Reading Room at Detroit Public Library
Grab
Description
View of a reading room on the third floor of the Detroit Public Library, what is now Adam Strohm Hall, with a ceiling designed to echo the small nave in Rome's St. Peter's Basilica with a geometrical arrangement of rosettes and caissons, also in room are large, high windows, benches and tables and chairs. Recorded in lantern slide ledger, "D/Public Library-Delivery Hall showing return desk."
Details
- Creator:
- Manning Brothers
- Resource ID:
- EB02c805
- Subject:
- Detroit Public Library
- Reading rooms--Michigan--Detroit
- Ceilings--Michigan--Detroit
- Library fittings and supplies--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Lantern slides
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 transparency : glass ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Negative Number:
- BHC lantern slide no. 857
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.