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    <unittitle>Negative, Lee Family Piano</unittitle>
    <unitid>WLU.Coll.PP.0101</unitid>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Item</extent>
      <dimensions>2 3/8" x 3 3/4"</dimensions>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" datechar="creation" era="ce">between 1940-1960</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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<p>An image negative of the Lee family piano when it was on display in the Lee Chapel Museum. The piano is now located in president's house on Washington and Lee University's campus. The negative was sleeved in an envelope with a note for 'Miss Helen' from Charles Tolley that reads: 'This is a negative of the piano in the Museum. If you feel that you could ever use it, you may keep it'.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="fast">Piano</subject>
    <genreform>Photographs</genreform>
    <persname role="own">Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870</persname>
    <famname role="own" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Lee family</famname>
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