General Reading Room Showing Oak Book Stacks – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with General Reading Room Showing Oak Book Stacks, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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General Reading Room Showing Oak Book Stacks
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The reading room here is laid out around oak book stacks, the wooden shelving that made a library's contents easy to browse from the floor. Libraries of this era often arranged their open rooms so that patrons could walk among the shelves rather than request every volume at a counter, and oak was a favored material for its strength and warm finish. Images like this one document how public reading spaces were designed in the decades when libraries were expanding across American towns and cities, when access to books was becoming a civic priority. Look closely at the long tables, lamps and tall windows to see how daylight and furniture shaped the experience of reading in such a room.
| Original scan | 4,271 × 3,467 px · prints to 14 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15550_Generalreadingroomshowingoakbo |
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