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There were telephones on the desk of each room, as well as pneumatic tubes connecting each room with the hotel's main office. [ 15 ] [ 66 ] As a fireproofing measure, the rooms did not contain wood decorations, [ 42 ] [ 49 ] except for small wooden shelves in the rooms. [ 42 ]
The most common shelf size is 42 inches deep by 46 inches wide, while two such shelves placed side-by-side can usually be combined to allow for a single shelf of 8 feet wide. The weight capacity of a 42x46 shelf ranges from 2,000 to 3,500 pounds, while the decking itself weighs from 24 to 30 pounds.
Library Bureau office and factory, Ilion, New York, 1911. The Library Bureau was an American business founded by Melville Dewey in 1876 to provide supplies and equipment to libraries. The Library Bureau quickly became a one-stop vendor for supplies and equipment a library might need. By 1900, its lengthy, well illustrated catalog was widely ...
The Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut is a research library for eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. The Library Shelving Facility, a closed-access, climate-controlled facility that houses 4 million infrequently-accessed volumes, is located in Hamden, Connecticut ...
The credenza desk is sometimes flat, like a pedestal desk, but more often than not it has a stack of shelves, small drawers and other nooks above its main working surface. The sum of these overhead amenities is usually called a hutch. Hence, the credenza desk is often called a "credenza with hutch".
Angus Snead Macdonald (1883–1961) was an American architect and businessman; from 1915 to 1952 the president of Snead and Company. [1] This company, based in Louisville, Kentucky, [2] manufactured the cast iron book stacks found in libraries all over the world in the beginning of the 20th century including the Washington, DC Public Library and Harvard's Widener Library.
The FBI sought "to use library surveillance and librarian informants" at Bucknell University as evidence of the Harrisburg Seven's "characters and intentions." [133] Boyd Douglas became one such informant for the FBI: he was a prisoner at the same penitentiary with a work-release position at the library. Boyd presented himself as an anti-war ...
Dulwich Library opened on 24 November 1897. [1] It is an example of a Passmore Edwards library [2] and is located at No. 368 Lordship Lane in East Dulwich, southeast London, England. The Library is managed by Southwark Council. The library has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since March 2016. [3]