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Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, sepia photograph of stone building – Historic Photo Reproduction

Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, sepia photograph of stone building — historic photograph
Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, sepia photograph of stone building. Historic photograph from the Libraries collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, sepia photograph of stone building, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, sepia photograph of stone building

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Woburn's public library is a masonry civic building, the kind many towns in eastern Massachusetts raised in the late 1800s, when free reading rooms were becoming a point of local pride. The warm sepia tone suggests a photograph from the era when such images were often printed as cabinet cards or postcards, and the stone construction shows the durability towns wanted from their public institutions. Libraries of this period were often gathering places as well as reading rooms, so a picture like this records how a community presented its commitment to learning.

Original scan5,493 × 3,847 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif15349_WoburnPublicLibraryWoburnMassa

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