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The Wadsworth Public Library provides books for all ages; AV materials including videos, DVDs, music CDs, and books on tape, CD, and MP3; programs for children, teens, and adults; free Internet access, both through library-owned public computers and wireless access throughout the building; public copiers and fax machine; free meeting space for non-profit groups; and an Outreach Services ...
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library is one of the three libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, the others being the Science and Engineering Library and the Wadsworth Library at the Mount Ida Campus. The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences.
Wadsworth is a city in Medina County, Ohio, United States. Founded on March 1, 1814, the city was named after General Elijah Wadsworth, a Revolutionary War hero and War of 1812 officer who owned the largest share of the lands that became Medina County. [4] A suburb of Akron, the population was 24,007 at the 2020 census.
It was the home of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for almost 50 years, and it had previously served as the headquarters of General George Washington (1775–76). The house was built in 1759 for Jamaican plantation owner John Vassall Jr. , who fled the Cambridge area at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War because of ...
The Milwaukee firm of Henry C. Koch was the architect for many buildings during this period of expansion including the hospital (1879), Ward Memorial Hall (1882), [8] the chapel (1889), [9] Wadsworth Library (1892), [10] and the 1896 Colonial Revival-styled headquarters building (1894).
The research library at the Maine Historical Society is named for John Marshall Brown and his wife Alida (Carroll) Brown. The current library building was built in 1907 (replacing the Morton Block), [3] designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, nephew of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut.The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as collections of early American furniture and decorative arts.
The Hartford Public Library began in 1774 as the Library Company, started by a group of city leaders. The founding members included Jonathan Brace, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Daniel Wadsworth, George Bull, Elisha Colt, Theodore Dwight, George Goodwin, Chauncey Goodrich and Thomas Y. Seymour. The Library Company was a subscription company and opened ...