Margaret Bennett photograph album, circa 1926-1930

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Summary

Creator:
Hurt, Margaret Bennett, 1909-1965
Abstract:
Margaret Bennett was a 1930 graduate of the Woman's College of Duke University and involved with numerous student groups and organizations including the Student Government Council. This collection includes a photogarph album containing prints of portraits and campus scenes of student life in the late 1920s, as well as loose photographs and digitized negatives.
Extent:
0.2 Linear Feet
Language:
Material in English
Research Center:
Duke University Archives
Collection ID:
UA.30.01.0072
University Archives Record Group:
30 -- Student and Alumni Papers and Materials
30 -- Student and Alumni Papers and Materials > 01 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and content:

Small album (approximately 6x8 inches) contains photographs that document Duke student life in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Photographs include formal portraits, candid snapshots taken on what is today East Campus, and football and baseball players in uniform. Many of the portraits are of male classmates and include Bennett's captions in pen on the image, typically noting the student's name or nickname.

Some images have been removed or damaged. In addition to the album, the collection contains a selection of 23 loose photographs and 4 digitized negatives.

Biographical / historical:

Margaret Bennett (1909-1965) was a 1930 graduate of the Woman's College at Duke University. She was class secretary her freshman and junior year, a member of the Student Government Council and the Y.W.C.A. cabinet her junior year, and a member of the Chronicle (student newspaper) and Chanticleer (yearbook) staff her senior year.

She married Jethro Merewether Hurt on November 6, 1935, and the couple later had three children. Margaret Bennett Hurt appears in the 1950 U.S. Census as a housewife living with her family in Blackstone, Virginia. She died in Richmond, Virginia, on December 22, 1965.

Acquisition information:
The Margaret Bennett Photograph Album was received by the University Archives as a gift from J.M. Hurt III in 1995.
Processing information:

Processed by Josh Larkin Rowley, May 2009

Four original nitrate negatives were digitized and deaccessioned in 2025 and only exist in digital form.

Accessions described in this collection guide: UA95-66

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[Identification of item], Margaret Bennett photograph album, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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