Pic of the Week: All Along the Watch Station
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a blog post about the watch stations found with the John Adams Building.
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Pic of the Week: Now (Re)Opened for Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The cafeteria space in Adams has been spiffed up.
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Pic of the Week: Step Right Up and Don’t Be Shy!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the Business Reference Desk in the Science & Business Reading Room. This is where to find us when you are at the Library if you need help searching for company information, trade data, information on a particular industry, or any other business-oriented topic. But, if you aren’t in the area or can’t come …
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Pic of the Week: Under Construction
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Labor Day weekend starts in a few hours so I thought I would feature a photograph of the Adams Building (then known as the Library of Congress Annex) while it was under construction. Funds for the construction of the building were appropriated in 1930, with an additional appropriation in 1935. It was mentioned in in …
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Pic of the Week: “Educate and inform the mass of the people.”
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Blog post about one of the quotes from the murals in the Science and Business Reading Room in the John Adams Building and features a detail from one mural.
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Pic of the Week: A Great Seal
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s Pic of the Week features a version of the Great Seal of the United States as a floor medallion in the entrance lobby of the Adams Building. It has been slightly modified, but has the requisite 13 stars, olive branches with 13 leaves and 13 olives, and a bald eagle.
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Pic of the Week: Just Outside Adams
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I had a different Pic of the Week post all written up the other day, but I wasn’t really enamored with it. When I stepped outside the Adams Building to go home, the sun was out after a few days of overcast skies, the breeze was gentle, and the temperature was perfect. And then I …
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Pic of the Week: Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Just a photo of a regular library site; a book cart filled with returned books.
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Pic of the Week: Verify Book Number
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Sometimes when I am using material from the collections, I run across items that have been left in the books by earlier researchers. Today’s post features one such item. This is a photo of one of the Library’s old call slips used in what is now the Adams Building. A call slip is the form …
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