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Pettaway Family papers, 1944-1953

1 Linear Feet 335 Items

Collection contains letters to Grace and Winifred Pettaway from family members and their girl and boy friends during the years 1944-1953. They provide a glimpse of college and military life for African Americans during the 1940s and 1950s. The collection also includes photographs, event programs, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, certificates, and speeches.

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Michael Peterson papers, 1961-2019 and undated, bulk 1972

3 Linear Feet 500 Items
Novelist, veteran of the Marine Corps in Vietnam, and alumnus of Duke University. Convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson; a retrial was ordered in 2011. In 2017 Peterson submitted an Alford plea to the reduced charge of manslaughter, was sentenced to time already served, and was set free. Chiefly consists of correspondence and writings that pertain to three novels written by Michael Peterson: A Time of War, The Immortal Dragon, and The Enemy. Peterson served in the Marine Corps and based these novels around his experiences during the Vietnamese conflict. The writings contain handwritten and typed drafts of the three novels. While an undergraduate at Duke University, Peterson served as editor of the student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. Issues of this newspaper printed during his editorship are bound together and included within the collection.
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Hieraume Peyre sketchbook and commonplace book, 1620-1640

0.5 Linear Feet (1 item)
Hieraume Peyre (or Hierosme Peire) was a French architect-builder, originally from Saint-Chamond, who lived and worked in the area around Saint-Etienne, Isère, Grenoble, and Tullins. Sketchbook and commonplace book compiled over two decades (approximately 1620-1640) by the French architect-builder Hieraume Peyre. The manuscript is in ink and color [14.9 x 19.3 cm], (187) ff., with some leaves showing an earlier pagination that might indicate the loss of some leaves, but with no clear interruption of continuity in the text, copiously illustrated (265 of 375 pages carry some form of illustration, and 161 of these are full-page). Bound in early tinted vellum. The manuscript provides information on both the practical and theoretical concerns of early-modern engineers and architectural practitioners.
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Hieraume Peyre sketchbook and commonplace book, 1620-1640 0.5 Linear Feet (1 item)

Hieraume Peyre (or Hierosme Peire) was a French architect-builder, originally from Saint-Chamond, who lived and worked in the area around Saint-Etienne, Isère, Grenoble, and Tullins. Sketchbook and commonplace book compiled over two decades (approximately 1620-1640) by the French architect-builder Hieraume Peyre. The manuscript is in ink and color [14.9 x 19.3 cm], (187) ff., with some leaves showing an earlier pagination that might indicate the loss of some leaves, but with no clear interruption of continuity in the text, copiously illustrated (265 of 375 pages carry some form of illustration, and 161 of these are full-page). Bound in early tinted vellum. The manuscript provides information on both the practical and theoretical concerns of early-modern engineers and architectural practitioners.
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Lauren Pond photographs, 2011-2016

.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes; 49 prints)
Collection consists of 49 color inkjet prints from the documentary project "Test of Faith" by photographer Lauren Pond. The images are approximately 20x14 inches in size and are unmatted. Between 2011 and 2016, Pond documented the life, death, and West Virginian family of Pentecostal pastor and serpent handler, Mack Wolford, of the Full Gospel Apostolic House of the Lord Jesus in Matoaka, West Virginia. The series includes images of Wolford's death in his family home after he was bitten by the venomous snake. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Pope-Carter Family papers, 1791-1967

4 Linear Feet 1,370 Items
Pope and Carter familes of Giles, Maury, and Williamson Counties, Tennessee. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, legal and financial papers, and other material, of the related Pope and Carter families of Giles, Maury, and Williamson counties, Tenn. Letters (1820-1865) pertain to agriculture, steam boating on the Mississippi River, selling goods to Choctaw Indians, pioneering in Texas, travels of a planter's wife, Confederate military service, Columbus, Miss, and related Clark, Rivers, Rodes (or Rhodes), and Trotter families. Twentieth century material centers on the career of Col. William Rivers Pope, especially during World War I, when he was a regimental commander in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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Carl Pope Black Lives Matter movement posters, 2020

1 Linear Feet (1 box)
Carl Pope (1961- ) is an African American artist and printmaker. This collection consists of two black-and-white letterpress posters on 22x14 inch cardboard. The first poster reads, "Black lives matter: it ain't what the news told ya!" The second reads, "Is America the America I learned to imagine?" The original posters were created and published in Pope's book, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2018). Pope then re-created them in 2020 in response to current Black Lives Matter movement events, distributing copies of the posters to movement participants for the purpose of displaying them in their respective communities. Acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Carl Pope Black Lives Matter movement posters, 2020 1 Linear Feet (1 box)

Carl Pope (1961- ) is an African American artist and printmaker. This collection consists of two black-and-white letterpress posters on 22x14 inch cardboard. The first poster reads, "Black lives matter: it ain't what the news told ya!" The second reads, "Is America the America I learned to imagine?" The original posters were created and published in Pope's book, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2018). Pope then re-created them in 2020 in response to current Black Lives Matter movement events, distributing copies of the posters to movement participants for the purpose of displaying them in their respective communities. Acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Richard W. Pollay. Mobil Oil advocacy advertisements, 1970-1998

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Richard Pollay was curator of the History of Advertising Archives at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Collection comprises mainly photocopies of advocacy and op-ed editorial-style advertisements produced by Mobil's public relations staff beginning in the early 1970s. Topics include the environment, oil crisis, fuel prices, political propaganda and other issues affecting the corporate image of oil companies as well as touching on public affairs subjects interpreted through the perspective of corporate business and the oil industry. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Richard W. Pollay. Mobil Oil advocacy advertisements, 1970-1998 1.0 Linear Feet

Richard Pollay was curator of the History of Advertising Archives at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Collection comprises mainly photocopies of advocacy and op-ed editorial-style advertisements produced by Mobil's public relations staff beginning in the early 1970s. Topics include the environment, oil crisis, fuel prices, political propaganda and other issues affecting the corporate image of oil companies as well as touching on public affairs subjects interpreted through the perspective of corporate business and the oil industry. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Poor white trash [manuscript], circa 1870-1889

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Career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the Union Army cavalry during the Civil War. Collection comprises Tidball's manuscript (5 pgs.) on poor whites in the South. He divided his study regionally, discussing working class whites on the Georgia coast versus those in the southern Alleghenies. He outlined the impact of slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period on this class of people. Includes a one-page transcription.
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Poor white trash [manuscript], circa 1870-1889 0.2 Linear Feet

Career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the Union Army cavalry during the Civil War. Collection comprises Tidball's manuscript (5 pgs.) on poor whites in the South. He divided his study regionally, discussing working class whites on the Georgia coast versus those in the southern Alleghenies. He outlined the impact of slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period on this class of people. Includes a one-page transcription.
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Edward C. Prescott papers, 1964-2014

7.0 Linear Feet (Four boxes.)
Edward Prescott (1940-2022) was a Nobel Prize winner and a Regents Professor (of economics) at Arizona State University. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, teaching, and professional activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Alexander Proctor papers, 1837-1895

0.1 Linear Feet 36 Items
African American family originally from Virginia and North Carolina. Legal papers and correspondence relating to the Alexander Proctor family, tracing their history beginning as freedmen in Virginia and North Carolina, their 1840s resettlement in Warren County, Ohio, their emigration to Haiti in 1861 as part of the Redpath movement, and their eventual return to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1866. The correspondence dates principally from the 1870s, is chiefly written by A.W. Proctor, one of Alexander Proctor's sons, and S.S. Hutchins, friend of Proctor's son, Isaac, and relates to family affairs, business, and other matters. S.S. Hutchins is identified in the Gould's St. Louis Directory (1874), 449, as Chief Clerk in the U.S. Army Engineer's Office. One letter from a friend to a family member mentions seeing Frederick Douglass at Wilberforce College in 1893. The legal records document the free status of the Proctors, various labor agreements, and migration papers, and include receipts and letters of introduction.
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Shawn Michael Pridgen photographs, 2020

1 Linear Feet (1 box)
Shawn Pridgen is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York whose photographic career began with the Black Lives Matter protests, which followed the violent deaths of African American citizens at the hands of law enforcement. In 2020 he received the Collection Award from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University for this portfolio. Collection consists of fifteen photographic prints of images taken in 2020 at Black Lives Matter protests and rallies in New York City and Washington, D.C. by documentarian Shawn Michael Pridgen. Subjects include portraits of protesters, in some cases with Washington, D.C. monuments in the background; and images of police, crowds, marches, protest signs, city streets and other urban features. The black-and-white prints measure 11x14 inches (9) and 16x20 inches (6). Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Joseph Davis Pridgen papers, 1917-1984 (bulk 1917-1919)

1 Linear Feet 300 items
Supply sergeant with American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and native of Durham, N.C. Chiefly letters written by Pridgen while he was with Company M, 120th U.S. Infantry, 30th Division of American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. He was located at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C., and in France. Two of his notebooks read "Engineers Candidate School" and indicate he was trained in mining, field fortification, military bridges, and camouflage. They contain detailed penciled drawings which include dimensions. Collection also contains military papers, memorabilia, ephemera, and legal papers relating to Pridgen's automobile dealership.
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James M. Priest papers, 1837-1846

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James M. Priest was a formerly enslaved person who moved permanently to Liberia, where he served as Presbyterian missionary in King Will's Town, and later Greenville. Collection comprises a letter in a newspaper and five other letters writen by Priest, primarily to members of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, but also to a ship's captain, and a fellow minister.
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Priest to Captain J. R. Brown letter, 1844 November 1
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A 1-page letter from Priest to Captain J. R. Brown of the American Brig Atlanta, who evidently traded on the western coast of Africa and supplied various missions. Priest writes requesting to be one of those supplied: "Our position is different from what you deem to suppose. Mr. Connoly is not aughorized to give draught for me. We are both principle of our Stations. We are to attend to our own business & when we cannot get Captains to supply us we must suffer. We have not been under any one since we came to Africa....When you go home please to learn our position from the Board so that you can supply us when we are in distress"

Priest to Walter Lowrie letter, 1845 January 17
Folder 1

A 6-page letter from Priest to Walter Lowrie, former United States Senator and Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Missions, in which he questions whether the Board of Foreign Missions intends to provide monetary, material, and political support for his ministry equal to that they would provide a white man. He wonders how much of his concerns are in fact miscommunications with the Board, but stresses that he will not retain his authority with the natives if a white missionary is sent to his area and given more power. He points out that his wife has just given birth to twin boys, so now the family requires more support. Other topics include house-building supplies, crops, and the sale of a horse. Includes the letter's cover.

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Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738

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Thomas Prince (1687-1758) was a graduate of Harvard College, a clergyman, scholar, historian, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Mass. from 1718 to 1758, and author of A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals (1736). Collection includes three letters, dated 1721, 1726, and 1738, to Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. There are two letters from Prince's sister Abigail in Middleborough, Mass., dated January 4, 1721 and February 25, 1726, both discussing family matters such as health, various leases and deeds, and other subjects. In another letter, dated 1738, Prince's mother-in-law Grace Denny, of Old Newton, England, discusses her anxiety about not hearing from Prince, her declining health, and politics and the royal family in England. In a postscript, Denny notes that she has "heard of a printed account about Great Conversions in Hampshire...by the the Rev'd Doctor Watts and Doctor Guyse."
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Pritchett family correspondence, 1785-1876 and undated

1.5 Linear Feet 375 Items
Residents of Little Hallingbury, Essex, England. Collection consists almost entirely of personal correspondence of the Pritchett family, whose members included the Reverend Charles Richard Pritchett (1785-1849), an Anglican clergyman. The correspondence represents two generations, and includes letters from Pritchett's second wife, Mary Needham Burder Pritchett, other siblings of Charles and Mary, especially Elizabeth Burder, and their children. The Wollaston and James families are also represented. Many of the letters were written by women. Also included is a folder of unrelated envelopes and covers, apparently collected for their stamps, postmarks, and signatures.
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Creasy Kinion Proctor sermons, 1915-1940 and undated

0.4 Linear Feet 300 Items
Creasy Kinion Proctor (1889-1946) was a clergyman from Durham, North Carolina, a Trinity College alumnus and Duke University Trustee, and Superintendent of Oxford Orphanage from 1928 to 1946, the year he died. Collection consists chiefly of sermon outlines dating from the early 20th century, written by Creasy Kinion Proctor, a minister ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of North Carolina. There are also a few other papers included in the collection, including an index to sermon topics.
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Reynolds Price papers, 1880-2014 and undated

151 Linear Feet 1 Gigabytes 354 boxes
Reynolds Price (1933-2011) was a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, translator, and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where he taught creative writing and literature beginning in 1958. He was an alumnus of Duke and of Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. He received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The collection is comprised of correspondence, writings, serials, clippings, speeches, interviews, legal and financial papers, photographs, audiovisual materials, and digital materials reflecting Price's career and personal life. Personal and professional correspondence document his education at Duke University, especially his studies under William Blackburn; his period abroad as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford; and his literary work and interaction with other authors, including Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Allan Gurganus. Writings include manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, outlines, and notes produced in the creation and publication of all his major works, including: A Long and Happy Life; Kate Vaiden; A Palpable God; Clear Pictures; A Whole New Life; The Collected Stories; The Collected Poems; A Letter to a Godchild; Ardent Spirits; The Good Priest's Son, and many other books, individual stories, poems, and essays.
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Purviance family papers, 1757-1932, bulk 1776-1920

3 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 2,363 items (includes 16 vols.))
This collection contains professional, business, personal and family correspondence and other papers of the related Purviance and Courtenay families of Baltimore, Md., and elsewhere. The collection pertains to Revolutionary War activities in Maryland, shipping and trade, Western lands, settlement of estates, Civil War veterans' activities, the Cuban independence movement, and other matters. Includes papers of John Henry Purviance, U.S. diplomat in Paris, concerning the Monroe Mission (1794), U.S. relations with Napoleon and the Revolutionary French Government; papers relating to the financial affairs of Elizabeth Isabella Purviance Courtenay; papers of Edward H. Courtenay, Sr., relating to his career at West Point, his later teaching duties there and at other colleges, and his investment activities; and letters of Edward H. Courtenay, Jr., written in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, describing the city and political opinion there. Correspondents include Alexander Dallas Bache, George William Erving, John Graham, Gessner Harrison, Anthony Hart, William Homes McGuffey, William Maclay, George Mason, James Monroe, Abner Nash, Fulwar Skipwith, George Muirson Totten, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and John Vanderlyn.
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Chester DeWitt Pugsley papers, 1873-1938 and undated, bulk 1925-1938

25.6 Linear Feet 19,216 Items
Lawyer and philanthropist of Peekskill, N.Y. Personal, business, political, and philanthropic correspondence (chiefly 1925-1938), relating to Pugsley's political work for the Democratic Party, his philanthropic activities, his efforts to promote better understanding and knowledge of international affairs, U.S. and New York politics (1910-1938), and U.S. economic conditions (1920s and 1930s). Correspondents include Roscoe Pound and William Howard Taft.
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Mordecai Purcell papers, 1778-1901 and undated

0.5 Linear Feet Approx. 520 Items
Quaker farmer, fruit-grower, and broom-maker from Frederick County, Virginia. The Mordecai Purcell papers span the years 1778-1901 and contain correspondence, bills, receipts, business and legal papers, and a ledger relating to Quaker farmer Mordecai Purcell, his brother, John Purcell, and the Cather family (John Purcell married Adaline J. Cather), living in Virginia.
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Publicis Promotional Binder, approximately 1950

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Advertising agency founded in 1926 in Paris, France. Binder of black-and-white photographs highlighting Publicis' work for its clients. Companies represented include Bouchara, Brunswick Furriers, Colgate-Palmolive, Craven cigarettes (brand of Benson & Hedges), Lordson, Timor insecticide (SOFACO), and Weill clothiers. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Publicis Promotional Binder, approximately 1950 1.0 Linear Feet

Advertising agency founded in 1926 in Paris, France. Binder of black-and-white photographs highlighting Publicis' work for its clients. Companies represented include Bouchara, Brunswick Furriers, Colgate-Palmolive, Craven cigarettes (brand of Benson & Hedges), Lordson, Timor insecticide (SOFACO), and Weill clothiers. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Robert Coleman Price papers, 1866-1971

0.5 Linear Feet 52 Items
Chiefly genealogical materials gathered by Robert Price and others, mostly pertaining to the Price family. Includes genealogical charts, typescripts, and correspondence.
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Edmund Quincy letters, 1885-1886

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Edmund Quincy, an author and reformer, was the second son of Josiah Quincy III and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. Collection comprises three letters Edmund Quincy wrote to abolitionist and women's rights advocate Parker Pillsbury, primarily regarding reminiscences of Quincy's father, and exchanges of books and pamphlets.
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Edmund Quincy letters, 1885-1886 0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)

Edmund Quincy, an author and reformer, was the second son of Josiah Quincy III and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. Collection comprises three letters Edmund Quincy wrote to abolitionist and women's rights advocate Parker Pillsbury, primarily regarding reminiscences of Quincy's father, and exchanges of books and pamphlets.
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Radio Haiti papers, circa 1934-2003, bulk 1968-2003

80 Linear Feet (197 boxes; 2 oversize folders; and digital photographs)
Radio Haïti-Inter was Haiti's first and most prominent independent radio station from the early 1970s until 2003. Under the direction of Jean Léopold Dominique and Michèle Montas, Radio Haiti was a voice of social change and democracy, speaking out against oppression and impunity while advocating for human rights and celebrating Haitian culture and heritage. The Radio Haiti papers contain mainly the station's on-air scripts and research materials covering a wide variety of subjects. The Radio Haiti audio recordings are described in a separate collection guide.
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ANDAH, 1980-1988
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Radio Haiti materials and external materials about the Association Nationale des Agro-professionnels haïtiens (ANDAH).

  1. Agriculture, 1975-2003
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Roy Radner papers, 1951-2014

36 Linear Feet (24 boxes.) 1 Megabytes (One set.)
Roy Radner (1927-2022) was the Leonard N. Stern Professor of Business, Emeritus at New York University. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and teaching. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Radio TV Reports Infomercial collection, 1990-1996

