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The Original Dayton Public Library Building - Page Two

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The Original Dayton Public Library Building in Cooper Park
	In 1924 the library board built this annex for a high school library and space for various other departments and a garage. Three years later a second floor was added to house the museum which had been temporarily located away from the library in the Steele Building.
	Main Children's Room. In 1895, classroom traveling libraries for the public schools were organized. In 1897 a room in the basement of the library for school children and was opened two days a week. Boys and girls were permitted to take one book a week from this collection.
	In the summer of 1941, the Dayton Public Library set up an outdoor reading area with books and magazines available for patrons to read . The library also provided tables, chairs, cushions and a beach umbrella to create an inviting atmosphere for the outdoor readers.
	For many years an ancient Egyptian mummy was a prized possession of the Dayton Public Library Museum. The mummy was brought to the museum by Dr. J. Morton Howell during his time of service as United States Minister to Egypt.
	In 1928 book space in the book gallery of the old library was greatly increased with the addition of a five-level book stack created by placing floors of sheet metal directly between rows of steel book shelving.
	The main charging desk in the 1888 library building separated the large book-room from the public reading room. Patrons made selections from the book catalogs and placed their orders at the desk and subsequently picked their orders up after library staff retrieved the volumes from the closed book-room. The two encircled faces carved into the woodwork above the arched doorway were a few of the items to be saved before the old library was razed.

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