View across Children's Wing, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Shows one person at desk, seated, and another standing looking at book. There is shelving along outside walls of room.
View looking northwest across lawn to front of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Spanish style building was completed in 1930 and used until new library was built at 20 W. Duarte Road in 1961.
Eleanor Gilbert at circulation desk of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. View is looking east out front door. Mother and son are coming in door. Patron is browsing in 7 day book area. Photo wide view of #308.
View of adult reading room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Photo shows 2 men seated, one girl standing in stacks and one mother and child in stacks.
View of part of Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Three boys are reading at a table in foreground, one boy on right standing, one man seated at table, one woman standing near center and another standing at back under sign that reads "Good books are true friends."
View looking west across First Avenue to Arcadia Public Library, located on southwest corner of First Avenue and Wheeler. Building was completed in 1930.
Group of youngsters photographed at Christmas party in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Standing is Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps).
Author and illustrator Leo Politi talks to children in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps) is standing in white dress by easel.
Arcadia Public Library at First and Wheeler Avenues. This view shows a mother and young son walking in the front entrance. The circulation desk is on the left. Part of the "History of the Arcadia Public Library" slide series prepared by City Librarian Kent Ross.
Eleanor Gilbert, library clerk on left at circulation desk, and Grace Rahm, library clerk on right of desk, at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Person in white shirt being waited on.