Talk:The Buffalo Public Library in 1983

Favorite quotes:
 * With electric illumination we are both light and cool.

Language of the times:
 * electric glow-lamp (meaning: light bulb)
 * telefone, fonograf, fotografy, biografy (written with f)
 * their personal intercourse with the students enable them to give every book to that reader to whom it will do most good (intercourse meaning: interaction, dialog)
 * As to appearance, the outside of the building is very effective (effective meaning: to have an effect, to impress, to be impressive)