Reading room, Library of Congress, circa 1919 or 1920

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This file appears in: Library of Congress (Jefferson Building)
Reading room, Library of Congress, circa 1919 or 1920

[Reading room, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C]. [or 1920, 1919] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/npc2008009224/. (Accessed September 08, 2016.)

This file appears in: Library of Congress (Jefferson Building)

Founded in 1880, the original Library of Congress collection included 740 books and three maps. This collection lived in the Capitol until 1814, when invading British troops burned the Capitol and destroyed the library inside it. Former President…