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Sam Hammond research collection on Hugh James Rose, 1815, circa 1970s-2010s

6.5 Linear Feet 7.4 Gigabytes
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Hugh James Rose (1795-1838) was a priest in the Anglican church, a writer, and a theologian. Sam Hammond (1948-2021) was the Duke Chapel carillonneur from 1968-2018 and was a music librarian and rare book cataloger in the Duke University Libraries. The Sam Hammond research collection on Hugh James Rose includes an original letter written by Hugh James Rose, copies of Rose's papers held at other repositories, printed copies of Rose's works, analysis, and correspondence, among other materials.
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Hammond family papers, 1751-1914, bulk 1820s-1890s

6 Linear Feet Approx. 3507 Items
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Residents of Frederick County, Maryland. Collection consists chiefly of business and legal papers of various members of the Hammond family of Maryland. The earliest items (1750s-1820s) are land grants and other land records of Nathan Hammond and Vachel Hammond. The papers of Thomas Hammond, who served as a judge of the Orphans' Court of Frederick Co., are mainly the records of his service as administrator of several estates or as guardian of orphans, but also include farm records, financial receipts, and slave purchases. The papers of Dawson V. Hammond, brother of Thomas, concern the administration of estates, including Thomas's holdings. There are a few references to Unionist sympathies in Maryland during the Civil War and economic conditions in the U.S. during the 1870s.
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Joy Golden papers, 1956-2012

28 Linear Feet 10,000 Items
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Advertising copy writer and executive for several American agencies, including BBDO, Normal Craig & Kummel, J. Walter Thompson (JWT), and Scali McCabe Sloves. Managed a radio advertising and production company, Joy Radio. The Joy Golden Papers span the years 1956-2012 and include correspondence, audition records, scripts, print advertisements, design layouts, storyboards, and other records that document Golden's career in print and radio/television broadcast advertising. Formats include audiocassettes, VHS and Umatic videotapes, 16mm and 1/4" reels, and DVDs. Companies represented include Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO), J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), Norman Craig & Kummel, Scali McCabe Sloves, and Golden's own company, Joy Radio. Client files include materials for Abe Beame for Mayor, Alpine Lace Cheese, Automated Data Processing (ADP), Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, DuPont, E-Loan, Frommagerie Bel (Frobel), MTA, North Fork Bank, Port Authority of New York, Shell Oil, Warnaco and Wilmington Trust. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Henry Haberman papers, 1945-2002 and undated

10 Linear Feet 3000 Items
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Henry Haberman (1917-2008) was a New York-based advertising and travel photographer and artist. The Henry Haberman Papers span the years 1945-2002 and include photographs, slides, negatives and print advertisements that document Haberman's work as a photographer in the advertising, fashion and travel fields. Companies represented include Armstrong floors, Bausch & Lomb, B.F. Goodrich, British American Tobacco (Lucky Strike), Cannon, Chatham blankets, Cover Girl (Noxell), DuPont, First National City Bank, General Electric, New York Telephone, Northeast Air, Pepsi, R.J. Reynolds and Shaefer beer. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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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
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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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Romeo Guest papers, 1925-1987 and undated

21.4 Linear Feet
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Greensboro, North Carolina developer and construction company executive; originator of the concept and name for Research Triangle Park. The Romeo Guest Papers span the dates 1925-1987 with the bulk of the collection dated 1950-1986 and consists of correspondence, business records, clippings and printed material, and plans documenting the development of Research Triangle Park from conceptualization and groundbreaking through periods of growth and success in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into series for Appointment Books, a Condensed File of key events, Chronological Files, Corporate Files, Manuscript Material, People, Pinelands Company Files, Printed Material, and Audiocassettes. The Appointment Books Series houses Guest's annual schedules for the bulk of his professional life, consisting chiefly of notes on appointments but also containing ideas and thoughts as they occured to him. The Condensed File Series contains files on important events in the development of the "Research Triangle" and individuals instrumental in the bringing that vision to fruition. These people include Guest, business investor Karl Robbins, William Newell, Gordon Gray, and NC governor Luther Hodges. More detailed files on events and people described in the Condensed File can be found in the Chronological Files Series. These document the coordination efforts between the three major research universities in the area, private corporate interests, and the North Carolina state government. The Corporate Files Series contains files related to Guest's construction company, C.M. Guest and Sons, including some files on Research Triangle projects as well as other construction works in North and South Carolina. A series for Manuscript Material houses drafts and notes of Guest's unpublished history of the inception of Research Triangle Park. The People Series houses additional files on people of interest to Guest, including some involved in the success of the Research Triangle as well as research work on Guest and the Research Triangle. The Pinelands Company Files Series contains files documenting the work of the company created to acquire and develop land for Research Triangle Park. A series of additional Printed Material includes newspaper clippings documenting the construction of Research Triangle and the success of companies there as well as publicity for the then-new Research Triangle. The Audiocassettes Series, containing recorded oral histories and interviews with important figures associated with the development of the Research Triangle, completes the collection.
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James Redding Grist Business records, 1780-1920

