‘Miscellany’ Archives
124 Year History of Franklin Library Reflects Community, U.S. and World events
By Cassie Warholm-Wohlenhaus This year the Franklin Library celebrates its 100th year serving a large area now called Phillips Community and Elliot Park, Whittier, Corcoran, and Powderhorn Park Neighborhoods. Exploring this history through research into the library”'s annual reports and other documents from 1914 to 2014 has revealed a fascinating and intimate bond between a community and its library. 2014 marks 100 years of service in the beautiful Carnegie library building at 1314 E. Franklin Avenue, but the library as an organization predates the building. It originally operated out of two rented rooms in the A.J. Bernier building at Franklin and 17th starting in 1890. In the library”'s earliest days this was a neighborhood largely of Scandinavian immigrants, and a huge collection of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish books and newspapers was in constant demand. An influx of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s added Yiddish and Hebrew to the languages heard at Franklin. The life [...]
100th Anniversary Open House at Franklin Library
Albert Einstein tells us that “the only thing that you absolutely need to know, is the location of the library.” That”'s easy; our Library is at 1314 East Franklin Avenue since 1914. Twenty-four years previous it was within the A.J.Bernier Building-17th and East Franklin Avenue. Saturday, Oct. 11, 1”“5 p.m. Celebrate Franklin Library”'s 100 years of community service including historic exhibits, slide show, open mike & photo booth fun for all ages. Includes all 13 volumes of The Alley Newspaper!
