Looking centuries old but only being from 1939. Drawings of detailing for the Student Union Building at the University of Arkansas. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects.

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Seahorse and Letters. Full Size Details of Letters and Ornament for Inscription Panel Main Entrance of Student Union Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 118. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. May 8, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/54/rec/2
Detail of Carved Stone Panels above Arched Windows of North Entrance. Student Union Building University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 124. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. June 24, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/57/rec/3
Full Size Tower Ornament (carved drops not required). Student Union Main Entrance Details. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 120. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image).May 22, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/67/rec/5
Quatrefoil Design repeated below Window Panels on the Student Union Entrance: Sills and Carved Panels for Windows C-131 to C-138 Inclusive: two carved ornaments as above for each window opening. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 107. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image).May 22, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/69/rec/6
Razorback Panel Detail. The Razorbacks being the name of the football team at the University of Arkansas. Detail from a drawing showing proposed details for the Main Entrance at the Student Union of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. In the end they went with a more standard cornucopia panel, not this one. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image). January 30, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/77/rec/9
Carved Quatrefoil Design Panel below Window of Main Entrance. Student Union. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 105. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. February 8, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/80/rec/10
Stone Details South Entrance: Classroom Building Stone Building at South Entrances. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 203. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. June 26, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/106/rec/13

The Student Union at the University of Arkansas that these were part of was built as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The building is still there, now it is called Memorial Hall or Futrall Memorial Hall. The current Student Union was built in 1972. The 1939 building is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the first photograph here https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/university-of-arkansas-futrall-memorial-hall-fayetteville-ar/

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