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Image Title: North Reading Room, West Wall. Detail Of Mural By Ezra Winter Illustrating The Characters In The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer. Library Of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C., 2007

Creator: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer

Date: 2007.

Summary: Photograph shows right half of the mural. According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "... the clerk of Oxenford, reading his beloved classics; the manciple; the sailor; the prioress; the nun; and three priests." (Source: On These Walls by John Y. Cole. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995, p. 79).

Subjects: Library of Congress John Adams Building (Washington, D.C.)--2000-2010

Original Media: Photograph

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