On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
Stromberg Carlson Radio
This antique piece houses a radio-receiver in a four-legged highboy with a stretcher base. The central cabinet doors slide outward to reveal the face of the radio covered by a decorative panel with flourishing scrollwork pressed into veneer-faced plywood. The radio dial peeks through a narrowing viewfinder outfitted with a minutely ornamented brass piece and below it in gold lettering is the manufacturer name, "Stromberg-Carlson". A corresponding tuning knob with two subsequent knobs for sharpening and volume sit below the dial. Their backdrop breaks from the scrolling design into a banner modeled after gathered fabric, perhaps to imitate the movement of the knobs. The speaker is below but is disguised by a wooden cutout of the scrolling design used around the dial overlaying acoustic cloth of the same color. Then the cabinet doors are closed, staining on the doors mimic a proscenium arch and are framed by beveled wooden panels in the fashion of stage curtains, combining with a scrollwork banner above to suggest a theater stage.

