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The Benton and Bowles Files comprise the largest part of the Archives. They include print advertisements; over 500 films; significant documents relating to the work of the agency; photographs; and corporate publications. The series spans the years 1929 to 1985 with most of the material dating from the 1950s-on. Materials include internal memoranda; reports; speeches; printed material (manuals, leaflets, pamphlets, and house organs); photographs; research notes; credentials; employee training material; press releases and clippings; book manuscripts; audio tapes of oral history interviews; and financial papers. The Benton & Bowles Files provide documentation of the history of print and television advertising; television programming; the history of the B&B agency and its corporate culture; corporate communications; marketing research; and advertising executives. The earliest Items in the B&B Files are two small bank books recording account activity of the fledgling agency from 1929 to 1935 and copies of William ("Billie") Benton's long letters to his mother (1929-1938) in which he confides details of his new advertising agency as well as family matters. A small number of other Items date from the 1930s and 1940s and illustrate isolated aspects of the agency's business in that period. Files of various agency in-house publications begin in 1947 and provide the most complete and continuous views of Benton & Bowles, its clients, advertising campaigns, personnel, and various offices in the U.S. and abroad.

Series comprises 65 gelatin silver prints and photographic collages of the German city of East Berlin, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and the reunification of East and West Berlin in 1990. Print range in size from 8x10 to 16x24 inches, and are captioned and signed on back by photographer.

Portfolio consists of 22 black-and-white photographs taken by Vince Cianni at a Poughkeepsie, New York mall in the 1980s. The images explore youth and African American social culture, social aspects of the mall, and urban decay and its impact on society. The project is a companion piece to the Providence House Men's Shelter photographs which also focus on the effects of urban deterioration in New York State. The gelatin silver prints measure 11x14 inches.

This documentary body of work by photographer Kristin Bedford consists of 56 color inkjet photographic prints that portray African American worshippers and their pastor at the Apostolic Deliverance Rebirth Outreach Ministries, a storefront church in east Durham, North Carolina. The exterior and interiors of the building are featured in many of the images. Five of the photographs were taken as the congregation enjoyed a recreational swim at nearby Falls Lake.

Consists of 79 gelatin silver prints of images taken from 1981 to 1988 by South African phographers, many of whom were members of Afrapix, the collective photo agency that documented resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. The images originated with the Afrapix documentary project "Beyond the Barricades." The project resulted in an exhibit and a book, Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa (1989), published in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Afrapix photographers Omar Badsha, Gideon Mendel, and Paul Weinberg selected photographs for the book.

Series includes a selection of exhibition binders, kept and collected by Sligh as a record of her various projects, events, and exhibits. Also includes press clippings, museum catalogs, and other programming materials. Items have been removed from their original binders.

Includes a newspaper clipping announcing Jesse Harrison Epperson's appointment to the Durham, N.C. Health Department in 1915, and several resolutions and obituaries from 1954 that commemorate his origins and his 43-year career in the Department, along with other clippings and a certificate. Additional materials related to his career can be found in the Clippings series and Photographs series.

The photocopied clippings in this series offer many details on Jesse Epperson's career with the Durham, N.C. Health Department, including his leadership in campaigns to eliminate tuberculosis, typhus, polio, venereal disease (VD), and other infectious diseases, as well as the regulation of dairy production in the county. The clippings thus provide some insights into the history of Durham, N.C. public health and sanitation programs, and public attitudes towards health and safety.

Primarily biographical sketches and articles on Angier Biddle Duke, a few military records on him, "in memoriam" booklets for his first wife and father, and genealogical material and other information on the Duke, Semans, Drexel, and Biddle families (including some photocopies of early Duke family photographs). Also contains a group photograph of Semans and Trent family members.

Personnel records, tax statements, receipts, itemized expenses, and schedules of campaign contributions by Angier Biddle Duke.

Various material that records details and events in Hamilton's life and career; includes a curriculum vita and a list of his publications. Arranged in original order.

This information is filed in the first box of the collection. It includes a vita, letters, articles, clippings, obituaries, and other items.

This series contains files on various individuals, corporations, and publications, arranged in alphabetical order. Additional alphabetical files can be found in boxes 169-176.

Vita, letters, articles, awards, clippings, a formal photograph, and other items. Also includes an inventory of the collection and the Library of Virginia inventory.

Bradshaw's subject files as an author, historian, and journalist. Organized into subseries based on his major subject areas, like the Baptist Church; blindness and public health; Durham, the Durham Morning Herald, race relations, and North Carolina; Duke University, Hampden-Sydney College, and the University of North Carolina; the Civil War; genealogies; the Lions Club; and press associations.

Contains materials relating to McCall's childhood and family life, and includes correspondence, photographs, biographical sketches, resumes and obituary notices. Arranged alphabetically.

The Biographical Data series (1960-2025) documents Cohen's personal and professional history, including records from her Bachelor's and Master's programs, oral histories, personal correspondence, awards and honors, and personal website.

The bulk of this series contains correspondence and financial documents (contract and royalty letters) chronicling the scope of Hubbell's career. The series also includes rough drafts of Hubbell's autobiographical writings, which seem to have been written largely at the end of his life, about his early years in rural Virginia, his early readings, and his years at Harvard University and Columbia University. His brother Paul Edgar Hubbell's writings, poems and an essay with a foreword by Jay B. Hubbell, as well as his sister Ruth Ann Hubbell's poetry are a part of the series. Folders arranged in alphabetical order.

Contains a brief document resembling a curriculum vita, and clippings of obituaries. Further details of Gohdes's career can be found in the Correspondence and Writings and Speeches series. In particular, the American Literature and Duke University correspondence files provide information about Gohdes's professional life.

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This information is filed in the first box of the collection. It includes a vita, letters, articles, clippings, and other items. Box 1 also contains an inventory of the collection.

Contains various newspaper clippings, magazine articles and newsletters concerning Walter Blair, including a special issue of Studies in American Humor in Blair's honor. Also contains an entry on Blair in Who's Who and a series of cartoons and Christmas cards he circulated among his acquaintances.