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SMALL PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN AMERICA 1850-1890: THE INVENTION AND EVOLUTION OF A BUILDING TYPE. (VOLUMES I AND II).

Kenneth A. Breisch

出版	University of MICHIGAN, 1982
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W1-cSwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

With the exception of a few large and outstanding monuments, the library buildings of America have received very little attention from architectural historians. This dissertation attempts to document the invention and evolution of a new nineteenth-century building type within the library genre: the small public library. It focuses specifically on buildings constructed between 1850 and 1890, which were intended to house fewer than 100,000 volumes, although the history of many related, earlier and larger