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Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies records, 1966-2024

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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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Journeys of the Soul (心灵之旅) recordings, 1998-2018

12 Linear Feet 936 items (414 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-0277

心灵之旅 之一; Journeys of the Soul: One; 心灵之旅 之二; Journeys of the Soul: Two

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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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Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina records, 1750-2014 and undated

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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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Lee Clark Johns papers, 1960-2016

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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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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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Adelaide Johnson papers, 1848-1987 and undated

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Adelaide Johnson, 1859-1955, was a suffragist, artist, and sculptor. Her original name was Sarah Adeline Johnson; she changed her name to Adelaide in 1878. Collection incorporates primarily Adelaide Johnson's working materials related to her sculpture of Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that is located at the United States Capitol building, with focus on Susan B. Anthony. There are cabinet cards of Johnson's plaster casts, cabinet cards of Anthony, Stanton, and Anthony and Stanton together, several signed, along with albumen, gelatin deveoping-out paper, and matte collodion printing-out paper prints of Anthony; two silhouettes of Mott; a few letters to Johnson; biographical information about her; and related published materials. There are also exhibit labels for the first exhibition to be held at Elizabeth Cady Stanton's House after it was acquired by the Women's Rights National Park at Seneca Falls, curated by Lisa Unger Baskin in 1986 or 1987, and featuring the Johnson materials. The exhibit was also displayed at the Sophia Smith Collection for a Berkshire Conference on History of Women.
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Photographs of others, undated 1 folders Box 1

Includes two images possibly unrelated to other materials in the collection. There is an undated photograph of Elizabeth Miller Jarvis that was removed from a published piece, and an undated cabinet card by Baldwin and Ames Studio, Chicago, featuring a sculpture (probably Johnson's) of Union General John A. Logan.

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Exhibits, 1986 or 1987 1 folders

There are twelve lablels for for the first exhibition to be held at Elizabeth Cady Stanton's House after it was acquired by the Women's Rights National Park at Seneca Falls, curated by Lisa Unger Baskin in 1986 or 1987, and featuring the Johnson materials. The exhibit was also displayed at the Sophia Smith Collection for a Berkshire Conference in on History of Women.

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    Bradley T. Johnson papers, 1851-1909

    2 Linear Feet (4 boxes (922 items))
    Bradley T. Johnson was a Confederate officer, lawyer, and politician, born in Frederick (Frederick Co.), Maryland who later settled in Virginia after the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, personal accounts, Civil War reminiscences of campaigns in several states, a memoir of the 1st Maryland Regiment, C.S.A., a muster roll of the 21st Virginia, Company B, records of a Confederate prison hospital, and an incomplete diary of a trip to Cuba as correspondent during the Spanish-American War. Included also are a series of letters from Wade Hampton and from Joseph E. Johnston. Other correspondents include Henry Adams, James Cardinal Gibbons, and Henry Cabot Lodge along with an anonymous April-Dec., 1846 diary, identified with Isaac R. Watkins, law student in Richmond, Va. and son of prosperous Charlotte County family.
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    Margaret "Peg" Johnston papers, 1965-2020 and undated

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    Abortion rights activist. Director, Southern Tier Women's Services in upstate New York. Former President of the Abortion Conversation Project; founder and past president of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. Johnson was also one of the founders of the Abortion Care Network and Board President from 2008-10. Collection comprises primarily printed materials that document Johnston's work as an activist at the national level. Includes the abortion provider newsletter Feminist Caucus News (1989-1991), which later became Networks (1992-1998 and undated). In addition, there are copies of Johnston's counseling aids, including the workbooks Abortion: Which Method is Right for Me?; Pregnant? Need Help? Pregnancy Options Workbook; and A Guide to Emotional and Spiritual Resolution After an Abortion. There are order forms, advertising, and occasional publications associated with the workbooks and other items offered for sale; an article pro-choice political activism for the 1996 elections; a few letters, notes, and memos by Johnston, including two undated pages with her notes on the material's historical significance. Also includes a copy of Morgen Goodroe's Abortion Resolution Workbook, greeting cards, Religious Groups for Choice ephemera, and other abortion counseling information.
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    Henry W. Jones papers, 1813-1877

