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William Clark Grasty papers, 1788-1906 and undated, bulk 1800-1869

10.9 Linear Feet 8,175 Items
General merchant, Pittsylvania Co., Va. Correspondence, account books, daybooks, fee books, invoices, ledgers, memoranda books, records of sales, inventories, and letterpress copybooks, chiefly 1800-1869, of three generations of general merchants of Pittsylvania Co., Va. Business interests included a general store, a tavern, a blacksmith shop, a simplified type of banking, and the keeping of a post office. Large amounts of tobacco were bought and sold before the Civil War. Post-war records indicate a large volume of trade in Peruvian guano and commercial fertilizers. Partners in the firm included Philip L. Grasty and other members of the Grasty family, John F. Rison and Samuel Pannill. Includes letters (1849-1867) of John S. Grasty, a Presbyterian minister, referring to North Carolina agriculture, slave hiring, Unionist sympathy among the Dutch population of Botetourt Co., Va., and the devastation of Fincastle, Va., during the war.
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Kris Graves American Monuments photograph portfolio, 2020

1.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Kris Graves (1982- ) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. The portfolio is made up of 16 images taken by Graves which speak to the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement as well as to public opinion about Confederate Civil War monuments. The photographs he shot at dusk and at night in July 2020 capture a series of projections superimposed onto a 60-foot tall statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, once part of Richmond, Virginia's iconic Monument Avenue. Run by multimedia artist Dustin Klein, the projections feature the faces of recent Black victims of white violence, including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Christopher DeAndre Mitchell, Deborah Danner, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. Several other photographs were taken by day and include a self-portrait at Stonewall Jackson's grave, and a monument in Tuskegee, Alabama, shrouded in a blue tarp. Includes printed sheet with essay by Diana McClure. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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John William Grantham papers, 1822-1924 and undated, bulk 1866-1873

3 Linear Feet 1,952 Items
Businessman, land owner, and state legislator, of Middleway, West Virginia. Personal, family, and business papers, the majority concerning the operation of a country store by Grantham and James W. League. Includes papers relating to Grantham's local agency for the Arlington Mutual Life Insurance Co., and to his political career as a member of the newly-formed state of West Virginia legislature, 1872-1881. Collection includes daybooks, memorandum books, and a two volumes of House bills in the West Virginia legislature, 1872-1873.
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Grand Lodge of the Ancient Free, and Accepted Masons of North Carolina records, 1798-1895

1 Linear Feet 368 Items

Reports, trials, minutes, petitions, and organizational documents from all over the state of North Carolina that belonged to the two grand secretaries, William Thomas Bain, and his son, Donald William Bain, both of Wake County, N.C.

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Sarah Grand autograph statement and letter, 1898?-1908

0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)
Sara Grand was a pseudonym for author and feminist Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke (1854-1943), of Great Britain. Includes a signed statement and a letter, both written from Tunbridge Wells.
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Sarah Grand autograph statement and letter, 1898?-1908 0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)

Sara Grand was a pseudonym for author and feminist Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke (1854-1943), of Great Britain. Includes a signed statement and a letter, both written from Tunbridge Wells.
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    Giant Food Stores Advertising collection, 1951-2001

    87.2 Linear Feet
    Giant Foods, established in 1936, is one of the oldest enduring chains of supermarkets in the U.S., and primarily serves the Washington, D.C. area and surrounding states. The Giant Food Stores Advertising Collection spans the years 1951 through 2001 and includes bound, unbound, and microfilmed volumes of reductions of newspaper advertisements and circulars; oversize posters and banner advertisements; Supermarket News issues from the 1990s; advertising scrapbooks from the 1970s and 1980s; and a set of videotapes of broadcast commercials, that document daily local advertising for a major regional supermarket chain.
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    Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes papers, 1811-1990s and undated, bulk 1905-1981, bulk 1905-1981

    6.2 Linear Feet (11 boxes) 4650 Items
    Collection consists of research materials, correspondence, writings, clippings and other printed materials, and a few photographs, mainly from the latter half of Gohdes's career. The earliest date (1811) refers to reproductions of original research materials. Correspondence with other American Literature teachers and authors, combined with other materials relating to Gohdes's institutional and organizational affiliations, in particular with Duke University, the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the journal AMERICAN LITERATURE, comprise the most substantive aspects of this collection. They provide insight into American literary scholarship in the early and mid-twentieth century. Noted authors and scholars of the time whose letters and other writings are in the collection include Alexander Blackburn, Oscar Cargill, Lewis Chase, Robert Elias, Norman Foerster, Arthur Rubin, Arthur Quinn, and Upton Sinclair. Original manuscripts by Gohdes, inscribed reprints of writings by his colleagues, and materials relating to many major British and American literary figures, make up the rest of the collection. There is substantial material on Edgar Allen Poe and American humor. The collection also includes papers documenting Gohdes's research and writing for his last book project, a history of the muscadine grape in North Carolina entitled Scuppernong, North Carolina's Grape and Its Wines. Acquired as part of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography
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    Biographical Data Series, after 1959 and 1997

