Library Director Meeting with Students, circa 1980
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Mary Helen Cochran Library
Universities & colleges
Librarians
Students
Henry James, Director of the Mary Helen Cochran Library, sitting at a table with students, circa 1980.
[from a sticker on back]: “Clockwise from top: Henry James, SBC director of the Library, Phyllis Watt, Lexington, VA, Cathy Cook, Stonington, CT Paloma Vasi, Lima Peru, and Eleanor Bibb Wichita Falls, TX”
circa 1980
1980s
1900
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Library Staff on the Steps, 1979
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Universities & colleges
Mary Helen Cochran Library
Librarians
The Mary Helen Cochran Library staff in front of the entrance to the library, 1979.
[written on back in pen]: “left to right – back row / Henry James, Jackie Clay, Shirley Reid, Thelma Jordan / left to right – middle row / Jan Johnson, Helen Edgemon, Nancy Adams, James Rose / Front row – seated – left to right / Pat Wright, Janet Foster, Mildred Edgemon, Mary Hartman”
1979
1970s
1900
Thomson, Rebecca
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Elizabeth Prothro and Ruth Bradley Standing in Front of Bible Exhibit, 1967
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Mary Helen Cochran Library
Universities & colleges
Exhibitions
Librarians
Ruth Bradley, acting librarian, and Elizabeth Prothro standing in front of a library Bible exhibit in April 1967.
[printed on front]: “APR 1967”
[written on back in pen, lower left]: “Elizabeth Prothro / Ruth Bradley, / acting librarian”
[written on back in pen, lower right]: “Bible exhibit”
1967-04
1960s
1900
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Students on a Library Tour, 1967
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Mary Helen Cochran Library
Universities & colleges
Students
Students and library staff passing the circulation desk on a library tour in September 1967.
von Briesen, Martha
1967-09
1960s
1900
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A Library Tour, September 1962
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Universities & colleges
Students
Mary Helen Cochran Library
Reading rooms
Librarians
A library worker showing students the reading room on a tour of the Mary Helen Cochran Library, September 1962.
[stamped on back]: “Martha von Briesen, / Sweet Briar, Va.”
[written on back in pen]: “Sept. 1962 / Class of 1966”
von Briesen, Martha
1962-09
1960s
1900
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Library Tour, 1952
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Universities & colleges
Mary Helen Cochran Library
Students
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Books
Reading rooms
A member of the library staff giving students a tour of Cochran Library, 1952.
[written on back in pencil]: “Library tour / Sept. ’52 / G. Smith photo”
Smith, G.
1952-09
1900
1950s
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Virginia Gott on the Library Steps, 1935
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Universities & colleges
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Mary Helen Cochran Library
Portrait photographs
Virginia Gott, Assistant Librarian of the Cochran Library, sitting on the library steps in 1935.
[written on back in pencil]: “Virginia Gott ‘35”
1935
1900
1930s
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