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    Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Widener's "vast and...
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    Harry Elkins Widener (January 3, 1885 – April 15, 1912) was an American businessman and bibliophile, and a member of the Widener family. His mother built...
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    Eleanor Elkins Widener (September 21, 1861 - July 13, 1937) née Eleanore Elkins, also known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice was an American heiress, socialite...
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    most recognized building in the Harvard Library system is Widener Library in Harvard Yard. Harvard's library system grew primarily from personal donations...
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  • Widener can refer to: Widener Library, of Harvard University Widener University, a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania Widener University School...
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    on to install its standardized design in libraries around the country. Notable examples are the Widener Library at Harvard and the seven level stack supporting...
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    The Widener family is an American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Peter Arrell Browne Widener (1834–1915) and his wife, Hannah Josephine...
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  • Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Widener is named in honor of Eleanor Elkins Widener. The university offers associate’s, bachelor’s, master's...
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    Yard, known as Tercentenary Theatre, is a wide grassy area bounded by Widener Library, Memorial Church, University Hall, and Sever Hall. Tercentenary Theatre...
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    When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library, its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory...
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    Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository...
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  • ankle, and drops the thesis down a grating into the boiler room under Widener Library. There Monty finds a homeless man, resembling the writer Walt Whitman...
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    located at Harvard University, north of Boylston Hall and west of Widener Library in Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The stele was presented...
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  • Eleanor Elkins Widener, and brother to Harry Elkins Widener and Eleanor Widener Dixon. His grandfathers, the streetcar magnate Peter A. B. Widener and the oil...
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    university. Harvard Library, the largest academic library in the world with 20.4 million holdings, is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard. It...
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    Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the wealthy Widener family. He...
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    Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death. Coolidge was also a scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, a member of the...
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    Vatican Library, Vatican City Widener Library at Harvard University is one of the largest research libraries in the world. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington...
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    the war, in 1947, a set of the photographs was transferred to the Widener Library at Harvard University through the U.S. Embassy in Italy. Following...
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    planned a structure that would complement the imposing edifice of Widener Library. This created an open area known as the Tercentenary Theatre, where...
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  • He went on to Brandeis University, then was given an office in the Widener Library at Harvard. He received honorary degrees from Yale, Hebrew Union College...
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  • Widener University Commonwealth Law School (Widener Law Commonwealth) is a law school located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and part of Widener University...
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  • example of this exception applies to Harvard's Widener Library. Eleanor Elkins Widener, the library's benefactor, stipulated that no "additions or alterations"...
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    world, helping to build libraries such as the Widener Library at Harvard, The Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2013, the Rosenbach...
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  • located in this area. As a researcher, Atwood spent a lot of time in the Widener Library at Harvard which in the novel serves as a setting for the headquarters...
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    by number of library visits. As of 2018, the largest public library in the United States and largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in...
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    Matthew Battles (category Historians of libraries)
    has one son and one daughter. Library: an Unquiet History (Norton, 2003) Widener: Biography of a Library (Widener Library, 2004) The Sovereignties of Invention...
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    nationale de France Widener Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts The University of Buenos Aires The library of the fictional Miskatonic...
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    John Singer Sargent (category Artists of the Boston Public Library)
    Massachusetts. They are in the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Harvard's Widener Library. Sargent's largest scale works are the mural...
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    Eleanor Elkins Widener, founder of Widener Library at Harvard University to honor her son Harry Elkins Widener, grandson of Peter A. B. Widener and namesake...
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