Carnegie public library building, neoclassical brick facade with columns – Vintage Photo Print
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Step back in time with Carnegie public library building, neoclassical brick facade with columns, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Carnegie public library building, neoclassical brick facade with columns
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Few library buildings of the early twentieth century carry the civic ambition of a Carnegie library, and this one's neoclassical brick facade, with its row of columns, shows that ambition plainly. Andrew Carnegie funded more than 1,600 public libraries in the United States between 1883 and 1929, and most towns that received a grant had to supply a site and commit to annual operating funds. Designs like this one were meant to signal that a library was a serious institution, placing books and reading on the same footing as courthouses and banks. The columns and symmetrical front were common choices for the period, and they remain one of the clearest visual signatures of the Carnegie building program.
| Original scan | 5,194 × 4,256 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15361_CarnegiepubliclibraryCheyenneW |
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