It shows the home library of Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Richard Macksey in Baltimore. The full collection size of 51,000 volumes would be somewhat more, I estimate about 10,000 are visible in the image as composed.
To a rough approximation, that image shows the number of documents that fit on my e-book reader.
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It shows the home library of Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Richard Macksey in Baltimore. The full collection size of 51,000 volumes would be somewhat more, I estimate about 10,000 are visible in the image as composed.
To a rough approximation, that image shows the number of documents that fit on my e-book reader.