[John S. Billings and Thomas W. Wise in Library Hall] Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913. Army Medical Library (U.S.) Libraries, Medical Interior view of Library Hall in the Army Medical Museum and Library, where John S. Billings is seated at a reference table and Thomas W. Wise is standing near a desk. Three-tier stacks are in the background and there are 4 portraits hanging on the gate of the second tier. Image caption on page 35 of the book US National Library of Medicine: "Thomas Washington Wise, manager of library operations, stands to the left of the desk in the new Library Hall in 1887, as John Shaw Billings sits at a reference table. Billings involved himself with the smallest details of the library's planning, including the architectural designs for book shelving and retrieval. A dumbwaiter, or book lift, located at the right end of the stacks enabled staff to move books from one floor to another." Produced: [1887] Photograph Still image 1 photograph : image 17 x 21 cm, on mount 20 x 26 cm albumen, black and white nlm:nlmuid-101445634-img 101445634 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101445634 OCLC: 989548918 IHM: A017046 US National Library of Medicine The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0