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Folger Shakespeare Library

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The Folger Library's collection of works by and about Shakespeare and his times is second to none. The white-marble art deco building, designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret and dedicated in 1932, is decorated with scenes from the Bard's plays. Inside is a reproduction of a 16th-century inn-yard theater—the site for performances of chamber music, baroque opera, and Shakespearean plays—and a gallery, designed in the manner of an Elizabethan Great Hall, which holds rotating exhibits from the library's collection. Henry Clay Folger, the library's founder, was Standard Oil's president and chairman of the board.

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