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Mary McMillan papers, 1936-1997 and undated, bulk 1952-1991, bulk 1952-1991

8.1 Linear Feet (13 manuscript boxes; 2 oversize boxes; 2 oversize folders) 2277 Items

The Mary McMillan Papers, 1936-1997 and undated (bulk 1952-1991), consist chiefly of journals and printed material, but also include correspondence, writings and speeches, photographic material, scrapbooks, clippings, videocassettes, audio cassettes, and memorabilia. Arranged in nine series based primarily on the format of the material, the papers illuminate the personal life and professional work of McMillan, a United Methodist missionary and teacher at the Hiroshima Jo Gakuin College in Hiroshima, Japan. In addition to her work as a teacher, the collection documents McMillan's service to the Kyodan, a unifying organization for Christian missionaries in Japan, and to the hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as her peace activism. Also included are materials related to the Topaz Relocation Center, a Japanese-American internment camp in Utah where McMillan worked in 1943. The papers are mostly in English, but include some Japanese language materials.

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Biographical Material Series, 1938-1992 and undated

Contains biographical material related to Mary McMillan and her work. Included are autobiographical writings, personal and work-related papers, newspaper and magazine clippings, and printed materials documenting her life. Arranged in chronological order.

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John Wilson Fleming papers, 1948-2005

1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Collection comprises sermons, teaching materials, writings, and other professional papers of John Wilson Fleming, Baptist pastor and professor of history, philosophy, and religion at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Handwritten drafts of sermons date from the 1950s to the 2000s, and make up almost half of the collection. Other papers include: drafts of speeches, articles, and an unpublished full-length novel, Girded with strength; church programs; lecture notes, syllabi, and a few student papers; Shaw University administrative papers; papers pertaining to politics and school districts in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1964; and some biographical materials, including a resumé and obituary. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Biographical/Professional, 1971-2005 1 folders
Box 1

Includes a 1971 resumé, a few letters concerning professional appointments, a program from an alumni association "roast" in 2002, and John Wilson Fleming's obituary from February 16, 2005.

Church Programs and Related Materials, 1964-2004 2 folders
Box 1

Programs from churches where John Wilson Fleming was pastor, 1961-1989; a sheaf of notes for a Sunday School lesson; a few condolence letters upon the death of congregants; and various other related papers.

Politics and School Districts, 1964, 1967 1 folders
Box 1

Contains a handful of letters from 1964 relating to political campaigns based in Raleigh, N.C.; several drafts of meeting minutes from the Raleigh Citizens Society, 1964; and a few letters from 1967 written by John W. Fleming concerning the annexation of a Raleigh neighborhood and resulting changes in school districting.

Duke University Archives

Thor Hall papers, 1961-1972

3 Linear Feet 3000 Items
Thor Hall was Associate Professor of Preaching and Theology in the Duke Divinity School from 1962 until 1972. The collection contains materials representative of Dr. Hall's work as a teacher and administrator in the Divinity School as well as information on the growth and development of the Divinity School itself. It also includes materials related to Dr. Hall's work outside the Duke community, particularly in the United Methodist Church. Of particular interest are the folders pertaining to his work in the preaching clinic which he directed in 1964 and 1965. The American Association of Theological Schools Report as well as items in the folder "Organization and Structure, 1968-1971" chart the changes in the Divinity School during the turbulent years of academic and political unrest.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Greg Bathon papers, 1966-1970

0.5 Linear Feet 375 Items
The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), founded in 1864, is one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States. Greg Bathon was an executive with JWT, serving in a numver of positions abroad, particularly in India, before becoming President of JWT USA. The Greg Bathon Papers span the years 1966-1970 and include biographical sketches, correspondence, financial reports and printed materials that primarily document Bathon's tenure as the head of the J. Walter Thompson Company's Bombay (India) office.
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Biographical sketches, 1966-1970

Includes corporate press releases, government forms, and printed materials such as magazine profiles.

Correspondence, 1966-1970 6 folders

Includes business and personal correspondence that touch on issues relating to finance, speaking engagements, Bathon's move to and from India, and other topics.

Financial Reports, 1969

Includes JWT reporting on billings and year-end statements for operations in India and Pakistan.

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William H. Lander papers, 1919-1990

2 Linear Feet
Contains papers and a scrapbook of William Hall Lander, a Trinity College/Duke University student from 1919 to 1924. Types of materials include pamphlets, short writings, photographs, correspondence, artwork, receipts, report cards, class schedules, a plaque, patches, letters, cards, playbooks, programs, invitations, telegrams, and clippings. Major subjects include life at Duke University, adoption of the Blue Devils mascot, the Beta Lambda chapter of Sigma Chi, secret societies, and general fraternity governance. Materials date from 1919 to 1990.
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Anne-Marie Deprés Bryan Papers, 1924-2011 and undated

0.5 Linear Feet
Anne-Marie Deprés Bryan was a professor of French at Duke University from the 1960s through the 1990s. The Anne-Marie Deprés Bryan Papers include biographical materials, writings, a textbook, and other materials from her life in France and at Duke University.
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Howard E. Jensen Papers, 1937-1970

0.5 Linear Feet
Howard E. Jensen was a sociology professor at Duke from 1931-1958. The Howard E. Jensen papers include correspondence, writings and articles, and reports related to Howard Jensen's research and work in sociology.
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Class materials, reports, articles, and genealogical information, 1942-1952
Box 1

Criminology class reading list, reprints of Jensen's article entitled "Planning for the Blind in North Carolina," which appeared in THE NEW OUTLOOK (May 1952), material concerning Durham, including the 1950/51 annual report, a report on the Daisy Scarborough Home, Inc. (May 1942), genealogical information, and orientation-related items for foreign students at Duke in 1952.

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Compton Advertising, Inc. records, 1919-1956 and undated

2 Linear Feet 100 Items
Compton Advertising, Inc. was founded in 1937, formed out of the former company Blackman Advertising, Inc. In the 1980s Compton merged with, and was eventually absorbed by, Saatchi & Saatchi. The Compton Advertising, Inc. Records cover the years 1915-1956 and includes proofs of house advertisements and brochures promoting Blackman Advertising, Inc.; its successor Compton Advertising, Inc.; and the Blackett, Sample & Hummert, Inc. agency. Contains an album of mounted photographs; and credentials charts intended for new business presentations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Students of the Caribbean Association records, 2013-2017

81.5 Megabytes
The Students of the Caribbean Association (SOCA) began in 1991 and was reorganized after a two-year break in 2003. The mission of the group is to provide a space for the Duke community to celebrate and learn about Caribbean culture. This collection contains photographs of the events hosted by the Students of the Caribbean Association.
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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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Akea Brionne Brown photographs, 2016-2018

2.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
These thirty-three color inkjet portraits are from the body of work "Black Picket Fences" by Akea Brionne Brown, and explore the life of middle-class African Americans in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. Taken in part to confront stereotypes of African American neighborhoods and majority black American cities as dangerous and violent, the images chiefly portray family groups and individuals in interiors of homes and in outside environments such as front yards. The majority of the prints measure 19 3/8 x 24 inches. This work received the 2018 ADA Award for Documentarians of Color. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Black Student Alliance records, 1969-2024

7 Linear Feet 15.5 Gigabytes
The Afro-American Society (now the Black Student Alliance) was established at Duke University in 1967, four years after the first Black undergraduates were admitted. The Afro-American Society was a social and activist group created to support students as they dealt with the challenges of Black life at a previously segregated institution. Contains fliers, memoranda, correspondence, printed e-mail, minutes, newsletters, reports, charts, a scrapbook, printed materials, and electronic records pertaining to the activities of the Black Student Alliance (BSA) and related Black and African American student groups at Duke University.
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Raymond Gavins papers, 1880-2016

15 Linear Feet 35 Gigabytes
Raymond Gavins was the first African American faculty member of the History Department at Duke University. During his 45-year career at Duke University, Gavins held professorial and administrative positions including time as Director of Graduate Studies, History. His courses, publications, and research focused on Black history and life in the United States and North Carolina. This collection contains correspondence, writings, reports, course materials, and proposals related to Black Studies, Duke's History Department, advisory boards and committees, professional organizations, and conferences. Also includes subject files and notes from Gavins' research, drafts of his writings, and recordings of Gavins and interviews he conducted.
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Black Studies, 1969-1997

This series consists largely of materials related to the establishment and development of a Black Studies program (renamed African and Afro-American Studies then African and African American Studies) at Duke with some material for the Black Studies Committee at Durham Public Schools. Includes records of Duke's Black Studies program, the Advisory Committee, the President's Council on Black Affairs, the Association of African Students, and the Black History Forum in 1972.

Advisory Committee, 1969-1976, 1991-1996 4 folders
Box 1

Materials are related to the Advisory Committee on Afro-American Studies, also referred to as the Committee on Black Studies, Black Studies Committee, and the African and Afro-American Studies Advisory Committee. Contains committee meeting minutes, memoranda, agenda, and reports and proposals regarding the establishment, progress, and operations of the Black Studies program. Also contains correspondence from Walter Burford and Karla Hollaway. Includes correspondence from related committees such as the Special Programs Committee and the Committee to Consider a Revitalized Program in African and Afro-American Studies.

