Springfield City Library entrance front, Rice Hall and stack room – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Springfield City Library entrance front, Rice Hall and stack room in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Springfield City Library entrance front, Rice Hall and stack room
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The entrance front of the Springfield City Library, with Rice Hall and the stack room behind it, gives a view of a library building designed to be both a public reading room and a working repository of books. Libraries of this era often combined a ceremonial street facade with interior stacks that could grow over decades, and the layout here reflects that balance between civic display and everyday use. Worth noticing is how the entrance announces the institution to passersby while the stack room behind it holds the collection that patrons actually came to use.
| Original scan | 5,272 × 4,105 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15569_Viewofentrancefrontfig235RiceH |
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