    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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      Peter Goin photographs, 1987-2006 and undated

      8.0 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
      Collection consists of photographs by Peter Goin on the theme of the interactions and the connections between people and the natural world, and the way people manage, perceive, and represent "nature." The images depict altered and artificial landscapes featuring beaches, canals, farm fields, rivers, prescribed burns and reforestation sites, zoos, an abandoned town, and other places. They were shot in various locations, predominantly in North and South Carolina and Virginia, but also in Alabama, Georgia, central Florida, Arizona, California, Tennessee, and Nevada. The project resulted in a book, Humanature (1996) and an exhibit. Image formats include 16x20 inch exhibit-quality color prints, accompanied by negatives, black-and-white work prints, and book illustration prints. Research, correspondence, and other publication materials are also included in the collection. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University.
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      Negatives, 1991-1992 and undated 147 negatives

      Contains a mostly complete collection of 4x5 inch negatives used to create the work and exhibit prints. While a large majority of the negatives have corresponding black-and-white and color prints, about ten have no prints. The full text and identifying numbers for all captions as well as additional information about the project can be found in Goin's notebook pages housed in this collection.

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        Irving B. Gerson papers, 1937-2007 and undated

        23.0 Linear Feet 0.05 Gigabytes
        Marketing executive and author based primarily in Chicago. Collection includes correspondence, autobiographical writings, research reports, short stories, manuscripts of memoirs and novels, clippings and other printed materials, as well as audiovisual materials (videocassettes, microfilm, audiotape reels, phonograph record) and electronic records on floppy disks. Topics include Gerson's work history in advertising, marketing and consulting; personal and family life; reflections on aging and career changes; and reminiscences of Gerson's experiences in the military during World War II. Companies represented include Elgin, Gerson Howe & Johnson, Hammond Organ, Irving B. Gerson Company, Robert Haas Advertising, Sears, W.T. Grand, Whirlpool and Young & Rubicam. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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        David Gordon George papers, 1919-1976 and undated, bulk 1935-1965

        6.9 Linear Feet (3400 items)
        Resident of Richmond, Va., socialist and grassroots political activist in his early life; founder of the Southern Electoral Reform League; later sided with conservatives such as Barry Goldwater and George Wallace. The David Gordon George Papers span the years 1919 to 1976, with the bulk of the collection dated between 1935 and 1965, and are organized into the Correspondence, Personal Files, Printed Materials and Writings, Photographic Materials, and Subject Files Series. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and files related to George's involvement in a variety of political and social movements, documenting his early involvement in grassroots socialist and leftist democratic organizing and electoral reform work, decades of involvement with national and regional labor organizations, and his late-life support of anti-communist and socially conservative politics, including segregationist platforms. His complex views on the political and social status of African Americans in the South, particularly in Virginia, are documented in his writings and correspondence. Among the organizations well-represented in the collection are the Southern Electoral Reform League, the Virginia Electoral Reform League, and the United States Information Service. The papers include correspondence with a wide spectrum of national political leaders, from Socialists (Norman Thomas and Victor Berger) to Democrats (Hubert Humphrey and Estes Kefauer) to Conservatives (George Wallace), as well as staff of diverse labor organizations and a number of Virginia politicians across a broad ideological spectrum. Acquired as part of the George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana.
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        Mattie L. Goldberg papers, 1886-2001

        2.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 2 CD-Rs)
        Mattie L. Goldberg (1887-1989) was the daughter of Birdie Kronheimer and William Lehman. The Kronheimer-Lehman family was a well-known Jewish family in Durham who were active in civic, social, and business circles. Collection includes correspondence, family photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, and other materials that document the lives of the family, social, civic, and business lives of the Kronheimer, Lehman, and Goldberg families and their extended family members in Durham, N.C. Materials focus most on Mattie L. Goldberg, Carolyn Goldberg Knuemann, and Harry W. Lehman, but other family members are represented as well.
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        Genealogical information, 1981-2001 Box 1

        Contains photocopies of a Kronheimer family tree sketch, Lonie Morris Troub's reminisces her family's history and life in the south, and Lonie Morris Troub's obituary. The reminisces mention five unnamed, formerly enslaved people owned by Isaac and Rosa Kronheimer, two of whom they received as a wedding gift. Also included are speculations about how the Kronheimers treated the people they enslaved, some details about how the formerly enslaved people traveled with the Kronheimers from Virginia to North Carolina, and what kind of help they provided for the Kronheimer family in North Carolina.

