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https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-160.pdf

Date: 1997
Type: ARTICLE

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Eastside Branch Library, located at 1263 Soquel Avenue, was designed by William H. Weeks. Opened in September 1921, it was the last of the four Carnegie Libraries built in Santa Cruz. It was closed and replaced by the Branciforte Library in 1967.

Date: 1923
Type: PHOTO

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Library patron, Ralph Nakken, and Eastside Librarian, Margaret Meng, in front of the Eastside Library. In the windows are banners urging a yes vote for library bonds. The bond issue, which went before the voters in 1964, included bonds to finance…

Date: 1964 (based on the banners)
Type: PHOTO

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Children using the Eastside Library. In the background is Margaret Meng, Eastside Librarian, helping a patron find information. The sign on the staff desk says that overdue fines were five cents per day.

Date: 1964
Type: PHOTO

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Margaret Meng, newly-hired librarian for the Eastside Library, with her predecessor, Ida Crawford.

Date: October, 1957
Type: PHOTO

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The Eastside Library on a busy afternoon, showing the circulation desk and the bookstacks. At the desk is Margaret Meng, Eastside Librarian.

Date: 1964
Type: PHOTO

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The interior of the Eastside Library. On the circulation desk is a Gaylord charging machine which was used for checking out books. It mechanically recorded a borrower's library card number and the due-date on a book card.

Date: 1958
Type: PHOTO

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The interior of the Eastside Library. In the far room is the desk where books were checked out. The proceedure was simple: stamp the book card and the book with a due date, have the borrower sign the card, and file the card into the box on the desk…

Date: 1923
Type: PHOTO

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View of the Eastside Library from Soquel Avenue. The Library sat in El Portal Park, on the triangular lot formed by Water and Poplar Streets and Soquel Avenue.

Date: ca. 1964
Type: PHOTO

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The interior of the Eastside Library, showing the entrance and the reading room. Note the (wood?) stove in the reading room, on the right side.

Date: 1942
Type: PHOTO

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