Gilded clock above a door inside the Cleveland Public Library's main building in Cleveland, Ohio. Construction of the classical Renaissance building, designed by the Walker and Weeks firm, delayed by the First World War, began in 1923 under Linda Anne Eastman.
Eastman, the first woman to head a major U.S. city library system. She opened bookshelves to patrons, replacing the New York Public Library system in which a librarian fetched the books.