Detail View: Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection: [Library - Museum, 1890s]

Collection: 
Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection
Identifier: 
ar00261
Source: 
Archives LIM-03
Date Original: 
n.d.
Title: 
[Library - Museum, 1890s]
Description: 
A class of women in the Pratt Institute Library Museum, painting with watercolors from a butterfly exhibit. The Pratt Institute Library was built as a public as well as a college library, and was the first free Library in New York City. It was built by architect William B. Tubby in Victorian Renaissance revival style, with interiors by the Tiffany Decorating Company; the Romanesque-style Children's Portico was added to the children's entrance in 1912; the north porch was added in 1936 by John Mead Howells. Keywords: Women, Men, Students, Painting, Library exhibits, Library architecture, Universities and colleges.
Subject: 
Pratt Institute -- History
Subject: 
Museum exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject: 
Butterflies -- Exhibitions
Subject: 
Painting -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject: 
Classes (Groups of students)
Contributor: 
Tubby, William B., 1858-1944 (Architect)
Coverage: 
United States
Coverage: 
New York
Coverage: 
Kings County
Coverage: 
Brooklyn
Format.Extent: 
1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm.
Format.Medium: 
Photographic Prints
Type: 
Image
Contributing Institution: 
Pratt Institute