Library building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Photograph of the reading room during construction, showing workers. View is from the center, looking toward the south.
Creator/Contributor:
unidentified (photographer)| James Stewart & Co. (contractors)| Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)
Rendering, Proposed Library Building, corner view showing people and an automobile. The rendering in gray tones likely was intended for reproduction in print media. It depicts the library as built except for the balustrade, which was never realized. The Woman’s Building appears in the background.
New University of Texas plan, Section looking north
Description:
New plan for University of Texas, Section looking north, showing Residence, Dormitory, Recitation, University Hall, Museum, Breckenridge Hall, and Student Hall
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Old Library (Battle Hall): view looking to north window, students studying
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Photograph of the reading room in the Old Library, showing people at small tables, women wearing hats, and plaster casts on bookcases. Students in Reading Room photos.
"The Library, rendezvous of Campus Buzzard and McFadden's Ushers" (with cars)
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"The Library, rendezvous of Campus Buzzard and McFadden's Ushers." The Cactus, Texas Student Publications, The University of Texas at Austin, 1919-20, p.10.
Scenes on the campus and about Austin. Photograph of New Library in lower left corner. The Cactus, Texas Student Publications, The University of Texas at Austin, 1911-12, n.p.
Dedication, the twenty-third volume of the Cactus is dedicated to William James Battle. The Cactus, Texas Student Publications, The University of Texas at Austin, 1915-16, n.p.
Eugene C. Barker, Associate Professor of History and Chairman of the School of History. The Cactus, Texas Student Publications, The University of Texas at Austin, 1911-12, n.p.
Library of the University of Texas: plans, ground floor and first floor
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Library of the University of Texas (Battle Hall): plan showing ground and first floor. Stack room, accession room, archives, toilet, cataloguing room, librarian's room, delivery hall, and reading room are included in the plan.
Study for the Library Building, main elevation. A larger and more ornate building than the final version. Notable features include an elaborate portal, wrought iron balcony railing, pilasters between the arches, and a frieze with metopes, inscriptions and medallions.
Creator/Contributor:
Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Study for main elevation. Proposed Library Building, elevation showing a terrace and people. Proportions and dimensions of the final design but includes pilasters between the arches and a much simpler treatment of brackets supporting the eaves.
Library reading room interior, looking north, with painted beams
Description:
Library building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Photograph of the reading room during construction. View is from the southeast corner, looking toward the north. Painted beams and the entrance to the catalogue room are visible.
Creator/Contributor:
unidentified (photographer)| James Stewart & Co. (contractors)| Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)
Library building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Photograph of the reading room during construction. View is from the ceiling, looking down toward the southwest corner of the room.
Creator/Contributor:
unidentified (photographer)| James Stewart & Co. (contractors)| Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)
Preliminary study for Educational Building University of Texas elevation-rendering
Description:
Study for the Education Building. Sutton Hall, completed in 1918, was built to house the education department. For it, Gilbert introduced the combination of Leuders limestone base and a ruddy blend of brown, tan, and ochre bricks that his successors have repeated on classroom buildings throughout the Forty Acres.
Old Library (Battle Hall): view looking to north window, students studying
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Photograph of the reading room in the Old Library, showing people at small tables and a woman wearing a hat in foreground. Students in Reading Room photos.
Old Library (Battle Hall): view from the Reading Room
Description:
Photograph of the view from the main Reading Room into the cataloguing room or Rare Books Reading Room (Barker Texas History Center). Battle Hall Reading Room photos.
Looking along south front from southeast, St. Louis Public Library, Olive Street between Thirteenth & Fourteenth, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Creator/Contributor:
Jack E. Boucher (photographer)| Historic American Buildings Survey (creator)
Planetarium in reading room (part of Centennial celebration), "A Photographic Tour of The University of Texas"
Description:
Clipping from "A Photographic Tour of The University of Texas," noting that the Keller Planetaium was located in the "Old Library reading room" in 1936.