{"product_id":"winchester-photo-handley-library-virginia","title":"Winchester, VA Photo - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJudge John Handley of Scranton, Pennsylvania left $250,000 in his will to Ãâ ‚ ¬Ã… “ . . . open a Public Library for the free use of the people of the city of Winchester forever.Ãâ ‚ ¬Ã‚? The Handley Trustees hired architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York who designed the building in Beaux-Arts style. The Handley Library opened in 1913 at a cost of $233,230.28 for the building and furnishings. An addition was added to the building in 1979 and a complete renovation, designed by Dennis Kowal Architects, was completed in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCredit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Historic Pictoric","offers":[{"title":"12in x 8in","offer_id":44897085882531,"sku":"H20319_1208__PH07","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24in x 16in","offer_id":44897085980835,"sku":"H20319_2416__PH07","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36in x 24in","offer_id":44897086079139,"sku":"H20319_3624__PH07","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"44in x 30in","offer_id":44897086210211,"sku":"H20319_4430__PH07","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0414\/5437\/0979\/products\/H20319_1wmrk.jpg?v=1599378515","url":"https:\/\/historicpictoric.com\/products\/winchester-photo-handley-library-virginia","provider":"Historic Pictoric","version":"1.0","type":"link"}