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Type of Object
Academic regalia
Place of Manufacture
Albany (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture
1957
Physical Details
Hood presented to Dr. William Sanger in concert with the honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree granted him by the Medical College of Virginia in 1957. Hood is sewn from heavy fabric with a thicker base for the velvet trim on the exterior. Velvet trim is deep purple, the traditional color assocated with law degrees. Outside of hood, the part that would be worn to the rear, is dark green with a stripe of white through the middle, the traditional colors of the Medical College of Virginia.
Dimensions
1.5 cm. x 114 cm. x 59 cm.
Topical Subject
Academic costume
Accession Number
1983.119.10a
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 Civil Law Hood (MCV), VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00163.jpg