If you don't know the American Library -- or even if you do -- please enjoy these images from the life of the Library - from its beginnings at the end of World War I to its dynamic 21st-century self. This album includes archival photographs, posters and invitations as well as recent images by photographers David Bacher and Kate McLean -- glimpses of the Library in all its variety and vitality, then and now.

Click on the pictures to enlarge. They can also be viewed as a slide show.

Photo credits: David Bacher, Kate McLean.
Black and white images from the photo archive of The American Library in Paris.