Stuck in the Mudd

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Ground is broken on the new library in 1971.

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Ongoing construction. 

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Student workers meeting in the Carnegie Reserve Room to receive instructions for the day.

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The Root Room being boxed up.

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Heavy work.

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Moving vans at the back of Carnegie to be loaded.

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Mary Cowles supervising the packing of the Anti-slavery Room.

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The new Mudd Learning Center is dedicated in 1974, but ties to the past remain.