Book/Printed Material Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together with a summary account of gifts received from the public in the past forty years,
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- Date: 1939
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Image 2 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together …- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 3 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together …- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 4 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … ADDITIONS OR OTHER CHANGES FROM REPRINTED IN MARCH 1939 WITHOUT rP THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30 1938- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 5 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Some Notes on the Library of Congress ee oer Nel RK ROW Oie OREESS HeAvR Citing lO G Heh riety heeayVele lett mee GaNeNCARY ACCOUNT OFSGINIES RECEIVED RROM feel Week UO BE…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 6 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … AUVUGIT AUVAdMSHEAVHS WAOTOI AHL GNV ONICTING LYNOD AWAUdAS GHL ONIGTING NIVW AHL OL NOILVIAU SLI NI SSHAYDNOO AO AUVUGIT AHL JO XANNV FHL- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 7 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … SOME NOTES ON THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AS A CENTER OF RESEARCH TOGETHER WITH A SUMMARY ACCOUNS OF GIFTS RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC ING tt Mes Loe rad YoY eae Tue Liprary…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 8 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … at Columbia It aroused in him an ambition to trace the develop ment from earliest times of irrigation and flood control in China and to discover if he might the dominant tendencies…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 9 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … the works which Dr Chi had found especially helpful Still another scholar an American lately returned from China came to trace out the evidences through the centuries of deforestation in Shansi His…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 10 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … The collections of the largest library in the world with their five and a half million books and over seven million manuscripts maps prints and pieces of music are the magnet that…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 11 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … great democratic institution of letters the Library of Congress Dr James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America describes it as coming straight from the heart of democracy More than a gen…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 12 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Librarian to accept in the name of the United States gifts and bequests of money intended for immediate disbursement The results of this legislation were soon to be seen During the period…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 13 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Before 1899 there were few gifts of significance The records show hardly more than threea selection of Chinese books presented in the 60s by Emperor Mutsung Tungchih medical and _ historical books…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 14 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Clarke Whittall presented her superb quintet of Stradivari stringed instruments and created an endowment to ensure their use in an annual series of concerts They are not therefore as some music lovers…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 15 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … The gifts of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell the Pennell and PennellWhistler collections were unique in both range and purpose In leaving his entire estate for the endowment of the Division of…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 16 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Louisiana Purchase Exposition and in 1908 in appreciation of the action of the United States in remitting a very considerable part of the Boxer Indemnity sent to the Library in care of…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 17 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … which give the contents in detail The incunabula which Mr Thacher brought together are notable for their number for the presses they represent and for the rarities they comprise The early Americana…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 18 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … EAST END RARE BOOK ROOM- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 19 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … WEST END RARE BOOK ROOM- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 20 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Between one and two million manuscript letters and documents have been thus far presented to the Division of Manuscripts Impor tant among them are the Presidential papers When this inflow of gifts…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 21 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … with related original material and will accordingly be doubly useful to scholars Among those represented by the papers thus received are many members of the Senate and House of Representatives two families…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 22 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … published in Madrid about 1820 There is a copy in the library at HarvardWhere may one find the second part of William Turners Herball published in 1562 There is a copy in…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 23 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Librarya project for the development of Indic studiesis now being executed with the support of the Carnegie Corporation And to give another illustration of this tendency the collection of rotographic reproductions of…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 24 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … an organization for inquiry and research In its own development the Library of Congress has come to have a Faculty not of teachers but of the consultants and other specialists whose function…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 25 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Totals of the several collections 18981938 Books Maps Music Prints 932 094 50 195 199 894 59 908 957 056 52 181 277 465 70 823 995 166 55 717 294 070…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 26 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … The Library of Congress Endowments and Gifts of Money for Immediate Disbursement 192538 Application Aeronautics department Chair of Aeronautics___ Acquisition of material 51000 and Interim service 14000 American History dept Acquisition of…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 27 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … The Library of Congress Endowments and Gifts of Money for Immediate disbursement 192538Continued Year For Direct BS adleis Application Source of Re Applica Endowments Bndow ceipt tion ments Music Development of music___…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 28 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … THE ACT OF CONGRESS CREATING Hiner BRARY OF CONGRESS RUST FUND BOARD Public No 54168th Congress 48 Stat 1107 Recommended unanimously by the Joint Committee on the Library passed both Houses by…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 29 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … board may from time to time determine The income as and when collected shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States who shall enter it in a special account to…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 30 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … Sec 5 Gifts or bequests to or for the benefit of the Library of Congress including those to the board and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all Federal taxes Src…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 31 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … PORMPOE GLE OR BE OUCH Sie 1 Cae bt LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A Of material To the United States of America to be placed in the Library of Congress and administered therein…- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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- Date: 1939
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Image 33 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together …- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 34 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together …- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
- Date: 1939
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Image 35 of Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together … feos é- Contributor: Slade, William Adams - Library of Congress
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- Date: 1939
About this Item
Title
- Some notes on the Library of Congress as a center of research, together with a summary account of gifts received from the public in the past forty years,
Names
- Library of Congress
- Slade, William Adams, 1874-1950
Created / Published
- [Washington] U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1939.
Notes
- - "Reprinted, in March 1939, without additions or other changes, from the Annual report of the librarian of Congress for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1938."
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 29 p. illus. 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Z733.U57 Z 1939
Library of Congress Control Number
- 39007578
Online Format
- online text
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