Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of Congress
Author: Library of CongressParrots Over Puerto Rico
Author: SUSAN L. ROTHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781643790817
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction. Also available in Spanish.
America's Greatest Library
Author: John Young ColePublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Capital Drawings
Author: Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs DivisionPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801872324
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
American Libraries 1730-1950
Author: Kenneth A. BreischPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393731606
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for discovery, and its form is still determined by the geometry of the book and the architectural spaces devised to store and display it. American Libraries provides a history and panorama of these much-loved structures, inside and out, encompassing the small personal collection, the vast university library, and everything in between. Through 500 photographs and plans selected from the encyclopedic collections of the Library of Congress, Kenneth Breisch traces the development of libraries in the United States, from roots in such iconic examples as the British Library and Paris's Bibliotheque-Ste.-Genevieve to institutions imbued with their own American mythology. Starting with the private collections of wealthy merchants and landowners during the eighteenth century, the book looks at the Library of Congress, large and small public libraries, and the Carnegie libraries, and it ends with a glimpse of modern masterworks.
Library Of Congress
Author: John Y ColePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045635
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
At the turn of the century, Herbert Small, a newspaperman, wrote a guide to the building and its decoration. His text, edited by Henry Hope Reed, is reproduced here. It is preceded by introductory essays by historian and Librarian of Congress Emeritus Daniel J. Boorstin and noted writer Brendan Gill. The planning and construction of the building are detailed in John Y.
Third Library of Congress Building
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89-20. Considers H.J. Res. 446 and 6 related bills, to build a third Library of Congress building to be named the James Madison Memorial Building.
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Author: Joy HarjoPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
Reading Early American Handwriting
Author: Kip SperryPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806308463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.