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Title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Library and Information Services
Publisher: Library of Congress
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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Fivepersons. Repairer and mounter from the Government Print-ing Office. Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, chief. Created by appropriation act effective July 1, 1897. This division deals with engravings, etchings, photograv-ures, photographs, lithographs, typogravures, and all othermaterial which is the product of the graphic arts or of thefine arts generally, including any original paintings ordrawings which may be in the possession of the Library,except as such material may be in form or nature appropriateto the custody and service of other divisions (e. g., a photo-graph of a map, just as a manuscript map, would be in thecustody of the Map Division). Its functions with reference to such material are analogousto those expressed in the case of the Manuscripts and otherspecial divisions. It has also the special selection and careof the exhibits (whether of prints, of books, or of manu-scripts) that occupy the two curtains and the two pavilions(rooms G4,C4,S4,R4) on the western side of the build-
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Division of Prints. 269 Clas sifica- TION. ing, second floor, and at present part of the south curtain(room Q 4) also. The collection of prints while at the Capitol was in muchthe same embarrassment as the collection of music; analo-gous work was requisite to reduce it to order. At the timeof removal it included about 55,000 items; during the pastfour years 50,000 have been added. These were (in part) tobe stamped, accessioned, classified, catalogued, and madeavailable in response to demand and in selected exhibits. The prints are now broadly grouped according to form andin part according to subject. Those having artistic value(e. g., the etchings and engravings) have been separatedand specially protected. With the remainder, when sortedas photographs, lithographs, etc., the effort has been to dis-tinguish and make readily available what may have histor-ical, biographical, or topographical interest, or be instructiveas examples of processes. In the way of permanent equipment the divis

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