[The Library of Congress. Division of Hispanic Literature] – Vintage Wall Art
![[The Library of Congress. Division of Hispanic Literature], [ca. 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/6478e8a59f4e-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Library of Congress. Division of Hispanic Literature]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The Library of Congress. Division of Hispanic Literature]
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Few rooms in the Thomas Jefferson Building show the Library's scholarly work as plainly as the Hispanic Division's reading room, photographed around 1940. The division grew from the Library's expanding collections of Spanish and Portuguese-language material, and by the late 1930s it had become a focal point for research on Latin America. The Jefferson Building, opened in 1897, was designed in the Beaux-Arts style, with marble, ornate detail, and grand reading spaces meant to impress visiting scholars. The photograph offers a useful record of how researchers worked in a building that was then only about four decades old.
| Created / published | [ca. 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1950. |
| Subjects | Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--1930-1950. Library of Congress.--Hispanic Division--Facilities--1930-1950. Reading rooms--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183997 |
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