[Two sailors reading in a library with boats painted on the wall, Minorca, Spain]

[Steel stairs warped by intense heat from burned book stacks, Asano Library, Hiroshima]

[People walk and stand outside a library that advertises books from America, Hanover, Germany]

Sylvia Beach

[View of Piazzetta San Marco with Marciana National Library and Loggetta at base of bell tower, Venice]

Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

[Students standing in hallway next to a display case, Joan of Arc Catholic School, New York]

[Arturo Toscanini playing piano in his home. In the library case are the death masks of Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi, Italy]