Public Library, Kalamazoo, Michigan – Antique 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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This historic image of Public Library, Kalamazoo, Michigan brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Public Library, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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The Kalamazoo Public Library is the particular subject here, a civic building in a Michigan city that set out to put books within reach of ordinary residents. Public libraries of this era were often built with funds from wealthy benefactors and were meant as community gathering places as much as reading rooms. Notice how the building's architecture signaled permanence and public purpose, with its broad steps and substantial facade. Pictures like this one document how small American cities invested in education and self-improvement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| Original scan | 6,247 × 4,651 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15555_PubliclibraryKalamazooMichigan |
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