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Afro-American Society, 1970-1975, undated
Box 1

Consists of materials related to the Duke student organziation, the Afro-American Society, also referred to as the Association of African Students and the Black Student Alliance in the materials. Includes correspondence, proposals for an Office of the Dean of Black Affairs and the recruitment of Black students, a policy statement for a radio program at WDBS that focuses on Black Studies and issues affecting Black students, some material related to the Central Committee, newsletters, and directories.

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Blanche Simmons Diary, 1879-1880

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Blanche Simmons (1857/8-1941) was the daughter of Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1821-1903), Field Marshal and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers, and his second wife, Blanche Weston. The collection consists of a single diary that records the events of two distinct trips taken by Blanche Simmons and her parents in 1879 and 1880. The first half of the diary documents a family vacation to Belgium and the Netherlands from September 19th to October 13th, 1879, with stops in Brussels, Spa, Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Ghent. The second half of the diary documents a trip to Berlin, Germany, from June 11th to July 9th, 1880, during which Blanche's father, Sir John Simmons, and Major Ardagh attended a conference in Berlin for "the settling of the Greek frontier" accompanied by Blanche, her mother, and their escort, Captain Wood.
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Blanche Simmons Diary, 1879-1880 0.2 Linear Feet 1 Item

Blanche Simmons (1857/8-1941) was the daughter of Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1821-1903), Field Marshal and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers, and his second wife, Blanche Weston. The collection consists of a single diary that records the events of two distinct trips taken by Blanche Simmons and her parents in 1879 and 1880. The first half of the diary documents a family vacation to Belgium and the Netherlands from September 19th to October 13th, 1879, with stops in Brussels, Spa, Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Ghent. The second half of the diary documents a trip to Berlin, Germany, from June 11th to July 9th, 1880, during which Blanche's father, Sir John Simmons, and Major Ardagh attended a conference in Berlin for "the settling of the Greek frontier" accompanied by Blanche, her mother, and their escort, Captain Wood.
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Abortion Clinic Worker Oral History Project, 2014-2017

31 items (Digital audio recordings)
Oral histories with 29 abortion clinic workers.
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Duke University Archives

Freshman Life Reference collection, 1946-ongoing

0.5 Linear Feet 200 Items
The Freshman Life Reference Collection contains files of orientation guides, brochures, flyers, newspaper clippings, memoranda and other materials that document the experience of first-year students. This collection was compiled from a variety of sources by the University Archives for use in reference and research.
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Blue Devil Reference collection, 1972-ongoing

0.3 Linear Feet 300 Items
The Blue Devil Reference Collection contains files of clippings and other material about Duke University's mascot.
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Blunt Family papers, 1943-1965

1.2 Linear Feet 400 Items

The papers of the Blunt family, an African American family originating in the tidewater region of Virginia, span the years 1943-1965. The collection consists of seven series: Correspondence, Financial Papers, Genealogy, Miscellaneous, Clippings, Printed Material, and Photographs. The Correspondence Series has been divided into subseries by the following addressees:

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Center for Southern Studies in the Social Sciences and the Humanities records, 1961-1969

1 Linear Feet 1,000 Items
The Center for Southern Studies in the Social Sciences and the Humanities was an interdisciplinary center established in 1965 in order to help "organize and systematize existing scholarly interest" in Southern Studies at Duke and elsewhere. Past chairs include Edgar T. Thompson and Thomas H. Naylor. The Center folded in the late 1970s. Collection contains materials pertaining to operation and activities of the Center for Southern Studies in the Social Studies and the Humanities including correspondence, minutes, manuscripts, printed matter, clippings, and other materials. Materials range in date from 1961-1969, with the bulk dates of 1965-1967.
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Traffic Audit Bureau records, 1935-2001

3.3 Linear Feet
The Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement Inc. (TAB) is a nonprofit organization focused on out-of-home media circulation research, founded in 1933. TAB rebranded as Geopath in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. The collection includes annual reports; financial data; instructional manuals; meeting records; newsletters; traffic survey and statistical research reports; and other printed materials that document ongoing developments and changing priorities at TAB especially for the years 1983-1996. Topics addressed include business relationships with plant operators; construction standards; education and training; outdoor poster design and visibility standards; public relations and outreach; research and reporting methodology; strategic planning and institutional reorganization. Individuals and organizations represented include A.C. Nielsen, Ad Council, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Anna Fountas, Association of National Advertisers, Byron Chandler, John Miller, Ken Sammon, Larry Hennessy, Market Information Services of America, Outdoor Advertising Association of America, and Wilbur Smith and Associates. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Outdoor Advertising Archives.
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Board of Directors, 1972-1996

Series includes board of director meeting agendas, briefings, minutes, and other references materials.

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Duke Endowment Archives, 1902-2023 and undated, bulk 1925-2006

333 Linear Feet
The Duke Endowment was established by James Buchanan Duke as a perpetual charitable trust in 1924, with the following types of beneficiaries, mainly residing in North Carolina and South Carolina: non-profit hospitals and child care institutions; educational institutions; and rural churches of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now the United Methodist Church). The Duke Endowment Archives span the years 1902 to 2022, with the bulk of the material dating from 1925 through 2006. The collection documents the administration of the corpus of the trust and the charitable contributions made to the categories of recipients named in the Indenture and Deed of Trust establishing The Endowment. The majority of the records are arranged into series that reflect the organization of the institution, including the Board of Trustees, Treasurer's Office, Controller's Office, Investment Office, Education Division and Committee on Communications, Health Care and Child Care Divisions, and Rural Church Division. Smaller series, documenting such other activities as record-keeping, publications, and history of The Endowment, include: Central Files, Oral History Project, Trust Under Will, Publications, Miscellaneous, Photographic Materials, and Audiovisual Materials. The collection consists of the following types of materials: correspondence; minutes of meetings; financial records; applications for assistance from hospitals, child care institutions, and churches; statistics; publications; oral history tapes and transcripts; architectural drawings and blueprints; photographs; audio cassettes; and miscellaneous records and papers. The geographic focus is primarily North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Bob Sheldon papers, 1968-1991

2.1 Linear Feet 500 Items
Political activist; nurse; owner of Internationalist Book Store in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sheldon was murdered in the store on February 21, 1991. Drafts of Sheldon's speeches, articles, diary and notes; news clippings; printed materials; and transcripts of trials and FBI files. Materials relate chiefly to his political activism as a draft resister in 1968; a visit to China in the 1970s, including slides; work with the Communist Workers Party in the 1970s and the Green Party in the 1980s; union organizing at Cone Mills Textile plant in the 1970s; and various Palestine issues in the 1980s.
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Comic Book and Graphic Novel collection, 1938-2012

25.5 Linear Feet
Assortment of domestic and international comics and graphic novels acquired by the Rubenstein Library between 1980 and 2023. A large portion of the collection was originally a gift from Alicia Korenman; several other titles were removed from other Rubenstein Library collections, including the Dorothy Allison Papers and the Sarah Dyer Zine Collection. Items in boxes 26-31 were a gift of John Canfield in 2012. Items in boxes 33-36 are a collection of a Latino comics. Over 350 titles of domestic and international comic books and graphic novels, as well as some related items, from publishers including DC/Vertigo, Abstract Studio, Oni Press, Marvel, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and many more.
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Bonfils studio photograph albums of Palestine, circa 1881

3 Linear Feet (2 volumes)
Collection consists of two large cloth-bound photograph albums dating from circa 1881, housing 56 large albumen photographs taken by noted 19th century French photographer Félix Bonfils, who owned the Bonfils studio, and his Syrian assistant Georges Saboungi. The images were sold as souvenirs, and portray cities and towns, landscapes, ruins, monuments, tombs, and other religious and historic sites of Palestine, in areas now occupied by Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. Locations named in the captions include Beirut, Bethlehem, Cana, Damascus, Galilee, the Holy Sepulchre shrine, Jaffa, Jerusalem, the Mosque of Omar at the Dome of Rock, the Mount of Olives, Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Samaria, the Tomb of David, the Wailing Wall, the interior of the house of the English Consul in Damascus, a "crusader's tower" in the village of Ramleh, and various other sites.
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Bonfils studio photograph albums of Palestine, circa 1881 2 boxes

The photographer's name appears following the title for each print. All titles are taken from the original captions; original French captions have not been transcribed but appear with each print. When known, the image negative numbers assigned by the studio have been included in the description; all of these were taken by Félix Bonfils. Box 1 contains information on the collection, including photocopied articles on the history of the Bonfils photography studio.

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Rosa Bonheur Papers, 1861-1897

1.0 Linear Feet
Rosa Bonheur was a nineteenth century French painter and sculptor. The collection consists of examples of Bonheur's correspondence, including one letter referencing her painting and her partner, Nathalie. Acquired as part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Bonheur to Madame Sabine, 1866 May 3
Box 1 > Folder 2

Bonheur writes in French of mutual friends' health and activities, including the Carvalets and "our brother Auguste". She also discusses a new painting of lambs she has begun. In closing the letter she mentions that Nathalie sends greetings and is still ill.

Bonheur to Monsieur, 1881 October 16
Box 1 > Folder 2

Letter in French to unidentified artist who had asked to meet. Bonheur writes that she would be happy to meet, but that she is currently traveling between Paris and Nice.

