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[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: Three people at table with books in the Senate Reading Room] – Historic Print

[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: Three people at table with books in the Senate Reading Room] — historic photograph
[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: Three people at table with books in the Senate Reading Room]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: Three people at table with books in the Senate Reading Room]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Senate Reading Room, one of the Library of Congress's congressional reading rooms, is the setting here, with three people seated at a table surrounded by books. The record carries no date, so the picture cannot be placed in a specific year from the caption card alone. Reading rooms of this kind were built to give members of Congress and their staff quick access to the Library's collections while they worked in the Capitol complex, and the Library's congressional reading rooms were a practical part of how legislators researched bills and debates. The photograph is worth a close look for its record of the room's furnishings and the working habits of the period.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Washington, D.C.--LC; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127814

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