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Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa – Historic Reproduction

Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa, [c1909] — historic photograph
Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa, [c1909]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa

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Sheldon, a small town in northwest Iowa, is the setting here, and its library was one of the many public libraries built with money from Andrew Carnegie's grants in the early 1900s. Carnegie's program paid for construction while towns supplied the land and committed to funding staff and upkeep, so these buildings often became civic showpieces. The print was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, a step photographers took to protect images they sold, which helps explain why views like this one circulated widely in the years around 1909.

Created / published[c1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH125256 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1.
SubjectsLibraries--Iowa--Sheldon--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,294 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194349

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