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Carol Georgette Lake Bradley memoirs, 1922-1996, 2010-2025

11 Linear Feet (11 boxes) 25.6 Gigabytes (Approximately 3200 files)
Carol Georgette Lake Bradley (1922-2006) was a distinguished graduate of Duke University, class of 1943. Collection consists of 23 handwritten spiral-bound volumes containing her memoirs, in which she describes in detail her childhood, school years, World War II, experiences at Duke University, marriage, motherhood, teaching career, retirement, and family life. Includes a narrative on the death of one of her children from polycystic kidney disease. Filed inside the volumes are letters, photographs, clippings, programs, and other memorabilia. Related materials, created by Bradley's family, comprise transcriptions, printed digital scans of the pages, and over 3000 electronic files, chiefly photographic images and texts such as transcriptions and indexes. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Book 1, 1922-1935 1 box

Volume 1 of Carol Georgette Lake Bradley's memoirs contains narrative and photographs relating to her childhood in New Jersey, including family life; her grandmother; dancing school; her childhood homes on Washington Ave., Woodside Ave., and Ridge Street, in Newark; and her time at Barringer High School, also in Newark. Includes inserted photographs and other memorabilia. Bradley frequently recorded song lyrics, movies she attended, and favorite outings in Newark.

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Consumer Reports. Frances Warne papers, 1936-1985 and undated

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Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Frances Warne was an author, consumer advocate and instructor in home economics and consumer education; co-founder of Consumers Union. The Consumer Reports Frances Warne papers include clippings, correspondence, book manuscripts and drafts, course notes and other printed materials. The bulk of the collection pertains to "Wise Buymanship", a home economics and consumer education manual produced for the YWCA. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Jean Kilbourne papers, 1918-2014 and undated

70 Linear Feet
Media critic, feminist author and documentary filmmaker based in Massachusetts. Collection spans 1918-2014 and includes: clippings; tear sheets; correspondence; research reports and other printed materials; slides and slide presentation texts; audiovisual materials in multiple formats including 8mm and 16mm films, audio and video cassettes; book drafts and research files used for teaching and production of Kilbournes books and films. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.
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Meyer Both Company commercial art instruction booklets, 1920-1935

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Meyer Both Company was an advertising and commercial art syndication company founded in Chicago in 1900 by Oscar Meyer and William C. Both. Collection consists of a series of booklets that teach aspects of advertising and commercial art, including: color; drawing techniques; fashion and merchandise illustration; perspective; and photo retouching. Also includes a booklet promoting Meyer Both's commercial art courses. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Spirella Corset Company. Traveling saleswoman's kit, 1934-1935

1.0 Linear Feet
The Spirella Corset Company was founded in 1904 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, by Marcus Merritt Beeman, William Wallace Kincaid and Jesse Homan Pardee, to manufacture made-to-measure women's corsets and other foundation garments. The firm utilized a force of women sales personnel who directly contacted consumers for fittings and garment orders; the brand was not sold in retail outlets. The collection consists of brochures, catalogs, deposit forms, sales ordering and fitting instructions and other printed materials, along with a sample corset used for demonstrations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.
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Jantzen advertising art and copy ideas, 1948

3 items
Jantzen Knitting Mills was a textile clothing company founded in 1910 in Portland, Ore. Collection consists of a booklet of sketches and copy text suggestions for development of retail store advertisements for Jantzen's product line of women's foundation garments. A laid-in poster and order form are included. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Jantzen advertising art and copy ideas, 1948 3 items

Jantzen Knitting Mills was a textile clothing company founded in 1910 in Portland, Ore. Collection consists of a booklet of sketches and copy text suggestions for development of retail store advertisements for Jantzen's product line of women's foundation garments. A laid-in poster and order form are included. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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M. Thomas Inge papers, 1978-1982, 1988-1989

4.6 Linear Feet 5 items

The M. Thomas Inge Papers (1978-1982, 1988-1989) consist of the corrected manuscripts of five works of which Inge was the editor: Handbook of American Popular Culture (HAPC; 3 vols., 1978-1981), Bartleby the Inscrutable (1979), Concise Histories of American Popular Culture (1981), Handbook of American Popular Literature (1988), and the second edition of HAPC (3 vols., 1989). The Inge papers demonstrate not only the development of M. Thomas Inge's scholarly and editorial acumen, but also the growth of the study of American popular literature and culture.

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Bonnie Lee Black papers, 1931-2022

43.25 Linear Feet 1.9 Gigabytes (3 files)
Bonnie Lee Black is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and chef who has worked both domestically and internationally. The collection centers primarily on her work as a writer, as a member of the Peace Corps in Gabon, as a professor in New Mexico, and as the creator of an economic development project in Mali aimed at teaching local seamstresses the art of patchwork quilt-making. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Bookplate collection, undated

0.5 Linear Feet approx. 400 Items
The Bookplate Collection contains bookplates acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library over time. The exact provenance of most is not known. The collection includes bookplates specific to Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) and Duke University. Also included is a book seller's ticket, which is in French. The collection is undated.
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Vincent J. Tarascio papers, 1967-2020

1 Linear Feet (One record carton and one oversize folder.)
Vincent Tarascio (1930-2020) was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This collection documents his professional life through his writings and professional and faculty activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Masaki Motoi Collection of Japanese Student Movement Materials, 1959-2003, bulk 1960-1979

72 Linear Feet 3000 Items
Collection consists of Japanese books, periodicals and other printed materials relating to the Japanese student movement of the 1960s and later. The materials derive from the first confrontations of 1960 provoked by the Anpo treaty, through the protest movement's years of crisis and decay in the 1970s, but there are more recent materials as well. They are arranged as originally ordered, by formats. Items of interest include radical left-wing student newspapers, large flyers and smaller protest handouts, special issues from mainstream media outlets, clippings, and North Korean and former Soviet Union Communist propaganda. Notably, the collection includes a full 12-month run of the Japanese magazine, Kisetsu. Protest movement ephemera also includes original writings, chiefly mimeographed essays and manuscript submissions for publication. The collection is strong in material relating to the BUND movement (Kyôsan Shugisha Dômei), the rise of Zengakuren radicalism, and the birth of the Japanese Red Army Faction (Sekigun-Ha). Materials and this collection guide are in the Japanese language. Romanized titles are given for books and serials. The collection is part of a larger gift pertaining to the radicalization of the student movement in Japan, including books, a video, and other items which are now available as part of the holdings of the East Asian Collection in Duke University's Perkins Library.
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Henry W. Jones papers, circa 1906-1948 and undated

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Advertising executive in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Manager for the United Manufacturing Company and other mail order and direct sales companies.
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Italian National War Loan (Prestito Nazionale) Campaigns ephemera, approximately 1914-1919

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Collection includes postcards, placards, booklets and other printed materials advertising and advocating for participation in Italy's war and savings bonds programs to finance war activities and pay off debts during World War I. Materials feature iconic and military graphic designs, governmental propaganda referencing victory, prosperity and Italian independence movements. Institutions represented include Credito Italiano and Banca Italiana di Sconto. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Joe Schaumburger papers, 1954-1986 and undated

0.2 Linear Feet
Joe Schaumburger's collection of correspondence and early writings by Lin Carter.
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John A. Stewman papers, circa 1926-1932

1.2 Linear Feet 139 Items
John A. Stewman served as an engineer with the Duke Construction Company from 1928-1932. The collection includes photographs, drawings, and specs. The material ranges in date from about 1926-1932.
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Eileen Weiss papers, 1978-2017, bulk 1993-2013

8.5 Linear Feet 9.32 Gigabytes
Eileen Weiss is a grassroots activist involved in documenting and raising awareness of human rights conflicts primarily in Bosnia, Kosovo in the 1990s and the Darfur region in Sudan in the 2000s-2010s as well as for interfaith awareness among the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in New York City after September 11, 2001. Collection includes organizational and event files, correspondence, handouts, newsletters, clippings, audiovisual materials, and other assorted materials. The Eileen Weiss papers focus on human rights conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Darfur with news, rallies, demonstrations, education, and events through Weiss's involvement in grassroots organizations such as Jews Against Genocide (JAG), Jewish Ad-Hoc Committee on Bosnia (JACOB), and the New York Coalition for Sudan. The collection also documents her efforts in cultural pluralism through interfaith work with the Same Difference Interfaith Alliance project, co-founded by Weiss, with community programming, arts, and education. Materials range from 1978-2017, mostly between 1993-2013. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
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Bosnia and Kosovo files

Contains handouts, correspondence, clippings, newsletters, audiovisual materials, and other assorted materials. Topics include news updates, events including rallies, lobbying politicians, and advocacy through education to raise awareness of the genocide and human rights abuses in Bosnia and Kosovo. Series contains t-shirts used during rallies and a documentary, The Eyes of Bosnia that was used as an educational tool by Jews Against Genocide (JAG).

