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At 70 years old, what i am most amazed by is, we can put All of that info on a dozen disks and put it in a shoebox.
Maybe even a USB-stick and put it in your pocket.
Exactly. I carried 25 pounds of books and folders in HS. to each class. It is amazing that one laptop can save Everything a student needs. I have seen the greatest advances in history.
Is this a real library?
Yes. It was. Isn't it fantastic? I had to look it up. It is a picture of the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, built in 1874. But they tore it down!
Read what I found:
Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a thing of wonder. With five levels of cast iron shelving, a fabulous foyer, checkerboard marble floors, and an atrium lit by a skylight ceiling, the place was breathtaking. Unfortunately, that magnificent maze of books is now lost forever.
Patrons entered on Vine Street beneath the busts of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Benjamin Franklin. A vestibule led to the cathedral-like main hall, four stories tall, topped with a massive skylight roof.
The floor was checkerboard marble tile. Five levels of bookshelves jammed the walls. Shafts of sunlight cut through the windows to provide ample illumination.
“The main hall is a splendid work”, The Enquirer reported at the opening. “The hollow square within the columns is lighted by an arched clear roof of prismatic glass set in iron, the light of which is broken and softened by a paneled ceiling of richly colored glass. One is impressed not only with the magnitude and beauty of the interior but with its adaptation to the purpose it is to serve”.
The cost of the lot and building was $383,594.53, about $7.7 million today. The Public Library contained 60,000 volumes, with an estimated capacity of 300,000.
So why was this building demolished? Talks for a new library building had already begun 30 years earlier when the book collection had started to outgrow the building. Books were stacked beyond reach. Ventilation was poor, the air stuffy. The paint was peeling.
In January of 1955, a new contemporary library opened at 800 Vine Street. The old building was sold to Leyman Corp for about $100,000 today, and by June that year, the magnificent library was razed.
The site is now a parking garage. [I could weep.]
The three heads that once guarded the main entrance of the library were the only original features of the building that were saved and placed in the new library’s garden.
See this site for many more pictures:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-old-cincinnati-library-demolition-1874-1955/
What a tragedy.