Bill Davis and Davis family, 1976-2006 and undated
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Series is made up of 18 11x14 inch black-and-white (gelatin silver) photographs, the majority of which feature portraits of Bill and Nat Davis, brothers from an established rural family from the Piedmont plateau region of Pittsylvania County in south-central Virginia. Images range from the landscapes and sites around this family farm to the portraits of the two brothers Bill and Nat. One includes a sister, Nancy Paige Davis. There are several images of Bill's burial and gravesite. Eighteen of these photographs have also been digitized and are featured on the Duke Digital Collections site.
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Photographs are arranged in order as received. Original titles, captions, and negative identifiers as assigned by the photographer have been retained. Each print has also been assigned an institutional identifier.
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Access restricted. Collection contains fragile audiovisual items in the form of original compact discs with oral history recordings. They are closed to use.
MP3 audio files of all the oral histories are accessible in the Rubenstein Library reading room only; they are unavailable for duplication or other distribution. Contact Research Services for more information.
Access note. Some materials in this collection are electronic records that require special equipment.
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Images may not be reproduced in any form without permission by donor. Use is restricted to educational, non-commercial purposes; any other use requires permission of donor.
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