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All Hail Tiger Baby

On June 30, 2010 By

One of the things we enjoy using the Digital Collections Blog for is to highlight notable items from Duke’s digital collections and tell you why we think they’re interesting, or thought-provoking, or important, or funny.  But there are some digital objects where it’s obvious why we love them, so no explanation seems necessary.  This image, [...]

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Three Gorges Dam in the Gamble Photographs

On March 25, 2010 By

A new exhibit entitled “Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam in Contemporary Chinese Art” opens tonight at the Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke. In the exhibit, four contemporary artists respond to the Three Gorges Dam, a project to build a hydroelectric dam across the Yangtze River, completed near Yichang, China, in 2008. [...]

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Prequel to Sidney Gamble

On December 4, 2008 By

We recently posted a slideshow providing sample images highlighting what the Sidney Gamble Photograph collection looked like before we turned it into a digital collection.

The slideshow is included on a page (About the Photographs and the Project) that provides background information describing how the collection came to Duke.

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