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    Henry W. Jones was a farmer, lawyer, magistrate, and distiller from Granville County, North Carolina.
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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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    J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm Microfilm As-Broadcast Scripts, 1928-1958

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    Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) 16mm Microfilm As-Broadcast Scripts span the years 1928-1958 and contain transcripts of radio and television dramas and variety shows, news programs, commercials, and sports programming. Companies featured include Andrew Jergens, Ballantine, Brillo, Ciba-Geigy, Fannie Farmer, Ford, General Cigar, J.B. Williams, Kodak, Kraft, Lamont-Corliss (Pond's), the New York Yankees, Penick & Ford (Br'er Rabbit), Standard Brands, the U.S. Marine Corps, and Wrigley. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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    J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm microfilm Treasurer's Office records, 1916-1949 and undated

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    Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. It is headquartered in New York. Collection includes correspondence, bills, approvals and releases, lists of stockholders, estimates, wage cards, legal files (lawsuits, judgments, claims), insurance documents and other printed materials. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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    J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm microfilm Legal Department records, 1916-1958 and undated

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    Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. It is headquartered in New York. Collection includes correspondence, invoices, claim forms, reports and other printed materials. Topics include billing, clearances, federal laws, insurance claims, taxes and unsolicited ideas. Companies and organizations represented include American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), American Federation of Musicians (AFM), American Federation of Radio Actors (AFRA), Federal Communication Commmission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Atlantis Sales, Ballantine, Bowman Dairy, Elgin Watch, Ford, General Cigar, J.B. Williams, Johns-Manville, Kodak, Kraft, Lever Brothers, Owens-Illinois Glass, Pan Am, Pond's, Scott Paper, Seven-Up, Shell, Standard Brands, Swift, U.S. Brewers Foundation, U.S. Playing Card, W.F. Young, Ward Baking and Weco. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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    John Hicks papers, 1950-2015

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    John Hicks was an African American jazz pianist, composer, and educator professionally active in music since the 1960s. Papers consist of compositions composed, arranged, or performed by John Hicks or Elise Wood; and professional and personal files comprising business records, press materials, photographs and correspondence. There are some photographs and clippings relating to his father, John Hicks, Sr, a Methodist minister. Also included is a large collection of audio and moving image materials in audio cassette, LP, CD, VHS, Betamax, and DVD formats, consisting chiefly of concert recordings of Hicks from the 1980s through the 2000s, but also containing rehearsals, interviews, and piano lessons with Hicks and his band members, including flautist Elise Wood.
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    John Hood papers, 1862-1904

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    John Hood (1838-1905) served as lieutenant and later captain of Co. F 80th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, and later worked as a teacher and Presbyterian minister. His papers include material related to his military service, including a detailed, unpublished narrative of his 22 months as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia and other Confederate prisons in Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Athens, and Goldsboro. The collection also inlcudes a manuscript of a poem by George Gordon Byron DeWolfe about Robert Harmer, Quartermaster of the 80th Illinois, and a Memorial Day address by Hood in honor of John Alexander "Black Jack" Logan, Civil War general and U.S. Senator.
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    Jim Hunt papers, 1950s-2000s

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    Dr. Jim D. Hunt was a Professor of Ethics and Religion at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC for almost 30 years. He studied the philosophy of Mohandas K. Gandhi and published several authoritative books on Gandhi, satyagraha, civil rights and peace. The Jim Hunt Papers span the years 1950s-2000s and document Hunt's academic career as a Professor of Religion and his personal life as an activist for social changes. Items in the collection include research materials, correspondence, writings by and about Dr. Hunt, manuscripts, clippings, printed materials, notebooks, information and multimedia packets, photographs, slides, videos and sound recordings, as well as a few artifacts.
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    Leonid Hurwicz papers, 1917-2008, bulk dates 1951-1999

    115 Linear Feet (252 document boxes and two half document boxes.) 7.6 Gigabytes
    Leonid Hurwicz (1917-2008) was a Nobel Prize winner and Regents' Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Minnesota. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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    Ipas records, 1965-2020; 1965-ongoing

    363 Linear Feet (242 boxes)
    Ipas works around the world to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, especially the right to safe abortion. The collection documents this global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion.
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    Charles Davis Jameson papers, photographs, and photograph albums, 1887-1919 and undated

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    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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