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Young patron browsing in the Children's Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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10,000 boys marched down the Parkway to celebrate Boy Week, May 4, 1930
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Pneumatic tube station in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Main Entrance Hall of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia looking toward the doorway on Vine Street
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Hathaway and West Philadelphia Shakespeare Clubs commemorate the 314th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, April 24, 1930.
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Step 11. In the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, a member of the library staff charges the requested book to the patron's account. The entire process took only two to four minutes
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Mummers strut on the Parkway on New Year's Day 1928
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Exterior of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 1217-1221 Chestnut Street
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Removal notice for the closing of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets, October 30, 1926
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Children's Reading Room at the Free Library of Philadelphia at 1217-1221 Chestnut Street
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Exhibition of children's books from the Rosenbach Collection in the Main Entrance Hall of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1947
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Exterior of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 13th and Locust Streets, first occupied in 1910
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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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