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Exterior view of the Carnegie Stout library building – Vintage Wall Art

Exterior view of the Carnegie Stout library building — historic image
Exterior view of the Carnegie Stout library building. Historic image from the Libraries collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Exterior view of the Carnegie Stout library building. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Exterior view of the Carnegie Stout library building

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The Carnegie-Stout library building is the kind of civic structure that Andrew Carnegie's grants made possible across the country. Between 1883 and 1919, his foundation paid for more than 2,500 library buildings worldwide, with a large share in the United States. Communities had to supply the site and commit to funding daily operations, so each building reflected local initiative as well as Carnegie's money. Its exterior shows the classical and Beaux-Arts styling typical of these libraries, with a formal facade meant to signal learning and public access.

Original scan5,586 × 4,008 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi
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