Berlin Public Library
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- Postcard of interior of first Berlin Public Library building (later Kitchener Public Library) at Queen and Weber Streets. Note the woodwork, electric globe lighting and newspaper racks.
- Notes
- Library established in town hall in 1884. In 1897 a lot was purchased at Queen and Weber Streets and a grant was obtained from the Carnegie Foundation in 1902, the building erected in 1903 and opened in January 1904.
In May of 1962 a larger library was built at 85 Queen Street north.
Berlin became Kitchener in 1916.
- Inscriptions
- Printed at bottom; "Public Library, Berlin, Canada"
- Date of Original
- [between 1904 and 1916]
- Date Of Event
- [between 1904 and 1916]
- Dimensions
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Width: 13 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 13cm
Image Height: 9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PC79
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4519 Longitude: -80.487456
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
