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Girl Reading by Charles Edward Perugini (1878)
Girl Reading by Charles Edward Perugini (1878)
Public Library of Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1874
Retronaut.com has some great photos of the interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati, circa 1874, including the one above.
I’m not sure I could take the heights in those upstairs stacks though, especially with such short railings on each landing. Yikes!
The Passive Aggressive Raven
The Passive Aggressive Raven, by cartoonist Jim Benson.
Article: The Books We’ve Lost
Browsing on Charing Cross Road, London
Charles Simic looks at “The Books We’ve Lost” in a piece about the closing of used bookstores.
(From The New York Review of Books, August 13, 2013)