LH1062 Oshawa's Carnegie Library
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black-and-white photo of the exterior of the old Oshawa Public Library.
- Notes
- This library stood on the south-west corner of Athol and Simcoe Streets. The land was purchased from Dr. Coburn in May 1906 and the building was completed by 1909 at a cost of $12,000, funded by the Carnegie Fund. It was in use until the opening of the McLaughlin Library on Bagot Street on December 1st, 1954. This building was demolished in January 1957.
- Inscriptions
- "Oshawa Library"
- Date of Publication
- 1935
- Dimensions
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Width: 12.5 cm
Height: 8 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LH1062
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8964350896515 Longitude: -78.8632321357727
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
