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Postmark: COFFEYVILLE KANS. JAN 16 3-PM 1912
Stamp: U.S. POSTAGE ONE CENT (Benjamin Franklin)

Recipient:Miss Nellie Havenhill Fort Scott,Kansas. A. B. Paine Bldg.

Message:Coffeyville Kan.Jan. 14.Dear friend, Am ashamed to of not written before…

Complete minutes from the Carnegie Public Library monthly board meetings. This meeting minutes collection starts in January 1991 and ends in December 2000

Complete minutes from the Carnegie Public Library monthly board meetings. This meeting minutes collection starts in January 1981 and ends in December 1990

Exterior photos of the Coffeyville Public Library taken in 1987 for the 75th anniversary of the Coffeyville Library.

Photo of library assistant John Hare (deceased) retrieving books from the Carnegie Public Library's book drop in Coffeyville, KS.

The library drop box was originally donated by the Coffeyville Rotary Club.

Photo of former library employee Kathy Wagner returning books to shelves at the Carnegie Public Library in Coffeyville, KS

Letter from Andrew Carnegie in response to Coffeyville's request for a grant to build a library for Coffeyville's citizens. Dated January 6, 1911.

Transcription:

Andrew Carnegie, New York
January 6, 1911

Mayor George…

Photograph of Carnegie Library Staff reading to children. No captions were written on the photo, so the names of those in attendance are unknown except for Kathy Wagner and Sue Staudt (former library staff) who are pictured at the back watching the…

Complete minutes from the Carnegie Public Library monthly board meetings. This meeting minutes collection starts April 19, 1910 and ends April 3, 1958.

Pages 312-321 include the original by-laws for the Library Board of Trustees.

Photo of the Carnegie Public Library in Coffeyville, Kansas.