12 Linear Feet 149 Items
Broadcast service company that records, transcribes and monitors radio and television programming. Collection spans the years 1990-1996 and consists of over 800 as-broadcast televised infomercials and public service programs recorded on VHS. Topics include direct marketing for health and beauty aids, kitchen appliances, exercise equipment, wealth management and collectible items. Celebrities featured as spokespersons include Cher, Joe Theisman, Richard Simmons and Victoria Jackson. Services represented include health and insurance providers and nonprofit organizations such as the New Jersey Education Association. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Tape 1 - Mega Memory Photographic Memory, FNN-TV, 1990 May 31, 3:00 AM; $50,000 Opportunity Showcase--Entrepreneurs, FNN-TV, 1990 May 31 3:30 AM; Howard Ruff--Achieve Prosperity in the 90s, FNN-TV, 1990 May 31 4:00 AM; Fran Tarkenton--Personal Achievement, FNN-TV, 1990 May 31 4:30 AM., 1990 May 31
Box 1 > Video-cassette RL01062-VHS-0001
Digital-materials RL01062-SET-VHS0001 > Video-file RL01062-VHS-0001.mkv
Digital-materials RL01062-SET-VHS0001 > Video-file RL01062-VHS-0001.mp4

  1. Original Tapes, 1990-1996

Tape 2 - Arnold's Gourmet Kitchen--Kitchenmate, WWOR-TV, 1990 June 2, 6:00 AM; Incredible Breakthrough--Liquid Lustre, WWOR-TV, 1990 June 2, 6:30 AM; Unlocking the Mystery of Marriage, WWOR-TV, 1990 June 2, 7:00 AM; Victoria Jackson--Beauty Breakthrough for the 90s, WWOR-TV, 1990 June 2, 7:30 AM., 1990 June 02
Box 1 > Video-cassette RL01062-VHS-0002
Digital-materials RL01062-SET-VHS0002 > Video-file RL01062-VHS-0002.mkv
Digital-materials RL01062-SET-VHS0002 > Video-file RL01062-VHS-0002.mp4

  1. Original Tapes, 1990-1996
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Robert S. Rankin papers, 1957-1973

67.6 Linear Feet 17,000 Items
Robert S. Rankin was a professor of Political Science at Duke University and member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Collection documents Rankin's work on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1960-1973 and consists of agendas and minutes for the monthly meetings of the commission, 1959-1973, and material on special meetings; memoranda, correspondence, statements, and news clippings dealing with the operational aspects of the commission; background studies; transcripts of proceedings; news clippings from fact finding investigations, 1960-1973; statements of commissioners; and transcripts of testimony before congressional committees. The commission's areas of study included education, employment, political participation, housing and urban development, administration of justice, public accommodations, health and welfare, federal programs, minority groups, federal enforcement, and civil liberties and human rights.
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Major General Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph albums of service in South Korea, 1959 July-1960 May

1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey was a U.S. Army three-star general who served in South Korea from 1959-1960 as Senior Military Advisor to the Korean National War College in Seoul, South Korea. The three spiral-bound albums house over 300 black-and-white mounted photographs, chiefly in 4x5 and 8x10 sizes, all with typed captions and commentary. The images document the War College campus, Ramsey's quarters, South Korean and American officers in group portraits and in military meetings, dinners, and parties, as well as official tours and visits, including to the DMZ and a U.S. guided missile base; and visits to Seoul streets and tourist sites, rice fields and markets, and to Tokyo, Japan. Ramsey often appears in event photographs. There are a few snapshots of Ramsey's family. Also includes about 20 close-range photographs documenting the violence and bloodshed at student and civilian street protests in Seoul against President Syngman Rhee, known as the April Revolution of 1960.
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Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #1, 1959 July-October
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This spiral-bound album houses approximately 121 page-mounted and 5 loose sleeved photographs with typed captions and dates from July to October, 1959. Then-Colonel Ramsey came to Korea to serve as the U.S. Army advisor to the Korean National Defense College, near , South Korea, in July 1959.

Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #2, 1959 October-1960 February
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This album includes approximately 82 photographs with typed captions and some newspaper clippings, and dates from October 1959 through March 1960. It includes many group photographs of Korean and American military officers, including officials from the Chinese embassy, as well as many snapshots of then-Colonel Lloyd Ramsey. Other images show interiors at the National War College near Kisan, Korea, including the NDC library, auditorium, typing room, and leadership's offices. There is one photo of General Paik Sun-yup, Korea's first four-star general, who died at 100 on July 10, 2020. In Korea, Paik's death sparked a controversy on his pro-Japanese activities during the colonial period.

Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey photograph album #3, March-May 1960
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This album includes approximately 134 photographs with typed captions and commentary. They chiefly document South Korean and American military personnel during meetings, relaxing in quarters, and posing for snaphots and group portraits. Events documented include the Korean Military and Naval Academies graduations. There are also many images from touristic trips to towns, to the Chang Gyung Won (Changgyeong Palace) Gardens, and to Tokyo, Japan, just before Ramsey departed for the U.S. from Taiwan. The first photograph is the only color image in the collection - a snapshot of Korean children playing with a seesaw on the street. Included is a large brochure for the Atami Hotel in Tokyo as well as a publicity magazine about the Tokyo Tower, a record-height communications structure built in 1958.

