Thomas Jefferson Sculpture main reading room Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal

this fine handmade glass paperweight depicts an image of one of the most historical documents created of early America

Smith of the Library of Congress wrote in 1998

Clara Schumann

Thomas Jefferson Sculpture main reading room Josephine BakerThomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (18011809). He sold his collection of books (almost 6500 volumes) to the government to form the nucleus of the Library of Congress before promptly beginning to purchase more volumes for his final library. Noting the irony, Jefferson famously told John Adams that I