          Photographs, circa 1890s-1950s 2 folders Box 1

          Photographs of members of the Kronheimer, Lehman, Morris, and Goldberg families, consisting of individual and group portraits. Photos of note include: childhood portraits of Mattie Lehman and Carolyn Goldberg; Carolyn Goldberg and Carl Knuemann around the time of their wedding in Berlin; the Kronheimer house on Minerva Avenue in Durham; a Pi Kappa Alpha group portrait; the 1927 graduating class of the Fuller School; and printed scans of photos of Lonie Morris Troub. Most individuals in photographs are unidentified.

            Photographs, 1905, circa 1930s Oversize-folder 1

            Oversize photographs: 1 class of 1905 group portrait (unidentified school) and 2 family portraits featuring Carolyn Goldberg.

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              David Goldblatt photographs and films, 1960-1976

              3.6 Linear Feet (5 boxes; 3 film reels) 257 Items
              Collection comprises 251 black-and-white photographic prints taken by David Goldblatt during the 1960s of black and white South African miners at work, and South African Afrikaners. Collection also includes copies of three 16 mm films, "Soweto," "On the Mines," and "Some Afrikaners," created by Goldblatt in 1976 from his still images. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University.
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              Jean Gonzalez papers, 1977-2006 and undated

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              Collection comprises writings by Jean Gonzalez/Juana Maria Paz, 1977-2006 and undated, reflecting the breadth of her work and interests, from lesbian feminism to intential community and the lesbian land movement, with a primary focus on community building. Includes journal articles and book chapters, letters to the editor, newsletters, plays, and position statements, often in both draft and published form. Many of these works comprise her signature works in lesbian and feminist theory. Also includes architectural plans and drawings for her home in Twin Oaks.
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              Plays, 1977-1990 Box 1

              "Dead Men-- A Woman's Fantasy," "The Ancient Matriarchy of Atlantis," "Frankly, My Dear...I'm Eating," and "Autobiographical Monologue."

              1. Writings, 1977-2006
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              Leonard J. Goldwater papers, 1970s

              0.4 Linear Feet Approx. 300 Items
              Professor of medicine at Columbia and Duke University. Contains draft chapters of Goldwater's book, Mercury: A History of Quicksilver (1972), as well as an audio transcript for the film Mercury, Medicine, and Man (1977).
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              Arthur Golden's Walt Whitman's Blue Book manuscript, 1962

              0.4 Linear Feet (1 item)
              Arthur Golden was professor emeritus at the City College of the City University of New York; editor of Walt Whitman’s Blue Book (1968), and co-editor of Leaves of grass: a textual variorium of the printed poems (1980). Collection comprises a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (3rd edition), containing Arthur Golden's marks toward his Walt Whitman's Blue Book edition. Golden presented the volume to Professor Gay Wilson Allen in May 1962.
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              Arthur Golden's Walt Whitman's Blue Book manuscript, 1962 0.4 Linear Feet (1 item)

              Arthur Golden was professor emeritus at the City College of the City University of New York; editor of Walt Whitman’s Blue Book (1968), and co-editor of Leaves of grass: a textual variorium of the printed poems (1980). Collection comprises a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (3rd edition), containing Arthur Golden's marks toward his Walt Whitman's Blue Book edition. Golden presented the volume to Professor Gay Wilson Allen in May 1962.
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                Earl J. Hamilton papers, 1350-1995, bulk dates 1650-1940

                45 Linear Feet (56 boxes and three oversize folders)
                Earl Hamilton (1899-1989) was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Chicago (after beginning his career at Duke University). This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and teaching. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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                Robert A. Hamer papers, 1857-1995 and undated bulk 1926-1995

