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Description:: The south side (or rear) of the Library appears here midway through construction. Originally known simply as the Library, Powell Library was known as College Library prior to 1966.
Date:: February 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 side (or rear) of the Library appears here midway through construction. Originally known simply as the Library, Powell Library was known as College Library prior to 1966.
Date:: February 28, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The north side (or front) of the Library appears here midway through construction. Originally known simply as the Library, Powell Library was known as College Library prior to 1966.
Date:: March 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Midway through construction, the north side of the Education Building (Moore Hall) is viewed from the southwestern corner of the Library (Powell Library).
Date:: c.August, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: [This is a duplicate image; the other scan is of better quality, so I recommend we delete this one-KM]
Date:: April 29, 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 (or front) side of Josiah Royce Hall appears here midway through its construction. The perspective is from the Library (Powell Library), which was at a similar stage of construction at the time.
Date:: March 4, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The ceiling beams of the Josiah Royce Hall foyer feature the seals of twelve prominent European universities, four of which are seen here. The seals represent the standard of education that UCLA's founders envisioned for the Westwood campus.
Date:: c.1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Interior photograph of worker installing seats into Josiah Royce Hall auditorium during the final stage of construction.
Date:: c.1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Close-up of the seal of Charles University in Prague, one of twelve European university seals displayed on the ceiling beams of the Josiah Royce Hall foyer. The seals represent the standard of education that UCLA's founders envisioned for the Westwood campus. Hoover contributed this photograph to the 1930 UCLA yearbook, which includes descriptions of these twelve universities at the head of each section.
Date:: c.1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Exterior view of the north side of the building shortly after construction.
Date:: c.1929
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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