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[U.S. Government bookbinding activities, Mar. 1936] – Antique Print

[U.S. Government bookbinding activities, Mar. 1936], [1936] — historic photograph
[U.S. Government bookbinding activities, Mar. 1936], [1936]. Historic photograph from the Books & Writers 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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Few pictures in this set show the working side of federal book work as plainly as this March 1936 view of government bookbinding. The record names the activity but gives no maker or exact location, so the scene is best read through its subject: sewing, gluing, and trimming printed sheets into durable volumes. In the 1930s, federal agencies commonly ran in-house binderies to repair ledgers, records, and library holdings, and that work was usually done by civil service employees. The caption card's tags, civil service and shelf, point to that routine of skilled labor and storage.

Created / published[1936]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesSource unknown. No file prints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bookbinding; Civil Service; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,239 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131702

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