Reel 45: Home movies, circa 1941

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MDBTS and Josiah C. Trent, including briefly ice skating at start. Pinecrest, including possibly Roland Alston and/or David Perry at work and Elizabeth Gotham in the pool. Mary Duke Biddle, including at a tulip field. Linden Court. Two or three football games at Wallace Wade Stadium then Carter-Finley Stadium, with a focus on the marching band performances. University of Virginia campus and surrounding region with unknown people. College-age(?) MDBTS with friends. New York City to Boston on Eastern Steamship Lines(?). Duke University West Campus, including Omicron Delta Kappa, Rho Circle chapter tapping ceremony with three men in hoods.

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This collection is currently being reprocessed to incorporate additional material before it becomes fully open to researchers in January 2027. Material may sometimes be unavailable because of this, especially in the remaining series: Correspondence, Writings and Speeches, Subject Files, and Personal. This work is being funded by a Duke Endowment grant focused on Duke family papers. For more information, please contact the Rubenstein Library.

Access restricted. Access to this material will be consistent with the 1991 agreement between Duke University Library, James H. Semans, and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Access to any correspondence, legal papers, and financial papers is restricted and will be permitted only with prior written permission, which should be sought from the chair of the board of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. This restriction shall be in place until 1 January 2027, after which all material shall be considered open for research.

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