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Main Entrance Hall of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia looking toward stairway with the Dr. William Pepper statue on the stairway landing
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Step 9. The box with the requested book is raised by a dumbwaiter from the first mezzanine level to the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 8. Eventually the box with the requested book makes its way to the sixth level of the Bookstacks and across the first mezzanine floor to a point directly under the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 7. The box with the requested book winds its way through the Bookstacks toward the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 10. In the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, a library staff member retrieves the requested book from the dumbwaiter and hands it to patron
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Step 6. The book is placed in a box which will be transported to the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 5. The book is taken to a central station in the Bookstacks of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia where it will begin its automated journey on the conveyor system to the Main Reading Room
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Step 3. The call number of the book requested is received on the teletype receiver on the correct floor in the Bookstacks in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. A runner is dispatched to retrieve the book from its place on the shelf
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Step 1. The patron searches the card catalog in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia for the call number of the book which she is interested, in this case Edward Everett Hale's Franklin in France
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Step 2. After finding the call number in the card catalog for a book the patron wishes to borrow, she requests the book from the library staff member in the Main Reading Room in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Hallahan Catholic Girls High School students using the Periodical Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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West hallway, second floor in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Bindery worker running an oversewing machine at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Sorting books in the Periodical Room during the move into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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Moving books into the Children's Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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View of the completed Bookstacks prior to the movement of the library's collection to the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Detail of the decorative plaster ceiling in the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Sculptor from the John Donnelly Company carving one of the pairs of griffins on the main stairway of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1926
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Putting the finishing touches on the Music Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, now the Education, Philosophy, and Religion Department, late 1926
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Branch number one of the Philadelphia Public Library, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 17th and Montgomery Streets in North Philadelphia, opened on October 15, 1892
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