University of Washington, Libraries records, 1926-2002

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University of Washington, Libraries records, 1926-2002

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Correspondence, minutes, agendas, memoranda, reports, committee files, writings, legislative files, statistics, subject files, organization charts, agreement, specifications, architectural drawings, plans, blueprints, publications, newsletters, ephemera, photographs, sound recordings, videotapes, microfilm; 1926-2002

69.93 cubic feet (61 boxes, 8 rolls of drawings, 10 bundles of rolled drawings, 4 map tubes, 6 oversize folders, and 7 folders

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For its first fifty years, the library had been housed in a succession of temporary spaces culminating in a series of inadequate quarters in Denny Hall. It was then moved to a building originally constructed in 1909 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, but considerably remodeled to accommodate a collection of 40,000 books. Ground was broken for President Suzzallo's proposed library in April 1923 and the new library was opened in January 1927, with 175,000 volumes and a spectacular reading ro...