CambridgeHarvard: Widener Library
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Harvard's Widener Library, opened in 1915, the second largest collection in the world, after the US Library of Congress. Twelve majestic Corinthian columns, and inside murals by John Singer Sargent. This view is of the yard between Widener and Memorial Church; the modern site of Harvard's Commencement exercises.
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