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[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: People seated at tables reading books in the House Reading Room] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: People seated at tables reading books in the House Reading Room] — historic photograph
[Library of Congress. Congressional Reading Rooms: People seated at tables reading books in the House Reading Room]. 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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Readers sit at long tables in the House Reading Room, one of the congressional reading rooms set aside for members of the House of Representatives and their staff. The Library of Congress built these spaces to give lawmakers quiet access to its collections while they worked on legislation, a purpose that shaped the room's layout of open tables and shelves of reference works. The card accompanying the photograph gives no date, but the scene reflects the long tradition of reading rooms in the Library's main building in Washington, D.C., where research and public service have been closely linked.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Washington, D.C.--LC; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,201 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127815

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