Library of Congress--Interior--Great Hall showing Minervia mosaic – Vintage Wall Art
![Library of Congress--Interior--Great Hall showing Minervia mosaic, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe56c3331f39-L.webp)
(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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Library of Congress--Interior--Great Hall showing Minervia mosaic comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Library of Congress--Interior--Great Hall showing Minervia mosaic
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Few features of the Library of Congress draw the eye like the Minerva mosaic in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building. Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was a fitting emblem for a national library, and the figure was built from glass tesserae made in Venice as part of the building's decorative program. The Jefferson Building opened in 1897, and its marble halls and mosaics were meant to present learning as a public achievement. The caption card gives no date, so this view is best read as a general record of the hall's interior.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Archit.; Mosaics; Mythology--Minerva. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,313 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157259 |
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![[D.C.-Wash.-Library of Congress - official construction photos: 1st floor interior, at Great Hall, Oct. 16, 1894]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7a7fb012c7da-400.webp)