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498 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Music Hall Staircase
The staircase is of light Siena marble from Siena, Italy.
Room off the Balcony of the Foyer
Here the marble is green Tinos from Greece.
Smoking Room
The marble in this room is red Numidian from the Mountain of
the Capes in Algeria, North Africa.
Homewood Branch
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,
the last branch library built, was opened to the public
on the tenth of March 191 o. The building is at the corner of
Hamilton and Lang Avenues in the center of a widespread
residence district. The work of this branch is of a general nature,
rather than specialized as is the work of branches situated
in sections of the city given over largely to industrial work and
to foreign-born residents. In the district served by the Homewood
Branch there are some manufacturing plants, but the
district is largely one of homes of people engaged in professions
or trades.
The books called for are of a general character, with ip
particular emphasis on any one kind except, as is true in all
sections of Pittsburgh, that there is a special demand for those
about the sciences and useful arts.
This branch is active in its co-operation with the schools of
the district, both high schools and grade schools, in making
good literature available to boys and girls, and in reference
work in connection with the assigned work in the schools.
The club rooms of the building are much used by clubs and
churches and organizations of many kinds. The relations between
the Library and the Board of Trade, the manufacturing
companies, and the other interests of the district are cordial and
mutually helpful.