Main Stack Room, New York Public Library – Antique Print
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Main Stack Room, New York Public Library
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The Main Stack Room of the New York Public Library's central building on Fifth Avenue is the setting here, a space defined less by its visitors than by the steel shelving that rose through several levels of the building. Libraries of this scale were built to hold millions of volumes in rooms that could be reached quickly by staff, and the stacks behind the reading rooms were designed with that purpose in mind. The building itself opened in 1911 after years of construction, and its stack areas remain one of the clearest examples of how early twentieth-century libraries balanced public display with practical storage.
| Original scan | 4,087 × 3,461 px · prints to 14 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15567_MainstackroomNewYorkPublicLibr |
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