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Specialty retail firm based in Chicago; originally a hardware store in the Bowery section of New York, established in 1848. Collection includes advertising and sales data; articles; artifacts and memorabilia; audiovisual materials (VHS tapes; CDs); catalogs and direct-mail solicitations; clippings; correspondence; financial reports; manuscripts of company histories; newsletters; photographs; print advertisements; testing reports and product reviews; and other printed materials that document Hammacher Schlemmer's history and operations from its inception as a seller of hardware and tools through its evolution as a retailer of specialty items. Entities represented in the collection include Hammacher Schlemmer Institute; Invento Products; Lewis & Conger; Plummer Ltd; Plummer McCutcheon; and Sky Mall. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

U.S. Indian agent, Army officer during the Mexican War; from Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Correspondence and other papers, relating to Hamtramck's activities as agent to the Osage Indians, to troop movements, army discipline, supplies, and other matters during the Mexican War, and to the Hamtramck family. Includes letters of Hamtramck's father, John Francis Hamtramck, and of Shepherdstown merchant Walter Selby, Hamtramck's father-in-law. Correspondents include Elias Boudinot, William Clark, George Clinton, Pierre Couteau, Caleb Cushing, John H. Eaton, John Hancock, R. M. T. Hunter, George Izard, John Jay, Elias Kent Kane, Henry Knox, Arthur St. Clair, and Jesse Burgess Thomas.

Normal school chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Va. Collection contains fundraising appeals, advertisements for printing facilities, invitations to commencement exercises, a list of subscribers, an image of the campus (Virginia Hall and surrounding area), and a plan for an additional building.

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway. Collection contains four items: a theater program and issue of Playbill magazine for Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and a theater program and issue of Playbill magazine for Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.

Western Auto was an automotive parts and household goods variety store founded in Kansas City, Mo., in 1909 and continued in operation until 2003. The album consists of black-and-white photographs accompanied by written descriptions of merchandising activities at the store. The album documents an experiment conducted by the Hanford, Calif., Western Auto store in which store staff designed new fixtures and display cases to remodel the interior of the store and then to study changes to customer foot traffic patterns. It also includes a description of the process, suggestions on applicability to other stores, and the cost of the project. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Advertising and business columnist for USA Today and the New York Times.

Businessman, philanthropist, and chairman of The Fuqua Companies and Fuqua Enterprises. The J.B. Fuqua Papers span the years 1929-2006. The collection is separated into two divisions according to place of origin: Fuqua's business office and his home office. The office files document Fuqua Industries and The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and include annual reports, reading files and general business papers, as well as clippings, periodicals, and copies of articles about J. B. Fuqua and his businesses. The home office files primarily document Fuqua's early career and contain files for the various businesses he acquired. A large component of video cassette recordings chiefly contain speeches and programs related to Fuqua and the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is the largest film festival in the United States entirely devoted to documentary film. Originally the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, it is an international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema, held annually since 1998 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Typically, more than 100 films are screened, along with discussions, panels, and workshops fostering conversation between filmmakers, film professionals and the public. The Full Frame Archive was created in 2007, as a partnership between Duke University and Full Frame. The Full Frame Archive Film Collection comprises preservation masters of documentary films that won awards at the Full Frame Film Festival between 1998 and 2012. Formats include 35mm film, 16mm film, Digital Betacam cassette, HDCAM cassette, Betacam SP cassette, and DVD. In addition, there is a complete set of festival program books. The films vary widely in topic and style, with a predominant emphasis on human rights issues; all of the films deal with social issues in one way or another. The collection is organized chronologically, by festival year, and acquisitions are ongoing.

Jack Fullilove and Alan Lesage were a gay couple who were involved in the arts community in Durham, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough, NC. They were also medical doctors and residents of North Carolina and France. The Jack Fullilove and Alan Lesage Papers includes a variety of materials related to their life in Europe during World War II and, since 1955, in North Carolina and their involvement with local arts communities.