Wallet and calling card, Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, 1908-1909

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Title

Wallet and calling card, Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, 1908-1909

Description

Leather wallet with Dr. Lovett's name stamped in gold foil, zipper closure, shown with one of Dr. Lovett's engraved calling cards.

Source

Forms part of the Edgar Odell Lovett and Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Family papers, 1849-1979
MS 494, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. woodson@rice.edu

Publisher

Digital version published by Rice University, 2010.

Date

1908-1909

Rights

This material is in the public domain.

Identifier

wrc00249

Abstract

These items were used on the world tour taken by Rice Institute President Edgar Odell Lovett, his wife Mary Hale Lovett, and Secretary for Rice's Board of Trustees, Carrington Weems. The mission of the tour was to research the best characteristics of the world's top universities and plan the academic, administrative, student and physical structure of the Rice Institute.

Citation

“Wallet and calling card, Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, 1908-1909,” Lovett World Tour, accessed April 28, 2024, https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/lovetttour/items/show/19.