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has gloss | eng: Hardy Memorial Tower at San Diego State University, constructed as a Works Progress Administration project in 1931, is 11 stories (119.1 ft / 36.3 m) tall; it contains the Fletcher Symphonic Carillon (also known as the Fletcher Chimes) (installed 1946), consisting of 204 bells over 6 octaves . Hardy Memorial Tower is part of the original core of the SDSU campus on Montezuma mesa , and was the Universitys original library . *NRA Packages, a mural painted in 1936 by Genevieve Burgeson Bredo, and for many years thought lost, has been restored and is now on display inside Malcolm A. Love Library. The mural was discovered in 2004 behind ceiling tiles inside SDSUs Hardy Memorial Tower, which was part of the universitys first library. Painted in a variety of media, it portrays three men unloading National Recovery Act (NRA) packages from a van near San Diegos Hillcrest neighborhood. *A second, larger mural, George Sorenson's San Diego Industry, remains in Hardy Memorial Tower. This mural depicts the successive stages of tuna fishing and canning, along with the multi-ethnic work force involved in that industry. The library hopes to remove, restore and relocate this mural. See and . |
lexicalization | eng: Hardy Memorial Tower |
instance of | (noun) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building tower |
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