Minneapolis Public Library, 1960 - “Built by the people of Minneapolis to symbolize their continuing faith in books and knowledge.”
A conscientious collector from Colorado sent us this brochure for the old building that was here at 300 Nicollet Mall from 1960-2003. A place of wonder that included a planetarium, a science museum and the headquarters of Hennepin County Library. It was also built like a tank - it took a long time for the wreckers to demolish it in 2003.
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Remember visiting...1970. Times change.
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The new library is beautiful, but SERIOUSLY, how could they not include
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Most dispatches are from Ian Stade, a librarian at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library.
Hennepin County Library includes 41 libraries. More than 5 million books, CDs and DVDs in 40 world languages. Almost 1700 public computers. One great system serving 1.2 million residents of Hennepin County.
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