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Library main reading room.

Unknown

1941-08

eng

Written on verso: "Jul Aug 41; Main Reading Room, Library 1941; Shows painting of Aurora (a copy of one by Guido Reni, fresco in Respigliosi Palace in Rome) gift of senior classes about 1907-1910." Photograph also shows students are studying at tables with card catalogs to the right.

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3 X 4 in.

Photographic Prints

Buildings

San Jose State College

Allegorical paintings
Bookstacks
Reading rooms
Students

Reni, Guido

San Jose -- California

San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives

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According to the December 1905 edition of the Normal School Pennant, the Aurora painting cost $250.00 and the senior gift was started with $50.00 from the 1905 June graduating class with other graduating classes adding their share so the painting could be acquired.

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