Designfortheproposedmarkethall – Historic Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Designfortheproposedmarkethall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Designfortheproposedmarkethall
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The record describes a design for a proposed market hall, so this is an architect's or planner's vision of a building that was intended to be put up, not a view of one that stood. Covered market halls of the 19th and early 20th centuries gave farmers and dealers a sheltered place to sell produce, meat, and dairy goods, and they were often built with iron frames and large windows to let in light. Designs like this one show how town officials and builders imagined daily trade would be organized under one roof, with stalls, aisles, and entrances laid out for traffic. Drawings of proposed buildings are worth studying because they reveal priorities that a finished structure may have changed.
| Original scan | 3,420 × 2,134 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12672_Designfortheproposedmarkethall |
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