DescriptionReading Room of the Boston Public Library.jpg
English: Reading-Room of the Boston Public Library, an engraving drawn by J. J. Harley and printed January 1871 in Every Saturday, a weekly newspaper published in Boston by James Osgood & Company. This depicts the library's first Boylston Street building, which was designed by architect Charles Kirk Kirby (1826-1910). Used between 1858 and 1895, it was replaced by the present building on Copley Square.
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J. J. Harley
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2008-07-21 13:23 Hugh Manatee 846×627× (201090 bytes) ''Reading-Room of the Boston Public Library'', an engraving drawn by J. J. Harley and printed January 1871 in ''Every Saturday'', a weekly newspaper published in Boston by James Osgood & Company.
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