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Bonnie Lee Black papers, 1931-2022

43.25 Linear Feet 1.9 Gigabytes (3 files)
Bonnie Lee Black is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and chef who has worked both domestically and internationally. The collection centers primarily on her work as a writer, as a member of the Peace Corps in Gabon, as a professor in New Mexico, and as the creator of an economic development project in Mali aimed at teaching local seamstresses the art of patchwork quilt-making. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Blackwell family papers, 1845-1976 and undated

1.6 Linear Feet
Collection contains primarily correspondence and printed materials. There are also three unidentified and undated black-and-white photographs, along with a few items representing the Livingston family, including a genealogy developed by Helen Thomas Blackwell. The correspondence contains mostly routine letters to Blackwell family members from other family members; including Alice Stone Blackwell, Anna M. Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emma Blackwell, Helen Blackwell, Henry B. Blackwell, and Lucy Stone. There are also several postcards mailed to the Woman's Journal regarding subscriptions, address changes and other matters related to publication, or the editor's business acquaintances. There are several printed materials written by Blackwell authors, including "Philosophy of Re-Incarnation" by Anna Blackwell, and "Medicine & Morality," "Scientific Method in Biology," and "Erroneous Method in Medical Education" by Elizabeth Blackwell. However, the series primarily features printed items that were maintained in the Blackwell family library. Also contains a corrected typescript (1940s) of Ishbel Ross' Life of Elizabeth Blackwell along with notes from 1958 on the Elizabeth Blackwell award at Smith College.
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Photographs, undated 0.1 Linear Feet

Contains three uncaptioned black-and-white photographs. Two are cabinet cards. Images feature two unidentified women, a baby, and a dog.

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    Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South interviews, photographs, and project records, circa 1864-2011, bulk 1990-2004

    87 Linear Feet (122 boxes; 4 oversize folders)
    The Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South project was undertaken by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies from 1990-2005. Its goal was to record and preserve African American experiences in the American South from the 1890s to the 1950s. Materials in the Behind the Veil project collection date from about 1864 to 2011, with the bulk dating from the 1990s; earlier dates represent original image content rather than the reproduction date. The collection comprises over 1200 oral history interviews with associated transcripts and administrative files, several thousand historic and contemporary photographs, and project records, which include paper and electronic administrative files and audiovisual recordings. Oral histories were conducted in 19 locations, chiefly in the South; topics represented in these recordings include childhood, religion, education, politics, celebrations and other events, family histories, work histories and military service, and details about segregation and the effects of racism in the South. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African American History and Culture at Duke University.
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    Bookplate collection, undated

    0.5 Linear Feet approx. 400 Items
    The Bookplate Collection contains bookplates acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library over time. The exact provenance of most is not known. The collection includes bookplates specific to Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) and Duke University. Also included is a book seller's ticket, which is in French. The collection is undated.
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    Bookplate collection, undated 0.5 Linear Feet approx. 400 Items

    The Bookplate Collection contains bookplates acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library over time. The exact provenance of most is not known. The collection includes bookplates specific to Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) and Duke University. Also included is a book seller's ticket, which is in French. The collection is undated.
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      Amy Morris Bradley papers, 1806-1921, bulk 1841-1904

      3 Linear Feet
      Amy Morris Bradley was a white nurse and agent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War as well as an educator in Maine, 1840s-1850s, and Wilmington, N.C., 1865-1890s. This collection comprises correspondence, diaries, record books, and photographs documenting Bradley's family life and teaching in Maine during the 1840s, her travels throughout the South and Costa Rica in the 1850s, her duties as a nurse at several U.S. Sanitary Commission convalescent camps during the Civil War, and her post-war work in Wilmington, N.C., where she founded free schools for white children in 1866 and 1872 under the auspices of the Soldiers' Memorial Society and worked as an administrator in the public school system until 1891. The collection includes two salted paper prints and several albumen photographs of Civil War relief camps, some by noted photographer Alexander Gardner.
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      Louise Hortense Branscomb papers, 1864-2002 and undated

      7.95 Linear Feet
      Louise Hortense Branscomb was a physician from Birmingham, Alabama, who was also heavily involved in community work and with the United Methodist Church. Her papers include diaries, medical notebooks, correspondence, and photographs documenting her and her family's activities during the twentieth century.
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      Julius Logan Brasher papers, 1935-2012

      12.5 Linear Feet
      Collection spans the pastoral career of United Methodist minister Julius Logan Brasher. Brasher was minister at six congregations in New Jersey from the early 1940s to 1976, when he and his wife Lois Brasher relocated to the Brasher home of Gadsden, Alabama. Collection contains Brasher's diaries and pastor's record books, materials from the churches where he ministered, sermons and accompanying notes, subject and name files, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials.
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      Branch family papers, 1778-1899

      1.5 Linear Feet
      Collection consists of papers of John Branch (1782-1863), governor of North Carolina, U.S. senator, and secretary of the navy, and of his nephews, Joseph Branch, lawyer, and Lawrence O' Bryan Branch (1820-1862), lawyer and brigadier general in the Confederate Army, concern political appointments in 1829-1830; land speculation, chiefly in Leon County, Florida; the legal practices of Joseph and Lawrence O' Bryan Branch in Florida and North Carolina; and Whig politics and Union sentiment in North Carolina. Volumes include a scrapbook and daybook, account books, a letter book, a notebook on public questions, and a list of political constituents supporting Lawrence O'Bryan Branch.
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      Charles Davis Jameson papers, photographs, and photograph albums, 1887-1919 and undated

      7.3 Linear Feet
      Charles Davis Jameson was an American civil engineer who lived and worked on railroads in China with the Perkin Syndicate between 1895-1918. The papers include two letters Jameson wrote to his mother; four diaries, one of which was unused; a 60-page commonplace book mainly filled with handwritten copies of published poetry, and four Japanese lithotints. The rest of the papers comprise eight typescript or published engineering reports authored by Jameson and others on Chinese projects, in English and a few in Chinese, along with two versions of Jameson's typescript description of a trip to Shanxi and Hunan. There are seventeen photograph albums, dated 1898 and undated, featuring 1255 black-and-white photographs ranging in size from 2.25 to 5.75 inches. There are also five loose photographs, four black-and-white, and one tinted, ranging in size from 8 x 4.5 inches to 11.5 x 9.5 inches. An additional five black-and-white photographs feature a Chinese man as an archer, holding a stone, and a wielding a kwan dao. These photographs are generally 6 x 8.25 inches and are mounted on 10 x 12.25-inch card stock.
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      Commonplace book, undated
      Box 3

      Contains a 60-page commonplace book filled with published poetry and verse.

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      Lithotints, undated
      Box 4 > Folder 1

      Includes four Japanese lithotints, sized 11.5 x 9.25, showing Japanese homes; a religious shrine; and two figures walking on a beach near a volcano, possibly Mt. Fuji.

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      Joseph Jastrow papers, 1875-1961 and undated

      6.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)
      Collection contains correspondence; lectures, speeches, prose, and poetry; published articles; book reviews; photographs and negatives; a scrapbook; and newspaper clippings. Subjects include the Jastrow family of Philadelphia and the Szold family of Baltimore, early psychology and psychophysics, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Jewish society and Judaism in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and the Zionist movement. Correspondents include his father, Talmudic scholar Marcus Jastrow, and sister-in-law and U.S. Zionist movement leader, Henrietta Szold. Papers also include information on Joseph Jastrow's adopted son, Benjamin (Benno) Jastrow; a typed memoir, circa 1920, by Benno's biological father contains a moving account of the tragic outcome of the Spanish influenza epidemic (1918-1919), which led to the adoption of the infant Benno by the Jastrow family. Glass plates in the collection contain charts of symbols which may be results of experiments in involuntary hand movements, traced by his invention, the "automograph."
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      Jarratt-Puryear family papers, 1807-1918, bulk 1843-1879, bulk 1843-1879

