Explore: Shields Library

53972; -121.74917 The Peter J. Shields Library, or Shields Library, is a four-story library named after Peter J. Shields. It is located in the eastern

farms. Shields began to champion the cause of a university farm. He was later honored as the "founder" of UC Davis in 1962, when the Shields Oak Grove

well as the bronze bust of Twain, are now in the possession of the Shields Library at UC Davis, having been donated by the Danel and Reboin families,

commercially. Shields was born into an Irish-American family in Uptown New Orleans, on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived. Shields' family

South Shields on the other bank. The name derives from Middle English schele meaning "temporary sheds or huts used by fishermen". North Shields is first

"press reader", and Fanny Sophia Shields (née Ungerland), who was German. Along with six others of the Abbey Players, Shields fought in the Easter Rising of

of 75,337. Historically within the county of Durham, South Shields is south of North Shields and Tynemouth across the River Tyne; and east of Newcastle

circular shields, such as bucklers, which afforded poor protection to the horseman's left flank, especially when charging with a lance. Kite shields gained

"'The Shields Garland'", a series of booklets containing "Shields" songs which show the towns of Cullercoats, Tynemouth, North Shields and South Shields, small

completed in March 1921, it was called Shields–Watkins Field in honor of the donor and his wife, Alice Watkins-Shields. However, the project ran out of funds