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The Library of Congress : a tour in words and pictures by Kurt Salomon Maier is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Two hundred years ago, the Library of Congress—America's oldest national cultural institution—was founded as a small room with 740 books, later adding Thomas Jefferson's personal library.<br> <br> Today, the Library of Congress is the largest book palace in the world with nineteen million volumes <br> in three buildings, and more than ten Web sites. The Library's collections include the papers of twenty-three presidents; manuscripts from Booker T. Washington, Walt Whitman, Irving Berlin, and numerous other eminent Americans; the diaries of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Other treasures include rare books dating as far back as the fifteenth century, maps, movies, television and radio broadcasts, even the earliest known baseball cards.<br> <br> Kurt S. Maier has worked at the Library of Congress for over twenty years, in the History and Literature Cataloging Division and as an on-call tour guide. His love for and knowledge of the Library of Congress inspired him to put together this tour in words and pictures. The book is in response to the variety of questions he has been asked while leading
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kurt Salomon Maier
- Publisher
- New York: Gramercy Books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780517162491
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Computer Science, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14