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[Unidentified office, with 4 employees, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified office, with 4 employees, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Unidentified office, with 4 employees, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph 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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[Unidentified office, with 4 employees, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Four employees work in this unidentified office, a small scene of clerical life inside the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The building opened in 1897 as the library's main home, and its ornate Italian Renaissance Revival interiors were meant to show the nation's intellectual ambitions, but its many offices were working spaces where staff catalogued, corresponded, and processed materials. The caption card records no date, and the identities of the people pictured are unknown, so the scene is best read as a general view of the building's everyday administrative life.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsAnother copy may be in: U.S. GEOG FILE - WASHINGTON, D.C.--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS--JEFFERSON BUILDING--INTERIOR--OFFICES. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159671

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