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American Libraries 1730-1950 (Hardcover)
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American Libraries 1730-1950 (Hardcover)
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Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library
remains a powerful site for discovery, and its form is still
determined by the geometry of the book and the architectural spaces
devised to store and display it. American Libraries provides a
history and panorama of these much-loved structures, inside and
out, encompassing the small personal collection, the vast
university library, and everything in between. Through 500
photographs and plans selected from the encyclopedic collections of
the Library of Congress, Kenneth Breisch traces the development of
libraries in the United States, from roots in such iconic examples
as the British Library and Paris's Bibliotheque-Ste.-Genevieve to
institutions imbued with their own American mythology. Starting
with the private collections of wealthy merchants and landowners
during the eighteenth century, the book looks at the Library of
Congress, large and small public libraries, and the Carnegie
libraries, and it ends with a glimpse of modern masterworks.
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