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View of one of the light fixtures on the outside of Butler Library, ca. 1933-34.

"While Columbia University guards were lunching early today [September 25, 1936], a well-organized squad of vandals daubed this red curtain of paint on the university's new library. Work was believed done either by painters' union or students…

View of Butler Library at night as viewed from across 116th Street, November 1937.

South Hall (Butler Library) at night, 1941.

View of Butler Library through foliage and a fence, looking west.

View of Butler Library through foliage and a fence, looking west, 1934.

View from below of one of the exterior light fixtures on the front of Butler Library.

View of Butler Library's main entrance.

View of South Hall (Butler Library) from Low Library Plaza. View includes one of the Low Plaza fountains, cars driving across 116th Street, the Sun Ball, John Jay Hall, and the South Field tennis courts.

View of Butler Library as seen from Low Plaza with people waking across College Walk, ca. 1950s.

View of Butler Library main entrance, with a Columbia security vehicle and a kid in the foreground.

Students playing football or possible rugby on lawn in front of Journalism Building with Butler Library in the background.

View of Butler Library as seen from steps of Avery Library, 8 September 1937.

View of a reading room inside Butler Library.

View of one of the reading rooms in Butler Library.

View of desks with typewriters lined up in a typewriter room.

Delivery desk station near a book conveyor with gravity discharge in South Hall (Butler Library)

Movable study shelves (desks) along central transverse aisle in South Hall (Butler Library) stacks.

View of the Special Collections Reading Room, 653 Butler Library, ca. 1949.

Students studying in the main reading room of Butler Library, ca. early 1990's.