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The Joint University Library Corporation was dissolved in 1979 with the merger of Vanderbilt and Peabody and the system became known as the Vanderbilt University Library. [2] It was renamed the Jean and Alexander Heard Library five years later, in honor of Chancellor Emeritus Alexander Heard and his wife Jean. [2]
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, founded in August 1968, maintains a library of televised network news programs. It is a unit of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library of Vanderbilt University, a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War.
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m 2) of ...
The Anne Potter Wilson Music Library, located on the second floor of the Blair School of Music building, is a division of Vanderbilt's Jean and Alexander Heard Library system. The collection, begun in 1947, was moved from Peabody College 's Social-Religious Building (now the Wyatt Center) to its new and permanent home at Blair in the summer of ...
December 8, 1972. The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family . The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m 2) and 62,482 square feet ...
Music video. "The Story of Us" on YouTube. " The Story of Us " is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album, Speak Now (2010). It was sent to US pop radio on April 19, 2011, as the fourth single from the album. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, the track combines pop-punk, dance ...
December 18, 1940 [2] Designated NYSRHP. June 23, 1980. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a historic house museum in Hyde Park, New York, United States. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1940. It is owned and operated by the National Park Service . The property, historically known as Hyde Park, was one of several homes owned ...