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The Library of Congress is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. It
Main reading room in the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress
A series of photographs depicting the construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building between 1888 and 1894
The Library of Congress, then located in the Capitol Building in 1853
Library of Congress in the Capitol Building in the 1890s
The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, i
The 1823 facsimile of Timothy Matlack's engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration
The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, a 1900 portrait by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicting Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration