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The Library of Congress ( LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. [ 3] Founded in 1800, it is the United States' oldest federal cultural institution. [ 4]
Library of Congress Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination. [40] William Marsh [41] Salt print from glass negative [42] Metropolitan Museum of Art: One of five photographs taken by William Marsh for Marcus Lawrence Ward. Although many in the East had read Lincoln's ...
CDN, Library of Congress images (2 P, 1 F) G. George Grantham Bain collection images (18 F) H. Harris and Ewing collection images (14 F)
The Library of Congress recently released over 1,600 color photos of the Great Depression. The pictures, which were taken during the final years of the Depression, offer a fresh perspective on one ...
The Thomas Jefferson Building, also known as the Main Library, is the oldest of the Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C. Built between 1890 and 1897, it was initially known as the Library of Congress Building. In 1980, the building was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of ...
English: Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. ... (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here.
Paper prints of films were an early mechanism to establish the copyright of motion pictures by depositing them with the Library of Congress. Thomas Alva Edison ’s company was first to register each frame of motion-picture film onto a positive paper print, in 1893. The Library of Congress processed and cataloged each of the films as one ...
The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division comprises approximately 40,000 glass plate negatives and 50,000 photographic prints. Most are scanned and have been made available online. Most date from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but some are as early as the 1860s, and some as late as the 1930s.