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Object within Schaaf no. 1365

New Public Reading Rooms, London Street, Reading

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Image size: h 19.0cm x w 15.8cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: Page of the Fox Talbot Museum album no. 1, with ruled edge

Inscription: printed title on mount, New Public Rooms,Reading; in ink, recto, on mount, N. Henneman

Provenance:
The British Library, gift of Janet and Petronella Burnett-Brown, 1 March 2006
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, National Trust (00633)
Fox Talbot Museum notebook no. 1
Talbot's 1852 Royal Society of Arts album, 1841-1846

Owner: The British Library

Object owner number: Talbot Photo 16(40)

Collection: Talbot Collection

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 1365

New Public Reading Rooms, London Street, Reading

Location: Reading

Keywords: Architecture Advert

The New Public Reading Rooms in Reading, from 1840s was the "Reading Literary Scientific and Mechanics' Institution". The building still exists and at the time of writing is a bar and hotel.

Close inspection of the image shows a figure leaning against the wall of the reading Rooms, as well as various billboard advertisements.

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