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Contains material pertaining to the daily workings of ALFA, including events ALFA sponsored or participated in and the publicity for these events; information about individual members; fundraising for the organization; committees within the organization; meetings; correspondence; information about the Southern Feminist Library and Archives; and Atalanta, ALFA's newsletter.
Series comprises 99 traditional darkroom black-and-white photographs, 127 digital image files, and one digital video (2 mins., 18 secs.) documenting life and culture, and landscapes in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, with a focus on Bolivia.
Digital image files are associated with the Bolivia series, and include TIFs, PSDs, and a PDF contact sheet.
The photographic prints are arranged in series chiefly by country and then by travel dates; they measure approximately 16x20 inches. Areas represented are Patagonia and Argentina; the Bahamas; the Altiplano region of Bolivia; Foz do Iguaçu and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; El Salvador; Guatemala; Martissant, Cité Soleil, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Nicaragua; Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and Cusco, Peru.
Images show people working and farming, cooking, minding children, socializing, parading, traveling, going to market, resting, and playing games. Several portraits feature people in traditional dress.
The largest groups of images are from Bolivia, El Salvador, and Haiti. The Haiti photographs, taken when Barth returned following the 2010 earthquake, include scenes of destroyed buildings, street life, and people among the rubble in the epicenter zone, at Martissant, and in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The digital video (2 mins., 18 secs.) chiefly shows landscapes in Nicaragua and Honduras, most shot from a moving vehicle, border crossings, and possibly other South American locations.
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.
Professional and personal correspondence and printouts of e-mail, arranged in chronological incoming and outgoing sequences.
Hiram Barker Papers, 1857-1895 6 boxes
Arranged in alphabetical order by state name. The last set of folders contains miscellaneous business receipts and unidentified or illegible correspondence from various locations.
Detailed descriptions related to largest groups of correspondence, including extracts transcribed from letters, details on family history, and comments on highlights and on the correspondents.
Includes personal and professional correspondence; book reviews of Bausch's work; essays and short stories; Life Thus Far, a published autobiography; and drafts and proofs of thenovels The Gypsy Man, On the Way Home, and Almighty Me.
[31 computer disks were removed from this box and migrated to the electronic records server.]
Includes correspondence, including from his students; book and movie contracts and royalty statements; school essays and other writings, including manuscripts and proofs of For God's Sake and Almighty Me.
European tourist travel negatives, between 1910-1915 36 items — 1 box — 34 nitrate negatives; 2 original processing envelopes — 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches
Research notes, manuscripts on paper and floppy diskettes, and some correspondence relating to the serial Cambridge History of American Literature, of which Bercovitch is general editor. Research notes chiefly relate to Bercovitch's work on colonial American literature and religion, particularly on the Puritans in New England, and American humor. Also includes drafts with corrections of A Cultural Model of Literary Studies, and Literary Context, both by Bercovitch. Another set of files consists of writings by others, curriculum vitae, and more correspondence pertaining to the Cambridge serial. Some correspondence and articles date from the 1940s and 1950s and were written by Bryna Bercovitch in Yiddish; English translations included. Some later correspondence is comprised of email printed out. There is also material documenting his work as an English professor at Harvard, such as student correspondence and papers, and material regarding Yiddish literature.
No. 1. Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South 8 x 11 inch print mounted on a 16 x 20 inch board
No. 2. Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North 8 x 11 inch print mounted on a 16 x 20 inch board
Two folders: Printed Matter and John Ford Thompson Diary, 1841, 1844-1845. Box also contains 7 loose items: a fragile daybook/account book from 1836-1847; yearbook programs from the Inter Se Circle of Marion, Alabama; cashbook of John Ford Thompson (1840s); constitution of Carlisle Fortnightly Club (1907).
Please note that all folder and item titles in this collection guide have been taken from card catalogs and other inventories created in the early 20th Century.
Original photographs, circa 1912-1934 .25 Linear Feet — 1 box — 118 prints
Series consists of one box of 118 original photographic prints, many of them photographic poscards with the rest mounted on cardstock. Most have been are stamped or have been otherwise identified as produced by Michael Francis Blake's photography studio in Charleston, South Carolina. Dates are approximate unless marked on the photograph. In some cases, the studio address reveals the time period. All measurements are in inches.
Copy prints are available in box 2 and are the preferred format for access to avoid overuse of the originals.
Additionally, the original prints have been digitized and are available on the Duke Libraries Digital Collections website.
3.5 x 5.5. The photographer is unknown, or it may have been taken by Blake with a remote shutter release.
Includes all correspondence received by and written by Professor Bloomfield concerning academic and other professional matters. Arranged in chronological order.
Exhibit Prints, 1941-1982 7 boxes
Series of 71 exhibit prints of black-and-white images taken by Gertrude Duby Blom between 1941 and 1982 in the highland jungles and towns of Chiapas, Mexico. The photographs were printed in 1982 by Barry Norris, Blom's close friend and collaborator since 1977. The matted prints are arranged in groups by size, from 11x14 to 22x22 inches (mat sizes), accompanied by a larger matted print measuring 26x26 inches. Within size groups, prints are arranged by year. Captions are taken from original text printed on the mats beneath each image.
