Historical Images
Students, faculty, and guests attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the library, October 31, 1922.
Box 1, Folder 88, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Construction temporarily stopped in 1924, but a roof was installed over the first and second floors and the building opened for use in 1925.
Box 1, Folder 121, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Program, 1928.
Box 1, Folder 16, James H. Dolan President’s Office records (BC1986-020C).
Naming opportunities for donors, listed in the program for the dedication ceremony of the building,1928.
Box 1, Folder 16, James H. Dolan President’s Office records (BC1986-020C).
Guests arrive at the library for its dedication, June 13, 1928.
Box 1, Folder 43, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
The library’s auditorium was a popular venue for campus events, including Mass. It was replaced by shelving in 1970. It is now Bapst Library’s Kresge Reading Room.
Box 2, Folder 98, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
First floor floorplan.
The Boston College Library: History and Description. Boston: 1933, Z733 .B743 1933 REF.
Fourth floor floorplan.
The Boston College Library: History and Description. Boston: 1933, Z733 .B743 1933 REF.
Bapst Library interior: Gargan Hall from entrance with students, 1930
Box 2, Folder 58, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Students studying in Gargan Hall in Bapst Library during Finals, Spring 2015.
Boston College Office of Marketing Communication stock photo.
In 1952, the library building was named in honor of Boston College’s first president, John Bapst, SJ (1815-1887).
Box 1, Folder 16, Boston College faculty and staff photographs (BC2000-005).
Students in the Browsing Room, now the Lonergan Center, undated.
Box 2, Folder 84, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Patrick H. Collins, SJ (1899-1987), leads the baseball team in prayer for world peace on the library steps, 1940.
Box 7, Boston College athletic photographs (BC1986-019).
Students view a library exhibit commemorating Saint Ignatius, 1956.
Box 2, Folder 19, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Students in the Periodical Room, now the Burns Library Reading Room, undated.
Box 2, Folder 99, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
The library stacks, with Librarian John O’Loughlin (1895-1964) at his desk, undated.
Box 2, Folder 101, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
A helicopter lands on the Bapst Library lawn at the start of a business seminar on the role of aviation in the development of Greater Boston, 1958.
Box 2, Folder 4, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
Students in the Reception Room, now Burns Library’s British Catholic Authors Room, 1963.
“Boston College. Sub Turri: The Yearbook of Boston College. Boston: The College, 1963.”
Students in the Reference Room, now the Lonergan Center, 1964.
“Boston College. Sub Turri: The Yearbook of Boston College. Boston: The College, 1964.”
Library staff working in Gargan Hall, undated.
Box 23, Folder 31, Boston College faculty and staff photographs (BC2000-005).
A student uses a card catalog in Gargan Hall, 1980.
Box 2, Folder 72, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
The library’s auditorium (now Bapst Library’s Kresge Reading Room) being cleared during renovation, undated.
Box 2, Folder 97, Boston College building and campus images (BC1987-012).
View of the mezzanine from the Bapst’s Kresge Reading Room, undated.
University Photographer’s photographs and contact sheets (BC2002-025).
When BC alum and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (1912-1994) retired, his Washington DC office was recreated in the newly renovated Bapst Library, 1986.
University Photographer’s photographs and contact sheets (BC2002-025).
John J. Burns (1901-1957).
Robert Alexander Anderson, Hon. John J. Burns, 1986, oil on canvas, Ford Tower, Burns Library.
Burns Library’s Irish Room.
University Photographer’s photographs and contact sheets (BC2002-025).
