American libraries 1730-1950 /

American libraries 1730-1950 /

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Author / Creator:	Breisch, Kenneth A., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [2017] ©2017
Description:	314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design and engineering Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design, and engineering.
Subject:	Library architecture -- United States -- History. Libraries -- United States -- History. Library buildings -- United States -- History. Libraries. Library architecture. Library buildings. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11331924

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Other authors / contributors:	Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- writer of foreword. Library of Congress, issuing body.
ISBN:	9780393731606 039373160X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.
Summary:	An 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 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.

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