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Brief History of the Library of Congress FURTHER READINGCole, John Y. For Congress and the Nation: A Chronological History of the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1979. Cole, John Y. Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1993. Cole, John Y. "A National Monument for a National Library: Ainsworth Rand Spofford and the New Library of Congress, 1871-1897, Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1971-1972. Ed. by Francis Coleman Rosenberger. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1973. Cole, John Y. "Smithmeyer & Pelz: Embattled Architects of the Library of Congress," Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 29: (October 1972): 282-307. Hilker, Helen-Anne. Ten First Street Southeast: Congress Builds a Library, 1886-1897. Washington: Library of Congress, 1980. "Madison Building Dedication Set for April 24." Library of Congress Information Bulletin 39 (April 18, 1980): 129-133.
Nelson, Josephus and Judith Farley. Full Circle: Ninety Years of Service in the Main Reading Room. Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. Reynolds, Charles B. The Library of Congress and the Interior Decorations. Washington: Foster & Reynolds, 1897. Roberts, Martin. "The Annex of the Library of Congress." Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937, pp. 354-357. Scott, Pamela and Antoinette J. Lee. Buildings of the District of Columbia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Small, Herbert, comp. Handbook of the New Library of Congress. Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1897. Includes essays on "Architecture, Sculpture and Painting" by Charles Caffin, and on "The Function of a National Library" by Ainsworth Rand Spofford. A revised edition, published under the title The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration, edited by Henry Hope Reed, was published by W.W. Norton in 1982. Walter, Emily L'Oiseau. A Complete Collection of the Quotations and Inscriptions in the Library of Congress. Eleventh Revised Edition. Baltimore, 1930. TABLE
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