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The Camera at Oxford, GB
"The Radcliffe Camera at Oxford", ©2006 Elroy
Christenson
The Radcliffe Camera is the main reading room of the Bodleian Library
with over 600,000 books held in an underground stacks within the
Radcliffe Square. The building was designed by James Gibbs
and built 1737-49 with £40,000 donation of Dr. John
Radcliffe. Gibbs also designed the church of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields across from the National Gallery in Trafalgar
Square. Although the Radcliffe Camera was originally designed to
house the entire general library book collection it quickly out grew
that use. It is only open to those with a special reader's
card.
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updated by Elroy Christenson 11/15/06