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Type of Object
Academic regalia
Place of Manufacture
Albany (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture
1953
Physical Details
Hood presented to Dr. William Sanger in concert with the honorary Doctor of Laws degree granted him by the College of William and Mary in 1953. Hood is sewn from heavy fabric. Velvet trim is deep purple, the traditional color assocated with law degrees. The part of the hood worn to the rear is bright green on the outside, with dull white and bright yellow highlights on the interior.
Dimensions
1.5 cm. x 114 cm. x 59 cm.
Topical Subject
Academic costume
Accession Number
1983.119.10c
Genre
academic hoods
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Doctor of Laws Hood (College of William and Mary), VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00165.jpg