[Woman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress] – Vintage Print
![[Woman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress], [between 1930 and 1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7ab56aa2c76e-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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Step back in time with [Woman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Woman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress]
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A woman stands at the card catalog in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, the room at the heart of the Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. The Jefferson Building opened in 1897, and its Main Reading Room, with its high domed ceiling and rows of oak desks, was built to be the public face of the nation's library. Card catalogs like this one, with their wall of small wooden drawers, were how researchers found books before computer searches existed. The photograph dates to somewhere between 1930 and 1950, so it captures a long stretch of ordinary library work in the decades before the card system gave way to electronic catalogs.
| Created / published | [between 1930 and 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1950. |
| Subjects | Reference copy also available in U.S. GEOG FILE - Washington, D.C.--Library of Congress--Jefferson Building--Interior--Main Reading Room. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,272 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177324 |
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