The Library of Congress. Main Hall, first floor, showing entrance to Main Reading Room – Antique Wall Art
(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. Main Hall, first floor, showing entrance to Main Reading Room. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Library of Congress. Main Hall, first floor, showing entrance to Main Reading Room
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Visitors entering the Main Hall on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building faced a grand marble-and-mosaic space that led toward the Main Reading Room beneath its great dome. The building opened in 1897, and its ornate decoration was meant to show that a national library could be as impressive as the government it served. The card for this print gives no date, but the view shows the hall's formal entrance, with its decorative stonework and tiled floors, as the public would have approached the reading room.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--LC--Int.--Misc.; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135970 |
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