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William Peirce Randel papers, 1852-1986

1.2 Linear Feet Approximately 735 Items
Historian and professor of English, University of Maine. Correspondence, addresses, proofs, drafts and reprints of articles, reviews, and photographs, all concerning William Peirce Randel's work on Edward Eggleston, a Methodist circuit rider who turned agnostic. Includes a bibliography of Randel's writings, and 23 photographs of Eggleston, his home, and various locations where he was active.
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Jeannette Rankin papers, 1917-1941

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Collection contains approximately 50 letters, largely congratulatory, mailed to Jeannette Rankin following her congressional vote opposing the United States' declaration of war on Germany in 1917. Many letters discuss women's suffrage and the desire for peace. Collection also includes assorted materials from Jeannette's lecture tours in New York, including itemized statements from a New York advertising agency and a promotional flyer. There is blank stationary letterhead from her second congressional term. Also includes two letters from Rankin's mother, Olive Pickering Rankin, to her brother, Wellington; these are undated but appear to be from approximately 1917-1920s.
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Marcy Randall papers, 1856-1890

0.25 Linear Feet 60 Items
Marcy Randall (1798- ) was a farmer's wife living in Visalia and Grant's Lick, Campbell County, Kentucky during and after the American Civil War. This collection chiefly contains letters from Marcy Randall, Campbell County, Kentucky, to her brother, Allen Hawkins, in West Glocester, Rhode Island. The letters primarily refer to matters of health, family activities, and religion. Many of the letters dated during the 1860s include Randall's commentary about the Civil War. Acquired as part of the George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana.
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Robert C. Randolph papers, 1897-1919

0.5 Linear Feet 27 Items
Robert C. Randolph was a Clarke County, Virginia physician active in the early 20th century. The collection contains business and medical records of Dr. Robert C. Randolph, in the form of four medical visits notebooks, legal papers, and correspondence, all dating from the last years of the 19th century until 1919.
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Nicole DiBona Peterson Collection of Advertising Cookbooks, 1851-2005

127.25 Linear Feet
Joseph DiBona is a cookbook collector and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Program in Education at Duke University. The collection is named in honor of his daughter Nicole DiBona Peterson. Collection spans the years 1851-2005 and includes cookbooks, hang tags, inserts, recipe cards and guides, operating instructions, owner's manuals and other promotional materials that address cooking and kitchen arts. Materials include recipes, guides, and information that educate consumers and promote the use of a variety of foods (meat; fish and poultry; dairy; soups; fruits and vegetables; beverages); condiments and spices (sauces, bouillon and broths, chocolate and cocoa, baking soda and baking powder); canning jars; small appliances (cookware, blenders, mixers, microwave ovens); and large appliances (stoves and refrigerators). Collection materials frequently promote the use of a particular brand or product, and they occasionally promote institutions or trade organizations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History.
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Radio Haiti audio recordings, 1957-2003

100 Linear Feet
Audio recordings from Radio Haiti-Inter, documenting Haitian politics and culture from 1957 to 2003 (bulk 1972-2003). Under the leadership of station directors Jean Dominique and Michèle Montas, Radio Haiti was a voice of social change and democracy, speaking out against oppression and impunity while advocating for human rights and celebrating Haitian culture and heritage.
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Paul Ramsey papers, 1934-1984 and undated

24 Linear Feet circa 14,500 items

The papers of Paul Ramsey span the years 1934 to 1984. Included are correspondence, memoranda, book reviews, typescripts, reprints, drafts of books and articles, clippings, lecture notes and outlines, course outlines, examinations and handouts, writings of Ramsey and others, news releases, theses and dissertations, and cassette tapes. The principal focus of the collection reflects the direction of the teaching and writing career of Ramsey, principally while a professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. These primarily professional papers relate to his major fields of interest: theology, philosophy, and the humanities. In particular, Ramsey's chief specialty as a teacher and scholar has been Christian ethics, beginning with the publication of his classic, Basic Christian Ethics in 1950. There followed writings in ethical methodology, "situation ethics," marriage, and sexual ethics. In the 1960s he expanded the scope of his research and writing to include the ethics of warfare and nuclear deterrence, and in the 1970s turned to medical ethics topics, such as fetal research, abortion, and in vitro fertilization.

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Paul Rapelye papers, 1820-1823

1.5 Linear Feet 14 Items

The papers of Paul Rapelye span the years 1820-1823. They consist of eight account books, 1820-1823, one letter book, 1821-1823, and five letters, 1820-1822, that mostly concern mercantile trade. He and his associates traded primarily in cloth, cloth goods, and clothing, but also occasionally in rice, cotton, and other commodities. Rapelye traveled and conducted business in Charleston, Savannah, New York city, and Manchester, England.

