Early English table supplied by Karl Bock, who decorated the Rare Book Room interior in 1949

Portrait of Edwin Asbury Yates

Portrait of Eugene Bennette Geer of the Duke Endowment

Portrait of Evelyn Harrison, Class of 1930, head of the Woman's College Library from 1949 to 1979.

Still life of flowers

Portrait of George G. Allen, Trustee, The Duke Endowment and Duke University

Portrait of George Wilbur Pearsall

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