Library delivery room interior with curved wooden counter – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Library delivery room interior with curved wooden counter. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Library delivery room interior with curved wooden counter
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A curved wooden counter anchors this view of a library delivery room, the space where readers handed in call slips and collected the books their requests had brought up from the stacks. Rooms like this were a common feature of large public libraries from the late 1800s into the mid-1900s, when many collections were kept behind closed doors and staff, not patrons, fetched volumes. The gentle arc of the counter let a clerk see and serve several people at once while keeping the workspace separate from the public floor. The wood finish and the way the furniture directs the flow of people through the room are worth a closer look.
| Original scan | 5,713 × 4,506 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15356_DeliveryroomCarnegielibraryofH |
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