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Streator Public Library, Streator, Ill. – Antique Print

Streator Public Library, Streator, Ill., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Streator Public Library, Streator, Ill., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures Streator Public Library, Streator, Ill. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Streator Public Library, Streator, Ill.

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Streator, a coal and glassmaking town in north-central Illinois, is the setting here, and this print documents its public library building. Streator's library was supported by Andrew Carnegie, whose grants funded many small-city libraries across the United States in the early twentieth century, so the building likely reflects that era of civic investment. The caption card carries no date, and the record's data is unverified, so the exact year of the photograph is best treated as uncertain. The image still offers a useful look at how a modest Midwestern town presented its public reading room to residents.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159941

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