[Letter from Roman Vishniac to President Franklin D. Roosevelt]

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

[John F. Kennedy at groundbreaking ceremony for Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Massachusetts]

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

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

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

[Exhibition poster for Photography in the Princeton University Library from the Pencil of Nature to Camera Work, Princeton University, New Jersey]

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