Public library, [Lafayette Square], Buffalo, N.Y. – Vintage Print
![Public library, [Lafayette Square], Buffalo, N.Y., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d5/d58a109e2c20-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Public library, [Lafayette Square], Buffalo, N.Y. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Public library, [Lafayette Square], Buffalo, N.Y.
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Lafayette Square in downtown Buffalo, New York, was the site of the city's central public library, and this view shows the building set within the open plaza that made the square a civic center. The photograph is one of many 8-by-10-inch glass negatives that the Detroit Publishing Company made around the turn of the twentieth century, when the firm documented American cities, landmarks and street life for travel books and postcards. Civic buildings like this library were often photographed to show the growing public institutions of industrial cities, and the wide, tree-lined square gives a sense of how such spaces were meant to be seen and used.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 5655" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071139. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Libraries. Plazas.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,426 × 5,153 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-72522 |
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