The passage of a tax measure in 1964 allowed the construction of a new main building and a new Eastside branch. Two of these four Carnegie buildings are still standing, the Eastside one as the Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History, and the other still as the Garfield Park branch. Both the Seabright branch on East Cliff Drive and the Garfield Park branch on Woodrow Avenue opened in 1915, and the Eastside branch on Soquel Avenue opened in 1921. The library received additional grants from the Carnegie Corporation for the construction of three branch buildings, all of which were also designed by W.H. The book collection was around 14,000 volumes and it served a population of 10,000. On Apthe Carnegie library was dedicated, and on Apthe Santa Cruz Free Public Library was opened to the public. The Hihn property at Church and Locust streets was chosen as the location for the new building, which was designed by W.H. When this space was no longer suitable the library moved in 1900 to larger quarters in the Williamson and Garrett building, where it remained until the Carnegie Free Library was built in 1904. The library outgrew this space by 1894, and premises were leased in the Hotaling Building, later known as the St. The Santa Cruz Free Library opened in 1882 on the second floor of the City Hall. The first free public library was established in December 1881 when the library association transferred all its materials to the City of Santa Cruz. A separate Reading Room was organized in 1874 to provide periodicals, and by 1876 the two had merged into the Library and Reading Room. Books were collected and the first library, located in a member’s store, opened on April 1, 1870. Weeks was hired for $450.Ī Brief History of the Santa Cruz Public LibrariesĪn association known as the “Santa Cruz Library” was formed in 1868 to provide books to participating members. In addition, the last four pages of the ledger track the expenses of the Carnegie Library Building Fund. For example, in 1902 there was a monthly salary expense to a Mrs. This ledger tracked the cash expenses for the free library. This series contains the Santa Cruz Free Library Cash Account Ledger (1890 – 1908). SANTA CRUZ FREE LIBRARY CASH ACCOUNT (1890 – 1908) Interesting to note the articles related to ‘History’ were consistently near the top in total number of articles published per month. The articles were logged under such headings as ‘Art’, ‘Biography’, ‘Essays’, ‘Fiction’, ‘History’, ‘Law’, ‘Poetry’, ‘Science’, ‘Travels’ plus several others. This ledger tracked the type of articles published in the paper day by day. This series contains the Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper Content Statistics (1901 – 1905). NEWSPAPER CONTENT STATISTICS (1901 – 1905) Ledger #3: – (the cover for this ledger is missing) The collection reflects the operation of the Santa Cruz Sentinel one of the county’s major newspapers. While in 1929 there were 39 employees earning approximately $1300 each week with number of hours worked about 50 per week. In 1891 there were 13 employees earning approximately $135 each week with number of hours worked about 60 per week. These ledgers include the employee’s names, each day of each week, and how much the employees were paid each week. This series contains the Santa Cruz Sentinel Time Keeper Ledgers (1891 – 1929). Researchers may be responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material not produced by museum personnel. ![]() The Santa Cruz Sentinel Ledger Collection, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CAĪll requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the head of Archives at MAH. The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA There are also ledgers for the newspaper content statistics, the Santa Cruz Free Library, and the Surf City (Santa Cruz) Wheelmen. Most of these ledgers are the weekly timekeeper logs for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. This collection consists of ledger books. Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Archives It was donated to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History by an unknown person at an unknown date. This collection was assembled by unknown persons.
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