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Frank Baker collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, 1536-1996

50 Linear Feet (approximately 18,000 items)
Frank Baker (1910-1999) was a faculty member at Duke University in history, an expert on Wesleyan Methodism, and a rare book and manuscripts collector. The Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, 1536-1996 and undated, comprises correspondence, writings, local histories, printed items, engravings, and many other manuscript materials that date from the earliest years of Methodism to its worldwide expansion up to the 20th century. The collection includes the correspondence of two of the most important founders of Methodism, John and Charles Wesley, as well as correspondence from members of the Wesley family. Collection also includes correspondence from many of the key figures in 18th and 19th century history of British Methodism: Joseph Benson, Jabez Bunting, Adam Clarke, Thomas Coke, James Everett, John Fletcher, Mary (Bosanquet) Fletcher, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Elizabeth (Ritchie) Mortimer, George Osborn, Hester Ann Rogers, Richard Tabraham, and Thomas Wride. Other materials include church records and registers, account books, autograph albums, broadsides (notices), circular letters, engravings, maps, sermons, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics covered by the materials include the life and training of Methodist clergy; the religious life of women; biography and portraiture of Methodists; spirituality; Protestantism in art; and the debate between Arminianism and Calvinism in the early church. Organizational history in the collection covers several branches of the 18th and 19th century church, including Wesleyan Methodism, Primitive Methodism, missions, and missionary societies.
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Wayne P. Ellis Collection of Kodakiana, 1886-1989 and undated

8 Linear Feet 6620 Items

The Wayne P. Ellis Collection of Kodakiana spans the dates 1886 to 1989, and was created by Mr. Ellis over the period of nearly four decades. Whereas many photographic collectors concentrate on cameras and photographs, Ellis emphasized advertising and marketing material. As a consequence, the collection is especially rich in print advertisements for Eastman Kodak products that were published in general interest periodicals beginning in the late 19th century. More unusual items are the product catalogs, how-to manuals for both amateur and professional photographers, serial publications for salesmen and photographers, and a variety of marketing and promotional items. There are several scrapbooks of advertising materials with considerable marginalia. The collection also includes training manuals and other publications for Kodak employees. In addition, many items in the collection deal with various aspects of the corporate history of Eastman Kodak from its earliest years up to the mid-20th century.

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Consumer Reports. Rhoda Karpatkin papers, 1935-2023

59.0 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Rhoda Karpatkin is a lawyer and consumer advocate who served as Director of Consumers Union from 1974 until her retirement in 2001. The collection includes clippings; correspondence and memoranda; corporate and financial audits and reports; legal and legislative documents; meeting agendas and minutes; newsletters, pamphlets and other publications; photographs; press releases; speeches; texts of articles and other printed materials that document Karpatkins career with Consumers Union as well as her involvement with the international consumer movement. Topics include the Bhopal gas disaster; communism and the anti-communist movement during the Cold War; consumer protection; drug export controls; economic and human rights; environmental justice and policy protections; history of Consumers Union; sustainable consumption; tobacco use and passive health hazards; and transnationalism and international businesses. Individuals represented in the collection include Colston Warne, Eileen Nic, Esther Peterson, James Guest, Madeline Ross, Manubhai Shah, Michel van Hulten, and Ralph Nader. Organizations represented include the Administrative Conference of the United States, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer Reports Books, Consumers Union Foundation, Consumers' Association of Canada, International Organization of Consumers' Unions (now Consumers International), Media and Consumer Foundation, and the United Nations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Duke University Archives

Research Council records, 1925 - 1992

13 Linear Feet 9000 Items
The Research Council, also called the University Council on Research, was established at Duke University in 1934, to support faculty research by providing professional travel funding, publication subvention, and research grants. Until 1978, it prepared the annual bibliography of faculty publications (no longer published). The Research Council was later renamed the Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. The Research Council Records include reports, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, summaries, and faculty publications lists (1934-1976), pertaining to research projects and support for Duke University faculty. Materials range in date from 1925 to 1992. English.
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Graham Arthur Barden papers, 1934-1960

185 Linear Feet (370 boxes)
Arthur Barden Graham was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, of New Bern, N.C. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, drafts of bills, printed material, and clippings, mostly relating to Barden's work on various House committees, including Education, Labor, Library, and Rivers and Harbors. Major topics include the draft, military installations including Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Base, veterans' affairs, and local affairs and projects of Barden's largely rural district, such as lumbering, tobacco processing, and furniture manufacturing.
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Sallie Bingham papers, 1900-2023

93.75 Linear Feet
Feminist and author. The Sallie Bingham Papers provide rich documentation of the personal life, literary development, and philanthropic activities of Sallie Bingham, feminist and writer. The papers, dated 1900-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1940s to 2011, are comprised of correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, personal papers, diaries and notebooks, legal and financial papers, audiovisual recordings, and photographic media. Included also are some records of The Kentucky Foundation for Women, a philanthropic organization founded by Bingham; The American Voice, a literary journal founded by Bingham and published under the auspices of The Kentucky Foundation for Women; and Santa Fe Stages, a regional theater founded by Bingham. Arranged into the following series: Audiovisual Materials, Correspondence, Diaries and Notebooks, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Legal and Financial, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Poetry, Santa Fe Stages, Speeches, Subject Files, Writings, and Oversize Material, with the Writings, Diaries and Notebooks, and Correspondence Series composing the bulk of the collection. Multiple additions have been added since the collection was processed; these are represented at the end of this finding aid.
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Stone Circles records, 1995-2012

11.4 Linear Feet (19 boxes)
The Stone Circles records contain materials documenting the history of the organization. These include press clippings, board meeting minutes. staff and financial information, program files, newsletters, event information, and correspondence.
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Stephen C. Harward papers, 1949-1975 and undated, bulk 1963-1975

10.5 Linear Feet Circa 4000 Items
Stephen Cannada Harward served on the Durham City School Board for 12 years in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, the Durham city and county school districts were desegregated following a series of court mandates beginning in 1963. The collection contains memos, bulletins, reports, evaluations, minutes, agendas, educational and administrative guides and handbooks, court documents, financial statements and budgets, correspondence, clippings, printed materials, and maps pertaining to the activity of the Durham City School Board. The papers span the years 1949-1975 and document the daily workings of the Durham City School Board chiefly between the years 1963 and 1975, with a special focus on the process of desegregation during that time. It contains no personal papers of Stephen C. Harward.
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Duke University Archives

Sarah P. Duke Gardens records, 1926-2012

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The Gardens were a gift from Mary Duke Biddle in honor of her mother, Sarah P. Duke (Mrs. Benjamin N.). Construction began in 1932 and the site was open to the public in 1934. Ellen Shipman (1869-1950) designed the plans for both the construction and the plantings for the new gardens. Collection contains materials pertaining to the origins and activities of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens including planting plans, calendars, correspondence, feasibility studies, annual reports, a card catalog of plantings, and publicity. Materials in the collection date from 1926-2012.
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Jim Dow photographs, 1966-2025

140 Linear Feet (173 boxes; 1 oversize folder) 1.3 Terabytes
Jim Dow (1942- ) is an American photographer and educator based in Massachusetts. The core of the collection consists of over 1900 single-image photographs, 232 multi-image panoramic prints, and approximately 2300 film negatives, representing black-and-white and color images taken by Dow from 1966 to 2023. It also includes raw and adjusted digital image files that Dow created from his photographic negatives. Subjects include: U.S. vernacular culture and landscapes, including roadside architecture, courthouses and jails, and small business interiors; eateries, including diners, bars, drive-in restaurants, and food trucks; stadiums and athletic fields around the world; and interiors and exteriors of private clubs, libraries, and churches and museums in cities around the world. Photographs often include cultural expressions such as advertising, murals, bar decor, and graffiti. Dow's U.S. work focuses mainly on New England, the South, and the West, with a single-state project on North Dakota. Other images were taken by Dow in Argentina, Canada, England, Mexico, Portugal, Scotland, and Uruguay, with a few images from Wales. Also included is a series of commissioned work. Dow's professional papers comprise teaching slides, course readers, syllabi, and digital files, as well as art gallery ephemera. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Duplex Advertising Company. Billboard Images and records, circa 1964-1993 and undated

7.5 Linear Feet 5300 Items

The Duplex Advertising Company. Billboard Images and Records spans the period 1964-1993 and documents the outdoor advertising work of this company in the central Texas area, primarily through photographs, negatives and slides of billboards. Many of the images are in color. A large number of the images are of national campaigns advertised in central Texas, as well as billboards, signs and posters of local Texas business services. In addition, a handful of articles written by R. V. Miller, Jr. for a number of publications, as well as other printed material and miscellaneous items from the Duplex Advertising Company, are present. Some of these articles, along with the images themselves, provide examples of commercial art and design in the outdoor advertising arena. The collection includes outdoor advertising images from national clients such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chevrolet, Coca Cola, Coors, Wendy's, Hardee's, and Taco Bell, and Texas clients such as Lone Star and Pearl beers.

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Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2023 and undated

178.75 Linear Feet 10.3 Gigabytes
Fred Chappell (1936-2024) was an author and poet. He was an English professor at UNC Greensboro for 40 years, and he was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002. Collection consists largely of correspondence and writings by Chappell and others, documenting Chappell's literary career, output, and network.
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J. B. Matthews papers, 1862-1986 and undated

479 Linear Feet (307,000 items)
J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections. Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.
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Duke Gardens Foundation records, 1912-2002 and undated

96.8 Linear Feet 28,000 Items
On October 15, 1958 the Duke Gardens Foundation was incorporated with the purpose of "developing thereon agricultural, botanical & horticultural exhibits for the purpose of scientific experiments and of public inspection, instruction, education & enjoyment." Over the period of six years, Doris Duke was personally involved in the physical design of the Indoor Display Gardens, in which various gardens were carefully designed, planned, and developed from the point of view of authenticity. The gardens were opened to the public in 1964, and included 11 unique gardens for visitors to enjoy. Doris Duke continued her involvement with her gardens throughout her life, bringing designers with her to modify them during the summer season when they were closed to tourists. The Duke Gardens Foundation was officially dissolved November 13, 2001 and the gardens closed to the public in 2008. The collection documents the lifecycle of the Duke Gardens Foundation, beginning with the inception of the Duke Gardens Foundation and the design and creation of the various indoor display gardens that comprised Duke Gardens, including the associated purchases of plants and bulbs. The materials follow the daily operations of Duke Gardens, including modifications and general upkeep of the gardens, visitor and tour information, and operations of the Foundation itself. The materials end with the general management of Duke Gardens after Doris Duke's death in 1993 and the final dissolution of the Foundation in 2001. Materials include correspondence, inventories, specifications for various architectural projects at Duke Gardens, invoices and vouchers for repairs and reconstruction to the greenhouses, surveys and reports, financial ledgers, and a multitude of both black and white and color photographs and slides of the different gardens.
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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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J. Walter Thompson Company. Dan Seymour papers, 1951-1974

21.5 Linear Feet 16,125 Items
Consists of correspondence, office files, memoranda, notes, client files and some advertisements, reports, charts, reprints, schedules, scripts, printed material, and calendars. The collection documents advertising history, especially television and the management of client accounts; the development of television shows and other aspects of television programming, including the selection of actors and audience profiles; advertising clients' account histories; the corporate administration of the J. Walter Thompson Company; and the career of Dan Seymour. There is limited material about Seymour prior to his employment by the J. Walter Thompson Company in 1955 or after his retirement from it in 1974. Clients of the company represented in the collection include Eastman Kodak Company, Ford Motor Company, Kraft Foods Company, Lever Brothers Company, and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. There is considerable overlap in the content of the series in this collection.
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International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011

530 Linear Feet 8.3 Gigabytes
The non-profit agency International Monitor Institute (IMI) operated between 1993 and 2003, primarily to assist international war-crimes tribunals by collecting, indexing and organizing visual evidence of violations of international human rights law. The International Monitor Institute Records span the dates 1986-2006, and primarily comprise audiovisual materials related to IMI's documentation of contemporary conflicts and human rights violations around the world. Countries represented include: Burma (Myanmar), Bosnia and Hercegovina, Cambodia, Kuwait, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Thailand. Includes master and use copies of approximately 6000 videocassettes and 100 audio tapes and audiocassettes. The video and audio material is indexed by an extensive database developed by IMI which includes keywords, air dates, segment producer, segment title, and in some cases, transcripts and stills from the video. There are also many photographs and slides taken in the same regions, depicting destruction in areas of conflict, forced labor, refugees and refugee camps, and protests. The majority of the photos were taken on the Burma/Thai border, in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and refugee camps in Rwanda. Finally, there are extensive organizational records, including an extensive database of the audiovisual components. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
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RTLM 50 Sony HF 60 (1 copy of Side A and 1 copy of Side B
Box 119 > Audio-cassette RW035

He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
  1. Air Date: 1994 June 20
  2. Producer: RTLM
  3. Original Language: Kinyarwanda, French
  4. Side B of this tape is blank
  5. Bemeriki begins the tape accusing the Inkotanyi of "drinking Rwandan blood" and killing residents. She calls on the population to exterminate the Inyenzi-Inkotanyi. She is followed by Kantano who mockingly sings a song about the Inkotanyi having all perished. Kantano gives some of the local news from Kigali and targets several sectors and communes as areas where conflicts have taken place. As he targets areas like Nyamirambo he comments that the "Inyenzi" are committing suicide. He also refers to the current war as the "final" one. Kantano then announces that the imminent arrival of French troops to intervene against the "suicidal Ugandans and suicidal extremists Tutsis." He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
  1. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  2. Rwanda, 1992-1999
  3. Rwanda audiotapes, 1993-1994
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Frank Clyde Brown papers, 1912-1974

70 Linear Feet (98 manuscript boxes; 1 oversize box)
English professor, Duke University, folklorist of Durham, N.C., and founder in 1913 of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Collection centers around Frank Clyde Brown's lifelong exploration and collecting of North Carolina and Appalachian folklore, which resulted in this vast archival collection of original folklore materials and editorial records for the seven-volume Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (published 1952-1964). Collection is comprised of field recordings on wax cylinders and phonodiscs; tens of thousands of field notes, transcriptions of original songs, stories, and traditional expressions; musical scores; and numerous journal articles, student theses, books, and lists. Also included are the papers of Charles Bond, a Duke graduate student who studied and expanded the collection in 1970. The vast majority of the folklore sources originated in North Carolina, but there are some materials from other regions. Subjects include: African American traditions; ballads and songs (music as well as lyrics); European roots of North American folklore; folk music; folk poetry; games and parties; oral traditions and storytelling; sayings, names, and superstitions; social conditions in the Southern States; work songs; and North American folklore in general. In addition, one can find rich resources on the study and teaching of folklore, and attitudes during the 1920s to 1950s about Southern customs and communities.
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RL00160-WC-0024, 1922-07
Box 132 > Audio-cylinder RL00160-WC-0024

