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Jesse Pyrant Andrews photographs and oral histories, 1973-2024

16 Linear Feet (20 boxes) 63.9 Gigabytes (262 audio files)
Jesse Pyrant Andrews is an American photographer based in rural southern Virginia. Collection comprises 310 black-and-white photographs and 50 oral history interviews by photographer Jesse Pyrant Andrews, documenting rural and small-town life in the Piedmont region of Virginia and North Carolina. Major themes center on the landscapes and people of the region; tobacco cultivation; the lives of farmers, war veterans, small business owners, and laid-off workers; local architecture and historic sites; traditional crafts and music; and new patterns of economics and society in rural Virginia. Andrews's Veterans Project has become a larger focus over the years; it now comprises over 30 portraits and associated audio interviews, chiefly with veterans of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. Additional projects include materials related to the Carter-Wooding families of southern Virginia; views from an Amtrak train; views of an historic plantation home, Mountainview; and street scenes and portraits taken in New York City, California, and Massachusetts. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Kenneth J. Arrow papers, 1921-2017

142 Linear Feet (97 boxes) 13.2 Gigabytes
Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017) was a Nobel Prize winner and the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University. This collection consists of his correspondence, research, writings, and other materials documenting his political and personal interests, as well as his collaborations and professional affiliations across the fields of economics, mathematics, public policy, and international relations. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Ben Brody photographs and papers, 2003-2024

5 Linear Feet
Ben Brody (born 1979) is a photojournalist, photo editor, and educator based in Massachusetts. Between 2003-2008, Brody served in the United States military stationed in Iraq, and between 2010-2015, was a civilian photographer in Afghanistan, documenting the "Global War on Terror." Afterwards, he published his photography in Attention Servicemember (2019), Can We Get a War Thread Going? (2016), Endgame Afghanistan (2017), and 300M (2022). The collection includes 130 photographic prints of varying sizes and mostly in color, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the United States, with accompanying location, date, signature, and caption or longer narrative description by Brody. Images depict military members from the United States, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and occasionally civilians; military activity and leisure; military outposts and local towns; and time in the United States, particularly in Massachusetts. Accompanying the prints are Brody's published works, book dummies, and design iterations; collected military manuals, visual guides, country handbooks, and Brody's personal military documents; and other assorted materials. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts.
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Partisan night raid, 2005
Box 3 > Image RL13180-P-0121

The Iraqi soldiers rounding up young Sunni men and sending them to prison to be brutalized, sowing the seeds of the civil war only a year down the road from this sweltering night, full of the smell of baking honeybread.

Partisan night raid of which I have no memory. There were so many nights like this. The Iraqi soldiers rounding up young Sunni men and sending them to prison to be brutalized, sowing the seeds of the civil war only a year down the road from this sweltering night, full of the smell of baking honeybread. Adhamiyah, Iraq 2005

  1. Prints, 2004-2020
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Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2023 and undated

178.75 Linear Feet 10.3 Gigabytes
Fred Chappell (1936-2024) was an author and poet. He was an English professor at UNC Greensboro for 40 years, and he was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002. Collection consists largely of correspondence and writings by Chappell and others, documenting Chappell's literary career, output, and network.
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Frank Clyde Brown papers, 1912-1974

70 Linear Feet (98 manuscript boxes; 1 oversize box)
English professor, Duke University, folklorist of Durham, N.C., and founder in 1913 of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Collection centers around Frank Clyde Brown's lifelong exploration and collecting of North Carolina and Appalachian folklore, which resulted in this vast archival collection of original folklore materials and editorial records for the seven-volume Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (published 1952-1964). Collection is comprised of field recordings on wax cylinders and phonodiscs; tens of thousands of field notes, transcriptions of original songs, stories, and traditional expressions; musical scores; and numerous journal articles, student theses, books, and lists. Also included are the papers of Charles Bond, a Duke graduate student who studied and expanded the collection in 1970. The vast majority of the folklore sources originated in North Carolina, but there are some materials from other regions. Subjects include: African American traditions; ballads and songs (music as well as lyrics); European roots of North American folklore; folk music; folk poetry; games and parties; oral traditions and storytelling; sayings, names, and superstitions; social conditions in the Southern States; work songs; and North American folklore in general. In addition, one can find rich resources on the study and teaching of folklore, and attitudes during the 1920s to 1950s about Southern customs and communities.
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RL00160-WC-0024, 1922-07
Box 132 > Audio-cylinder RL00160-WC-0024

.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740 Title: Farm Sows His Seed String Beans and Barley Grow, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:614
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  1. Title: Vilikins and his Dinah, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:35:073
  2. Title: Jonah and the Whale, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:43:200
  3. Title: Mary and Martha, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:34:903
  4. Title: Shortnin' bread, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:43:200
  5. Title: When I Was a Bachelor, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:30:326
  6. Title: Ninety Nine Blue Bottles, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:176
  7. Title: My Mammy Told Me, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:23:460
  8. Title: There Was an Old Woman (Skin and Bones), performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:39:042
  9. Title: Cindy, performer: Holeman, Jean, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:23:400
  10. Title: My Mammy Told Me, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:24:587
  11. Title: London Bridge is Falling Down, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:24:873
  12. Title: Last Night I Was Nearly Crazy, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:01:04:498
  13. Title: Standin' In The Need of Prayer ('Taint My Mother, 'Taint My Brother), performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740
  14. Title: Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:19:740
  15. Title: Farm Sows His Seed String Beans and Barley Grow, performer: Overton, Doris, location: Durham (N.C.) | Durham County (N.C.), running time: 00:00:25:614
  1. Cylinders and Discs
  2. Wax Cylinders, 1921-1935
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Five Farms: Stories From American Farm Families photographs and oral histories, 2008-2011

1.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes; 50 color photographic prints) 61.8 Gigabytes 50 prints; 940 electronic files
The Center for Documentary Studies is a center at Duke University established for the study of the documentary process. The color photographs and oral histories in the Five Farms: Stories From American Farm Families collection form part of a multimedia project carried out under the auspices of the Center for Documentary Studies. Beginning in March 2008, photographers Alix Lowrey Blair, Andrew Lewis, Tom Rankin, Elena Rue, and Steve Schapiro, along with audio specialists Ben Adler, Rob Dillard, Camille Lacapa, Susannah Lee, and John Biewen, each visited an American farm and documented the farm families' experiences over the course of a year. The locations for the Five Farms series are: a family farm on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; an organic farm in California's Capay Valley; a dairy farm in western Massachusetts; a diversified farm in central Iowa; and an African American-owned hog farm in eastern North Carolina. Details on each farm are found in the series descriptions in this collection guide. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Arizona

He also has a strong interest in the growing and preservation of heirloom native seeds from the Southwest. David will soon be leaving his job as kitchen manager at Hotevilla Bacavi Day School so that he can pursue his farming interest full-time.

Photographs by Andrew Lewis. The Pecusa family is Hopi and Pima from the village of Bacavi on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. Their immediate family has been farming in the area for at least four generations. Before them, ancestral people farmed their land intermittently for nearly a thousand years. The Pecusa family farms in a largely traditional manner, using little farm machinery and employing ancient dry land farming practices that allow them to grow corn in an arid environment that receives only eight to twelve inches of rain per year.

  1. Photographs, 2008-2009
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Cannon Mills records, 1836-1983

160 Linear Feet Approximately 63,000 items

The Cannon Mills Records, a textile manufacturer, span the years 1836-1983, although the bulk occurs during 1887-1983. Files and account books concern the operations of Cannon Manufacturing Company and its successor in 1928, Cannon Mills, its subsidiary and associated textile mills, related business interests, and community involvement. The records include correspondence, volumes, memoranda, statistical compilations, reports, printed material, and financial and legal documents.

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Sallie Bingham papers, 1900-2023

93.75 Linear Feet
Feminist and author. The Sallie Bingham Papers provide rich documentation of the personal life, literary development, and philanthropic activities of Sallie Bingham, feminist and writer. The papers, dated 1900-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1940s to 2011, are comprised of correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, personal papers, diaries and notebooks, legal and financial papers, audiovisual recordings, and photographic media. Included also are some records of The Kentucky Foundation for Women, a philanthropic organization founded by Bingham; The American Voice, a literary journal founded by Bingham and published under the auspices of The Kentucky Foundation for Women; and Santa Fe Stages, a regional theater founded by Bingham. Arranged into the following series: Audiovisual Materials, Correspondence, Diaries and Notebooks, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Legal and Financial, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Poetry, Santa Fe Stages, Speeches, Subject Files, Writings, and Oversize Material, with the Writings, Diaries and Notebooks, and Correspondence Series composing the bulk of the collection. Multiple additions have been added since the collection was processed; these are represented at the end of this finding aid.
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Diaries and Notebooks Series, 1945-1990s

Bingham's diaries document her daily activities, reflections on life, and contain some seed ideas for stories. Her notebooks function as workbooks for her writings and include poems, ideas for stories, outlines for plays, and character sketches - all in various stages of development.

Bingham's diaries document her daily activities, reflections on life, and contain some seed ideas for stories. Her notebooks function as workbooks for her writings and include poems, ideas for stories, outlines for plays, and character sketches - all in various stages of development. Arranged by format (diary or notebook) and then chronologically.

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Josiah William Bailey papers, 1833-1967, bulk 1900-1946

270 Linear Feet (539 boxes) Approximately 422,400 itemss
The collection houses the personal and professional papers of Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946), Baptist layman, Raleigh attorney, and United States Senator. Chiefly consists of correspondence and print material, as well as smaller amounts of financial records, clippings, volumes, broadsides, photographs, and memorabilia dating from 1833 through 1967, with most items dating from 1900 through 1946. The collection documents Bailey's family, personal, religious, and professional life. Generally, papers prior to Bailey's election to the U.S. Senate in 1931 reflect North Carolina's legal, political, religious, agricultural, social, and economic issues. After 1931, material chiefly pertains to national affairs. Significant topics include: state and national elections and campaigns in the 1920s and 1930s; national defense and the military; veterans; the effects of the Depression on southern states and the U.S. economy and society in general; labor issues; Prohibition; the court system; taxation; the development of the Blue Ridge Parkway and other parks; agriculture in the Southern States; and the New Deal of the Roosevelt Administration. Legal papers offer a sample of case files from Bailey's law office, including a 1920s case involving W.V. Guerard of the Klu Klux Klan. Outgoing personal correspondence contains many references to national and regional issues as well as personal exchanges.
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Agricultural Correspondence Subseries, 1930-1946

Refund of processing taxes; Seed Loan Bill; Commodity Exchange Control Bill; plans for compulsory crop control; AAA and various amendments. 1937 : Cotton loan; improvement of highways and railroad grade crossings; tax on plug tobacco ; 3.5 % interest rate on Federal Land Bank loans; Forestry Bill; Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act; Farm Tenancy Bill; Farm Security Act; AAA; crop control versus export bounty; proposal to move the Forestry Service from the Dept. of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, voluntary versus compulsory crop control; tax on garden seed. 1938: Compulsory crop control; Farm Bill; peanuts; resettlement; problems with allotments; distribution of seeds by county agents in competition with merchants; AAA. 1939: Crop control; Smith Cotton Bill; restriction on sugar production; Fulmer Net Weight Bill, government distribution of seeds; Bankhead Cotton export subsidy; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; Bailey Farm Marketing Bill; control of tobacco production; flue-cured tobacco marketing crisis; storage rates on cotton; flaxseed competition from Argentina. 1940: Marketing Bill; tobacco embargo; trade agreement with Great Britain affecting cotton and tobacco; agricultural appropriation cuts; transfer of Forest Service to the Dept. of the Interior; cotton storage rates; foreign competition with American wood pulp; crop control; Net Weight Cotton Bill; food stamp plan: Jones-Wheeler Bill; tobacco storage. 1941 Marketing Bill; Net Weight Cotton Bill; tobacco exports; importation of Argentine beef; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; Fulmer Bill for the funding of 4-H Clubs and Extension Service; excess wheat production. 1942: Price controls; sale of government surpluses below parity prices; farm labor shortage and migratory labor camps; Net Weight Cotton Bill; government distribution of seeds; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; peanut prices; tobacco tax; ceiling prices on tobacco; Thomas-Hatch Amendment to the Anti-Inflation Bill, calculating farm labor costs in parity prices; McNary Amendment for a forest fire protection appropriation; government competition with mill operators. 1943: Farm prices and price controls; farm labor shortage; tobacco grading program; farm wagon shortage; crop control; Pace Bill to include farm labor costs in parity prices; appropriation for the Farm Security Administration; vote on Bankhead Bill after presidential veto; Agricultural Appropriaion Bill; shortage of corn products; ceiling prices on flue-cured tobacco; reduction in importation on Chilean nitrate of soda for fertilizer; dairy industry and OPA regulations; Food Subsidy Bill; milk shortage in Roanoke Rapids, N.

Correspondence, telegrams, notes, speeches, statements, and printed material pertain to farming and agricultural products as well as to agencies and concerns of the Department of Agriculture. Of particular importance is material relating to the production and marketing of cotton and tobacco, including such topics as grading, surpluses, voluntary versus compulsory crop control, taxes, ceiling prices, arid specific hills. There is also information on other crops, such as soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and strawberries, as well as on the poultry, baking and dairy industries. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) in its various forms and stages, is thoroughly discussed by Bailey and his constituents. Also included are materials relating to the Resettlement Administration, the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Federal Land Bank, the Farm Security Administration. Information pertaining to forestry and the Bureau of Public Roads is found in this section.

  1. Senatorial Series, 1930-1946
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Graham Arthur Barden papers, 1934-1960

185 Linear Feet (370 boxes)
Arthur Barden Graham was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, of New Bern, N.C. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, drafts of bills, printed material, and clippings, mostly relating to Barden's work on various House committees, including Education, Labor, Library, and Rivers and Harbors. Major topics include the draft, military installations including Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Base, veterans' affairs, and local affairs and projects of Barden's largely rural district, such as lumbering, tobacco processing, and furniture manufacturing.
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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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Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
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Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, 1895-1917
Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

Assorted examples of Carrie H. Lippincott's seed catalogs and advertisements, based in Minneapolis, Minn., promoting her flower and seed business as well as offering horticulture expertise. Also contains a 1915 seed catalog from Emma V. White, her rival.

Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s 2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Includes examples of some Lippincott seed catalogs from the early 1900s, art samples and calligraphy by women, and some materials related to domestic arts and homemaking, including advertisements for patterns, sewing, cooking, and landscaping or interior decoration.
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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Martha O. Adams papers, 1960-2016

16 Linear Feet
Martha Olds Adams is an American writer and poet. Her works center primarily on the areas of feminist theology, female spirituality and social justice. The Martha O. Adams papers contain her poetry collections and other writings; correspondence and ephemera related to her publications, workshops and speaking engagements, as well as documentation of her research and activist work.
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Martha O. Adams papers, 1960-2016 16 Linear Feet

She has written three poetry collections including: Buried Seed (2015), What Your Heart Needs to Know (2008) and Peeling the Rind (2000).
Martha Olds Adams is an American writer and poet. Her works center primarily on the areas of feminist theology, female spirituality and social justice. The Martha O. Adams papers contain her poetry collections and other writings; correspondence and ephemera related to her publications, workshops and speaking engagements, as well as documentation of her research and activist work.
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Advertising ephemera collection, 1832-2004

38.0 Linear Feet
The collection documents short-term, time-sensitive and event-specific aspects of marketing and sales promotion. Advertising campaigns ordinarily seek to promote sales, increase market share, and strive to maintain the enduring integrity of a brand name. Ephemeral marketing products work within a more limited frame that terminates at the end of an event or with the issue of a superseding edition: a dated catalog of products; new book announcements; festival programs; an advertisement for an auction or sales event; limited-time premiums such as silverware or collector cards included with a purchase. The collection includes articles; broadsides; brochures; business and trade cards; catalogs; circulars; clippings; direct-to-consumer mailings; event programs; manuals; maps; memoranda to sales agents; premium offers; price lists; religious literature; sales bulletins and announcements; souvenirs; travel and tourism literature; and other materials. Topical areas include: Agricultural and industrial machinery; banking and finance; building materials; business, correspondence, and other schools; clothing and footwear; death care (cemeteries, funeral supplies, gravestones, etc.); fairs and festivals; food; furniture; hair care; hardware; household appliances and furnishings; insurance; livestock; musical instruments; real estate; sewing goods; sporting goods; textiles; toiletries; transportation (airlines, automobiles, buggies and carriages, railroads, steam and cruise ships). Throughout the collection, images and artwork depict caricatures of Asians, Black and Indigenous people, women, occupations, and social classes that reflect racist, sexist, and classist attitudes and prejudices of the periods represented in the collection. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated

606.6 Linear Feet 439,500 Items

The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by Africa News Service (ANS) over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa.

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D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives, 1901, 1929-1999

162 Linear Feet
New York-based advertising agency formed in 1985 by the merger of the Benton & Bowles and D'Arcy-MacManus and Masius advertising agencies. In 2002 the agency closed upon acquisition by French company Publicis. Collection includes memoranda; correspondence; reports; corporate publications; marketing research reports; manuals; employee reference material; press releases; a press book; speeches; clippings; photographs and negatives in color and black-and-white; films, video and sound recordings, and DVDs; book manuscripts; financial papers; and a scrapbook. The collection documents the history of Benton & Bowles advertising; the merger of the D'Arcy MacManus Masius and Benton & Bowles companies; the early careers of William Benton and Atherton W. Hobler; employee training, recruitment, and management; corporate publications; and marketing research. Clients represented include the Procter & Gamble Company, General Foods Corporation, Allied Chemical Corporation, Avco Corporation, Colgate Palmolive Co., Florida Citrus Commission, International Business Machines Corporation, and West Point Pepperell. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Jim Dow photographs, 1966-2025

140 Linear Feet (173 boxes; 1 oversize folder) 1.3 Terabytes
Jim Dow (1942- ) is an American photographer and educator based in Massachusetts. The core of the collection consists of over 1900 single-image photographs, 232 multi-image panoramic prints, and approximately 2300 film negatives, representing black-and-white and color images taken by Dow from 1966 to 2023. It also includes raw and adjusted digital image files that Dow created from his photographic negatives. Subjects include: U.S. vernacular culture and landscapes, including roadside architecture, courthouses and jails, and small business interiors; eateries, including diners, bars, drive-in restaurants, and food trucks; stadiums and athletic fields around the world; and interiors and exteriors of private clubs, libraries, and churches and museums in cities around the world. Photographs often include cultural expressions such as advertising, murals, bar decor, and graffiti. Dow's U.S. work focuses mainly on New England, the South, and the West, with a single-state project on North Dakota. Other images were taken by Dow in Argentina, Canada, England, Mexico, Portugal, Scotland, and Uruguay, with a few images from Wales. Also included is a series of commissioned work. Dow's professional papers comprise teaching slides, course readers, syllabi, and digital files, as well as art gallery ephemera. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Duplex Advertising Company. Billboard Images and records, circa 1964-1993 and undated

7.5 Linear Feet 5300 Items

The Duplex Advertising Company. Billboard Images and Records spans the period 1964-1993 and documents the outdoor advertising work of this company in the central Texas area, primarily through photographs, negatives and slides of billboards. Many of the images are in color. A large number of the images are of national campaigns advertised in central Texas, as well as billboards, signs and posters of local Texas business services. In addition, a handful of articles written by R. V. Miller, Jr. for a number of publications, as well as other printed material and miscellaneous items from the Duplex Advertising Company, are present. Some of these articles, along with the images themselves, provide examples of commercial art and design in the outdoor advertising arena. The collection includes outdoor advertising images from national clients such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chevrolet, Coca Cola, Coors, Wendy's, Hardee's, and Taco Bell, and Texas clients such as Lone Star and Pearl beers.

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Consumer Reports. Rhoda Karpatkin papers, 1935-2023

59.0 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Rhoda Karpatkin is a lawyer and consumer advocate who served as Director of Consumers Union from 1974 until her retirement in 2001. The collection includes clippings; correspondence and memoranda; corporate and financial audits and reports; legal and legislative documents; meeting agendas and minutes; newsletters, pamphlets and other publications; photographs; press releases; speeches; texts of articles and other printed materials that document Karpatkins career with Consumers Union as well as her involvement with the international consumer movement. Topics include the Bhopal gas disaster; communism and the anti-communist movement during the Cold War; consumer protection; drug export controls; economic and human rights; environmental justice and policy protections; history of Consumers Union; sustainable consumption; tobacco use and passive health hazards; and transnationalism and international businesses. Individuals represented in the collection include Colston Warne, Eileen Nic, Esther Peterson, James Guest, Madeline Ross, Manubhai Shah, Michel van Hulten, and Ralph Nader. Organizations represented include the Administrative Conference of the United States, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer Reports Books, Consumers Union Foundation, Consumers' Association of Canada, International Organization of Consumers' Unions (now Consumers International), Media and Consumer Foundation, and the United Nations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Consumer Reports. International Organization of Consumers' Unions records, 1950-2015, bulk 1960-1997

21.0 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. The International Organization of Consumers' Unions (IOCU) is a consumer protection and rights advocacy organization founded in the Hague in 1960; it renamed as Consumers International in 1995. Collection includes audiovisual materials; clippings; correspondence; financial reports; meeting minutes; membership applications; policy statements; press releases; proceedings and planning documents for conferences, seminars, and workshops; texts of speeches and articles; and other printed materials that document Consumers Union's membership and participation in the organization. Organizations and individuals represented in the collection include: Anwar Fazal; Charles Medawar; Florence Mason; Foo Gaik Sim; Health Action International; International Air Transport Association; International Baby Food Action Network; Lars Broch; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Pesticide Action Network; United Nations. Topics addressed in the collection include: Bhopal disaster; consumer product testing and safety; environmental justice; food safety, security and nutrition; founding of the organization; international businesses; medical care and pharmaceutical policies; pesticide use, environmental and health concerns; sustainable agriculture; and women's health. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collection, 1695-1955 and undated

80.5 Linear Feet approx. 11,160 Items
Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collected art, rare books, and manuscripts, and made many contributions to art museums and libraries, most notably the Duke University Library, the Mint Museum, and the library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Dalton Collection is comprised of sub-collections acquired by Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton.
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Pickens, Andrew papers, 1801-1827

Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts.

Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts. Pickens also comments on his visits to Cahaba, Alabama, and the flood which occurred while it was the state capitol.

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Rob Amberg photographs and papers, 1975-2009

15 Linear Feet 457 Items
The photographs and papers of documentarian Rob Amberg span the years 1975-2009. The gelatin silver prints and pigmented inkjet color prints in the collection represent three bodies of work: The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress; The Sodom Laurel Album; and The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture. Amberg focuses primarily on the social life and customs of the rural South, especially in the mountains of his home state of North Carolina. Images range from landscape shots taken before and during construction of an interstate highway in the N.C. mountains, to portraits of individuals and families affected by the changes in rural culture. Images also depict agricultural activies such as tobacco cultivation and dairy cattle farming, as well as work in the poultry industry. He has a special concern for documenting the way in which industrial and economic progress seems to be erasing many aspects of rural culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Amberg's papers account for the rest of the collection and are organized into five series: Correspondence, Printed Materials, Subject Files, and Writings and Research, and Audio. Acquired as part of the Archives of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Consumer Reports. Iconographic materials, 1895-2013

130.0 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Collection includes: black-and-white and color photographic prints; contact sheets; cartoons and line art; graphic designs; magazine page layout art and designs; posters; slides; and other visual materials. Images depict products and product testing methods photographed for inclusion in Consumer Reports' magazines and other consumer education and protection publications; office, library and testing facilities in Mt. Vernon and Yonkers, N.Y.; staff and Board of Directors members; and corporate events. Posters include Consumer Reports anniversary events; speaking engagements; and post-World War II consumer advocacy messages from organizations in England and India. Cartoonists and illustrators represented include Art Glazer, Bob Bugg, Bob Engelhart, Gary Larson, Joseph Farris, Joseph Mirachi, Marty Norman, Richard Guindon, Roy Doty, and Tom Bloom. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Consumer Reports. Paul Kern papers, 1943-1963

0.6 Linear Feet
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Paul Kern served as Legal Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of Consumers Union in the 1940s-1950s. The Paul Kern papers include clippings, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets and other printed materials that primarily document Kern's work as legal counsel for Consumers Union. Issues addressed include copyright infringement and fair use of Consumers Union intellectual property; Post Office censorship relating to Consumers Union's publication on contraception and sexual health; labor relations and union negotiations; libel complaints over reviews published in Consumer Reports magazine; management and employee pension programs; and property issues relating to the Mount Vernon offices of Consumers Union. Correspondents include John J. Carson (Federal Trade Commission) and Frank Walker, Postmaster General. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Crosman Seed Corporation, 1948-1949
Box 1

Crosman Seed Corporation, 1948-1949
Dispute with Consumers Union over rating given to Crosman's seeds.

Dispute with Consumers Union over rating given to Crosman's seeds.

  1. Legal Files, 1943-1958
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John Hope Franklin papers, 1891-2010, bulk 1950-2010

306 Linear Feet (244 boxes and 1 oversize film can) 428 Megabytes (Approximately 318 files and associated disk images.)
John Hope Franklin was an African American historian specializing in Southern and African American history. The papers document his entire career as well as his personal life and political interests: his prolific writings on African American and Southern history; his role as a mentor and colleague, including his time as professor at Duke University; his role in associations such as Phi Beta Kappa, the American Historical Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and others; his participation in the civil rights movement, including his work with the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Justice Thurgood Marshall; and his engagement with numerous civic, community, and educational organizations such as the Board of Foreign Scholarships and Fisk University's Board of Trustees. There is also a significant amount of material from Franklin's work on President Clinton's Advisory Board for the President's Initiative on Race in 1997 and 1998. Items in the collection include files of correspondence in original order; research sources and notes; writings by and about Franklin; materials relating to family history; papers and diaries of other family members, including his father, and wife, Aurelia; printed material; event folders; many informal and publicity photographs; video and sound recordings; and awards and other memorabilia.
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Peter Goin photographs, 1987-2006 and undated

8.0 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Collection consists of photographs by Peter Goin on the theme of the interactions and the connections between people and the natural world, and the way people manage, perceive, and represent "nature." The images depict altered and artificial landscapes featuring beaches, canals, farm fields, rivers, prescribed burns and reforestation sites, zoos, an abandoned town, and other places. They were shot in various locations, predominantly in North and South Carolina and Virginia, but also in Alabama, Georgia, central Florida, Arizona, California, Tennessee, and Nevada. The project resulted in a book, Humanature (1996) and an exhibit. Image formats include 16x20 inch exhibit-quality color prints, accompanied by negatives, black-and-white work prints, and book illustration prints. Research, correspondence, and other publication materials are also included in the collection. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University.
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Frank Baker collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, 1536-1996

