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Breaking Ground

[written on back]: "I break ground for the new library." Writer unknown.

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[written on front]: “E White / STUDIO / 404-379”

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[written on back in pencil]: “Reading Room / Mary Helen Cochran Library / Sweet Briar College / Sweet Briar, Virginia”

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[written on back in pencil]: “Study gallery / Mary Helen Cochran Library / Sweet Briar College / Sweet Briar, Virginia”

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[on front, lower right corner]: “E White / STUDIO / 404-379”\

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Sarah Dodgen and Maria Bemis (standing) and Kathryn Graham (sitting) enjoy the brand new library.

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Construction workers in the middle of building the Cochran library

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An exterior shot of the front of the library in 1929.

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