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The Georgian Collections of the Library of Congress, Part I: Early Works

Posted by: Levon Avdoyan

The Library of Congress was founded in 1800 as Congress’s library, but through the decades it became the de facto National Library of the United States and, ultimately, the largest library in the world. Those of us, however, who deal with foreign languages and scripts in this wonderful institution delight in pointing out that some …