Our Projects

Since its inception, the DPC has created nearly 9000 digital images and continues to undertake new digitization projects.

Underway

• Duke University Football Programs
  The covers of more than 500 Duke football game programs from 1923 through 1999.
  
  
• William Emerson Strong Photograph Album
  Portraits of 200 military officers and "notorious characters” of the Confederacy.
  
  
• 19th Century American Broadsides
  More than 1800 lyric sheets, mostly from the Civil War era.
  
  
• R.C. Maxwell Outdoor Advertising Photographs
  More than 2500 photographs of signs and billboards from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History.

Completed 

• Ration Coupons on the Homefront
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  More than 75 coupon sheets, booklets, stickers, and  promotional materials issued by the U.S. Office of Price Administration during the World War II.
  
  
• Hugh Mangum Photographs
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  Over 650 glass plate negatives from early in the 20th century depicting hundreds of individuals in North Carolina and Virginia as they posed for candid "penny portraits."
  
  
• Construction of Duke University
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  More than 275 photos, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks from 1925-1932, documenting the largest construction project ever undertaken in the South.
  
  
• Digital Durham
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  Over 200 items representing the cultural, social, and economic history of Durham, North Carolina, an examplar of "The New South."
  
  
• Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  Documentation: Digitization of the Walt Whitman Manuscripts (PDF)
  Over 1000 Whitman-penned notes, drafts, and commentary in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana.
  
  
• Norma Preston Sheet Music Collection
  Nearly 250 pieces of American sheet music (1900-1923) from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
  
  
• Durham County Aerial Photographs
  Approximately 650 photos of Durham County, North Carolina, produced by sub-agencies of the USDA in 1955, 1960 and 1967.
  
  
• Building Duke: Photos of Campus Construction, 1925-1931 
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  Nearly 600 black and white photos documenting the construction of Duke campus.