Library - It starts with a single page 1920 Toddler T-Shirt

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Colorized photo from 1920
Original Title: Old Library - Cathedral Room
Location: 629 Vine St. Cincinnati OH
From the collection of the public library of Cincinnati and Hamilton county

Every story in life, everything you do, everything you learn all starts with a single page. In this case, its that guy up there. A page is a person who is sent out to get the book you need. Like a general store of the past, a person retrieved your book. It's only single file up there, and usually pretty dark. Despite all the large windows.

This was the Old public library of Cincinnati. Sometime in the 1860's, the city ran out of space in their old library and needed a new building fast. The board of education found a building that would be perfect for their needs. It was a building still under construction designed to be an opera house. in 1868 they were able to buy it because that project went bankrupt. The outside of the building was already built, they just had to make the...

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