Browse Items · Archival Photos from Mary Helen Cochran Library

Students Studying, 1941

Students studying in the library in 1941.

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Students working in the library's study gallery, 1944.

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Students admiring a 1950 library display.

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Student Terry Faulkner admires a book display, October 1950.

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Wingfield Ellis and Seymour Langhon, winners of the Nicole Basbanes Student Book Collecting Contest

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A member of the library staff giving students a tour of Cochran Library, 1952.

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[written in pencil]: “Meri [?] Hodges & ’54 / Ruth Frye ’54 / 1954”

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Lois Gene Patton (class of '44, right) and Beverly Hollman (class of '44, left) reading in a corner of the browsing room in 1944.

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An exterior shot of the library, covered with ivy, in 1945.

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Two students talking on the steps to the right entrance, 1948.

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