First Floor Plan, Columbia University Library, New York City – Antique Print
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This rare historic image captures First Floor Plan, Columbia University Library, New York City in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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First Floor Plan, Columbia University Library, New York City
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The first floor plan of the Columbia University Library in New York City sets out the building's public rooms on paper, showing how readers, stacks and staff spaces were arranged on the main level. Columbia's library grew out of the college's early collections, and by the late nineteenth century the university had built a large central library on its Morningside campus designed to hold a growing book collection under one roof. Plans like this one were drawn to guide construction and later to help staff and visitors understand how the building worked, so they capture decisions about light, circulation and storage that the finished rooms no longer show. Looking closely, the labels and room divisions reveal how a library was expected to serve both study and the constant movement of books.
| Original scan | 4,098 × 5,437 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15560_FirstfloorplanColumbiaUniversi |
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