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Frank Allan Hanna papers, 1850-1936

2.5 Linear Feet 250 Items
Frank Allan Hanna was a professor of economics at Duke University from 1948-1972. The collection contains largely bound materials from the Wisconsin State Income Tax Study Hanna worked on but it also includes Hanna family genealogy and ledger books for "Negro Accounts" from the antebellum period and galley proofs for one of Hanna's publications. The collection ranges in date from 1850-1936.
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Trinity Park School collection, 1898-1922

4.0 Linear Feet
Trinity Park School was established in 1898, under headmaster J.F. Bivins, to better prepare students for admission at Trinity College and other institutions. The school operated on the campus of Trinity College until 1922, when it was permanently closed. The Trinity Park School Collection includes bound volumes, print materials, the papers of headmaster F.S. Aldridge, photographs, and financial information. Annual Trinity Park School catalogs have been removed and cataloged separately.
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William Stern papers, 1937-1938, undated

4 Linear Feet 10 Items
William Stern was a psychologist and philosopher. He came to Duke as Visiting Professor in 1934. He remained until his death in 1938. The collection includes volumes compiled by Stern and his wife Clara Stern (1878-1945) in his psychological studies, correspondence with Eugen Berchtold, as well as a two-volume dissertation by a German student on Stern's philosophy. The material is in German.
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Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Epsilon Chapter records, 1984 - 2004

7.5 Linear Feet (5000 items) 2 Megabytes (48 use copies and 1 preservation disk image)
Alpha Epsilon Phi is a social sorority for undergraduate women. The Duke University chapter was established in 1934 and disbanded in the mid-1960s. The sorority was revived at Duke in 1977, with the establishment of the Alpha Epsilon chapter; it disbanded in 2004. Records include manuals, composite photographs, roll book, standards, project files, and other materials created and collected by the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Duke University. English.
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Duke Association for Business Oriented Women records, 2008-2023

4.3 Gigabytes
The Duke Association for Business Oriented Women (Duke BOW) was founded about 2007 and is a professional and social community of female undergraduates and alumnae of Duke University which promotes education, experience, and exchange between industry professionals and students interested in business leadership. Duke BOW records include executive meeting agendas and minutes; General Body Meeting materials; event planning documents; photographs of executive board members, general members, and events; alumni correspondence; mentorship programs; the BOW Constitution; newsletters; PowerPoint presentations; resume and interview workshops; and recruitment events.
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Administrative Documents, 2009-2018 0.12 Gigabytes
Digital-materials UA31100006-SET-0001

Includes Duke BOW constitution; contact lists; newsletters, Also includes event planning documents for the 2014 Google Roundtable Discussion; 2015 Nestle Brand Boot Camp; Martha Reeves Personal Finance Discussion; Bookbagging; Goldman Sachs Webinar Series; Sociology of Entrepreneurship; Dining Etiquette 101; and Networking 101. Also includes planning documents for events with Kimberly Jenkins, and Hadley Nixon.

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Edwin and Terry Murray Collection of Role-Playing Games, 1972-2017

270 Linear Feet Approx. 13,000 Items
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.
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Boxed Games, 1972-2007 82 boxes

Series includes 484 boxed game sets for role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Al-Qadim, Car Wars, Traveller, James Bond, and Star Trek. A boxed set typically includes maps and grids, character guides, encounter playbooks, a die, and other literature to be used for creating new or altered worlds within a particular game.

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Bradley T. Johnson papers, 1851-1909

2 Linear Feet (4 boxes (922 items))
Bradley T. Johnson was a Confederate officer, lawyer, and politician, born in Frederick (Frederick Co.), Maryland who later settled in Virginia after the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, personal accounts, Civil War reminiscences of campaigns in several states, a memoir of the 1st Maryland Regiment, C.S.A., a muster roll of the 21st Virginia, Company B, records of a Confederate prison hospital, and an incomplete diary of a trip to Cuba as correspondent during the Spanish-American War. Included also are a series of letters from Wade Hampton and from Joseph E. Johnston. Other correspondents include Henry Adams, James Cardinal Gibbons, and Henry Cabot Lodge along with an anonymous April-Dec., 1846 diary, identified with Isaac R. Watkins, law student in Richmond, Va. and son of prosperous Charlotte County family.
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Charles K. Bradsher papers, 1951-1997

1.8 Linear Feet 1,500 Items
Charles Kilgo Bradsher was a Class of 1933 Duke alum and a Duke professor in the Chemistry Department from 1939-1979. His collection includes personal and departmental materials, especially concerning the Chemistry Department, the Gross-Edens Affair.
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Henry Horenstein photographs, 1967-2013, 2022

41.5 Linear Feet (44 boxes)
Henry Horenstein is an American photographer, author, teacher, and filmmaker based in Massachusetts. The collection comprises of approximately 250 black-and-white and color photographic prints selected from his projects, a large series of about 2500 contact sheets, and a few other related materials. Subjects in the project prints series include Horenstein's family and friends; beachgoers in Havana, Cuba; blues and country musicians, the venues where they play, and their fans; the human body in extreme close-ups; horse and stock car racing; burlesque and drag performers; and historic tri-racial communities in Maryland. Together, the prints and contact sheets offer landscapes, street scenes, storefronts, theaters, highways, museums, concerts, bars, nightlife, fairs, and people and animals in Cuba, Dubai, Germany, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and all of New England, Missouri, New York, Paris, Tennessee, Texas, Venezuela, and other places. The dominant format is gelatin silver, with some chromogenic and digital work; print sizes range from 8x10 to 20x24 inches. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Branson, 1995, 1997 2 prints

These color images were taken in the historic Sons of the Pioneers Theater in Branson, Missouri. They were both published in Branson and Shoot What You Love. The prints measure approximately 16x20 inches.

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Brantley York records and papers, 1838 - 1966

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Brantley York was an educator, author, and Methodist clergyman in North Carolina. He organized Union Institute Academy at Brown's Schoolhouse in Randolph Co., N.C. in 1839, which would evolve into Normal College, Trinity College, and later Duke University. York also wrote an English grammar, as well as several other instructional textbooks. The Brantley York Records and Papers contain correspondence, a grade book, certificates, manuscripts, and published works. Modern materials were added to the collection; these include York family genealogical information, as well as clippings about York and his activities. Major subjects include the early history of Union Institute, Normal College, Trinity College and Duke University; education in North Carolina in the 19th century; and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. English.
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Steven Channing collection of February One recordings, 2002-2003, 2003

4 Linear Feet 87 items
Eighty-seven betacam videocassettes containing interviews and production footage for the 2003 documentary February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, directed by Steven Channing and Rebecca Cerese.
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Breyers Ice Cream sign salesman's catalog, 1948

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Breyers Ice Cream Company was founded in 1866 in Philadelphia, Penna.; incorporated in 1908. Became division of National Dairy Products Corporation in 1926. Collection comprises a Bryers Ice Cream salesman's catalog (12 pgs.), for the company's ice cream advertising signs, especially those to be placed outside a store or restaurant. The catalog was probably intended for the company's regional distributors, and includes statistics for ice cream sales in the Philadelphia market. Sign descriptions include a color copy of each sign, along with it's size, finish, weight, and illumination, as well as occasional other information, including such considerations as brackets, embossing, packing units, and store type.
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Breyers Ice Cream sign salesman's catalog, 1948 0.2 Linear Feet

Breyers Ice Cream Company was founded in 1866 in Philadelphia, Penna.; incorporated in 1908. Became division of National Dairy Products Corporation in 1926. Collection comprises a Bryers Ice Cream salesman's catalog (12 pgs.), for the company's ice cream advertising signs, especially those to be placed outside a store or restaurant. The catalog was probably intended for the company's regional distributors, and includes statistics for ice cream sales in the Philadelphia market. Sign descriptions include a color copy of each sign, along with it's size, finish, weight, and illumination, as well as occasional other information, including such considerations as brackets, embossing, packing units, and store type.
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Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s

2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin containing printed ephemera, receipts, manuscripts, handbills, catalogs, decorative trade cards, prospectuses, circulars, political campaign materials, and other advertisements from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and the United States. The bulk of the collection's materials advertise businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, tea, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, gardening, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. Also includes calling cards and bookplates with women's names, and assorted ephemera relating to women's pay, income, or work, including a pensioner's card for a firefighter's widow and a pamphlet about life insurance for women.
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British and American trade cards, 1750s-1920s
Box 1

Decorative trade cards (ranging in size from 5x8cm to 11x19 cm) advertising businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. These trade cards all appear to originate from Great Britain or the United States.

Belgian and French trade cards, 1800s
Box 1

Decorative trade cards in French for women's businesses, in particular dressmaking and corsets (sizes range from 10x14 cm to 15x19 cm). These cards appear to originate from Belgium or Paris.

Calling cards and place cards, 1800s-1900s
Box 1

Examples of decorative women's calling cards, ranging in size from 3x9 cm to 6x10 cm. Also includes a set of place cards for Miss Marjorie Nicolson.

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Charles T. Snyder papers, 1956-1970s

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Charles T. Snyder was a United States Information Agency (USIA) employee from 1956 to 1977 who worked primarily with the Africa Division of the Voice of America radio broadcasting program. Collection contains documents and photographs related to Snyder's work, with a particular focus on a 1959 trip around the African coast and the proposal and construction of the Liberia Relay Station. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Broadcast script, 1956 June 07
Box 1

Script for an "African Audio-Visual Cardboard Record" broadcast related to music in African and African American life.

Trip to Africa, 1959
Box 1

Includes notes, itineraries, information, speech drafts, correspondence, and other material related to a 1959 trip along the coast of Africa, beginning at Dakar, Senegal, and ending at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Also included are drafted "impressions" of particular locations and their populations.