                2.4 Linear Feet 1800 Items
                Robert A. Hamer was an executive of the Foster and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising Company in California. He worked as a pictorial artist from 1936 to 1953, and as Paint Manager, California Region, from 1956 until his retirement in 1979. The Robert A. Hamer Papers span the years 1857-1995, the bulk of which document the period 1926-1995, and includes photographs, negatives, correspondence, clippings, administrative records, cartoons, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newsletters. The collection primarily documents Hamer's career in outdoor advertising with the Foster and Kleiser Company in Southern California, and also touches on events in his personal life. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of Foster and Kleiser billboards in Southern California, covering two time periods, 1926-1935 and 1950-1970. Other photographs document business activities from 1937-1977, including Foster and Kleiser social events; commercial art production; and sign painting. Clients represented in the collection include Anheuser-Busch, C.H. Baker Shoes, and Slavick's Jewelry. Other clients represented are from the alcoholic beverage, food, travel, and automobile industries, and financial institutions.
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                John R. Hall Jr. collection on the Hiroshima bombing, 1945-1964

                0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
                Lt. Col. John R. (John Randolph) Hall, Jr., was a white American physician who served as chief surgeon at Kure hospital following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States in August 1945. This collection consists of a photograph album, medical reports, and copies of Hiroshima Diary (by Michihiko Hachiya). The album contains original photographs of Hiroshima bombing victims and casualities. The medical reports document the aftermath of the bomb, including charts and patient records, and include marginalia and corrections disputing the report's conclusions about radiation sickness experienced by victims.
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                "Report on the investigation regarding the atomic bomb at Hiroshima" (translation of Japanese Naval Report), approximately 1945-1946 Box 1

                Typescript English translation with annotations by Hall and others ("SWB") of initial report on "medical aspects" of Hiroshima bombing and aftermath. The cover's note: "Translation of the Japanese Naval Report on the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan, on 6 August 1945. Surrendered to X Corps, U.S. Army, Surgeon Col. John R. Hall Jr., by Naval surgeon through Commander Tairo Terasaki. Translated by lay translators of G2 Section X Corps with aid Col. Hall and Commander Terasaki."

                  "Japanese medical data", 1946 January 25 and 29 Box 1

                  Folder (disbound) with handwritten title on cover: "Survey Medical Aspects of Atomic Explosion at Hiroshima, Japan, by Doctors K. Hanaoka and G. Katsube presented to Col. John R. Hall Jr. about 15 February 1946 by Dr. Hachiya, Hiroshima Communications Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, as a parting gift prior to British occupation of Hiroshima."

                    Photograph album of bombing victims, 1945 Box 1

                    Album with plain covers and stab binding which contains thirty-one photographs of bombing victims, focusing on burned skin, disfiguration, stages of radiation sickness, and other aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Photographs are largely images of individuals or groups of people, and appear to have been taken in different hospital wards or other medical facilities. There are brief captions in Japanese which summarize the images.

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                      James Hamilton papers, 1769-1870, bulk 1785-1858

                      15 Linear Feet (16 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
                      Merchant and plantation owner of Charleston, S.C., later of Philadelphia, Pa. Collection comprises business and family correspondence, accounts, and receipts, including papers related to several of Hamilton's business partnerships (dating mainly from 1785 to 1818) and numerous private transactions, including purchases of slaves (1784-1785, 1801, 1808). There also are papers from voyages of ships in which he had a major interest, including routes to India, the Mediterranean, and the West Indies. The collection concludes with accounts and records related to the settlement of his estate from 1832 to 1870.
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                      1803-1805 Aug. Box 2

                      Includes cotton and rice, London market, shipping, and one letter from niece in London, 1804.

                      1. Correspondence, 1784-1892
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                      William Henry Hall papers, 1736-1862

                      1020 items
                      The Hall family of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, were enslavers and owners of tobacco plantations. Collection includes three generations of the Hall family and documents their involvement with tobacco and other plantation operations in Maryland during the 18th and 19th centuries, including the shift to lumber and wheat after 1800. Also includes information on cotton plantations in South Carolina and the sale of cotton to England, Maryland politics and government in the 1780s, insurrections by enslaved people, and naval impressment at the time of the War of 1812.
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                      Correspondence, 1745-1862 and undated

                      The papers begin in 1736, when John Hall (ca. 1717-1790) and his brothers Henry and William become actively engaged in tobacco planting. The letters open with a land indenture of 1745 and continue as business correspondence with London, Annapolis, Baltimore, and local merchants and factories. Comment is made on salt as a necessity for plantation life in 1778 and 1782. An overseer's contract in 1764 gives details of plantation management and enslavement.

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