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Reading room
The Chicago public library

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Title
Reading room
Description
From text: "The Reading Room for current periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the building occupying the entire north front on the fourth floor. Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received and kept on file here, comprising all the popular American and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selection of the best publications in German, French, and other continental languages, and daily newspapers from every important city in the United States and every capital and many other cities of Europe. Trade and professional journals of many kinds are also included."
Date
1911  
Type
Photographs  
File Name
chicagopubliclib11chic_06.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagopubliclib11chic#page/24/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagopubliclib11chic
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
Public libraries  
Coverage-Spatial
The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
  • The Chicago public library  
  • a handbook  
Author of the Book
Chicago Public Library.  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleReading room
DescriptionFrom text: "The Reading Room for current periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the building occupying the entire north front on the fourth floor. Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received and kept on file here, comprising all the popular American and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selection of the best publications in German, French, and other continental languages, and daily newspapers from every important city in the United States and every capital and many other cities of Europe. Trade and professional journals of many kinds are also included."
Date1911  
TypePhotographs  
File Namechicagopubliclib11chic_06.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagopubliclib11chic#page/24/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagopubliclib11chic
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SubjectPublic libraries  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
  • The Chicago public library  
  • a handbook  
Author of the BookChicago Public Library.  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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