Interior of Bates Hall, Boston Free Library – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Interior of Bates Hall, Boston Free Library. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Interior of Bates Hall, Boston Free Library
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Bates Hall, the long central reading room of the Boston Public Library, is the subject here, shown as a stereo card that would have been viewed through a stereoscope to create a three-dimensional effect. The main building in Copley Square, designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1895, was among the most admired public libraries of its day, and its barrel-vaulted reading room with rows of tables and green-shaded lamps made it a favorite subject for photographers. Philadelphia photographer C.H. Graves issued this view around 1901 through the Universal Photo Art Co., one of many such cards sold to the public as a window onto distant places.
| Created / published | Philadelphia, Pa. : C.H. Graves, c1901. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by C.H. Graves (Universal Photo Art Co.). No. 5541. |
| Subjects | Reading rooms--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. Libraries--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,420 × 5,141 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162094 |
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