.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740 Title: Farm Sows His Seed String Beans and Barley Grow, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:614
Track List
  1. Title: Vilikins and his Dinah, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:35:073
  2. Title: Jonah and the Whale, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:43:200
  3. Title: Mary and Martha, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:34:903
  4. Title: Shortnin' bread, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:43:200
  5. Title: When I Was a Bachelor, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:30:326
  6. Title: Ninety Nine Blue Bottles, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:176
  7. Title: My Mammy Told Me, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:23:460
  8. Title: There Was an Old Woman (Skin and Bones), performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:39:042
  9. Title: Cindy, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:23:400
  10. Title: My Mammy Told Me, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:24:587
  11. Title: London Bridge is Falling Down, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:24:873
  12. Title: Last Night I Was Nearly Crazy, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:01:04:498
  13. Title: Standin' In The Need of Prayer ('Taint My Mother, 'Taint My Brother), performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740
  14. Title: Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740
  15. Title: Farm Sows His Seed String Beans and Barley Grow, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:614
  1. Cylinders and Discs
  2. Wax Cylinders, 1921-1935
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Martin Shubik papers, 1938-2022, bulk 1944-2018

211 Linear Feet (166 record cartons, eight document boxes, two oversize folders, and one electronic records box.) 0.2 Gigabytes (One set.)
Martin Shubik (1926-2018) was the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. 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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Research and Notes, 1950-2013

Outside of economics, he began studying Inclusion Body Myositis (also IBM) after a 2003 diagnosis. He provided seed money to the Yale School of Public Health for the IBM Disease Registry in 2011, a survey was conducted in 2012-2013, and he is a co-author on a 2015 paper about the initial results (along with his son-in-law Seth Richards-Shubik).

Any type of research material that Shubik created or gathered. Includes notes, as well as research reports from his time at IBM. Subjects include game theory, simulation, auctions, and bargaining. Arranged alphabetically.

  1. Research, 1944-2015

Martin Shubik papers, 1938-2022, bulk 1944-2018 211 Linear Feet (166 record cartons, eight document boxes, two oversize folders, and one electronic records box.) 0.2 Gigabytes (One set.)

Outside of economics, he began studying inclusion body myositis (IBM) after a 2003 diagnosis. He provided seed money to the Yale School of Public Health for the IBM Disease Registry in 2011, a survey was conducted in 2012-2013, and he is a coauthor on a 2015 paper about the initial results, along with his son-in-law Seth Richards-Shubik.
Martin Shubik (1926-2018) was the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. 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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W. Eugene Smith Reference CD collection, 1946-1971

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The W. Eugene Smith Reference Reference CD Collection includes 5,087 compact discs containing audio originally recorded to quarter-inch open reel tape by photographer W. Eugene Smith. Smith recorded the bulk of the 1,740 reels represented in this collection between 1957 and 1971, while living in the "Jazz Loft" at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City. The original tapes are housed in the W. Eugene Smith Collection at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography.
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Reel 1321, 1965 March 14

Critics and authors, The Dragon Seed film ad 14. Memories of Chinese Revolution 15. 1957 Chinese Revolution, Mao Tse Tsung.

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CDI WBAI: Folio Editor Marsh Tompkins documentary on the Klu Klux Klan 1. field recordings and narrator documenting the KKK in Tuscaloosa. Ends with Summary. 2. Next Program is Jazz with Don Schlitten and daughter Tianna, guest DJ.Early 1965 (10 year anniversary of Charliet Parker death, track 8) Fats Waller's Christopher Columbus" and personanel listed 3. Louis Armstrong "Honeydew" 4. Bessie Smith "Alexander's Ragtime Band" . Don Schlitten announces Saturday Afternoon jazz show and eight and a half year old cohost. 5. "Gone with the Wind" McLean, chambers, Taylor... 6. Wilbur Ware "Lullaby of the Leaves" 7. Chalrie Ventura tune, "Sweet Georgia Brown" "Tammy's Dream" Al Hall, Buck Clayton. Announcer WBAI. 8. dono Schlitten, Booker Ervin. Duke Ellington "Come Sunday" Nat King Cole, Trio and "Somtimes I'm Happy" by Gillespie and cres with Stuf Smith at end. CDII 1. con'td tune, drops out. 2. Midtune, (violin, jazz with Nat King Cole vox) 3. Don Schlitten recount of jazz fet at Hunter College. Jazz PIano workshop, then tuen, Willie the Lion Smith "Just one of those things" 3. Willie the Lion Smith 4. Daave Frishbert, Stella, "Will you still be mine" 5. talk and "St. Louis Blues" by Earl Hines 6. Benny Carter, Maxine Sulliva, Dexter Gordon 7. Becket "You know that I know" and WBAI 8. Dono Schlitten on latesnt project "Bebop revidisited" and tuen "Embaceable You" Barrie Harris, others. Village play, Cahrlie Parker March, 12, 10th Anniversary of his Death, and Carniegie Hall Memorial convert, Dizz, JJ Stitt, others, .. 9. Gene Ammons "Confirmation" 10. Jumps to Woody Allen, mid dialogue about Manhattan residence and ex wife 11. cont'd guitar song, blues for Chris" Lonnie Johnson, includes Wendell Marshall 12. Woody Alllen NYU and other material cont'd. CDIIIcont'd radio with Woody Allen 2. cont'd 3. "the Police" bit 4. summing up and then to banjo folk song, male singer 5. "Don't Wait Too Long" Tony Bennett 6. cont'd, new song 7. con'td music collage includes Star Spangled Banner 8. talking again, and audio collage 9. cont'd 10. cont'd 11. cont'd 12. ends with jazz scat ballad CDIV (Feb 1965) 1. collage, cocnt'd, talk by DJ over truntable, organ jazz 2. Fats Waller, DJ talking with reverb 3. WBAI ID and Long John Neble show (LJN) and Amazing Randi show announced. (one week after Malcolm X death. World's Fair discussed, guessed mentioned in passing 4. cont'd, 5. con'td, WWII piece (frivolous) and Joseph Spence song. 6. commentary on Joseph Spence, WBAI ID and mention of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman 7. gospel song, and jazz pop balld "All by Myslef" 8. mention of hidden mic on news. 9. cont'd and pop/rock song 10. Jumps to radio tune, then Malcolm X argreement after his deat (week after February 21, 1965) human rights. WOR ID. . Sudeio ONe. Leon Amir, Herbert Rollins, Myrna Bain, Esther Jackson, Tom Gask, Amazing Randi (12-5 AM) and disucssion, includes Jn 1962 issue of "Mohamed Speaks" CDV 1. cont'd Randi show. Muslims and Malcolm X 2. cont'd, threats against Malcolm X 3. Malcolm X story murder account 4. cont'd discussion 5. Brass Rail Ad, Champagne Dinner, Listing of Panelists and telerams 6. Discussion 7. cont'd 8. rumors 9. telegrams 10. Irving Drake, composer "What Makes Sammy Run" for a 30 minute break in show. One year anniversary of "What Makes Sammy Run" (Feb 27, 1965) 11. cont'd Suskind and Moose Charlap mentioned 12. cont'd, Abraham Lincoln 13. con'td 14. cont'd, discussion 15. Hank Williams "Your cheating heart" (talk about) and Sinatra at end. CDVI 1. cont'd overlap, Sinatra/Williams and mention of Parmount Mecca Theater. 2. Irving Drake cont'd and return to WOR Randi show on Death of Malcolm X. with Louis Amir talking 3. cont'd, with introductions 4. cont'd, South Africa 5. cont'd Malcolm X history 6. RAM and plans to blow up US monuments? Robert Williams and N. Carolina other topic 7. politics and X, Muslims in america 8. cont'd 9. cont'd then NY Philharmoni Mahler Symphony #4 announced. Back to guests and telegram 10. cont'd CDI 1. con'td WOR, Amazing Randi, Pnel introduced and telegrams 2. Malcolm X. Mau Mau in Kenya, telegram. 3. cont'd, 4. cont'd 5. telegram, race discussed 6. cont'd 7. cont'd and Radio music "Good Morning" 8. JUmps to LJN 8. social porblem of prostitiution 9. vlaues, 10. socio political discussion 11. Panel introduction: Robert Mullel, Pearl S. Buck, Theaodore Harris, Frank Davis, Steve Goldstein 12. Pearl S. Buck on foster parenting 13. con'td 14. cont'd CDVIII 1. Randi with Pearl S. Buck, cont'd. Politics and Boxer Rebellion 2. China 3. Chinese history, presidents 4. con'td, guests, jewelry and Pekings 5. Chinese language 6. con'td 7. cont'd 8. cont'd China never affected by the West 9. cont'd 10. con'td, on writing books 11. "mixed race" children story 12. Ad for Brass Rail restaurant, Panelists listed 13. Critics and authors, The Dragon Seed film ad 14. Memories of Chinese Revolution 15. 1957 Chinese Revolution, Mao Tse Tsung. Mu Shu Feng. Wilting of the 100 flowers. and war history. CDIX 1. Pearl S. Buck, cont'd, Panelists and WOR ID 2. on Chinese Intellectuals (specific) 3. politics 4. cont'd 5. cont'd 6. race in America 7. African Student in China, discrimmination and related book 8. discussion 9. coffee break, Arthru Chu. randi on food 10. Chinese food talk and coffee break St. Patricks day "this Saturday" and Carmel Quinn, singer, Tennessee country songs album 11. Harp lager and Randi talk at end. CDX 1. New Content, Norman Corman? Corwin? "The Alchemists and O'Neill 2. Philosophical argument 3. commentary 4. CBS News, Look Up and Live "The Initiation, Scientific Man, 20th Century, and PSA for 3 Orbit flight wiht 2 man space team, Monday, March 22nd. Jumps to Macy's ad. and Golden 65. Jumps to Jazz and Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem "Autobiography" . Duke Ellington music and poem called "Canon 3" Choreography Sophie Maslow, discussion with Jim McAndrews. 5. cont'd. Modern dance. Mike's Place and dance (TV) 6. Jazz Poetry and Duke Ellington music "A Coney Island of the Mind" Ferlinghetti 7. cont'd 8. cont'd 9. cont'd, "American Dance Theater" 10. Announcer, ad for Red Cross. Ad Haley's MO laxative, corn doodle ad, Channel 2 NY New show. WCBS, legistlative hearing, Moderator Dallas Townsend. and talk about homicide law change. CDXI 1. cont'd discussion, Red Cross and Macy's spring sale ad 2. NAACP in news 3. Interview, cont'd 4. cont'd 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. cont'd 8. Channel changing: Wall Street Journal ad, menition of President Johnson, and Alabama politics9. discussion George Wallace, Selma 10. cont'd 11. commentary by Governor George Wallace, talk to 12. Jingle Choc Full O Nuts is a heavenly coffee. 13. end of Governor George Wallace on Face the Nation. Ad for 25 Country Hits compilation, Bobby Darrin LP and end of show 14. Ad Galaxy filtered cigarettes. Walter Cronkite. Ad: Colgate toothpaste. Jumps to hair ads Alberto VO5 hairspray, 15. Western on TV, ?John Wayne? "Profiles in Courage" ALCAN (Aluminum Limited) as sponsor. Red Scare, A. Mitchell Palmer, NY Assembly, dramatic profile. CDXII 1. cont'd at dramatization, Presidency, Hughs and Hayes. 2. Jude talk scne Profiles in courage 3. politics, talk 4. play discussion, Al Can Ad. 5. press conference 6. Aluminum Ad, AL-CAN and Easter Seal charities 7. Ad, Easter Seals and WNBC new York, Charlie Hughes, Convention and 1920 election meeting scene 8. cont'd applause and backstage scene 9. cont'd 10 cont'd and AL-CAN ad. ;

