“A Worthy Place”: Durham, Duke, and the World of the 1920s-1930s

This exhibit was curated by members of the 2023-2024 Bass Connections project team World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham: 1924-1932, in partnership with the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Co-Curators: Robert Buerglener, Hannah Jacobs, Paul Jaskot, Philip J. Stern, Victoria Szabo, Edward Triplett, in collaboration with Margaret (Meg) Brown.

Digital Feature Designers: Caitlin Childers, Emma Jo Donnelly, Brooke Hira, Hailey Kasney, Elif Ozturk, Celine Shay, and the Bass Connections team members.

Additional Contributors: Annapurna Bhattacharya, Susannah Braswell, Carmen Chavez, Nicholas Eichelberger, Savannah Fitzpatrick, Oliver Hess, Veda Kanduri, Seth Kessler, Nubia Khan, Elaijah Lapay, Yuliya Leberfarb, Disty Mahmud, Ruth Player, Kalei Porter, Isabel Shew, Wendy Vencel, Madison Wall, Jiayi Wang, Nathaniel Waxman, and Malynda Wollert.

Thanks to the students who took part in the Visualizing Cities, Duke's Historical Landscape, and Digital Durham courses, the North Carolina Lives and Legacies Research Lab, and the members of the History+ Bennett Place Project. Their participation helped inform the exhibition content and themes.

Additional thanks to Trudi Abel and Carson Holloway from Duke Libraries for their subject area expertise, and to Michael Daul, Janelle Hutchinson, Vaughn Stewart, Yoon Kim, Aaron Welborn, Grace Zayobi; Paul Zylowski and the Office of Information Technology Audio-Visual Staff; David Bryan and George Breeden at the Co-Lab for help with materials fabrication.

Special thanks also to Lauren Panny and the staff of the Durham County Library for their research collaboration and support.

This exhibition was sponsored in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Additional support came from Bass Connections; the Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; and the Information Science + Studies Program at Duke University.