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Tom Rankin photographs and papers, 1977-2016

33.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes; 2 film reels)
Tom Rankin is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, professor of art and documentary studies, and former director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The collection consists of 147 black-and-white and color photographs documenting the American South and China, as well as supporting materials for Rankin's documentary projects. Photographs from the South focus on religious sites, rituals, and communities in the Mississippi Delta region, and includes Southern landscapes as well as portraits of individuals, including Mississippi writer Larry Brown. An additional documentary project from 2016 took Rankin to China, where he photographed semi-rural landscapes, often taken with high-rise buildings in the far distance or adjacent to industrial structures, as well as bridges and rivers, markets and live fish vendors, and a few street scenes. Finished prints range from 8x11 inch contact prints to 11x14, 16x20, and 20x24 large-format prints. Supporting materials include manuscripts, publications files, and two films, all deriving from Rankin's career and documentary practice. Includes a digital audio recording of a talk by Rankin at the exhibit opening of his work, "Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Joel Raphaelson papers, 1950-2019 and undated

4.8 Linear Feet
Joel Raphaelson was an advertising executive with Ogilvy & Mather in New York and Chicago. The Joel Raphaelson papers include correspondence, speeches and presentations, writing drafts and other printed materials as well as audiovisual materials in multiple formats (videocassettes, optical disks, audio reels). Topics include agency and account management, management philosophy and strategic direction, and theories of writing for business and advertising copy. A significant portion of the collection is devoted to correspondence with David Ogilvy, Ogilvy's memos and other writings. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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South Asian Pamphlets collection, 1911, 1920-2005, bulk 1950-2000

200 Linear Feet
The South Asian Pamphlets Collection spans the years 1920-2005, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, and with only a few items from the 1910s-1940s. It is arranged by country. Topics commonly covered in each country series include but are not limited to agriculture, arts, defense, economic development, education, ethnic or cultural conflict, industry and commerce, international relations, politics and government, population issues, religion and philosophy, rural development, tourism, and the status of women. While the majority of the pamphlets were published by organizations and agencies and do not list individual authors' names, there are also pamphlets with individual authors listed.
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C.C. Spaulding papers, 1889-1990

25 Linear Feet (18750 items)
President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1923-1952. NC Mutual is the oldest currently active African American-owned insurance company in the United States, founded in 1898 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. The collection contains photographs, miscellaneous business papers, programs, speeches, clippings related to C. C. Spaulding, black civil rights, and to African American life more generally, in addition to administrative materials and various publications created by and related to North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. These papers document the growth of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in the mid-twentieth century, Spaulding's and the company's connection to the community, and their involvement in African American issues (local and beyond) and livelihood. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Southerners on New Ground records, 1993-2015

17.3 Linear Feet
According to the organization's website, Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an intersectional activist organization that works to build, connect, and sustain those in the South who believe in liberation across all lines of race, class, culture, gender and sexuality. It was established in 1994 following a National Lesbian and Gay Task Force meeting. SONG is currently headquartered in Atlanta with regional offices across the South. The accession (2009-0098) (9.6 lin. ft.; dated 1993-2004) includes administrative and financial records, programming materials, and organizational files, all stemming from retreats, training, workshops, and community events sponsored or promoted by SONG. The accession also includes SONG materials from the Bayard Rustin project, People of Color activities, Pride at Work, and the Highlander Economy Educational Institute, among others. The accession (2015-0113) (2.9 lin. ft.; dated 2006-2015) was donated by Caitlin Breedlove, Co-Director of SONG from 2006-2015. It includes administrative and financial records, programming information, flyers and promotional materials and research related to campaign initiatives from her time in the SONG leadership.
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Willis Smith papers, 1919-1954 and undated

130.4 Linear Feet 97,813 Items
Lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1950-1953, from Raleigh (Wake Co.), N.C. Personal, political and professional papers, including correspondence, notes and speeches, financial papers, clippings, printed material, pictures, and other miscellaneous papers. The major portion of the collection consists of personal papers; the office files from his years as U.S. Senator, much of which is routine correspondence; files kept while Smith was president of the American Bar Association, 1945-1946; papers relating to other legal organizations; and files pertaining to his service as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke University, 1947-1953.
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Southern United States manuscript map collection, 1850-1923 and undated

14 Linear Feet (33 items)
This collection contains 33 sketch maps of locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. It includes a number of B. P. Baker Co. plats for a tract of land in Gates County, N.C.; plans of subdivisions and improvements in Savannah by Percy Sugden; a map of Durham, N.C., in 1867 by Lewis Blount; a map of Mississippi representing Choctaw and Chickasaw territories and missionary stations by Sarah Coffin; and a detailed plat of the Bennett & Wallace Lands in West Virginia. Maps signed by Robert Jayne, W. F. Brown, John Tebeau, and Ravenel Gignilliet are present.
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James Southgate papers, 1794-1944 and undated, bulk 1851-1935