Vicente Bor performing religious ceremony with corn gruel, Lacandon, Jataté River, 1950 11 x 14 inches
Subject Files 1 box
Accession (2009-0101) (1.5 lin. ft.; dated 1967-1977 and undated) consists of a subject file of printed materials discussing women's health, employment, art, feminism, academics, law, motherhood, etc.
Bill of indictment for African-American woman named "Blender", 1808 January 0.1 Linear Feet — 1 item
Material deals with general agricultural matters rather than specific crops, Much of the correspondence concerns Department of Agriculture regulations. Various Departmental reports are included.
Printed Materials, 1994-1998 6 items
Series includes Belcher's curriculum vitae, a summary of his "American People" project in the Dominican Republic, an exhibition brochure and three news articles related to his photography. Additional exhibit literature catalogued separately in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes A Land and Life Remembered: Americo-Liberian Folk Architecture, House and Home: Spirits of the South, and Claiming Place: Biracial American People.
Photographs, 1969-1996 and undated 1413 items
The photography in this collection represents Belcher's work from his first forays into photography in New York City between 1969 and 1971, up to his most recent projects in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic and the United States. This series is organized by project subseries, which are arranged chronologically by the beginning date of each project. Within each subseries, black-and-white work precedes color work, and contact sheets precede photographs. Subseries descriptions describing collection holdings for each project follow the restrictions note below. For information about specific contact sheets and photographs, researchers are advised to consult Belcher's own notes on his work, usually found on the back of individual contact sheets or photographs.
Be Still: A Storefront Church in Durham, 2012-2013 1.5 Linear Feet — 1.5 boxes; 1 oversize folder — 60 photographic prints
This documentary body of work by photographer Kristin Bedford consists of 56 color inkjet photographic prints that portray African American worshippers and their pastor at the Apostolic Deliverance Rebirth Outreach Ministries, a storefront church in east Durham, North Carolina. The exterior and interiors of the building are featured in many of the images. Five of the photographs were taken as the congregation enjoyed a recreational swim at nearby Falls Lake.
There are 28 exhibit prints in two sizes: 19 prints measuring 18 1/2 x 24 inches, and 9 prints measuring approximately 27 1/2 x 32 inches. There is also a set of 28 handling prints measuring 11 x 17 inches. An information folder is located in the box containing the smaller prints; it includes the photographer's statement from the "Be Still" exhibition at Duke University in 2013, and a printed list of thumbnail images, in color, with titles.
Handling prints .5 Linear Feet — 1 box — 28 photographic prints — 11 x 17 inches
This box includes a folder with the artist's project statement.
This series includes Battalio and Van Huyck's correspondence over the course of their careers. Files are arranged in alphabetical name files for Van Huyck's correspondence, or when Van Huyck is acting on behalf of himself and Battalio, and chronological files for Battalio's correspondence; preserving original arrangement. Correspondence is typically of a routine nature involving the exchange of published papers with many prominent economists and, in some cases, correspondence related to refereeing for journals, submitting papers for publication, or discussion of experiments. Email correspondence originates from Van Huyck's computer hard disks and is grouped into folders reflecting Van Huyck's original arrangement and labeling.
This subseries includes correspondence handled by Van Huyck, sometimes on behalf of himself and Battalio. Files are in alphabetical named folders by name of correspondent or topic discussed.
The Administration series contains documents relevant to the congregation's organizational records, and is divided into four subseries: Beth El Preschool, Board and Governance, Correspondence, and Subject Files. Beth El Preschool contains documents from the Carnival of the Arts, including publicity materials and financial summaries. The subseries includes extensive financial records of the preschool, including tax reports, payment records, and supplies expenditures. Also includes teacher applications, letters to parents, and information of the preschool's founding. Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
The Board and Governance subseries contains meeting minutes of the congregation's leadership, including the board of directors and board of trustees, from 1939-2008. Includes several bound volumes of handwritten meeting notes with various handouts taped in, including: form letters, financial reports, budgets, requests, and typed notes. Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Correspondence mostly consists of official correspondence between the Synagogue leadership with various individuals and official organizations, including the American Association for Jewish Education, American Zionist Youth Commission, Hebrew Theological College, United Synagogue of America, and Yeshiva University. Also includes official correspondence with Rabbi Steven Sagar from the 1980s while he served the congregation. Arranged chronologically by year.
Subject Files contain a variety of organizational records from the synagogue, including financial records, legal papers such as deeds and congregant constitutions, membership lists, staff meeting minutes, Ladies' Aid Society meetings, Beth El Sisterhood meetings, and historical accounts of the synagogue. Also includes two Books of Life, extensive information on funeral rituals and preparation, Chevra Kadisha, and documents pertaining to the centennial celebration in 1987. The documents include ceremony recordings, concert programs, handouts, flyers, some correspondence, exhibit displays, and meeting minutes. Also includes information from the Jewish Ceremonial Art Exhibition at Duke University in 1988, in which the synagogue participated as part of the centennial. One folder includes photocopied advertisements from Jewish businesses in Durham from the 1880s. Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Carnival of the Arts, 1975-1979 2 folders
Flyers, form letters, publicity notes, meeting agendas, reports