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[Men working at machines in Card Division Printing Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Men working at machines in Card Division Printing Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Men working at machines in Card Division Printing Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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[Men working at machines in Card Division Printing Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

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Men tend machines in the Card Division printing office inside the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, a setting that shows how the library's cataloging work was turned into physical products. The Card Division began supplying printed catalog cards to other libraries in 1901, so that each library did not have to type or write its own. Photographs like this one, taken between 1900 and 1920, document the building's working interior in the early years after it opened in 1897, when the library was expanding its role well beyond a reading room for Congress.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
SubjectsLibrary of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--Facilities--1900-1920. Cards--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920. Printing--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194807

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