2.4 Linear Feet 1926 Items
Educator, insurance agent, and civic leader, of Durham, N.C. Family, business, and personal correspondence (chiefly after 1851) of Southgate and of his family. The material concerns Southgate’s insurance business, life in North Carolina, the establishment of Durham, N.C., and of Duke University; the Southgate family in the Civil War, Reconstruction in North Carolina, education and civil activities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and schools in Durham; and the activities and genealogy of the Southgate family. Correspondents and persons mentioned include Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, Delia Haywood Wynne Southgate, James Haywood Southgate, and Myra Ann Muse Southgate.
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Spanish Consulate records, 1794-1898 and undated

10.5 Linear Feet
Collection contains correspondence, logbooks, shipping and passport registers, crew lists, and an inventory of consular property. Communications in the collection are chiefly directed to the Spanish Consulate in Charleston, S.C., by the Madrid government, by Spanish diplomats and consular representatives in the U.S., and by governing officials in Florida, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. The papers of the 1790s and early 1800s are largely concerned with Spanish interests in Florida. The papers of the 1830s, except those dealing with routine commercial matters, are largely concerned with political affairs in Spain. Later papers relate to Spain's concern that the U.S. will aid Cuban insurgents; reports of American filibustering for Spanish possessions before and after the Civil War; revolutionary movements in Cuba; Spain's diplomatic approach to the U.S. during the Civil War; Spain's naval war with Chile and Peru (1865-1866); Charleston's trade with Spanish West Indian possessions during most of the 19th century; and occasionally to Spanish diplomatic relations with nations other than the U.S. Bound volumes in the collection include letter books, shipping and passport registers, logbooks, crew lists, and an inventory of consular property.
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Spanish Vice-Consulate records, 1835-1935

4 Linear Feet 979 Items
Vice-Consulate of Spain based in Savannah, Ga. Largely communications directed to the Spanish Vice-Consulate in Savannah, Ga., by the Madrid government, by Spanish ministers, consuls, and vice-consuls in the U.S., and by governing officials in Puerto Rico and Cuba. The central theme is Spain's constant preoccupation that American or Cuban expeditions, operating from the U.S., would wrest the island from the Spanish crown. Includes references to political developments within Spain, Spain's commercial relations with her West Indian possessions and with the U.S., and Spain's naval war with Chile and Peru (1865-1866); and routine records relating to shipping, customs service, and commerce.
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Marshall Turner Spears papers, 1910-1947

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Marshall Turner Spears, a white lawyer who practiced in Durham, was born in 1889. He joined Duke's Law faculty in 1927 and served on it until 1936. Spears served as a superior court judge in Durham from 1935 to 1938. This collection consists of three lease agreements drafted by Spears between the Washington Duke Operating Company and Pritchard-Bright & Company, as well as three group photographs featuring Spears.
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Spaulding & Merrick records, 1908-1914

1.2 Linear Feet
Collection comprises a volume (179 pages) containing minutes of meetings of the board of directors (1908-1914), along with original minutes for meetings of the board of directors and annual stockholders' meetings, 1911-1914.
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Spaulding & Merrick records, 1908-1914 1.2 Linear Feet

Collection comprises a volume (179 pages) containing minutes of meetings of the board of directors (1908-1914), along with original minutes for meetings of the board of directors and annual stockholders' meetings, 1911-1914.
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Irving Sonn papers, 1963-1977 and undated

3.25 Linear Feet 2000 Items
Irving Sonn was a copy writer for several advertising agencies including: Ted Bates & Co.; Ogilvy & Mather; Compton Advertising, Inc.; and Needham, Harper & Steers. The Irving Sonn Papers span the years 1963-1977 and contain general correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and presentation slides that primarily document the periods of Sonn's employment at Ted Bates & Co. and Needham, Harper & Steers. Also includes recordings of advertising spots and jingles in a variety of formats, including audiotape and cassettes; VHS and Umatic videocassettes; and 16mm film. Clients include: Burger King; Kodak; Kentucky Fried Chicken; and Toyota. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Nancy Sours papers, 1962-1982

1.0 Linear Feet
Nancy Sours was a white civil rights and human rights activist who volunteered and worked in Mississippi, San Francisco, and Berkeley in the mid- and late-1960s. This collection contains correspondence, collected printed and published materials, and some personal materials documenting her volunteer work; her family's activities and travels; her involvement with various organizations such as Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); her friendships and sexual relationships; her experiences and opinions about her community organizing and activism; her mental and physical health; and her education at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Topics discussed in the various printed materials include civil rights, Black power, socialism and economic reform, gay liberation, women's liberation, reproductive rights, and Vietnam War protests. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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