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Carnegie Library Reading Room 5

It didn't take long for the library to become the focal point of the Oberlin College campus, a place for study, for seminars, for meetings, and for socializing.

Hi-O-Hi, 1915, p. 252

Women's suffrage demonstration c. 1915.

Hi-O-Hi, 1915

As one of the few places where students could mix with the opposite sex in a permissible way, Carnegie Library became a popular place for "fussing" or "Libe dates" as is perhaps the case with these students in 1915.

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Hi-O-Hi, image 1

Students in 1924.

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Article in Oberlin Review March 3, 1925.

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Hi-O-Hi, image 2

Students in 1939.

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Richard Tear and Eleanor Rinehart, fall 1946

Students in 1946.

Hi-O-Hi, 1961, p.118

Students in 1961. Pictures of couples in the library was always a popular theme in the college yearbook the Hi-O-Hi.