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| | The Exterior -The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | They were selected by Librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford and are, from left to right as you stand in front of the building: Demosthenes, Emerson, Irving, Goethe, Franklin, Macaulay, Hawthorne, Scott and Dante. |
 | | They were carved by Herbert Adams, Jonathan Scott Hartley and Frederick W. Ruckstull. |
 | | Finally, in front of the building, pay a last homage to King Neptune, the Roman god of the sea and the brother of Minerva, and his court in the Neptune Fountain, which was sculpted by Roland Hinton Perry. |
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