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Durham Bicentennial Commission records, 1974-1977

3.5 Linear Feet 504 Items
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The Durham Bicentennial Commission, officially registered as the Durham-County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, was a Durham County, N.C. organization responsible for coordinating and planning events to celebrate the American Bicentennial in 1976. Collection contains materials relating to the various activities sponsored by the Commission, the members of the various committees, financial records in the collection and the participants in the Folklife and Summer Arts festivals held in 1976. The lists of potential participants and actual participants name numerous artists, craftpersons, and musicians. Included also are three oversize maps of the NC Bicentennial Folklife Festival grounds. The official name of the Commission as registered with the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration was The Durham-County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.

Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company records, 1896-1937 (bulk 1915-1934)

45.7 Linear Feet 34,302 Items
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Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company founded, 1884 by J. A., J. M., and W. R. Odell, W. H. Branson, and Julian S. Carr. Headquarters in Durham, N.C. Dissolved, 1940. Letterpress copybooks, invoices, cancelled checks, check stubs, receipt books, and invoices and accounts from Joshua L. Baily and Co., Philadelphia brokers who sold goods for the company. Most of the material represents the years 1915-1934. Includes information on fluctuations in cotton prices, export trade in cotton cloth, types of cloth and machinery, freight rates, salaries, workers' medical care, tenement rents, stockholders, dividends, and distribution of excess profits.

Durham, North Carolina City/County Charter Commission records, 1966-1974

6 Linear Feet Approx. 2200 Items
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Group formed in the 1970s to draft a charter for the consolidation of the Durham, North Carolina City and County governments. Durham, North Carolina City/County Charter Commission records contain correspondence, financial records, reports, statements, memoranda, polls, minutes, maps, and other documents. Most materials date from 1971 to 1974.

Baxter Durham papers, 1922-1932

1 Linear Feet 383 Items
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Collection primarily contains papers pertaining to pensions for Confederate veterans and their widows. Other topics include N.C. political and financial affairs, and the Tar Heel Club.

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Stanley Hauerwas papers, 1962-2021 and undated

129 Linear Feet 34 Megabytes (Files extracted from 17 3.5" floppy disks as both preservation disk images (17 files) and use copies (356 files).)
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Stanley Hauerwas is a Duke Divinity School professor. Collection contains personal and professional materials documenting Hauerwas's career as an ethicist, professor, and scholar at the Duke University Divinity School and School of Law. Includes correspondence, lectures, professional engagement files, committee work, drafts, publications, and other assorted materials. Collection is closed pending processing.
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Darlene Clark Hine papers, circa 1879-1996, bulk 1950-1996 and undated

24.6 Linear Feet 9225 Items
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Darlene Clark Hine is an African American professor, historian, college administrator, and published author in the field of African American history.
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Randall Hinshaw papers, 1930-1997

18 Linear Feet (12 record cartons, two document boxes, and three audiocassette boxes.) 1.4 Gigabytes (One set.)
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Randall Hinshaw (1915-1997) was a professor of economics at the Claremont Graduate School. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, professional activities, and teaching. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Hinsdale Family papers, 1712-1973

16 Linear Feet 2557 Items
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This collection centers around John Wetmore Hinsdale (1843-1921), a successful lawyer and businessman who served in the Confederate army. His son, John Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr., was also a lawyer and politician in North Carolina. Correspondence, Civil War diaries, newspapers clippings, C.S.A. War Dept. records book, and other papers, of a family of lawyers, of Raleigh and Fayetteville, N.C. Includes material on Confederate generals Theophilus Hunter Holmes, William Dorsey Pender, and James Johnston Pettigrew; schools, education, railroad taxation, and legislation, government and politics in North Carolina, particularly during the 1930s; and medical practice in Virginia ca. 1900. Persons represented include Ellen Devereux Hinsdale, John Wetmore Hinsdale, and John Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr.

History of Economics Society records, 1971-2016

37.5 Linear Feet (36 boxes.)
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The History of Economics Society seeks to promote communication, dessiminate knowledge, and encourage inquiry into the history of economics. This collection contains membership and financial records, papers and proceedings of annual meetings, officer's correspondence, constitution and bylaws, and publications, including accepted and rejected manuscripts from the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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George Warren and Kate Rumsey Hinman missionary photograph albums, 1892-1900

1.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
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Two late 19th-century photo albums with small and large images primarily documenting George Warren and Kate Rumsey Hinman's travels and missionary work in central China. Most of the photographs were taken in Fuzhou (Foochow) and Shaowu, Fujian Province, where the Hinmans were assigned. The images are accompanied by detailed captions, and feature missionaries, mission and church buildings, Chinese preachers, local officials, children, river scenes, landscapes, and landmarks. There are also a few images of the Burrell School in Selma, Alabama, and two ministers in Michigan. The photographs are typically mounted one to a page, and are chiefly a mix of gelatin and collodion prints, with a few albumen prints included.
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George Warren and Kate Rumsey Hinman missionary photograph albums, 1892-1900 1.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)