N.Y. Public Library, a reading room – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: N.Y. Public Library, a reading room, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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N.Y. Public Library, a reading room
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Unlike the many exterior views of New York's public buildings, this one looks inside: a reading room of the New York Public Library, though the record does not say which branch or building. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, made the negative, and its early twentieth-century work documents the city's institutions and everyday life. The library's main Fifth Avenue building, with its large open reading rooms, opened in 1911, so this room may reflect that period of expanding public access to books. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified agency data, so the exact room and year remain uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,966 × 5,460 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2923 |
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