5 Linear Feet 3,269 Items
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Correspondence, accounts, manifests, and other papers, of James Redding Grist, his father, Allen Grist, and of other members of the family. Materials relate to the operation of a general store, trade with the West Indies, Richard Grist's export business in New Bern, N.C., J. R. Grist's turpentine business near Wilmington, N.C., and his efforts to revive his trade in naval stores after the Civil War. Includes taxation lists, ca. 1815-1816, for Beaufort Co., N.C. Correspondents include Henry Toole Clark. A bound volume, Allen Grist and Thomas Dickinson Ledger, contains entries relating to the operation of a North Carolina general store and an earlier similar operation in the West Indies. The first half of the volume comprises the Thomas Dickinson ledger from St. Eustatius, West Indies, 1780-1781, with entries documenting payments for rum, madeira, clothing for enslaved people, cheese, flour, twine, nails, brown sugar, needles, and other sundries. His relation, if any, to the Grists is not known. The second half of the volume comprises the ledger of Allen Grist of Washington, Beaufort County, NC, 1813-1816, with entries for food, spirits, building material, and other sundries. A few entries in each section record slave transactions: money lent for the purchase of enslaved people, money paid for their labor, or money received for the actual sale of enslaved people.

Ground Observer Corps records, 1952-1959

5.25 Linear Feet
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The Ground Observer Corps (GOC) was a civil defense organization run by the U.S. Air Force that enlisted volunteers to watch for and report aircraft movements. The Ground Observer Corps records include materials related to the operation of the Ground Observer Corps in the Durham area from 1952-1959. The collection includes assorted memoranda, correspondence, newsletters, forms, and recruiting materials, as well as manuals, logbooks, maps, posters, brochures, and promotional materials.
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GOC booklets and manuals, circa 1950-1959 6 folders Box 2

Air Force materials 6 folders Box 2

Eugene Grissom papers, 1875-1887

4 Volumes (4 bound volumes)
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Register of admissions and scrapbooks of the North Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, Raleigh, N.C., of which Grissom was superintendent.
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Ralph Randolph Gurley letter, 1857 October 10

0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)
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Collection comprises a letter Gurley wrote (1857 October 10) to Sheldon Moore from the Washington, D.C., offices of the American Colonization Society. He offers Society publications, and extends good wishes regarding Moore's "inquiries into Natural History...."
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Ralph Randolph Gurley letter, 1857 October 10 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Cause Marketing Forum. Halo Awards Records, 2002-2012 and undated, 2002-2012 and undated

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

Betsy Gamble Hansen papers, 1902-2003 and undated

5.5 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
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Betsy Gamble Hansen was an author and Duke University alumna. In 2000, she founded the Oglethorpe University Women's Network, and she belonged to Duke University's Council on Women's Studies for three years. The Betsy Gamble Hansen Papers include drafts of and papers related to Gamble's writings, especially related to her book, Portals, Menzies family correspondence, clippings, and other papers. Materials range in date from 1902 to 2003, with the bulk being from 1902-1960 and 1996-2003.
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Harden family papers, 1772-1940

