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Date April 24, 1800 - present
Areas Of Involvement map • manuscript • legal deposit • book • score • library science
Related People James Hadley Billington • Carla Hayden • Archibald MacLeish • Oscar Sonneck • Herbert Putnam

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Preliminary drawing for a mural in the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress by Cândido Portinari, 1941.
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Uncover America's past at the Library of Congress, the world's largest library
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