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LOCGH_191011_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_10_11F3_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (12 photos from 10/11/2019)
LOCGH_190206_005.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (45 photos from 2019)
LOCGH_190206_071.JPG: Agriculture
Education
Mechanics
Commerce
Government
History
Astronomy
Geography
Statistics
Economics
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
Music
Poetry
??ography
Geology
Botany
Medicine
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LOCGH_190206_079.JPG: Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).
LOCGH_190206_092.JPG: Erotica
LOCGH_190206_096.JPG: Giam.Rizzardi
LOCGH_190206_104.JPG: Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.
LOCGH_190206_113.JPG: Tradition
LOCGH_190206_143.JPG: Geology
LOCGH_190206_148.JPG: Mathematics
LOCGH_190206_153.JPG: Physics
LOCGH_190206_157.JPG: Zoology
LOCGH_190206_161.JPG: Chemistry
LOCGH_190206_165.JPG: Astronomy
LOCGH_190206_172.JPG: Botany
LOCGH_190206_176.JPG: Archaeology
LOCGH_190206_180.JPG: Lyrica
LOCGH_190206_192.JPG: Tragedy
LOCGH_190206_194.JPG: Comedy
LOCGH_190206_198.JPG: History
LOCGH_190206_202.JPG: Romance
LOCGH_190206_206.JPG: Fancy (although it looks like "Rancy")
"Fancy" isn't a word we use much anymore in this manner but it's defined as
* imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
* the artistic ability of creating unreal or whimsical imagery, decorative detail, etc., as in poetry or drawing.
LOCGH_190206_215.JPG: Tradition
We're presuming this means folklore and such.
LOCGH_190206_219.JPG: Erotica
LOCGH_170828_04.JPG: Banner is up for the National Book Festival
LOCGH_170408_001_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (47 photos from 2017)
LOCGH_161116_02.JPG: Cleaning the statue
LOCGH_161116_26.JPG: James Billington's term end year has been filled in.
Carla Diane Hayden's name and start year has been added.
LOCGH_160419_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2016_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (90 photos from 2016)
LOCGH_160419_009.JPG: North America and Africa
America is represented as an American Indian, with a tall headdress of feathers, a bow and arrow, and a wampum necklace. With one hand he shades his eyes while he gazes intently into the distance and the future.
Africa is represented with a war club and a necklace of the claws of a wild beast.
The above was from https://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/great-hall/
LOCGH_160419_013.JPG: Putti - Mechanic to Farmer
The figures of little boys on the staircase are known as "putti" in Italian Renaissance art and represent the various occupations and pursuits of contemporary American life when the Jefferson Building was completed in 1897.
The above from https://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/great-hall/
LOCGH_160419_016.JPG: Infant Bacchanalian, with Bachus's ivy and panther skin
LOCGH_160419_056.JPG: Asia and Europe
Asia is represented by a Mongolian figure, dressed in flowing silk robes, the folds of which are delicately rendered in marble. In the background is a dragon-shaped porcelain jar.
Europe is represented with a lyre, book and Ionic column-the three objects symbolizing Music, Literature, and Architecture.
The above was from https://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/great-hall/
LOCGH_160419_087.JPG: Fine Arts
The putti represent the arts of painting, architecture, and sculpture. Painting holds a palette, Architecture, with a Greek temple behind him, grasps a compass and scrolled plan, and Sculpture models a statue.
The above was from https://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/great-hall/
LOCGH_160419_103.JPG: Commemorative Arch
This Commemorative arch by Olin L. Warner (1844-1896) leading to the Main Reading Room commemorates the erection of the Library of Congress. Its sculpture The Students represents the pursuit of knowledge. On the left a young man seeks knowledge through reading. On the right an older man with flowing beard is shown absorbed in meditation, no longer concerned so much with a source of learning because he observes life and engages in original reflection and thought.
In the frieze above them the words -Library of Congress,- are inscribed in tall gilt letters.
The above is from https://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/great-hall/
LOCGH_160419_198.JPG: These men of the Library of Congress
Charles Edwin Chambers
Edward Theodore Comegys
Frank Edward Dunkin
John Woodbury Wheeler
Gave their lies in the World War
1918
LOCGH_160419_276.JPG: These men of the Library of Congress gave their lives in the Second World War
LOCGH_160419_280.JPG: Ganymede (mythology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. He was the son of Tros of Dardania, from whose name "Troy" was supposedly derived, and of Callirrhoe, the daughter of the river god Scamander. His brothers were Ilus and Assaracus. In one version of the myth, he is abducted by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as cup-bearer in Olympus. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals:
[Ganymedes] was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore
the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer,
for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.
— Homer, Iliad, Book XX, lines 233-235.
The myth was a model for the Greek social custom of paiderastía, the socially acceptable erotic relationship between an adult male and an adolescent male. The Latin form of the name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word "catamite" is derived.
LOCGH_160419_286.JPG: Adonis
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Adonis, in Greek mythology, is a central figure in various mystery religions. In 1966, Wahib Atallah wrote that the "cult of Adonis belonged to women", and further asserted "the cult of dying Adonis was fully developed in the circle of young girls around Sappho on Lesbos, about 600 BC, as a fragment of Sappho reveals."
