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Free to Use and Reuse: Reading--Books, Maps, and More

Where do you like to read? The pictures in this set confirm that you can enjoy reading just about anywhere. You might be walking with a dog, sitting on a crate, rowing a boat, or visiting a library. What you read also ranges widely--from books and scrolls to maps, magazines, newspapers, letters, and computers.

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  Harper's, June. Poster by Edward Penfield, 1897. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Books, the best gift. Poster by Edward A. Wilson, 1927. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Wood hornbook, 18th century. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

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  Map relating to the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. By Kenneth Riley, 1964. Geography & Map Division

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  Reading a salvage book by one of the Salvage men on the salvage truck of the A.T.S. salvage office. St. Nazaire. Photo by American Library Association, 1919. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Woman reading braille. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1931 or 1932. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Explore with books. Book week, Nov. 17-23. Poster by Alice Provensen, 1957. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Free Library of Philadelphia, Passyunk Branch. Photo by Joseph E. Elliot, 2007. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Eight great Kyōka poets. Color woodcut by Gogaku Yajima, 1818-1824. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Man in straw hat seated on milk crate, reading a newspaper written in the Hebrew alphabet, New York City. Photo by Angelo Rizzuto, 1958. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Class learning to read and write, Sikkim. Photo by Alice Kandell, 1963. Prints & Photographs Division

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  The Little Green God of the Library Slip. Poster by Magazine & Book Co., 1910. Prints & Photographs Division

• Book: Little Red Riding Hood. Published by L. Prang, 1863. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

• Religious figure, probably a monk, reading a scroll. Drawing, 1878. Prints & Photographs Division

• It's a whole great big fun thing. Poster by Tomi Ungerer, 1972. Prints & Photographs Division

• Spanish-American farmer reading in living room of his home, Chamisal, New Mexico. Photo by Russell Lee, 1940. Prints & Photographs Division

• Old and young man reading. Sculpture by Olin L. Warner in the Library of Congress Great Hall. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2007. Prints & Photographs Division

• Joshua Sarantitis's mural, "Secret Book," in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sponsored by the Philadelphia Reads program. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2019. Prints & Photographs Division

• A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Florida. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. Photo by Lewis W. Hine, 1909. Prints & Photographs Division

• Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading, Tucson, Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division

• The readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio. Photo by Clarence H. White, 1897. Prints & Photographs Division

• News from home. Civil War drawing by Edwin Forbes, 1863. Prints & Photographs Division

• Young man reading newspaper. Photo by Angelo Rizzuto, 1956. Prints & Photographs Division

• Student with a book on the staircase in the Great Hall, Library of Congress. Sculpture by Philip Martiny. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2007. Prints & Photographs Division

• Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Drawing by Henry L. Stephens, 1863? Prints & Photographs Division

• A Pupil in Pleasant Green School - Pocahontas County, Marlinton, West Virginia. Photo by Lewis W. Hine, 1921. Prints & Photographs Division

• Printing Press mural in Evolution of the Book series. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2007. Prints & Photographs Division

• Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client reading book to her son on swing on her front porch. Photo by Russell Lee, 1939. Prints & Photographs Division

• The Twelve Magic Changelings. By M.A. Glen, 1907. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

• Books, the ideal gift. Poster by Ethel Taylor, 1920-1930. Prints & Photographs Division

• Map of adventures for boys and girls : stories, trails, voyages, discoveries, explorations & places to read about. Map by Paul M. Paine, 1925. Geography & Map Division

• Roy Takeno reading paper in front of office, Manzanar War Relocation Center, California. Photo by Ansel Adams, 1943. Prints & Photographs Division

• The Chap-book. Poster by J.C. Leyendecker, 1890s. Prints & Photographs Division

• Zaravshan okrug. First lessons. Photo, 1865-1872. Prints & Photographs Division

• The Baby's Own Aesop. Illustration by Walter Crane, 1887. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

• Sibyl reading. Chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, after Raphael, 1517 or 1518. Prints & Photographs Division

• Freedman's Village, Alexandria, Virginia. Photo, 1862-1865. Prints & Photographs Division

• Southeast Missouri Farms. Child of sharecropper reading on bed in living room. Photo by Russell Lee, 1938. Prints & Photographs Division

• Map reading while skiing the Haute Route. Photo by Toni Frissell, 1961. Prints & Photographs Division

• I Like Books. Poster by Children's Book Council, Leonard Kessler, 1962. Prints & Photographs Division

• "Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa. Slaves from New Orleans." Photo by Charles Paxson, 1864. Prints & Photographs Division

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish. Illustration by W. W. Denslow, 1899. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

• Three cheers for books. Book Week poster by Adrienne Adams, 1963. Prints & Photographs Division

• Great Depression-era mural in the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates Building, once the Des Moines, Iowa, Public Library. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016. Prints & Photographs Division