Detail, Hampden Branch Library (2011)

ID: 1035 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Highsmith Archive, LC-DIG-highsm-20465 ~ Creator: Carol M. Highsmith ~ Date: October 2011
This file appears in: Hampden Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library
Detail, Hampden Branch Library (2011)
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Detail of Hampden Branch Library.

This file appears in: Hampden Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library

By Nathan Dennies
The doors at Branch No. 7 of the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened to patrons on July 2, 1900, seventeen years after industrialist Robert Poole and fellow businessmen established Woodberry’s first community library. In 1899, Poole donated land across…