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Thank you for this, I added it to her Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Beecher Also I think her name is spelt CATHARINE

Those are little books in those drawers. The drawers are labeled with LOC codes (you guys should have figured that out :-) In that column you can see BV4581 - BV Practical Theology - Christianity - Christian life BX2150 - BX Christianity - Liturgy and ritual The drawer he has pulled out is I - which I don't see on your current classification list, and the one supporting it is H-Social Sciences. The little book he's holding from the I shelf is called "Alphabet Book"

Evening Star. March 26, 1939, Page D-2, Image 40, column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1939-03-26/ed-... has a section on the fad for miniature books. It mentions Mr. Parma as a curator in the Library of Congress Rare Book Division. Evening star. November 22, 1936, Page F-8, Image 66, column 6, near top, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1936-11-22/ed-... mentions V. Valta Parma , saying, "For 10 years Mr. Parma has been associated with these treasures in the Library of Congress; for the last two years the new wing has been his domain." So presumably, this photo was taken in the Adams Building en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_Building which opened to the public on January 3, 1939. www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9516/dime.html notes, that "V. Valta Parma, was the first curator of the Rare Book Reading Room, from 1927 to 1939."

Some of his papers are at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Finding Aid at contentdm6.hamilton.edu/digital/collection/arc-fia/id/35/ V. Valta Parma (Pratt, Albert Houghton), 1878-1941 (Papers and Collection of Thomas Lake Harris Materials) Content described in accession record is "V. Valta Parma and Brotherhood of the New Life -- now in Special Collections. Correspondence, poems, manuscripts, publications, photographs, ephemera: Contains personal and professional letters to V. Valta Parma, born Albert Houghton Pratt, Hamilton College class of 1901; scrapbooks of articles on Parma and his exhibitions at the Library of Congress. The majority of the collection consists of: Thomas Lake Harris' personal letters from his family; professional letters and documents regarding the Fountain Grove vineyards; photographs of Harris; publications and manuscripts of Harris' sermons, expository and creative writing. 8/2018 All Thomas Lake Harris materials removed to become its own collection in the Communal Societies special collections; only the Parma papers retained in the Archives (Box 1, folder 1 added to the materials in Box 2)." The Harris & Ewing collection has another photo of Parma: www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hec/item/2016873248/

More on Parma in A Collection of Value: Mass-market Paperbacks at the Library of Congress by Clark Evans and Colleen Stumbaugh cool.culturalheritage.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v17/bp17-...

Albert Houghton Pratt (1878-1941) who used the pseudonym V. Valtra Parma while at the Library of Congress. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59879471

nla.gov.au/nla.obj-443859322/view?sectionId=nla.obj-47772... - this pic appeared in Pix on 15th January, 1944...in a feature article on the State Library of NSW...