Gilpin Library, Interior, Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois

 

Greeley, Colorado, Municipal Library, Interior

 

LIB565243

Titusville, Pennsylvania, Benson Library, Interior, c1910

Titusville, Pennsylvania, Benson Library, Interior, c1910

LIB299836

Interior, Carnegie Library, Oberlin, Ohio, 1909

Interior, Carnegie Library, Oberlin, Ohio, 1909

LIB381277

Reany Memorial Library, Interior, St Johnsville, New York

LIB975761

Library, Interior, Young Women's Christian Assoc., YWCA, Newark, New Jersey

LIB112255

1911, Carnegie Public Library, Interior, Waupaca, Wisconsin

[LIB907818]

Library, Interior, East Orange, New Jersey

[LIB495822]

Carnegie Library, Interior, Oberlin, Ohio

Carnegie Library, the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of New York, is located at the northeast corner of Professor and Lorain Streets. The building is constructed of Amherst sandstone.

[LIB11276]

1915, National Library, Interior, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[LIB11267] - When Buenos Aires became the capital of the Republic, the Public Library of Buenos Aires became the National Library and Antonio Wilde was appointed as its director. Wilde’s tenure did not last long due to his old age and death after a sudden illness. Paul Groussac followed his directorship. Groussac created a methodical classification system based on Brunet’s bibliographic model, undertook the cataloging of the manuscript collection, and published two remarkable journals: La Biblioteca, being one of the most prestigious literary journals, and Los Anales de la Biblioteca. [Wikipedia]

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Library, Methodist Theological School, Delaware, Ohio

[LIB11220]

Library, Clarion State College, Clarion, Pennsylvania

[LIB11219]

1974, Central Public Library, Interior, Brooklyn, New York

[LIB11193] - Ground was broken for a Brooklyn central library on Prospect Park Plaza (Grand Army Plaza) in 1912. The design of the original architect Raymond Almirall called for a domed, four-story Beaux Arts building, similar in style to the nearby Brooklyn Museum. Escalating costs and political in-fighting helped slow construction throughout the decade. World War I and the Great Depression ensured that Almirall's building, whose Flatbush Avenue wing had been completed by 1929, would never be built. [Wikipedia]

1910 Interior, Library, Vineland, New Jersey

[LIB11077]

Stack Room, Masonic Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

[LIB11067]

1908 Interior, Spear Library, Oberlin College, Ohio

[LIB11016]

ARCHITECTURE - Renzo Piano - Morgan Library

Interior of Renzo Piano's expansion of Morgan Library Museum.

Interior, New York Public Library, New York, NY

[LIB3646]

The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, designed in modern Renaissance style and built at a cost of $9,000,000 was opened in 1911, though the Library had its origin in 1848. [From the back of the card]

1914 Court Yard, Public Library, Boston, MA

[LIB3523]

Reference Room, Los Angeles Public Library, California

Read about the art & architecture of the Los Angeles Central Library here. [LIB2423]