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Author Goodrum, Charles A.

Title Treasures of the Library of Congress / Charles A. Goodrum.

Imprint New York : H. N. Abrams, [1980]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  027.5753 G627t    ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  027.5753 G627t c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306) and index.
Contents Foreword / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Just what is this place? -- The book -- Oklahoma! -- Where in the world are we? -- A fine line -- Master photographers -- "Newe science that men lere" -- Orientalia -- The way our people lived -- Joyful noise -- Give us victories.
Summary When, in 1800, Congress purchased the first volumes for the Library of Congress, no one expected its modest acquisition to grow into a treasure-trove of 76 million objects! Less than one quarter of the collection is bound volumes. The Library also has almost every phonograph record made in the United States, the largest collection of motion pictures in America, more maps, globes, and charts, more Civil War photographs, more Stradivari violins, more handwritten copies of the Gettysburg Address than any other institutution in the world. It has rare books and illuminated manuscripts, photographs, letters from great authors -- objects that make up our national memory. Indeed, the Library of Congress is the world's greatest multi-media encyclopedia.
Subject Library of Congress
ISBN 0810916614 : $50.00

 
    
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