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Le convoyeur mécanique transporte le livre à la grande salle de lecture

Le convoyeur mécanique transporte le livre à la grande salle de lectur...

Lantern slide showing the deck attendant placing the book about Napoleon on the conveyor for delivery to the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an ex... More

Département des manuscrits, fonds George Washington

Département des manuscrits, fonds George Washington

Lantern slide showing the bound volumes of George Washington's papers at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts... More

Pequot Library, Southport, Conn.

Pequot Library, Southport, Conn.

Photograph shows empty book shelves. Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Details of hips and skylights]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Details of roof truss, ventilators, and skylights]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Sheet no. 387. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Los Angeles Public Library at  Los Angeles City Hall]

[Los Angeles Public Library at Los Angeles City Hall]

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia University Library, New York City. Snead Standard Stack in one of the third floor seminar rooms (fig. 155)

Columbia University Library, New York City. Snead Standard Stack in on...

Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated. / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iro... More

Livres prèts à prendre, place sur les rayons

Livres prèts à prendre, place sur les rayons

Lantern slide showing books books ready to be shelved at the Library of Congress, including the book about Napoleon.

[Alcoves and gallery in the book room, Brookline Public Library, Brookline Massachusetts]

[Alcoves and gallery in the book room, Brookline Public Library, Brook...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled negative showing photographs stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing photographs stored in the south cellar of th...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37824-D) Negative not titled by FSA/OWI/OEM. Images with neighboring call numbers that are similar in appearance may have titles based on agency captions. To i... More

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Plans and sections]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Sheet no. 386. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Details of hips and skylights]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Congressional Library south book stack

Congressional Library south book stack

Photograph by the L.C. Handy Studio. No. 35. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of entrance front, (fig. 235) ; Rice Hall with attendants' desk, (fig. 236) ; view in first tier of stack room, (fig. 237), Springfield City Library, Springfield, Massachusetts.

View of entrance front, (fig. 235) ; Rice Hall with attendants' desk, ...

Caption continues: Edward L. Tilton, architect, Hiller C. Wellman, Librarian. Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illus... More

Original Gore Hall bookstack, Harvard University - the prototype of the modern bookstack

Original Gore Hall bookstack, Harvard University - the prototype of th...

Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iron ... More

Crowded stacks, 1970, Washington DC

Crowded stacks, 1970, Washington DC

Photograph shows an African American employee of the Library of Congress among crowded book shelves with another employee. Title and date devised by Library Publishing Office staff.

Folger Library interiors. Book room in Harmsworth vault at Folger Library

Folger Library interiors. Book room in Harmsworth vault at Folger Libr...

Public domain photograph of library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Département des littératures orientales

Département des littératures orientales

Lantern slide showing the oriental literature stack area at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techn... More

Washington., D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Washington., D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Main stack room, New York Public Library. View in center of seventh tier, showing stack columns supporting steel beams and terra cotta arch floor of main reading room overhead (fig. 115)

Main stack room, New York Public Library. View in center of seventh ti...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Livres pour les aveugles, lantern slide

Livres pour les aveugles, lantern slide

Lantern slide showing the bookstacks for the blind at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques ... More

"The story of Richmond Hill," mural located in the Richmond Hill Branch Library by Philip Evergood, New York City

"The story of Richmond Hill," mural located in the Richmond Hill Branc...

Photograph shows a 160 square foot mural depicting slightly caricatured figures. The left and lighter side of the mural celebrates the bucolic pleasures of Queens, with citizens making merry (couples dancing in... More

Jefferson building - Library of Congress--Book conveyors

Jefferson building - Library of Congress--Book conveyors

Reference copy in U.S. GEOG FILE - Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Jefferson Building Interior Bookstacks.

Longitudinal section of north stack, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (fig. 4) ; Plan of north stack, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (fig. 5)

Longitudinal section of north stack, Library of Congress, Washington, ...

Illustration shows two projections of bookstacks at the Library of Congress. Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illust... More

L'agent de service prend le livre sur le rayon

L'agent de service prend le livre sur le rayon

Lantern slide showing the deck attendant retrieving the book about Napoleon at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale de... More

Interior, Stack House-Providence Public Library / L. Bodwell.

Interior, Stack House-Providence Public Library / L. Bodwell.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bookstack, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, Washington DC

Bookstack, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, Washington ...

Public domain photograph of library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fifteenth century books, rare book room

Fifteenth century books, rare book room

Lantern slide showing rare book stacks at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques dans la Vie ... More

Le livre en place sur son rayon

Le livre en place sur son rayon

Lantern slide showing books shelved in the stacks at the Library of Congress, including the book about Napoleon. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internat... More

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Details of roof truss, ventilators, and skylights]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Sheet no. 387. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lafayette School, 1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, VA

Lafayette School, 1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg...

2016 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: At the turn of the twentieth century, theories on school design and operation began to garner the attention of reformers. By the first decade of the century,... More

Congressional Library. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Congressional Library. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Handwritten on verso: Damaged by fire at D Street, July 1885. Gift of Detroit Public Library.

Untitled negative showing visual materials stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing visual materials stored in the south cellar ...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37827-D) To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no c... More

Le magasin 48, classe DC, histoire de France

Le magasin 48, classe DC, histoire de France

Lantern slide showing the bookstack (Deck 48) at the Library of Congress where the book about Napoleon is shelved. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Intern... More

Untitled negative showing photographic prints and steropticon views stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing photographic prints and steropticon views st...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37821-D) To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no c... More

University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. Two tier stack suspended from steel roof trusses (fig. 110)

University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. Two tier stack suspen...

Caption continues: Stack ranges 5' 0" on centers. Roof trusses 10' 0" on centers. Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. I... More

Untitled negative showing photographs stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing photographs stored in the south cellar of th...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37824-D) Negative not titled by FSA/OWI/OEM. Images with neighboring call numbers that are similar in appearance may have titles based on agency captions. To i... More

Untitled negative showing visual materials stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing visual materials stored in the south cellar ...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37827-D) To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no c... More

Congressional Library. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Congressional Library. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Handwritten on verso: Damaged by fire at D Street, July 1885. Gift of Detroit Public Library.

Smithsonian stack in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian stack in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled negative showing photographic prints and steropticon views stored in the south cellar of the Library of Congress

Untitled negative showing photographic prints and steropticon views st...

(Source: caption on print of negative in LOT 887, 37821-D) To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no c... More

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. Plans and sections]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Sheet no. 386. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 1...

Stereograph showing people sitting at tables reading, surrounded by books, bookstacks, and shelving in the Library of Congress. No. E.

More than forty miles of shelves, two millions of books, and "of the making ... is no end" / Donald Macbeth.

More than forty miles of shelves, two millions of books, and "of the m...

Photograph shows the book stacks in the reading room of the British Museum library, London, England. Reading room at the British Museum designed by Sydney Smirke. Stamped on verso: "Jan 15 1906."

Folger Library interiors. Book room in Harmsworth vault at Folger Library

Folger Library interiors. Book room in Harmsworth vault at Folger Libr...

Old negative number: 1339-74. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1... More

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 1...

Stereograph showing people sitting at tables reading, surrounded by books, bookstacks, and shelving in the Library of Congress. No. E.

Stack in north curtain - Public domain dedication image

Stack in north curtain - Public domain dedication image

Three people working at table in stacks in north curtain of the Library of Congress.