50 Linear Feet (approximately 18,000 items)
Frank Baker (1910-1999) was a faculty member at Duke University in history, an expert on Wesleyan Methodism, and a rare book and manuscripts collector. The Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, 1536-1996 and undated, comprises correspondence, writings, local histories, printed items, engravings, and many other manuscript materials that date from the earliest years of Methodism to its worldwide expansion up to the 20th century. The collection includes the correspondence of two of the most important founders of Methodism, John and Charles Wesley, as well as correspondence from members of the Wesley family. Collection also includes correspondence from many of the key figures in 18th and 19th century history of British Methodism: Joseph Benson, Jabez Bunting, Adam Clarke, Thomas Coke, James Everett, John Fletcher, Mary (Bosanquet) Fletcher, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Elizabeth (Ritchie) Mortimer, George Osborn, Hester Ann Rogers, Richard Tabraham, and Thomas Wride. Other materials include church records and registers, account books, autograph albums, broadsides (notices), circular letters, engravings, maps, sermons, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics covered by the materials include the life and training of Methodist clergy; the religious life of women; biography and portraiture of Methodists; spirituality; Protestantism in art; and the debate between Arminianism and Calvinism in the early church. Organizational history in the collection covers several branches of the 18th and 19th century church, including Wesleyan Methodism, Primitive Methodism, missions, and missionary societies.
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Richard Feldman collection of extremist literature, 1970s-2002

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Richard Feldman is a self-described amateur historian of the NSDAP/AO and other American neo-Nazi groups. This collection consists of printed extremist literature he acquired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, largely produced by American Nazi groups, right-wing white supremacists, and Christian nationalist publishers. The collection's content is largely anti-Semitic, racist, Christian nationalist, and pro-Nazi, dating from the 1970s through the late 1990s. Some exceptions include a small number of pamphlets printed by the Revolutionary Communist Party or Nation of Islam-affiliated groups. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive (Duke University).
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Wayne P. Ellis Collection of Kodakiana, 1886-1989 and undated

8 Linear Feet 6620 Items

The Wayne P. Ellis Collection of Kodakiana spans the dates 1886 to 1989, and was created by Mr. Ellis over the period of nearly four decades. Whereas many photographic collectors concentrate on cameras and photographs, Ellis emphasized advertising and marketing material. As a consequence, the collection is especially rich in print advertisements for Eastman Kodak products that were published in general interest periodicals beginning in the late 19th century. More unusual items are the product catalogs, how-to manuals for both amateur and professional photographers, serial publications for salesmen and photographers, and a variety of marketing and promotional items. There are several scrapbooks of advertising materials with considerable marginalia. The collection also includes training manuals and other publications for Kodak employees. In addition, many items in the collection deal with various aspects of the corporate history of Eastman Kodak from its earliest years up to the mid-20th century.

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Gene Federico papers, 1918-2003 and undated bulk 1951-1991

20.5 Linear Feet 3800 Items

The Gene Federico Papers span the years 1918-2003, with the bulk of the collection dating 1951-1991. The collection documents Federico's sixty years as a pioneering leader in advertising and graphic design, and contains materials from a variety of formats, including correspondence, writings, advertisements proofs and clippings, graphic design and printed materials, posters, sketches/sketchbooks, photographs, negatives, and videotapes. In addition to limited personal and biographical material, the collection primarily documents Federico's creative output as a graphic designer, art director, and advertising executive at agencies including Grey Advertising, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Douglas D. Simon, Benton & Bowles, Warwick & Legler, and as a principal at Lord Geller Federico Einstein; the collection has limited material relating to the specific agencies for which he worked. The collection also documents Federico's extensive freelance and exhibition work throughout his career (most notably the "Love of Apples" and "24-Page Book" designs), in addition to his later consulting work for Brouillard Communications. Client advertisements and graphic design materials compose the majority of the collection. Significant clients represented include: Christian Dior; Elektra Records; Elizabeth Arden; Goldman Sachs; IBM; L'Aiglon Apparel; Lady Pepperell; Napier; The New Yorker; and Woman's Day. Though an art director throughout most of his career, Federico contributed significantly to the graphic design and typographical components of advertising. Through clear and innovative integration of design and typographical components, Federico pioneered the use of visual puns in advertisements, and emphasized clarity of message over design complexity. The collection will be of particular value to researchers interested in developments in print advertising and typographical design since World War II. The collection is organized into six series which focus on Federico's contributions to advertising and graphic design: Professional Files, Personal Files, Graphic Design, Advertising Campaigns, Photographs and Negatives, and Videocassettes.

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South interviews, photographs, and project records, circa 1864-2011, bulk 1990-2004

87 Linear Feet (122 boxes; 4 oversize folders)
The Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South project was undertaken by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies from 1990-2005. Its goal was to record and preserve African American experiences in the American South from the 1890s to the 1950s. Materials in the Behind the Veil project collection date from about 1864 to 2011, with the bulk dating from the 1990s; earlier dates represent original image content rather than the reproduction date. The collection comprises over 1200 oral history interviews with associated transcripts and administrative files, several thousand historic and contemporary photographs, and project records, which include paper and electronic administrative files and audiovisual recordings. Oral histories were conducted in 19 locations, chiefly in the South; topics represented in these recordings include childhood, religion, education, politics, celebrations and other events, family histories, work histories and military service, and details about segregation and the effects of racism in the South. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African American History and Culture at Duke University.
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Benjamin Everett Jordan papers, 1896-1974 and undated

110 Linear Feet circa 104,000 items
Textile manufacturer, politician, and United States Senator from North Caroina (1958-1972). Collection includes Senate office files from Jordan's Washington office consisting mainly of correspondence, committee and legislative files, speeches, memoranda, clippings, photographic negatives, and background materials. Topics include public works projects in North Carolina, especially those related to water resources such as rivers, harbors, beaches, inland navigation, flood control, the B. Everett Jordan Lake, and the New Hope Dam. Other subjects represented in the files are U.S. foreign relations, in particular with the Middle East as well as the Vietnam War; agricultural laws; civil rights; school desegregation and busing; pollution; the National Park Service; transportation and highways; social security; public health; the United Nations; the Senate Rules Committee investigation of Bobby Baker, 1963-1966; labor laws; economic policy; library legislation; and economic conditions in North Carolina.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm microfilm Accounting Department records, 1942-1954

3.0 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. Collection includes lists of cancelled checks, petty cash vouchers and invoices, summaries of advertising production expenses and labor costs and other financial data. Main JWT offices represented include New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Production billing carbons, San Francisco and Chicago, 1948
Reel 399

San Francisco: Times Mirror; United Artists; Veloz & Yolander; Washington State Apple Advisory Commission; Washburn-Wilson Seed Co.; Wine Advisory Board; Chicago: Arnold Schwinn; Borg-Warner; Bowman Dairy petty cash vouchers; Crown Jewel Ware; Elgin National Watch; Famous Flours; Hixson Products; Illinois Power; Indiana Bell Telephone; International Minerals and Chemical; Kraft (see also San Francisco office)

San Francisco: Times Mirror; United Artists; Veloz & Yolander; Washington State Apple Advisory Commission; Washburn-Wilson Seed Co.; Wine Advisory Board; Chicago: Arnold Schwinn; Borg-Warner; Bowman Dairy petty cash vouchers; Crown Jewel Ware; Elgin National Watch; Famous Flours; Hixson Products; Illinois Power; Indiana Bell Telephone; International Minerals and Chemical; Kraft (see also San Francisco office)

  1. Production Billing, 1942-1953
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Domestic advertisements, part 1, 1875-2001 and undated, bulk 1920s-1990s

362.0 Linear Feet
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) was one of the oldest and largest advertising agencies in the United States. It was headquartered in New York. In 2023 the agency was absorbed into marketing and communications firm VML. The domestic advertisements collection consists of print advertisements created by the U.S. offices of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), in a variety of formats: magazine, newspaper, color, black-and-white, proofs, tearsheets, negative transfers, clippings, and small number of sketches for outdoor advertising installations. Some advertisements are accompanied by insertion schedules that provide the dates and names of the magazines or newspapers in which the advertisement appeared. Advertisements sometimes feature work from artists including Charles Schulz and Norman Rockwell, and photographers like Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, and Baron De Meyer. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. New York Office. Media Center Audiovisual collection, 1953-2015 and undated

88.0 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. Collection includes correspondence, track listings, transcriptions, and other printed materials, audio and video cassettes (Betacam SP, VHS and Umatic), DAT, optical media (CDs, DVDs. etc.), 16mm film reels, phonograph records, and computer media. JWT management events documented in the collection include Cannes and Effies Awards submissions, Epcot, Executive Committee, Worldwide Creative Council, speeches and presentations by top managers as well as interviews undertaken as part of an oral history project at JWT. Offices represented include North America, Europe, Great Britain, India, Asia and Latin America. Main companies include California Lottery, Chase & Sanborn, Chevron, Del Taco, Diageo, Diamond Trading Company (DeBeers), Domino's, Ford, HSBC, Jenny Craig, JetBlue, Kaiser Permanente, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, Kraft, Lipton, Macy's, Mexicana Airlines, Standard Brands, Trailways, Warner-Lambert, Weight Watchers and Wyeth. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. 35mm Microfilm Proofs, 1906-1960 and undated

3 Linear Feet (104 items)
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The JWT 35mm Microfilm Proofs collection spans the years 1906-1960 and consists primarily of images of print advertisements and proofs taken from proof books and portfolios of domestic and foreign JWT offices. Clients include Ballantine's, B.F. Goodrich, Butterick, Corning, Crowell Publishing, Davey Tree Surgeons, General Cigar, General Motors, Guinness, Horlicks, J.B. Williams, Jergens, Johns-Manville, Nash, Northam Warren, Pennsylvania RR, RCA, Sharp & Dohme, Shell, Standard Brands, Sun Maid, Swift, Sylvania, United Airlines, Ward Baking, and Welch's Grape Juice. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Chicago Office. Competitive advertisements, 1962-1987

12.0 Linear Feet
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) was one of the oldest and largest advertising agencies in the United States. It was headquartered in New York. In 2023 the agency was absorbed into marketing and communications firm VML. The Chicago Office opened in 1891 and closed in 2009; its Information Center served as a corporate library and center for reference information. Collection consists of clippings obtained from a selection of regional and nationally distributed magazines and newspapers, representing print advertising campaigns of JWT client's competitors. Major product categories include air and railroad travel; car rentals; food; hotels and resorts; household appliances and furnishings; toiletries; tourism; and transportation services. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Competitive advertisements, pre-1955 group, 1907-1965

85 Linear Feet
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) was one of the oldest and largest advertising agencies in the United States. It was headquartered in New York. In 2023 the agency was absorbed into marketing and communications firm VML. The collection includes newspaper and magazine print advertisements for companies and consumer products that competed with those of JWT clients. Product categories include airlines; alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages; bus and cruise lines; cosmetics; food; hair preparations; health products and drugs; household appliances and furnishings; radios and televisions; railroads; shaving preparations and toiletries; and tobacco products. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Celeste and Reggie Hodges collection, 1968-2021

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder) 26.5 Gigabytes
Collection consists of photography created by Celeste and Reggie Hodges while living in Sembehu and Shenge, Sierra Leone, as Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s and 1970s. Formats include negatives, prints, slides, and digital scans; all image titles and subjects have been applied by the Hodges. Images depict village life, social and religious customs, agriculture and fishing practices, medical care and treatment, textiles and art, schooling and children's life, and portraits of people. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Claudia Horwitz papers, 1988-2013

8.5 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Collection contains personal and professional papers of Claudia Horwitz, a Chapel Hill spiritual activist, author, and founder of Stone Circles.
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International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011

530 Linear Feet 8.3 Gigabytes
The non-profit agency International Monitor Institute (IMI) operated between 1993 and 2003, primarily to assist international war-crimes tribunals by collecting, indexing and organizing visual evidence of violations of international human rights law. The International Monitor Institute Records span the dates 1986-2006, and primarily comprise audiovisual materials related to IMI's documentation of contemporary conflicts and human rights violations around the world. Countries represented include: Burma (Myanmar), Bosnia and Hercegovina, Cambodia, Kuwait, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Thailand. Includes master and use copies of approximately 6000 videocassettes and 100 audio tapes and audiocassettes. The video and audio material is indexed by an extensive database developed by IMI which includes keywords, air dates, segment producer, segment title, and in some cases, transcripts and stills from the video. There are also many photographs and slides taken in the same regions, depicting destruction in areas of conflict, forced labor, refugees and refugee camps, and protests. The majority of the photos were taken on the Burma/Thai border, in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and refugee camps in Rwanda. Finally, there are extensive organizational records, including an extensive database of the audiovisual components. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
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RTLM 50 Sony HF 60 (1 copy of Side A and 1 copy of Side B
Box 119 > Audio-cassette RW035

He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
  1. Air Date: 1994 June 20
  2. Producer: RTLM
  3. Original Language: Kinyarwanda, French
  4. Side B of this tape is blank
  5. Bemeriki begins the tape accusing the Inkotanyi of "drinking Rwandan blood" and killing residents. She calls on the population to exterminate the Inyenzi-Inkotanyi. She is followed by Kantano who mockingly sings a song about the Inkotanyi having all perished. Kantano gives some of the local news from Kigali and targets several sectors and communes as areas where conflicts have taken place. As he targets areas like Nyamirambo he comments that the "Inyenzi" are committing suicide. He also refers to the current war as the "final" one. Kantano then announces that the imminent arrival of French troops to intervene against the "suicidal Ugandans and suicidal extremists Tutsis." He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
  1. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  2. Rwanda, 1992-1999
  3. Rwanda audiotapes, 1993-1994
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Kensinger Jones papers, 1934-2015

38 Linear Feet
Advertising executive with several agencies including Leo Burnett and Campbell-Ewald, and a professor of advertising at Michigan State University. The collection documents Jones's primary career as an executive for several major advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising, and William R.Biggs/Gilmore Associates; and his second career as a professor of advertising at Michigan State University. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, scripts, and audiovisual (including videocassettes) materials that document the development of print, radio, and television advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. The history and management of advertising companies in Chicago and Detroit, in Australia, and in Singapore is also represented. Major clients and campaigns documented include Chevrolet, the Florida Citrus Commission, General Motors Corporation, and Oldsmobile.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. 16mm microfilm Treasurer's Office records, 1916-1949 and undated

