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Sources[edit]

[1]

p.75 shows Gore under demolition
p11, 18 describe Gore as the site of the "prototype of the modern book stack", designed by Ware

EEng (talk) 13:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[2] Photo of stacks
Memoir of Treadwell, Rumford Professor, includes description of design of Gore
[3] Has great images
Really great images
[4] Timeline of libraries etc.; Gore modeled on King's Chapel
[5] History of fire and fire safety in Harvard Libraries; includes Eliot rescuing Harvard investments during Great Fire of Boston, his resistance to replacing Gore, matches used inside because of poor lighting, and much more
[6] Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume I, Number 2 (Spring 1947). Lovett, Robert W. The Undergraduate and the Harvard Library, 1877-1937, 221-237 p.225 50-lb ornament falls in Gore

Fabulous: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/that-building-on-cambridge-city-seal-harvards-original-library-gore-hall/

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