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Leuven, Belgium. The university library was destroyed by fire in the First World War so this replacement was built, by American subscription, in 1921. This too was destroyed in World War Two and has been rebuilt to the original plans.
Adams Memorial Library
102 E. Wesley Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
DuPage County
National Register of Historic Places
The Adams Memorial Library was designed by Charles Sumner Frost in the Romanesque Revival architecture style and built in 1891. It is now home to the DuPage County Historical Museum.
Yesterday evening, many members of the Friendswood library community gathered to hear Dr. Ted Estess, founding Dean of the honors college at the University of Houston, read stories from his fine book The Cream Pitcher: Mississippi Stories. These stories reflect upon the lives of the Estess family in the region of the Cream Pitcher of the Mississippi, or Walthall County, Tylertown, Mississippi. Dr. Estess read stories The Cream, Clabber, and Whey of Everything, Making Arrangements, along with other wonderful family stories. One audience member commented that these stories felt just like her own family stories, and that Dr. Estess really knew how to express them in a meaningful way. Dr. Ted Estess is also a scholar on the works of nobel laureate and author of Night, Elie Wiesel. The Friendswood Public Library hopes to have him back to share his knowledge on Elie Wiesel sometime in the not too distant future.
After cataloging the old and purchasing and cataloging more than 250 new books and two encyclopedia sets.
Pirate ship for the "Make A Splash" summer reading theme, summer 2010. The children used the ship for their reading adventures!
The Avon Public Library joined the Elgin County Library Co-Operative in 1949. The library was located above the Daniel General Store, as shown in this 1949 photograph of the Elgin County Library Co-Operative Bookmobile. In 1965, Avon joined the Middlesex County Library system.
The West Lorne Public Library was formed in 1895 and joined the Elgin County Library Association as a founding member in 1936. This 1890s photograph shows the original Librarian, John Chasely, who served from 1895 until his retirement in 1924.
November 4, 2019 - Avalon Library Grand Re-Opening with County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn, 4th District. Avalon Library, part of LA County Library, is located on the island of Catalina. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
File name: 08_02_005766
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Readville Library
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Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Children; Librarians; Reading
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
The 'colour library' (more correctly a storeroom) has thousands of sheets of smalti, indexed by production batch, sitting on shelves like books. The feeling of warmth and colour in this room is truly amazing, and any visitor to Venice should ask politely to take a look.
There's a lady who works in this room - just off the right hand edge of this picture - and (I presume) she spends her time selecting, sorting and cutting smalti to fill orders. There is a verandah at the back of the room that is used as a mosaic classroom, and from there you can look into these windows in the morning light and wave at the lady, who always smiled and waved back.
The Rodney Library was established as a Mechanics Institute in 1893, reformed as a Public Library in 1901 and was a founding member of the Elgin County Library Association in 1936. This image shows the title page of the Rodney Mechanics Institute/ Rodney Public Library Board minute book, 1893-1929.
The Sparta Public Library was a founding member of the Elgin County Library Association in 1936. From 1942 until it closed in 1959, the library branch in Sparta was housed in the general store built in 1846 by Hiram B. Smith and later operated by Morley Gorvett.
Bishan Library is next t a bus and train interchange and a shopping centre. There are lots of people walking around. The children's area is in the basement, and the young adult area on the top floor. Like other Singapore public libraries visited, it had an excellent comic collection.
Walked uptown to the library today. Brought a drive with 80GB of data for YouTube but uploaded only one 4 GB file. dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.ca/2015/09/uploaded-single-h...
This is the best angle I can get right now (one recliner is presently full of boxes of books) with my E-20's lens that shows the north wall. The recliners face the fish tank, chess table and doorway. This gives the reader something soothing to look up to. The fish tank, while physically inside the library, interpenetrates the wall and is flush with the wall surface in the hallway outside. All of the pumps, plugs and so forth are in the space underneath the tank, out of sight.
Square stamp with wooden handle. Stamp reads: 'WEST LOTHIAN * EDUCATION COMMITTEE / COUNTY /LIBRARY'.
West Lothian Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2006.002.001.
Single exposure, all ambient.
Another from the 'large space/all ambient' exercise. Again, the deck was stacked heavily in my favor, as there was a lot of light coming in those windows.
Some of the lines in this look like they're curving. Also, not too happy with the processing. And to me the image looks a little degraded somehow (mainly on the left side). Is that a sharpening/noise reduction issue? Or...? (my sharpening skills definitely need work) Wish the humans had been moving. Though not sure how steady my hand would be at 1/15...
Thanks for any and all feedback/suggestions.
As part Holocaust Memorial Week a special Human Library was created by students, staff and members of the local community including people from Colchester Mind and homelessness charity Emmaus Colchester. The Human Library in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Foyer gave people a chance to understand and find out about people with a potentially very different view on the world. The aim is to bring together people from different backgrounds to foster interaction and challenge prejudice.
Booth Library on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on July 1, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
AA Gymnastics visited the library again and showed off their moves! At the end of the program kids from the audience got a chance to try out some of the training equipment to flip over backward!
The Grand Staircases
The two great staircases flanking the Great Hall are embellished by elaborate and varied sculptural work by Philip Martiny. At the base of each is a bronze female figure wearing classic drapery and holding a torch of knowledge. They are signed "P H Martiny, sculptor NY"; the foundry's name is also inscribed at the base. Each stair railing is decorated with a fanciful series of cherubs carved by Martiny in white marble. In a niche on the north side is a plaster bust of Thomas Jefferson and on the south is a bronze bust of George Washington; both are copied from works by the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The balustrade on each side of the top landing contains Martiny's figures of cherubs modeled to represent the fine arts. At the north landing, they are Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture; at the south landing, Comedy, Poetry, and Tragedy.
The cherubs in the ascending railing of each staircase--according to Small's Handbook--represent "the various occupations, habits, and pursuits of modern life." The series begins at the bottom with the figure of a stork. Then, on the north side of the hall, are figures of a Gardener, with a spade and a rake; an Entomologist, capturing butterflies; a Student poring over a text; a Printer, with typefaces, a type case, and a press. Halfway up the railing, on the same level, are cherubs representing Asia and Europe. Next comes a Musician; a Physician, mortar and pestle in hand; and an Electrician holding a telephone receiver at his ear and, Small writes, "with a star of electric rays shining on his brow." At the top of the railing is an Astronomer with a telescope.
In the staircase railing on the south side of the Great Hall, beginning at the bottom, the figures are a Mechanic with a cogwheel and pincers; a Hunter, with a gun, hoisting a rabbit he has just shot; a Vintner dressed like Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, holding a goblet; a Farmer with a sickle and a sheaf of wheat. Halfway up the railing are cherubs representing Africa and America. Next comes a Fisherman; a Soldier, a Chemist, with a blowpipe; and, last but not least, a Cook.
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: William H. Taft Ohio Society of New York Letter Opener, 1908
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1908
Date Made: 1908
Measurement: Letter opener: 10.25 in.; 26.035 cm
Classification: Metalwork
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zws
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.