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Roller conveyor and pass-through hatches beside white pipes – Historic Reproduction

Roller conveyor and pass-through hatches beside white pipes — historic image
Roller conveyor and pass-through hatches beside white pipes. Historic image from the Libraries collection.

(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 Roller conveyor and pass-through hatches beside white pipes 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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Roller conveyor and pass-through hatches beside white pipes

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Rollers, hatches, and white pipes make up the working machinery in this view, which sets it apart from the reading rooms and stacks that usually appear in library pictures. Roller conveyors of this kind moved heavy loads such as crates, boxes, and returned materials along a fixed route, while pass-through hatches let staff hand items between rooms without carrying them the full distance. Images like this document the behind-the-scenes logistics that kept a library running, the kind of work visitors rarely see. The pipes running alongside suggest that building services were routed through the same corridor.

Original scan5,229 × 4,312 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif15335_UniversityofCaliforniaGeneralL

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