Views of the Library of Congress,1930-1940(?)

Views of the Library of Congress, 1930-1940(?)

Title: Views of the Library of Congress, 1930-1940(?)
Date Created/Published: ca. 1930-ca. 1940.
Summary: Photographs show aerial views of the Adams Building site, and views made during and after construction of the Adams Building, architectural details, views of the Main Reading Room, and other reading rooms, bookstacks, permanent and temporary exhibits, and photographic copies of important manuscripts. Includes views of a branch of the U.S. Government Printing Office in the Library of Congress; copies of drawings by Paul Cret of the proposed Hispanic Room, designs by Lee Lawrie for the Adams Building doors, and drawings and floor plans for the Library of Congress Jefferson and Adams buildings; empty bookstacks in the Adams Building; murals, mosaics, statues, and the Gutenberg Bible; musical instruments in the Archive of American Folk Song; the Coolidge Auditorium, the shrine of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution; heads of various Library of Congress divisions and staff members at work; portraits of several Librarians of Congress. Also includes views of the Senate Chamber, the Marble Room in the U.S. Senate, and the President's Room in the Senate wing of the Capitol, the Supreme Court building and the library of the Department of State (1931).
Notes: Volumes variously titled 'Library of Congress: A Photographic Representation,' 'Library of Congress: A Collection of Miscellaneous Photographs,' and Library of Congress: Photographs 1939.' Title page of one volume reads, 'Photographs of the Library of Congress, its buildings, exhibits, activities, and personnel, as well as of certain other governmental buildings in Washington. Chiefly from negatives in the possession of Messrs. Harris & Ewing, Horydczak, and Underwood & Underwood of Washington, D.C. Office of the Superintendent of the Reading Rooms, 1939.'
LOT title and other information from catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Photographers: Harris & Ewing, Architect of the Capitol, L. C. Handy, Horydczak, Louden, Louis H. Dreyer, Underwood & Underwood, Hessler Studio, Leet Bros. Buckingham Studio, and W. E. Mair (U.S. Army Air Corps)
Photographs measure , 20 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Transfer; Library of Congress Information Office; 1952.

Subjects: Library of Congress--Buildings--1930-1940.
Library of Congress--Facilities--1930-1940.
Libraries--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940.
Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940.


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