      3 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 2,349 items (including 4 vols.))
      Collection contains chiefly correspondence relating to the Clingman, Jarratt, Poindexter, and Puryear families, early settlers of Surry County, N.C., together with a genealogical table. Subjects include the slave trade between North Carolina and Alabama, 1830-1835; North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction, conditions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prior to the war, plantation accounts, the distillation and sale of whiskey, and business affairs. Correspondents include William James Bingham, John Adams Gilmer, and Zebulon Vance.
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      Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina collection of Jewish historical materials, 1888-1988, 2014

      20.5 Linear Feet
      The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina (JHFNC) is an independent organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of the Jewish people of North Carolina, and transferred its archives, including these materials, to the Rubenstein Library in 2014. Since 2019, the organization has been known as Jewish Heritage North Carolina (JHNC). This collection consists of historical material created or collected by Jewish individuals, families, and social and religious organizations of North Carolina, and donated to the JHFNC. Types of material include scrapbooks, certificates, pamphlets, catalogs, correspondence, photographs, World War II-era Nazi weapons and military paraphernalia collected by Jewish American soldiers, and other artifacts and manuscript materials.
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      Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina records, 1750-2014 and undated

      34.1 Linear Feet 42.6 Gigabytes
      The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina records span the years 1750 to 2014 and document the origins and daily operations of the organization, which preserves and presents the history of the Jewish people of North Carolina through public programming, exhibits, and other projects. The collection includes documents and digital material related to the planning, funding, and carrying out of various exhibits, events and projects, especially the multimedia program "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina." Also present are primary and secondary research materials collected by JHFNC historian Leonard Rogoff related to the history and culture of Jews in North Carolina and southern Jewish identity. Types of materials in the collection include financial statements, meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, typescripts, newsletters, marketing materials, photographs, research notes, and audiovisual material. Digital materials include photographs, administrative and promotional materials, and project design materials.
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      George Wesley Johnson papers, 1829-1939, bulk bulk

      10 Linear Feet (7 boxes, 2,620 items and 77 vols.)
      Correspondence, daybooks, in the early 1840s, ledgers, notebooks, accounts, bills, receipts, orders, promissory notes, postal records, and other papers (chiefly 1831-1888) of George Wesley Johnson and of his family. The material pertains to Tennessee agriculture, purchases of goods in Philadelphia and other northern cities before and after the Civil War, Wake Forest College, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Female College, economic conditions after the Civil War, and the mercantile activities of the Johnsons.
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      John Warfield Johnston papers, 1778-1890

      2.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 416 items.)
      Collection includes papers of Johnston and of his wife, Nicketti Virginia (Floyd) Johnston, of her parents, John Floyd, governor of Virginia, and Letitia (Preston) Floyd, Letitia's brother, Francis Smith Preston, and other members of the Preston family. Includes letters, fictional and political writings, and other papers, including many references to plantation life, Virginia and national politics, pioneers of southwestern Virginia and genealogical material on the Breckinridge, Buchanan, Floyd, Preston, and other Virginia families.
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      Journeys of the Soul (心灵之旅) recordings, 1998-2018

      12 Linear Feet 1,117 items (595 audiocassettes, 522 minidiscs)
      Eight hundred twenty-six episodes of Radio Free Asia's program Journeys of the Soul (心灵之旅), 1998 to 2018. Episodes are approximately 30 minutes, with interviews covering topics including the Great Leap Forward, The Great Famine, Korean War, the Cultural Revolution, the June 4th Movement, the Anti-Rightest Campaign, and the Weiquan movements (civil rights movements) in China. Also includes unedited audio.
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      Minidisc, undated
      Box 04 > Audio-disc RL11948-MD-0278

      232 re-recorded version; 關于"洛讓鄧珠, 阿安扎西案"; About the Lobsang Dhondup and Tenzin Delek Case; 【再录版】(上) 王力雄、Mr.Dawa Tse-ring、Mr.Rinchen Tashi、茉莉、Mr.Tashi Dhondup、高寒; 【Re-recorded version】One: Wang Lixiong, Mr. Dawa Tse-ring, Mr. Rinchen Tashi, Moli, Mr. Tashi Dhondup, Gao Han

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      Minidisc, undated
      Box 04 > Audio-disc RL11948-MD-0279

