biblioteca

look at the man pointing at the camera with his gun :P

I'm curious. Why is the man standing in front of the Library wearing a top hat, tails & Fancy dress trousers? That would be formal evening wear. Who is he & what party was interrupted. My guess is that he was a follower of neither Emilio Zapata nor Pancho Villa.

I think the two men at left are in prison garb, and the man at right is in guard's or warder's uniform.

When looking at the associated photograph www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3109284623/in/set-721576109675...

I wondered why they were flicking the dust onto the books carefully laid on the ground, but now I see that they are using a type of vacuum device with a brush head.

We can see the hose attached to the head, and extending behind the men at right.

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

I seldom see dust in libraries. Is that mainly because of ventilation systems? Or do they still literally dust the shelves?

This image has been used in Rob Ketcherside's indicommons.org 'Across the Commons' post Clean Up Yer Mess. (When I worked in libraries, we read the shelves, but I don't think we every dusted them.)

This is Carol M. Highsmith. Every detail in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building is worth photographing. I had the honor of taking images in the Great Hall over a period of two years. It seemed like every time I turned around in the building I saw another view that represented the great detail the artisans created when they worked on this interior.