Third Floor Plan, New York Public Library – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Third Floor Plan, New York Public Library. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Third Floor Plan, New York Public Library
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Unlike most views on this board, this is an architectural drawing rather than a photograph: a floor plan of the third story of the New York Public Library's Fifth Avenue building. The firm Carrère and Hastings designed the library in the Beaux-Arts style, and it opened at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in 1911 on the site of the old Croton Reservoir. Plans like this one show how the building's reading rooms, book stacks and staff spaces were arranged, and they remain a useful record of how the institution was meant to work.
| Original scan | 5,186 × 4,183 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15565_ThirdfloorplanNewYorkPublicLib |
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