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The Twenty-Cent Hotel: One of the two great reading rooms ; Seats for 300 readers

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805836


Item data

Title

The Twenty-Cent Hotel: One of the two great reading rooms ; Seats for 300 readers

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Lodging Houses

Names

Hare, James H., 1856-1946 (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1897

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Lod

Subjects

Men -- New York (State) -- New York
Reading -- New York (State) -- New York
Furniture
Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
Lodging houses -- New York (State) -- New York

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Content: Written on border: "Nov. 13, 1897"
Source Note: Illustrated American. (New York : Lorillard Spencer, 1890-1900).

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic print : b ; 13 x 17 cm. (5 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17096258
Barcode: 33333159166483
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c800e910-c55e-012f-caf4-58d385a7bc34

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1897

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Twenty-Cent Hotel: One of the two great reading rooms ; Seats for 300 readers" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1897. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c800e910-c55e-012f-caf4-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1897). The Twenty-Cent Hotel: One of the two great reading rooms ; Seats for 300 readers Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c800e910-c55e-012f-caf4-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Twenty-Cent Hotel: One of the two great reading rooms ; Seats for 300 readers" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c800e910-c55e-012f-caf4-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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