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As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
Collection: Human Ecology Historical Photographs
Title: Various views of ''Cho-Cho,'' the health clown, who visited schools in 1920 under the co- sponsorship of the Child Health Organization and local groups, in the same way the Health Fairy worked. Some of these photos were taken in Syracuse.
Collection #23-2-749, item PR-PO-29
Div. Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5w93
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As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
Photos from the opening plenary session of the 2013 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and IMF at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 11.
Photo by Ryan Rayburn/World Bank
Photo ID: 101113_Plenary_RR_039_F
Canterbury Public Library Cat
Photograph appeared in the Christchurch Star 21 February 1975
File Reference: CCL-Star-529
From the collection of the Christchurch Star
Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
The library was built between 1931 and 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a Berkeley Landmark.
Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Public_Library
The performers from A. A. Gymnastics visited the library and put on a demonstration for the kids with exciting leaps, flips and tumbles.
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
The Central Library in Castries, St. Lucia, is next to Derek Walcott Square. I waited a few minutes in one of the doorways for the only rain of the cruise to end.
I do not know what I would call the style. I did not see other buildings like it.
Some people here have nice cars, An Audi A4 is at left. Next to it is a Toyota Camry. It looks like mine (also white), but is certainly newer. You do not see "jalopies" in Caribbean cities. The cars tend to be new, and often large.
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
The sculptured entrance is crowned by a blazing sun-disk. At the right end and left ends are faces symbolizing Phospher the morning star (the east or Orient) and Hesper the evening star (the west or Occident). The legend on the center panel reads:
THE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
DEDICATED TO
THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
All of these sculptures are the work of the New York sculptors Mundhenk and Schoomaker working under the general supervision of Lee Lawrie. However the themes were suggested by the University Librarian.
The University of Cincinnati General Library building is unusual in that it was built in a natural amphitheater. Construction began with a great wall across the amphitheater. Then as earth was excavated for the foundation of the building it was used to fill up the shallower portion of the amphitheater and so provide a level approach to the building. The building is seven stories high with the main doorway at the fourth level. Entrance is by means of a bridge from the top of the great wall to this doorway. Below the bridge, at the third floor level is the service driveway and the lower entrance. By this driveway all mail, express and freight is received and dispatched.
The general idea in planning the building was that the undergraduate college student who comes to study for an hour between class periods will be served on the entrance floor. At the rear end of this floor are the Stephen Collins Foster Memorial Room, the George Elliston Poetry Room and ample rest rooms.
On the parapet of the central section are two inscriptions. At the north, one from Sir Francis Bacon’s Essay on Education:
READ NOT TO CONTRADICT AND CONFUTE NOR TO
BELIEVE AND TAKE FOR GRANTED NOR TO TALK
AND DISCOURSE BUT TO WEIGH AND CONSIDER
At the south, one from John Milton’s Areopagitica:
FOR BOOKS ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY DEAD THINGS
BUT DO CONTAIN A POTENCIE OF LIFE IN THEM
TO BE AS ACTIVE AS THOSE WHOSE PROGENY THEY ARE
from A DESCRIPTIVE REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI GENERAL LIBRARY BUILDING
Blegen Library, once the University's Main Library, was deemed too small in 1963 for the University's growing collection and enrollment. The Main Library's collection moved to Langsam Library in 1978. After this move, the building was renamed Blegen Library and was renovated and reopened in 1983, housing the Archives and Rare Books Library, the College-Conservatory of Music Library, the Classics Library, and the Curriculum Resources Center (now the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, or CECH library in Teacher’s College).
The year 2005 marked the 75th anniversary of the former Main Library, now Blegen, and the 110th anniversary of University Libraries. The renovation of the Main Library created a drastically different interior. Previously, there was a large, grand, open entrance hall to the library. Upon renovation, this space was divided into numerous floors to allow for multiple divisions of the building, not just one library. Fortunately, “the beautiful architectural details were preserved and cleaned.” There are statues, chandeliers, carvings, inscriptions, and decorations found inside and outside the building.
Carl Blegen, the building’s namesake, is known and respected for his groundbreaking archaeological findings in Troy and Pylos. Blegen is also known for developing modern scientific methods in archeology. UC earned a reputation around the world as a research institution, largely due to the archaeological excavations of Carl Blegen and others in the Classics department. Blegen had a “single-minded driving ambition…to uncover the ancient civilizations,” indicated by the fact that he listed the University of Cincinnati as his “office,” and “‘9 Plutarch Street, Athens 9, Greece’ as his ‘home.’” His tremendous findings include the palace of Nestor, a King who played a part in the Greek siege of Troy; and Linear B writing tablets, which were evidence that Greeks of that time could read and write. Blegen wrote multiple books relating to archaeology, and contributed much to the University of Cincinnati. After studying and receiving degrees at multiple notable institutions, including a Ph. D. from Yale, Blegen went on to work at the American School of Classical Studies, followed by 30 years at UC as a professor of classical archaeology from 1927 until 1957 and the head of the Department of Classics during 1950 to 1957. Carl Blegen died at the age of 84 in 1971 in a Greek hospital.
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In 1927 the university commissioned Harry Hake, a rising star in Cincinnati architecture, to designed a new library almost next door the the existing Van Wormer Library . . . The new building was also designed in the Greek Revival style, with a series of inscriptions and bas-reliefs carved into its facade that represent the pursuit of knowledge. Within the parapet above the door, the scene represents modern civilization as the product of Eastern and Western intellectual history, represented by the Hebrew and Latin words for light and various symbols of knowledge, such as an Assyrian winged lion . . . Below the fifth floor windows are two panels representing great thinkers and scholars. . . In the doorway of the library are two groups of bronzes, sculpted by George Marshall Marin, depicting Minerva and a series of bas-reliefs that tell the story of bookmaking.
Originally the interior was marked by a large open rotunda, surrounded by rooms. The stacks were constructed out of cast iron . . . In 1978 the general collection was removed to the new library across campus and the interior of the structure was redesigned to accomodate a variety of offices . . . At the time of its remodeling the library was renamed after archeology professor Carl Blegen.
As we were visiting, they were cleaning the carpet.
Bibliothèque universitaire
des langues et civilisations
Anleitung zu Anbau, Ernte und Verwendung der Arzneipflanzen.
Stuttgart,im Selbstverlag des Verfassers,1876.
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Stanford University campus.
One of the two entrances to Green library. This is the "Bing Wing," which is usually used to run exhibits. The current exhibit shows some of the documents of the founding fathers, including a couple of (early) versions of John Hancock's signature.
Got a little sloppy with this photo, too - I was concentrating so much on the bench and the roof tops that I missed seeing the branch right in front of me was obstructing too much of the building. After uploading to flickr, I was thinking of deleting it, but in the end, decided to leave it in as part of the set, and as a reminder to myself to replace it with a better shot one of these days.
Nikon D700 + Leica Elmarit-R 19mm f/2.8 with Leitax mount
_ND10266
For information about using this Leica lens with Nikon cameras, please see this link. I have also created a new set called Leica 19mm Elmarit-R, to which I will keep adding new photos taken with this lens that I upload to flickr.
Ground Floor, west end.
File Reference: cpl-1982-305
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries