1974 The Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

[LIB6694] - Microfil reading room with large readers and special tables offers modern accommodations to researchers in age-old manuscripts. With permission of Pius XII and subsidation of the Knights of Columbus, Saint Louis University microfilmed large numbers of Vatican Library manuscripts. Also available are filmed collection of Jesuit missionary activity. [From the back of the card.]

Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri

[LIB2507] - This $4 million air conditioned open stack library is the depository of the Knights of Columbus microfilms made of some 11 million pages of the priceless Vatican Manuscripts Collection. This building also contains the 300,000 volume university library, and has facilities for 1 million bound volumes, and an estimated reader capacity of 1500. A statue of Pope Pius XII by the renowned sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominates the Lindell Plaza entrance to the library. [From the back of the card.]