Women's college placemat - Few Graduate Quadrangle

Title:

Women's college placemat - Few Graduate Quadrangle

Description:

This placemat depicting the newly-constructed Few Graduate Quadrangle may have been used at the Woman's College. Author and Woman’s College faculty member G. Hope Summerall Chamberlain designed the placemat. Notice the illustrations of dogwoods, now the North Carolina state flower. The Few Graduate Quadrangle was named after President William Preston Few. The creation of this placemat coincides with Duke’s first Centennial celebration, which occurred in the 1938-1939 academic year.

Rights:

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED

Date:

1939

Citation:

"Woman's College Placement of Graduate Quadrangle," Duke University Ephemera collection, Oversized Folder 1, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Alternative Text:

Illustrated placemat of the Few Graduate Quadrangle.

Keywords:

Woman's College; architecture; William P. Few

Display Date:

1939

Illustrated placemat of the Few Graduate Quadrangle.

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