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Libraries push back against cuts to a federal library support program Apr. 17, 2025, 5:39 AM ET (Federal News Network)

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James Hadley Billington
American librarian
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
A pioneering librarian
Belle da Costa Greene
American librarian and bibliographer
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
S.R. Ranganathan
Indian librarian
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect
Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Leland, John
John Leland
English antiquarian
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Sir Anthony Panizzi, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Anthony Panizzi
Italian librarian
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Portrait of Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Church of S. Marcello, Rome, by Carlo Fontana, c. 1683
Carlo Fontana
Italian architect
Naudé, Gabriel
Gabriel Naudé
French librarian
Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey
American librarian

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