Library of Congress - From the Capitol building to its new headquarters

Time: 1897

Place: Washington D.C., U.S.

Details: It moved from the Capitol building to its new headquarters in 1897 with more than 840,000 volumes, 40 percent of which had been acquired through copyright deposit.

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