Slate.com and Magnum Photos post these wonderful photographs of libraries and people reading, from around the 1940’s to the present.
#13 is a photo of Marilyn Monroe hanging out at a playground, reading a book, in a bathing suit.
#20 is James Dean reciting James Whitcomb Riley‘s poetry.
Here’s a snapshot of the reading room in the old Valdosta State College Library, when the library was in Powell Hall:
Photo courtesy of VSU Archives
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