From left to right, they represent Moses, Pasteur, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Justinian, Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Goethe, Herodotus, Adam Smith, Homer, Gutenberg, Beethoven, Darwin. and Grotius. The shields along the facade are coats of arms of various universities around the world, e.g., Oxford, Uppsala, Louvain, Paris. Central library location for all materials in any microformat including old newspapers, ERIC documents, government documents, college catalogs. Over 300 U.S. and foreign newspaper subscriptions in paper copy and in microfilm. Particularly strong collection of Washington State and Pacific Northwest newspapers, both current and retrospective.
Most foreign newspapers come by surface mail and so are several weeks late.
The East Asia Library receives an additional 60 current newspaper titles. A change machine is on the Ground Floor, Suzzallo. Online as well as print indexes to many newspapers, including the Seattle Times. At the time it was built, it was the second largest library reading room in the U.S. and was considered to be one of the most beautiful library rooms ever constructed. 250 feet long and 65 feet high from floor to ceiling.