Public reading posters & prints

Charles Dickens giving a public reading, 1858 Robert Hannah

The First Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence Howard (after) Pyle

Main reading room, the New York Public Library, c.1910-20 Detroit Publishing Co.

Charles Dickens James Bacon

Handbook of the New Public Library Poster Joseph Linden Smith

Inside View of the Cupola in the Public Library Cambridge Anonymous

Sunny Newspaper, DC, 2006 James Galloway

Underground 3, 2013 Barbara Hoogeweegen

Lewis Carroll Reading/Children/Painting Anonymous

People Reading News from Wall Poster in Peking Anonymous

A Book Is Nothing But a Man Speaking Publically, 1920 Anonymous

Please Check the front of the Train, 1998 Ellen Golla

The Public Library of the city of Boston, Boston Public Library Anonymous

Chelsea Pensioners reading the gazette of the Battle of Waterloo, Chelsea, London, 1815 Anonymous

People reading the bulletins of King George V's last illness Anonymous

A labourer reads a book in a library Anonymous

Nothing in The Papers?! Anonymous

Public Dinners George Cruikshank

Government Hospitality John Tenniel

Gentlemen Displaying Science Device To Public Anonymous

Public characters Thomas Rowlandson

Interior View of Reading Room at Vatican Library Anonymous

1940s Grandfather On Porch Reading To Grandson Anonymous

A bookshop in Bloomsbury, London HW Fincham

Bookstalls of the Farringdon Road market, London Walter Benington

A Good Read Etienne Adolphe Piot

Readers Jean Raoux

The New Municipal Buildings and Free Public Library at Leeds: The Civic Procession from the Town Hall to the New... Anonymous

Girl Reading on Bench Anonymous

Mother Reading to Daughter Anonymous

The Quiet Hour, 1913 Albert Chevallier Tayler

The Reader Anonymous

On the Omnibus, 1880 Maurice Delondre

Breathing Spaces for London, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, Open to the Public on Sundays Anonymous

Mother Reading Book to Children Anonymous

Public Letter-writers Anonymous