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Civic Pride in a Lost America: Library Postcards
Carnegie Libraries
Europe
United Kingdom
England
Bridgwater
Wikipedia calls the style of the 1905 building Edwardian Baroque. It's certainly unlike any of its American counterparts.
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Postcard mailed in 1906.
Keighley
The 1904 stone building is extant, with the Library run by the Bradford Metropolitan District Council.
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H.D. McNearnie was the publisher of the photo postcard.
Wakefield
Built in 1905. No longer serves as a library, and has been divided into artists' studios.
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Bowler & Co. card, mailed in 1906.
Wales
Penarth
Built in 1905.
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Valentine's Series Souvenir post card mailed in 1907. This resembles many of the post cards of libraries in the northeastern US.
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