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Gift Consists of Portraits of Dana and Van Devanter--Dana Picture Hung in International Seminar Room

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Paintings of Richard Henry Dana and Willis Van Devanter, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court have been presented to the Law School it was announced yesterday.

The Dana portrait is the gift of Richard Henry Dana '74, and is a copy of the original, painted at Rome by Miss Annie Perty and now hanging in the Dana home in Cambridge. The copy given to the Law School has been hung in the International Law seminar room in Langdell Hall.

The portrait of Justice Van Devanter is the work of the artist Slereth, and is the gift of Dean Roscoe Pound Hon. '20. It will be hung with the other portraits of United States Supreme Court justices in the south lecture room of Langdell Hall.

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