  1. Recordings, 1946-1971

Reel 0573, undated

Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole.

Note 1: "Starts with air taped Jazz, the GC dialogues and emotionals(on GBC 1 7/8) Not stereo. End side blank end of first side blank. 2nd side - Another machine - going backwards to GBC. An interrupting door knock."; Note 2: CD 1:End of interview w/ a writer, jazz. Christmas jazz music--DATE 12/24/??. Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole. Long stretches of silence. Sex, interrupted by a knock on the door, more sex. ;

  1. Recordings, 1946-1971

Reel 0519, 1963 February

Note 1: "Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" Lillan Gish and … Feb 1963: News - Fall of Canadian Gov. over American war heads. 4th track: Starting 1/2 way in - Last Scenes from "Dragon seed Pearl Buck …"; Note 2: CDI 1. NBC Kraft Television Theater, Juan Valdez coffee ad and tv drama mid scene 2. cont'd -8.

Note 1: "Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" Lillan Gish and … Feb 1963: News - Fall of Canadian Gov. over American war heads. 4th track: Starting 1/2 way in - Last Scenes from "Dragon seed Pearl Buck …"; Note 2: CDI 1. NBC Kraft Television Theater, Juan Valdez coffee ad and tv drama mid scene 2. cont'd -8. "gypsy queen dropsy cure" (Dragonseed play) CDII 1. Cont'd-8. CDIII 1. middle of scene in the Grass Harp and ad for Late Late Show and Roto Rooter Channel 2, New York. 2. end of Dragonseed 3. cont'd 4. cont'd 5. cont'd CDIV 1. TV "2. cotn'd 3. cont'd 4. cont'd and end, jumps to News from Feb 5 1963 5. cont'd 6. cont'd, Cuban Missile crisis news. ;

  1. Recordings, 1946-1971
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David B. McCall papers, 1939-1999 and undated bulk 1980-1994

21.8 Linear Feet 12,600 Items
David B. McCall was an advertising executive and humanitarian. He was the originator of the idea for the children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock. The David B. McCall Papers span the years 1939-1999, with the bulk documenting the years 1980-1994, and are comprised of clippings, correspondence, business reports, photographs, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, videocassettes, audio tapes and phonograph records. In particular, three main areas of McCall's career are represented: as an advertising executive and partner in agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Ogilvy Benson & Mather, McCaffrey & McCall, David J. Mahoney, Inc., the Sawyer Miller Group, and Shepardson Stern and Kaminsky; as a corporate director for the Hunter Fan Company, Save the Children, and two local radio broadcasting corporations, among others; and as a humanitarian involved with organizations such as the Committee for the Support of Roe v. Wade, CARE, and Refugees International. In addition, there is a substantial body of McCall's speeches and writings that reflect both the wide range of his professional and personal interests and commitments as well as his status as a public intellectual in high demand, as well as a number of files containing correspondence, clippings and articles concerning David Ogilvy, McCall's mentor in advertising. Major advertising campaigns represented in this collection include Mercedes Benz of North America, North American Philips, Life magazine, the American Can Company, Lever Brothers Company, and the Zippo Manufacturing Company, along with public relations work for such clients as the National Football League, Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), and the Regional Bell Operating Companies. Major humanitarian issues documented in the collection include the Unsell protest movement against the war in Vietnam, tobacco advertising aimed at children, land mine removal, refugee welfare, and support of abortion rights. McCall was also involved in political campaigns for a number of notable candidates, such as John Lindsay (New York), Harvey Gannt (North Carolina), George Kevarian (Massachusetts), Ramón Mitra (Philippines) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru). While McCall is recognized as the originator of the idea behind the popular children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock!, the collection contains very little documentation concerning that project apart from a copy of the original soundtrack.
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Ben Rosen papers, 1936-2006 and undated, bulk 1945-1991

