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Diary/scrapbook kept by Frank Clyde Brown and Duke President William Preston Few during a 1924 tour of colleges and universities in the Eastern U.S.

Creator
Brown, Frank C. (Frank Clyde)
Few, William Preston, 1867-1940

Source
Brown (Frank C.) Papers, 1899-1943

Date
1924

Description
The scrapbook contains 152 pages of extensive notes and commentary about campus design. Brown and Few collected postcards, prints, brochures, architectural renderings, and floor plans and glued them into the book, often hinging them so that both sides might be read. Brown and Few visited the following campuses: Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, College of the City of New York, Cornell University, Harvard University, Haverford College, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Sweet Briar College, Syracuse University, Vassar College, the University of Virginia, and Yale University.

Type
Administrative papers
Diaries
Scrapbooks

Subject
Duke University -- History
College buildings -- Architecture
Durham (N.C.)

Format
Photograph

Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 34.3 cm
Page Count: 2

Diary/scrapbook kept by Frank Clyde Brown and Duke President William Preston Few during a 1924 tour of colleges and universities in the Eastern U.S.Contents
1. Front Matter (2 pages)
2. University of Chicago (12 pages)
3. Bryn Mawr College (7 pages)
4. University of Pennsylvania (20 pages)
5. Princeton University (21 pages)
6. Yale University (20 pages)
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (33 pages)
8. Mount Holyoke College (1 page)
9. Vassar College (1 page)
10. Cornell University (11 pages)
11. Harvard University (22 pages)
12. Syracuse University (8 pages)
13. College of the City of New York (3 pages)
14. Johns Hopkins University (10 pages)
15. University of Virginia (9 pages)
16. Sweet Briar College (8 pages)
17. Randolph Macon Woman's College (3 pages)
18. Haverford College (2 pages)
19. Peabody College (1 page)
20. Miscellaneous pictures (1 page)
21. List of architects (2 pages)
22. Memoranda concerning building materials (4 pages)