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Bookbinding Office in the Congressional Library, 1919-1920

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Artifact Overview

This photograph from the early 1920s shows one of the bookbinding rooms in the Library of Congress. In these rooms--hidden on the library's lower floors--bookbinders repaired old and worn volumes. They also bound newspapers and created durable library works from books and pamphlets with flimsy paper covers. Not an easy task for one of the world's largest repositories of recorded knowledge.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

1922

Subject Date

1919-1920

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

91.98.668

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford R. Bryan.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 6.5 in
Width: 8.5 in

Bookbinding Office in the Congressional Library, 1919-1920