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Annie L. Hobbs Diaries, 1854-1869

0.2 Linear Feet 4 Items
Annie L. Hobbs of Laconia, N.H. was an instructor at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College (Methodist) in Tilton, N.H. and at the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vt. during the 1850s and 1860s. Collection contains two manuscript pocket diaries, dated 1867 and 1869, and two pocket memoranda books, dated 1854-1855, 1859, and 1863-1865, kept by Annie L. Hobbs, an instructor at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College (Methodist) in Tilton, Belknap County, New Hampshire and at the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Rutland County, Vermont. In the diaries, Hobbs records her travels to and from her schools, evening readings, croquet games, naps, teas, Saturday excursions, her sewing work, occasional written work, receipt of letters and newspapers, Methodist festivals and Sabbath observances, and fluctuations in her health. Hobbs also regularly records her moods and her uncertainty about whether or not to go back for another term. Generally, the diaries document the life of a young female teacher living away from home, her daily routine, social contacts, and her intellectual pursuits. In the two memoranda books, Hobbs records student names and recitation periods, Lyceum lectures she attended, mathematical equations, and her expenses for 1863 to 1865.
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James Olin Hobbs, Sr. papers, 1806-1916

5.8 Linear Feet 655 Items

Correspondence, mercantile records, account books, bills and receipts, and voting registration certificates of Hobbs, his son James Olin Hobbs, Jr., businessmen of Alleghany and Augusta counties, Va., and the Hobbs family. Subjects include economic conditions in western Virginia, 1835-1875, and conditions in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, during the early Reconstruction period.

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Joshua Lawrence Horne papers, 1917-1974

38.7 Linear Feet 46,000 Items

The Joshua Lawrence Horne papers comprise primarily general correspondence (1918-1974, bulk 1959-1971), including many letters from Horne's secretary during Horne's annual visit to Orlando, Fla., with general news about Rocky Mount and Horne's publishing enterprise; letters from H.E.C. Bryant; and correspondence with representatives in the N.C. General Assembly and the U.S. Congress. The office files primarily concern the N.C. Dept. of Conservation and Development and the Associated Press.

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Henry Horenstein photographs, 1967-2013, 2022

41.5 Linear Feet (44 boxes)
Henry Horenstein is an American photographer, author, teacher, and filmmaker based in Massachusetts. The collection comprises of approximately 250 black-and-white and color photographic prints selected from his projects, a large series of about 2500 contact sheets, and a few other related materials. Subjects in the project prints series include Horenstein's family and friends; beachgoers in Havana, Cuba; blues and country musicians, the venues where they play, and their fans; the human body in extreme close-ups; horse and stock car racing; burlesque and drag performers; and historic tri-racial communities in Maryland. Together, the prints and contact sheets offer landscapes, street scenes, storefronts, theaters, highways, museums, concerts, bars, nightlife, fairs, and people and animals in Cuba, Dubai, Germany, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and all of New England, Missouri, New York, Paris, Tennessee, Texas, Venezuela, and other places. The dominant format is gelatin silver, with some chromogenic and digital work; print sizes range from 8x10 to 20x24 inches. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Branson, 1995, 1997 2 prints

These color images were taken in the historic Sons of the Pioneers Theater in Branson, Missouri. They were both published in Branson and Shoot What You Love. The prints measure approximately 16x20 inches.

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    Kathy Hopwood papers, 1970-2016

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    Kathy Hopwood is a martial arts and self-defense teacher who founded the SafeSkills Dojo in Durham, NC. She and her partner Beth Seigler provided both martial arts classes and women's self-defense programs. The collection contains materials documenting Kathy Hopwood's work in the areas of women's martial arts and self-defense in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Collection also comprise self-defense training manuals, course and workshop materials, newsletters, organizational history, some correspondence, the individual work of both Hopwood and her partner Beth Seigler, publications addressing self-defense and rape prevention topics, and materials related to martial arts activities across the country and international. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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    William Swinton Bennett Hopkins papers, 1834-1946, bulk 1852-1898

    3.5 Linear Feet 1657 Items

    Collection consists largely of correspondence between family members, friends, and business associates spanning three generations, as well as some Civil War and early Reconstruction letters relating to Hopkins' activities in New Orleans. Correspondents include Hopkins' daughter, Elizabeth; her husband Alfred Lawrence Aiken, a prominent banker in Boston; the Gadsden family of Charleston, S.C.; and the Peck family, relatives of Hopkins' wife, Lizzie. An information folder chronologically lists a portion of the collection. Also included in this collection are a few legal papers, financial papers, addresses and writings, pictures, and a miscellaneous folder that includes some genealogy. Subjects mentioned in the letters include travel in the U.S. and Europe, marriage and family life, illness, Williams College, Yale College, politics, law,"bloodletting with leeches," Civil War activities, and The Worcester Continentals.

