Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, 1943
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944), sitting at his desk.
Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library III
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Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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![[Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam, reading at his desk in the Library of Congress]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTEvbGlicmFyaWFuLW9mLWNvbmdyZXNzLWhlcmJlcnQtcHV0bmFtLXJlYWRpbmctYXQtaGlzLWRlc2staW4tdGhlLWxpYnJhcnktb2YtMzJjMTZjLTEwMjQuanBn/40/33/webp "[Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam, reading at his desk in the Library of Congress]")
[Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam, reading at his desk in the Libr...
Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris, 25 May to 25 November 1937 (Report of the Librarian... More
Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library I
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Dr. Henry W. Berg Room, at Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St., New ...
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Dorothy Porter, 6270, Washington DC
Photograph shows Dorothy B. Porter, an African American librarian and curator at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, probably at the Library of Congress. Title and date devised by Library Pu... More
![[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjcvbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy1zdGFmZi13b3JraW5nLWF0LWRlc2tzLWFuZC1sb25nLXRhYmxlcy1hMTQ3OGItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]")
[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]
Photograph shows people working at long tables piled with cards, probably catalog cards, and desks with a card catalog at the far end of the room.
Jewish children listening to A Legend of the Northern Lights (N. Ameri...
Photograph showing a librarian telling an Ojibwa legend to a roomful of children at the Queens Borough Public Library. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2008:111.02
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Portrai...
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Photograph of Luther Harris Evans, June 18, 1945
Luther Harris Evans taking the oath of office as Librarian of Congress on June 18, 1945.
American Library Association, New Monterey Hotel, Asbury Park, N.J., J...
Gift; Dorsey W. Hyde; March 11, 1963. On verso: "Duplicates of this photograph supplied at $1.00 each, order by the number, Cole & Co., Asbury Park, N.J.". No. 534-L.
Portrait of Verner W. Clapp, undated
Verner W. Clapp, Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress (1947) and Acting Librarian of Congress (1953-54).
20th annual convention of the Special Libraries Ass'n, May 21-23rd, Wa...
Photo shows librarians posed at the White House with President Calvin Coolidge standing in center of front row. (Source: Charley Seavey, 2012) They're on the South Lawn in front of the portico. (Source: Jurrett... More
Dr. Henry W. Berg Room, at Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St., New ...
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![[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December, 1991]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5OTEvMDEvMDEvbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy1zdGFmZi1tZW1iZXJzLWluLWZyb250LW9mLXVzLWNhcGl0b2wtZGVjZW1iZXItMTk5MS0xLTEwMjQuanBn/40/13/webp "[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December, 1991]")
[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December,...
Purchase; Central Photo Co., Inc.; December, 1991. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photograph by James Ivey. Photographer's address: 317 H Street N.E., Washington, D.C., 20002. Pe... More
Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian and the 14th Librarian of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2018; (DLC/PP-2002:038-14) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Arch... More
Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, undated
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944), sitting at his desk.
![[Foreign & other delegates, 50th anniv., A.L.A.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjYvMDEvMDEvZm9yZWlnbi1hbmQtb3RoZXItZGVsZWdhdGVzLTUwdGgtYW5uaXYtYWxhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/14/webp "[Foreign & other delegates, 50th anniv., A.L.A.]")
[Foreign & other delegates, 50th anniv., A.L.A.]
Purchase; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); June 19, 1927; DLC/PP-1927:47122. Title derived from P&P accession records. No. 3538.
American Library Association, New Monterey Hotel, Asbury Park, N.J., J...
Gift; Dorsey W. Hyde; March 11, 1963. On verso: "Duplicates of this photograph supplied at $1.00 each, order by the number, Cole & Co., Asbury Park, N.J.". No. 534-L.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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![[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjcvbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy1zdGFmZi13b3JraW5nLWF0LWRlc2tzLWFuZC1sb25nLXRhYmxlcy1lYTEyMzMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]")
[Library of Congress staff working at desks and long tables]
Photograph shows people working at long tables piled with cards, probably catalog cards, and desks with a card catalog at the far end of the room.
![[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvam9obi1ydXNzZWxsLXlvdW5nLWhlYWQtYW5kLXNob3VsZGVycy1wb3J0cmFpdC1mYWNpbmctc2xpZ2h0bHktbGVmdC01NzhmYTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/52/webp "[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]")
[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left...
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Portrait of Archibald MacLeish, undated
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December, 1991]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5OTEvMDEvMDEvbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy1zdGFmZi1tZW1iZXJzLWluLWZyb250LW9mLXVzLWNhcGl0b2wtZGVjZW1iZXItMTk5MS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/15/webp "[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December, 1991]")
[Library of Congress staff members in front of U.S. Capitol, December,...
Purchase; Central Photo Co., Inc.; December, 1991. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photograph by James Ivey. Photographer's address: 317 H Street N.E., Washington, D.C., 20002.