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Horse & Buggy Press print and graphic design projects, 1996-2017

4.0 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Collection of fine art print and graphic design projects by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, North Carolina, commissioned chiefly by non-profit organizations, small firms, individual authors and artists, and community events organizers. Formats include catalogs, broadsides, posters, newsletters, pamphlets and brochures, programs, and jacket and packaging designs for six audio and film recordings. Smaller projects include exhibit and book announcements, business cards, invitations, and menus for local restaurants. Chiefly consists of letterpress work, but there are also examples of offset and digitally printed items. Many projects involved the work of other artists and designers, and many were printed in limited editions. Content often includes poetry, prose excerpts, and quotes. Books and zines printed by Horse & Buggy Press have been separated from this collection and individually described for the Duke University Libraries catalog.
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Broadsides, 1999-2017

A collection of broadsides, chiefly letterpress printed in color, designed by Horse & Buggy Press for local events, individual authors, and for personal keepsakes. Sizes range from roughly 8 x 8 to 16 x 22 inches, with most in larger sizes. Many were printed in limited editions. Arranged chiefly in original order as received.

Maji Moto: Dispatches from A Drought, 2012
Box 1

An accompaniment to the book of the same name, 2012. Four editions are represented here, each combining a single different photographic image with letterpress text. Giclee printed image, letterpress printed text. 190g William Turner paper. Each broadside was issued in a limited run, and is signed and numbered by the artist: "Dual Text," #24 of 28. "Paternal Care," #14 of 17. "Hazy Tree," #31 of 33. "Dead Giraffe," #3 of 27.

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Lawson's Legacy: Nature Writing and North Carolina, 1701–2001 (2001)
Box 1

Edition of 300. Commissioned by the North Carolina Special Collections Library UNC as part of the conference celebrating the 300th anniversary of explorer John Lawson's trek across the Carolinas. Entirely hand-printed on the letterpress. Half of the edition was printed on machine-made paper, half was printed on hand-made paper produced at Antfarm (cotton fibers).

  1. Broadsides, 1999-2017
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New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association broadsides and programs, 1867 and undated

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Collection comprises thirteen programs and broadsides for private benefit musical concerts and dramas performed primarily in 1867. The majority feature dramas performed at Mr. Jerome's Private Theater. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association broadsides and programs, 1867 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet

Collection comprises thirteen programs and broadsides for private benefit musical concerts and dramas performed primarily in 1867. The majority feature dramas performed at Mr. Jerome's Private Theater. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Broadway Preview Series records, 1986-1993

3.7 Linear Feet (2250 items)
From 1986-1993, the Broadway Preview Series premiered new works for the American theater at Duke. The first Broadway Preview performance staged in the Reynolds Industries Theater (March 10, 1986) was Emanuel Azenberg's Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey. Some of the other productions previewed at Duke are: Broadway Bound and Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon; A Month of Sundays with Jason Robards; A Walk in the Woods with Sam Waterston; Metamorphosis with Mikhail Baryshnikov; The Circle with Rex Harrison; Artist Descending a Staircase by Tom Stoppard; and Lucifer's Child with Julie Harris. The work of the Broadway Preview Series is continued today by Theater Previews at Duke. Collection contains programs, clippings, photographs, some autograph notes, and other materials pertaining to productions. Also includes scripts. The material ranges in date from 1986-1993.
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Duke University Wedgwood Plates Reference collection, 1937-1938

0.25 Linear Feet approx. 7 Items
The Alumni Association contracted with the famed English firm of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons to produce a set of commemorative china plates for the 1938-1939 centennial celebration of Duke University. The collection ranges in date from 1937-1938 and includes a brochure, articles and 2 framed plate patterns.
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Service Awards of the U.S. Armed Forces, compliments of Bromo-Seltzer brochure, approximately 1942

1 items
Bromo-Seltzer was an analgesic patented by Isaac Emerson of Baltimore, Md. in 1888. Booklet was part of World War II-era cooperation with the War Advertising Council and depicts the insignia and some history of U.S. military awards and decoration. Booklet also promotes War Bonds (precursor to Savings Bonds) on back cover as well as advertising Bromo-Seltzer. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Service Awards of the U.S. Armed Forces, compliments of Bromo-Seltzer brochure, approximately 1942 1 items

Bromo-Seltzer was an analgesic patented by Isaac Emerson of Baltimore, Md. in 1888. Booklet was part of World War II-era cooperation with the War Advertising Council and depicts the insignia and some history of U.S. military awards and decoration. Booklet also promotes War Bonds (precursor to Savings Bonds) on back cover as well as advertising Bromo-Seltzer. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Office of Intercultural Affairs Reference collection, 2000-ongoing

0.5 Linear Feet approx. 100 Items
The Office of Intercultural Affairs Reference Collection contains files of proceedings, reports, brochures and other materials. This collection was compiled from a variety of sources by the University Archives for use in reference and research.
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FOCUS Program records, 1982-2004

3.2 Linear Feet 1000 Items
The FOCUS Program is an interdisciplinary living/learning community for first and second year students to expand the boundaries of their knowledge and work closely with distinguished faculty. The collection contains material pertaining to the day to day operations of the FOCUS program, and is divided into eight series: brochures and flyers; budget; clippings; newsletter; student writing; surveys; yearly files; and oversize. The materials in the collection date from 1982-2004.
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M. A. Pacosa and Son collection of hardware sales brochures, 1930-1934

200 items
Hardware and variety store established in 1898 in Chicopee, Mass. by Michal Pacosa (1870-1935) that continued into the 1980s. Collection consists of sales and merchandising brochures and newsletters sent to Pacosa's business. Brochures represent a variety of products: hardware; household furnishing; paint and adhesives; roofing materials; seed and garden supplies and equipment; sewing materials; tools; and other items. Brochures also feature suggestions for store windows and merchandise displays; point-of-sale promotions; and print advertising media. Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Phi Delta Theta North Carolina Alpha records, 1878, 1985-2000

1.2 Linear Feet 75 Items

Collection includes the chapter's original charter, printed materials, and composite photographs. The original charter and a photographic reprint of the original members from 1878 are located in the University Archives Map Cabinet Drawer 9.

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J. Walter Thompson Company. Bill Sharfman papers, 1958-2010 and undated

9.0 Linear Feet
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. Bill Sharfman was an executive who worked in strategic planning for JWT USA in New York as well as for the JWT subsidiary Brouillard Communications before opening his own agency, Sharfman & Co. The J. Walter Thompson Company Bill Sharfman papers include correspondence, speeches, research and policy reports and other printed materials, as well as audiovisual materials (video- and audio cassettes). Companies represented include Brouillard Communications, Chevron (Standard Oil of California), Ernst & Young (PACE Awards), GM, Goodyear, Harvard Business School, Kodak, Olivetti, Renault, Rockefeller Center, St. Ivel (Dairy Crest), Tayto (Golden Wonder), Televisión Nacional de Chile, and McNeil (Tylenol). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Brouillard Communications print advertisements, 1991-2005

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Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. Brouillard Communications, a division of JWT, was established in 1973 and specialized in business-to-business advertising and corporate communications. Brouillard closed in 2009. Collection spans the years 1995-2005 and contains primarily proofs of print advertising campaigns, along with some tear sheets and printouts of PDF files. Some brochures, printed materials and direct mailing items are also present in the collection. Companies represented include American Gas Association, American Physical Therapy Association, Barclays, Bell Atlantic, CITCO, Dassault, Dow Jones, Johns Manville, Maserati, Morgan Stanley and United Technologies. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Brown-Buie Family Papers, 1770s-2016

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The Brown and Buie Families were Scottish Presbyterians who settled in Philadelphus, Robeson County, N.C. Some branches of the family also lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Members of the family were Presbyterian ministers, farmers, and storeowners; the family also enslaved African Americans and farmed land seized from expelled Cherokee and other native peoples. This collection contains deeds and records of land and property ownership by different members and branches of the Brown and Buie families; correspondence about different family members' travels, health, business, and work, including preaching and ministry; receipts, estate documents, wills, and financial records; sermons and church membership lists; some lists of enslaved people and their children's birth records; and a letter from an unidentified enslaved person to "Master John" complaining about how John preached with his back toward the slaves trying to hear the sermon.
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Neill Brown correspondence, 1792-1867, undated
Box 2

Family correspondence to Neill Brown and other relatives, including Hugh and Duncan Brown and John Gillespie, Neill Brown's son-in-law. Topics include family health, the family's migration from the Carolinas to Tennessee, "land got from Indians" and subsequent colonization and settlement by white slaveholding communities, and Presbyterian ministry efforts.

