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Taken with an Empire Junior camera in week 440 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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Lomography Redscale film, processed in Tetenal C41 chemistry.
Water flows from underneath the Rundel Memorial Library Building into the Genesee River. This is water from the former Johnson and Seymour Millrace.
Photographed using a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 lens on a Sony A7R.
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.
My library contains evasion, imagination, possibilities, dreams, exotic destinations, mythic characters, history, memories and always beautiful to look at!
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.
The oldest part of this former monastery is from the early 12th century. Nowadays it is both a literary college and a conference center
Rather shiny library sign at Edinburgh University catching the autumn sun, seemed perfect for a B&W shot, so fired off a quick snap while the light was just so
The Children's section contains something for kids of all ages, including picture books, early readers, award winners, movies, and more!
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.
Title: Loening, Mrs Astor, Milling, Vincent Astor, Sutton.
Creator: Erickson, Harry A. (Alexander), 1884-1962
Date: 1915
Part of: [Early aviation and Northrop Aircraft Corporation albums]
Series: Early Aviation Album
Description: Image of (left to right) Grover Loening, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Thomas Milling, Vincent Astor, and John Sutton.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, part of 1 volume (312 gelatin silver prints); 12 x 17 cm on 28 x 38 cm mount
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Jack Woodford - Teach Me to Love
(Original Title: Strangers in Love)
Novel Library 44. 1950
Cover Artist: unknown
"A Special Brand of Love"
Statue, Craven College, Skipton and Free Library, Skipton
Statue of Sir Matthew Wilson
SD 9951 1/60
Monument to Sir Matthew Wilson, first Member of Parliament for Skipton 1885-6.
Square sandstone plinth with moulded base and cornice, supporting standing stone figure by A Bruce Joy 1888.
Listing NGR: SD9901251805
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright.
AT a time when almost half the population of Great Britain was illiterate and when work life was hardly above the level of slavery, an organisation sprang up driven mostly by the middle classes, passionately committed to improve the lot of the working poor.
Skipton Mechanics' Institution started with a limp in 1823, hobbled along again from 1839 and then leapt into life more sure footed in 1847.
This fledgling organisation had been using rooms in the Hole in the Wall Yard, off Court Lane and later from 1847 based itself in a two roomed property in Chancery Lane, off High Street - now demolished.
This latter manifestation came about thanks to a gang of moneyed backers, the upper crust of the town, mill owners, members of the professions and other worthies including Skipton Building Society.
It did well. And by 1852 it was issuing over 2000 books a year and about 75 members were attending classes in writing arithmetic, grammar, geography, French, higher mathematics, history and reading, plus a host of scientific lectures.
To cater especially for the working classes it set up People's Concerts and in 1860, to cultivate more cultural amusement, established "Penny Readings".
For a penny, illiterate folk could listen to readings of great literature - the likes of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. They were so popular the Craven Herald reported that as many as 400 people would assemble in the Temperance Hall.
It was the opening of Skipton's New Town Hall in 1862 which saw the next big change. It freed up the Georgian building in Sheep Street where the town council had been meeting .
So the trustees upped-sticks from Chancery Lane and decamped in Sheep Street thanks to the benevolence of Sir Richard Tufton who charged them just a nominal rent.
This chap Tufton was to crop up again offering his generous hand in the late 1890s. He was Sir Richard Tufton, Second Baron Hothfield whose family seat was Skipton Castle.
The tale goes like this. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee arrived in 1887. So not letting a chance to boost their institution slip through their fingers, the trustees launched a memorial subscription and keen to get in on the act local big-wigs dug deep into their frock coats to pull out wads of notes including Baron Tufton along with Skipton mill mogal J Dewhurst, the Duke of Devonshire, Walker Morrison of Malham and former Skipton MP Matthew Wilson. A total of £2,382 was raised.
But Tufton's largesse didn't stop there. Next he popped up with a gift of land in High Street on which to construct a Science and Art School, a project that took two years to complete and was opened on September 25,1894.
