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Identifier: washingtonournat01wash (find matches)
Title: Washington, our nation's capitol
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: (Washington, D.C., J. G. McCrorey & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ENTRANCE PAVILION. SOUTH HALL—CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARYThis hall has been sumptuously decorated with paintings illustrating Poetry by H. O. Walker. A large tympanum at the east end represents the Muse of Lyric Poetry. Six paintings present ideals of youthful subjects derived from Emerson, Wordsworth, Milton. Keats, Shakespeare and Tennyson.idealized in the arch in the wall. In the mosaic ceiling are the names of twenty immortal poets from Theocritus to Longfellow. Joy and Memory are
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ENTRANCE PAVILION, EAST HALL—CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARYThe Evolution of the Book is the subject of the decorations in this hall and it has been wonderfully treated by the master hand of John W. Alexander. The ideais worked out in a series of six panels illustrating respectively, the Cairn. Oral Traditions, Hieroglyphics, the Pictograph, the Manuscript and the Printing Press.The ceiling decorations are emblematic of the arts and sciences with the names of Americans who have earned fame in one or the other.

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  • bookcollection:americana
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