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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The holdings of the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library range from ancient papyri to records of modern advertising. There are over 10,000 manuscript collections containing more than 20 million individual manuscript items. Only a portion of these collections and items are discoverable on this site. Others may be found in the library catalog.

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This series contains Chamberlin's personal and professional communications with and about various individuals. Notable correspondents include Marice Allais, William Baumol, Kenneth Boulding, Luigi Einaudi, Dwight Eisenhower, Howard S. Ellis, Milton Friedman, Ragnar Frisch, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gottfried Haberler, Frank Hahn, Roy Harrod, Friedrich A. Hayek, Harold Hotelling, Richard Kahn, Nicholas Kaldor, Frank Knight, Emile Lederer, Wassily Leontief, Abba Lerner, Gertrud Lovasy, Fritz Machlup, Hans Neisser, J. F. Normano, Dennis H. Robertson, Joan Robinson, Paul Samuelson, Thomas Schelling, Robert Schuman, Joseph Schumpeter, Ben Seligman, George Stigler, Frank Taussig, Gerhard Tintner, Jaroslav Vanek, Jacob Viner, among others. Of note is Chamberlin's correspondence with Haberler, Harrod, Kahn, Kaldor, Knight, Robinson, and Stigler about theories of competition and firm behavior; and extensive correspondence with close friend Howard S. Ellis. Files are arranged alphabetically by name.

A researcher, Thibault Guicherd, who had been in contact with Chamberlin's descendants prior to the papers arriving at Duke created an index of Chamberlin's correspondence. Please contact Research Services to access a copy of this index. Note that due to rearrangement of correspondence files during processing and creation of this series, the file list below and Guicherd's index may not fully overlap.

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This series contains copies, reprints, drafts, notes, and other documents associated with Chamberiln's scholarly and popular writings and his service as an editor. These include: reprints and copies of published journal articles and book chapters; draft writings; reviews of published work by Chamberlin and others; copies of books written by Chamberlin; and files from Chamberlin's activity as an editor.

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This subseries includes reprints, copies, drafts, and other related materials for Chamberlin's scholarly writings in academic journals, edited volumes, and other outlets; also included are writings for popular media. Files are arranged alphabetically by title.

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This series includes personal items of Chamberlin's and his immediate family. Of note are honorary degrees and awards received by Chamberlin over his career, personal items of Lucienne Chamberlin, and correspondence between members of Chamberlin's extended family. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Contains personal items and items of a biographical nature, including personal notes, personal travel documentation, calendars, awards and honorary degrees, and Chamberlin's diploma and degrees. This subseries also contains items from Chamberlin's family, such as some of Lucienne Chamberlin's personal items and correspondence between Chamberlin's immediate and extended family, portions of which are in French. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject; family correspondence folders are chronological, preserving original arrangement.

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Collection consists of approximately 400 labels taken from packages of cheese and cheese spreads. Brands represented include Aplin & Barrett, Bel, Cow & Gate, Kraft, Libby, Plumrose, St. Ivel (Unigate, later Uniq), Swift, Surrey, Tolko, Tollose and Wilts. Cheeses originated from a variety of European countries including Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Comprised of the Awards and Honorary Degrees Subseries, which includes the John Bates Clark Medal, the John von Neumann Theory Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Nobel Prize, as well as honorary degree certificates and accompanying logistical information surrounding those ceremonies; as well as the Personal Items Subseries, which contains biographical material, photographs, scrapbooks, travel journals, datebooks, rolodexes, news clippings, and other materials.

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This series contains Bassett's correspondence as well as miscellaneous ephemera and personal materials from his medical training and career. Some of the correspondence predates Bassett, but the majority of it relates to his work as a bacteriologist and health officer in the Savannah Health Department; his efforts to research medical history and biographical data for the Georgia Medical Society; and his participation in various medical and public health professional organizations in the early twentieth century. Additional materials relating specifically to the Savannah Health Department and the Georgia Medical Society are held in those series.

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This series includes project files, reports, statistics, and publications related to Bassett's work as a bacteriologist, physician, and health officer for Savannah and its surrounding county, Chatham County. Some of the initiatives represented are vaccination; clean water; milk safety and inspections; infant/child health; prenatal healthcare; maternal healthcare; and Bassett's role in training for medical students, nurses, and midwives, including training and certification of African American midwives. This series also includes a selection of Bassett's reports on mortality and disease for the city of Savannah, divided by race.

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Materials in this series relate to Bassett's work as a member and librarian for the Georgia Medical Society, including his work in building the library and its collections. There are also some overlapping materials from Bassett's Research Notes series, because he was involved in the GMS's efforts to prepare biographical sketches of early Georgia physicians and medical history.

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Box 1, Oversize-folder 1

Assorted printed examples of items related to women-owned business ventures, pay, and income, including: life insurance for women brochures; advertisements and catalogs issued by women for boarding houses, ladies' classes, or gardening or grocery supplies; help wanted advertisements from various businesses, seeking women to hire for work as inspectors and door-to-door sales agents; a pay bill for Champfleurie Garderners' and Labourers' including Thomas and Mrs. McIntyre (1865); tickets, handouts, and circulars for services offered by women; lace specimen samples from Mme. Gurney and Co; a pensioner card for a firefighter's widow. There are some oversize materials in this section, including: a 1922 diploma (43x56 cm) for Nina E. Wilcox, earning a Philosopher of Chiropractic from the National College of Chiropractirs; a broadside advertising a 1914 recital by Louise Thornton, reader and impersonator in Boston; a broadside for Mrs. E. C. Cowdrey, Milliner, in Falls Village, Conn.; a Daly's Theatre playbill from 1884 , printed on fabric, with advertisements for E. A. Morrison's Elegant Bonnets; and a broadside (34 x 42cm) advertising the 1839 sale of two adjoining tenements in Godalming, "Late the Property and Residence of the Widow Crouch, deceased; who for many years carrier on the Trade of a Cooper, and for which the Premises are well adapted."

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Box 1, Oversize-folder 1

Contains depictions and illustrations of women working on stationary, letterhead, and on advertisements. Includes an oversize poster (72 x 102 cm) of a white woman working on an aircraft flare, issued by the War Manpower Commission (1942). The poster reads: "Women in the war: We can't win without them." Includes Harpers Weekly pages: "New York Charities-St. Barnabas House, 304 Mulberry Street," dated 1874 April 18; "Our Women and the War," dated 1862 Sept. 6. Contains Illustrated London News pages with illustrations: "Emigration of Distressed Needlewomen," dated 1850 August 17; and "Printing-Office (the Victoria Press) in Great Coram-Street, for the employment of women as compositors," dated 1861 June 15; and Sanford Bank two-dollar bill, with images of women weaving, dated 1861.