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 and an atrium lit by a skylight ceiling, the place was wonder. In 1955 it closed.
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1899
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Stereoscope users
Busts of Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, and John Milton
1954
Catalogers 1899.
Using the stereopticon slides in the Children’s Room. This picture was taken in the early 1920s.
Via: The Cincinnati Public Library. For more information read Free & Public: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County by John Fleischman.
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