Branch at No. 224 East 125th Street, New York Public Library – Vintage Photo Print
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Branch at No. 224 East 125th Street, New York Public Library comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Branch at No. 224 East 125th Street, New York Public Library
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This view shows the branch at 224 East 125th Street, one of the New York Public Library's neighborhood branches in Harlem. Its construction was tied to Andrew Carnegie's program of library grants, which funded hundreds of public libraries across the United States in the early twentieth century, many of them in growing city neighborhoods. Branches like this one served as reading rooms, study spaces, and gathering places for local residents, and the building's street-level presence on a busy commercial avenue reflects that civic role. Harlem's branch libraries became especially important during the 1920s, when the neighborhood was a center of Black art, literature, and political life.
| Original scan | 3,197 × 4,344 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15557_Branchatno224E125thStreetNewYo |
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