3.0 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. Collection includes correspondence, bills, approvals and releases, lists of stockholders, estimates, wage cards, legal files (lawsuits, judgments, claims), insurance documents and other printed materials. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Stephen C. Harward papers, 1949-1975 and undated, bulk 1963-1975

10.5 Linear Feet Circa 4000 Items
Stephen Cannada Harward served on the Durham City School Board for 12 years in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, the Durham city and county school districts were desegregated following a series of court mandates beginning in 1963. The collection contains memos, bulletins, reports, evaluations, minutes, agendas, educational and administrative guides and handbooks, court documents, financial statements and budgets, correspondence, clippings, printed materials, and maps pertaining to the activity of the Durham City School Board. The papers span the years 1949-1975 and document the daily workings of the Durham City School Board chiefly between the years 1963 and 1975, with a special focus on the process of desegregation during that time. It contains no personal papers of Stephen C. Harward.
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Will Grossman photographs of Durham, North Carolina, 1969-1979, 2006

6 Linear Feet (8 boxes; 1 oversize folder; 585 items) 585 Items
Will Grossman was a 20th century documentary photographer based in Durham, North Carolina. The 80 black-and-white images in the collection chiefly document Durham County and the city of Durham in the 1970s. There are also 488 negatives, as well as a set of 16 inkjet exhibition prints and an exhibit poster from 2006. Grossman's subjects include barns and rural landscapes; houses and churches; tobacco warehouses, a cigarette factory, and other industrial buildings; tobacco workers and other portraits of individuals, including many African Americans; scenes along the Eno River; and the Durham County Fair. A few images are from Orange County, N.C. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Harriet Wasserman Literary Agency records, 1940s-2003 and undated, bulk 1978-1995

190 Linear Feet 52,755 items

The records of the Harriet Wasserman Literary Agency span the dates 1948-1993, with most of the records dating after 1974. The records dated prior to 1981, when the agency was formed, are those of writers who were Wasserman's clients when she was employed at the Russell and Volkening agency and stayed with her when she formed her own agency. The collection documents the careers of individual writers and in doing so indicates the varied activities of a major literary agency: preparation and submission of manuscripts, negotiation of contracts, handling of foreign and reprint rights, publicity, and the differing ways affairs are handled for lesser known or beginning writers and for major authors. Among the more prominent American fiction writers included are Richard Bausch, Saul Bellow, Frederick Buechner, Oscar Hijuelos, Josephine Humphreys, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Alice McDermott, and Reynolds Price. In addition, records about historian George F. Kennan and philosopher and historian Allan Bloom are included. The correspondence is primarily about professional matters, although some sense of the personal relationships between the agent and the more prominent clients can be gleaned.

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J. Walter Thompson Company. Dan Seymour papers, 1951-1974

21.5 Linear Feet 16,125 Items
Consists of correspondence, office files, memoranda, notes, client files and some advertisements, reports, charts, reprints, schedules, scripts, printed material, and calendars. The collection documents advertising history, especially television and the management of client accounts; the development of television shows and other aspects of television programming, including the selection of actors and audience profiles; advertising clients' account histories; the corporate administration of the J. Walter Thompson Company; and the career of Dan Seymour. There is limited material about Seymour prior to his employment by the J. Walter Thompson Company in 1955 or after his retirement from it in 1974. Clients of the company represented in the collection include Eastman Kodak Company, Ford Motor Company, Kraft Foods Company, Lever Brothers Company, and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. There is considerable overlap in the content of the series in this collection.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. San Francisco Office records, 1948-1999 and undated

5.8 Linear Feet 1800 Items
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The JWT San Francisco office was opened in 1923. The JWT San Francisco Office Records span the years 1959-1999, and includes advertising proofs, commercial artwork, print schedules, marketing plans, manuals, company history materials, correspondence, Creative Library catalogs and audiovisual materials (audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes and videotapes). Also included are the papers of Harry A. Lee, a JWT executive involved in the development of JWT's Pacific Rim business during the 1960s. Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage. JWT offices touched on in the collection include New York, Manila (Philippines) and Tokyo (Japan). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. San Francisco Office records, 1948-1999 and undated 5.8 Linear Feet 1800 Items

Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage.

Ferry-Morse Seed Company

Ferry-Morse Seed Company
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The JWT San Francisco office was opened in 1923. The JWT San Francisco Office Records span the years 1959-1999, and includes advertising proofs, commercial artwork, print schedules, marketing plans, manuals, company history materials, correspondence, Creative Library catalogs and audiovisual materials (audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes and videotapes). Also included are the papers of Harry A. Lee, a JWT executive involved in the development of JWT's Pacific Rim business during the 1960s. Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage. JWT offices touched on in the collection include New York, Manila (Philippines) and Tokyo (Japan). 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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Clare Leighton papers, 1940-1968

5.8 Linear Feet 594 Items
Clare Ellaline Hope Leighton was an English printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939. The Clare Leighton Papers date from the mid-twentieth century and include woodblocks, preparatory prints and drawings, engravings, and correspondence related to Leighton's artistic practice.
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North Carolina Folklore by Frank C. Brown engravings
Box 5

Engraving titles include: The baptizing, Carolina wreck (Hatteras wreck), Cat fish (Fish caught), Centenarian, The cockfight, The coon hunt, Corn shucking in the mountains, The cotton choppers, Cotton pickers, Cypress knees, Dragging nets, Fishing in the creek, Flue curing tobacco, Herb gatherers, Moonshining, Mountain girl, Mountain haystacks, Mountain springhouse (Springhouse), The quilting, Singing in the mountains (All day singing), Sorghum boiling, Washing clothes, Weeding the tobacco seed bed, Wind and pine (Windblown tree)

Engraving titles include: The baptizing, Carolina wreck (Hatteras wreck), Cat fish (Fish caught), Centenarian, The cockfight, The coon hunt, Corn shucking in the mountains, The cotton choppers, Cotton pickers, Cypress knees, Dragging nets, Fishing in the creek, Flue curing tobacco, Herb gatherers, Moonshining, Mountain girl, Mountain haystacks, Mountain springhouse (Springhouse), The quilting, Singing in the mountains (All day singing), Sorghum boiling, Washing clothes, Weeding the tobacco seed bed, Wind and pine (Windblown tree)

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Ladyslipper, Inc. records, 1965-2011 and undated

190.5 Linear Feet (127 boxes)
Ladyslipper Music is a North Carolina non-profit organization which has been involved in many facets of women's music since 1976. Their mission is to heighten public awareness of the achievements of women artists and musicians, and to expand the scope and availability of musical and literary recordings by women. This collection documents the history, activities, and output of this organization.
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Roy Lightner Collection of antique advertisements, 1871-2009 and undated

24 Linear Feet 20,000 Items
Roy Lightner was an advertising and marketing executive, primarily with N.W. Ayer & Son agency, from which he retired in 1980, and with Carden & Cherry Advertising of Nashville, Tenn. The Roy Lightner Collection of Antique Advertisements spans the years 1871-2009 and includes primarily print advertisements clipped from U.S. magazines. Also present are proofs of print advertisements and 16mm reels of television commercials, much of which was produced by the N.W. Ayer & Son agency during Lightner's career there. Advertisements predominantly focus on automobiles, railroads, insurance companies and manufacturers of brand name consumer goods. Over 300 companies are represented in the collection, including AT&T, Buick, Cadillac, Campbell's, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Dodge, Du Pont, Kodak, Ford, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Lincoln-Mercury, Metropolitan Life, Oldsmobile, Packard, Plymouth, Pontiac, RCA, and Studebaker.Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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The Memory Project Oral History collection | 民间记忆计划口述史, 2009-2016

3799 Gigabytes
The Memory Project Oral History collection comprises digital video recordings and written supporting documentation of interviews spanning 2009 to 2016. The interviews were conducted by filmmakers associated with the Work Station, a film studio run by Wu Wenguang in Caochangdi, Beijing, China. Memory Project interviews were conducted with Chinese people about mid-20th century rural life, primarily experiences during the Great Famine (1958-1961), but also the Land Reform and Collectivization (1949-1953), the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), the Four Cleanups Movement (1964), and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Wu's studio in suburban Beijing, known as the Work Station, is the home for this project. More than 150 young filmmakers have joined the project, and since 2010 they have visited 246 villages in 20 provinces and interviewed more than 1,100 elderly villagers. These filmmakers, many of whom returned to their families' rural hometowns, developed new intergenerational relationships with elderly relatives. During the process of interviewing the villagers, they reconciled the official history taught in schools with each family's experiences.
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Ye Yaolang | 叶耀浪, 2012

The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.

Ye Yaolang (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye learned tailoring with his father after elementary school and then taught himself painting bed boards. He went to places to paint boards to escape the Great Famine. Ye recollects that, during the Great Leap Forward, the production team planted crops on two sides of the road just to impress their leaders, and used soil to fake fertilizers. The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.

  1. Guangdong Province | 广东省, 2011-2014
  2. Zhaixia Village | 河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村, 2011-2012

Zeng Man | 曾漫, 2011

The production team put too many seeds in the field, and could not get enough harvest afterwards.

Zeng Man (b.1929) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Zeng took part in the denunciation of landlords during the Cultural Revolution. She went to landlords' homes to tie people up and carry their properties. The landlords were put in pig cages and their properties were shared between other villagers. The Red Guards wronged many people. After the communization, many starved to death. The production team put too many seeds in the field, and could not get enough harvest afterwards. People ran out of food quickly. Zeng did not suffer hunger because her family works at the eating hall and secretly brought back food. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

  1. Guangdong Province | 广东省, 2011-2014
  2. Zhaixia Village | 河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村, 2011-2012

Huang Yujiao | 黄玉娇, 2011

Huang says that they sprinkled seeds instead of planting them. Following orders from higher authorities, they put many seeds within the same field and the crops could not live.

Huang Yujiao (b.1935) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. When Huang was seven years old, she became a child bride. After the liberation, she got divorced after being abused. She was then married to Ye Hengqin. Huang says that they sprinkled seeds instead of planting them. Following orders from higher authorities, they put many seeds within the same field and the crops could not live. During the Famine, people ate many kinds of famine foods. Someone ate twelve jin of zucchinis and got bloated to death. Someone died after eating too many bamboo shoots.

  1. Guangdong Province | 广东省, 2011-2014
  2. Zhaixia Village | 河源市和平县彭寨镇寨下村, 2011-2012
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J. B. Matthews papers, 1862-1986 and undated

479 Linear Feet (307,000 items)
J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections. Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.
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McCann-Erickson Audiovisual collection, 1980s-1990s and undated

75 Linear Feet 3000 Items
McCann-Erickson, founded in 1930 from the merger of Alfred Erickson's and Harry McCann's agencies, is one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States. It is part of the Interpublic Group. The McCann-Erickson Audiovisual Collection spans the 1980s and 1990s and consists of over 700 videocassette tapes of commercials for domestic, international and global advertising campaigns. Also included are tapes of competitor commercials; interviews with agency and industry leaders and marketing specialists; and presentations. Advertisers include: Apple computer; Bayer; Benson & Hedges; Buick; Calvin Klein; Camel (R.J. Reynolds); Coca-Cola; Del Monte; Exxon; Heineken; Kodak; Levi Strauss; Nestlé; Oxo; and Suntory. The bulk of materials consist of advertisements for campaigns in the United States, but Brazil, Japan and Germany are also heavily represented, as are commercials for Europe-wide campaigns. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Mary Rudge Share the Seed typescript, 1969-1979

1 Linear Feet (6 items)
Mary Rudge was a peace activist and poet. Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979. There are at least one hundred items, including narratives and interviews, poems, songs, documents, sketches, and photocopied photographs, focusing on farmworkers in California, as well as elsewhere in the United States. The text features corrections and emendations. Signed by Rudge at the end of her foreword to the volume. Velobound in brown vinyl covers. Several pages missed the binding and are thus laid in. Also laid in are several ephemeral pieces from the farmworkers movement.
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Mary Rudge Share the Seed typescript, 1969-1979

Mary Rudge Share the Seed typescript, 1969-1979 1 Linear Feet (6 items)


Mary Rudge Share the Seed typescript, 1969-1979
Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979.
The Mary Rudge Share the Seed Typescript was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2016.
Mary Rudge was a peace activist and poet. Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979. There are at least one hundred items, including narratives and interviews, poems, songs, documents, sketches, and photocopied photographs, focusing on farmworkers in California, as well as elsewhere in the United States. The text features corrections and emendations. Signed by Rudge at the end of her foreword to the volume. Velobound in brown vinyl covers. Several pages missed the binding and are thus laid in. Also laid in are several ephemeral pieces from the farmworkers movement.
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William Mahone papers, 1853-1895

110.9 Linear Feet 100,000 items

The papers of William Mahone span the period 1853 to 1895, with the bulk of the material dating from 1876 to 1892. The collection consists of copies of letters written by Mahone to others, incoming letters to Mahone, subject files on a variety of topics, clippings, and scrapbooks, but primarily focuses on Mahone's railroad and political interests. There is a great deal of overlap of topics between the different series in the collection; thus information concerning Mahone's political and railroad interests is repeated in the different series.

