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SECOND FLOOR, CARD CATALOG ROOM LOOKING WEST - Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Cassell, Albert I
Ickes, Harold
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SECOND FLOOR, CARD CATALOG ROOM LOOKING WEST - Howard University, Founders Library, 2400 Sixth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS DC,WASH,236-A-20
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Founders Library, the most dominant building of the elevated Howard University campus, is one of the more noticeable landmarks on Washington's skyline, Built during a period of great expansion of the Howard campus, the building was one of the most costly of the New Deal-financed academic buildings of the Depression era.

Founders Library ranks with the best of American academic buildings designed in the Georgian style. It is an early indication of the ability of black architects to design nobly when given sufficient funding, an opportunity that rarely came the way of minority architects of that era.

The visual dominance of Founders Library is appropriate for Howard University, long know for its academic excellence and commitment to the needs of the Afro-American community.

  • Survey number: HABS DC-364
  • Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0149.photos.027747p
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Camera location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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