Source Collection
This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans family papers 1865-2014, bulk 1935-2012
Collection #RL.01167 | 130.7 Linear Feet (164 boxes, three film cans, and 11 oversize folders.); 33.6 Gigabytes (Born digital electronic records.); 6.5 Terabytes (Digitized audiovisual material.)
ABSTRACT
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012) was the only daughter of Mary Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. This collection documents her childhood in New York, enrollment at Duke University, and marriages to Josiah C. Trent and James H. Semans. She continued her family's legacy of philanthropy, with a focus on the arts, education, and medicine, and became civically active beginning in the 1950s, espeically in Durham and North Carolina.
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