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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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M. A. Pacosa and Son collection of hardware sales brochures, 1930-1934 200 items

Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland.
Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W.
Companies represented include: Dings & Schuster; Kelloggs & Miller; Masback Hardware; Philadelphia Seed Co.; and Wadsworth, Howland. Acquired as part of the John W.
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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Elliott Crayton McCants papers, 1886-1950

2.5 Linear Feet 163 Items
Superintendent of schools in Anderson, S.C.; author. The collection contains largely correspondence concerning the publication of McCants' writings.
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David B. McCall papers, 1939-1999 and undated bulk 1980-1994

21.8 Linear Feet 12,600 Items
David B. McCall was an advertising executive and humanitarian. He was the originator of the idea for the children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock. The David B. McCall Papers span the years 1939-1999, with the bulk documenting the years 1980-1994, and are comprised of clippings, correspondence, business reports, photographs, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, videocassettes, audio tapes and phonograph records. In particular, three main areas of McCall's career are represented: as an advertising executive and partner in agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Ogilvy Benson & Mather, McCaffrey & McCall, David J. Mahoney, Inc., the Sawyer Miller Group, and Shepardson Stern and Kaminsky; as a corporate director for the Hunter Fan Company, Save the Children, and two local radio broadcasting corporations, among others; and as a humanitarian involved with organizations such as the Committee for the Support of Roe v. Wade, CARE, and Refugees International. In addition, there is a substantial body of McCall's speeches and writings that reflect both the wide range of his professional and personal interests and commitments as well as his status as a public intellectual in high demand, as well as a number of files containing correspondence, clippings and articles concerning David Ogilvy, McCall's mentor in advertising. Major advertising campaigns represented in this collection include Mercedes Benz of North America, North American Philips, Life magazine, the American Can Company, Lever Brothers Company, and the Zippo Manufacturing Company, along with public relations work for such clients as the National Football League, Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), and the Regional Bell Operating Companies. Major humanitarian issues documented in the collection include the Unsell protest movement against the war in Vietnam, tobacco advertising aimed at children, land mine removal, refugee welfare, and support of abortion rights. McCall was also involved in political campaigns for a number of notable candidates, such as John Lindsay (New York), Harvey Gannt (North Carolina), George Kevarian (Massachusetts), Ramón Mitra (Philippines) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru). While McCall is recognized as the originator of the idea behind the popular children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock!, the collection contains very little documentation concerning that project apart from a copy of the original soundtrack.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Competitive Advertisements, 1955-1997

550.0 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.
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J. Walter Thompson Company. New business records, 1924-2014

96.0 Linear Feet
Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the largest and oldest enduring advertising companies in the United States. The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) New Business Records span the years 1924-2006, with the bulk of materials spanning 1980-1989. The collection combines the records of the New Business Departments of JWT's major U.S. offices: New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and San Francisco, and includes presentations, memoranda, case histories, market research, and profiles of companies, industries, market segments, products and product categories. Topics addressed include the youth market, financial services marketing, food and grocery marketing, feminine hygiene and other personal products, and product branding. The collection includes photographs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, DVDs. Over 300 companies are represented in the collection, including Alitalia, Baskin-Robbins, Bell Atlantic, Circuit City, Eastern Airlines, Eyelab, Frito-Lay, Goodyear, Häagen-Dazs, HBO, Hyatt Hotels, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Kraft, Miller Beer, Morgan Stanley, Nabisco, Nestlé, Prudential, Schering-Plough, and the U.S. Navy. Many of the companies represented in the collection subsequently became clients of JWT, so there is some correlation between this collection and the JWT Account Files collection. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, & Marketing History.
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Rick Lang photographs of Florida and other Southern states, 1985-2016

12 Linear Feet (13 boxes) 6.0 Gigabytes (1 thumbdrive)
Rick Lang was a photographer and faculty member at the Creadlé School of Art, Winter Park, Florida. Collection comprises 229 black-and-white photographs documenting the American South, particularly Florida and Louisiana, with an emphasis on roadside advertising and signs, small businesses, and weathered buildings. There are also a few images from New Mexico and Arizona. Print sizes range from 11x14 to 20x24 inches. Accompanying the prints are 104 digital image files and one pdf, over 3000 negatives, and 258 contact sheets. In addition there are print materials chiefly associated with Lang's solo and group exhibits, including three photobooks, and condolences sent upon his passing in 2013. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Philip Kapleau papers, 1952-2009 and undated

24 Linear Feet
Zen Buddhist teacher and author of "The Three Pillars of Zen." Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Kapleau was a chief court reporter for the Nuremberg Trials and also covered the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. While in Japan for the trials, he met and was influenced by D.T. Suzuki and other Zen practitioners, which led him to become a serious student of Zen in Japan. Eventually, he returned to the United States and founded the Rochester Zen Center (New York) in 1966. Most of the papers relate to Kapleau's role as a Zen teacher, to his writings, and to personal concerns such as his health and Parkinson's disease. Some of Kapleau's notes are written in shorthand, and there are some materials in Japanese. The recorded teishos (dharma talks) were mainly recorded during sesshin (retreats) and span 30 years. According to the tape labels, there are various speakers including Kapleau, Toni Packer, and Bodhin Kjolhede (all of whom led the Rochester Zen Center at different times).
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W. Eugene Smith Reference CD collection, 1946-1971

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The W. Eugene Smith Reference Reference CD Collection includes 5,087 compact discs containing audio originally recorded to quarter-inch open reel tape by photographer W. Eugene Smith. Smith recorded the bulk of the 1,740 reels represented in this collection between 1957 and 1971, while living in the "Jazz Loft" at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City. The original tapes are housed in the W. Eugene Smith Collection at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography.
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Reel 0519, 1963 February

Note 1: "Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" Lillan Gish and … Feb 1963: News - Fall of Canadian Gov. over American war heads. 4th track: Starting 1/2 way in - Last Scenes from "Dragon seed Pearl Buck …"; Note 2: CDI 1. NBC Kraft Television Theater, Juan Valdez coffee ad and tv drama mid scene 2. cont'd -8.

Note 1: "Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" Lillan Gish and … Feb 1963: News - Fall of Canadian Gov. over American war heads. 4th track: Starting 1/2 way in - Last Scenes from "Dragon seed Pearl Buck …"; Note 2: CDI 1. NBC Kraft Television Theater, Juan Valdez coffee ad and tv drama mid scene 2. cont'd -8. "gypsy queen dropsy cure" (Dragonseed play) CDII 1. Cont'd-8. CDIII 1. middle of scene in the Grass Harp and ad for Late Late Show and Roto Rooter Channel 2, New York. 2. end of Dragonseed 3. cont'd 4. cont'd 5. cont'd CDIV 1. TV "2. cotn'd 3. cont'd 4. cont'd and end, jumps to News from Feb 5 1963 5. cont'd 6. cont'd, Cuban Missile crisis news. ;

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Reel 0573, undated

Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole.

Note 1: "Starts with air taped Jazz, the GC dialogues and emotionals(on GBC 1 7/8) Not stereo. End side blank end of first side blank. 2nd side - Another machine - going backwards to GBC. An interrupting door knock."; Note 2: CD 1:End of interview w/ a writer, jazz. Christmas jazz music--DATE 12/24/??. Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole. Long stretches of silence. Sex, interrupted by a knock on the door, more sex. ;

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Reel 1321, 1965 March 14

Critics and authors, The Dragon Seed film ad 14. Memories of Chinese Revolution 15. 1957 Chinese Revolution, Mao Tse Tsung.

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CDI WBAI: Folio Editor Marsh Tompkins documentary on the Klu Klux Klan 1. field recordings and narrator documenting the KKK in Tuscaloosa. Ends with Summary. 2. Next Program is Jazz with Don Schlitten and daughter Tianna, guest DJ.Early 1965 (10 year anniversary of Charliet Parker death, track 8) Fats Waller's Christopher Columbus" and personanel listed 3. Louis Armstrong "Honeydew" 4. Bessie Smith "Alexander's Ragtime Band" . Don Schlitten announces Saturday Afternoon jazz show and eight and a half year old cohost. 5. "Gone with the Wind" McLean, chambers, Taylor... 6. Wilbur Ware "Lullaby of the Leaves" 7. Chalrie Ventura tune, "Sweet Georgia Brown" "Tammy's Dream" Al Hall, Buck Clayton. Announcer WBAI. 8. dono Schlitten, Booker Ervin. Duke Ellington "Come Sunday" Nat King Cole, Trio and "Somtimes I'm Happy" by Gillespie and cres with Stuf Smith at end. CDII 1. con'td tune, drops out. 2. Midtune, (violin, jazz with Nat King Cole vox) 3. Don Schlitten recount of jazz fet at Hunter College. Jazz PIano workshop, then tuen, Willie the Lion Smith "Just one of those things" 3. Willie the Lion Smith 4. Daave Frishbert, Stella, "Will you still be mine" 5. talk and "St. Louis Blues" by Earl Hines 6. Benny Carter, Maxine Sulliva, Dexter Gordon 7. Becket "You know that I know" and WBAI 8. Dono Schlitten on latesnt project "Bebop revidisited" and tuen "Embaceable You" Barrie Harris, others. Village play, Cahrlie Parker March, 12, 10th Anniversary of his Death, and Carniegie Hall Memorial convert, Dizz, JJ Stitt, others, .. 9. Gene Ammons "Confirmation" 10. Jumps to Woody Allen, mid dialogue about Manhattan residence and ex wife 11. cont'd guitar song, blues for Chris" Lonnie Johnson, includes Wendell Marshall 12. Woody Alllen NYU and other material cont'd. CDIIIcont'd radio with Woody Allen 2. cont'd 3. "the Police" bit 4. summing up and then to banjo folk song, male singer 5. "Don't Wait Too Long" Tony Bennett 6. cont'd, new song 7. con'td music collage includes Star Spangled Banner 8. talking again, and audio collage 9. cont'd 10. cont'd 11. cont'd 12. ends with jazz scat ballad CDIV (Feb 1965) 1. collage, cocnt'd, talk by DJ over truntable, organ jazz 2. Fats Waller, DJ talking with reverb 3. WBAI ID and Long John Neble show (LJN) and Amazing Randi show announced. (one week after Malcolm X death. World's Fair discussed, guessed mentioned in passing 4. cont'd, 5. con'td, WWII piece (frivolous) and Joseph Spence song. 6. commentary on Joseph Spence, WBAI ID and mention of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman 7. gospel song, and jazz pop balld "All by Myslef" 8. mention of hidden mic on news. 9. cont'd and pop/rock song 10. Jumps to radio tune, then Malcolm X argreement after his deat (week after February 21, 1965) human rights. WOR ID. . Sudeio ONe. Leon Amir, Herbert Rollins, Myrna Bain, Esther Jackson, Tom Gask, Amazing Randi (12-5 AM) and disucssion, includes Jn 1962 issue of "Mohamed Speaks" CDV 1. cont'd Randi show. Muslims and Malcolm X 2. cont'd, threats against Malcolm X 3. Malcolm X story murder account 4. cont'd discussion 5. Brass Rail Ad, Champagne Dinner, Listing of Panelists and telerams 6. Discussion 7. cont'd 8. rumors 9. telegrams 10. Irving Drake, composer "What Makes Sammy Run" for a 30 minute break in show. One year anniversary of "What Makes Sammy Run" (Feb 27, 1965) 11. cont'd Suskind and Moose Charlap mentioned 12. cont'd, Abraham Lincoln 13. con'td 14. cont'd, discussion 15. Hank Williams "Your cheating heart" (talk about) and Sinatra at end. CDVI 1. cont'd overlap, Sinatra/Williams and mention of Parmount Mecca Theater. 2. Irving Drake cont'd and return to WOR Randi show on Death of Malcolm X. with Louis Amir talking 3. cont'd, with introductions 4. cont'd, South Africa 5. cont'd Malcolm X history 6. RAM and plans to blow up US monuments? Robert Williams and N. Carolina other topic 7. politics and X, Muslims in america 8. cont'd 9. cont'd then NY Philharmoni Mahler Symphony #4 announced. Back to guests and telegram 10. cont'd CDI 1. con'td WOR, Amazing Randi, Pnel introduced and telegrams 2. Malcolm X. Mau Mau in Kenya, telegram. 3. cont'd, 4. cont'd 5. telegram, race discussed 6. cont'd 7. cont'd and Radio music "Good Morning" 8. JUmps to LJN 8. social porblem of prostitiution 9. vlaues, 10. socio political discussion 11. Panel introduction: Robert Mullel, Pearl S. Buck, Theaodore Harris, Frank Davis, Steve Goldstein 12. Pearl S. Buck on foster parenting 13. con'td 14. cont'd CDVIII 1. Randi with Pearl S. Buck, cont'd. Politics and Boxer Rebellion 2. China 3. Chinese history, presidents 4. con'td, guests, jewelry and Pekings 5. Chinese language 6. con'td 7. cont'd 8. cont'd China never affected by the West 9. cont'd 10. con'td, on writing books 11. "mixed race" children story 12. Ad for Brass Rail restaurant, Panelists listed 13. Critics and authors, The Dragon Seed film ad 14. Memories of Chinese Revolution 15. 1957 Chinese Revolution, Mao Tse Tsung. Mu Shu Feng. Wilting of the 100 flowers. and war history. CDIX 1. Pearl S. Buck, cont'd, Panelists and WOR ID 2. on Chinese Intellectuals (specific) 3. politics 4. cont'd 5. cont'd 6. race in America 7. African Student in China, discrimmination and related book 8. discussion 9. coffee break, Arthru Chu. randi on food 10. Chinese food talk and coffee break St. Patricks day "this Saturday" and Carmel Quinn, singer, Tennessee country songs album 11. Harp lager and Randi talk at end. CDX 1. New Content, Norman Corman? Corwin? "The Alchemists and O'Neill 2. Philosophical argument 3. commentary 4. CBS News, Look Up and Live "The Initiation, Scientific Man, 20th Century, and PSA for 3 Orbit flight wiht 2 man space team, Monday, March 22nd. Jumps to Macy's ad. and Golden 65. Jumps to Jazz and Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem "Autobiography" . Duke Ellington music and poem called "Canon 3" Choreography Sophie Maslow, discussion with Jim McAndrews. 5. cont'd. Modern dance. Mike's Place and dance (TV) 6. Jazz Poetry and Duke Ellington music "A Coney Island of the Mind" Ferlinghetti 7. cont'd 8. cont'd 9. cont'd, "American Dance Theater" 10. Announcer, ad for Red Cross. Ad Haley's MO laxative, corn doodle ad, Channel 2 NY New show. WCBS, legistlative hearing, Moderator Dallas Townsend. and talk about homicide law change. CDXI 1. cont'd discussion, Red Cross and Macy's spring sale ad 2. NAACP in news 3. Interview, cont'd 4. cont'd 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. cont'd 8. Channel changing: Wall Street Journal ad, menition of President Johnson, and Alabama politics9. discussion George Wallace, Selma 10. cont'd 11. commentary by Governor George Wallace, talk to 12. Jingle Choc Full O Nuts is a heavenly coffee. 13. end of Governor George Wallace on Face the Nation. Ad for 25 Country Hits compilation, Bobby Darrin LP and end of show 14. Ad Galaxy filtered cigarettes. Walter Cronkite. Ad: Colgate toothpaste. Jumps to hair ads Alberto VO5 hairspray, 15. Western on TV, ?John Wayne? "Profiles in Courage" ALCAN (Aluminum Limited) as sponsor. Red Scare, A. Mitchell Palmer, NY Assembly, dramatic profile. CDXII 1. cont'd at dramatization, Presidency, Hughs and Hayes. 2. Jude talk scne Profiles in courage 3. politics, talk 4. play discussion, Al Can Ad. 5. press conference 6. Aluminum Ad, AL-CAN and Easter Seal charities 7. Ad, Easter Seals and WNBC new York, Charlie Hughes, Convention and 1920 election meeting scene 8. cont'd applause and backstage scene 9. cont'd 10 cont'd and AL-CAN ad. ;

