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Ralph Leslie Rusk papers, 1782-1981 30 Linear Feet 25,276 Items

Professor of American Literature at Columbia University, 1925-1953. One of the founders of the journal American Literature. Married Clara Gibbs in 1915. The Ralph Leslie Rusk Papers span the years 1782-1981, and chiefly concern Rusk's teaching and research in American Literature, notably the life and letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The collection contains research papers and notebooks, and travel diaries related to Rusk's research and teaching; a large series of correspondence covering the years 1912-1963; teaching materials such as lecture notes; clippings files and articles related to Rusk's publications and related activities; many photographs; Rusk, Gibbs, and Emerson family papers; and papers relating to his wife, Clara Gibbs, including a scrapbook and wedding mementoes. Some of the papers and photographs refer to a period of time spent teaching in the Philippines, around 1912-1914. Acquired as part of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography.
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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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Mattie Underwood Russell papers, 1949 - 1988 5 Linear Feet

Mattie Underwood Russell (1915-1988) was Curator of the Duke University Manuscripts Department from 1952 to 1985. During these years, Russell became a nationally-recognized archivist, and increased the number of collections, implemented a cataloging system, and encouraged researchers to use the materials in the Manuscripts Department. The Mattie Underwood Russell Papers include correspondence, reports, writings, subject files, memoranda, and other materials related to Russell's career at Duke University. Major subjects include archival administration, archival education, American history, southern history, the Duke University administration, and the Nixon presidential library controversy at Duke University. English.
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George Rust papers, 1808-1879 3.5 Linear Feet Approx. 3,343 Items

Businessman, militia officer, and Virginia state legislator, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Collection houses correspondence and other papers of George Rust and of his family, relating to Rust's legislative career, his work on behalf of the Jacksonian Democrats, his investment activities in Maryland and Virginia banks and mercantile firms, and his association with the Virginia militia. Includes letters from members of the family in other sections of the United States.
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John Rutherfoord papers, 1754-1931, bulk 1781-1865 4.5 Linear Feet (6 Boxes (2,745 items))

Collection contains correspondence, travel journals, account books, memorandum books, farm records, legal records, commonplace books, class notes, and other papers (chiefly 1781-1865) of John Rutherfoord; of his son, John Coles Rutherfoord, lawyer, planter, and state legislator; and of other members of the family. The papers before 1818 are chiefly legal and business papers and include information on family investments in Kentucky lands and other ventures. The papers of John Rutherfoord relate to his career as governor, his agricultural and business affairs; Virginia and U.S. politics, the American Party; the return of fugitive slaves, secession and events preceeding the Civil War, Confederate foreign relations; and family matters; and they include letters from Edward Coles, William Cabell Rives, and others of Rutherfoord's relatives by marriage, concerning agriculture and anti-slavery sentiment in Virginia and relations between the United States and France. John Coles Rutherfoord's papers relate to his attendance at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and the University of Virginia, his interests in politics and European travel, his legal activities, his work as a state legislator (1852-1865) and as manager of the family estates, westward expansion, and social life and customs in Virginia. Includes scattered correspondence of J.C. Rutherfoord's wife, Ann Seddon Roy Rutherfoord, referring to life in the South during and after the Civil War, and family matters.
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Jay Rutherfurd papers, 1887-1995 8 Linear Feet Approx. 2613 Items

Broadcast journalist, businessman, and resident of Palm Beach (Palm Beach Co.), Fla. These papers are comprised primarily of correspondence, clippings, essays, and articles related to the subjects Rutherfurd covered during his career as a broadcast journalist. Topics reflect his interest in diplomacy, journalism, and U.S. foreign relations since 1961. Much of the material documents the career of Angier Biddle Duke, a Rutherfurd family friend who served in the diplomatic corps during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Other material reflects the instrumental role Rutherfurd played in the creation of Duke University's Living History Program. The collection also contains more than 53 audiocassettes, two videocassettes, scripts, and filmed interviews (late 1960s to 1980s) with prominent individuals, as well as recordings of TV news segments and radio shows.
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Percy E. Ryberg papers, 1906-1991 6 Linear Feet (11 boxes; 1 oversize folder)

Collection primarily comprises New York psychiatrist Percy E. Ryberg's personal family correspondence (in particular with his wife, Barbara), diaries, and other personal papers, some of which speak to Ryberg's youth in Argentina. Professional correspondence, articles, and other items document his career and interests in sexual and mental health, substance abuse treatments, identity, spiritual and astrological aspects of medicine, and other topics, and the publication of his book, Health, Sex, and Birth Control . Also includes biographical and genealogical information; Ryberg's 1944 court martial and later notes about appealing it; photographs and photograph albums; and glass plate negatives. Acquired by the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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Saatchi & Saatchi records, 1946-1992 2.0 Linear Feet

Saatchi & Saatchi is a British advertising agency founded in 1970 in London. Collection includes audiovisual materials; correspondence; presentations; promotional booklets; reports; transcripts of interviews and other materials. Companies and individuals represented include the British Conservative Party; Compton Advertising; Dancer Fitzgerald Sample; O. Milton Gossett; Procter & Gamble; Saatchi & Saatchi Compton; Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Nadia Sablin photographs, 2008-2014 1.5 Linear Feet (39 13x19 photographs in one box.)

This collection includes 39 photographic prints comprising the series Aunties, by Nadia Sablin, the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Award Winner. Aunties is a series of photographs detailing the lives of two unmarried sisters living in a Russian village.
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Vita Sackville-West papers, 1953-1961 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet (7 items)

The collection consists of five typescript letters, one photocopied Encyclopedia Britannica article regarding Sackville-West's book "Aphara Behn" in the "Representative Women" series, along with a poem. The first letter, one page addressed to Sackville-West, dated 1953 May 22, signed "A. Purvis," discusses the birthplace and date of Aphra Behn. A photocopy of the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Behn is included. A typescript note dated 18 July, 1961, signed V. Sackville-West on Sissinghurst letterhead, was written in response to a letter from Sylvia Haymon about Aphra Behn, and Sackville-West's article on Behn in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Included are copies of three letters, all dated 1961, sent to Sylvia Haymon, two to Sackville-West, and one to Miss J. Parfitt, Acting Editor of the Women's Page of The Times in London. The topics of the undated, one-page "Diary-Poem" have to do with Sackville-West's loss of her given name upon her marriage to Harold Nicolson in 1913, and the loss of Knole, her family's estate in Kent, in 1928 because of patriarchal inheritance laws.
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Sacred Worth records, 1999-2014, bulk 2011-2014 0.5 Linear Feet

Sacred Worth is a student group affiliated with the Divinity School of Duke University that seeks to serve the community by increasing awareness of LGBTQI persons in the church. The Sacred Worth records include the group's administrative materials, including meeting agendas, notes, flyers, and other materials, as well as materials related to the 2014 exhibit Clouds of Witnesses.
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Allan Todd Sagraves papers, 1960-1976 and undated 2.0 Linear Feet

Todd Sagraves was Professor Emiritus of Business Education at Central Connecticut State University. Collection consists primarily of 16mm films and film clips of television commercials, along with explanatory documentation for two films, How to Sell Creatively (produced by Dartnell Corporation) and Television Advertising Commercials (edited by Sagraves), and other printed materials. Companies represented in the collection include Beech-Nut, Bristol-Myers, Coca-Cola, Colgate, General Foods, Datsun (Nissan), Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Sara Lee and the Television Bureau of Advertising. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Haruka Sakaguchi photographs, 2020 May 2.0 Gigabytes (20 files (10 .tif, 10 .doc))

Haruka Sakaguchi is a Japanese-born freelance documentary photographer currently residing in New York City. Her project, "'I Will Not Stand Silent.' 10 Asian Americans Reflect on Racism During the Pandemic and the Need for Equality" addresses pandemic-fueled racism against Asian Americans. Created by Sakaguchi in collaboration with TIME photo editors Sangsuk Sylvia Kang and Katherine Harris Pomerantz, the black-and-white digital photographs and accompanying textual accounts tell the stories of ten young Asian Americans who share their experiences of racism during the pandemic and how their perspectives have been shaped by the Black Lives Matter protests. Each person's project entry consists of a first-person account in Word file format and a digital image file in Tiff format showing a portrait of the individual laid atop a larger photograph of the location in New York City where they were harassed. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Eva J. Salber papers, 1937-1990 17.1 Linear Feet circa 12,930 Items

