THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, established 150 years ago in Washington, D.C., by the United States Congress, started with a small appropriation “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” Nucleus of the present collection was the purchase in 1815 of the 6,000-volume library of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. Today the library contains more than 30,000,000 books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and other pieces of material. The photograph shows the library’s main reading room with ranges of study tables.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1950, Page 3
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90THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, established 150 years ago in Washington, D.C., by the United States Congress, started with a small appropriation “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” Nucleus of the present collection was the purchase in 1815 of the 6,000-volume library of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. Today the library contains more than 30,000,000 books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and other pieces of material. The photograph shows the library’s main reading room with ranges of study tables. Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1950, Page 3
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