In this aerial view you can see the Thomas Jefferson Building and to the right, the John Adams Building of the Library of Congress. To the left of the Adams Building is the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 1897, three of the four interior courtyards of the Jefferson Building have been filled. The east courtyards have become bookstacks; the southeast bookstack was completed in 1910, the northeast in 1927. The northwest courtyard is occupied by two special structures: the Coolidge Auditorium, built in 1925 for chamber music recitals and a gift of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and the Whittall Pavilion, given to the Library in 1938 by Gertrude Clarke Whittall to house five Stradivarius instruments she donated to the Library.

Carol Highsmith, the distinguished photographer, has comprehensively photographed the interior of the Thomas Jefferson building and along with much of her other work, has donated them to the Library of Congress.

Medium : 1 color tiff file

Created/Published : 2007

Creator : Carol Highsmith, photographer, 1946 -

Forms part of the Carol Highsmith Archive and is housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Product #: highsm01913E