Box 15

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Dining ware (1882-1992) consists of plates, saucers, platters, cups, bottles, pitchers, a jar, napkin rings, sugar bowls, salt and butter dishes, spoons, a tankard, and bowls. Multiple are Wedgwood fine china, and many feature designs related to Wellesley College, such as the College Seal, images of college buildings, or the Wellesley symbols acorns and oak leaves. Some dining ware is commemorative, and was sold to alumnae for fundraising. Includes pieces of the first set of china...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series X. Fowle and Durant family (circa 1775, 1823-1863) consists of objects relating to college founders Mr. and Mrs. Durant’s grandfather, Captain John Fowle, and his time serving in the Revolutionary War, including three bullets from a supply of ammunition stored in a colonial meeting house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Insignia of the Order of the Cincinnati, and a framed invitation to attend the Standing Committee meeting of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Series also...