Stone building with turrets, palms and bicycles in street – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Stone building with turrets, palms and bicycles in street, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Stone building with turrets, palms and bicycles in street
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The turrets and the palms set this view apart: a solid stone building rises above a street where bicycles are parked or ridden past. The mix of a heavy masonry façade and tall palms points to a warm-climate town, and the bicycles suggest the late 1890s to early 1900s, when cycling became a popular form of everyday transport. Civic buildings of this type, including many public libraries of the period, were often built in stone with decorative towers to signal permanence and local pride. Looking closely at the street, you can see how a public institution and ordinary daily traffic shared the same space.
| Original scan | 5,371 × 4,012 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15384_PasadenaPublicLibraryPasadenaC |
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