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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress stands as one of America's most magnificent public spaces. Completed in 1897, this octagonal room rises 160 feet to an ornate dome featuring Edwin Howland Blashfield's painting 'Human Understanding' surrounded by allegorical figures representing countries that have contributed to human knowledge. The reading room features massive red marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals, bronze statues representing fields of knowledge, and three tiers of bookstacks encircling the central space. Designed-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building features an ornate Beaux-Arts interior with marble staircases, decorative putti sculptures, and elaborate ceiling work. Completed in 1897, the building represented an unparalleled national achievement and was considered the 'largest, costliest, and safest' library in the world at the time. The hall contains works by nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, including Philip Martiny's putti figures on the grand staircase and Elihu Vedder's mosaic of Minerva.-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building features an ornate Beaux-Arts interior with marble staircases, decorative putti sculptures, and elaborate ceiling work. Completed in 1897, the building represented an unparalleled national achievement and was considered the 'largest, costliest, and safest' library in the world at the time. The hall contains works by nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, including Philip Martiny's putti figures on the grand staircase and Elihu Vedder's mosaic of Minerva.-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building features an ornate Beaux-Arts interior with marble staircases, decorative putti sculptures, and elaborate ceiling work. Completed in 1897, the building represented an unparalleled national achievement and was considered the 'largest, costliest, and safest' library in the world at the time. The hall contains works by nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, including Philip Martiny's putti figures on the grand staircase and Elihu Vedder's mosaic of Minerva.-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building features an ornate Beaux-Arts interior with marble staircases, decorative putti sculptures, and elaborate ceiling work. Completed in 1897, the building represented an unparalleled national achievement and was considered the 'largest, costliest, and safest' library in the world at the time. The hall contains works by nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, including Philip Martiny's putti figures on the grand staircase and Elihu Vedder's mosaic of Minerva.-stock-foto
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WASHINGTON DC — The Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building features an ornate Beaux-Arts interior with marble staircases, decorative putti sculptures, and elaborate ceiling work. Completed in 1897, the building represented an unparalleled national achievement and was considered the 'largest, costliest, and safest' library in the world at the time. The hall contains works by nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, including Philip Martiny's putti figures on the grand staircase and Elihu Vedder's mosaic of Minerva.-stock-foto
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USA, District of Columbia. Library of Congress, interior of the Reading Room-stock-foto
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Statue above Main reading room in The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library with more than 167 million cataloged items, and the nation's-stock-foto
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Statue above Main reading room in The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library with more than 167 million cataloged items, and the nation's-stock-foto
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Statue above Main reading room in The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library with more than 167 million cataloged items, and the nation's-stock-foto
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Statue above Main reading room in The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library with more than 167 million cataloged items, and the nation's-stock-foto
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Ceiling in the main foyer of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA-stock-foto
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The magnificent interior of the historic Main Reading Room in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room at the Library Of Congress in Washington DC.-stock-foto
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The Main Reading Room in the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Kent along the balustrade. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. View of statue representing Science, by John Donoghue, on the column entablature between two alcoves. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. View of statue representing Poetry,, by John Quincy Adams Ward, on the column entablature between two alcoves. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Plato along the balustrade. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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North Reading Room, east wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the characters in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Interior detail below owl above door to center reading room on fifth floor. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Interior detail from double doors at ends of corridor in front of entrance to center reading room. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Interior detail. Appears on walls of reading rooms and above doors on fifth floor. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Entrance Hall. Bronze medallion with profile of James Madison, by Robert Alexander Weinman (above doorway to Manuscript Reading Room). Library of Congress James Madison Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Elevator lobby on west side (2nd street side) of fifth floor. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. Detail of stained glass window inside alcove. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. Detail of paired column capitals. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Main Reading Room. Detail of sculpture showing a cartouche supported by two seated female figures just below the dome. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Librarian's Room. Architectural ornamentation. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Lobby to Main Reading Room. Peace and Prosperity mural by Elihu Vedder. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto
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Lobby to Main Reading Room. Government mural by Elihu Vedder. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.-stock-foto