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This is from a set of photographs I took when I visited the location back in December.
This was taken very closeup and has some crazy perspective distortion due to the proximity and wide-angle lens. I didn't post this one at the time as there were some annoying cranes messing up parts of the frame, but now with Adobe's new AI tools I can remove them much more easily and effectively ...
The fog's gone & the glorious winter sunlight returns to illuminate our magnificent brutalist architecture
Abel & Company, photographer
New York City book campaign / Abel & Company, Inc., commercial photographers, 903 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
1919.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 21 x 16 cm.
Summary:
Photograph shows a woman standing on a pile of books speaking into a megaphone for an American Library Association War Service promotion to collect books for soldiers fighting in Europe.
Notes:
• Title from item.
• Stamped on verso: Please credit American Library Association.
• Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Military section.
Subjects:
• American Library Association.--War Service.
• World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
• Book drives--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Women--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Books--1910-1920.
Format:
Photographic prints--1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.40926
Call Number: LOT 13440-2, no. 21
The Cumberland Library, in Rhode Island, was a Trappist monastery before it was a library. Originally called Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley, this Gothic structure housed 140 monks until being ravished by a fire in the 1950s.
Afterward, the monks relocated to a new monastery and the remaining buildings were repurposed into the Cumberland Public Library.
Since then, rumors of hauntings in the older parts of the building began to spread. Sightings of ghostly monks, unexplained sounds and the like have been reported by employees and patrons.
A short walk through the forest surrounding the monastery turned library will lead you to Nine Men's Misery--a haunted mass grave of nine colonial soldiers that were tortured to death three hundred years ago.
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WIT: These are the steps of the library. Took the shot, cropped to square, and desaturated a little in photoshop.
This room is lined with monumental bookcases in walnut that come from the Pisani Family palace at San Vidal, which now houses the Venice Conservatoire. These magnificent examples of 17th century furnishings are decorated using architectural motifs. The two orders with their elegant fluted Corinthian columns clearly reflect the classically-inspired taste of the day, whilst a touch of the Baroque tastes to come can be seen in the large volutes of the upper order of columns. The bookcases themselves hold rare manuscripts, and printed works dating from the early 16th century to the end of the 18th, together with the museum’s large collection of ducal orders and regulations. In fact, the Pisani were the first to set up what might be called a library-museum, in an attempt to endow the city’s publishing industry with its own aura of grandeur and munificent service to the State. In the centre of the room is an imposing 18th century chandelier of Murano glass. Like the one in the next room, this was probably produced at the famous workshop of Giuseppe Briati.
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The 135 AD Library of Celsus left and the 40 AD Gate of Mazeus and Mithridates right stand at the focal point of the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey.
The outside of Nottingham's future new Central Library, part of the Broadmarsh Car Park/Bus Station building. I don't know where the quotes are from -Google is no help.
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Powell Library is the main college undergraduate library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was constructed from 1926 to 1929 and was one of the original four buildings that comprised the UCLA campus in the early period of the university's life. Its Romanesque Revival architecture design, its historic value and its popularity with students make it one of the defining images of UCLA. Like the building facing it across the quad, Royce Hall, the building's exterior is modeled after Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.
Borrego Springs Library. Project Architect/Designer: RNT Architects (Ralph Roesling, Partner in Charge; Raúl Díaz, Project Architect; Brandon Martella, Architect; Summer Spencer, Designer). Completed in 2019 for the County of San Diego.
I have lived in Washington DC almost twenty years and have visited most of the museums, buildings and attractions at one time or another. To me, the most impressive is the Thomas Jefferson Building, the oldest and most recognizable Library of Congress building.
I have visited the LOC a few times but never attempted to get photos until my last visit. The scale is simply overwhelming. My lack of experience for indoor, architectural photography did not do justice to the grandeur of the place, but hopefully this short series will be of some interest. To me it's a must-see for any visit to DC.
Another shot from the "Main Reading Room." View LARGE for much more detail
The oldest part of this former monastery is from the early 12th century. Nowadays it is both a literary college and a conference center
With more than 10,000 books to its credit is one of the largest botanical libraries in the world. It is a pride for those who contribute to the recovery of books on botany. The construction is a beautiful English style very common in the late nineteenth century in the country. Botanic garden of Buenos Aires city. Argentina.
west-facing detail view of the Los Angeles Central Library. Inscriptions & sculpture in limestone designed by Hartley Burr Alexander.
Los Angeles, California
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I found sunlight's Innovative creative beauty in public library children's section. This indoor rainbow is from cheap crepe paper blocking out harsh south sunlight as high temperatures average 95-100+ on most summer afternoons in deep South Texas U.S.A. .
While showing off this foto, my visitor # 25,000 arrived on Dec. 9, 2007. Thanks to each of you for continuing to share joy, beauty, creativity, and art with this newbie to FLICKR..
EXPLORE # 100 on Monday, December 10, 2007, for 12-09.