Palo Alto, CALIFORNIA - Stanford University - Library - LINEN

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Palo Alto, CALIFORNIA - Stanford University - Library - LINEN: The Cecil H. Green Library shown in the picture and commonly known as Green Library is the main library on the Stanford University campus and is part of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) system. It is named for Cecil H. Green, a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of Texas Instruments. The Green Library presently houses 4 million volumes, most of which are related to the humanities and social sciences. Libraries elsewhere on campus cover specialized areas such as Business, Law, Medicine, or Engineering. The earliest library at Stanford was in the inner quadrangle. It was housed in one large room capable of accommodating 100 readers. This was replaced in 1900 by a separate building on the outer quadrangle, named the Thomas Welton Stanford library after its major donor. This library too was recognized as being too small, and a new larger library in a separate building was begun, but it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake before it could be occupied. A major new library was approved in 1913 and completed in 1919. This building forms the older portion of the Green Library. In 1980, a larger annex was added and the library renamed for Cecil H. Green. The original part of the building is now known as the Bing Wing for Peter Bing, who donated a substantial amount of money for fixing it after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. This Linen Era (1930-45) postcard is in fine condition. Stanley A. Piltz Company. San Francisco, Calif. No. 433. No. O8-H116.