Providence Athenaeum Providence R – Historic Reproduction
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Providence Athenaeum Providence R comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Providence Athenaeum Providence R
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The Providence Athenaeum, a subscription library in Providence, Rhode Island, is the subject here, and its history gives the picture much of its interest. Founded in 1836, the institution was built around a membership model that let proprietors borrow books and use a reading room long before most American towns had public libraries. Libraries of this kind were central to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century New England, serving merchants, clergy, writers and mill-town readers alike. Worth noticing in the scene are the tall shelves and the reading arrangements, which reflect how such collections were housed and used.
| Original scan | 4,512 × 4,889 px · prints to 15 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15386_ProvidenceAthenaeumProvidenceR |
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