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Moving Day

More like Moving Month, really. It took most of June, 1949 to get all of our books into the new Fondren Library, which had it’s official opening that fall. There were books stashed all over campus: on upper floors and in the basement of Lovett, in the Physics Building, in Chemistry and in the Fieldhouse (that I know about). This was just one day in that long process.

Great shot of the back of the library!!

Fun fact: All the books were fumigated before they were put on the shelves.

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