The Detroit Public Library : an American classic / Barbara Madgy Cohn and Patrice Rafail Merritt.

Main entry:

Cohn, Barbara Madgy, author.

Title & Author:

The Detroit Public Library : an American classic / Barbara Madgy Cohn and Patrice Rafail Merritt.

Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Painted Turtle is an imprint of Wayne State University Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xi, 183 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.

Series:

A painted turtle book

Notes:
Timeline -- Building a library -- Entrance -- Children's room -- Grand staircase -- Fine arts room -- The loggia -- Civics room -- Reference room -- Delivery hall/Adam Strohm Hall -- Book lover's room/E. Azalia Hackley Collection -- Music room -- The 1963 addition -- The Burton reading room -- The Cass Avenue entrance -- The twenty-first-century library -- Acknowledgments -- The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation.

ISBN:

9780814342329 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814342329 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780814342336
0814342337

Subject:

Detroit Public Library.
Detroit Public Library History Pictorial works.
Public libraries Michigan Detroit Pictorial works.
Library architecture Michigan Detroit Pictorial works.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Michigan Detroit Pictorial works.
Bibliothèques publiques Michigan Detroit Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture des bibliothèques Michigan Detroit Ouvrages illustrés.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Michigan Detroit Ouvrages illustrés.
Buildings
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Library architecture
Public libraries
Detroit (Mich.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Michigan Detroit

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Rafail, Patrice A., author.
Wayne State University. Press.
Painted turtle book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295616
Call No.: BIB 241930
Status: Available

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