The Salber Papers span the years 1937 to 1990, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1967 to 1990. The collection contains correspondence; financial papers; writings and speeches; clippings; photographs, many by Dominic D'Eustachio; reports; minutes; scrapbooks; training manuals; student papers; printed material; and lecture notes chiefly relating to Salber's publications, teaching career, and work as a community health physician. Publications highlighted include Caring and Curing(New York, N.Y., 1975) ; Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead (Durham, N.C., 1983) , containing interviews with the rural elderly in Durham County, N.C.; and The Mind is Not the Heart(Durham, N.C., 1989) . Her work in the community health field is documented primarily in her writings, the papers about the Martha M. Eliot Family Health Center, and the Health Facilitator Program, which was administered through the Duke University Medical Center Department of Community and Family Medicine. Outgrowths of the Health Facilitator Program are featured in the information about the Health and Human Services Program of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Other topics include smoking research among young people, teacher and student relationships, and the financing of community health service projects. The collection contains few personal papers and little information about Salber prior to 1967. Explanatory notes by Salber scattered throughout the collection offer insights rarely available in manuscript collections.

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Yusuf Salim collection, circa 1982-1987 and undated 0.6 Linear Feet (41 items)

Yusuf Salim (1929-2008) was a jazz musician and composer who began his career in Baltimore in the 1940s. He moved to Durham, North Carolina in the 1970s where he taught jazz workshops through the Salaam Cultural Center and hosted a series on WUNC-TV. The collection contains manuscripts of 36 lead sheets for Salim's jazz compositions, a piece of prose by Salim, and a photocopy of an article about him from the Raleigh News and Observer.
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Herman Salinger papers, 1909-1982 13.2 Linear Feet 8,000 Items

Herman Salinger was a professor of German and Comparative Literature at Duke from 1955-1974. Collection includes correspondence, course and curriculum materials, poetry and manuscripts, speeches, photographs, and other materials. Also includes documents dealing with Duke activities and people, course and teaching materials, writings, and records of the Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
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LGBTQ ephemera collection, 1964-2010s and undated 1.5 Linear Feet

The LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Ephemera Collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, t-shirts, and other items that document the activism, celebration, education, harassment, survival, and daily life of the LGBTQ community in the United States. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Equal Rights Amendment collection, 1933-1948 0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

The Equal Rights Amendment is an amendment proposed to the United States Constitution which would seek to guarantee equal rights to all American citizens regardless of their sex. It was first proposed in Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, and was reintroduced at every congressional session until it was finally passed by the 92nd Congress in 1972. This collection consists of printed materials and circulated literature both supporting and opposing early iterations of the Equal Rights Amendment, largely dating from the 1930s-1940s.
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Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) periodicals collection, 1957-2017 62.5 Linear Feet

Since the 1960s, and particularly after the Stonewall uprising of 1969, the modern women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements (LGBT) have produced their own magazines, journals, newspapers, and newsletters as a strategy for unifying and galvanizing their constituencies. These periodicals served to inform movement activists about pertinent actions, news stories, and cultural trends unreported by the mainstream media. The Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Periodicals Collection comprises individual issues of periodicals produced by or reporting on organizations involved in the women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Alison Amoroso papers, 1982-2021 1.8 Linear Feet (One Paige box, 1 half Hollinger box (1 DVD, 2 quarter-inch data cartridges), 1 oversize folder) 521 Megabytes (19 files)

The papers of Alison Amoroso (Duke alumna 1987), founder/editor of Teen Voices magazine, activist, and public health advocate. The bulk of the papers relate to Teen Voices and its parent foundation Women Express Inc.
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Bill Brown zine collection, 1981-2011, 1981-2011, bulk 1990-2005 4.8 Linear Feet (271 items)

