Library interior with gallery, alcoves and bookshelves – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Library interior with gallery, alcoves and bookshelves, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Library interior with gallery, alcoves and bookshelves
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A library interior with a cast-iron gallery running along the upper level, with alcoves and tall bookshelves rising above the reading floor. The layered galleries let a building hold far more books than a single open floor could, and the arrangement of shelves and balconies is what most often draws the eye in images like this. Interiors of this type were common in large public and institutional libraries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when architects used iron framing to create light, open reading rooms. Such spaces were built to make study feel orderly and dignified, and the view from the floor up to the gallery rails still shows that intent.
| Original scan | 5,682 × 4,354 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15406_Alcovesandgalleryinthebookroom |
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