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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. PRATT_180928_001.JPG: The library's been under renovation for awhile
2. PRATT_180928_012.JPG: Carla D. Hayden Wing
3. PRATT_180928_018.JPG: Mencken Dispatches from the Scopes Trial A Gift from The Baltimore Sun
4. PRATT_180928_032.JPG: Corona folding typewriter similar to the one H.L. Mencken used between 1910 and 1930.
5. PRATT_180928_036.JPG: Telegraph Tapes Operators at the Sunpapers typed off the dispatches sent from Tennessee while listening to the clack of 'sounders'.
6. PRATT_180928_040.JPG: Mencken Dispatches from the Scopes Trial A Gift from The Baltimore Sun
7. PRATT_180928_046.JPG: Frederick Douglass His Life and Legacy 1818-1895
8. PRATT_180928_052.JPG: Frederick Douglass His Life and Legacy 1818-1895
9. PRATT_180928_059.JPG: Frederick Douglass His Life and Legacy 1818-1895
10. PRATT_180928_065.JPG: Frederick Douglass His Life and Legacy 1818-1895
11. PRATT_180928_092.JPG: "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." -- Frederick Douglass
12. PRATT_180928_124.JPG: Enoch Pratt For sixty five years an honored citizen and merchant of Baltimore, by a munificent gift, fifteen years before his death, founded and endowed this library, for the instruction and enjoyment of the people. Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1808, Died in Baltimore, Maryland, 1896
13. PRATT_180928_140.JPG: In Memory of Lewis Henry Steiner, M.D. The first librarian of this library, whose wide vision, profound learning and fine discrimination, laid a foundation for the future usefulness of the institution and the education of all our citizens. May 4, 1827 - February 18, 1892
14. PRATT_180928_143.JPG: In Memory of Bernard CHristian Steiner, Ph.D.
Wikipedia Description: Enoch Pratt Free Library
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The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States. Established in 1882 (first opened to the public in 1886) after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt, the library now includes twenty branches in Baltimore, plus the Central Library. Pratt intended his gift to establish a library that "shall be for all, rich and poor without distinction of race or color, who, when properly accredited, can take out the books if they will handle them carefully and return them". The Central Library was designated the "State Library Resource Center for the State of Maryland" by the Maryland General Assembly in 1971.

The Central Library was renovated and expanded in 2003. The new wing contains the Maryland and African American Departments as well as Special Collections and the H. L. Mencken Collection, an extensive collection related to the life and work of H. L. Mencken, including personal correspondence and memorabilia, typescripts, presentation volumes, clipping books, and research materials used in writing The American Language.
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