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Calvin L. Ward papers, 1963-1974

0.2 Linear Feet 200 Items
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Calvin Ward was a Zoology professor at Duke University. The collection contains correspondence and memoranda relating to faculty groups, the Biology, Forestry and Genetics programs and University-wide issues.
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Calvin L. Ward papers, 1963-1974 0.2 Linear Feet 200 Items

Amber Arthun Warburton papers, 1917-1976 and undated

35 Linear Feet
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Amber Warburton was a teacher, librarian, specialist in economics, labor, and education, and a New Deal administrator. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, writings, interviews, drafts of studies and reports, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers, relating to Warburton's leadership in the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth (AGRY), 1947-1963; and to Affiliated Schools for Workers, Atlanta University, Brookwood Labor College, Columbia University (M.A., 1927), Institute of Social and Religious Research, Mount Holyoke College, Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, Spelman College, U.S. Children's Bureau, U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture. Topics include the rural youth guidance movement, training programs for unemployed teachers in the 1930s, women workers in the 1920s, African Americans in the early 1930s, industrial home work in the Northeast in the late 1930s, migrant farm workers in the Southwest and Florida in the 1940s to 1950s, socioeconomic conditions in coal mining villages in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois in the late 1920s, and in Harlan County, Ky., and Green Sea, S.C., in the late 1940s, and the effects of the National Defense Education Act on guidance in rural high schools.
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Amber Arthun Warburton papers, 1917-1976 and undated 35 Linear Feet

William H. Wannamaker papers, 1917 - 1948

14 Linear Feet
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William Hane Wannamaker (1873-1958) was a professor and administrator at Trinity College and Duke University for over four decades. He served as Dean of Trinity College and Vice President for the Educational Division, and was responsible for critical decisions regarding student, faculty, and administrative policies. The William H. Wannamaker Papers are the official files of the Dean and Vice President of Trinity College and Duke University. Materials include correspondence, reports, evaluations, and other administrative materials. Major subjects include student discipline, faculty issues, World Wars I and II, college sports, the hiring and promotion of faculty, and other administrative matters. English.
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William H. Wannamaker papers, 1917 - 1948 14 Linear Feet

Caroline Wang course materials for "Asians in America", 1941, 1971-1994

0.75 Linear Feet
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The "Asians in America" house course was the first course pertaining to the Asian diaspora and Asian American studies to be taught at Duke University. Undergraduate student, Caroline Wang, organized and instructed the class in the Fall and Spring of 1982. The collection contains syllabi, course proposals, readings, and materials related to Wang's senior thesis about Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Caroline Wang course materials for "Asians in America", 1941, 1971-1994 0.75 Linear Feet

Walton family papers, 1730-1980 and undated, bulk 1890-1975

4.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes; 2 oversize folders)
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The papers of the Walton family comprise journals and diaries; correspondence; writings; photographic materials; clippings; and printed material. Early items pertain to the Baker family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and letters document the Walton's courtship and early marriage. Papers from the 1920s to 1948 relate to Eleanore Walton's work with societies and clubs, and as a motion picture censor in Kansas City, Missouri. The larger Loring B. Walton Series documents Walton's student days, his service as a U.S. Army officer in the American Expeditionary Force in France and Germany, 1918-1919, and his lengthy correspondence with his mother, Eleanore, and with A. Goderic A. Hodges, a British Army officer. In addition there are a few letters from authors such as Wilmon Brewer, Count Sforza, Maurice Holleaux, and Anatole France, and a poem by Edmund Wilson. Walton's involvement with Duke University as a Romance Languages faculty member is also documented to a lesser degree. Photographs and negatives are of family member portraits, Princeton and Harvard campuses, 1920, Fort Douglas, Utah, also 1920, Hingham, Massachusetts, and unidentified subjects.
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Walton family papers, 1730-1980 and undated, bulk 1890-1975 4.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes; 2 oversize folders)

Frederick Walpole Letters, 1855

0.2 Linear Feet 28 Items
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Officer, 4th Regiment of British Osmanli Cavalry in Syria. Chiefly to Colonel Walpole from British diplomats and military officials concerning the conduct and training of the British Osmanli Cavalry, an irregular regiment of Moslem horsemen from the Turkish provinces known as Bashi-Bazouks. Walpole was on a special mission to Syria and the regiment was being recruited to serve in the Crimean War. Some letters also refer to the interaction between Turkish and British officers. Other letters concern Colonel W. F. S. Beatson, who had been placed in charge of recruiting the contingent of Bashi-Bazouks and was then relieved of his duties. List of letters at the end.
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Frederick Walpole Letters, 1855 0.2 Linear Feet 28 Items

Alma S. Wall papers, 1905-1944

136 items
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After placing her ill husband, Samueal Wall, in a sanitarium, Alma Stikeleather Wall traveled to New York, where she became known as a master of dialects, a singer of spirituals, and a storyteller. She was a great niece of Chief Justice John Marshall. The collection includes some of her writings, photographs of slaves, and photographs documenting the results of the 1926 Miami hurricane. Some correspondence concerns the mental illness of one of Wall's daughters. There are also certificates, a William Jennings Bryan speech, a scrapbook, and diaries belonging to Wall and her daughter.
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Alma S. Wall papers, 1905-1944 136 items

Meriwether Lewis Walker papers, 1809-1887

2.4 Linear Feet approx. 818 Items
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Papers of Meriwether Lewis, Thomas L. Walker, physician, and Peachy Harmer Gilmer, physician, residents of Albemarle and Campbell counties, Va. Collection consists largely of bills and receipts, including several relating to Gilmer's treatment of soldiers during the Mexican War, and several for the Petersburg (Va.) Female College and for Mrs. Mead's School, Richmond, Va.

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Meriwether Lewis Walker papers, 1809-1887 2.4 Linear Feet approx. 818 Items

Mary Edwards Walker papers, 1866-1898

3 items
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Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) was a suffragist and the first female surgeon to serve in the U.S. Army. Collection consists of an albumen photo portrait of Walker and two letters written by her. One letter discusses her advocacy efforts for women's voting rights, and the other expresses her desire to build a hospital, home, and school for tuberculosis patients. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collection.
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Mary Edwards Walker papers, 1866-1898 3 items

Elbridge Gerry Walker papers, 1801-1903

4 Linear Feet 1155 Items
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Druggist and court clerk, of Scottsville and Glasgow, Ky. Correspondence and business papers dealing primarily with the drug business and containing information on the practice of medicine in ante-bellum Tennessee and Kentucky. Includes papers relating to Walker's later activities as clerk of the Circuit Court of Allen County, Ky., and personal letters of various members of the Walker family of Kentucky.
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Elbridge Gerry Walker papers, 1801-1903 4 Linear Feet 1155 Items