Palace Longchamps, Marseilles, France.

Mix tapes aren't desirable, but a fair amount of music is only available in cassette tape form, or cassettes have the best-available copy of a work.

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

Old Harbor (Vieux-Port), Marseille, France, with Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in background.

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

Photo by U.S. Secret Service via Library of Congress #2022676748

The Packard Campus including quite a lot of material in the process of being entered into digital catalogs before it heads into conservation, the archives, or digitization.

The Cannabiere (i.e., Cannebière) and the Bourse, Marseilles, France.

A large portion of this area is the donated archives of NPR.

It's not Raiders of the Lost Ark, but the hallway under Mount Pony of temperature controlled vaults stretches on.

Looking down from Mount Pony at Culpeper, Virginia.

"8/7/36: Swing That Music: Louis Armstrong with Jimmy Dorsey and his orch."

For when the Librarian comes to visit the Packard Campus.

section of Library of Congress

www.loc.gov/item/2008677180/

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

A table in the offices has material across the entire range of film production, including printed copies of films (Edison had negatives printed to copyright them before copyright covered films!), and a modern encrypted hard drive used in theaters with digital projection.

A colorized version of Franklin Roosevelt as a photographer

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

Enhanced photo from the Flickr Faces of the Civil War collection from the Library of Congress. See the original at www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5228564551/in/a... Since the original file size is quadrupled, you can click on this shot for more detail.