Subject: Construction images / Subject: Kinsey Hall - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photographed from the Library's octagonal dome, the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building) is shown in the final stages of construction. Westwood Hills appears in the background.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Photographed from the Library (Powell Library), the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building) is shown in the final stages of construction.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The Physics Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building. Photographed while still under construction, the main lecture hall entrance dominates the building's west side.
Date:: January 10, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The inscription over the building's south entrance--"Nothing is too wonderful to be true"--is from a quote by Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist. Hoover took this photograph during the ongoing construction of the Westwood campus' first academic year. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: c.January 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The facade of Royce Hall is just visible through the outer wall of the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building). Both buildings are in their final stage of construction.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The south entrance to the building photographed prior to landscaping. The Physics Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: c.January 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: An earthmover excavates the site of the building's north wing addition. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: April 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

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