Billiard room with two pool tables and cue racks – Historic Print
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Billiard room with two pool tables and cue racks 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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Billiard room with two pool tables and cue racks
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Two pool tables and a wall of cue racks dominate this room, a setting that sits unexpectedly among library holdings. Billiards was a common pastime in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and social clubs, hotels and institutions often kept tables for members and guests. Its placement under libraries suggests the room was part of a library building or the institution it served, though the record does not say which one. The scene offers a useful glimpse of how some public and private institutions mixed quiet study with lively recreation.
| Original scan | 5,712 × 4,591 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15353_BilliardhallCarnegielibraryofH |
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