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The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books in its "vast and cavernous" [2] stacks, is the centerpiece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and, more broadly, of the entire Harvard Library system. [3] It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector ...
Known for. Namesake of Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. Signature. Harry Elkins Widener (January 3, 1885 – April 15, 1912) was an American businessman and bibliophile, and a member of the Widener family. His mother built Harvard University 's Widener Memorial Library in his memory, after his death on the foundering of the RMS Titanic .
Harvard Yard and environs, from the southeast. The Yard's most prominent buildings bound Tercentenary Theatre: Widener Library (center left), Memorial Church (opposite Widener), University Hall (just beyond Widener, white with white chimneys), and Sever Hall (red roof, opposite University Hall). The Old Yard is the treed area beyond University ...
Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881 – April 23, 1950) was a prominent Black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer.He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28).
Eleanor Elkins Widener (née Eleanore Elkins, later known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice or Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice; c. 1862 –1937) was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress best remembered for her donation to Harvard University of the Widener Library—a memorial to her elder son Harry Elkins Widener, who (along with her first husband, George Dunton ...
The stacks of Harvard's Gore Hall, under demolition in 1913 to make way for Widener Library The stacks framework (visible within unfinished walls in this December 1913 view) of Harvard's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library supports the roof and topmost level of offices and special collections as well as shelves holding 3 million volumes.
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Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. ... The Wolfgram Memorial Library contains 242,000 volumes, 175,000 microfilms, 12,000 audio ...