Library reading room with tables, chairs and card catalog cabinets – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Library reading room with tables, chairs and card catalog cabinets in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Library reading room with tables, chairs and card catalog cabinets
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Long wooden tables with rows of straight-backed chairs fill the floor, while tall card catalog cabinets line the walls, their small drawers holding the index cards that once served as a library's main search tool. Reading rooms like this one were built to bring readers, books and reference works together under one roof, and the orderly arrangement shows how much library use depended on careful, visible organization.
| Original scan | 5,377 × 4,494 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15420_LibraryCompanyofPhiladelphia |
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