Longwood College MaceLU.285

Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections

Janet D. Greenwood Library
401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Business Number: 434-395-2433
ask@longwood.libanswers.com
URL: https://libguides.longwood.edu/home/asc

Jamie Krogh

Repository

Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections

Identification

LU.285

Title

Longwood College Mace 1974 Mace was actively used from 1974-2011

Quantity

1 Object, Mace is displayed in case in Greenwood Library Atrium

Quantity

2 Folder

Quantity

Language

English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The mace is on permanent display in the Greenwood Library atrium. There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes

Custodial History

The mace was put on permanent display in Greenwood Library in 1997, and then in 2007 it was transfered from the collection of the Longwood Center for Visual Arts to the Greenwood Library Archives.

The Longwood College mace was presented to the college by Zeta Tau Alpha in 1974 in commemoration of the silver anniversary of the sorority's founding at teh college in 1898. The mace is designed in the form of a lily and was designed by Stanley Lechtzin, a goldsmith and jewler in Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents

Collection includes the college mace as well as paperwork detailing the mace's design process and purchase.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Ceremonial maces
Longwood University -- History

Container List

Artifact object: Display Case

Longwood College Mace

Text Multi-Collection Box 02

Design and Committee Records

1973-1975

Text Multi-Collection Box 02

Paperwork of Longwood Center for Visual Arts related to mace

Scope and Contents

includes deaccession form and database information for mace when managed by the Longwood Center for Visual Arts. Additionally the folder inlcudes information about the mace being loaned to the Southern Alleghenies Musuem of Art.