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[Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] – Vintage Wall Art

[Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut], c1921. — historic photograph
[Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut], c1921.. Historic photograph from the New Haven collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Most views of Yale's campus show its older Gothic halls, but this print is titled for Sterling Memorial Library, the university's main research library in New Haven, Connecticut. The catalog dates it to about 1921, several years before the building was dedicated in 1930, so the print may show the site or an early stage of the project. The photograph was issued by the Simonds Company of New Haven and registered for copyright, a common practice for local commercial studio views of the period. Its record mainly serves as a window onto how the city and university presented their architecture in the 1920s.

Created / publishedc1921.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJO 8824 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Simonds Comm. Photo Co., New Haven, Conn.
SubjectsYale University--Library--1920-1930. Libraries--Connecticut--New Haven--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,205 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193664

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