The Carnegie Library in Illinois
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Hardcover. Gray cloth, white & BW illus. dust jacket, unpaginated, BW illus. G (Slight foxing to white dj; page edges are tanning lightly; binding has some soiling along bottom edge; text and photos are clean.). Item #151621
ISBN: 0252018222
"Offers a nostalgic, yet informative, visit to the eighty-three Carnegie libraries in Illinois that still serve as libraries and, in most ases, as community cultural centers. From Sycamore to El Paso, Macomb to Danville, Raymond Bial's black-and-white photographs reveal a broad range of architectural styles, as striking now as they were nearly a century ago when the libraries were built. Each image is accompanied by a brief history of the library and a description of how the community obtained grant support for the building." (dj) A terrific single-state treatment that could easily accompany Thedore Jones's encompassing treatment, "Carnegie Libraries across America: A Public Legacy."
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