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Reading Public Libraries. Central Library, Blagrave Street. The Lending Library, c. 1897. This was a closed access library, where customers had to use the indicator to see whether the book was on the shelf, and then request it at the window. The tall book-stacks with ladders leaning against them are visible beyond the screen and through the window. Electric lighting is in use, but the gas-lights are still in place. 1890-1899 : photograph by S. Victor White and Company

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