#{ washington library. }

[fitsofgloom]

Godzilla sez, "Stay In School, Kids, Because Learning Is SHEEEEEEEOOOOOONNNK!": A very inventive Godzilla little free library, Spokane, Washington.

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The Library of Congress, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[thedeadpoets-blog]

it’s sleepy hollow season 🎃🌲🍂

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Seattle Public Library//2017

[pixierainbows]

“Did you know that the Washington Assistive Technology Act Program (WATAP) offers individuals the chance to borrow an assistive technology device to help them decide what device will work best for them before purchasing. WATAP will ship devices anywhere in Washington state for a 21-day borrow period.

To learn more about the program and qualifications visit https://watap.org/loan “

[lionofchaeronea]

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! (frontispiece from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1899

[diemelusine]

Hand-tinted photograph of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1903) by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress.

[copperbadge]

[ID: An architectural model standing on a wooden plinth; the model has cut-away walls and funky windows, and shows four floors of a large public building with tables, shelves, chests of drawers, stairs and escalators, etc. including tiny models of people going up the stairs.]

The Harold Washington Library Center or HWLC as we call it (I always say "HWLC!" like I'm a viking about to recite an epic poem) is a massive nine-storey library in downtown Chicago, and it's also my local library. I've been going there lately some evenings to write without being harassed by cats. The Royals And The Ramblers really should be dedicated to the Harold Washington Library.

ANYWAY, on the eighth floor they have an exhibit off in a corner of models of rejected designs for the library. Above you can see one of them, but if something looks a little off, it did to me too. It turns out that the glue holding the ceiling tiles of the model in place has begun to fail, and a terrible structural collapse has struck.

OH THE HUMANITY! Someone rescue that poor woman! That dude on the right nearly got his head taken off! THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THE STAIRS! SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!

[ID: The second image is a close-up of the main stairs of the model, which shows a number of ceiling tiles have fallen to the ground. Some have knocked over a woman who lies among them; others block peoples' way, or lean precariously over them while balanced on railings. It looks actually very convincingly like the model of a real disaster.]

[travelella]

Suzzallo and Allen Libraries, Seattle, Washington, USA

Cameron Stewart

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The Pillars of Madison

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The Library of Congress, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[selcouthdiaries]

I blame this for my unrealistic idea of love

[psychacademic]

Suzzallo library is a perfect dark academia structure at the University of Washington, also called Harry Potter Reading Room 📖🍂

[lunearobservatory]

And are the gay furry hackers here at the table with us tonight?

Washington state slowly raises his hand.

[dix-a-la-proprietaire]

Glass

[eopederson]

Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, early evening, summer 2013.

The longer I live in the DC area, the more this becomes my single favorite building! It represents much of what is the best in American culture.