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The White House, Library, Washington, D.C.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "The White House Library, recently restored and redecorated, is a cheerful and inviting room in the classical style of the early 19th century. The room is furnished with a set of caned furniture made by Duncan Phyfe. The crystal chandelier was once owned by the family of James Fenimore Cooper." Postcard was never mailed.
Folger Shakespearian Library, Washington, D.C. (3)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, Administered by the Trustees of Amherst College, The Second Street Faade, the fountain, and the figure of Puck by Brenda Putnam, Photography by William Rittase
Congressional Library, Washington, D. C.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCongressional Library, Washington, D. C.
Melpomene in the Congressional Library
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "MELPOMENE. - By Edward Simmons. MELPOMENE, Muse of Tragedy, has the tragic mask. The genii hold laurel crown and brazier of fire. From Practical Guide Library of Congress." Postcard was never mailed
Boy of Winander in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "BOY OF WINANDER, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE BOY OF WINANDER - BY H. O. WALKER. There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs / And islands of Winander! - many a time, / At evening, when the earliest stars began / To move along the edges of the hills, / Rising or setting, would he stan...
Melpomene in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "MELPOMENE.-By Edward Simmons. MELPOMENE, Muse of Tragedy, has the tragic mask. The genii hold laurel crown and brazier of fire. From Practical Guide Library of Congress." Postcard was never mailed
Ganymede in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "GANYMEDE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. TENNYSON-GANYMEDE. When Jupiter came down to earth, to seek a successor to Hebe as cupbearer to the Gods, he took the form of an eagle, and flying over Mount Ida, saw the Trojan Prince Ganymede, whom he carried off to Olympus. Tennyson in his 'Palace ...
Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress, The World's Most Beautiful Building, Washington, D.C.
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionHolds 11 postcards inside folded like an accordion, with two images per postcard (front and back). Also contains captions for each postcard. Postcard images are scanned and listed from ALA0004957-ALA0004968. Souvenir Folder was never mailed.
Library of Congress (15)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionENTRANCE HALL, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Library of Congress
Image | 1915 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the front reads: "Congressional Library, Washington, D.C." Postcard was never mailed.
South Hall of Entrance Pavilion, Library of Congress
Image | 1900 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
Religion. Library of Congress
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionReligion By Charles S. Pearce. Library of Congress.
Library of Congress and House Office Building
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "This view of the Library of Congress and House Office Building from Dome of the U.S. Capitol is looking southeast and give the stranger to the Capitol City, an idea of the artistic plan of the treatment, instituted by Major L'Enfant, the great French engineer, who laid out the city at the solicitation of George Washington." Postcard was never mailed.
Library of Congress
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionMain Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Oral Tradition.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionOn front: Oral Tradition. Evolution of the Book Series. On back: Oral Tradition, by John W. Alexander. Mural Painting in the Library of Congress. Washington, D. C. The Oriental story-teller, relating his tale to a group of absorbed listeners.
Court of Neptune
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionOn front: Court of Neptune; In front of Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. On back: The Bronze Fountain by Hinton Perry, in front of the Library of Congress, Washington, represents the Court of Neptune, with conch-blowing tritons, sea nymphs, sea horses, serpents, frogs, and turtles.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY. East Capitol and 2nd Streets. This important addition to the cultural wealth of the nation was the gift of the late Henry C. Folger. The collection includes more than 70,000 volumes, as well as pictures and other relics of the great poet's life and work. The library has a $10,000,000 endowment fund, administered by the ...
Congressional Library
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed
Reading Room in Rotunda, Library of Congress
Image | 1901 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
Lyric Poetry in the Library of Congress
Image | 1913 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "LYRIC POETRY, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. POETRY.-By H. O. Howard. In Lyric Poetry the central figure is an idealization of the Muse, laurel-crowned and striking the Lyre. She is attended by Passion with arm upraised responding to the strains. Beauty, and Mirth, Pathos with eyes raised to heaven, Truth, and Devotion with bowed head." Postcard was never m...
Library of Congress (3)
Image | 1912 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard Collectionand the cresting of the dome terminates in a gilded finial representing the torch of Science ever burning.
Library of Congress (4)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionLibrary of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Library of Congress (8)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionLibrary of Congress and Annex, Washington D. C.
Endymion at the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "KEATS-ENDYMION. By H. O. Walker. The story runs that from her silver chariot of the moon, Diana beheld the shepherd boy Endymion asleep upon Mount Latmos; and enamored of his beauty, descended to press a kiss upon his lips. Night after night in her course across the heavens, the goddess paused to ca...
Library of Congress (1)
Image | 1912 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard Collectionand the cresting of the dome terminates in a gilded finial representing the torch of Science ever burning.
The Pictograph in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "THE PICTOGRAPH, BY JOHN W. ALEXANDER, MURAL PAINTING IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Pictograph, or picture writing, by which the primitive American Indian records on the painted buffalo robe his rude story of the war trail and the chase." Postcard was never mailed
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
The Printing Press.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionOn front: The Printing Press. Evolution of the Book Series. On back: The Printing Press, by John W. Alexander. Mural Painting in the Library of Congress Washington, D. C. Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, is reading a proof which has just come from the press.
Folger Shakespearian Library, Washington, D.C. (5)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionThe Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, Administered by the Trustees of Amherst College, The Stage of the Shakespearian Theater, Photograph by Horydczak
Library of Congress (6)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard Collectionand the cresting of the dome terminates in a gilded finial representing the torch of Science ever burning.
Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., Second Story View, Showing Vedder's "Minerva.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionLibrary of Congress, Washington, D. C., Second Story View, Showing Vedder's "Minerva.
Library of Congress (16)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionREADING ROOM, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Library of Congress (18)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionRELIGION, BY CHARLES S. PEARCE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Library of Congress, South Hall of Entrance Pavilion
Image | 1900 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on back. Postcard was never mailed.
International Eastern Star Temple Library
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed
Minerva in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "MINERVA, the Goddess of Wisdom. MOSAIC.-By Elihu Vedder. She is here portrayed as displaying a scroll held in her left hand, upon which is insribed [sic] a list of the Sciences, Arts and Letters. In her right hand she carries her spear; upon her breast is the aegis, with its Gorgon's head, plates of...
Library of Congress Reading Room
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "READING ROOM, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Central Rotunda is the Reading Room. It is of impressive proportions and rich in materials of construction and adornment-" Postcard was never mailed
Library of Congress Grand Staircase
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "GRAND STAIRCASE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. One of the two marble staircases in the Central Stair Hall. The rich carvings are by Martiny, who designed also the Bronze Lamp Bearers of the newel posts." Postcard was never mailed
Hall of Columns in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "HALL OF COLUMNS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Hall of Columns of the Library of Congress, Washington, is in stateliness of design and richness of decoration, the culmination of the architectural achievement of America." Postcard was never mailed
Folger Shakespearian Library, Washington, D.C. (1)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, D. C.

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