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As we ascend the stairs, we will notice the excellent murals on either side of the entrance to the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room. The murals are works of John Singer Sargent and were made possible by an anonymous donor in 1922.
The library building on your right was given by Mrs. Eleanor Widener, of the famous Widener family of Philadelphia, in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1907 and a victim of the sinking in 1912 of the ill-fated ship...
Although Harry Elkins Widener died when he was only 27 years old, he had a very fine collection of first editions and early manuscripts. His personal collection of books are in this Memorial Room, a collection of 3300. Of especial note is the famous Shakespeare folio. Also here is a...
Left. By Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice, donor to Harvard of its famed Widener Memorial Library: life interest in an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000; to her husband, Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice. On the event of Dr. Rice's death, Mrs. Rice's estate...
Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and...