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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week comes from the Library’s collection of American church, club, and community cookbooks. The picture featured is the cover of the 1889 Cooks in Clover: Reliable Recipes, compiled by the Ladies of the North Reformed Church (Passaic, New Jersey). This cookbook is “dedicated to their husbands and gentlemen friends.” Selections from …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features a detail from the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer featured in a mural in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Are you ready for some football? This week’s Pic of the Week comes from the Library’s Prints and Photographs collection and features a photograph taken during the first Super Bowl game. The Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs battled it out at the Los Angeles Coliseum January 15, 1967- with the Packers claiming victory …
Posted in: Pic of the Week, Sports
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog features an owl statue in the Science and Business Reading Room in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features a period lamp in the vestibule of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Have you ever seen a Revolvator?It is a portable elevator or tier machine from the early 20th century. The ceilings in the Science and Business reading room are around 35 ft, so when a light bulb needs to be replaced or the ceiling needs to be patched up, the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) breaks …
Posted in: Inventions, John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
What is the view from the 5th floor of the Adams Building looking west? See here.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
As you walk through the main center door of the Science and Business Reading Room, you see the Book Service Desk straight ahead. Because the Library’s books stacks are closed to the public, this is where researchers turn in paper call slips to retrieve items from the General Collections and pick up delivered items. Thousands …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We decided to follow the lead of our Law Library colleagues at In Custodia Legis with a Picture of the Week series. In this series we will show you interesting things we see in and around the Library of Congress John Adams Building. With that said, our first photo features one of the John Adams Building owls that greets vistors …
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