Subject: Kinsey Hall - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Campus as viewed from the Goodyear Blimp looking west across the arroyo. From L to R: The Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently the Humanities Building), Library (College Library, subsequently Powell Library), the Esplanade, Royce Hall, and the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall).
Date:: April 28, 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

Description:: The west side loading entrance of Josiah Royce Hall as it appeared shortly after construction. The west side of Royce Hall would be greatly altered by the addition of a rehearsal hall and terrace in 1984.
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:: In view is the main lecture hall entrance of the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall). The Physics-Biology in the background was subsequently known as Kinsey Hall before its current designation as the Humanities Building.
Date:: c.1930
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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