Denton Public Library (Emily Fowler Central Library, Special Collections Department)

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Photographs, newspaper clippings, and various ephemera documenting from various collections in the Special Collections Department of the Emily Fowler Central Library.

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Interior of the reading room of the Denton City-County Library, ca1954.

Photograph of the reading room of the Denton City-County Library, ca1954.

Emily Fowler, Denton City-County librarian, and Mrs. George Beamer.

"Book Fair Benefits Library" - Mrs. Otis Fowler, Denton City-County librarian, accepts 272 books and $64 for the library from Mrs. George Beamer, immediate past president of the Denton Ariel Club. -Denton Record-Chronicle, Wednesday, November 6,…

Close-up detail of the Lynn Ford wall carving at the Emily Fowler Central Library.

Close-up photograph of a wall carving at the Emily Fowler Central Library. Carvings were done by Lynn Ford and mounted by his daughter for the library.

Newly renovated South Branch Library.

Photograph of the front of the newly remodeled South Branch Library.

Site of the future North Branch Library.

The former site of a Food Lion grocery store, which was purchased by the City of Denton for its' new North Branch Library.

Denton Kids Like the City-County Library.

Book Donation to the Denton City-County Library.

Interior view of the North Branch Library.

Remodeling of an old Food Lion to become the North Branch Library.

Points of Interest To See... in the Denton, Texas "The Ideal Home City."

Advertisement for the Denton City-County Library in D. B. Boyd's Builders Magazine, December, 1957.

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