Difference between revisions of "Five Substitute Nails"
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| + | Five Substitute Nails. 1. and 2. from the Tip-Top Building, White River Jct., Vermont; 3. and 4. from the former Hartford Woolen Company Warehouse in Hartford Village, Vermont and 5. from Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia. Oxidized Iron, or iron alloys, various sizes 8 cm. – 2.5 cm. Used as substitutes for Nails from Dartmouth Hall “salvaged from the fire,” unavailable for the present exhibition. | ||
<blockquote>120 years old when it burned in February of 1904, the center of College life was Dartmouth Hall, a wooden structure which housed recitation halls, the chapel (attendance at which was mandatory until well into the 20th century), and student housing. The loss of this building was significant for it was considered be the “last visual link with the early college.”</blockquote> | <blockquote>120 years old when it burned in February of 1904, the center of College life was Dartmouth Hall, a wooden structure which housed recitation halls, the chapel (attendance at which was mandatory until well into the 20th century), and student housing. The loss of this building was significant for it was considered be the “last visual link with the early college.”</blockquote> | ||
Originals stored in plastic bag. “Stand-ins” | Originals stored in plastic bag. “Stand-ins” | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 13 April 2008
Nails
re;1846;003;si (originals Dartmouth Realia, common box viii)
Five Substitute Nails. 1. and 2. from the Tip-Top Building, White River Jct., Vermont; 3. and 4. from the former Hartford Woolen Company Warehouse in Hartford Village, Vermont and 5. from Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia. Oxidized Iron, or iron alloys, various sizes 8 cm. – 2.5 cm. Used as substitutes for Nails from Dartmouth Hall “salvaged from the fire,” unavailable for the present exhibition.
120 years old when it burned in February of 1904, the center of College life was Dartmouth Hall, a wooden structure which housed recitation halls, the chapel (attendance at which was mandatory until well into the 20th century), and student housing. The loss of this building was significant for it was considered be the “last visual link with the early college.”
Originals stored in plastic bag. “Stand-ins”