65 Linear Feet 7500 Items
Ben Rosen is an American graphic designer and visual communications consultant. Rosen worked as a designer for J. Gordon Carr and Associates and the Blaine Thompson Company before founding his own firm, Ben Rosen Associates, in 1952, which specialized in corporate identity programs. Rosen is the author of three books on on graphic design and typography: Type and Typography (1963); The Corporate Search for Visual Identity (1970); and Digital Type Specimens (1991). The Ben Rosen Papers span the years 1936 to 2006, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945 through 1991, and document Rosen's sixty-year career in graphic design and visual communications consulting. The collection contains materials in a variety of formats, including correspondence, writings, graphic design and printed materials, sketches, presentation boards, photographs, and slides, that document design concepts and programs (corporate logos, letterhead, packaging, industrial design, promotion) Rosen developed, through his firm, Ben Rosen Associates, for clients including American Loose Leaf, CCMI McGraw-Hill, Equitable Life Assurance, Exxon/Esso, Food Fair Stores, IBM, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, North American Reinsurance, Philip Morris, Richardson-Vicks, Russ Berrie, and Tishman Realty and Construction. The collection also includes manuscripts and published editions of Rosen's books on graphic design and typography, and touches on several of Rosen's commmemorative projects, including a President Kennedy memorial, a United Nations 20th Anniversary book, and Rosen's submission to the World Trade Center Memorial design competition.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm microfilm Accounting Department records, 1942-1954

3.0 Linear Feet
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 lists of cancelled checks, petty cash vouchers and invoices, summaries of advertising production expenses and labor costs and other financial data. Main JWT offices represented include New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Production billing carbons, San Francisco and Chicago, 1948
Reel 399

San Francisco: Times Mirror; United Artists; Veloz & Yolander; Washington State Apple Advisory Commission; Washburn-Wilson Seed Co.; Wine Advisory Board; Chicago: Arnold Schwinn; Borg-Warner; Bowman Dairy petty cash vouchers; Crown Jewel Ware; Elgin National Watch; Famous Flours; Hixson Products; Illinois Power; Indiana Bell Telephone; International Minerals and Chemical; Kraft (see also San Francisco office)

San Francisco: Times Mirror; United Artists; Veloz & Yolander; Washington State Apple Advisory Commission; Washburn-Wilson Seed Co.; Wine Advisory Board; Chicago: Arnold Schwinn; Borg-Warner; Bowman Dairy petty cash vouchers; Crown Jewel Ware; Elgin National Watch; Famous Flours; Hixson Products; Illinois Power; Indiana Bell Telephone; International Minerals and Chemical; Kraft (see also San Francisco office)

  1. Production Billing, 1942-1953
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William Mahone papers, 1853-1895

110.9 Linear Feet 100,000 items

The papers of William Mahone span the period 1853 to 1895, with the bulk of the material dating from 1876 to 1892. The collection consists of copies of letters written by Mahone to others, incoming letters to Mahone, subject files on a variety of topics, clippings, and scrapbooks, but primarily focuses on Mahone's railroad and political interests. There is a great deal of overlap of topics between the different series in the collection; thus information concerning Mahone's political and railroad interests is repeated in the different series.

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Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collection, 1695-1955 and undated

80.5 Linear Feet approx. 11,160 Items
Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collected art, rare books, and manuscripts, and made many contributions to art museums and libraries, most notably the Duke University Library, the Mint Museum, and the library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Dalton Collection is comprised of sub-collections acquired by Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton.
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Pickens, Andrew papers, 1801-1827

Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts.

Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts. Pickens also comments on his visits to Cahaba, Alabama, and the flood which occurred while it was the state capitol.

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M. A. Pacosa and Son collection of hardware sales brochures, 1930-1934

200 items
Hardware and variety store established in 1898 in Chicopee, Mass. by Michal Pacosa (1870-1935) that continued into the 1980s. Collection consists of sales and merchandising brochures and newsletters sent to Pacosa's business. Brochures represent a variety of products: hardware; household furnishing; paint and adhesives; roofing materials; seed and garden supplies and equipment; sewing materials; tools; and other items. Brochures also feature suggestions for store windows and merchandise displays; point-of-sale promotions; and print advertising media. Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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M. A. Pacosa and Son collection of hardware sales brochures, 1930-1934 200 items

Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland.
Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W.
Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W.
Hardware and variety store established in 1898 in Chicopee, Mass. by Michal Pacosa (1870-1935) that continued into the 1980s. Collection consists of sales and merchandising brochures and newsletters sent to Pacosa's business. Brochures represent a variety of products: hardware; household furnishing; paint and adhesives; roofing materials; seed and garden supplies and equipment; sewing materials; tools; and other items. Brochures also feature suggestions for store windows and merchandise displays; point-of-sale promotions; and print advertising media. Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. 35mm Microfilm Proofs, 1906-1960 and undated

3 Linear Feet (104 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 35mm Microfilm Proofs collection spans the years 1906-1960 and consists primarily of images of print advertisements and proofs taken from proof books and portfolios of domestic and foreign JWT offices. Clients include Ballantine's, B.F. Goodrich, Butterick, Corning, Crowell Publishing, Davey Tree Surgeons, General Cigar, General Motors, Guinness, Horlicks, J.B. Williams, Jergens, Johns-Manville, Nash, Northam Warren, Pennsylvania RR, RCA, Sharp & Dohme, Shell, Standard Brands, Sun Maid, Swift, Sylvania, United Airlines, Ward Baking, and Welch's Grape Juice. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Consumer Reports. International Organization of Consumers' Unions records, 1950-2015, bulk 1960-1997

21.0 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. The International Organization of Consumers' Unions (IOCU) is a consumer protection and rights advocacy organization founded in the Hague in 1960; it renamed as Consumers International in 1995. Collection includes audiovisual materials; clippings; correspondence; financial reports; meeting minutes; membership applications; policy statements; press releases; proceedings and planning documents for conferences, seminars, and workshops; texts of speeches and articles; and other printed materials that document Consumers Union's membership and participation in the organization. Organizations and individuals represented in the collection include: Anwar Fazal; Charles Medawar; Florence Mason; Foo Gaik Sim; Health Action International; International Air Transport Association; International Baby Food Action Network; Lars Broch; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Pesticide Action Network; United Nations. Topics addressed in the collection include: Bhopal disaster; consumer product testing and safety; environmental justice; food safety, security and nutrition; founding of the organization; international businesses; medical care and pharmaceutical policies; pesticide use, environmental and health concerns; sustainable agriculture; and women's health. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Ben Brody photographs and papers, 2003-2024

5 Linear Feet
Ben Brody (born 1979) is a photojournalist, photo editor, and educator based in Massachusetts. Between 2003-2008, Brody served in the United States military stationed in Iraq, and between 2010-2015, was a civilian photographer in Afghanistan, documenting the "Global War on Terror." Afterwards, he published his photography in Attention Servicemember (2019), Can We Get a War Thread Going? (2016), Endgame Afghanistan (2017), and 300M (2022). The collection includes 130 photographic prints of varying sizes and mostly in color, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the United States, with accompanying location, date, signature, and caption or longer narrative description by Brody. Images depict military members from the United States, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and occasionally civilians; military activity and leisure; military outposts and local towns; and time in the United States, particularly in Massachusetts. Accompanying the prints are Brody's published works, book dummies, and design iterations; collected military manuals, visual guides, country handbooks, and Brody's personal military documents; and other assorted materials. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts.
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Partisan night raid, 2005
Box 3 > Image RL13180-P-0121

The Iraqi soldiers rounding up young Sunni men and sending them to prison to be brutalized, sowing the seeds of the civil war only a year down the road from this sweltering night, full of the smell of baking honeybread.

