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View of the Merrill Library from the northwest, ca. 1940s.

Interior view of the Merrill Library Reading Room, 1948.

Students in the Library Reading Room, located in the north wing of Old Main, 1903. Librarian Sarah Brown Goodwin (Mrs. C. I. Goodwin) behind the loan desk. See also P0014 7

University President Daryl Chase and librarian Milton C. Abrams opening the cornerstone of the 1930 library building during the expansion of the Merrill Library, 1966.

Interior view of the Merrill Library showing the loan desk with reserve books on the center range, 1930.

Student looking at mural entitled Allegory of Knowledge in the Merrill Library, 1968. Painted in 1965 by Art Dept. faculty Everett Thorpe and Gaell Lindstron, this mural interprets the history of the book, highlighting its central role in the transmission of knowledge. The abstract, yet recognizable imagery includes the Rosetta Stone, papyrus, movable type, hand-press, and references to automated printing processes.

Students looking at Merrill Library Art Gallery exhibit in Student Union building, 1960s.

Architectural model of the Merrill Library before the construction began.

View of campus looking west from the roof of the Business Building. The photo was one in a series taken by Campus Planning to show parking lot wasteland on campus in advocacy of a second quad west of the Engineering Building. View shows the Merrill Library, the Education building (formerly the Agricultural Engineering building, and later called the English building and the Ray B. West building), the Family Life building (also called the Home Economics building), and the Quad.

View from the north west of the entrance to the Merrill Library, 1978.