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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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