Close Hall, at the northwest corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue, housed the University of Iowa School of Journalism from its founding in 1924 until much of the building was destroyed by fire on New Year’s Day 1940.
University Libraries Director Ralph Ellsworth (standing, second from left); center director Ralph T. Esterquest (with pencil, center). The Midwest Inter-Library Center is now known as Center for Research Libraries and began as a centre for deposit…