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Collection comprises a single autograph manuscript note dated 1963 with a Paris return address from the conductor and composer Nadia Boulanger to her friend "R.I." Boulanger inquires after his recent illness and encourages him to carry on his work in the future. The note's recipient is likely the composer Robert Irving.

Nancy Lee Smith was an undergraduate student at Duke University from 1950-1954. The topics of her scrapbook include: social and academic life at Duke, women at Duke, dormitory housing, North Carolina Methodist Youth Fellowship, and Women's Student Government Association.

Nancy Watkins Sommers (1930-2018) attended Duke University's Woman's College and graduated with a Bachelor's in Music in 1952. Her scrapbook documents her first year at Duke University (1948-1949) and includes personal notes, invitations, newspaper clippings, and programs, particularly documenting her participation in the Duke Madrigals and her attendance and engagement with music, social gatherings, dances, and performance programs at Duke. Also includes materials from Goon Day, including her hairbow and sign, as well as some clippings from Oxford High School, her alma mater.

Holograph, signed. Deed of land purchase. Witnessed by Solomon Tracy and Benajah Bushnell. Acknowledged by Richard Bushnell, Justice of the Peace.

Letter (ALS) recommending Dr. Barrington for naval service, bearing a recommendation by William E. Horner; 2 letters (ALS) regarding a treatment for a stomach disorder; holograph notes, probably in Samuel Jackson's hand, regarding this treatment.

ALS relating to various personal and business matters.

ALS. Communicates Estwick Evans' request for blank writs and summons. A typed transcript is available.

ALS. A letter of recommendation for a Dr. Steinecke.

The National Biscuit Company was founded in 1898, the product of a merger among the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company, the New York Biscuit Company, and the United States Baking Company. The new conglomerate was headquartered in New York City with 114 bakeries across the United States. Over the next several decades the company grew by acquiring companies such as the F.H. Bennett Company, maker of Milk-Bone Pet Products, and the Shredded Wheat Company, maker of Triscuit Wafers and Shredded Wheat Cereal. The name "Nabisco" was first used as the name for a cracker introduced in 1901, but the corporate name did not change to Nabisco until 1971. The Uneeda Biscuit, National Biscuit Company's first packaged cracker, was the subject of the company's first million-dollar advertising campaign. Collection comprises a photograph album containing 129 gelatin silver prints and two cyanotypes by anonymous photographers. The majority of the photographs feature storefront and grocery displays of National Biscuit Company cookies and crackers, including Oreos, Animal Crackers, Fig Newtons, Graham Crackers, Uneeda Biscuits, among others. Several of the photographs indicate that the images were taken in Buffalo, New York, and many document the National Biscuit Company's sales force there, posed formally, attending sales meetings, or engaged together in leisure activities. The album also contains photographs of horse drawn delivery wagons, a display for Milk Bone dog biscuits, children dressed in costumes that promote company products, and a classroom of children "playing store."

The National Bowling Council was established in 1943 as an advocacy and publicity organization for the bowling industry and sport. The promotional campaign, "to keep 'em rolling keep promoting" campaign is a booklet aimed at bowling alley owners and managers with suggestions for increasing use of the alleys. Activities include advertising strategies; bowling associations; bowling instruction; industry and business tie-ins; league formation and development; summer bowling; and tournaments. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.