Interior of the library at the home of Madame Helena Modjeska, ca.1905

Photograph of the interior of the library at the home of Madame Helena Modjeska, ca.1905. The library is cozy and lavishly decorated, with numerous pictures on the walls, a buffalo head and metal plates hanging on the brick fireplace, a rug on the floor in front of a sofa, and, of course, books on glass-covered sheves. A woman, presumably Modjeska, is sitting in a chair in an alcove on the left side of the room. There is a round table in the foreground that features carved creatures for its legs.