  1. Recordings, 1946-1971
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Shopkeeper's Expense Account Book, 1850-1863

0.1 Linear Feet 1 Item
The collection consists of one expense account book kept by a shopkeeper in or near Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland. Chronological entries from March 1850 to February 1863 record the date, description, and amount for each personal and business expenditure of the shopkeeper, who appears to have sold medicine and paint. Business related entries include freight bills, license fees, corporation taxes, payments for services performed at the shop, expenses in Baltimore and Philadelphia, regular purchases from wholesale druggists such as Canby & Hatch and Wilson & Merritt, and frequent checks drawn on Cecil Bank. Other firms frequently mentioned include Hugh Bolton & Co., Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., and Clark & Jones. Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer. In addition to the itemized entries, the account book contains two tabular sections that together record the daily total for nearly every week from March 18, 1850, to August 10, 1863. Overall, 122 filled and 5 partially used manuscript pages reflect the life of an educated and civic-minded rural shopkeeper in Maryland during the mid-1800s.
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Shopkeeper's Expense Account Book, 1850-1863 0.1 Linear Feet 1 Item

Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer.
The collection consists of one expense account book kept by a shopkeeper in or near Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland. Chronological entries from March 1850 to February 1863 record the date, description, and amount for each personal and business expenditure of the shopkeeper, who appears to have sold medicine and paint. Business related entries include freight bills, license fees, corporation taxes, payments for services performed at the shop, expenses in Baltimore and Philadelphia, regular purchases from wholesale druggists such as Canby & Hatch and Wilson & Merritt, and frequent checks drawn on Cecil Bank. Other firms frequently mentioned include Hugh Bolton & Co., Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., and Clark & Jones. Also listed are purchases of food including flour, butter, potatoes, apples, peaches, chicken, beef, mackerel, and brandy; purchases of non-food items including wood, seeds, matches, candles, books, and journals; expenses for his wife and children; payments for services performed at the house; and contributions to the Colonization Society, missionary organizations, the local Methodist church, and Reverend Henry Colelazer. In addition to the itemized entries, the account book contains two tabular sections that together record the daily total for nearly every week from March 18, 1850, to August 10, 1863. Overall, 122 filled and 5 partially used manuscript pages reflect the life of an educated and civic-minded rural shopkeeper in Maryland during the mid-1800s.
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J. Alfred Smith papers, 1902-2022

32.25 Linear Feet
Reverend Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr. is a Black minister who served as Senior Pastor at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, CA for several decades. He also taught for many years at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (now Berkeley School of Theology). This collection contains recorded and written sermons, teaching materials, event files, and other papers that document Smith's pastoral and teaching career. Materials in the collection document Smith's work to bridge denominational, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic divides in California and throughout the United States. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project collection, 1940s-2020; 1940s-ongoing

115 Linear Feet (85,500 items)
The SPLC Intelligence Project Collection includes printed materials, serials, organizational literature, pamphlets, clippings, catalogs, fliers, and correspondence from a variety of groups monitored by the SPLC and its contacts between the 1980s and 2010. Included within the collection are many groups falling within the SPLC Klanwatch and Militia Watch projects. Organizations represented in this collection typically promoted anti-semitic, white supremacist, racist, separatist, or anti-Communist views and policies. Other organizations promoted Second Amendment rights, right-wing Christian and American nationalism, Y2K and survivalist preparations, and the rise of the Confederacy. SPLC's interests expanded across the political spectrum to include both right-wing and left-wing extremist literature.
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Literature, 1990s-2000s
Box 2

Includes booklets and pamphlets by Jack Mohr, such as "Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative?," "The Birthright or the Right to Govern," "Signs and Wonders!

Includes booklets and pamphlets by Jack Mohr, such as "Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative?," "The Birthright or the Right to Govern," "Signs and Wonders!," "Firearms and Freedom!," "Conspiracy to Deceive the Elect!!," "A Warning Direct from the Horse's Mouth!," "Exploding the 'Chosen People' Myth," "The Psychopolitical Indoctrination of America!," "Battle for the Truth," "Salt Without Savor!" and others.

  1. Documented Organizations, 1940s-2000s
  2. Crusade for Christ and Country

Literature, 1982
Box 4

Booklets 8-15: "1st Timothy 2:14," "Studies in Genesis, part 5," "Seed of the Woman Mystery," "Lucifer God's Servant," "How to Study the Bible," "Beginning of the Kingdom, part 6-7," "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, part 8"

Booklets 8-15: "1st Timothy 2:14," "Studies in Genesis, part 5," "Seed of the Woman Mystery," "Lucifer God's Servant," "How to Study the Bible," "Beginning of the Kingdom, part 6-7," "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, part 8"

  1. Documented Organizations, 1940s-2000s
  2. Mystery of the Kingdom Ministry
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Rob Amberg Sodom Laurel Album Exhibit photographs, 1975-1994 and undated

3 Linear Feet 16 Items
Documentary photographer and writer based in western North Carolina. Collection contains 16 gelatin silver prints from Amberg's Sodom Laurel Album book that the Center for Documentary Studies turned into a traveling exhibit. Also includes 32 prints displayed in the Allen Building exhibition. Acquired as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts.
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Spanish Advertising broadsides (Auca and Alelujas), 1938-1985 and undated

3 Linear Feet
An auca is a graphic format popular in Spain and especially in the region of Catalonia around Barcelona. The genre dates at least to the 17th century but was banned during the 18th century before experiencing a renewal during the 19th and later the 20th centuries as a uniquely Catalonian form of expression. It takes the form of a cartoon or a comic strip, typically with 48 blocks of image and text, although some may have less. An auca is generally produced as a single sheet, but occasionally a booklet form is used. The captions tend to have some sort of consistent rhyme to assist with the flow and storytelling. Many times the term "auca" appears in the title, but another term, "aleluya," is used, apparently interchangeably. Some sources indicate that the aleluya originated in Castile and originally included religious elements that were shed over time. The aucas found in this collection are focused primarily on advertising a range of products, businesses, services or entertainments such as films, but also present are public service announcements for topics such as safety, health or the National Lottery. A common format is to relate some sort of tangential or episodic story and end by directly promoting the product or company of choice. Narratives tend to focus on everyday events that most families would be able to at least partially relate to. Many involve nuclear families and the day-to-day trials that they may go through. Common themes involve food, gender roles, entertainment, education, family, race and hygiene. Companies represented in the materials include GAMA, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Puig, and Unilever. Items in this collection appear in both Spanish and Catalan. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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23. Tío Nelo. Historia de Tío Nelo--The story of Uncle Nelo, Undated
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Tio Nelo is the name of a cafe specializing in horchata, a drink made from nuts, seeds and milk. Summary of text: Tio Nelo is a great cook and makes products that everyone loves.

Tio Nelo is the name of a cafe specializing in horchata, a drink made from nuts, seeds and milk. Summary of text: Tio Nelo is a great cook and makes products that everyone loves. He eventually makes a lot of money off of his restaraunts and stops being as active as he once was. When he see that people are sad due to his absence he returns to cooking , which makes everyone very happy.

  1. Spanish, 1938-1985 and undated
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Ben Rosen papers, 1936-2006 and undated, bulk 1945-1991

65 Linear Feet 7500 Items
Ben Rosen is an American graphic designer and visual communications consultant. Rosen worked as a designer for J. Gordon Carr and Associates and the Blaine Thompson Company before founding his own firm, Ben Rosen Associates, in 1952, which specialized in corporate identity programs. Rosen is the author of three books on on graphic design and typography: Type and Typography (1963); The Corporate Search for Visual Identity (1970); and Digital Type Specimens (1991). The Ben Rosen Papers span the years 1936 to 2006, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945 through 1991, and document Rosen's sixty-year career in graphic design and visual communications consulting. The collection contains materials in a variety of formats, including correspondence, writings, graphic design and printed materials, sketches, presentation boards, photographs, and slides, that document design concepts and programs (corporate logos, letterhead, packaging, industrial design, promotion) Rosen developed, through his firm, Ben Rosen Associates, for clients including American Loose Leaf, CCMI McGraw-Hill, Equitable Life Assurance, Exxon/Esso, Food Fair Stores, IBM, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, North American Reinsurance, Philip Morris, Richardson-Vicks, Russ Berrie, and Tishman Realty and Construction. The collection also includes manuscripts and published editions of Rosen's books on graphic design and typography, and touches on several of Rosen's commmemorative projects, including a President Kennedy memorial, a United Nations 20th Anniversary book, and Rosen's submission to the World Trade Center Memorial design competition.
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Steve Roden collection, 2015

2.0 Linear Feet (1 flat box; 11 prints; 2 USB keys)
Steve Roden is an American sound and visual artist, and was the 2014 Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Artist in Residency at the Rubenstein Library. His collection contains prints, video, and sound files created as a result of his residency.
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variation 1, 2015
Box 1

Roden's notes: "the four works on paper entitled 'variation' came from a manuscript titled notata, which seemed to lean towards alchemy or mystical ideas. again from my notes - incomplete and as such, all of these works converse with what i engaged with, without attempting to replicate, but to use as 'seeds'."

Collage, crayons, pencil, sumi ink.

  1. Visual Works on Paper, 2015
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Sarah Dyer zine collection, 1985-2005

18.3 Linear Feet (2500 items)
Approximately 2000 individual zines and nearly 800 titles, most self-published by women and girls 1985-2000. Most were produced in the United States, a few come from Canada and other countries. Subjects include feminism, riot grrrl, body image and consciousness, sexual abuse, music, mental illness, film, poetry, rock and punk music, comics, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality and bisexuality, and erotica. The collection includes four audiocassette tapes and one VHS tape. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Nicole DiBona Peterson Collection of Advertising Cookbooks, 1851-2005

127.25 Linear Feet
Joseph DiBona is a cookbook collector and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Program in Education at Duke University. The collection is named in honor of his daughter Nicole DiBona Peterson. Collection spans the years 1851-2005 and includes cookbooks, hang tags, inserts, recipe cards and guides, operating instructions, owner's manuals and other promotional materials that address cooking and kitchen arts. Materials include recipes, guides, and information that educate consumers and promote the use of a variety of foods (meat; fish and poultry; dairy; soups; fruits and vegetables; beverages); condiments and spices (sauces, bouillon and broths, chocolate and cocoa, baking soda and baking powder); canning jars; small appliances (cookware, blenders, mixers, microwave ovens); and large appliances (stoves and refrigerators). Collection materials frequently promote the use of a particular brand or product, and they occasionally promote institutions or trade organizations. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History.
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North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence records, 1980-1997

18.25 Linear Feet
North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence (NCARRV) was an activist group based in Durham, NC from 1983-1997 that worked to document hate crimes and hate groups including white supremacists, assist victims, raise awareness, and influence public policy across the state, and these records document their work. Collection includes founding documents, bylaws, meeting files, board meeting documents, photographs, audiovisual materials, administrative materials, grants and grant applications, incident reports, publications, subject and extensive newspaper clippings on racist violence and white supremacy movements in North Carolina.
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Don Patinkin papers, 1870-1995

120 Linear Feet (80 boxes.)
Don Patinkin (1922-1995) was a professor emeritus of economics and former president of Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (Hebrew University). This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Phil Weaver collection of World War II films, 1943-1946

2 Linear Feet (15 film cans in two records center boxes.)
Seventeen United States and British government-produced films on 15 reels, dealing with World War II and dating 1943 to 1946, primarily including films made explicitly to sell war bonds, as well as documentaries, training films, and anti-Japanese and anti-German propaganda.
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David Price papers, 1960-2006 and undated

173.5 Linear Feet 8 Megabytes (Files extracted from 7 floppy disks)
David E. Price is a professor emeritus of political science at Duke University and was a Democratic congressman from North Carolina's Fourth District from 1987-1995 and 1997-2023. Collection documents the scholarly and political career of Price, including his days as a graduate student in the 1960s, his tenure as a political science professor and Democratic Party staff member, and, finally, his years as a Democratic congressman from North Carolina's Fourth District. Records from Price's political headquarters contain thousands of original documents, handwritten and computer-generated; printed materials such as legislative bills and campaign publicity; and a variety of audiovisual materials, including photographs, some slides, many videos, and audio recordings. The collection is especially rich for researchers interested in the American political party system, the work and life of legislators, North Carolina history and government, the North Carolina Democratic and Republican parties, the U.S. Congress, its committee structure, the Hunt Committee, and the broader legislative process. Other materials document political campaigns, notably David Price's own congressional campaigns and Al Gore's senatorial campaign of 1970-1971.
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Jacquelyn Ottman papers, 1969-2024

16.9 Gigabytes 15.0 Linear Feet
Jacquelyn Ottman is an author, advertising executive and consultant who specializes in environmentally responsible or "green" marketing, based in New York, N.Y. The collection includes books, clippings, correspondence, video and audio recordings, color photographs, presentation materials, client projects, business plans, branding materials, packaging, educational records and other materials that document Ottman's professional and personal life. Topics represented include environmental marketing strategies; women in advertising and marketing; local environmental community initiatives. Companies represented include Wells, Rich, Greene; Backer & Spielvogel; Scali, McCabe, Sloves; Ahern & Heussner; Seligman & Potterfield; the Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Agriculture, General Electric, IBM, HSBC, NCR, Nike, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Hefty (Reynolds), Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, L'Oréal, and Green Seal. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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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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Mobius Advertising Awards collection, 1970s-2002 and undated, bulk 1984-2002

1328 Linear Feet 19,024 Items

Collection consists primarily of television commercials, although it includes some radio commercials, which were entered for Mobius awards presented in 1971-1999. Most of the collection is divided into two main series, North America and International. Commercials are judged by product type/category as well as budget size. Also included are brochures and press releases which describe the award process ca. 1970s-1990s (98-156 box 68). There are compilation tapes documenting the award-winning entries for 1990-1997 (98-156 box 69). (Accessions 1997-0101: 12,237 items, 850.5 linear feet, dated 1984-1991, undated; 1998-0156: 1500 items, 105 linear feet, dated 1971-1997; 1999-0152: 1200 items, 112.5 linear feet, dated 1997-1998). An encoded container list has not been created for these additions. Please consult the paper finding aids located in the repository.

