Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries
via Flavorwire by Emily Temple
It’s no secret that we’re fans of beautiful libraries here, but it’s not only gorgeous architecture and shiny mahogany work benches that excite us. Inspired by a wonderful collection of vintage photographs of the New York Public Library’s stacks that we spotted over at Retronaut, we decided to put together a mini collection of vintage photographs from inside famous libraries both at home and abroad. Often more subdued than modern libraries, they seem to hum with wisdom through that black and white film – and we bet the old-book smell is just to die for.
Page through to check them out, and if you feel inspired to go visit a real life library after you do, well that’s just icing on the cake.
The New York Public Library [via NYPL]
A stereogram of the great hall in the Vatican Library by William Herman Rau. [via Wikipedia]
The Long Room in the Trinity College Library, from Ireland in Pictures, 1898. [via Villanova University Digital Library]
The Botany Library in Chicago’s Field Museum, 1912. [via The Field Museum Library]
Folger Shakespeare Library, 1932. [via Cornell University Library]
Cambridge University Library. [via]
The Brooklyn Public Library’s children’s room, 1941. [via]
London Library post-Blitz, c. 1940. [via]
The Law Library of the Library of Congress, c. 1895. [via]
Boston Public Library, 1972. [via Boston Public Library]
Allow yourself plenty of time to look at the nine images I have not included here since you should go down all the [via] links to see yet more great images!
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Wall Street Ferry: 1905
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
New York circa 1905
“U.S. Government Dock and Wall Street Ferry”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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via Britannica Blog by Kara Rogers
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Salton Sea, in the Colorado Desert, southern California.
Credit: Daniel Mayer (mav)
Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (Generic)
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New York Public Library Stacks, 1907-1911
via Retronaut by Amanda
Source: New York Public Library
And the rest of Amanda’s selection is here
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The First Ferris Wheel, 1893
via Retronaut by Amanda
I wasn’t sure whether to pick one of the “let’s show off our engineering skills” images but in the end settled for this.
The rest of Amanda’s selection is here
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