BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Library of Congress John Adams Bldg

DC -- Library of Congress John Adams Bldg:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LOCADA_150914_004.JPG: The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then and what proceeds from it as they please during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. [Jefferson to James Madison, September 6, 1789. "Usufruct" is the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance.]
2. LOCADA_150914_055.JPG: Educate and inform the mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. [Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787 (first two sentences); Jefferson to P.S. Dupont de Nemours, April 24, 18l6 (last sentence).]
3. LOCADA_150914_074.JPG: The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, that, too, of the people with a certain degree of instruction. [Jefferson to John Wyche, May 19, 1809 (first sentence); Jefferson to George Washington, January 4, 1786 (second sentence).]
4. LOCADA_150914_089.JPG: The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. [Jefferson to Rev. Charles Clay, January 27, 1790]
5. LOCADA_150914_104.JPG: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of god, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposits for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire which otherwise might not escape from the earth. [From Notes on Virginia, 1782]
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Wikipedia Description: John Adams Building
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The John Adams Building is one of three library buildings of the Library of Congress in the United States. The building was originally built simply as an annex to the Library's Main Building (the Thomas Jefferson Building). It opened its doors to the public on January 3, 1939. It is located on Second Street SE between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street in Washington, DC.

History

The idea to construct a new library building was presented to the United States Congress in 1928 at the urging of Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam. The bill was sponsored by U.S. Representative Robert Luce, chairman of the House Committee on the Library. On June 13, 1930, $6.5 million was appropriated for the building's construction, for a tunnel connecting it to the Main Building, and for changes in the east front of the Main Building, including the construction of a Rare Book Room. An additional appropriation approved on June 6, 1935, brought the total authorization to $8,226,457.

Architect of the Capitol David Lynn took charge of the project and commissioned the Washington, D.C. architectural firm of Pierson & Wilson to design the building, with Alexander Buel Trowbridge as consulting architect. The contract stipulated completion by June 24, 1938, but the building was not ready for occupancy until December 2, 1938. The move of the Card Division started on December 12, and it opened its doors to the public in the new building on January 3, 1939.

The building is five stories in height above ground, with the fifth story set back 35 feet (11 m). It contains 180 miles (290 km) of shelving (compared to 104 miles (167 km) in the Jefferson Building) and can hold ten million volumes. There are 12 tiers of stacks, extending from the cellar to the fourth floor. Each tier provides about 13 acres (53,000 m2) of shelf space.

On April 13, 1976, in a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial marking the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, President Gerald Ford signed into law the act to change the name of the Library of Congress Building to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. On June 13, 1980, the structure acquired its present name, which honors John Adams, the former President of the United States who in 1800 approved the law establishing the Library of Congress.

The building is faced in white Georgia marble and incorporated the use of new materials at the time such as acoustical block, formica, vitrolit, and glass tubing.

Bronze Entrance Doors by Lee Lawrie

Commemorating the history of the written word, artist Lee Lawrie sculpted figures into the bronze doors at the west (Second Street) and east (Third Street) entrances.

The figures -- all deities or culture heroes associated with writing -- are:

Hermes, the messenger of the gods
Odin, a Norse/Germanic god and creator of the runic alphabet
Ogma, the Irish god who invented the Gaelic alphabet
Itzamna, a Mayan god of writing
Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of writing
Sequoyah, a Native American who defined Cherokee syllabary
Thoth, the Egyptian god of knowledge, serving as the divine scribe
Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing
Nabu, an Akkadian god of writing
Brahma, an Indian god
Cadmus, the Greek sower of dragon's teeth, and importer of the Phoenecian alphabet
Tahmurath, a Persian hero
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