  1. Brown Family materials
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Charlie Cobb Interviews, 2012-2014

98 Files (85 audio files (MP3), 13 document files (Microsoft Word)) 3.04 Gigabytes
Audio interviews and programs recorded by Charles E. Cobb, Jr., from 2012 to 2014, with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and others around the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and for research for Cobb's book, THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED: HOW GUNS MADE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE.
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Brown Oral History 20141106 Annie Pearl Interview.mp3
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Discussing growing up in Birmingham (partially) then moved to Pittsburgh for a while then back to Birmingham at 14yrs old (late 50s) and the trauma from that. Discussed the turmoil/racial unrest in the south that surrounded the late 50s, how she got involved in the movement, she heard about the freedom riders she bought a ticket from Birmingham to Montgomery, met Wilson Brown at the Greyhound station, Wilson brown explained nonviolence and she decided she didn't want to do it so she got a refund on her ticket, Wilson invited her to a SNCC meeting in Atlanta, she went to the meeting with Nathaniel Lee and Wilson Brown. At the meeting she met Julian, Reggie, Bob Mants, Diane Nash, Anne and Carl Braden, Bob Zellner & Ella Baker. Discussed Marietta GA incident and almost getting killed on the way back to Birmingham. Attempting to meet Rev Shuttlesworth in Birmingham and the white girl was with them and they asked for directions in Marietta and people spotted them and had them followed by police. Wilson is in jail, Annie and the white girl started looking for black people, they went back to the bus station, bought tickets back to Atlanta, Nathaniel had a number and he called the SNCC office. The Associated Press started calling after Nathaniel called the SNCC office in Atlanta and asked if they were alright. A mob had gathered and they were beating on the seats. Howard Moore (attorney), Julian and someone else in a black car and they lead them back to Atlanta, Forman suggested they stay in Atlanta the night then went to Rev Shuttlesworth house (Birmingham), After this, Annie begins going to the mass meetings. Rev Shuttlesworth, Pfeiffer, Willis, Billups and Oliver part of the movement in Birmingham. Went to the second Atlanta conference, then she went down to Albany GA to demonstrate on Bob's request, she was arrested for the first time there. Participated in sit ins in Birmingham, Gaston, AL, Discussed what did family/friends think about her involvement in movement (appeared happy), thought it was dangerous, discussed the different places she worked in the movement on and thoughts on guns.

  1. Brown University Interviews, 2014
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Brunswick and Western Railroad Company records, 1888-1895

3 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 135 vols.)
This collection contains financial reports, including annual, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly reports showing earnings of a line absorbed in 1901 by the Savannah and Western Railroad and later by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
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Bryant Bennett papers, 1767-1902, bulk 1840-1875, bulk bulk

2 Linear Feet
Bryant Bennett was a merchant and planter residing in Williamston, North Carolina (in Martin County). This collection contains correspondence and papers of Bryant Bennett and of his family. Included are mercantile accounts of the firms of Bennett and Hyman in Williamston, N.C. and of Bennett and Price in Hamilton (both places in Martin County), school letters from a normal school in Oxford, North Carolina, deeds, promissory notes, receipts for land sold for taxes, plantation account books containing household and farm accounts, lists of slaves and supplies issued to them, business records dealing with the marketing of cotton at Norfolk, Virginia, agricultural treatises by one S. W. Outterbridge of Martin County, and letters to Bennett after he had moved to Plymouth, North Carolina, in 1869.
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Bryant Bennett papers, 1767-1902, bulk 1840-1875

Please note that all folder and item titles in this collection guide have been taken from card catalogs and other inventories created in the early 20th Century.

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Marty Rosenbluth papers, 1980-2006 and undated

12 Linear Feet
Marty Rosenbluth was Amnesty International's area specialist for Israel/Occupied Territories in the 1980s. He is also an independent documentary film-maker. The Marty Rosenbluth papers include publications, reports, case studies, press-releases, mailings, communications, leaflets, audiovisual recordings, and ephemera created by Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups. These groups include Al-Haq (Law in the Service of Man), Badil, B'Tselem, Hamoked (Center for the Defense of the Individual), Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, The West Bank Data Base Project, and Alternative Information Center. The papers also feature materials from Palestinian trade unions and United States-based solidarity groups, as well as unofficial, locally published first-person reports of events and conditions in the Occupied Territories.
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Duke Outing Club records, 1980-1999

0.5 Linear Feet
Duke Outing Club is a sports club founded in 1962. The club organizes trips for outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, and kayaking and trains participants in outdoor skills. The collection consists of financial records, correspondence, meeting minutes, handbooks, and reports. Materials span 1980 to 1999.
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Duke University College Republicans records, 1965-1984

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The Duke University College Republicans, an umbrella organization for all Republicans on campus, was established around 1965. The College Republicans support Republican campaigns at the local, state and national level. Major subjects included are: student activism at Duke University and in North Carolina, the North Carolina Federation of College Republicans, Duke University President Terry Sanford and the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation controversy, campaign support for Republican candidates, and the general governance of the Duke University College Republicans. Types of materials included are advertisements, clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes and agendas, flyers, correspondence, and miscellaneous writings. The materials in this collection documents the activities of the Duke University College Republicans from about 1965 to 1977. The bulk of the material is from 1973 to 1977. English.
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Bud Titsworth Commercials, 1968-1991 and undated

3 Linear Feet 19 Items
C. Dayton Bud Titsworth was an executive at Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein, a subsidiary of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) advertising agency, in the 1970s and 1980s, before starting his own agency. The Bud Titsworth Commercials collection span the years 1968-1991 and consist of audio tapes, videocassettes and 16mm films of radio spots and television commercials on which Titsworth worked. Clients represented include Canada Dry, IBM, STP and Warner-Lambert. Announcers for radio spots include sportscaster Howard Cosell. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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André Kertész photographs, 1919-1984

1.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Collection of 31 black-and-white photographs by André Kertész provides a sampling of his compositional styles and topical interests. Taken from 1919 through 1984, the images chiefly feature street scenes from Paris (1920-1984), and several each from Budapest and New York City. There are also two female nude studies from his 1930s series "Distortions," two still lifes, and several landscapes. The majority of the gelatin silver prints are sized 8x10 inches, with four measuring 11x14 inches. On the backs are various markings, including dates and identifying marks by Kertész and others, with many bearing a Kertész estate stamp. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Olav K. Lundeberg papers, circa 1940s-

0.25 Linear Feet 12 Items
Olav K. Lundeberg taught at Duke in the Dept. of Romance Languages from 1931-1948. This collection includes photographs, a bulletin, and a guest log from social events hosted by Lundeberg and his wife.
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League of Women Voters of Durham (N.C.) papers, 1947-1991

7.9 Linear Feet 4,300 Items

The papers of the League of Women Voters of Durham (LWVD) span the dates 1947-1991, with three main clusters of records: the mid-to-late 1950s, the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the late 1970s through the middle of the 1980s. The papers consist chiefly of newsletters, minutes of the Board and other meetings, administrative and financial records, publicity materials, newspaper clippings, and information related to the political work of the League. Most of the papers address the work of the Durham League, which was founded in 1946 and ceased operations in 1991. Scattered records document the activities of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina (LWVNC).

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Bulletins and Newsletters Series, 1951-1991

Chiefly the bulletins of the LWVD. Also includes scattered newsletters published by the LWVNC and materials relating to publishing the Durham bulletin.

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Hilliard Hardin papers, 1940s-1997

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Hilliard Hardin (1917-1997) was an American microbiologist. The collection includes materials related to her professional activity as mycologist and microbiologist.
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Howard Easley papers, 1936-1954

1 Linear Feet 500 Items
Howard Easley was a psychologist and professor of Education at Duke University from 1930 to 1957. Collection includes correspondence, course materials, manuscripts, lists, printed matter, and other papers concerning the Education Department, parapsychology, educational psychology, testing and related subjects. Correspondence, 1936-1942, with students, colleagues and editors includes copies of 1938 letters between J.B. Rhine and Virginia Harding, mother of purported psychic Faith Harding.
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Alfred E. Edgcomb papers, 1906-1983 and undated

19.2 Linear Feet Approximately 14,000 Items
Businessman active in the lumber industry. Collection contains correspondence, legal and financial papers, printed materials, photographs, and other materials from lumber businesses beginning before 1910, especially in East Tennessee and in the Philippine Islands with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. The Insular Lumber Co., Negros Island, P.I., produced mahogany. Also present in the collection are personal and family papers, including numerous photographs.
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Robert A. Hamer papers, 1857-1995 and undated bulk 1926-1995

2.4 Linear Feet 1800 Items
Robert A. Hamer was an executive of the Foster and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising Company in California. He worked as a pictorial artist from 1936 to 1953, and as Paint Manager, California Region, from 1956 until his retirement in 1979. The Robert A. Hamer Papers span the years 1857-1995, the bulk of which document the period 1926-1995, and includes photographs, negatives, correspondence, clippings, administrative records, cartoons, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newsletters. The collection primarily documents Hamer's career in outdoor advertising with the Foster and Kleiser Company in Southern California, and also touches on events in his personal life. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of Foster and Kleiser billboards in Southern California, covering two time periods, 1926-1935 and 1950-1970. Other photographs document business activities from 1937-1977, including Foster and Kleiser social events; commercial art production; and sign painting. Clients represented in the collection include Anheuser-Busch, C.H. Baker Shoes, and Slavick's Jewelry. Other clients represented are from the alcoholic beverage, food, travel, and automobile industries, and financial institutions.
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Business and Personal Files Series, 1857-1995 and undated 1 box

Consists of scrapbooks, photographs, personal and business correspondence, administrative records, print materials, newspaper clippings, awards, ephemera, cartoon sketches, and memorabilia that document Hamer's professional and personal life. Series is organized into three categories: Business files; Personal files; and Scrapbooks. Business files include cartoon sketches that humorously depict Hamer and coworkers. Personal files chiefly document Hamer's early life and retirement years, including a brief biographical essay written by Hamer shortly after his retirement. Correspondence in this category includes a typewritten transcription of letters from 1857-1880 that belonged to Hamer's ancestor, Samuel A. Jackson. Hamer's personal correspondence reflects his interest in the visual arts. Scrapbooks include annotated photographs that document the operational history of Foster and Kleiser in Southern California. Scrapbook contents had been removed from their original binders before acquisition, so no order could be determined. Business Files and Personal Files are arranged alphabetically.

