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George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives

Image Gallery: Buildings

The historical and descriptive narratives that accompany each set of views are reprinted from Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988).

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