Jefferson Country Mapping to GDMS
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Jefferson Country is a survey of the architecture of an historic significant region of Virginia, the county of Albemarle and the city of Charlottesville. Both are inextricably linked to the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and his builders. The county is unusually rich in vernacular buildings dated to all periods. This expansive survey, produced under the supervision of professor emeritus Edward K. Lay, has a far-reaching audience of national and regional scholars of American Architecture. Edward K. Lay's book The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia was published in 2000 by the University Press of Virginia; a CD-ROM version containing the complete text and figures from the book and a searchable database of 2409 structures illustrated with 3359 images, was published by the Albemarle County Historical Society and produced by the Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center that same year. The collection in the Central Digital Repository contains 3,301 images. The source metadata for this collection is a tab delimited text file. Librarians from Cataloging Services and the Fine Arts Library performed substantial enhancement of the original data. Notes explaining the enhancement process are available as an accompanying Word document.
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