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Modern Marvels
1993
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Modern Marvels
The Real National Treasure 16 Season 18 Episode
44 min
1993
8.7
Where in Washington D.C. is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the worldโthe U.S. Library of Congress. Explode the myth that this 200-year-old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books." Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them priceless treasuresโfrom George Washington's hand-written diaries to Galileo's first images of the moon to the original camera film of the movie Frankenstein. See how a staff of 4,000 catalogues protects and preserves these treasures and distributes them globally via a new World Digital Library.
