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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I had a different Pic of the Week post all written up the other day, but I wasn’t really enamored with it. When I stepped outside the Adams Building to go home, the sun was out after a few days of overcast skies, the breeze was gentle, and the temperature was perfect. And then I …
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week is inspired by my post Terrazzo: Beauty Under our Feet.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We rarely take the time to stop and notice the artistic details that go into decorating a building. If anything, we tend to take these creative endeavors for granted. Every day we walk on some sort of flooring, be it hardwood, linoleum, carpet, marble, or tiles, and if we look at what is under our …
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Just a photo of a regular library site; a book cart filled with returned books.
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week is a colorful drawing of the proposed interior of one of our reading rooms by our building’s architects, Pierson & Wilson. This drawing epitomizes the amount of detail, labor, and materials that went into the construction of the Adams Building- from the green formica wall paneling (Formica Insulation Co., Cincinnati, …
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Sometimes when I am using material from the collections, I run across items that have been left in the books by earlier researchers. Today’s post features one such item. This is a photo of one of the Library’s old call slips used in what is now the Adams Building. A call slip is the form …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features a detail from the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer featured in a mural in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog features an owl statue in the Science and Business Reading Room in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features a period lamp in the vestibule of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week