Free Public Library, La Grange, Ill. (Gift of Andrew Carnegie) – Antique Print
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This rare historic image captures Free Public Library, La Grange, Ill. (Gift of Andrew Carnegie) in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Free Public Library, La Grange, Ill. (Gift of Andrew Carnegie)
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The building in this picture is the Free Public Library in La Grange, Illinois, a town on the western edge of Chicago, and its record notes that it was a gift from Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, the Scottish-born steel magnate, funded roughly 1,700 public libraries across the English-speaking world between 1883 and 1929, and many small towns like La Grange took up his offer by providing a site and committing to annual support. Such buildings were often designed in a classical or Beaux-Arts style, with a prominent entrance meant to signal that a library belonged to the whole community. Worth noticing is the emphasis on public access, since the Carnegie model asked towns to keep the library free to all residents.
| Original scan | 5,139 × 3,793 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15329_FreePublicLibraryLaGrangeIll |
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