Bill Brown is a filmmaker, photographer, and zinester from Lubbock, Texas. His films explore the landscapes of North America, including the United States–Mexico border, North Dakota missile silos, and the Trans-Canada Highway, and have been exhibited at film festivals and museums around the world. He received a BFA from Harvard in 1992 and a MFA from CalArts in 1997. Brown is the author of a zine called Dream Whip as well as a novel on the underground in L.A., Saugus to the Sea. In January 2013, Bill Brown donated his personal collection of zines, comprising 186 titles and almost 250 issues in total. Although Brown never actively collected zines, he was always eager to barter and trade with other zine makers. The resulting collection includes zines spanning from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. The zines are arranged alphabetically by title.
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Renee Chelian Papers, 1981-1995 6 Linear Feet (5 boxes)

Renee Chelian founded the Northland Family Planning Center, a women's healthcare and abortion clinic in the Detroit area. The Renee Chelian papers include professional papers related to the Northland Family Planning Center, including materials related to anti-abortion groups picketing the clinic, as well as materials related to Chelian's involvement with national women's healthcare organizations.
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Henry David papers, 1943-2022, bulk 1970s-1990s 140 Linear Feet (166 boxes)

Henry Philip David (1923-2009) was a pioneering researcher in the field of reproductive behavior and public policy and is known for his longitudinal studies on the psychological aspects of abortion, as well as his extensive international collaboration and research. He founded the Transnational Family Research Institute in Bethesda, M.D., in 1972. Collection includes materials documenting David's professional life and research, as well as his work with the Transnational Family Research Institute and coordinating the Psychosocial Workshops.
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Leah Fritz papers, circa 1950-2020 and undated 19.5 Linear Feet (37 boxes)

Leah Fritz (1932-2020) was an American feminist poet and author born in New York. She wrote the books Thinking Like a Woman (1975) and Dreamers and Dealers (1980), focusing on the women's movement. The Leah Fritz papers contain correspondence and subject files; writings, including notebooks and diaries, drafts, published articles, and papers related to the publication of Fritz's prose writings, poetry, and book and article reviews; and audiocassettes of presentations and poetry readings by Fritz and other recordings. Materials range in date from circa 1950 to 2009. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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World War II propaganda collection, 1939-1945 0.5 Linear Feet 400 items

The collection includes pro-Allied, anti-Allied, pro-Axis, and anti-Axis propaganda leaflets and broadsides that were distributed in Europe and the Pacific war zones with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of the occupied countries. Also includes a set of Special Service I.B.S. posters warning soldiers against venereal disease.
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Ruth Stokes correspondence, 1941-1951 0.25 Linear Feet

Ruth Stokes (1918-1992) was a Black woman from North Carolina who married Pervis Stokes (1919-2012) in 1942. Pervis Stokes joined the U.S. Navy in 1944. Collection consists of letters from Ruth to Pervis documenting their relationship during and after World War II, particularly their struggles and reconciliation. Frequent topics of discussion include general updates, inquires into when Pervis will return, sexual desires, financial and health struggles, and Ruth's pregnancy and the subsequent birth of their son, Reginald. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Jean Kilbourne papers, 1918-2014 and undated 70 Linear Feet

Media critic, feminist author and documentary filmmaker based in Massachusetts. Collection spans 1918-2014 and includes: clippings; tear sheets; correspondence; research reports and other printed materials; slides and slide presentation texts; audiovisual materials in multiple formats including 8mm and 16mm films, audio and video cassettes; book drafts and research files used for teaching and production of Kilbournes books and films. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.
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June Miller Kimmel papers, 1970s-2016 3.25 Linear Feet

