Library of Congress, the Great Hall
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, January 18, 2010 at 1/18/2010 02:39:00 PM.
The Jefferson Building contains some of the richest public interiors in the US and is a compendium of the work of classically-trained American sculptors and painters of the "American Renaissance", in programs of symbolic content that exhibited the progress of civilization, personified in Great Men and culminating in the American official culture of the Gilded Age.
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It's a strange building, though, don't you think? I bit like a bunker at times, and quite labyrinthine. There are a series of tunnels that connect everything, and you can see carts of books and glimpses into the long conveyor belts that transport books.
If you get a reader card in the Madison Building you can poke around in the tunnels. It's an interesting contrast.