May 21, 1953. "New Canaan Public Library. New Canaan, Connecticut."4x5 inch acetate negative by ... full size.
My ancestresses! I once worked in a library with exactly that furniture and exactly that flooring -- it was pretty ... replaced by an awful "orangeness" which descended on the library world sometime in the sixties and through the decade of horrors known ...
February 4, 1941. "Foyer, Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza." Acetate negative by ... languages, and those are great things to have in a library too.
In the Stacks Back in 1965 I spent several days going ... April 1903 Brooklyn Daily Eagle obit. Since that time, the Library has digitized every copy of the Eaglefrom 1851 through 1902. Someday ...
Cincinnati circa 1910. "Mercantile Library Building, Walnut Street." Note plants and bottle on the sills of Dr. ... facades of this building (and that of the Mercantile Library as well) follow the then-popular skyscraper facade formula of base, ... his famous slogan: "Form follows function."
Mercantile Library? We can count on Shorpy to see if we're paying attention. Small-town ...
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Circulating Library Does this sort of thing still exist? My dad used to rent Perry ... Queens by the week from one. In those days our public library considered such works beneath them. Now, of course, nothing is too low ...
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Detroit Institute of Arts and the main library, across the street. The only two things on Woodward Avenue that don't ... of The Lone Ranger.
Actually, Cater-Corner From the Library This view is looking southeast at the corner of Woodward and ...
The Minneapolis Public Library circa 1900-1906. This 1884 Romanesque Revival building, designed by ...
[Below, the stunningly beautiful Minneapolis Central Library. Which reminds me of the time I tried to assemble an Ikea bookshelf ... a more formidable, unwelcoming building than the current library. I agree with you, Dave, about the Ikea bookshelf but suspect you ...
... this site is occupied by the Martin Luther King Memorial Library, headquarters of the DC Public Library. This 1972 masterpiece is the only building in DC designed by Ludwig ...
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In the 1970s I helped clean out the Merchant Marine Library there (a mariner could borrow a book and leave it at another library in another port on the honor system). They were dumping the books. I ...
New York circa 1910. "New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at East 42nd Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... in the morning light.
Under Construction The library was still being finished--barricades at the stairs, rubble, etc.--but ...
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Now either the Eudora Welty Public Library Or the parking lot for said library.
At least the library is historically significant, from the time of ...
1910. "New York Public Library. A reading room." The NYPL on Fifth Avenue would open the following ... you?
Dreamlike Eerie, like a dream of going to the library and is has no books. What is the large screen for?
[That's a ... desolate, dark atmosphere. Especially when compared of the library of Viipuri designed by Alvar Aalto. Too bad it was lost to Russia in ...
"University of Michigan library reading room, Ann Arbor, 1901." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
Statuesque Who does that ... the plaster statue of Michigan is described here . The library is gone, too.
O Warlike Pallas That is Athena, Goddess of ...
Washington, D.C., 2007. "Main Reading Room, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. View from above showing ... on my knees This is an awe-inspiring photo. I work in a library and believe me, if ours looked like this, I would NEVER leave. This is ...
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Right next ... 717 Madison Place NW According to this photo from the Library of Congress , this house was next to the Belasco Theater, with a ...
January 13, 1941. "Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, New York." Acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
The Library at Brooklyn I actually like the architecture. Reminds me of ancient ... A closeup of the inscription from the Brooklyn Public Library's website .
"Noble things that tower above the ...
The New York Public Library as seen from the intersection of East 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. ... sculpture elements A photo of the opening day of the Library on May 23 1911 shows that none of the six sculpture elements of the ...
Washington circa 1920. "Laundry at Library of Congress." Equipped with mangle and steam cabinet. 8x6 inch glass ... bite What kind of laundry needs to be done at the Library of Congress?
It appears to be of similar sizes, shapes and fabrics, ... if this is what they expected when they applied for a "library job".
Grommets The grommets suggest to me, lavatory towels.
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... this great photo is described as Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress, but I am unable to find this photo at the Library of Congress website. Could someone provide me with a link to the photo? ...
"Library at SCPC (Signal Corps Photographic Center) for enlisted men only." From ... From Combat Camera I learned that the Signal Corps Library must be located in Long Island City, New York.
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1905. "City Library -- Springfield, Mass." By 1909 this building, completed in 1871, had ... back 200 feet to make way for the much larger current library at the corner of State and Walnut. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit ...