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Identifier: randmcnallywashi00newyo (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Central Stair Hall Library of Congress Page 85 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE 85
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America and AfricaGrand Staircase Library of Congress the elaborate ceiling,and all other ornamentshere, they are modeledin stucco, which islavishly touched withgold. Main Entrance Hall.Its floor is a lovelymosaic of colored mar-bles, surrounding abrass-rayed disk show-ing the points of thecompass; and this floor,as elsewhere, is made toharmonize in design andtint with the remainder of the decoration. The farther (east-ern) wall is broken by a noble Ionic doorway, fonning a sort oftriumphal arch, whose entablature is inscribed with the namesof the builders; it admits, by a passage described elsewhere,to the public reading-room, and the carved figures by (Warner)on its arch personify Study: On the left a youth eager to learn,on the right an aged man contemplating the fruits of knowledge.Overhead, the hall is open to the roof, 72 feet above. Allof the sculpture is the work of Philip Martiny. On the grandstaircases, nude figures of infants and elves, represent by theirsymbols some art, i

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