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The College & Graduate School of Art and the University Libraries' Department of Special Collections gathered Thursday, March 1, to celebrate the work of Jack Unruh. Unruh has gifted more than 2,500 originals, preparatory drawings, and tear sheets to the Modern Graphic History Library, which is comprised of original art and printed material from many fields of popular American pictorial graphic culture. For more information, visit library.wustl.edu/units/spec/MGHL.
Photo credit: Washington University Libraries
Library. 1906. By Charles Holden. Limestone ashlar with Pennant ashlar panels, lateral stacks and green slate cross-gabled roof. Open plan. Free Early Tudor style with Modern Movement influences. 2 storeys, attic and 2 basements; 14-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings with paired buttresses to the lower half, a parapet and gables set back with clasping buttresses, linked by a parapet in front of the recessed attic storey. Semicircular-arched doorway in the left-hand wing has splayed sides and a moulded arch, with a carved architrave to a flat-headed doorway with double half-glazed doors, and a segmental-arched plate-glass overlight. A tall shallow mullion and transom oriel above has a carved base and a parapet; the right-hand wing has a mullion and transom window below the oriel. Outer ground-floor windows to the wings are set in semicircular recesses; all ground-floor windows have 2-lights with moulded surrounds. The central section has 3 full-height segmental-arched recesses, with paired ground-floor windows and first-floor canted oriels with chequerboard panels to the sides, and a coved cornice; above are carved figures of Bede, Alfred the Great and Chaucer in the tympanum. Shallow buttresses to the second floor flank the windows. The gables have round mullion and transom windows, a gabled moulded cornice with Tudor roses and a shield. The left return and rear elevations are a complex and skilfully articulated pattern of recessed planes and blind arches, and include the 2-storey bowed stair block with buttresses between rising mullion windows. EH Listing
Linwood Library demolition. Thursday 2 October 2014.
File Reference: 2014-10-02-IMG_2418
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Notes: library interior before the 2008 renovation
Format: Colour photo, digital
Rights Info: Attribution, Noncommercial, Creative Commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Image Library
Photo Credit : John Merriman
Emmy nominated singer/songwriter ellen cherry gave a wonderful performance at the Friendswood Public Library, performing numerous songs from her cd (New) Years among several others.
What I like a lot about this resort is all the old architecture and buildings/houses you can find. Lots of history and character showing.
Fr: Ce que j’aime dans ce coin c’est toute la vieille architecture et les immeubles/ maisons que l’on peut voir. Il y a plein d’histoire et de caractere.
The Hoquiam Timberland Library in Hoquiam, Washington is one of 27 community libraries in the Timberland Regional Library system.
The Himmel Park Library is located on the northeast corner of Himmel Park in central Tucson. Opened on June 25, 1961, it was the first branch of the public library located in the City of Tucson. The library named after Alvina Himmel Edmondson and her family who were long-time residents of the area.
Library users will find great reads as well as interesting activities at Himmel Park Library. It’s an active meeting place for the community offering events of interest to all ages, including Storytimes, classes, and gaming.
The Library of Parliament sits just to the north of the Center Block on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario. It dates to 1876. It is High Gothic style and fortunately was not damaged during the fire in the Center Block in 1916.
John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, 1890-99.
By Basil Champneys (1842-1935).
Commissioned by Enriqueta Rylands (1843-1908) as a memorial to her husband John (1801-1880).
Grade l listed.
Freaky Friday is the culmination of the Summer programs for the Tweens and Young Adults. They get to come to the library after hours on Friday and have pizza, games and win prizes! This year was a blast!
Freaky Friday is the culmination of the Summer programs for the Tweens and Young Adults. They get to come to the library after hours on Friday and have pizza, games and win prizes! This year was a blast!
Christchurch City Libraries visited the Affirm Festival 2010 at Wainoni Park. The Mobile Library was on site and there was a tent where people could join the library,, find out about the new Aranui Library and have fun with activities and giveaways. The library team was asking people about what they would like to see in the new Aranui Library.
File Reference: CCL-2010-Affirm10-DSC03467
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries