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Reading Room, Library of Congress, c. 1880s.

In the beginning, the Library of Congress was a small, tidy operation.

It began in 1800 with the purchase of 740 books from a London bookseller and fit nicely into a room in the Senate wing of the original Capitol Building.

Over the next few years, its holding grew to 3,000 volumes.

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