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Library Image Address Historical Note; 1: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street: Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on ...
The reading room in Uris Library at Cornell University. The United States contains some of the largest academic libraries in the world. Among the most notable collections are those at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Columbia University. Many others were ...
San Francisco State University's original campus was on Nob Hill, where it was established as the San Francisco State Normal School on Powell Street between Clay and Sacramento Streets. The 1906 earthquake and fire forced a relocation to Buchanan and Haight Streets, where the institution would remain for several decades. [ 77 ]
The Romberg Tiburon Campus is a satellite campus of San Francisco State University and a 53.7-acre research campus located in Tiburon, California. It's home to the only marine and environmental science labs on San Francisco Bay. [1] [2] The campus is named for Paul F. Romberg, who was SF State's president during the acquisition of the land. [3]
The J. Paul Leonard Library and Sutro Library (2012) at SFSU, viewed from Malcolm X Plaza. John Paul Leonard (1901–1995) was an American educator, and university president. [2] He was the 5th President of San Francisco State University (SFSU) serving from 1945 to 1957; and the 5th President of American University of Beirut serving from 1957 ...
A 6-foot-2, 360-pound New York Public Library employee claims he’s been “traumatized” by being forced to work at a desk that is too small — and wants $4.6 million to make up for it.
The School of Cinema was founded amid the political activism and artistic experimentation of the 1960s. Originally part of the Broadcast and Electronic Arts Department, cinema faculty such as Jim Goldner successfully made the case to the university that filmmaking was both an art and industry, and that it needed to be housed in a separate department.
Vartan Gregorian – former professor, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York John Gutmann (1905–1998) – photographer Milton Halberstadt (1919–2000) – photographer, artist