4 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 2,531 items including 27 volumes.)
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Collection includes correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, and legal and other papers, of Edward Harden, planter, lawyer, and politician, of Athens, Ga.; of his son, Edward Randolph Harden, lawyer and politician; and of other members of their family. The material concerns U.S. and Georgia politics, Cherokee Indian affairs (1840s), military recruitment in the Civil War, the 44th Georgia Infantry, military operations in the Confederacy, Reconstruction and economic conditions, the Republican Party in the south, social life and customs, genealogy, and other matters. Also includes a diary kept by Evelyn Harden Jackson during the last months of the war referring to the general alarm preceding Sherman's activities in Georgia.
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Hansen Glove Corporation records, 1927-1954 and undated

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

Abraham Hanson papers, 1840-1866 and undated

0.2 Linear Feet (57 items)
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Abraham Hanson was an English-born American pastor and diplomat. Collection comprises 37 letters, dated 1850-1866, Abraham Hanson wrote to his wife, Lydia, and one he wrote to his father from Monrovia, Liberia, among other places. Topics include abolition, diplomatic duties, commercial affairs, emigration, shipboard travel, the condition of Liberians and his aspirations for them, health concerns, and personal matters. There are also 15 incoming letters written to Hanson and his wife, dated 1846-1866, reporting on Hanson's welfare and conditions in Liberia and Africa, along with personal travel and religious matters. Includes several condolences written to Lydia following Hanson's dearth. In addition, there is funeral sermon Hanson preached on 1848 December 10 in Wisconsin, a copy of the New York City Colonization Society's circular dated 1840 May 3, and a copy of an 1852 Liberian court decision regarding payment of tuition and provision of clothing for Robert Savage. There is also a sermon dated 1863 Dec 10, entitled "Zion's Compliance and God's Answer, Isaiah 49-16-15." Two of the letters in the collection are incomplete. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Abraham Hanson papers, 1840-1866 and undated 0.2 Linear Feet (57 items)

Kathleen Hannan papers, 1979-2007

0.6 Linear Feet 150 items
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Kathleen Hannan is a songwriter, teacher, and musician based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her music relates to feminist, environmental, and LGBT community issues; she has also written songs for children. She is a past winner of the North Carolina Arts Council's Songwriter Fellowship, and was also a finalist in the Triangle Folk Music Society's songwriting contest. The collection includes sheet music, lyrics, photographs, clippings, correspondence, press releases, 1 cassette tape, and 3 compact discs. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Warren G. Harding letter to Harriet Taylor Upton, 1917 February 11, 1917 February 11

0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)
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Collection comprises a letter written by the United States Senator from Ohio Warren G. Harding to the suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton regarding support for women's suffrage. Harding responds to a telegram from Upton asking him to use his influence on Ohio State Senator U.G. Murrell in support of women's voting rights. Harding replies that he is "reluctant" to advise Murrell on the matter because of his previous experience with Murrell while Harding was a member of the Ohio General Assembly.
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Warren G. Harding letter to Harriet Taylor Upton, 1917 February 11, 1917 February 11 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Hilliard Hardin papers, 1940s-1997

0.5 Linear Feet
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Hilliard Hardin (1917-1997) was an American microbiologist. The collection includes materials related to her professional activity as mycologist and microbiologist.
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Lorraine Hansberry theater collection, 1959-1964

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Playwright Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway. Collection contains four items: a theater program and issue of Playbill magazine for Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and a theater program and issue of Playbill magazine for Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Frank Espada photographs and papers, 1946-2010, bulk 1964-2000

56.2 Linear Feet (76 boxes; 3 oversize folders)
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Frank Espada was a political activist and documentary photographer of Puerto Rican extraction based in New York and California. His photographic archives comprise thousands of black-and-white photographs and negatives and related materials concerning Espada's lifelong work documenting the Puerto Rican diaspora, civil and economic rights movements, indigenous Chamorro communities in Micronesia, and HIV/AIDS outreach in San Francisco. The Puerto Rican Diaspora project also includes over 150 oral history recordings. The Civil Rights series documents voter registration and school desegregation rallies in New York City, 1964-1970, as well as housing and anti-poverty movements, primarily in California. Photographic subjects encompass Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and indigenous peoples, as well as whites and racially mixed people. The professional papers include files related to activism, research and writings, exhibits, teaching, and publicity. The earliest dated item is a 1946 essay by Espada, "What democracy means to me." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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