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Direct marketing and advertising executive based primarily in Chicago, Ill. Jim Kobs papers include: correspondence, mail order catalogs, mailings, print advertisements and advertising designs, research reports, slides and photographs and audiovisual materials (audiocassettes, videocassettes, 16mm film, DVD) that document Kobs' career in direct, database and catalog marketing. Companies and institutions represented include: Amoco, AT&T, Bankers Life, Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, DHL, Direct Mail Advertising Association (DMAA), Direct Mail Marketing Association (DMMA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Encyclopedia Britannica, Gander Mountain, General Electric, General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Mayo Clinic, Montgomery Ward, Playboy, Prudential, Scott Paper, Tupperware, U.S. Navy recruiting, Wayside Gardens and Xerox. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) is a collaborative laboratory operated on the campus of Duke University. The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory records include progress reports and archived websites.

Collection contains audio of sermons delivered at religious and ceremonial services in the Duke University Chapel by various ministers, professors, and guests of the University. Notable speakers include Howard Wilkinson, James Cleland, Waldo Beach, Thor Hall, Charlene Kammerer, Jon Laidlaw, Will Willimon, Robert Young and others. The collection consists of 7" reel-to-reel audio tapes, audiocassette tapes, VHS tapes, and digital audio tapes of sermons, programs and Lenten meditations delivered in Duke Chapel from 1954 to ongoing.

Advertising executive and former Chairman of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles agency, headquartered in New York. Collection includes correspondence, corporate reports, clippings, speeches and videocassettes. Companies represented include Benton & Bowles, D'Arcy MacManus Masius, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Burger King, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, General Motors, Hardee's, Kal Kan and Procter & Gamble. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. It is headquartered in New York. Collection includes correspondence, track listings, transcriptions, and other printed materials, audio and video cassettes (Betacam SP, VHS and Umatic), DAT, optical media (CDs, DVDs. etc.), 16mm film reels, phonograph records, and computer media. JWT management events documented in the collection include Cannes and Effies Awards submissions, Epcot, Executive Committee, Worldwide Creative Council, speeches and presentations by top managers as well as interviews undertaken as part of an oral history project at JWT. Offices represented include North America, Europe, Great Britain, India, Asia and Latin America. Main companies include California Lottery, Chase & Sanborn, Chevron, Del Taco, Diageo, Diamond Trading Company (DeBeers), Domino's, Ford, HSBC, Jenny Craig, JetBlue, Kaiser Permanente, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, Kraft, Lipton, Macy's, Mexicana Airlines, Standard Brands, Trailways, Warner-Lambert, Weight Watchers and Wyeth. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

New York-based advertising agency formed in 1985 by the merger of the Benton & Bowles and D'Arcy-MacManus and Masius advertising agencies. In 2002 the agency closed upon acquisition by French company Publicis. Collection includes memoranda; correspondence; reports; corporate publications; marketing research reports; manuals; employee reference material; press releases; a press book; speeches; clippings; photographs and negatives in color and black-and-white; films, video and sound recordings, and DVDs; book manuscripts; financial papers; and a scrapbook. The collection documents the history of Benton & Bowles advertising; the merger of the D'Arcy MacManus Masius and Benton & Bowles companies; the early careers of William Benton and Atherton W. Hobler; employee training, recruitment, and management; corporate publications; and marketing research. Clients represented include the Procter & Gamble Company, General Foods Corporation, Allied Chemical Corporation, Avco Corporation, Colgate Palmolive Co., Florida Citrus Commission, International Business Machines Corporation, and West Point Pepperell. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Duke University Retirees Outreach was founded in 1997 to provide volunteer opportunities to Duke retirees and their partners and operated until 2021. DURO members developed volunteer programs like the Backpack Program and the Lakewood Garden project at Lakewood Elementary School. The collection, spanning 1997 to 2021, consists of administrative and financial records, correspondence, and materials related to projects and events.

Edwin L. and Terry A. Murray, brothers residing in Durham, North Carolina, have been collectors of comic books and other pulp culture for forty years. Collection includes role-playing game boxed sets, miniatures, card sets, role-play game magazines and literature, campaign guides, modules, and rule books.

The records of the Durham, N.C. organization Student Action with Farmworkers comprise: administrative and event files; correspondence; reports, articles, and other publications; student project files; outreach and teaching materials; photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; audio and video recordings; and materials related to labor organizing and protests across the U.S. Hundreds of student-led projects document through interviews, essays, photographs, videos, and other materials the lives of migrant farmworkers and their working conditions, mostly in NC and SC but also in VA, TN, and GA. Major themes in the collection include: history, working conditions, and abuses of migrant farmworkers in the U.S.; education and outreach efforts; housing, health, and pesticide safety; leadership development for migrant youth; grassroots theater; labor organizing and boycotts; and service learning. Materials are in English and Spanish. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive at Duke University.

Allan Troxler (1947-2025) was an artist, author, and dance instructor from Durham, N.C. Troxler's collection consists of his artwork, family history, and writings, as well as the archives of his lifelong partner, Carl Wittman. Carl Wittman's archives include his diaries, letters, and writings on civil rights and gay liberation. The collection also contains materials documenting the Durham (N.C.) arts scene, English country dance, AIDS in the gay community, and Troxler's collection of materials from Catherine Nicholson.