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J. Walter Thompson Company. John F. Dignam papers, 1958-2009

9.0 Linear Feet
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) was one of the largest and oldest enduring advertising agencies in the United States before being absorbed into marketing and communications firm VML in 2023. John F. Dignam was a commercial artist and an executive with JWT during a 26-year career, in which he held positions of Vice President and Senior Art Director. The collection primarily consists of advertising proofs and commercial artwork created for clients of JWT and other firms, including the Victor A. Bennett Company, along with some of Dignam's freelance work. The collection also includes a few reports, television commercial scripts and other writings, along with some videocassettes of television commercials. Companies represented in the collection include the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, British Aerospace, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), Ford Motor Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Harveys of Bristol, Jantzen, Pan AMerican World Airways, Inc., the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Standard Brands, and the United States Aircraft Insurance Group (USAIG).
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John E. Brennan Outdoor Advertising Survey Reports, 1947-1980 and undated

47 Linear Feet 79,491 Items

The John E. Brennan Outdoor Advertising Survey Reports document the professional endeavors of outdoor advertising design researcher John E. (Jack) Brennan for the time period 1947 to 1980. His work primarily consisted of conducting market surveys on the effectiveness of billboard advertisement design and layout, and reporting his findings to subscribers to advance design efficiency for the industry. About 786 surveys cover 15,720 different advertisement designs posted on signs in major markets around the US. Forty-two different cities were covered in 27 states. His survey interviewers questioned participants on how well they remembered advertisements and product brand names. Brennan then analyzed the survey data to produce practical information for advertisers and advertising companies on improving advertisement copy, thereby increasing advertising efficiency and profits. His emphasis was on outdoor advertisement design and copy, not traffic or other outdoor industry factors. The collection is comprised mainly of paper files, most containing color photographs attached to the paper data reports or sleeved along side them. Other significant items include the Copy Clues reports which capitalize on the data Brennan compiled, suggesting outdoor advertisement (also known as poster) design improvements. Other supporting materials within the collection include survey methodology information, related writings, summary data files, and business correspondence. Even without the context of Brennan's survey forms and data, the collection is a sizable photo library of mid-20th century commercial art created for outdoor advertising. Additional description of the individual series presented below may be found within the container list.

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Business Correspondence, 1950-1980

This small amount of incoming and outgoing correspondence centers on Brennan's business relationships, especially with research consultant Raymond Franzen, who apparently prepared survey samples and evaluated Brennan's methodology. Franzen's 1951 evaluation is included in this series. There is also a small amount of correspondence scattered throughout the Methodology Files.

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Ohio Outdoor Advertising Corporation records, 1929-1993 and undated

5.5 Linear Feet 4300 Items
The Ohio Outdoor Advertising Corporation was an outdoor advertising company that operated in northern Ohio from 1965 to 2000. The Ohio Outdoor Advertising Corporation Records span the years 1929 to 1993 and include clippings, corporation reports, negatives, photograph albums, photographs, poster boards, promotional materials, regional maps, slides, and trade literature that document the operational history of Ohio Outdoor and related companies. The bulk of this collection consists of photographs and slides of billboards in northern Ohio from 1937 to 1993. Also included are photographs of Ohio street locations and outdoor advertising activities. Other outdoor advertising companies represented in the collection reflect mergers, acquisitions, and business connections between Ohio Outdoor and other firms, and include Dingeman Advertising, Inc.; Outdoor Communications, Inc. (OCI); Outdoor Graphics, Inc.; Indiana Outdoor Advertising Corporation; Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Corporation; E.A. Eckert Advertising Company; and T.R. Sammons Outdoor Advertising Company.
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Business Files Series, 1951-1991 and undated 1 box

Consists of administrative records, clippings, corporation reports, lecture notes, trade literature, and promotional materials that document the organizational history of Ohio Outdoor Advertising Corporation and related companies. Includes a matted press release and photographic reproduction announcing the sale of outdoor advertising plants from Foster & Kleiser to Ohio Outdoor. Arranged alphabetically.

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The Tenth Muse records, 1969-1974 and undated, bulk 1973

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Collection comprises primarily invoices and book claims and requests, along with correspondence, company balance sheets, flyers, booklists, and catalogs, literary proposals and prospectuses, and other printed and manuscript materials related to the bookselling and publishing activities of The Tenth Muse. Much of the material is routine in nature and documents day-to-day work. Includes a folder of letters to and from Isabel Fraire, along with partial translations from the Spanish of her poems. Also contains letters or other material from poets and authors Bill Bissett, Robert Duncan, Tom Clark, and Tom Pickard. There is a copy of Lynn Lonidier’s manuscript for the second part of “A Lesbian Estate.” Among the catalogs is a Shameless Hussy Press catalog, with a handwritten note from poet and publisher Alta Gerrey on the front cover, as well as two 20-page copies of Ganglia Press Index, 1972, compiled by B. P. Nichol, with handwritten comments. Many items feature handwritten dates and notes.
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Jonathan E. Cox papers, 1885-1938 and undated

30 Linear Feet Approximately 46,057 Items
Banker and manufacturer of High Point, N.C. May have been a Quaker. The Jonathan E. Cox Papers chiefly consist of the business records of a banker and manufacturer from High Point, North Carolina. Records date from 1885-1938 and include many boxes of business and personal correspondence, chiefly letters to Cox; and a series of manuscript volumes, including journals, daybooks, order books, trial balance books, ledgers, profit-and-loss accounts, bill books, inventory records, rent book, check stubs, mill contracts, a letter book, and an account book of Joseph D. Cox. There are few personal items, but there is some biographical information on Cox's daughter, Clara I. Cox, a Quaker also living in High Point, who was active in civic and humanitarian affairs in that city.
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Gennett Lumber Company records, 1832-1954, bulk 1920-1945

19 Linear Feet Approximately 16,000 Items
Lumber company founded in 1902 by Andrew and Nat Gennett, headquartered in Georgia and South Carolina, later in Asheville, N.C. Correspondence, contracts, legal documents, and other records of the Gennett Lumber Co., mostly for the years 1920 to 1945. The two Gennett brothers Nat and Andrew, founders of the company, were part of the effort to establish the South's national forest system. Subjects covered by materials in the collection include Civil War reminiscences, life at Nashville and at Tulane and Vanderbilt universities shortly after the war, the lumber business after 1890, economic conditions in the U.S. after 1900, forest conservation, U.S. politics and foreign relations during World War I, and travel in Europe after the war.
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"Searching for Butterflies" field recording and photographs, 2018-2025

329.3 Megabytes (24 files)
"Searching for Butterflies" field recording and photographs depicts the work of Mudar Salimeh, a geologist and artist from Latakia, Syria, and his effort to document butterflies and moths in the area. Consists of one audio file of Salimeh's field recordings produced by Nanne Hauge Kristensen, an audio arist and anthropologist from Denmark; 22 image files with photographs of butterflies and moths; and one text file that includes identification information for the species photographed by Salimeh. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts.
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Butterfly photos, 2018-2025 26.3 Megabytes (23 files)
Digital-materials RL13040-SET-0001

22 image files of various Lepidoptera species photographed by Salimeh and one text file that is a corresponding identification guide with brief descriptions of each image.

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Consumer Reports buying guides and consumer advice publications, 1937-2024

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Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. Collection consists of Consumer Reports' various buying and shopping guides; consumer advice and education publications; how-to booklets, and other printed materials. Topics addressed include automobile purchasing, repairs and maintenance; baby products; painting and other do-it-yourself home projects; health and wellness; home appliances and electronics; household economic and financial management; and retirement planning. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Robert L. Lawrence papers, 1950-2005

20.4 Linear Feet
Robert L. Lawrence (1919-2004) was an American film and television producer during the second half of the twentieth century. He was primarily based in New York City with offices and studios in Hollywood, Toronto, and Paris. Collection includes correspondence, memos, press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, legal agreements, financial documents and statements, scripts, production documentation, audiovisual material (audio and film reels, videocassettes), black-and-white and color photographs and slides, and other materials that document Lawrence's career as a producer in the American, Canadian, and international motion picture and television industries. Papers include Lawrence's work on documentaries, newsreels, commercials, animated films, and domestic and international motion films. Included are materials related to Lawrence's direct marketing concept called Cable Catalogue and his foray into the food industry with La Vie Products, Inc., a company created for the manufacture and distribution of sourdough bread and other foodstuff. Collection documents Lawrence's education at the United States Military Academy at West Point and military service in the Fifth Army during World War II, as well as his service to the Directors Guild of America as chair of several committees, West Point Assembly of Graduates, and West Point Society of New York. Companies and individuals represented include RKO Pathé (a division of RKO Pictures), Jerry Fairbanks Productions, National Association of Investment Companies, Marvel, Stan Lee, Jim Henson, and Frederick, I. Ordway. Advertising agencies represented include D'Arcy Advertising Company, Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc, Campbell-Ewald, Young & Rubicam, Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. Other companies represented include General Electric, RCA Records, General Motors, General Foods Corporation, Colgate-Palmolive-Peat, Noxzema, Revlon, Inc. and Clairol. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Cable Catalogue, 1971-1994

Cable Catalogue is an unrealized concept for television shopping that Lawrence first created in 1978 as a consultant to a midwestern department store group considering direct marketing brand merchandise through cable television. The concept included scripted one-hour tv cable programs about the Stevens Family using the merchandise in their daily activities during which time viewers could purchase the items via telephone. Series is connected to audio-visual material RLRL.13100-UM-0004, RL-RL.13100-VHS-0001, RL-RL.13100-VHS-0002, RL-RL.13100-VHS-0003, RL-RL.13100-RR-0002, RL-RL.13100-RR-0004, and RL-RL.13100-RR-0019.

