Full DescriptionRichard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia |
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| Title: | Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia |
| Alternate Title: | Duke Collection |
| URL: |
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/duke/ 
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| Description: |
UVa Special Collections houses many of the Virginia-related Duke Family papers. This online collection provides historical contextualization of the primary source material. The site, focusing on Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr., will deliver the digital facsimiles of his entire Recollections (five volumes) as well as the forty volumes of his diaries. Between 1899 and 1926, Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr., a prominent Albemarle County, Virginia, jurist and civic leader, recorded the most memorable events of his life in five, leather-bound volumes for the benefit of his children. This website contains digital images of these Recollections, as well as digital reproductions of his Diaries and contextual information on Duke's family, his interests, and the places important to him. |
| GEM Subjects: | |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Objects Represented: |
Photographs / slides / negatives Letters Diaries |
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image/jpeg text/html |
| Interaction with Collection: | Browse |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 11/15/2007 3:00:51 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | University of Virginia |
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