Reading room interior with arches, tables and chandeliers – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Reading room interior with arches, tables and chandeliers, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Reading room interior with arches, tables and chandeliers
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Arched bays, long reading tables, and hanging chandeliers give this interior the formal character of a public reading room. Rooms like this were designed to seat many readers at once, with high ceilings and tall windows to bring in daylight. The chandeliers suggest the space was also used after dark, when gas or electric light was needed. Without a recorded location or date, the scene is best read as a representative example of library design, where architecture was used to make study feel orderly and grand.
| Original scan | 5,926 × 4,725 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15405_WomensreadingroomCarnegieLibra |
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