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The Law Library in The Library of Congress – Vintage Wall Art

The Law Library in The Library of Congress — antique engraving
The Law Library in The Library of Congress. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Published in Harper's Monthly in the early 1870s, this wood engraving shows the Law Library, the legal collection kept within the Library of Congress when it was housed in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The Library's holdings suffered a severe loss in the Capitol fire of 1851, which led to a rebuilding of its rooms and shelving. Magazine engravings like this one gave readers a view of government spaces most of them would never enter, and they remain useful records of how such reading rooms were arranged in that period.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes[between 1872 and 1873]
SubjectsWood engraving in Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1872-1873, vol. 46, p. 47. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wash., DC--LC--Interiors--Div.; Libraries; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,230 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138600

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