Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2006 archive
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This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2006. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris houses a library and a museum (image details)
Photo credit: taken on 8 October 2004 by Florian Schütz
Facade of the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey. (image details)
Photo credit: taken September 2004 by Michi (Michi)
Thousands of books smoulder in a huge bonfire as Germans give the Nazi salute during the wave of book-burnings that spread throughout Germany in 1933. (image details)
Photo credit: International News Photos., 1933. US Archiv ARCWEB, ARC Identifier: 535791. Post-work: commons:User:W.wolny
Sogi by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, October 1892. From the Thirty-six Ghosts series. 9.25" x 14.25". The print depicts Sogi, priest and poet, writing a couplet for a ghost. (image details)
Image credit: Public Domain.
Night view of Jerwood Library (built in 1998), Trinity Hall College in England. (image details)
Photo credit: Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 20 October 2005.
The ogre from Hop o' My Thumb illustrated by Gustave Doré. (image details)
Illustration credit: Gustave Doré.
The lion statues at the New York Public Library, with a mantle of snow during the record December 1948 snowfall. (image details)
Photo credit: from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-NT-609K-20, Pictures of the American City, #51
