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Main Reading Room, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, [1980].
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Mural painting, Hispanic Reading Room, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, [1980].
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Ambrotypes and tintypes from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.
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