Top of page

Archive of all 205 Posts

Marble Lost and Found: The Numidian Marble of the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Lewis Wyman

This is a guest post by Clinton Drake, a reference librarian in the History & Genealogy Section of the Researcher Engagement & General Collections Division of the Library of Congress. “In the form of your building, color bears much the same relation as it does to the human form; it distinguishes the living from the dead,” …