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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

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e national repository, and is to thecountry what the British Museum is to Great Britain and the Biblioth&queRationale is to France. It was founded in 1800, when the seat of governmentwas moved to Washington. In 1814 it was burned by the British soldiers, itshome being then in the Capitol, which… … GREAT GROWTH OF LIBRARIES 169 20.000 volumes were again destroyed by an accidental tire. In 1852 it wasrefitted, the government appropriating $75,000 for the purpose. On therestoration of its halls in the Capitol, in fire-proof form, it began to growrapidly in volumes. In 1866, it received the…

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