Front facade from market square
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Detail of main entrance
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Foundation stone - 1900
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Facade facing St Mary's Terrace
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Front elevation
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Photographer: Sunshine Simplicities - 2025
Aerial view
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Photographer: Sunshine Simplicities - 2025
Main entrance
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Photographer: Sunshine Simplicities - 2025
Detail of entrance with wrought iron gates
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Facade detail
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Side entrance
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Photographer: Sunshine Simplicities - 2025
Side entrance
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Photographer: Sunshine Simplicities - 2025
View through a side apse to main hall
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
View from side apse gallery to main hall
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Stained and leaded glass skylight at junction of apse and main hall roofs
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Africana room on piano nobile overlooking market square
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Inside main entrance
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Staircase
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Interior
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Interior
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Interior
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Interior
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Interior
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Stained glass dome over central hall
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Interior
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Library view to market square from main entrance
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Memorial plaque in timber panel
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Entrance to James Mathers Memorial Room
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Stained glass window
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Stained glass windows
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Stained glass dome
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Detail of bookshelf
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Main hall with side apse and book stacks
Photographer: Roger Fisher - 2012 09 26
Window seat in bay window
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
View from balcony
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Photographer: Dean Allen - 2023
Architect's perspective sketch of library as it was built and opened in 1902. Prize winning design 1897. Depicts men's and women's fashions of 1897.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
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Alternative design for the Library 1897.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
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Working plans of the Public Library building, by Henry A. Cheers. Photocopies originals in (City Engineer's Dept.). Ground plan.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
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Working plans of the Public Library building, by Henry A. Cheers. Photocopies (originals in City Engineer's Dept.). No.2 Gallery level.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
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Working plans of the Public Library building, by Henry A. Cheers. Photocopies (originals in City Engineer's Dept.). Front elevation.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
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Working plans of the Public Library building, by Henry A. Cheers. Photocopies (originals in City Engineer's Dept.). Side elevation.
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Drawing 12 of 365 by Shaun Gaylard
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The Library in 1905, showing the Queen Victoria statue which was erected in 1903. In foreground, policeman in uniform of the time.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
South African Room, c, 1903. Baines' paintings not on display.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Colour picture-postcard of the South African Room in the library, c.1905.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
View of main hall in library, c. 1906-8, looking towards service counter. Shows Mr. F.W. Cooper, Librarian, and Percy Evans Lewin, Deputy Librarian, and three male assistants.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
View of northern end of subscribers' reading room, c.1906.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
View of service counter. Main Hall, and book galleries, c. 1906.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
View of main hall looking towards service counter and librarians office, c 1920s. Electric light has replaced gas.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Librarian's office, early 1930s, with ship models, prints and binnacle from the "Western Knight".
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Library building decorated for King George V's Silver Jubilee, 1935. Shows Queen Victoria statue and typical cars of the period.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Photograph of African Room, 1952. Shows Thos. Baines' paintings of Victoria Falls, Seated at table. Miss Amy-Rose Wells, Mr. A. Porter, Deputy Librarian, Miss Ray Reich.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Subscribers' reading room, 1952. Neon-tube electric lighting. Bookcases containing Ascham Music collection and John Owen Smith Collection.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
A corner of the children's room, 1952. School children in school uniforms.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Library building decorated for the coronation of King George VI, 1937.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Library building decorated for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Library building decorated for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953. Shows typical cars of the time.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Colour photograph of the Library building, c. 1966.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Unveiling of the memorial tablets commemorating the incorporation of the library into the municipal library service, 17th July, 1974, by Mayor J.W. Kleynhans.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
View of Library building from the Mayors Garden, 1976.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Roofscape
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
The Library shortly after its opening in 1902. Men in typical dress of the time.
Submitted by Bryan WINTERMEYER
Photographer: Unidentified
Market Square, Port Elizabeth. Embossed postcard by local publisher Hallis & Co. Not posted or dated. Public Library in the centre
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Photographer: Unidentified
Sketch by Hannes Meiring
No. 48 in a series of postcards of national monuments published by PG Glass