIB_190716_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_CA_SD_LIbrary CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (1 photo from 2019)
  Helen Price Reading Room
21. SDLIB_180718_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2018_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (39 photos from 2018)
  The three most important documents a free society gives area a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. -- [E.L. Doctorow]
22. SDLIB_180718_007.JPG: Street people are common around here
23. SDLIB_180718_010.JPG: I love the open book architecture
24. SDLIB_180718_016.JPG: Artwork
25. SDLIB_180718_023.JPG: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr. Seuss's widow Audrey had been involved in some of the decorations for the children's library.
26. SDLIB_180718_026.JPG: Thank You Audrey Giesel For Caring A Whole Awful Lot!
27. SDLIB_180718_086.JPG: Mary Belle Williams, early 20th century by Hannah P. Davison
28. SDLIB_180718_096.JPG: The greatest gift is a passion for reading. -- [Elizabeth Hardwick]
29. SDLIB_180718_098.JPG: We read to know we are not alone. -- [C.S. Lewis]
30. SDLIB_180718_107.JPG: Ernest Silva Vigilance, Full Moon 2007
31. SDLIB_180718_111.JPG: These typewriter-like devices are braille writers. The original, called the "Hall Braille Writer," was conceived and built in 1892 by Frank Haven Hall, Superintendent of the Jackson School for the Blind, and gunsmith Gustav Sieber.
32. SDLIB_180718_117.JPG: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan pictures
33. SDLIB_180718_128.JPG: Welcome Southern Dames of America Poinsettia Chapter Annual Helen Keller Birthday Celebration June 15th, 2018
34. SDLIB_170718_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (9 photos from 2017)
35. SDLIB_170718_07.JPG: Yoram Wolberger Male Baseball #1, 2009
36. SDLIB_170718_21.JPG: Einar and Jamex de la Torre Corpus Callosum, 2013
37. SDLIB_160720_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2016_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (25 photos from 2016)
38. SDLIB_160720_10.JPG: Dr. Seuss's family is listed as one of the three main donors.
39. SDLIB_160720_15.JPG: "Cultivate"
40. SDLIB_160720_21.JPG: James C. Christensen's "Compleat Shakespeare" "All the World's a Stage" references all 38 plays in the generally accepted Shakespeare canon. How many of your favorite characters can you identity?
41. SDLIB_160720_57.JPG: Cabrillo Entering the Harbor of San Diego, 1929 Alfred Mitchell
42. SDLIB_160720_63.JPG: Untitled, 1890 Lydia Knapp Horton
43. SDLIB_160720_66.JPG: Interesting sinks in the bathroom
44. SDLIB_160720_79.JPG: Did Shakespeare anticipate the game of baseball?
45. SDLIB_160720_82.JPG: Dead hummingbird who flew into the glass
46. SDLIB_150708_001_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2015_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (53 photos from 2015)
47. SDLIB_150708_010.JPG: The three most important documents a free society gives area a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. -- [E.L. Doctorow]
48. SDLIB_150708_020.JPG: I liked the open book windows
49. SDLIB_150708_035.JPG: Valeiras Sculpture Garden Cultivate
50. SDLIB_150708_047.JPG: Qualcomm Dome Terrace
51. SDLIB_150708_055.JPG: We read to know we are not alone. -- [C.S. Lewis]
52. SDLIB_150708_074.JPG: Roy McMakin Recreations of furniture found discarded in alleys and on curbs while driving around San Diego several bright summer afternoons with David 2013
53. SDLIB_150708_077.JPG: The greatest gift is a passion for reading. -- [Elizabeth Hardwick]
54. SDLIB_150708_086.JPG: The moment of successful creation is an intensely thrilling experience. Only those who have experienced it know what it's really like. A few strokes of a charcoal pencil... and there is a dancing figure. A few dabs of yellow ochre oil paint... and there is a yellow wheat field shimmering in the sunlight. The very act of creating can make you feel an intense happiness. Russell Baldwin The Moment of Successful Creation 20th century
55. SDLIB_150708_099.JPG: Stairway to Somewhere Scan the QR Code to watch a short video with the architect, Rob Quigley, speaking about the Stairway to Somewhere.
56. SDLIB_150708_100.JPG: Ernest Silva Lanterns 1999
57. SDLIB_150708_105.JPG: Gary Hill Triangulating Hives (for Magdelena) 2013
58. SDLIB_150708_117.JPG: Sheldon Kirby Talisman 68 1968
59. SDLIB_150708_133.JPG: Jackson Woolley & Ellamarie Woolley Creative Sun 1964
60. SDLIB_150708_138.JPG: Gail Roberts Tone 2010
61. SDLIB_150708_165.JPG: This is the winning car in the 2014 Super Stock Division of the San Diego Soap Box Derby. Driven by 9 year old John Taff, the car went on to Akron, Ohio to represent San Diego in the World Championship.
62. SDLIB_120714_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2012_CA_SD_Library CA -- San Diego -- Public Library (12 photos from 2012)
63. SDLIB_120714_11.JPG: The new library
64. SDLIB_120714_14.JPG: If there's a book you really want to read but hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
65. SDLIB_120714_17.JPG: We will be known forever by the tracks we leave
66. SDLIB_120714_24.JPG: It looks like: Yo, que me figura.b a e.l paraiso bajo la especie de uma biblioteca But apparently it's: Yo, que me figuraba e.l paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca While Google translates as: Me, I figure paradise under the form of a library But it's really: Jorge Luis Borges' quote: "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
67. SDLIB_120714_30.JPG: I go into my library and all history unrolls before me Full version: "I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander." -- Smith, Alexander
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Wikipedia Description: San Diego Public Library
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The San Diego Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Diego, California.

History:

The San Diego Public Library was established on May 19, 1882, by an elected board of library trustees, one of whom was civic leader and philanthropist George Marston. The first location was rented space in the Commercial Bank building at Fifth and G streets, and the new library opened its doors to the public for the first time on July 15, 1882. San Diego was the first city west of the Mississippi River to receive a Carnegie Library grant. The grant was received in 1899 and the library built in 1902. The library moved to Eighth and E streets where the new Carnegie Library was constructed.

A notable librarian during this period was Clara Estelle Breed (1906-1994), who served as children's librarian at the downtown branch and was appointed City Librarian in 1945, a post she held for 25 years. She founded numerous branch libraries and established the Serra Cooperative Library System, which allows users to borrow books from other libraries in San Diego and Imperial counties. She maintained contact with many Japanese American children when they were interned with their families during World War II; her correspondence with those children is now on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

In 1952, the Carnegie Library was demolished and a new Central Library was opened at the same location on June 27, 1954. That library closed permanently on June 9, 2013, to begin the 10-week process of transferring its 2.6-million-item collection to the new library. Over the years, many branch libraries have also been opened throughout the City.

In 2010, construction began on a new $185 million Central Library at 330 Park Boulevard in downtown San Diego, designed by architect Rob Quigley and topped with an iconic steel-and-mesh dome. It is scheduled to open in September 2013. It ...More...
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