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![Heads famous Shakespearean library at Washington A new and interesting camera study of Mr. William Adams Slade, director of the beautiful Folger Memorial Shakespeare Library at Washington, where the priceless Shakespeare collection of the late Henry M. Folger, former president of the Standard Oil Company, will be exhibitted [sic]. Mr. Slade is photographed at his desk in the Library, which is located near the Capitol and Library of Congress at Washington.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzEvMDEvMDEvaGVhZHMtZmFtb3VzLXNoYWtlc3BlYXJlYW4tbGlicmFyeS1hdC13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWEtbmV3LWFuZC1pbnRlcmVzdGluZy1jYW1lcmEtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Heads famous Shakespearean library at Washington A new and interesting camera study of Mr. William Adams Slade, director of the beautiful Folger Memorial Shakespeare Library at Washington, where the priceless Shakespeare collection of the late Henry M. Folger, former president of the Standard Oil Company, will be exhibitted [sic]. Mr. Slade is photographed at his desk in the Library, which is located near the Capitol and Library of Congress at Washington.")
$2,500,000 in rare books acquired for Folger Library. Washington, D.C., May 14. The Folger Shakespeare Library, here, will soon place on it's shelves 9,000 volumes, onced valued at $2,500,000 and containing 787 books by early English authors, only one copy of each of which is known to exist. The 9,000 books were printed in England up to the end of 1640, roughly from the reign of Henry the 8th to the Cromwell Revolt, a period preceding and following Shakespeare. They deal largely with historical and religious subjects. The books were purchased from Lady Harmsworth, widow of the collector by President Stanley King, of Amherst College, the trustees of which administer the Folger Library. Dr. Giles E. Dawson, reference librarian is checking over some of the columes, 51438
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A man in a suit is reading a book in a library, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
William Shakespeare books and illustrations
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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Date
01/01/1938
Location
district of columbia
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
