Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog in The Library of Congress – Historic Print
(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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The setting is the card catalog in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, the domed hall that opened in 1897. Jack Delano, known for his Farm Security Administration photographs of the early 1940s, made this picture in an era when researchers still searched by hand through drawers of index cards rather than on screens. The photograph shows how central the catalog was to daily work in the reading room, and the tidy rows of cabinets hint at the scale of the library's collections.
| Created / published | c. 1930-1950 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | Jack Delano |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,708 × 2,776 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177324 |
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