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Literary Hall is a brick library building and museum in Romney, West Virginia, built in 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society. Founded in 1819, the society was the first literary organization of its kind in the present-day state of West Virginia, and one of the first in the United States. In 1846, the society constructed a building which housed the Romney Classical Institute and its library. During the Civil War the library's contents were plundered by Union Army forces, and many of its 3,000 volumes were scattered or destroyed. The society transferred ownership of its Romney Classical Institute campus to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind in 1870 and in that year completed Literary Hall, where the society reconstituted its library collection and revived its literary activities. The Romney Literary Society's last meeting was held there in 1886. In 1979 the hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its basic design incorporates Federal and Greek Revival styles along with Victorian details. (Full article...)

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Breakfast Time is an oil painting on canvas completed in 1887 by the Swedish artist Hanna Pauli (1864–1940). Measuring 91 by 87 centimetres (36 by 34 in), it shows a dining table standing in the garden, set for breakfast. Since 1910, the painting has been held by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Painting: Hanna Pauli

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