. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. forerunners of the Book, the later developmentsof which are depicted opposite. Picture-writing, the firststep above carved hieroglyphics, is illustrated by an AmericanIndian painting some tribal record upon a skin; the nextadvance is shown by the figure of a monk, sitting by a windowof his cell, laboriously illuminating some sacred book in thedays of the Middle Ages; and lastly the rise of modern methodsappears in a scene inthe shop of Gutenberg,the first printer, whostands examining aproof sheet, while anassistant looks on andan appre
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. forerunners of the Book, the later developmentsof which are depicted opposite. Picture-writing, the firststep above carved hieroglyphics, is illustrated by an AmericanIndian painting some tribal record upon a skin; the nextadvance is shown by the figure of a monk, sitting by a windowof his cell, laboriously illuminating some sacred book in thedays of the Middle Ages; and lastly the rise of modern methodsappears in a scene inthe shop of Gutenberg,the first printer, whostands examining aproof sheet, while anassistant looks on andan apprentice works thelever of a primitivehand press. These areamong the most pop-ularly interesting pic-tures in the library, andare accompanied by thenames of Americans (allborn in the UnitedStates) distinguished inarts and sciences, thespecialty of each twodenoted by the pendentives ofthe ceiling are inscribedLatrcbs and Walter (architecture); Cook ^. , p, N«^h Corridor J r>iT / 1 First Floor, Library of Congress and billiman (natural Page 92. 90 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE
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