Drawing a crowd

Children got a front-row seat for the 1928 dedication of Albert Emanuel Library, which grew the University’s library capacity from 10,000 volumes to 80,000 volumes. This included books previously held in the law library. While UD’s law school closed in 1935 due to the Great Depression, it reopened in 1974 and, in 1978, moved to Albert Emanuel. Read more about the law school’s 50th anniversary of its reopening. 

Photograph courtesy UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES