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Library at the University of Leipzig

  • 1901

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Black and white photograph depicting three men, two wearing lab coats and the other wearing a suit, hunched over their books in the library of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Leipzig. The men are identified by an inscription beneath the photograph from left to right as Harry Wheeler Morse (1873-1936), Fred W. Skirrow (1876-), and Gerhard Just (1877-).

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  • 24 cm W x 19.5 cm H
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  • (Centered beneath photograph) "Bibliothek des physikal. chem. Institutes. / Leipzig 1901. / Morse Skirrow Just."
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Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Council on Library and Information Resources

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  • Series IV – Photographic Materials, 1894-1930
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  • Box 21

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“Library at the University of Leipzig,” 1901. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 21. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ps85vr3.

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