      321 re-recorded version; A; 呼吁关注、释放持不同政见者; Call for Attention to and Release of Political Dissidents; 【重录版】(一)大陆106人致信联合国人权委员会：请求关注、呼吁中国释放异议人士 李国涛、赵昕太太、师华、方草、魏京生、黄慈萍、张钰、Ms.Kristin Jones、Mr. Joshua Rosenzweig、王庭金; 【Re-recorded version】One: Letter from 106 from Mainland China to the UN Human Rights Committee: Calling for the Release of China's Dissidents: Li Guotao, Wife of Zhao Xin, Shi Hua, Fang Cao, Wei Jingsheng, Huang Ciping, Zhang Yu, Ms. Kristin Jones, Mr. Joshua Rosenzweig, Wang Tingjin; 321; B; 林昭：回忆、纪念与研究; Lin Zhao: Memory, Remembrance and Study; 【重录版】(一)访林昭的胞妹彭令范 彭令范; 【Re-recorded version】One: Interview with Lin Zhao's Younger Sister Peng Lingfan; 226 re-recorded version; "反右"回憶与研究第一部 ：話說"反右"; "Anti-Rightist Movement" Memory and Study One: About "Anti-Rightist"; 【重录版】第一集: 四十五周年回顧 丁抒、林希翎、茅于轼、朱正、李梧龄、刘宾雁; 【Re-recorded version】One: Looking back at the 45th Anniversary: Ding Shu, Lin Xiling, Mao Yushi, Zhu Zheng, Li Wuling, Liu Binyan; 187 re-recorded version; 中國宗教迫害報告; Report on Religious Presecution in China; 【重录版】第五集 : 兩封公開信 刘凤钢、李金奎、江葛珍、周同用、王美如、张凤英、严正学、徐永海; 【Re-recorded version】Five: Two Open Letters: Liu Fenggang, Li Jinkui, Jiang Gezhen, Zhou Tongyong, Wang Meiru, Zhang Fengying, Yan Zhengxue, Xu Yonghai

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      J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm Microfilm Investigations, 1913-1950 and undated

      3 Linear Feet (53 items)
      Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The JWT 16mm Microfilm Investigations span the years 1913-1950 and consist of research reports, market studies, account histories, office overviews, campaign studies and other investigative documents. Clients include Andrew Jergens, Ballantine, Corning, Kodak, Emerson Drug, General Cigar, J&J Colman, J.B. Williams, J.P. Stevens, Johns-Manville, Lehn & Fink, Lever Brothers (Unilever), Lorillard, Northam Warren, Penick & Ford, Pond's, R.T. French, Scott Paper, Standard Brands and the U.S. Marine Corps. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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      Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies records, 1966-2024

      247 Linear Feet 96.17 Gigabytes
      The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (JCPES) is a nonprofit American research and public policy institution, or think tank, founded in 1970 to aid black elected officials in creating effective policy and successfully serve their constituents. The collection includes subject files, writings, publications, photographs, audiovisual materials, and electronic records pertaining to JCPES events, programs, and projects especially of concern to African Americans in the late 20th century. Collection acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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      Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina oral history collection, 1981-2014

      5.3 Linear Feet
      The oral history video recordings, audio recordings, and transcripts in this collection were produced or collected by the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina (JHFNC) and historian Leonard Rogoff as source material for various projects related to the history of Jews in North Carolina. The collection consists of individual and group interviews of Jewish residents of urban and rural North Carolina, including rabbis. Topics discussed by interviewees include family and community history, religious education, participation in Jewish congregations, anti-Semitism and race relations the civil rights movement in North Carolina, World War II military service and the Holocaust, family businesses, and philanthropy. Interviewers include Rogoff, Robin Gruber, and Steven Channing.
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      Lee Clark Johns papers, 1960-2016

      13.5 Linear Feet
      The collection consists of materials documenting the professional and community activities of the corporate communications specialist Lee Clark Johns from Tulsa, OK. Materials include Materials include presentations, speeches, business contracts, book drafts and copies, articles, and materials related to professional technical writing associations. There is a scrapbook documenting the Battle for HB 1017, an educational reform bill for the state of Oklahoma. Johns' family history and alumni activities on behalf of Duke University are also included.
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