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Photograph of Carnegie Library Staff reading to children. No captions on the photo, so names of employees and other in attendance is unknown.

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…

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.

A written account of the history of the library for its 75th anniversary from 1912 to 1987. Included in the history is information about early talk of a Reading Room in 1878 and Coffeyville's first official city library to the formation of the…