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Library of Congress, Processing Department, card revision room – Antique Wall Art

Library of Congress, Processing Department, card revision room, [between 1890 and 1930] — historic photograph
Library of Congress, Processing Department, card revision room, [between 1890 and 1930]. 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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A window into the past: Library of Congress, Processing Department, card revision room, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Library of Congress, Processing Department, card revision room

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Few images show the Library of Congress's cataloging operations as directly as this view of the card revision room in the Processing Department. Staff in rooms like this checked, corrected and updated the catalog cards describing new acquisitions before they were filed. The Library began selling printed catalog cards to other libraries in 1901, which made this kind of careful revision work central to its national role. The photograph, dated somewhere between 1890 and 1930, captures a time when the card catalog was the main way readers found books.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,256 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148187

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