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Photo of The Urbana City Building at 107-109 S. Market St.

Young Men's Library Association of Urbana Charter (1872) 1-2_COPY.jpg
This is the founding charter for The Urbana Free Library. The document is signed by all the member's of the Young Men's Library Association of Urbana, including Frederick Eubeling, Frank Jaques, and Samuel Busey.

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1908 pamphlet from the Urbana Commercial Club with the first mention of the proposed new library.

Number of Visitors (August-Sept 1874)1.jpg
Count of daily visitors to the library in August and September of 1874

Cunningham Book Stamp_1.jpg
This bookplate was placed in all the books donated to the Samuel T. Busey Memorial Library from Joseph Cunningham

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Portrait of architect Joseph Royer taken for 1910 Elk's Convention in Urbana
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