The Dayton Public School Library Bu – Antique Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures The Dayton Public School Library Bu in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Dayton Public School Library Bu
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Recorded as a Dayton Public School library, this picture places its subject in one of the classrooms and corridors of a southwestern Ohio city school system, though the record does not name the exact building. School libraries in the early twentieth century were often modest rooms with shelves of district-bought or donated books, and their growth tracked the spread of compulsory schooling and the belief that reading should be taught alongside arithmetic and penmanship. The furniture, lighting, and arrangement of the room are worth studying, since they show how librarians and teachers expected young readers to use the space.
| Original scan | 6,936 × 4,960 px · prints to 23 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15586_TheDaytonPublicSchoolLibraryBu |
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