Duke University Ephemera Collection, 1935-1992
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Summary
- Creator:
- Duke University. University Archives
- Abstract:
- The Ephemera Collection includes event tickets, dining hall placemats, football game tickets, receipts, decals, pins, meal books and tickets, programs, photographcs, and other materials related to student life at Duke.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Foot
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- UA.01.11.0091
- University Archives Record Group:
- 01 -- General Information and University History
01 -- General Information and University History > 11 -- Reference Collections
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Ephemera Collection includes event tickets, dining hall placemats, football game tickets, receipts, decals, pins, meal books and tickets, programs, photographs, and other materials related to student life at Duke. Many materials date from the 1930s, and include invitations to dances, student fee receipts, programs to music performances, and a Duke University Handbook. Placemats were used in Woman's College dining hall, and depict campus buildings designed by Woman's College faculty member G. Hope Summerell Chamberlain. The collection also includes a few photographs of the campus and student life in the 1930s. Also included are some materials related to class reunions and alumni, including an alumni guide to campus.
- Acquisition information:
- The Ephemera Collection was received by the University Archives as a gift over a period of years.
- Processing information:
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Processed by University Archives staff, 2014.
Finding aid created by Tracy M. Jackson, October 2016.
Accession UA2015.0011 added by Tracy M. Jackson, February 2021.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law."
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- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ephemera Collection, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/m1r11t