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Marketing executive and author based primarily in Chicago. Collection includes correspondence, autobiographical writings, research reports, short stories, manuscripts of memoirs and novels, clippings and other printed materials, as well as audiovisual materials (videocassettes, microfilm, audiotape reels, phonograph record) and electronic records on floppy disks. Topics include Gerson's work history in advertising, marketing and consulting; personal and family life; reflections on aging and career changes; and reminiscences of Gerson's experiences in the military during World War II. Companies represented include Elgin, Gerson Howe & Johnson, Hammond Organ, Irving B. Gerson Company, Robert Haas Advertising, Sears, W.T. Grand, Whirlpool and Young & Rubicam. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Professional organization founded in 2002 by David Hessekiel to promote business-nonprofit collaboration and corporate sponsorship of social service campaigns. Halo Awards were established in 2003 to celebrate notable cause marketing campaigns.le endeavors by businesses.

Betsy Gamble Hansen was an author and Duke University alumna. In 2000, she founded the Oglethorpe University Women's Network, and she belonged to Duke University's Council on Women's Studies for three years. The Betsy Gamble Hansen Papers include drafts of and papers related to Gamble's writings, especially related to her book, Portals, Menzies family correspondence, clippings, and other papers. Materials range in date from 1902 to 2003, with the bulk being from 1902-1960 and 1996-2003.

Collection includes correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, and legal and other papers, of Edward Harden, planter, lawyer, and politician, of Athens, Ga.; of his son, Edward Randolph Harden, lawyer and politician; and of other members of their family. The material concerns U.S. and Georgia politics, Cherokee Indian affairs (1840s), military recruitment in the Civil War, the 44th Georgia Infantry, military operations in the Confederacy, Reconstruction and economic conditions, the Republican Party in the south, social life and customs, genealogy, and other matters. Also includes a diary kept by Evelyn Harden Jackson during the last months of the war referring to the general alarm preceding Sherman's activities in Georgia.

Hansen Glove Corporation was a manufacturer of gloves and mittens based in Milwaukee, Wis. Collection includes black-and-white photographs, print advertisements, transcripts of meetings, published booklets, sales literature, catalogs and color sample guides. Advertising materials may be the work of the Klau-Van Pietersom-Dunlap agency (later part of Hoffman York). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

James Howard Fraser was a librarian, archivist, scholar and author; Director of the Florham-Madison Library at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. The James Fraser papers include photographs and slides, articles, correspondence, brochures and pamphlets, magazines, clippings, reprints and other printed material primarily relating to outdoor advertising and graphic art. Subjects covered include activities in support of war efforts (World War I and World War II), anti-billboard and -advertising controversies, outdoor advertising industry promotion, and discussions of advertising as art. Institutions represented include the Advertising Council (and its precursor, War Advertising Council), General Outdoor, Foster & Kleiser, O.J. Gude, Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Poster Advertising Association and Thos. Cusack Co. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Medical doctor and anthropologist George Way Harley (1894-1966) and botanist Winifred Jewell Harley (1895-1979) founded the Ganta United Methodist Mission in Ganta, Liberia, in 1926 and worked there until retiring to Lancaster, Va. in 1960. Collection includes awards, clippings, correspondence, diaries, diplomas and certificates, maps, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, and other printed materials that document George and Winifred Harley's careers as anthropologists, botanists, and medical missionaries in Ganta, Liberia, as well as their retirement in Lancaster, Va. Persons and institutions represented in the collection include: American Foundation for Tropical Medicine; Duke University; Earnest Hooton; Edward Hume; Elbert Mathews; Farlow Herbarium; Firestone Plantations Company; Ganta United Methodist Mission; George Schwab; Jean Curran; Methodist Board of Foreign Missions; Nya Kwiawon Taryor; Peabody Museum; Thomas Donohugh; U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; and William V.S. Tubman. Topics about Liberia include: Art; economy; Ganta; history; indigenous religion; Mano language and people; medical practice; missionary work; ritual masks; Sanniquellie District; secret societies (Poro, Sande); slavery and emancipation; snake mythology; traditional medicine; travel; and the effects of World War II on Liberia. Tropical diseases discussed include Leprosy; Schistosomiasis; sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) and control of the Tsetse-fly; Smallpox; and Yaws.

Collection contains correspondence, account books, receipts, statements, and other papers, chiefly relating to David Bullock Harris's training at West Point (1829-1833), his military career, and his tobacco business in Virginia, Kentucky, and England. Includes Civil War military papers and maps, accounts of the sale of slaves, and accounts of trade with Brazil. Also present are letters from Frederick Overton Harris, David's father, while in the Virginia House of Delegates, and from Nathaniel W. Harris, his brother and business partner. Other correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, D. H. Mahan, and Sylvanus Thayer.

Outdoor advertising executive, manager of family billposting company Harold Outdoor Advertising that operated in Indiana and surrounding states.

John Hope Franklin was an African American historian specializing in Southern and African American history. The papers document his entire career as well as his personal life and political interests: his prolific writings on African American and Southern history; his role as a mentor and colleague, including his time as professor at Duke University; his role in associations such as Phi Beta Kappa, the American Historical Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and others; his participation in the civil rights movement, including his work with the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Justice Thurgood Marshall; and his engagement with numerous civic, community, and educational organizations such as the Board of Foreign Scholarships and Fisk University's Board of Trustees. There is also a significant amount of material from Franklin's work on President Clinton's Advisory Board for the President's Initiative on Race in 1997 and 1998. Items in the collection include files of correspondence in original order; research sources and notes; writings by and about Franklin; materials relating to family history; papers and diaries of other family members, including his father, and wife, Aurelia; printed material; event folders; many informal and publicity photographs; video and sound recordings; and awards and other memorabilia.