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    John Hook papers, 1737-1889 and undated

    30 Linear Feet Approx. 7392 Items
    Scottish merchant and Tory, of Hale's Ford (Franklin Co.), Va. Letters, papers, and mercantile records belonging to John Hook of the mercantile firm of Bowker Preston, Hook's son-in-law, and Smithson H. Davis at Goose Creek, Bedford Co., Va.; and of a similar firm of Asa, Smithson H., and Alexander G. Holland and John D. Booth at Hale's Ford and Germantown, both in Franklin Co., the Holland family apparently being connected with the Hook family by marriage. John Hook's papers consist of daybooks, ledgers, letter books, and memoranda of his mercantile firm and its branch stores, as well as plantation and land records of his extensive holdings and genealogical materials. There is also information concerning sequestration proceedings brought against him by David Ross, a former business partner. The records span the last quarter of the eighteenth century and document the American colonial and post-revolutionary trade system. Records of Bowker Preston and Smithson Davis concern the operation of their mercantile firms, 1813-1830, and include information on goods purchased in Philadelphia, New York City, and Richmond and Lynchburg, Va., and on the tobacco trade in Virginia, especially the effects of the panic of 1819. Records of the Holland family consist of merchants' correspondence, ledgers, account books, and daybooks.
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    Horse & Buggy Press print and graphic design projects, 1996-2017

    4.0 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
    Collection of fine art print and graphic design projects by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, North Carolina, commissioned chiefly by non-profit organizations, small firms, individual authors and artists, and community events organizers. Formats include catalogs, broadsides, posters, newsletters, pamphlets and brochures, programs, and jacket and packaging designs for six audio and film recordings. Smaller projects include exhibit and book announcements, business cards, invitations, and menus for local restaurants. Chiefly consists of letterpress work, but there are also examples of offset and digitally printed items. Many projects involved the work of other artists and designers, and many were printed in limited editions. Content often includes poetry, prose excerpts, and quotes. Books and zines printed by Horse & Buggy Press have been separated from this collection and individually described for the Duke University Libraries catalog.
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    Maji Moto: Dispatches from A Drought, 2012
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    An accompaniment to the book of the same name, 2012. Four editions are represented here, each combining a single different photographic image with letterpress text. Giclee printed image, letterpress printed text. 190g William Turner paper. Each broadside was issued in a limited run, and is signed and numbered by the artist: "Dual Text," #24 of 28. "Paternal Care," #14 of 17. "Hazy Tree," #31 of 33. "Dead Giraffe," #3 of 27.

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    Lawson's Legacy: Nature Writing and North Carolina, 1701–2001 (2001)
    Box 1

    Edition of 300. Commissioned by the North Carolina Special Collections Library UNC as part of the conference celebrating the 300th anniversary of explorer John Lawson's trek across the Carolinas. Entirely hand-printed on the letterpress. Half of the edition was printed on machine-made paper, half was printed on hand-made paper produced at Antfarm (cotton fibers).

    1. Broadsides, 1999-2017

    Durham Farmers Market: Celebrating the First Decade, 2001
    Box 1

    #399 from an edition of 500. Engraving by Josef Beery. Entirely letterpress printed in five colors on paper composed of recycled and kenaf fibers. From the creator: "Instead of showing a cornucopia of produce like so many farmers market posters, I thought this image said 'harvest' as much as a type of food, and just like an ear of corn is composed of many small kernels, a farmers market is made up of many small farmers."

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    Theodore Hornberger papers, 1930-1976

    1.4 Linear Feet 463 Items
    Theodore Hornberger (1906-1975) was a professor of English and scholar of Puritanism and Colonial American literature. Papers contain lectures, drafts, printed material, reprints, manuscripts, and correspondence relating to Hornberger's work on Puritanism and colonial American literature. Included are bibliographies compiled by Hornberger on the subjects of Puritanism, science, literature, and education, lecture notes on a variety of topics and individuals in American literature and history, and a draft manuscript of his book Puritanism and Science.
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    Houston Riot of 1917 trial photograph, 1917

    1.2 Linear Feet (1 item)
    W. C. Lloyd was a photographer. Collection comprises a gelatin silver photograph taken during the trail at Fort Sam Houston following the Houston Riot of 1917 or Camp Logan riot. It shows 64 African-American members of the Army's 24th Infantry being court martialed for mutiny and the murder of 17 people during the riot. The photographer included description written onto the negative. The back is stamped with the Lloyd Photo Co. address.
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    Houston Riot of 1917 trial photograph, 1917 1.2 Linear Feet (1 item)

    W. C. Lloyd was a photographer. Collection comprises a gelatin silver photograph taken during the trail at Fort Sam Houston following the Houston Riot of 1917 or Camp Logan riot. It shows 64 African-American members of the Army's 24th Infantry being court martialed for mutiny and the murder of 17 people during the riot. The photographer included description written onto the negative. The back is stamped with the Lloyd Photo Co. address.
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      Julia Ward Howe letters, 1909 September 22

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      Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, abolitionist, and suffragist, best known for authoring the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Collection comprises a letter dated 1909 September 22 from Julia Ward Howe to Magister H.R. Sanborn in which she discusses her plan for reading an unnamed poem at the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
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      Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, abolitionist, and suffragist, best known for authoring the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Collection comprises a letter dated 1909 September 22 from Julia Ward Howe to Magister H.R. Sanborn in which she discusses her plan for reading an unnamed poem at the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
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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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        David Kelly Jackson papers, 1850 1925-1991 and undated

        4.7 Linear Feet 1860 Items
        Duke University alumnus and independent scholar on Edgar Allan Poe and 19th century American literature. Correspondence, research, and writings on Edgar Allan Poe and other 19th century American writers, including Hardin E. Taliaferro and Augustin L. Taveau. Prominent correspondents include Clarence Gohdes, Jay B. Hubbell, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Joel Myerson, Dwight Thomas, and J.H. Whitty. Research notes and writings include material on Jackson's books Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger, and The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1847, as well as articles by Poe scholars Richard Kopley and Benjamin Franklin Fisher. The collection is part of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography.
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        Israel and the Diaspora ephemera collection, 1918-2004

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        A collection of printed materials, some rare, that reflects the mostly secular Jewish society and culture in the Land of Israel, both before and after the founding of the State of Israel, and in some diaspora communities. Materials include partial runs of periodicals, publications of various organizations, social and ideological movements and government agencies, as well as personal publications, in Hebrew and Yiddish. The publications pertain to a variety of subjects, including the Labor movement, Kibbutz movement, Zionist education and information, history, literature and more. Dates range from 1918 to 2004.
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        James Cartoons Posters, 1920-1921

        3 Linear Feet 14 Items
        The New Process Electro Corporation was based in the Times Building, on Broadway at 42nd Street in New York City. Its president was Charles C. James, who also served as president of the James Investment Company (St. Louis, Mo.) and the Paramount Advertising Corporation. Dates and activities for this corporation are not known, other than it appears to have been active from at least 1913 through 1921, the date of this collection's latest cartoon. Collection of 14 political posters, 1920-1921, created as part of the James Cartoons series by the New Process Electro Corporation. Subjects include foreign policy, especially Europe and the League of Nations; the 1920 presidential election between Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox; and financial topics such as Germany's war debts, coal shortages, and the Ponzi scheme.
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        Italian Cultural Posters collection, 1930s-1980s and undated bulk 1970-1989

        4 Linear Feet 115 Items
        Collection consists of 115 Italian cultural and political posters, the bulk of which date from the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly half of the posters were printed by the Italian Communist Party (Pci) offices in Milan and Rome, chiefly in the 1970s, and address themes such as control of the media (particularly television and newspapers), the environment, elections, educational reform, political radicalism, labor issues, voting rights, patronage and other forms of corruption, and taxation. Many posters display the images and words of political activists from around the world. Some posters refer to Francoism, to American leaders such as President Nixon, and to the Vietnam War. Many of the latter express an anti-American position. Other posters in the collection advertise art and design exhibits, and announce celebrations and civic events. Also includes a set of 38 color slides of elections broadsides (1986-1987) posted in public spaces in Italy.
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        William Henry Jackson photographs, 1869-1878 and undated

        3.2 Linear Feet 130 Items
        William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was one of the earliest and most important American photographers. From 1869 to 1878 he was official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Collection includes 130 photographs and albumen prints, almost all of which Jackson made while employed by the Survey. States represented are Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Photographs are organized in several series by year from 1869 to 1874. Other important photographs include both a series and an album of the area now know as Yellowstone National Park; some of Jackson's photographs were shown to Congress prior to their vote to establish it as the first national park.
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        Istanbul postcards and photographs collection, 1890-1940

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        Collection is a set of postcards and photographs from late 19th and early 20th century Turkey, depicting scenes and people in the Üsküdar neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, and in other unidentified areas of Istanbul. Materials in the Üsküdar series have been individually numbered and described in English and Turkish. Materials in the Ottoman period postcard series have been translated from French and described in English.
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        Stonewall Jackson papers, 1855-1906

        6.2 Linear Feet 4723 Items
        Confederate Army officer, from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. Collection includes correspondence, commissary papers, vouchers of Jackson's command, soldiers' leave requests, and other papers (chiefly 1861-1865). The commissary records, kept by Turner Ashby and J. H. Halsey, contain information about food in the Confederate Army. Other topics include military operations around Staunton, Va. (circa 1862), enemy movements around Harper's Ferry, a request that Jefferson County soldiers be allowed to march to Shepherdstown to vote, religious denominations opposed to war, captured property, and appointments of men to office. Correspondents and persons mentioned include James Walkinshaw Allen, P. G. T. Beauregard, Armistead Burwell, S. Bassett French, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Mrs. Robert T. Meade, and Clementine Neal.
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        Michael Itkoff photographs, 2006-2008

        1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
        The thirty 20x24 inch exhibition-quality color photographs in this collection form a body of work, entitled "Wrecked," that explores the world of American stock car racing and demolition derbies, as well as the drivers, mechanics, pit crews, and spectators who prepare for and take part in the events. The images were taken by photographer Michael Itkoff from 2006 to 2008 at speedways, fairgrounds, and garages in New York State, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The prints are accompanied by a video of a demolition derby, a demolition derby team t-shirt, and a safety vest. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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