Library of Congress--Book conveyors – Vintage Print
![Library of Congress--Book conveyors, [between 1886 and 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0e0d5749c9e2-L.webp)
(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--Book conveyors comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Library of Congress--Book conveyors
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Few pictures show the machinery behind the Library of Congress as plainly as this one, which records the book conveyors in the bookstacks of the Jefferson Building. The building opened in 1897 after years of construction, and its designers relied on mechanical conveyors and lifts to carry books from the stacks to the reading rooms. The print is dated only to a span between 1886 and 1900, so it probably shows the building during construction or early use, when the new system was still worth documenting. Photographs of stack interiors from this period are useful to anyone studying how large research libraries were engineered.
| Created / published | [between 1886 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1900. |
| Subjects | Reference copy in U.S. GEOG FILE - Washington, D.C.--Library of Congress--Jefferson Building--Interior--Bookstacks. VD image orientation: Rotate VD 90 degrees counterclockwise. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,079 × 6,346 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161610 |
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