Partisan night raid of which I have no memory. There were so many nights like this. The Iraqi soldiers rounding up young Sunni men and sending them to prison to be brutalized, sowing the seeds of the civil war only a year down the road from this sweltering night, full of the smell of baking honeybread. Adhamiyah, Iraq 2005

  1. Prints, 2004-2020
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Massie family papers, 1766-1920s

3.0 Linear Feet (3 boxes and 1 oversize folder.)
The William Massie family owned several plantations in Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries, and owned several hundred enslaved people during this time. This collection contains the papers and records of several members and generations of the Massie family, based at the Pharsalia plantation in Nelson County, Virginia. Family members represented include Thomas Massie; his children, including Thomas Massie Jr. and William Massie; William Massie's widow, Maria Massie, who inherited Pharsalia; as well as several grandchildren, including Martha, Hope, Florence, and Bland Massie. The bulk of the material in the collection dates from William Massie's ownership and management of Pharsalia, including the purchases and labor of dozens of enslaved men, women, and children in the mid-1800s. The collection also includes detailed agricultural and financial accounts, weather logs, land surveys and plots, a plantation ledger, and family and business correspondence.
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Papers, 1840-1849
Box 1

Includes business correspondence and news; agricultural dispatches regarding weather, crops, and prices; correspondence to Massie about buying and selling crops and seeds, including rye; financial accounts for equipment, supplies, and crops; a 1841 report by Joseph Cabell on the a turnpike company; an invoice to Massie for postage fees due in 1842; an 1841 report card for Helen Massie and a 1845 October 10 letter about her schooling from Ellen Massie; a letter dated 1847 March 18 denouncing President Polk from James Heath; and some family and personal correspondence from William Effinger.

Assorted manuscript documents from the William Massie family, arranged chronologically. Includes business correspondence and news; agricultural dispatches regarding weather, crops, and prices; correspondence to Massie about buying and selling crops and seeds, including rye; financial accounts for equipment, supplies, and crops; a 1841 report by Joseph Cabell on the a turnpike company; an invoice to Massie for postage fees due in 1842; an 1841 report card for Helen Massie and a 1845 October 10 letter about her schooling from Ellen Massie; a letter dated 1847 March 18 denouncing President Polk from James Heath; and some family and personal correspondence from William Effinger. Includes a note to William Massie from Alexander Brown conveying disappointment that Massie was not running for state legislature in 1840. Includes receipt for the 1840 December 29 purchase of "a Negro Man Warner" (also referred to as "Boy Warner") by William Massie for eight hundred three dollars. Includes a letter dated 1841 January 3 from an agent, Bowling Clark, to Massie, containing details of typical hiring prices he witnessed for different enslaved laborers, including "middle aged men with their wives and from one to three small children with them hired from one hundred and twenty to $140 and with an express understanding that they were neither to ditch nor work on any public work." Includes a letter from John Jenkins to William Massie offering the sale of an unnamed enslaved girl, writing: "I would like to sell them to you as you have her mother," and "as she wishes to come to you I would like to accommodate her" (1847 June 8).

  1. Papers, 1766-1920s
Duke University Archives

Duke University Chapel recordings, 1954-2005

90 Linear Feet
Collection contains audio of sermons delivered at religious and ceremonial services in the Duke University Chapel by various ministers, professors, and guests of the University. Notable speakers include Howard Wilkinson, James Cleland, Waldo Beach, Thor Hall, Charlene Kammerer, Jon Laidlaw, Will Willimon, Robert Young and others. The collection consists of 7" reel-to-reel audio tapes, audiocassette tapes, VHS tapes, and digital audio tapes of sermons, programs and Lenten meditations delivered in Duke Chapel from 1954 to ongoing.
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Kristine Stiles collection, 1936-2025

233 Linear Feet 0.83 Gigabytes
Kristine Stiles is the France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Her main field of research is contemporary art with a focus on experimental practices, as well as representations of destruction, violence, and trauma in art. The collection includes Stiles' personal and family papers; materials documenting her study of art and artists, particularly contemporary and modern artists; writings, talks, projects, and teaching files; and other materials including correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual items. Together, the materials in this collection document Stiles' study and teaching of art and art history; her scholarly interests in violence, destruction, and trauma in art; her relationships with artists around the world; and her personal life. Artists represented in this collection include Chris Burden, Lynn Hershman, Allan Kaprow, Gustav Metzger, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Carolee Schneemann, Wolf Vostell, and many more.
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David Price papers, 1960-2006 and undated

173.5 Linear Feet 8 Megabytes (Files extracted from 7 floppy disks)
David E. Price is a professor emeritus of political science at Duke University and was a Democratic congressman from North Carolina's Fourth District from 1987-1995 and 1997-2023. Collection documents the scholarly and political career of Price, including his days as a graduate student in the 1960s, his tenure as a political science professor and Democratic Party staff member, and, finally, his years as a Democratic congressman from North Carolina's Fourth District. Records from Price's political headquarters contain thousands of original documents, handwritten and computer-generated; printed materials such as legislative bills and campaign publicity; and a variety of audiovisual materials, including photographs, some slides, many videos, and audio recordings. The collection is especially rich for researchers interested in the American political party system, the work and life of legislators, North Carolina history and government, the North Carolina Democratic and Republican parties, the U.S. Congress, its committee structure, the Hunt Committee, and the broader legislative process. Other materials document political campaigns, notably David Price's own congressional campaigns and Al Gore's senatorial campaign of 1970-1971.
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Clare Leighton papers, 1940-1968

5.8 Linear Feet 594 Items
Clare Ellaline Hope Leighton was an English printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939. The Clare Leighton Papers date from the mid-twentieth century and include woodblocks, preparatory prints and drawings, engravings, and correspondence related to Leighton's artistic practice.
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North Carolina Folklore by Frank C. Brown engravings
Box 5

Engraving titles include: The baptizing, Carolina wreck (Hatteras wreck), Cat fish (Fish caught), Centenarian, The cockfight, The coon hunt, Corn shucking in the mountains, The cotton choppers, Cotton pickers, Cypress knees, Dragging nets, Fishing in the creek, Flue curing tobacco, Herb gatherers, Moonshining, Mountain girl, Mountain haystacks, Mountain springhouse (Springhouse), The quilting, Singing in the mountains (All day singing), Sorghum boiling, Washing clothes, Weeding the tobacco seed bed, Wind and pine (Windblown tree)

Engraving titles include: The baptizing, Carolina wreck (Hatteras wreck), Cat fish (Fish caught), Centenarian, The cockfight, The coon hunt, Corn shucking in the mountains, The cotton choppers, Cotton pickers, Cypress knees, Dragging nets, Fishing in the creek, Flue curing tobacco, Herb gatherers, Moonshining, Mountain girl, Mountain haystacks, Mountain springhouse (Springhouse), The quilting, Singing in the mountains (All day singing), Sorghum boiling, Washing clothes, Weeding the tobacco seed bed, Wind and pine (Windblown tree)

  1. Engravings, undated
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New Bern (N.C.) Merchant's Ledger C, 1767-1785

0.5 Linear Feet 1 item
Ledger of an unknown merchant in New Bern, N.C. Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods. Formerly known as Anonymous ledger C, 1767-1776.
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New Bern (N.C.) Merchant's Ledger C, 1767-1785 0.5 Linear Feet 1 item

Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods.
Ledger of an unknown merchant in New Bern, N.C. Transactions appear chronologically by account holder, and reflect the sale of general merchandise, such as cloth and clothing, food, rum, seed, pitch, tar, and turpentine. Accounts were settled with either cash or goods. Formerly known as Anonymous ledger C, 1767-1776.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. New York Office. Media Center Audiovisual collection, 1953-2015 and undated

88.0 Linear Feet
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, track listings, transcriptions, and other printed materials, audio and video cassettes (Betacam SP, VHS and Umatic), DAT, optical media (CDs, DVDs. etc.), 16mm film reels, phonograph records, and computer media. JWT management events documented in the collection include Cannes and Effies Awards submissions, Epcot, Executive Committee, Worldwide Creative Council, speeches and presentations by top managers as well as interviews undertaken as part of an oral history project at JWT. Offices represented include North America, Europe, Great Britain, India, Asia and Latin America. Main companies include California Lottery, Chase & Sanborn, Chevron, Del Taco, Diageo, Diamond Trading Company (DeBeers), Domino's, Ford, HSBC, Jenny Craig, JetBlue, Kaiser Permanente, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, Kraft, Lipton, Macy's, Mexicana Airlines, Standard Brands, Trailways, Warner-Lambert, Weight Watchers and Wyeth. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Nadia Sablin photographs, 2008-2014

1.5 Linear Feet (39 13x19 photographs in one box.)
This collection includes 39 photographic prints comprising the series Aunties, by Nadia Sablin, the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Award Winner. Aunties is a series of photographs detailing the lives of two unmarried sisters living in a Russian village.
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Nadia Sablin photographs, 2008-2014 1.5 Linear Feet (39 13x19 photographs in one box.)

