Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill...
Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Thursday
September 28, 2023
10:30 am -
11:30 am
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Main Reading Room
The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill...
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
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Main Reading Room
The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Friday
September 29, 2023
11:00 am -
3:30 pm
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Mahogany Row A (LJ-113)
This one-day display includes cloth manuscript wraps and covers from Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Hmong embroidered cloth story maps, fabric swatch books from Japan, and manuscripts depicting the labor of textile production.
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill...
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill...
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
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Main Reading Room
The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill...