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of Congress - Collections
Buildings - Librarians - Further
Reading - Concordance
CONCORDANCE OF IMAGES
Copies of the images from the Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History
of the Library of Congress may be ordered from the Library of
Congress Photoduplication Service (see Price
List for Photographic Products). The images are listed below
in the order in which they appear in the guide.
Cover
The Great Hall in the Jefferson Building
of the Library of Congress. (Photograph by Reid Baker)
Preface
The volume in the foreground is a work by sixteenth-century
master architect Andrea Palladio.
The Library of Congress, 1800-1992
The Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress
A researcher stands under the dome of the
Main Reading Room of the Jefferson Building
This Charleston Mercury broadside
of December 20, 1860
Ulysses S. Grant (Photograph by Mathew Brady)
Confederate General Robert E. Lee (Photograph
by Mathew Brady)
By 1890, books and mail bags were piled high
in the Library quarters in the Capitol.
Magna Carta, printed in gold letters with
watercolor initials in London in 1816.
The photograph shows that space occupied by
the Law Library when it was located in the Capital.
Among the important steps in its construction was the
placing of the keystone in the southwest clerestory arch
Battle of the Fish, a hand-colored woodcut, is by
German Master Max Ernst (1891-1976).
Daniel Hopfer (flourit 1490-1536) created this
engraving of three musicians on horseback.
Copyright deposits in the first Library of
Congress building in 1897, waiting to be sorted, counted, and classified.
James Madison took these notes at the Constitutional
Convention in 1787.
Russian military and civil law books including
an ornate pink volume that probably belonged to Catherine the Great
One of three perfect copies of the Gutenberg
Bible, shown in detail
Collection of items celebrating the genius
of John Philip Sousa, America's beloved March King
In September 1944, Librarian of Congress Archibald
MacLeish, center, joined Reference director David C. Mearns and Verner
W. Clapp, director of the Acquisitions Department in examining Thomas
Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.
The Collections
Map of North America engraved by Dutch map
publisher Cornelius de Jode in 1578
The rendering of Cattleya Labiata is
from Conrad Loddiges & Sons' The Botantical Cabinet,
"The Cathedral and the Leaning Tower of Pisa"
In the 1880s, Photoglob of Zurich developed
a prize-winning technique for adding color to black-and-white negatives
and these are some of the results.
Mongolian Buddhist Sutra dating from the eighteenth
century
Title page from Benjamin Franklin's Experiments
and Observations on Electricity
Colorful map of the United States showing
railroads conversing on Wichita, Kansas, from ten cities around the
country.
A Landsat map of Salt Lake City
The cylinder recording of the voice of Kaiser
Wilhelm II given to the Library in 1904.
Pastel watercolor wall plaque depicting the
holy cities of the Holy Land -- Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, and
Safed
Title page from Chapter Five of Fray Diego
Duran's La Historia Antigua de la Nueva España
A page from William Blake's Europe, A
Prophecy
A page from the fifteenth-century folio edition
of Anicius Boethius's great work De Consolatione Philosopiae
Photographer Arnold Genthe's portrait of author
Pearl Buck
A page from a draft of Walt Whitman's "O Captain!
My Captain!
Walt Whitman in his sitting-room in Camden,
N.J., where he lived the last eight years of his life
Physiological alphabet developed by Alexander
Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell, his wife and son, attend
the 1907 opening of Bell's tetrahedral tower
The Buildings
Court of Neptune Fountain in front of the Jefferson
Building
A stairway in the Great Hall of the Jefferson
Building
This drawing of the old Congressional Reading
Room by W. Bengough appeared in Harper's Weekly on February
27, 1897.
The heart of the Main Reading Room in the
Jefferson Building before renovation
The renovation of the Jefferson Building,
undertaken in stages, is shown in progress.
The bronze doors of the Adams Building
The North Reading Room on the fifth floor
of the Adams Building
The northern lunette in the South Reading
room of the Adams Building dedicates the room to Thomas Jefferson.
Statue of James Madison in the memorial hall
on the first floor of the Madison Building
The Madison Building
Librarians of Congress
George Watterson
John Silva Meehan
John G. Stephenson
Ainsworth Rand Spofford
John Russell Young
Herbert Putnam
Archibald MacLeish
Luther H. Evans
L. Quincy Mumford
Daniel J Boorstin
James H. Billington
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Reading - Concordance
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