Widener Library
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widener-library-207-4605133
title:
Widener Library
text:
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Widener's "vast and cavernous" stacks hold works in more than one hundred languages which together comprise "one of the world's most comprehensive research collections in the human
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Primary building of Harvard Library
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widener_Library
date created:
2004-05-25T03:08:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T00:39:12Z
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