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Identifier: randmcnallycospi1903rand (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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oras box was opened, and all the ills of the world let loose. The inscription is: To the souls of fire, I, Pallas Athena, give more fire;And to those who are manful, a might more than mans. 7. Theseus, who had killed the Minotaur and rescued Ariadne from Crete, is hereabout to desert her on the island of Naxon at the command of Minerva. 8. Achilles discovered by Ulysses at the court of the King of Scyros, where he had been sent by his mother to grow up among the women in order to keep him from the dangers of war. Beneath it are the lines from Byrons Childe Harold : Ancient of days, august Athena, where are thy men of might, thy grandIn soul? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were. 9. Hercules in the guise of a woman spinning for Omphale, Queen of Lydia. The House Reading-room, opening from this corridor, is exclusively for the useof members of the House of Representatives. No apartment in the library, remarks Mr. Herbert Small, is more lavishly and sumptuously orna-
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The floor Represent-ativesReading:-room. MANTEL IN HOUSE READING-ROOM.Mosaic Panel, History, by Frederick Dielman. mented,is darkquar-teredoak;t h ewall s have a dado ofheavy oak panelingabout eleven feethigh ; and the deepwindow arches arefinished entirely inthe same material.Above the dado thewalls are hung witholive green silk.The ceiling isbeamed and pan-eled, and is finishedin gold and colors,with painted dec-orations in the pan-els, and encrustedconventional orna-ment in cream whitelong the beams.Over the three doorsare carved oak tym-panums, by Mr.Charles H. Niehaus,comprising two de-signs— the first ofa central cartouche 56 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. bearing an owl, and supported on either side by the figure of a seated youth; theother, the American Eagle flanked by two cherubs. At either end of the room is amagnificent mantel of Siena marble. Over the fireplace is a large mosaic panel byMr. Frederick Dielman, representing at one end of the room, Law, and at the other.Hi

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