Overcrowding Part Two

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Due to a lack of space, the library took to storing books in various attics and basements around campus.  This image shows the attic in Rice Hall.

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Rice Hall attic.

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Shipherd Hall basement.

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Fairchild Chapel basement.

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Warner Hall attic in the Theology Quadrangle.

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Mead Hall basement in the Theology Quadrangle.

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Men's Building (now Wilder Hall) attic.

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Men's Building (now Wilder Hall) attic.

The Fowler Years
Overcrowding Part Two