library: Quick Facts

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British Museum: Reading Room

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Library of Congress

Moscow: Russian State Library

Parliament of Canada: Library of Parliament

National Diet Library

Puebla, Mexico: Palafox Library

New York Public Library

McKim, Charles Follen: Boston Public Library

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Key People

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James Hadley Billington

American librarian

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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Austrian architect

Walter Netsch

Walter Netsch

American architect

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H.H. Richardson

American architect

A pioneering librarian

Belle da Costa Greene

American librarian and bibliographer

Bacchus

Jacopo Sansovino

Italian sculptor

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S.R. Ranganathan

Indian librarian

Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia

Juan O’Gorman

Mexican architect and muralist

Oil painting of Sir Anthony Panizzi

Sir Anthony Panizzi

Italian librarian

Arata Isozaki

Arata Isozaki

Japanese architect

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Archibald MacLeish

American author, educator, and public official

Leland, John

John Leland

English antiquarian

Hunt, Richard Morris

Richard Morris Hunt

American architect

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

McKim, Charles Follen

Charles Follen McKim

American architect

Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey

American librarian

Naudé, Gabriel

Gabriel Naudé

French librarian

Putnam, Herbert

Herbert Putnam

American librarian

Lincoln Memorial dedication

Henry Bacon

American architect

Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.

Gordon Bunshaft

American architect

Books. Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Byron. Poetry. Reading. Literacy. Library. Antique. A stack of four antique leather bound books.

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