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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 (13)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionGRAND STAIRCASE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Folger Shakespearian Library, Washington, D.C. (1)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Library of Congress
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionLIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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
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
Mosaic Mantel in the Law Representatives Reading Room at the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "MOSAIC MANTEL.-By Frederick Dielman. Representatives Reading Room. LAW, a woman of radical countenance and wearing the aegis, is enthroned upon a dais. At her feet are doves of peace, the bound volume of the statutes, and the scales of justice. She holds a palm branch toward Truth with her lilies, P...
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.
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.
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.
Reading Room in Rotunda, Library of Congress
Image | 1901 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
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
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
Folger Shakesperian Library
Image | 1937 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was mailed July 21, 1937.
White House Library
Image | 1984 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionFirst government building to be constructed in Washington. Home of all U. S. Presidents, excepting George Washington, who approved the design of James Hoban. The recently restored LIBRARY is a cheerful room in the classical style of the early 19th century." Postcard was mailed. No postmark.
Central Stair Hall, Library of Congress
Image | 1900 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
Library of Congress (2)
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.
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionNo caption on the back. Postcard was never mailed.
Library of Congress (17)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionStudy" By Charles S. Pearce, Library of Congress.
Library of Congress
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionMain Stair Hall, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Library of Congress
Image | 1951 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Washington, D. C., containing 2000 windows, and considered the best lighted library in the world, this building of Italian Renaissance architecture is located near the nation's Capitol Building across from the Supreme Court Building." Postcard was mailed July 8, 1951.
Minerva in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back 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 steel, and border of twisted serpents; and at he...
Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON. Justly celebrated as the culmination of architectural achievement of the day, was completed in 1897 at a cost of $6,000,000. The Library is here seen from the Capitol. The dome and lantern are finished in black copper, with panels gilded with a thick coating of g...
The Printing Press in the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "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." Postcard was never mailed
Court of Neptune at the Library of Congress
Image | 1916 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPart of Souvenir Folder of Library of Congress (ALA0004969). Caption reads: "COURT OF NEPTUNE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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." Postcard was never mailed
The window of the Seven Ages of Man at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Image | 1930 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington. Administered by the Trustees of Amherst College - The window of the Seven Ages of Man by the D'Ascenzo Studios. Photograph by William Rittase" Postcard was never mailed
The Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Image | 1932 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington. Administered by the Trustees of Amherst College - Interior of the theatre, view from the stage. Photograph by Horydczak" Postcard was never mailed
The Fountain at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Image | 1932 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionCaption on the back reads: "The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington. Administered by the Trustees of Amherst College - The Fountain, with the figure of Puck by Brenda Putnam. A Midsommer Nights Dreame, Act III, Scene 2. 'Lord, what fooles these mortals be!' Photograph by Horydczak" Postcard was never mailed
Library of Congress (5)
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 (9)
Image | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionU. S. Capitol, Library and house Office Building from an aeroplane, Washington D. C.

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