![[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvam9obi1ydXNzZWxsLXlvdW5nLWhlYWQtYW5kLXNob3VsZGVycy1wb3J0cmFpdC1mYWNpbmctc2xpZ2h0bHktbGVmdC01NzU4NDctNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/51/webp "[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]")
[John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left...
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Portrait of Luther Harris Evans, undated
Luther Harris Evans, Librarian of Congress (1945-1950). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress
Published in: New York times magazine. [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times, January 19, 2017. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2017:081
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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Portrait of America. No. 106. Vassar - A famous American college for w...
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Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, undated
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944), sitting at his desk.
![A valuable invention for booksellers, librarians, clergymen and reading-men. Ive's book brace ... [New York 185-M].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTAvMDEvMDEvYS12YWx1YWJsZS1pbnZlbnRpb24tZm9yLWJvb2tzZWxsZXJzLWxpYnJhcmlhbnMtY2xlcmd5bWVuLWFuZC1yZWFkaW5nLW1lbi1pdmVzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "A valuable invention for booksellers, librarians, clergymen and reading-men. Ive's book brace ... [New York 185-M].")
Librarians feeding large sheets of paper through a machine at the Card...
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Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library II
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Librarian Putnam at Sesquicentennial reception, 4241950
Photograph shows Librarian Emeritus Herbert Putnam (left) in the recieving line at a reception in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress which was part of the Library's sesquicentennial celebr... More
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, Bro...
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Staff in Main Reading Room, 5991
Photograph shows Library of Congress staff in the Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Title and date devised by Library Publishing Office staff.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 12, ...
Archibald MacLeish suggests to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that he consider Julian Boyd of Princeton University as the next Librarian of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 28, 1939
Archibald MacLeish, writing to Franklin D. Roosevelt, declines the position of Librarian of Congress.
Letter from Felix Frankfurter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 11, 1939
Letter commends Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice of Archibald MacLeish as a qualified candidate for Librarian of Congress.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Portrai...
Item title devised. 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 1910s to th... More
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
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Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library III
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 13, ...
Archibald MacLeish sends a confidential letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he suggests candidates for Librarian of Congress.
Portrait photo of The Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy
Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 28, 1939
Archibald MacLeish, writing to Franklin D. Roosevelt, declines the position of Librarian of Congress.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Librarians and patrons in the circular main reading room of the Librar...
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Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library I
Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 13, ...
Archibald MacLeish sends a confidential letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he suggests candidates for Librarian of Congress.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian and the 14th Librarian of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2018; (DLC/PP-2002:038-14) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Arch... More
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, June 9, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt responds to Archibald MacLeish's wish to resign.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Photograph of Luther Harris Evans, June 18, 1945
Luther Harris Evans taking the oath of office as Librarian of Congress on June 18, 1945.
Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, 1943
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944), sitting at his desk.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 28, 1939
Archibald MacLeish, writing to Franklin D. Roosevelt, declines the position of Librarian of Congress.
Portrait photo of The Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy
"WH" and "Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021361. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library II
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Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States Senate, Jun...
A facsimile of Franklin D. Roosevelt's memorandum nominating Archibald MacLeish as Librarian of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Felix Frankfurter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 11, 1939
Letter commends Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice of Archibald MacLeish as a qualified candidate for Librarian of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Felix Frankfurter, May 15, 1939
Photocopy of Archibald MacLeish's letter to Felix Frankfurter explaining why MacLeish is reluctant to accept President Roosevelt's offer of the directorship of the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Felix Frankfurter, May 15, 1939
Photocopy of Archibald MacLeish's letter to Felix Frankfurter explaining why MacLeish is reluctant to accept President Roosevelt's offer of the directorship of the Library of Congress.
Portrait of Archibald MacLeish, undated
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1939-1944).
Letter from Felix Frankfurter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 11, 1939
Letter commends Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice of Archibald MacLeish as a qualified candidate for Librarian of Congress.
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Felix Frankfurter, May 3, 1939
Franklin D. Roosevelt's letter to Felix Frankfurter asking if Archibald MacLeish is a good choice as the Librarian of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 6, 1945
Archibald MacLeish offers additional names for candidates for Librarian of Congress to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Librarians working with catalog cards in the Processing Department of ...
Photograph shows librarians, mostly women, in large room with alphabetized drawers of catalog cards; 1917 Red Cross poster by Hayden Hayden hangs on the wall.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
General Order No. 992, Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress, O...
General Order announcing the appointment of Luther Harris Evans as Chief Assistant Librarian.
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, July 20, 1944
President Franklin D. Roosevelt writes to Archibald MacLeish about a possible candidate for the next Librarian of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
"What Reference Librarians Can Further Do to Help Our American Democra...
Report by Luther Harris Evans on reference librarians and library services at the Library of Congress.
Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Felix Frankfurter, May 15, 1939
Photocopy of Archibald MacLeish's letter to Felix Frankfurter explaining why MacLeish is reluctant to accept President Roosevelt's offer of the directorship of the Library of Congress.
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, June 9, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt responds to Archibald MacLeish's wish to resign.