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Martin Shubik papers, 1938-2022, bulk 1944-2018

211 Linear Feet (166 record cartons, eight document boxes, two oversize folders, and one electronic records box.) 0.2 Gigabytes (One set.)
Martin Shubik (1926-2018) was the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Research and Notes, 1950-2013

Outside of economics, he began studying Inclusion Body Myositis (also IBM) after a 2003 diagnosis. He provided seed money to the Yale School of Public Health for the IBM Disease Registry in 2011, a survey was conducted in 2012-2013, and he is a co-author on a 2015 paper about the initial results (along with his son-in-law Seth Richards-Shubik).

Any type of research material that Shubik created or gathered. Includes notes, as well as research reports from his time at IBM. Subjects include game theory, simulation, auctions, and bargaining. Arranged alphabetically.

  1. Research, 1944-2015

Martin Shubik papers, 1938-2022, bulk 1944-2018 211 Linear Feet (166 record cartons, eight document boxes, two oversize folders, and one electronic records box.) 0.2 Gigabytes (One set.)

Outside of economics, he began studying inclusion body myositis (IBM) after a 2003 diagnosis. He provided seed money to the Yale School of Public Health for the IBM Disease Registry in 2011, a survey was conducted in 2012-2013, and he is a coauthor on a 2015 paper about the initial results, along with his son-in-law Seth Richards-Shubik.
Martin Shubik (1926-2018) was the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Southern Lesbian-Feminist Activist Herstory Project, 2001-2025

36 Gigabytes (402 digital audiovisual files; 153 digital text files; 1472 digital image files; 1332 textual image files (PDF).) 0.3 Linear Feet (1 box)
Two hundred twenty-six digital oral history interviews documenting lesbian feminist activism and community in the South in the latter part of the 20th century.
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Denman, Joan - interviewed by Rose Norman, 2016 February 10
Digital-materials RL10066-SET-DENMANJ > Digital-materials digital-materials

Tags: Lesbian; Feminist; Joan Denman; The Booklegger; Feminist Bookstores; Barbara Grier; Fsu; Florida State University; Feminist Bookstore Network; Rubyfruit Books; University Of California Santa Barbara; Ms Magazine; Vista; Volunteers In Service To America; Huntsville Alabama; Robin Morgan; Rita Mae Brown; Anne Koedt; Judy Brady; Nick's News; Clear Englebert; Books As Seeds; Gay; Now; Alabama Now; George Wallace; Celia English; March On Washington; Donna Mcbride; American Booksellers Association; Aba; Book Expo; Carol Seajay; Feminist Bookstore News; Refuge House; Dana Farmer; Every Woman's Coffee House; Lisa Medley; Women's Outdoor Adventures; Tallahassee Gay And Lesbian Film Festival; Aids Activism; Big Bend Cares; Inland Book Distributors; New Leaf; Amenra; Susan Mayer; Naiad Press; Sheila Ortiz Taylor; Lee Lynch; Katherine V Forrest; Tallahassee Community College; Angela Davis; Tallahassee Activism; Lesbian Archives; Lesbian Websites; Lesbian Biographies; Slfahp; Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Tags: Lesbian; Feminist; Joan Denman; The Booklegger; Feminist Bookstores; Barbara Grier; Fsu; Florida State University; Feminist Bookstore Network; Rubyfruit Books; University Of California Santa Barbara; Ms Magazine; Vista; Volunteers In Service To America; Huntsville Alabama; Robin Morgan; Rita Mae Brown; Anne Koedt; Judy Brady; Nick's News; Clear Englebert; Books As Seeds; Gay; Now; Alabama Now; George Wallace; Celia English; March On Washington; Donna Mcbride; American Booksellers Association; Aba; Book Expo; Carol Seajay; Feminist Bookstore News; Refuge House; Dana Farmer; Every Woman's Coffee House; Lisa Medley; Women's Outdoor Adventures; Tallahassee Gay And Lesbian Film Festival; Aids Activism; Big Bend Cares; Inland Book Distributors; New Leaf; Amenra; Susan Mayer; Naiad Press; Sheila Ortiz Taylor; Lee Lynch; Katherine V Forrest; Tallahassee Community College; Angela Davis; Tallahassee Activism; Lesbian Archives; Lesbian Websites; Lesbian Biographies; Slfahp; Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

  1. Interviews, 2001-2025

Hannan, Kathleen, 2020 November 16
Digital-materials RL10066-SET-HANNANK > Digital-materials digital-materials

Tags: Kathleen Hannan; Women's Music; Bisexuality; Witch One; The Pagoda Center; The Center; Jude Speck; Our Bodies Ourselves; Catholicism; From Outside The South; New York; Coming Out; Meri Furnari; Mica-Meri Furnari; Organa; Debbie Venn; Kathy Oaks; Cathy Oaks; Vermont; Bellydancing; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Shefay; Sheila Fay; Nancy Breeze; Emily Greene; Pam Shook; Seeds For Peace; Pat Nolan; Peggy Mcintyre; Alix Dobkin; Teresa Trull; Pagoda Theatre; Pagoda Playhouse; Deb Ennis; Flame; Shyne; Barbara Lieu; Pam Oldham; Shyne; Nancy Breeze; Rainbow Williams; Barbie Quin; Lori Hollar; National Organization For Women (Now); Rena Carney; Astrology; Lesbian Astrology; By Any Other Name; Loraine Hutchins; Lani K'ahumanu; Controversies

Tags: Kathleen Hannan; Women's Music; Bisexuality; Witch One; The Pagoda Center; The Center; Jude Speck; Our Bodies Ourselves; Catholicism; From Outside The South; New York; Coming Out; Meri Furnari; Mica-Meri Furnari; Organa; Debbie Venn; Kathy Oaks; Cathy Oaks; Vermont; Bellydancing; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Shefay; Sheila Fay; Nancy Breeze; Emily Greene; Pam Shook; Seeds For Peace; Pat Nolan; Peggy Mcintyre; Alix Dobkin; Teresa Trull; Pagoda Theatre; Pagoda Playhouse; Deb Ennis; Flame; Shyne; Barbara Lieu; Pam Oldham; Shyne; Nancy Breeze; Rainbow Williams; Barbie Quin; Lori Hollar; National Organization For Women (Now); Rena Carney; Astrology; Lesbian Astrology; By Any Other Name; Loraine Hutchins; Lani K'ahumanu; Controversies

  1. Interviews for The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea, 2014-2024

Shook, Pamela, 2020 October 17
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Tags: Pamela Shook; South Carolina; Southern Baptists; Christianity; Sojourner; Feminist Bookstores; Atlanta Georgia; Charis; Charis Books And More; Charis Feminist Books And More; A Celebration Of Women Artists; An Afternoon Of Sophie And Myrtle; Maraccas; Megan Terry; The X Miss Copper Queen On A Set Of Pills; American Sign Language; Bisexuality; North Carolina; South Carolina; Finding Feminism; Coming Out; Consciousness Raising; Eloise Bruce; Rena Carney; Emily Greene; Pagoda Playhouse; Pagoda Theatre; Barbara Lieu; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Trudy Anderson; Sherry Kliegman; Princess Cinderella; Lavender Lieu; Chrysalis; Leslie Eastman; Carole Powell; Womankind Books; Patty Johnson; Mary Jo; Kris Matson; Suzi Chance; Gail Reeder; Rosemary Curb; Feminist Theatre; Nancy Vogl; Berkeley Women's Music Collective (Bwmc); Alice Gerstenberg; Cathy Cook; Alix Dobkin; Sign Language; Kaimora; Kay Mora; Johanna Powell Colbert; Anna Rallo; Anna Flower; Dore Rotundo; Elethia; Dorothy Campbell; Paula Arden; Feminist Spirituality; Lesbian Spirituality; Ellen Spangler; Tarot; Marilyn Murphy; Irene Weiss; Lesbian Separatism; Female Separatism; Kathleen Hannan; Seeds For Peace; Hot Letters; Childcare; Gabby Penning

Tags: Pamela Shook; South Carolina; Southern Baptists; Christianity; Sojourner; Feminist Bookstores; Atlanta Georgia; Charis; Charis Books And More; Charis Feminist Books And More; A Celebration Of Women Artists; An Afternoon Of Sophie And Myrtle; Maraccas; Megan Terry; The X Miss Copper Queen On A Set Of Pills; American Sign Language; Bisexuality; North Carolina; South Carolina; Finding Feminism; Coming Out; Consciousness Raising; Eloise Bruce; Rena Carney; Emily Greene; Pagoda Playhouse; Pagoda Theatre; Barbara Lieu; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Trudy Anderson; Sherry Kliegman; Princess Cinderella; Lavender Lieu; Chrysalis; Leslie Eastman; Carole Powell; Womankind Books; Patty Johnson; Mary Jo; Kris Matson; Suzi Chance; Gail Reeder; Rosemary Curb; Feminist Theatre; Nancy Vogl; Berkeley Women's Music Collective (Bwmc); Alice Gerstenberg; Cathy Cook; Alix Dobkin; Sign Language; Kaimora; Kay Mora; Johanna Powell Colbert; Anna Rallo; Anna Flower; Dore Rotundo; Elethia; Dorothy Campbell; Paula Arden; Feminist Spirituality; Lesbian Spirituality; Ellen Spangler; Tarot; Marilyn Murphy; Irene Weiss; Lesbian Separatism; Female Separatism; Kathleen Hannan; Seeds For Peace; Hot Letters; Childcare; Gabby Penning

  1. Interviews for The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea, 2014-2024
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Sisterhood is Global Institute records, 1963-2010 and undated, bulk 1980-2002

121.5 Linear Feet 158 Megabytes 72,532 Items
In response to Robin Morgan's book, Sisterhood is Global, the Sisterhood is Global Institute was founded in 1984 with Karen Berry as its first director. Its purpose was to mobilize international support on women's rights issues and educate various communities around the world on women's rights and human rights issues. The records of the Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI) span the years from 1965 to 2005, with the bulk of the material ranging from 1980 to 2002. Materials such as correspondence, administrative files, publications drafts, manuals, newsletters, flyers, photographs, videos, and sound recordings provide a record of the work and the organizational structure of SIGI from its inception to its present activities at the beginning of the 21st century. The documents in the collection illustrate SIGI's efforts to discuss, debate, and act on a variety of women's issues around the world, including voting rights and political representation; reproductive rights; violence against women; education for women; and the socio-economic status of women.
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Stone Circles records, 1995-2012

11.4 Linear Feet (19 boxes)
The Stone Circles records contain materials documenting the history of the organization. These include press clippings, board meeting minutes. staff and financial information, program files, newsletters, event information, and correspondence.
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Earl Dotter collection of Charles G. A. Thamm photographs, 1860s-2023

12 Gigabytes (approximately 1276 files) 5 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Earl Dotter is a documentarian, photojournalist, and labor activist based in Maryland. Dotter's great-grandfather, Charles G. A. Thamm, also worked as a photographer in Pennsylvania and was employed by the Landreth Seed Catalog Company. This collection contains photographs in various formats - including negatives and prints - created by Thamm and his family in the 1890s and early 1900s. It also contains digital surrogate images of Thamm's work, adjusted by Dotter.
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Allan Troxler Papers, 1800s-2024, bulk 1960s-2010s

11 Linear Feet 4.3 Gigabytes
Allan Troxler (1947-2025) was an artist, author, and dance instructor from Durham, N.C. Troxler's collection consists of his artwork, family history, and writings, as well as the archives of his lifelong partner, Carl Wittman. Carl Wittman's archives include his diaries, letters, and writings on civil rights and gay liberation. The collection also contains materials documenting the Durham (N.C.) arts scene, English country dance, AIDS in the gay community, and Troxler's collection of materials from Catherine Nicholson.
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Center for Documentary Studies student projects collection, 1980-2011 and undated

40 Linear Feet
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. The collection includes work created by students enrolled in documentary studies courses at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Richard Pollay Acme Advertising collection, 1850s-2006 and undated

75 Linear Feet 3000 Items
The Acme Advertising Collection is one of the collections created by Professor Richard Pollay in the History of Advertising Archives (Faculty of Commerce, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia). The collection was motivated by the observation that Acme named enterprises are characteristically small ventures that represent the grass roots of local and regional economies. At the same time, the ubiquity of the Acme brand name has made its way into popular culture, where it has become an icon for independent business in general, featured in print cartoons from artists such as Gary Larson (The Far Side) and G.B. Trudeau (Doonesbury), and in the Warner Bros. animated Road Runner features. Items in the Acme Collection come from a variety of sources. Many items were donated to Dr. Pollay, but the majority were acquired by Dr. Pollay himself over several decades. In earlier years items were found in shops, flea markets, and antique stores across North America. However, in recent years most items were acquired through the internet auction site, eBay (www.eBay.com). The Acme Advertising Collection dates from the 1850s through 2006 and consists of approximately 3000 items from over 900 distinct companies and producers, primarily of U.S. or Canadian origin, all bearing the brand name Acme. The collection contains a diverse array of items, both three-dimensional and printed materials, including: promotional items and memorabilia; trade cards; business cards; magazine tear sheets; catalogs; newspaper clippings; signs; displays; writing instruments; rulers; clothing; toys and games; school and office stationery supplies; photographs and slides. A number of corporations are represented in the collection, including: Acme Bail Bonds; Acme Boots; Acme Brick Company; Acme Harvester; Acme Markets; Acme Motor Truck Company; Acme White Lead and Color Works; Duane H. Nash, Inc.; Lautz Bros. and Company; and Warner Bros.
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100-04-110. Acme Feed, Seed and Fertilizer Company. Oversized ruler, undated
Box 49C

100-04-110. Acme Feed, Seed and Fertilizer Company. Oversized ruler, undated
One wooden ruler with Acme Feed, Seed and Fertilizer Company-101 Broadway-Prodding for your business painted on one side and If you want to step-up your yields, lean on us!

