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<> Sterling Memorial Library 1930 James Gamble Rogers <> William Shakespeare gazes down onto Rose Walk aka High Street <> Lew Lawrie designed and Rene Chambellan executed the carving. Bertram Goodhue was the original architect for Sterling Library <> Lawrie had previously designed similar allegorical sculptures in Art Deco style for Goodhue's Los Angeles Central Library of 1925 <> James Gamble Rogers had also employed Lawrie and Chambellan in 1921 to create the multitude of figure sculptures on Harkness Tower <>
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