Ownership was held by a special body of trustees who pledged to permit the building to be occupied by the directors of Skipton Mechanics' Institution for the purpose of educating children, adults, artisans and others in technical and general instruction in a variety of trades and professions.
The final pioneering effort of the Mechanics' in conjunction with the Science and Art School and Skipton Urban District Council was to fund a library.
Predictably, they launched a subscription scheme and with the knowledge of the philanthropic work of the Scot Andrew Carnegie at the back of their minds - he had financed a number of other public libraries, including Keighley's - he was approached and he flipped up £3,000 towards the construction. In 1910, the present library was handed over to the town.
There was a period of little activity between 1914 and 1946 apart for the provision of many school prizes, books and grants to individual students, money also going to Craven Naturalists and generous financial support to Craven Museum in 1928.
Following the Second World War, the West Riding of Yorkshire took over full control of further education and the trustees authorised the a lease of the Science and Art School to the county.
And 1971 saw another significant change when the trustees agreed to sell the freehold of the High Street premises to North Yorkshire County Council for continued occupation by Craven College.
Thanks to the Craven Herald
Our dining room and book collection. In retrospect this room sure would look good with my full sized table hockey game occupying the corner, although we don't have many people to play it.
From Wikipedia:
The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is a mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1574. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
This grand mosque stands at the center of a külliye (complex of a hospital, school, library and/or baths around a mosque) which comprises a medrese (Islamic academy teaches both Islamic and Scientific lessons), a dar-ül hadis (Al-Hadith school), a timekeeper's room and an arasta (row of shops). It also contains a Bayezid II Külliye Health Museum, now a museum. In this mosque Sinan employed an octagonal supporting system that is created through eight pillars incised in a square shell of walls. The four semi domes at the corners of the square behind the arches that spring from the pillars, are intermediary sections between the huge encompassing dome (31.25m diameter with spherical profile) and the walls.
While conventional mosques were limited by a segmented interior, Sinan's effort at Edirne was a structure that made it possible to see the mihrab from any location within the mosque. Surrounded by four tall minarets in, the Mosque of Selim II has a grand dome atop it. Around the rest of the mosque were many additions: libraries, schools, hospices, baths, soup kitchens for the poor, markets, hospitals, and a cemetery. These annexes were aligned axially and grouped, if possible. In front of the mosque sits a rectangular court with an area equal to that of the mosque. The innovation however, comes not in the size of the building, but from the organization of its interior. The mihrab is pushed back into an apse-like alcove with a space with enough depth to allow for window illumination from three sides. This has the effect of making the tile panels of its lower walls sparkle with natural light. The amalgamation of the main hall forms a fused octagon with the dome-covered square. Formed by eight massive dome supports, the octagon, is pierced by four half dome covered corners of the square. The beauty resulting from the conformity of geometric shapes engulfed in each other was the culmination of Sinan's life long search for a unified interior space.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Mossman, Queensland.
Description: Photo Play Theatre is visible at the rear of Lunn's garage. (Description supplied with photograph)
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Montpelier, Vermont USA • A solitary reader on a bench outside the Kellogg–Hubbard Library.
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☞ Shot during a visit to Montpelier, Vermont, to participate in the Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, one of 1,000 locations around the world where photographers meet-up & shoot away, all on the same day. • Why? More info.
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: "General U.S. Grant" Framed Medallion
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1868
Date Made: ca. 1868
Measurement: Frame: 3 x 2 1/2 in.; 7.62 x 6.35 cm
Classification: Sculpture
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zc3
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.
Originally built as a residence in the mid-1800s, this beautiful structure in Ypsilanti, Michigan, was donated to the Ladies' Library Association in 1890. At that time, the front tower was added. The building was restored in the late 1970s and is currently used for business offices. I took this picture during a photo shoot with Flickr friend Steve (sjb4photos) while on vacation in Michigan.
Information from the Ypsilanti Heritage Foundation website.