Past in Focus: The Library Building
Posted in Around the Garden, From the Library on January 15th, 2012 by Matt Newman – Be the first to commentOur historical archives are something of a treasure chest for history buffs, stuffed with 100-year-old photographs of a Garden in transition. I sometimes find myself digging through them just for contrast and comparison (and the fashion sense of our forebears; I really want to bring back flat-brimmed straw hats). My latest dig yielded some interesting results, not to mention a new series we hope to keep up with in the future.
More specifically, it produced a Library Building (better known then as the Museum Building) and its surroundings at the turn of the century:
The Museum Building -- November 15, 1901
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