One wooden ruler with "Acme Feed, Seed and Fertilizer Company-101 Broadway-Prodding for your business" painted on one side and "If you want to step-up your yields, lean on us!" on the reverse side. On one end of the ruler is "No. V-463 by SAMCO" Ruler has a hole on one side, so it can hang from a hook or nail. Item in good condition.

  1. Series 4: Office and School Supplies, 1889-2000 and undated

100-06-002. McCullough's Garden Seed sack, undated
Box 19

100-06-002. McCullough's Garden Seed sack, undated

One brown burlap seed sack; ; labels stenciled in green and yellow paint on front of sack; drawing of green leaf with Acme brand written on it is displayed between McCullough's on top and Garden Seed on the bottom.

One brown burlap seed sack; ; labels stenciled in green and yellow paint on front of sack; drawing of green leaf with "Acme brand" written on it is displayed between "McCullough's" on top and "Garden Seed" on the bottom. Number 34 painted on bottom right hand corner of sack. Big tear at bottom of sack; item in brittle condition.

  1. Series 6: Grocery and Store Collectibles, 1850s-1999 and undated

100-13-047. Acme Mills. Business correspondence, 1934
Box 37

Manuf's of scientifically balanced mixed feeds for poultry, diary cows, hogs, horses and mules. Address: Yopp Seed Company. Stamped blue signature. Engraved image of company in black and yellow.

Company Info: W. B. Anderson Jnr. Pres. C B. Smith Sec'y. "Manuf's of High Grade Flour. Capacity 1000 bbls daily. Manuf's of scientifically balanced mixed feeds for poultry, diary cows, hogs, horses and mules." Address: Yopp Seed Company. Stamped blue signature. Engraved image of company in black and yellow. Paper has minor tears and discoloration from water damage.

  1. Series 13: Stationery and Certificates, 1894-2003 and undated
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Olive Pierce photographs, 1960-2014

26.5 Linear Feet (13 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
Olive Pierce (1925-2016) was a documentary photographer based in Massachusetts and Maine. The collection comprises several hundred black-and-white photographic prints taken by Pierce over her long career. The earliest images (1960s) feature landscapes and individuals in Maine, a subject Pierce returned to throughout her life. Other subjects include: political protests in Cambridge, Massachusetts and life in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in Cambridge during the 1970s; high school students in Cambridge (1980s); the lives of Iraqi children in war zones in 1999 and 2003, and protests in the U.S. against that war. Also included are print publications featuring Pierce's photographs; publicity for exhibits and lectures; Pierce's 1987 guide to teaching photography; a video on DVD and audio lecture about her work; some correspondence; unpublished book mock-ups and a memoir/diary; a self-published illustrated partial memoir (2014); approximately 2557 film negatives; and about 40 slides featuring images of her early life and family. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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South Asian Pamphlets collection, 1911, 1920-2005, bulk 1950-2000

200 Linear Feet
The South Asian Pamphlets Collection spans the years 1920-2005, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, and with only a few items from the 1910s-1940s. It is arranged by country. Topics commonly covered in each country series include but are not limited to agriculture, arts, defense, economic development, education, ethnic or cultural conflict, industry and commerce, international relations, politics and government, population issues, religion and philosophy, rural development, tourism, and the status of women. While the majority of the pamphlets were published by organizations and agencies and do not list individual authors' names, there are also pamphlets with individual authors listed.
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Kristine Stiles collection, 1936-2025

233 Linear Feet 0.83 Gigabytes
Kristine Stiles is the France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Her main field of research is contemporary art with a focus on experimental practices, as well as representations of destruction, violence, and trauma in art. The collection includes Stiles' personal and family papers; materials documenting her study of art and artists, particularly contemporary and modern artists; writings, talks, projects, and teaching files; and other materials including correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual items. Together, the materials in this collection document Stiles' study and teaching of art and art history; her scholarly interests in violence, destruction, and trauma in art; her relationships with artists around the world; and her personal life. Artists represented in this collection include Chris Burden, Lynn Hershman, Allan Kaprow, Gustav Metzger, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Carolee Schneemann, Wolf Vostell, and many more.
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Tobacco collection, 1828-1996

5.4 Linear Feet
The Tobacco Collection contains material assembled by library staff related to the manufacturing, sale, and use of tobacco in the United States, particularly in North Carolina and Virginia. There are also items referring to tobacco cultivation and processing. Printed advertising predominates, but the contents also include items that are not paper products. Typical paper-based items include cigarette and cigar advertising trade cards of W. Duke, Sons & Co., Lorillard, Liggett and Myers, John Player and Sons, and various other American and British companies; tobacco advertisements by Krueger and Brown of N.Y.; and souvenir tobacco albums published by Allen & Ginter. Other forms of advertising in the collection include broadsides, pamphlets, books, leaflets, letters, envelopes, cigar and cigarette boxes and labels, cans, a plate, wrappers, labels, and catalogs. Images include birds, animals, battle scenes, and persons, including a series on "African Types."
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Duke University Archives

Doris Duke papers on the Falcon Lair residence, 1937-1999

4.6 Linear Feet 3,285 Items
The Falcon Lair residence was purchased by Doris Duke in April, 1953 primarily for use on her occasional visits to California and for use while she was in transit to or from her residence in Honolulu. Compared to her other estates, the residence was not large, however, being located in the hills above Benedict Canyon overlooking Beverly Hills, it served as a retreat from public life. Soon after the home was purchased, Doris Duke hired Tony Duquette to supervise the entire redecoration and remodeling of Falcon Lair. The home was renovated again in the mid-1970s. Miss Duke lived at Falcon Lair until her death in 1993, and in 1998 the property was sold by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The collection is arranged into two series: Administrative Records and Architectural Records. It spans the years 1937 to 1999, beginning with the purchase and interior renovation of the home and ending with maintenance and general upkeep of the home after Doris Duke's death in 1993. The collection primarily documents the expenses and daily operations of renovating, running, and maintaining the Falcon Lair residence, and includes invoices and receipts for services and repairs, correspondence, memoranda, and telegrams relating to routine matters of the residence, expenses, and photo inventories of furniture, fixtures, and other household items. A majority of the architectural records detail alterations and additions to the Falcon Lair residence.
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Invoices for restoration work performed on paintings residing at Falcon Lair. Paintings restored include Botticelli, Lucatelli/Benezech, "Campagne de Grece," and Vernet/le Veau, "Isle de l'Archipel." Includes invoice for purchase of an evening cape, earrings, Indian Emerald beads, and seed Pearl. 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963–1965, 1984
Box 2 > Folder 5

Includes invoice for purchase of an evening cape, earrings, Indian Emerald beads, and seed Pearl. 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963–1965, 1984
  1. Administrative Records, 1943-1999
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Washington Office on Latin America records, 1968-2023

301 Linear Feet 26.5 Gigabytes
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is an international human rights advocacy organization headquartered in Washington D.C. It partners with local organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to raise awareness of human rights abuses in the region and to influence the foreign policy agenda of the United States government. The WOLA records span 1968-2023, with most materials dating from 1980-2009. Contains research and project files on nearly every country in Latin America, administration records, clippings, correspondence, printed material, audiovisual materials, and other assorted materials related to the work of WOLA. Major subjects include political and government issues such as coup d'etats, dictatorships, elections, human rights abuses, and policy; economic topics such as aid, development, labor and poverty; documentation and advocacy related to human rights cases such as violence, forced disappearances, and truth and reconciliation; security issues and police reform, including demilitarizing police, the School of Americas, and violence against women; drug policies; Hurricane Mitch; advocacy training for other NGOs and lobbying work; and various events and conferences in which these topics are discussed. Additional topics include the role and influence of the United States throughout Latin America by means of government and economic policy, military actions, and human rights work. Acquired by the Human Rights Archive.
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Duke University Archives

Duke University Press records, 1812-2021

554.5 Linear Feet 2.98 Gigabytes
Duke University Press publishes both scholarly books and journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In its early years, preference was given to works published by faculty, graduate students and alumni and to works focused on southern states. The records of Duke University Press span from 1812-2019 and consist of correspondence, annual catalogs, advertisements, annual reports, Board minutes, contracts and agreements, book and journal reviews, financial records, marketing files, the records of former director Steve Cohn, and facsimiles of the Carlyle letters.
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Duke Centennial Celebration records, 1946-2025, bulk 2024-2025

0.75 Linear Feet 145.7 Gigabytes
Duke University commemorated its hundredth anniversary in 2024. This collection contains photographs, video recordings, publications, programs, promotional material, ephemera, and reports related to Duke University centennial celebrations.
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Brochures, programs, and flyers, 2024 2 folders
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Service of Commemoration, "They Tried to Bury Us They Didn't Know We Were Seeds" exhibit, student actvism, guest speakers, and the Samuel DuBois Cook Society awards ceremony.

Includes brochures, programs and flyers for centennial events related to the Presidential Awards, commencement, Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Commemoration, "They Tried to Bury Us They Didn't Know We Were Seeds" exhibit, student actvism, guest speakers, and the Samuel DuBois Cook Society awards ceremony.

  1. Printed material and publications, 2024-2025
Duke University Archives

Duke University Chapel recordings, 1954-2005

90 Linear Feet
Collection contains audio of sermons delivered at religious and ceremonial services in the Duke University Chapel by various ministers, professors, and guests of the University. Notable speakers include Howard Wilkinson, James Cleland, Waldo Beach, Thor Hall, Charlene Kammerer, Jon Laidlaw, Will Willimon, Robert Young and others. The collection consists of 7" reel-to-reel audio tapes, audiocassette tapes, VHS tapes, and digital audio tapes of sermons, programs and Lenten meditations delivered in Duke Chapel from 1954 to ongoing.
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Duke Gardens Foundation records, 1912-2002 and undated

96.8 Linear Feet 28,000 Items
On October 15, 1958 the Duke Gardens Foundation was incorporated with the purpose of "developing thereon agricultural, botanical & horticultural exhibits for the purpose of scientific experiments and of public inspection, instruction, education & enjoyment." Over the period of six years, Doris Duke was personally involved in the physical design of the Indoor Display Gardens, in which various gardens were carefully designed, planned, and developed from the point of view of authenticity. The gardens were opened to the public in 1964, and included 11 unique gardens for visitors to enjoy. Doris Duke continued her involvement with her gardens throughout her life, bringing designers with her to modify them during the summer season when they were closed to tourists. The Duke Gardens Foundation was officially dissolved November 13, 2001 and the gardens closed to the public in 2008. The collection documents the lifecycle of the Duke Gardens Foundation, beginning with the inception of the Duke Gardens Foundation and the design and creation of the various indoor display gardens that comprised Duke Gardens, including the associated purchases of plants and bulbs. The materials follow the daily operations of Duke Gardens, including modifications and general upkeep of the gardens, visitor and tour information, and operations of the Foundation itself. The materials end with the general management of Duke Gardens after Doris Duke's death in 1993 and the final dissolution of the Foundation in 2001. Materials include correspondence, inventories, specifications for various architectural projects at Duke Gardens, invoices and vouchers for repairs and reconstruction to the greenhouses, surveys and reports, financial ledgers, and a multitude of both black and white and color photographs and slides of the different gardens.
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Nicholas School Master's Projects, 1933-2007

82.5 Linear Feet 2400 Items
As of 2005, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University offers two master's degree programs: Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Master of Forestry (MF). Both degree programs require students complete a master's project that presents an in-depth or quantitative analysis of a problem related to the students' particular focus area. Collection contains printed, bound master's projects. Materials range in date 1933-2005. Master's Projects for 2005 are held in the Nicholas School office. English.
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Elbert Russell papers, 1893 - 1968

1.3 Linear Feet 1,000 Items
Elbert Russell served as a Quaker historian, author, minister, and Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University from 1928 until 1941. Personal and professional papers contain correspondence, manuscript materials, sermons, articles and short writings, and clippings. Major subjects include Duke University Divinity School, study and teaching of the Bible, history of Quakerism, study and teaching of Quakerism, fellowship, study and teaching of pacifism, and sermons. Materials range in date from 1893-1968. English.
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