Public Library Building, Blue Island, Illinois: First Floor Plan – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Public Library Building, Blue Island, Illinois: First Floor Plan. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Public Library Building, Blue Island, Illinois: First Floor Plan
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This drawing is a first-floor plan of the Public Library Building in Blue Island, Illinois, a city on the southern edge of Chicago, so it shows the arrangement of rooms rather than the building's appearance. Plans like this were central to library design in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when many American towns built public libraries and architects had to balance reading rooms, book storage, and a supervised circulation desk. Studying how the rooms connect reveals how staff controlled access to the collection and how patrons moved through the building.
| Original scan | 5,596 × 4,268 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15368_PubliclibrarybuildingBlueIslan |
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