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Advertising copywriter and executive with Leo Burnett agency in Chicago, Ill. Consists of scripts for radio spots, and a scrapbook of promotional work for the Toronto Daily Star newspaper want ads section. Companies represented include Libby, McNeill & Libby, Nash-Kelvinator and Pure Oil. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Holograph document, signed by Weitzel. Statement of amount due to physician John Weitzel for attendance and medicine to two wounded men at prison district 96 in South Carolina.

Durham resident and member of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf. Collection includes correspondence, financial papers, and materials from the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf.

ALS. Welcomes Dr. O'Callaghan's "Documentary history of New York", sent to him by Randall, as a fitting tribute to the greatness of the state and mentions his own part in promoting work on the Erie Canal.

The advertising and marketing vertical file is an artificial collection consisting of reprints, research reports, clippings and other printed material organized by subject. Main topics include advertising media (newspaper, magazine, outdoor, radio); demographic surveys; and industry reports on various products, services and trading stamps. Companies represented include Coca-Cola, Hershey, and Sperry & Hutchinson. Collection also contains a photocopy of a brochure from Bromo-Seltzer (Emerson Drug) that includes sheet music to J.P. Knight's "Rock'd in the Cradle of the Deep." Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ALS. Instructions for the forwarding of some books and for the purchase of a map of the Hudson River.

Planter, Confederate Army officer, and North Carolina state senator. Correspondence, tax books, military order book, postwar plantation records, and legal papers relating to Whitford's planting activities before and after the Civil War, his service as a colonel in the 67th Regiment of North Carolina Troops, and his position as state senator. Includes Whitford family letters and papers.

The John William Cain Papers are predominantly comprised of photographs, but also contain his naval records, certificates of achievement, a small amount of correspondence, and travel memorabilia.

ALS. Writes of the reception of one of his books.