Folded handwritten recipes contain seeds for planting, or rolled up balls of stray hair.
This collection includes 39 photographic prints comprising the series Aunties, by Nadia Sablin, the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Award Winner. Aunties is a series of photographs detailing the lives of two unmarried sisters living in a Russian village.
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Elaine Katz collection of women's trade cards, 1870s-1920s

0.75 Linear Feet
Elaine Katz is a collector of books and ephemera. This collection was created by Katz and contains more than 800 cards documenting numerous women's businesses and professions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including millinery, dressmaking, and fancy work, as well as many other types of businesses and work. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Mrs. E. B. Beals, circa 1870-1920
Box 1 > Folder 3 > Item RL13174-TC-0094

Plants, Garen & Flower Seeds, Birds, Bird Seed, and Sand. 2nd Door Below the American House, Greenfield, Mass.

Plants, Garen & Flower Seeds, Birds, Bird Seed, and Sand. 2nd Door Below the American House, Greenfield, Mass.

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Michael Leib letter, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Clay, House of Representatives, Washington, 1806, Dec. 22

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ALS. Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
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Michael Leib letter, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Clay, House of Representatives, Washington, 1806, Dec. 22 1 items

Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
ALS. Writes of his part in the effort to impeach Governor Thomas McKean and asks Clay to obtain seeds of curious plants from a Captain Lewis for a visiting friend, Henry Muhlenberg.
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Rob Amberg photographs and papers, 1975-2009

15 Linear Feet 457 Items
The photographs and papers of documentarian Rob Amberg span the years 1975-2009. The gelatin silver prints and pigmented inkjet color prints in the collection represent three bodies of work: The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress; The Sodom Laurel Album; and The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture. Amberg focuses primarily on the social life and customs of the rural South, especially in the mountains of his home state of North Carolina. Images range from landscape shots taken before and during construction of an interstate highway in the N.C. mountains, to portraits of individuals and families affected by the changes in rural culture. Images also depict agricultural activies such as tobacco cultivation and dairy cattle farming, as well as work in the poultry industry. He has a special concern for documenting the way in which industrial and economic progress seems to be erasing many aspects of rural culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Amberg's papers account for the rest of the collection and are organized into five series: Correspondence, Printed Materials, Subject Files, and Writings and Research, and Audio. Acquired as part of the Archives of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Martha O. Adams papers, 1960-2016

16 Linear Feet
Martha Olds Adams is an American writer and poet. Her works center primarily on the areas of feminist theology, female spirituality and social justice. The Martha O. Adams papers contain her poetry collections and other writings; correspondence and ephemera related to her publications, workshops and speaking engagements, as well as documentation of her research and activist work.
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Martha O. Adams papers, 1960-2016 16 Linear Feet

She has written three poetry collections including: Buried Seed (2015), What Your Heart Needs to Know (2008) and Peeling the Rind (2000).
Martha Olds Adams is an American writer and poet. Her works center primarily on the areas of feminist theology, female spirituality and social justice. The Martha O. Adams papers contain her poetry collections and other writings; correspondence and ephemera related to her publications, workshops and speaking engagements, as well as documentation of her research and activist work.
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Roy J. Bostock papers, 1976-2002 and undated

1.5 Linear Feet
Advertising executive and former Chairman of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles agency, headquartered in New York. Collection includes correspondence, corporate reports, clippings, speeches and videocassettes. Companies represented include Benton & Bowles, D'Arcy MacManus Masius, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Burger King, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, General Motors, Hardee's, Kal Kan and Procter & Gamble. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Earl Dotter collection of Charles G. A. Thamm photographs, 1860s-2023

12 Gigabytes (approximately 1276 files) 5 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Earl Dotter is a documentarian, photojournalist, and labor activist based in Maryland. Dotter's great-grandfather, Charles G. A. Thamm, also worked as a photographer in Pennsylvania and was employed by the Landreth Seed Catalog Company. This collection contains photographs in various formats - including negatives and prints - created by Thamm and his family in the 1890s and early 1900s. It also contains digital surrogate images of Thamm's work, adjusted by Dotter.
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Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project collection, 1940s-2020; 1940s-ongoing

115 Linear Feet (85,500 items)
The SPLC Intelligence Project Collection includes printed materials, serials, organizational literature, pamphlets, clippings, catalogs, fliers, and correspondence from a variety of groups monitored by the SPLC and its contacts between the 1980s and 2010. Included within the collection are many groups falling within the SPLC Klanwatch and Militia Watch projects. Organizations represented in this collection typically promoted anti-semitic, white supremacist, racist, separatist, or anti-Communist views and policies. Other organizations promoted Second Amendment rights, right-wing Christian and American nationalism, Y2K and survivalist preparations, and the rise of the Confederacy. SPLC's interests expanded across the political spectrum to include both right-wing and left-wing extremist literature.
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Literature, 1990s-2000s
Box 2

Includes booklets and pamphlets by Jack Mohr, such as "Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative?," "The Birthright or the Right to Govern," "Signs and Wonders!

Includes booklets and pamphlets by Jack Mohr, such as "Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative?," "The Birthright or the Right to Govern," "Signs and Wonders!," "Firearms and Freedom!," "Conspiracy to Deceive the Elect!!," "A Warning Direct from the Horse's Mouth!," "Exploding the 'Chosen People' Myth," "The Psychopolitical Indoctrination of America!," "Battle for the Truth," "Salt Without Savor!" and others.

  1. Documented Organizations, 1940s-2000s
  2. Crusade for Christ and Country

Literature, 1982
Box 4

Booklets 8-15: "1st Timothy 2:14," "Studies in Genesis, part 5," "Seed of the Woman Mystery," "Lucifer God's Servant," "How to Study the Bible," "Beginning of the Kingdom, part 6-7," "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, part 8"

Booklets 8-15: "1st Timothy 2:14," "Studies in Genesis, part 5," "Seed of the Woman Mystery," "Lucifer God's Servant," "How to Study the Bible," "Beginning of the Kingdom, part 6-7," "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, part 8"

  1. Documented Organizations, 1940s-2000s
  2. Mystery of the Kingdom Ministry
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Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s

2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin containing printed ephemera, receipts, manuscripts, handbills, catalogs, decorative trade cards, prospectuses, circulars, political campaign materials, and other advertisements from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and the United States. The bulk of the collection's materials advertise businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, tea, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, gardening, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. Also includes calling cards and bookplates with women's names, and assorted ephemera relating to women's pay, income, or work, including a pensioner's card for a firefighter's widow and a pamphlet about life insurance for women.
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Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s 2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Includes examples of some Lippincott seed catalogs from the early 1900s, art samples and calligraphy by women, and some materials related to domestic arts and homemaking, including advertisements for patterns, sewing, cooking, and landscaping or interior decoration.
Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin containing printed ephemera, receipts, manuscripts, handbills, catalogs, decorative trade cards, prospectuses, circulars, political campaign materials, and other advertisements from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and the United States. The bulk of the collection's materials advertise businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, tea, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, gardening, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. Also includes calling cards and bookplates with women's names, and assorted ephemera relating to women's pay, income, or work, including a pensioner's card for a firefighter's widow and a pamphlet about life insurance for women.

Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
Box 2

Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

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Will Grossman photographs of Durham, North Carolina, 1969-1979, 2006

6 Linear Feet (8 boxes; 1 oversize folder; 585 items) 585 Items
Will Grossman was a 20th century documentary photographer based in Durham, North Carolina. The 80 black-and-white images in the collection chiefly document Durham County and the city of Durham in the 1970s. There are also 488 negatives, as well as a set of 16 inkjet exhibition prints and an exhibit poster from 2006. Grossman's subjects include barns and rural landscapes; houses and churches; tobacco warehouses, a cigarette factory, and other industrial buildings; tobacco workers and other portraits of individuals, including many African Americans; scenes along the Eno River; and the Durham County Fair. A few images are from Orange County, N.C. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. San Francisco Office records, 1948-1999 and undated

5.8 Linear Feet 1800 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 San Francisco office was opened in 1923. The JWT San Francisco Office Records span the years 1959-1999, and includes advertising proofs, commercial artwork, print schedules, marketing plans, manuals, company history materials, correspondence, Creative Library catalogs and audiovisual materials (audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes and videotapes). Also included are the papers of Harry A. Lee, a JWT executive involved in the development of JWT's Pacific Rim business during the 1960s. Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage. JWT offices touched on in the collection include New York, Manila (Philippines) and Tokyo (Japan). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. San Francisco Office records, 1948-1999 and undated 5.8 Linear Feet 1800 Items

Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage.

Ferry-Morse Seed Company

Ferry-Morse Seed Company
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 San Francisco office was opened in 1923. The JWT San Francisco Office Records span the years 1959-1999, and includes advertising proofs, commercial artwork, print schedules, marketing plans, manuals, company history materials, correspondence, Creative Library catalogs and audiovisual materials (audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes and videotapes). Also included are the papers of Harry A. Lee, a JWT executive involved in the development of JWT's Pacific Rim business during the 1960s. Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage. JWT offices touched on in the collection include New York, Manila (Philippines) and Tokyo (Japan). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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John Humphrey Small papers, 1720-1946, bulk 1850-1870, 1912-1937

13 Linear Feet 9,721 Items
Lawyer and U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, legal documents, and other papers (chiefly 1850-1870 and 1912-1937) of John Humphrey Small; of his father-in-law, Col. Rufus W. Wharton, lawyer and planter; and of Col. David M. Carter, lawyer, planter, businessman, and court official, of Fairfield, N.C. Small's papers form the bulk of the collection and concern his North Carolina agricultural interests, his legal practice, his activities in Congress, river and harbor improvements, the Intracoastal Waterway, patronage, Southern financial conditions, U.S. and North Carolina politics, World War I labor problems, and the 1929 Depression. The papers before 1850 are mainly deeds, family papers, and legal documents. Wharton's and Carter's papers relate largely to the legal profession and to their agricultural interests.
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John Humphrey Small papers, 1720-1946, bulk 1850-1870, 1912-1937 13 Linear Feet 9,721 Items

Correspondence during his years in Congress discusses plans for a white grade school in Washington, North Carolina, 1903-1904; conditions of large scale farming at Edgewater, North Carolina, including descriptions of seeds, fertilizer, prices, machinery, crop conditions, and marketing, 1903-1912; problems of railroads, especially the Norfolk and Southern Railroad; the presidential campaign of 1916; coastal highway development; various rivers and harbors bills; the Inlet Waterway project; transportation via an inland waterway; the National Rivers and Harbors Congress; railroad and water transportation in relation to national defense during World War I; land acquisition and construction plans for the Intra-Coastal Waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort, North Carolina; problems of labor, including the movement for the eight hour day; labor shortages in eastern North Carolina during World War I; prohibition; woman suffrage; the National Guard; military service and the draft; coal shortages during the war; army camp sites; home guards; rising prices; excess profits tax; the Red Cross; various agricultural bills, national and North Carolina politics; a Congressional trip of inspection to the Far East in 1920, including Japan, Korea, and the Philippines; the Railroad Act of 1920; and routine matters such as patronage, post office appointments, appointments to West Point and Annapolis, and pensions for Spanish-American War veterans.
Chester; copies of the Greenville (North Carolina) Daily Reflector, December 27, 1913, and the Red Triangle, Paris, April 5, 1919; seed catalogues; reprints of the House of Representatives reports and bills on immigration, 1921, and airways, 1937; broadsides of the 1920 election; plan of organization of the Democratic Party in Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1896; the "Declaration of Principles" of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1916, and its officers for 1916-1917; and a bond pamphlet for the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, 1879.
Lawyer and U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, legal documents, and other papers (chiefly 1850-1870 and 1912-1937) of John Humphrey Small; of his father-in-law, Col. Rufus W. Wharton, lawyer and planter; and of Col. David M. Carter, lawyer, planter, businessman, and court official, of Fairfield, N.C. Small's papers form the bulk of the collection and concern his North Carolina agricultural interests, his legal practice, his activities in Congress, river and harbor improvements, the Intracoastal Waterway, patronage, Southern financial conditions, U.S. and North Carolina politics, World War I labor problems, and the 1929 Depression. The papers before 1850 are mainly deeds, family papers, and legal documents. Wharton's and Carter's papers relate largely to the legal profession and to their agricultural interests.
Duke University Archives

Doris Duke papers on the Falcon Lair residence, 1937-1999

4.6 Linear Feet 3,285 Items
The Falcon Lair residence was purchased by Doris Duke in April, 1953 primarily for use on her occasional visits to California and for use while she was in transit to or from her residence in Honolulu. Compared to her other estates, the residence was not large, however, being located in the hills above Benedict Canyon overlooking Beverly Hills, it served as a retreat from public life. Soon after the home was purchased, Doris Duke hired Tony Duquette to supervise the entire redecoration and remodeling of Falcon Lair. The home was renovated again in the mid-1970s. Miss Duke lived at Falcon Lair until her death in 1993, and in 1998 the property was sold by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The collection is arranged into two series: Administrative Records and Architectural Records. It spans the years 1937 to 1999, beginning with the purchase and interior renovation of the home and ending with maintenance and general upkeep of the home after Doris Duke's death in 1993. The collection primarily documents the expenses and daily operations of renovating, running, and maintaining the Falcon Lair residence, and includes invoices and receipts for services and repairs, correspondence, memoranda, and telegrams relating to routine matters of the residence, expenses, and photo inventories of furniture, fixtures, and other household items. A majority of the architectural records detail alterations and additions to the Falcon Lair residence.
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Invoices for restoration work performed on paintings residing at Falcon Lair. Paintings restored include Botticelli, Lucatelli/Benezech, "Campagne de Grece," and Vernet/le Veau, "Isle de l'Archipel." Includes invoice for purchase of an evening cape, earrings, Indian Emerald beads, and seed Pearl. 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963–1965, 1984
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Includes invoice for purchase of an evening cape, earrings, Indian Emerald beads, and seed Pearl. 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963–1965, 1984
  1. Administrative Records, 1943-1999
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Kenneth J. Arrow papers, 1921-2017

142 Linear Feet (97 boxes) 13.2 Gigabytes
Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017) was a Nobel Prize winner and the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University. This collection consists of his correspondence, research, writings, and other materials documenting his political and personal interests, as well as his collaborations and professional affiliations across the fields of economics, mathematics, public policy, and international relations. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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