Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Widener Library is the world's largest university library. It is the central library of the larger entity known as the Harvard College Library. Horace Trumbauer designed the library building. Begun in 1912 in the New Yard, on the site of Gore Hall (the previous college library, which was far too small), the library was completed in 1914. The library is named for Harry Elkins Widener (A.B. 1907) who died in 1912, an ill-fated passenger onboard the Titanic.

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creatorOf Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.). Widener Library plans. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.). General information by and about Widener Library. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Murals by John Singer Sargent in Widener Library [photographs], ca. 1922. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn General information about the Sargent murals in Widener, [ca. 1922-1930?]. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1866-1928. Papers of Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1893-1982 bulk dates, 1893-1934. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Lane, William Coolidge, 1859-1931. The new Harvard library. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Murals by John Singer Sargent in Widener Library [photographs], ca. 1922. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Harvard College Library. General information about the Widener Library renovation project, 1999-2004. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Wooden table with inset made from samples of marble used in the construction of Widener Library. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn The improvement of the Widener building as a research center. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Harvard University. Library. Scrapbook of Thomas Franklin Currier, 1895-1920 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Metcalf, K. D. A proposal for changes in Widener. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Widener Library stack guides [graphic] [ca. 1950?-ca. 1990?]. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Hammond, Mason, 1903-2002. A carved table showing early printers' marks on the Widener Library. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Shea, John, 1888-1959. Memoir, ca. 1955. Harvard University Archives.
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