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The image is framed and has an inscription on the reverse.

This image appears to be a duplicate of Y/EDU/5/3/19/12.

The photograph was originally presented to Miss Dorothy Greetham. This appears to be a duplicate of Y/EDU/5/3/19/19 and 19/38.

The photograph shows staff and the reference counters.

Arthur Finney was City Librarian between 1929 and 1935.

Originally held in an envelope.

Also includes a press release. The visit concerned environmentalism and trees.

Featured in the photograph are Christine Appleton, Patrick Coldfield, and Chris Maynard.

Two copies.

Duplicate of Y/EDU/5/3/19/34.

Includes two views of the upper reading room.

One is mounted and the other is not. Two copies. Duplicate copies of Y/EDU/5/3/19/36.

Includes two images of the Clifford Street premises, c.1900, and one image of the Museum Street premises under contruction, c.1938.

Includes images of the newspaper room and the entrance.

Late 20th century copies of 1911 original images.

Includes colour and black and white interior and exterior photographs of the building, including public spaces in St Leonard's Hospital.

The names of staff are included on the reverse.

The names of staff are included on the reverse.

Three black and white photographs of the library. Also includes two copies of the programme for the official opening of the library on 14 November 1975.

Includes the names of staff members on the reverse: Finney, Bryant, Ross, Freeston, Arnott, Newbold and Young.

The staff members are named on the reverse.

Includes the names of the staff on the reverse.

Includes correspondence relating to the temporary branch library at Acomb and the planning of the new permanent branch.

Correspondence to and from the City Librarian regarding requests/changes to the temporary branch of Acomb Library, the purchasing of land, construction of the prefabricated building, and the terms of the lease from the Friends Meeting House.

Correspondence to and from City Architects, the Treasurer, and the town clerk.

Includes recommendations for future practice and improvements.

Includes recommendations for future practice and improvements.

The posters are contained in a wallet marked 'York Library Entrance Hall'.

Also contains accessions register dated 1896-1932. The stock-taking work mostly covers 1914-1915 and 1940.

Includes photographs, leaflets, notices, posters, cuttings, programmes relating to the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, held in the City of York. Also includes a list of local schools which participated.

The notice states that direct access to the shelves was prohibited due to "unauthorised borrowing from the reference library". Framed.

There is a second notice in the frame, instructing readers to leave books on the table when finished with them. To view this notice, please ask a member of staff to remove it from the frame.

The ticket is in the name of Joe Taylor.

The book is entitled 'the Reginald Hunt Autograph Collection' and is stored in a box marked 'Morocco Visitors Book No. 9799'.

Contains general correspondence relating to health and infection control, fines, user enquiries, acquisition of stock, money and accounts. Indexed.

Contains general correspondence relating to fines, user enquiries, acquisition of stock, money and accounts, and committee matters. Indexed.

The contents mentions the First World War, the library's role within it (including hosting classes for the instruction in munitions making) and the procurement of war literature. Also includes general correspondence, accounts, fines, and subscriptions. Indexed.

The contents mentions the First World War, its aftermath, and its effect on the city and the library. Also includes personal correspondence between the City Librarian and Mr Doherty, who was on active service, and some general correspondence. Indexed. Also includes a blank cheque.

Includes: report on local government agency arrangements between City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council, a copy of the 1967 Local Government Alteration of Areas; two copies of document detailing the Public Libraries and Museums Bill; an estimate of library costs resulting from proposed boundary extensions; correspondence regarding capitation grants; documents detailing the 1958 Local Government Act and its likely effects on York's public libraries; and a further folder contining miscellaneous documents pertaining to local government restructuring.

The bundle mostly comprises internal memoranda from the Assistant County Librarian, D Division; and Divisional Management Group meeting minutes.

Internal Senior Management Team papersk including agendas, minutes, notes to members, memoranda - for the Divisional Management Group, in the period 1980-1990.

The blocks were together in a folder marked 'Sir Marcus Worsley Visit to York Library to Open the Tree Conservation Exhibition'.

The folder includes wallets and papers containing images of young infants engaging in reading activities, loose photographs and postcards from the aforementioned scheme, and a collection of newspaper articles from the local press.

Library shelf-register for book stock, giving the press mark, volumes, author, title, stock number and dewey number.

The volume includes single maps, pictures, manuscripts, and broadsides.

Printed catalogues and class lists of the works contained in the York Public Library.

Catalogue of prose fiction works in the lending library.

Class list of books on Useful Arts

Class list of books on Fine Arts

Class list of books on natural science.

With handwritten inserts. City Librarian's copy.

Class list of books on sociology

With handwritten inserts.

With handwritten inserts.

Listing books re: League of Nations and crisis in Abyssinia

Handwritten list.

Published in 1906.

Eight copies.

Catalogue of prose fiction in the lending library. Contains two copies; the first with a printer's error, the other corrected.

Two copies.

Two volumes, covering 1929-1947 and 1951-1963 only.

Three examples of the bag.