University of Virginia Library Online Exhibits

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Photograph of the University Library in the Rotunda dome room prior to the fire, pre-1895
Edwin M. Betts Memorial Collection of University of Virginia Prints (MSS 7073)

Photograph of the University Library in the reconstructed Rotunda dome room, ca. 1930-1938
U.Va. Visual History Collection

Photograph of the south elevation of the Rotunda under construction, 1897
U.Va. Visual History Collection

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Photograph of President Edgar Shannon, his wife, Eleanor, and their five children in the Carr’s Hill yard, 1965
Courtesy of Eleanor Shannon

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Photograph looking east of the Rotunda and Annex immediately after the fire, 1895
Wampler, photographer
(MSS 9292-a)

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Photograph of the interior of the Rotunda dome, ca. 1940
A. L. Hench, photographer
U.Va. Visual History Collection

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Photograph of the interior of Garrett Hall, when it was known as “The Commons,” ca. 1910
U.Va. Visual History Collection

South elevation of the Rotunda Restoration, 1896
McKim, Mead & White, architects; signed by Haase, draftsman
Diazotype print and wash on linen, 26 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:2.872)

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Side elevation of the proposed Rotunda restoration, 1896
McDonald Brothers, architects
Ink and wash on vellum, 28 ½ x 41 1/2 in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:6.681)

Rotunda Library shelving schedule, 1897
Green’s Patent Bookstack and Shelving
Blueprint, 21 x 29 ½ in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:2.872)

Postcard of Carr’s Hill, ca. 1914-1921
(MSS 11425-o)

Plan of the ceiling light of the Rotunda dome, 1896
McKim, Mead & White, architects; signed by Haase, draftsman
Blueprint, 16 ½ x 14 in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:2.872)
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