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  • Entrance to Sterling Memorial Library
    Image | 1950 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionSterling Memorial Library - erected in 1931 in memory of John W. Sterling, a graduate of the Class of Yale 1864, was designed by James Gamble Rogers, Yale 1889. Its collection of over 2,400,000 volumes covering every angle of reference and study is considered one of the largest libraries in the world." Postcard was never mailed.