{"id":5114,"date":"2012-07-24T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2012-07-24T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:32:57","slug":"providence-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/providence-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providence Public Library main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provlib.org\/glass-negatives\/g-4x5-0006\">Children&#8217;s Room<\/a>, as Lovecraft would have known it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/g-4x5-0006-sizd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"G 4x5 0006-sizd\" width=\"529\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5117\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My immediate thought is that this photograph was made during a school visit, to make it seem busy.  But possibly in the pre-radio age children just had a different attitude to books and learning, and really did flock there in such numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Something of a boys&#8217; eye view of the exterior of the building&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ppl.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ppl\" width=\"529\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5116\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A plan from <em>Architectural Review<\/em>, 1902 (sorry, this is the biggest I can find it) of the Library, which had formally opened in March 1900&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-library.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Providence Library\" width=\"458\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the plans will appear in Joshi&#8217;s forthcoming Lovecraft&#8217;s-life-in-photographs book.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting factoid for your next Lovecraft quiz night: the Fleur-de-Lys Studios building (in &#8220;The Call of Cthulhu&#8221;) was designed by the same team who designed the Providence Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence Public Library main Children&#8217;s Room, as Lovecraft would have known it&#8230; My immediate thought is that this photograph was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/providence-public-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}