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In
the latest instalment of our series on professions, we look at
librarians and libraries.
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2-L47-B1-1850
Carl Spitzweg, The
Bookworm, circa 1850
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2-H10-K1-1815
The
Librarian / The Merchant, etching circa 1815
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7EN-V1-FAP-BM-0013
The interior of the Reading Room at London's British Museum
akg-images / VIEW Pictures Ltd
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2-L40-B1-1885-1
In the
public library, collotype after a painting, 1885, by
Emanuel Spitzer
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3IT-A3-I5
Archimboldo, The
Librarian, 1566
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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2-L40-B1-1888
Interior of a French library whilst its stock is being moved, dated 1888
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2-L40-B1-1917
A German soldier and his travelling library during the First World War,
Alsace, July 1917
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2-L40-B1-1935-2
A Jewish community library in Berlin, circa 1935
Bildarchiv Pisarek / akg-images
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2-L40-B1-1938
Children
waiting outside their new library in Tuppers Plains, Ohio, 1930s. The
librarian was employed by the Works Progress Administration within
Roosevelt's New Deal
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2-L40-B1-1947
Old man
reading in the US Library / Frankfurt [am] M[ain], May 1947
akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
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2-R71-Z1-1998-56
A monk in the library of the Notre Dame de Melleray monastery, France,
1990s
Olivier Martel / akg-images
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5-B1-G1-1897-27-B
The library at the Reichstag, Berlin, circa 1897
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5-B1-U8-1914-2
The
interior of the German State Library, Berlin, circa 1914
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5EN-L2-M1-1900
The library of the British Museum, London, circa 1900
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5FK-P1-U22-2000-1
The reading room of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2000
akg-images / Joseph Martin
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5FK-P1-U3-1785
Design for a reading room as part of expansion plans for the
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, by Étienne-Louis Boullée, circa 1785
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5-G39-M1-1990
The main reading room of the Municipal Art Collection and Upper
Lusatia's Science Library, Görlitz, circa 1990
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5-W3-U1-1904
The librarian Herr Voigt in the Rococo Room of the Anna Amalia Library,
Weimar, circa 1904
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7RD-R1-RIA04-035647_2247
Nadya Golubkova, librarian and postwoman at the Yuri Gagarin state
farm, 1961
akg-images / RIA Novosti
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5OE-W1-F8-1889-2
Library and reading room for the art collections of Vienna's Belvedere
Palace, in a watercolour, 1889, by Carl Goebel
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5TS-P1-E16-2004-3
The library in Strahov University, Prague 2004
Hervé Champollion / akg-images
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5US-L6-G2-1905-1
The public reading rooms in Los Angeles' Old City Hall, circa 1905
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Didn't
find the image you wanted
in this selection?
There are plenty more images of books
and libraries
in the akg-images archive. Search
the database yourself or email
through a request list, we're happy to help!
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7RD-R1-RIA-644056
A woman reading in the State History Library, Moscow, 1979
akg-images / RIA Novosti
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