There has been much scholarship over the centuries concerning the multiple roles of Adonis, if any, and his meaning and purpose in Greek religious beliefs. Modern scholarship sometimes describes him as an annually renewed, ever-youthful vegetation god, a life-death-rebirth deity whose nature is tied to the calendar. His name is often applied in modern times to handsome youths, of whom he is the archetype.
LOCGH_160419_294.JPG: Comus
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In Greek mythology, Comus (Ancient Greek: Κῶμος) is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Bacchus. Comus represents anarchy and chaos. His mythology occurs in the later times of antiquity. During his festivals in Ancient Greece, men and women exchanged clothes. He was depicted as a young man on the point of unconsciousness from drink. He had a wreath of flowers on his head and carried a torch that was in the process of being dropped. Unlike the purely carnal Pan or purely intoxicated Dionysos, Comus was a god of excess.
LOCGH_160419_301.JPG: Endymion (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Endymion was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis, and he was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor.
There is confusion over the correct location of Endymion, as some sources suppose that one was, or was related to, the prince of Elis, and the other was a shepherd from Caria— or, a later suggestion, an astronomer: Pliny the Elder mentions Endymion as the first human to observe the movements of the moon, which (according to Pliny) accounts for Endymion's love. As such, there have been two attributed sites of Endymion's burial: the citizens of Heracleia ad Latmo claimed that Endymion's tomb was on Mount Latmus, while the Eleans declared that it was at Olympia.
However, the role of lover of Selene, the moon, is attributed primarily to Endymion who was either a shepherd or an astronomer, either profession providing justification for him to spend time beneath the moon.
LOCGH_160419_307.JPG: The Boy of Winander
LOCGH_160419_314.JPG: Uriel
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Uriel is one of the archangels of post-Exilic Rabbinic tradition, and also of certain Christian traditions.
In apocryphal, kabbalistic and occult works, Uriel has been equated or confused with Urial, Nuriel, Uryan, Jeremiel, Vretil, Sariel, Suriel, Puruel, Phanuel, Jacob, Azrael and Raphael.
LOCGH_160419_323.JPG: The poets who on earth have made us heirs of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays
[William Wordsworth]
LOCGH_160419_362.JPG: Give instruction unto those who cannot procure it for themselves
-- Confucius
LOCGH_160419_374.JPG: Librarians of Congress
John Beckley 1802-1807
Patrick Magruder 1807-1815
George Watterston 1815-1829
John Silva Meehan 1829-1861
John G. Stephenson 1861-1864
Ainsworth Rand Spofford 1864-1897
John Russell Young 1897-1899
Herbert Putnam 1899-1939
Archibald MacLeish 1939-1944
Luther Harris Evans 1945-1953
Lawrence Quincy Mumford 1954-1974
Daniel J Boorstin 1975-1987
James Hadley Billington 1987
LOCGH_141220_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2014_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (3 photos from 2014)
LOCGH_130218_03_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2013_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (14 photos from 2013)
LOCGH_120220_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2012_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (39 photos from 2012)
LOCGH_111010_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2011_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (52 photos from 2011)
LOCGH_100215_004.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2010_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (110 photos from 2010)
LOCGH_100215_030.JPG: Tragedy
LOCGH_100215_034.JPG: Comedy
LOCGH_100215_099.JPG: Baseball
LOCGH_100215_133.JPG: Notice the little gap to the right of the word "Astronomy". I'm guessing they used to have a lighting fixture here.
LOCGH_100215_146.JPG: How charming is divine philosophy
LOCGH_100215_164.JPG: Anarchy
LOCGH_100215_172.JPG: Corrupt Legislation
LOCGH_100215_199.JPG: Football
LOCGH_100215_229.JPG: Musicians
LOCGH_100215_241.JPG: ???
LOCGH_100215_250.JPG: ???
LOCGH_100215_264.JPG: ???
LOCGH_100215_273.JPG: Wrestling
LOCGH_100215_284.JPG: ???
LOCGH_100215_288.JPG: Geology
LOCGH_100215_296.JPG: Mathematics
LOCGH_100215_307.JPG: Astronomy
LOCGH_100215_314.JPG: Botany
LOCGH_100215_317.JPG: Chemistry
LOCGH_100215_345.JPG: History
LOCGH_100215_358.JPG: Lyrica
LOCGH_100215_363.JPG: Tradition
LOCGH_100215_369.JPG: Erotica
LOCGH_100215_376.JPG: Fancy
LOCGH_100215_381.JPG: Romance
LOCGH_090213_014.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2009_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (133 photos from 2009)
LOCGH_080412_009.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2008_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (30 photos from 2008)
LOCGH_070117_009.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2007_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (30 photos from 2007)
LOCGH_060918_017.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2006_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (33 photos from 2006)
LOCGH_051221_013.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2005_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (23 photos from 2005)
LOCGH_040721_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2004_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (16 photos from 2004)
LOCGH_021114_05.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2002_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (12 photos from 2002)
LOCGH_990913_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 1999_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (9 photos from 1999)
LOCGH_970811_03.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 1997_DC_LOC_GH DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall (8 photos from 1997)
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