{"id":423,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-3\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"macbride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/past\/macbride\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Natural Science\u00a0(Macbride Hall) 1908 &#8211; 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 <a href=\"\/history\/past\/schaeffer\/\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/past\/annex\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"history_column_left\">\n<p>During these 43 years, the Libraries&#8217; collections grew from 64,286 volumes to over 600,000.<\/p>\n<p>Interior walls were replaced with columns while Macbride Hall was under construction so the library could be &#8220;temporarily housed therein.&#8221;\u00a0 In 1937 the basement floor in the building was lowered and divided into two separate floors to increase shelf space.<\/p>\n<p>Librarians:<br \/>\nGrace Wormer<br \/>\nMilton Lord<br \/>\nJohn B. Kaiser<br \/>\nJane E. Roberts<br \/>\nMalcolm Wyer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/macbrideplan.pdf\">A floor plan, date unknown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/ictcs\/searchterm\/Macbride%20Hall\/field\/folder\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/Macbride+Hall\">Additional Macbride Hall images<\/a> are available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ictcs\">Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"history_column_right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/macbride-empty-nd.jpg\" alt=\"Macbride1\" width=\"386\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/macbride1910s.jpg\" alt=\"Macbride3\" width=\"377\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the study area, circa 1910&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/macbridejan1926.jpg\" alt=\"Macbride4\" width=\"368\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;and in January 1926.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 previous | next During these 43 years, the Libraries&#8217; collections grew from 64,286 volumes to over 600,000. Interior walls were replaced with columns while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions\/1036"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}