Letter, Dudley Pratt to Hanna Krueger, 1953
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Title
Letter , Dudley Pratt to Hanna Krueger , 1953
Photographer
Pratt , Dudley
Date
1953-02-06
Description
Feb . 6 , 1953 Box 117 , Croton Falls , New York . Hanna E . Krueger Associate Librarian State College of Wash . Pullman , Wash . Dear Madam , Replying to your letter of Nov . 20 , 1952 , the statue on the library should simply be called "The Student ". This design was chosen from about 20 which I submitted to the architects and board of regents . They made this choice because it was the simplest possible expression of the meaning of a library . The round forms of the statue are intended to harmonize with the Palouse hills in the background and to contrast with the strong vertical and horizontal line of the building . The character of the figure itself is patterned after the tall rangy farm boys who seemed typical of your students . The statue is carved of Indiana limestone , 60 tons being quarried for the job , and the finished statue weighs about 25 tons . It was completed in the Fall of 1949 , after about a years work . The carving was done in Indiana and transported by freight car to Pullman . I appreciate the interest you are taking in this work and if there is any further information you desire , please write me . Very truly yours , Dudley Pratt
Subject
Washington (state)--Pullman--Washington State College ; Campus buildings--Washington (state)--Pullman--Holland Library ; Sculpture--Washington (state)--Pullman--Holland Library ; Nature Boy ; The Reader
Location Depicted
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Whitman county--Pullman
Type
Text
Genre
Correspondence
Publisher
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights Notes
In copyright. Item is in copyright for 120 years from its date of creation.
Identifier
ws107-5-pratt
Source
Is found in WSU 107 , WSU Publications - Libraries https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/wsu001_999.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Digitization
Original letter was scanned in color at 300 dpi on an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner and saved as a tiff file. A 100 dpi jpeg file was created from that file and uploaded to the CONTENTdm server at the WSU Libraries.
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