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Cours de Mèdecine cahier, 1905

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Joséphine Collomb was a nursing student in 1905 at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées, founded by Léonie Chaptal in 1905 with a class size of 24 students, in the Plaisance quarter of Paris. Collection comprises a nursing manuscript notebook (179 pages) maintained in French by Joséphine Collomb during her studies at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées. There are 175 pages of notes and 4 pages listing medical instruments. Topics of the notes include microbes, sterilization, operating in the countryside, a nurse's duties, suturing, dressing, antiseptics, dislocation, setting limbs, contusions, burns, epistaxis, blood disorders, hypodermic injections, morphine, caffeine and its uses, ether, serotherapy, fevers, cauterizing, prophylaxis for cholera, measles, typhoid, and tuberculosis, with an explanation of causes and treatments. The volume includes a color map of France with a table of Départements.
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Cours de Mèdecine cahier, 1905 0.6 Linear Feet (1 item)

Joséphine Collomb was a nursing student in 1905 at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées, founded by Léonie Chaptal in 1905 with a class size of 24 students, in the Plaisance quarter of Paris. Collection comprises a nursing manuscript notebook (179 pages) maintained in French by Joséphine Collomb during her studies at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées. There are 175 pages of notes and 4 pages listing medical instruments. Topics of the notes include microbes, sterilization, operating in the countryside, a nurse's duties, suturing, dressing, antiseptics, dislocation, setting limbs, contusions, burns, epistaxis, blood disorders, hypodermic injections, morphine, caffeine and its uses, ether, serotherapy, fevers, cauterizing, prophylaxis for cholera, measles, typhoid, and tuberculosis, with an explanation of causes and treatments. The volume includes a color map of France with a table of Départements.
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Caleb Budlong physician's account books, 1817-1843, 1915 and undated

4 Linear Feet (86 items)
Collection comprises 8 medical account journals maintained by Budlong between 1817 and 1839. In addition to treatments provided, most often tooth extractions and bleeding, the doctor noted examinations and prescriptions for pills, oils, powders, elixirs, bitters, ointments, and asthmatics, along with cathartic sugars and throat lozenges. Fees are recorded for each entry and payments and regular audits noted. The entries were irregular in regard to date. Included in the collection is an undated typescript list of more than 100 individuals treated in volume 1, indicating that Budlong served as the primary physician for the area during its early settlement. There are indexes for volumes 2 and 8; and these, along with 76 items laid-in to the volumes, including receipts, blotting sheets, lists, calculations, and other notes have been removed to a separate folder. One item laid in is receipt unrelated to the volumes for a payment dated 1915.
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Gloria Bowen McCoy Papers, 1944-1947

2.0 Linear Feet
Gloria Bowen McCoy attended Duke University from 1944-1946. The collection includes a scrapbook, class notes, photographs, and memorabilia of her time at Duke.
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Alspaugh Residence Hall records, 1949-1979

0.2 Linear Feet 200 Items
Alspaugh Residence Hall is an undergraduate dormitory on the East Campus of Duke University. Records include events calendars, correspondence, subject files, notes, minutes, and newsletters. Major topics include undergraduate life at Duke University, residence halls, the Baldwin Federation, the Association of Independent Houses, and women college students. Materials date from 1949 to 1979. English.
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Consumer Reports. George Brunn papers, 1955-1966

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Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. George Brunn was a lawyer, municipal judge and consumer advocate primarily in California, and a member of Consumers Union's Board of Directors and Executive Committee in the 1960s and 1970s. The George Brunn papers include primarily correspondence and other materials relating to the establishment of the Association of California Consumers, along with some materials pertaining to other cooperative associations, consumer advocacy groups and the New York Office of Consumer Counsel. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Bruce Davidson photographs, 1955-2008

6 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933) is an American-born photographer, and a member of the Magnum Photo cooperative agency. Collection consists of 229 photographic prints, mostly black-and-white, with color work present in several series. Subjects range widely, with a focus on human interactions, minority and disenfranchised communities, urban street photography, and landscapes influenced by human activity. Locations include Chicago; Paris; England, Wales, and Scotland; Sicily and Venice; Los Angeles and the California Pacific Coast Highway; and New York City, including East Harlem, Central Park, the subway, and other locations. Also included is a large series of portraits chiefly of celebrities, and images deriving from commercial assignments. Several portraits of African Americans from Mississippi, South Carolina, and New York City were taken in 1962 while Davidson was documenting civil rights actions. Other short series feature nude female studies, French fashion shows, and scenes from the film production of Zabriskie Point by Antonioni. Sizes range from approximately 6x9 to 20x24 inches. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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California: Los Angeles, 1964

Davidson traveled to Los Angeles, California in 1964 and spent several weeks there, shooting street life, celebrities, landscapes, and architecture. He returned in 2008 to reconsider the city and its environment; these images are located in the series "The Nature of Los Angeles."

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Tobacco Advertisements collection, 1938-1970 and undated

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Sue Olmstead was a librarian on the staff of the Olivia Rainey Local History Library (Raleigh, N.C.). Collection comprises approximately 160 print advertisements, most removed from issues of "The State," a North Carolina publication. Advertisements are primarily for cigarettes and other tobacco products from American Tobacco Company (Lucky Strike), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield) and R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Salem, Winston, plus several corporate advertisements for other products). Many of the advertisements feature testimonials from celebrities (socialites, actors, singers and sports figures). Additional advertisements, many for North Carolina companies, appear on the reverse side of the cigarette ads; also included are advertisements for the United Brewers Industrial Foundation. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Lux "mouchoirs" campaign case history booklet, approximately 1950

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Lux Toilet Soap developed 1925 by Lever Brothers in the U.S.; marketed globally beginning in 1928. Collection is comprised of a bound booklet providing a case history of Unilever's Lux toilet soap campaign in France in which a free handkerchief was offered for the purchase of three bars of the soap. Included are summaries of the ad campaign, examples of print advertising and point-of-sale promotional materials, as well as an insertion schedule. Advertising agency is not specified; possibly J. Walter Thompson. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Lux "mouchoirs" campaign case history booklet, approximately 1950 1.0 Linear Feet

Lux Toilet Soap developed 1925 by Lever Brothers in the U.S.; marketed globally beginning in 1928. Collection is comprised of a bound booklet providing a case history of Unilever's Lux toilet soap campaign in France in which a free handkerchief was offered for the purchase of three bars of the soap. Included are summaries of the ad campaign, examples of print advertising and point-of-sale promotional materials, as well as an insertion schedule. Advertising agency is not specified; possibly J. Walter Thompson. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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David Newton Henderson papers, 1930-1976

218 Linear Feet 439 Boxes
Correspondence, reports, speeches, drafts of bills, notes, newsletters, printed material, clippings, and other papers, relating to Henderson's service as representative from the 3rd Congressional district of North Carolina, including material relating to his work on the Post Office, Civil Service, and Public Works committees, and to civil rights, minimum wage, federal aid to education, the Vietnam Conflict, anti-poverty programs, foreign aid, tobacco, Watergate, the energy crisis of the early 1970s, and local affairs and projects in eastern North Carolina.
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Campaign Files Series

Contains correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings concerning Henderson's congressional campaigns, 1960-1974. Henderson concentrated most of his time and attention to the Democratic primary in May of each election year. There is much less material about the November election. The Campaign Files contain many lists of electoral officials, party leaders, and targeted support groups, e.g. teachers, veterans. The papers reveal the rising importance of television in political campaigns of the mid to late 1960s.

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German newspaper clippings collection, 1900-1943

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The newspaper clippings and other publications in this collection focus on political events both in Germany and abroad, in particular assassinations and political violence. They include announcements, analysis and propaganda, exhortations, and numerous political cartoons. The materials are arranged according to geographical area. Also included are political party publications relating to local, state, and national elections in Germany between 1919 and 1930, as well as items relating to international events between 1900 and 1930. The collection also includes a small series of Nazi propaganda dating from 1939 to 1943. Closely related to the German Broadsides collection.
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Campaign Publications and Political Brochures, 1919-1930 and undated 2 boxes and items in oversize folder

Contains clippings and other publications relating to local, state, and national elections, mostly from the Socialist, Communist, German Democratic, and German National People's political parties, with some material from the Center Party and other interest groups. Other items relate more to political issues generally. Many of them originated from German newspapers and election newspapers printed and distributed by political parties. Arranged chronologically.

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