Floor plan of a library with shelving, reading tables and stairway – Historic Reproduction
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This historic image of Floor plan of a library with shelving, reading tables and stairway brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Floor plan of a library with shelving, reading tables and stairway
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A floor plan rather than a photograph, this drawing lays out a library interior in plan view, with rows of shelving, reading tables and a stairway marked clearly enough to trace how a reader would move through the room. Plans like this were a standard tool for architects and library boards planning reading rooms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when public and institutional libraries were expanding quickly and needed efficient layouts for book storage, supervision and study space. Because the drawing shows the arrangement of furniture and circulation rather than decoration, it is a useful record of how library interiors were organized and what designers prioritized at the time.
| Original scan | 2,153 × 2,109 px · prints to 7 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15584_Floorplanfortheproperstorageof |
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