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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Breisch, Kenneth A., author.     Subjects     Library architecture -- United States -- History.     Library buildings -- United States -- History.     Libraries -- United States -- History.     Libraries     Library architecture     Library buildings     United States     Browse Catalog     by author:      Breisch, Kenneth A., author.       by title:      American libraries, ...         MARC Display

American libraries, 1730-1950 / Kenneth Breisch. by Breisch, Kenneth A., author. New York : W.W. Norton & Company ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [2017] Series:  Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design, and engineering. Description:  314 pages ; 29 cm. Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Private collections -- Academic libraries -- The Library of Congress -- Large urban libraries -- Small public libraries -- The Carnegie era. Summary:  "An expansive overview of our storehouses of knowledge, from the earliest library building (Philadelphia, 1745) to midcentury modern and beyond. 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 Bibliothèque-Ste.-Geneviève 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" --   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 727 Bre 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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