Today in history
Subtitle: January 30
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Library; Library of Congress
Other titles: January 30
Description: On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating the funds to purchase Thomas Jefferson's library of 6,487 volumes to replace the 3,000-volume Library of Congress destroyed when the British burned the U.S. Capitol in 1814. The scope of Jefferson's collection and information on the Library's bicentennial celebrations of 1999-2000 are described.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

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