Reading Room Collection

Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance, c1935. The circular Reading Room of the British Museum in central London was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877)

La Revolution Russe; Des soldats en armes se sont introduits dans le cabinet de lecture... 1917. Creator: Unknown
La Revolution Russe; Des soldats en armes se sont introduits dans le cabinet de lecture de la Douma, 1917. The Russian Revolution: armed soldiers enter the reading room in the Duma

Fareham Institution Hall and Corn Exchange, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Fareham Institution Hall and Corn Exchange, 1860. This building, which has just been completed and opened to the public, forms a point of interest not only to the town to which it is an ornament

Library in clubhouse, New York City, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Library in clubhouse, New York City, between 1900 and 1910

Buffet library car on a deluxe overland limited train, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: William H. Jackson
Buffet library car on a deluxe overland limited train, between 1910 and 1920

Alma Sanitarium, gentlemen's writing room, Alma, Mich. between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Alma Sanitarium, gentlemen's writing room, Alma, Mich. between 1900 and 1910

Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. The annual return of between three and four thousand soldiers from India and the British Colonies - who, either from impaired health

Main reading room, the New York Public Library, c.between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
Main reading room, the New York Public Library, c.between 1910 and 1920

Students in the Reading Room of the Library of Congress with the Librarian of Congress...(1899?)
Students in the Reading Room of the Library of Congress with the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, watching, (1899?)

New Reading-Room at the Bank of England, opened on Wednesday, 1850. Creator: Unknown
New Reading-Room at the Bank of England, opened on Wednesday, 1850....a handsome reading-room, which has just been formed for the Bank of England Library and Literary Association [in London]

The Free Russian Library and reading room, 15 Whitechapel Road, Stepney, London, c1901 (1901). The Free Russian Library was set up by Aleksei Teplov

8-oar shell race between Harvard and Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass. 1906, 1906. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
8-oar shell race between Harvard and Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass. 1906, 1906. 2 crewmen reading in room

Birmingham Reference Library - The Reading Room, 1881. Creator: Edward R Taylor
Birmingham Reference Library - The Reading Room, 1881

In The Reading Room, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
In The Reading Room, c1943. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), whose members were referred to as WaFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during World War II

Interior of the Radcliffe Library, 1835. Creator: John Henry Le Keux
Interior of the Radcliffe Library, 1835. View of the reading room in the Radcliffe Library in Oxford, with a plaster cast of the Laocoon Group on the right

Interior of the Radcliffe Library, c1813. Creator: J Bluck
Interior of the Radcliffe Library, c1813. View of the reading room in the Radcliffe Library in Oxford. The building was designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style, and built in 1737-1749

British Museum, 2005. Creator: Ethel Davies
The front entrance to the British Museum, originally established by Sr Hans Sloane in 1759, the present building dating from 1857, including the Reading Room

The Lodging of Bonaparte at Valence, 1896. The house, which was kept by Mlle. Bou, is the four-stor[e]y building with heart-shaped tavern-sign to the left of the picture

Roma - Vatican - Reading room of the Library, 1910. Built by order of Sixtus V from the designs of Fontana. From Cento Vedute Classiche di Roma. [Enrico Verdesi, Rome, 1910]

National Library: a corner of the gallery overlooking the public reading hall, 1914. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

The Reading Room at the British Museum, London, c1903 (1903). The Reading Room was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877). Construction began in 1854 and was completed in 1857

Reading room, Guildhall Library, City of London, c1903 (1903). The Guildhall library was founded in c1420 under the terms of the will of Lord Mayor Dick Whittington. From Living London, Vol

Reading-Room designed by H Novack and executed by J. W. Muller, c1899. From The Studio Volume 17, [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1899]

Duke Humphreys Library, c1902. Duke Humfreys Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford

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