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Lawrence Klein (1920-2013) was a Nobel Prize winner and the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance, Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.

Collection comprises the 16-point Know-Nothing party platform, "copied from the Know-Nothing newspaper for the special benefit of my honorable colleague, Miss R. In haste, S."

Mary Tarleton Knollenberg (1904-1992) was an American sculptor working primarily in bronze, stone and plaster. Her artwork characteristically portrays the female form and expressions of female identity. She specialized in nudes; however, her oeuvre also contains animals, busts, and portraits. The Mary Tarleton Knollenberg papers comprise photographs of her family and her sculptures, correspondence with her husband and fellow artists, journals, and ephemera related to her work and exhibitions. The collection also contains resources used in the creation of the retrospective Modern Figures, written by Tarleton's grand-niece, Ippy Patterson.

Advertising executive with Doyle Dane Bernbach and DDB Needham agencies in the New York and Los Angeles offices; marketing executive for Universal Pictures. Collection spans the 1950s-2015 and includes policy and training manuals, media campaign reports, speeches and writings and press clippings, other printed materials, print advertisements, photographs, slides, and other materials that relate to Kornblit's career in advertising at the Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) and DDB Needham agencies. Companies referenced include American Tourister (American Luggage), Thom McCan shoes, and Volkswagen. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Set of 95 photographic color images in slide format, taken by Jeff Kosokoff, a librarian at Duke University, Durham, N.C., while traveling in Japan, mainland China, and Taiwan from January to April 1983. The images are arranged by geographic location, in alphabetical order: Akira, Japan; Hong Kong; Hohhot (or Huhhot), the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in North China; the Inner Mongolia grasslands; and Taipei, Taiwan. Subjects includes the rural landscapes and cityscapes of each area and its citizens, including street scenes and street art, markets, advertising and other signs, vending machines, and modes of transportation. Photographs taken in Inner Mongolia include dwellings (yurts), families and individuals in native dress, domestic Bactrian camels, and some scenes from the city of Hohhot. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Copywriter and advertising executive with Gimbels and Macy's department stores and the Ogilvy & Mather agency.

Jeanette Kostyrka was a Catholic anti-abortion activist who distributed prayer cards encouraging "spiritual adoption" of "unborns." The collection primarily consists of requests for and acknowledgements of receipt of prayer cards, as well as a small amount of other correspondence and anti-abortion brochures and pamphlets, including some with images of fetuses.

Preprinted Jewish marriage certificate for bride Freyda Koyfman and groom Barukh Zilberglayt from the Galata and Beyoglu Eskenazi Society in Istanbul, Turkey. Stamped, sealed and signed.

Stacy Kranitz is a documentary photographer and author based in Tennessee. Collection consists of 15 color inkjet prints and a 100-page handmade illustrated book fom a project titled Fulcrum of Malice, which documents the connections between conditions in African American neighborhoods and the siting and management of hazardous industries and waste sites around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The photographs show African American families at home and in their neighborhoods, people in church and at meetings about the hazardous waste sites, biodegraded landscapes, and the industrial sites themselves. The book also includes text, maps, charts that narrate the community histories, government policies which led to the current situation, and the decades-long struggle for environmental and health justice for the inhabitants. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Irwin Kremen (1925-2020) was an American artist who at 41 began making art while Director of the Duke University Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology. Collection includes exhibition announcements, programs, and brochures for Irwin Kremen art exhibitions, as well as correspondence with Margaret Williams in Duke's Department of Psychology.