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Library of Congress - Bindery – Vintage Print

Library of Congress - Bindery — historic photograph
Library of Congress - Bindery. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Library of Congress - Bindery

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Inside the Library of Congress in Washington, this photograph documents a bindery, the workroom where the library's books and periodicals were sewn, trimmed, and covered so they could withstand heavy use. The caption card gives no date, but its listed subjects point to bookbinding as an occupation and to the library's internal divisions. Institutional workrooms like this were often recorded to show daily operations, and views of hand binding are useful to researchers tracing how a long-established trade was organized before mechanization reshaped it in the twentieth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bookbinding; DC, Wash.--L- C- --Divisions; Occupations; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,220 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134682

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