Dome
The main reading room in the Library of Congress is as spectacular a space as the rest of the building. Allegorical figures representing the major
contributors to human civilization are painted around the crest of the dome, below the lantern. Tourists can glimpse this great room from a
glass-enclosed viewing gallery in the drum of the dome (where I took this photograph); researchers/scholars can use the room itself.
© Chris Budny
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