Image / Physics-Biology Building (Humanities Building) south entrance detail, c.1930

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Title: Physics-Biology Building (Humanities Building) south entrance detail, c.1930
Contributor: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Date Created and/or Issued: c.January 1930
1930-01
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, University Archives
Collection: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection
Rights Information: copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents.
Description: The inscription over the building's south entrance--"Nothing is too wonderful to be true"--is from a quote by Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist. Hoover took this photograph during the ongoing construction of the Westwood campus' first academic year. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz000001w8
Subject: Education
Environment
Construction images
Science
Kinsey Hall
Source: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

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