June Miller Kimmel (1931-2021) was a white, North Carolina-based women's rights activist. This collection documents June Miller Kimmel's activist and advocacy work in North Carolina, particularly during the 1990s and 2000s. Material is focused largely upon Kimmel's work with the Women's Legislative Agenda and its annual assemblies, as well as subject files about different aspects of women's history. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence records, 1980-1997 17.0 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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Saltar family correspondence, 1759-1880 and undated 0.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Over 200 pieces of correspondence dating from 1759–1880, written by women of the Saltar and Gordon families of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland between themselves and other family relations. Over a third of the letters date before 1825. The principal correspondents are Elizabeth 'Betsy" Gordon Saltar, her daughters Lucy Saltar and Frances "Fanny" Saltar, and Elizabeth's cousins Mary Gordon and Polly Gordon. Dozens of other letters come from family friends and relatives, male and female, from prominent families in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, and some from the Midwest and New England states. Topics include courtship; marriage; religion; pastimes; visits and travel; and the welfare of family members and friends. There are many references to illnesses, with many details on treatments and outcomes. There are also long passages and references to grief and mourning on the death of loved ones, and some discussions of finances. There are a few references to slavery and to enslaved people and servants. Letters sent during the Civil War discuss events centered around Pennsylvania, particularly in 1863; one discusses African American troops and their role in the war, and the circumstances surrounding the recruitment of the 3rd United States Colored Troops' commander, Benjamin C. Tilghman. A few earlier letters speak of the War of 1812, especially in and around Baltimore and Philadelphia. Acquired by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Fourth World Conference on Women collection, 1994-1997, 2010, 2017 2.75 Linear Feet

The United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, China, in 1995 and built on political agreements that had been reached at the three previous global conferences on women. Collection includes conference publications, information packets, schedules, activism calls, and posters collected by attendee Margot Smith, as well as videos produced by Smith. All materials date from 1995 unless otherwise indicated.
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Margery Sved papers, 1972-1985 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Margery (Margie) Sved, PhD is a psychiatrist practicing in the Triangle area of North Carolina. She champions issues related to women and members of the LGBTQ community in medicine.The Margery Sved papers document women's health organizations and events in the Triangle area from the 1970-80's, including a notebook from a conference sponsored by AMWA (American Medical Women's Association) at Duke in 1980 on Leadership for Women in Medicine. There is also a file on an early conference of lesbian physicians.
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Third Wave Foundation records, 1992-2017 3.5 Linear Feet

Feminist activist organization that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth. Collection includes administrative files, fundraising materials, grant partner information, photographs, clippings, and conference materials. Also includes restricted electronic information. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Batya Weinbaum papers, 1936-2021 55.0 Linear Feet 1.4 Gigabytes

Batya Weinbaum is a Jewish American artist, musician, poet, author, editor and professor. In addition to founding and editing the interdisciplinary feminist journal Femspec, she has published 17 books and more than 250 articles, poems, essays and reviews. She has made contributions to the fields of multiculturalism, women's studies, sexuality studies and education. The collection documents her personal and professional history, containing materials related to Weinbaum's writing and research, including drafts of her books, materials related to the journal Femspec, and several decades of journals and sketchbooks.
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Jenny Zervakis papers, 1991-2021 1 Linear Feet

Jenny Zervakis was part of a wave of underground, do-it-yourself cartoonists who came of age during the Zine Revolution of the 1990s. Collection consists largely of issues of her "Strange Growths" autobiographical comic zine and "Urban Hiker," a Durham magazine to which Zervakis regularly contributed. Also included in the collection are other comics and writings by Zervakis, as well as an artist's statement. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Samet family papers, 1929-1955 and undated, bulk 1943-1945 1.8 Linear Feet

The Samet family is a family of Lithuanian-Jewish descent that settled in North Carolina in the early part of the twentieth century. This collection mainly consists of the correspondence between Sydney Samet and his family in North Carolina while he was training at various United States Army airfields during World War II. Also included are letters sent to Sydney's mother and sister by the United States War Department and the family members of other soldiers from Sydney’s bomber crew after they were declared missing in August 1944. Topics represented in the collection include army life, Army Air Force training, and updates from family members and acquaintances.
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Rosenblatt Window and Store Fashion Displays, 1940-1972 2.0 Linear Feet

Department store in Portland, Ore. Collection consists of three volumes of photographs that depict window and retail sales floor displays, store staff, staff events, and interior and exterior architecture. Displays include ties, hats, shoes, sportswear, golf apparel, outerwear, sleepwear, shirts, sweaters,business attire as well as toiletries and other merchandise. Companies represented include Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Jantzen. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Paul A. Samuelson papers, 1933-2010 120 Linear Feet (156 boxes.) 5 Megabytes (One set.)

Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) was a Nobel Prize winner and an Institute Professor Emeritus (of economics) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings and speeches, and professional and faculty activies. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Warren J. Samuels Portrait collection, 1940-2000 and undated 0.5 Linear Feet 85 Items

Economist, Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University. Photographs of portraits of economists including Herbert Joseph Davenport, Joseph Spengler, Adam Smith, J. M. Clark, Frank H. Knight, Thorstein Veblen, F. M. Taylor, Wesley Clair Mitchell, John Maynard Keynes, Knut Wicksell, Irving Fisher, Eugen Slutsky, Sir William Petty, Friedrich Von Wieser, Jeremy Bentham, Henry George, Turgot, F. Bastiat, John Stuart Mill, Karl Heidelberg, F. Lassalle, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Lester F. Ward, Maximilien de Bethune, Jean Baptiste Colbert, H. de Saint-Simon, Albrecht Thaer, Charles Fourier, Herbert Spencer, David Hume, William Graham Sumner, Bohm Bawerk, Carl Menger, J. B. Say, and others. Formerly entitled the Economists' Portraits Collection. Images are reproduced in the Famous Economists Gallery created by the Department of Economics at Duke University. Includes photographs, printed material, and a few negatives.
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Sergio Sánchez Santamaría Art Prints collection, 2016 and undated 3.4 Linear Feet (37 items)

Sergio Sánchez Santamaría was born in Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, in 1976. A muralist, illustrator, and printmaker, Sánchez Santamaría is the heir of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) print collective. Collection includes 37 works of art created by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, including 16 linocuts, 4 lithographs, 4 etchings, 3 scratch board, 8 ink drawings, 1 digital print, and 1 copper engraving. Themes explored include Mexican traditional topics such as the Mexican Revolution, folktales, indigeneity and myth, urban and rural landscaping, Calaveras (social and political commentary), and the Day of the Dead.
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Sanders Family papers, 1806-1930 1 Linear Feet (214 items)

Primarily the papers of Derrill Sanders, Burrell Sanders, and Benjamin Sanders, and of the Sanders family, concerning the management of small plantations, including Lifeland Plantation, in St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County, South Carolina. Correspondence contains family letters and letters from various cotton factors in Charleston, S.C. Financial papers include household and plantation accounts, receipts for the sale of slaves, and tax receipts. The collection also contains wills, deeds, records of lawsuits, and three volumes, including a book listing slaves and their prices and a record of days missed and wages lost by black workers in 1866.
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Marlene Sanders feminist history video recordings, 1994-1997 0.4 Linear Feet (9 items)

Marlene Sanders (b. 1931) is a female pioneer in broadcasting and an Emmy Award–winning correspondent, writer, producer, and broadcast-news executive. Collection contains eight VHS video tapes (VHS) regarding various aspects of feminism, especially its modern history. Some videotapes were created at the 30th Anniversary of the National Organization for Women in 1996. The others are dated 1997, and most include the series title "Veteran Feminists of America" on the label; one tape has "Choices--Meded: 25 Years of Choices." Accompanying the recordings is one published volume: Waiting for Prime Time: the Women of Television News.
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George Sand letter to Juliette Lamber, 1867 August 18 0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)

Collection contains a letter from George Sand to Juliette Lamber, written 18 August 1867 at Sand's Nohant estate. The letter discusses possible plans to meet. Also, Sand acknowledges that she has been depressed by the death of her dear friend François Rollinat, and hopes their meeting can help her find courage to live. In a postscript, she adds that she has read Lamber's THE MANDARIN, and that Lamber has the elements of a serious talent. Includes an enclosure for the letter, as well as an English transcription.
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D.S. Sanford papers, 1854-1908 and undated 0.5 Linear Feet Approx. 900 Items

D.S. Sanford was a businessman from Lake George, New York. The collection contains correspondence, bills, receipts, claims, legal papers, and accounts, pertaining to Drurie (or Drury) Sisson Sanford, dating from the 1850s to the first years of the 20th century. Topics in the correspondence chiefly concern business activities, which revolved around Sanford's real estate dealings in Long Island and Lake George, N.Y., and his patent medicine business, S.T.W. Sanford and Sons. Other materials relate to Sanford's duties as postmaster for the Lake George Assembly, and president of the Lake George League. Includes land deeds for properties in Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts.
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Sanford School of Public Policy records, 1971-2024 4.5 Linear Feet 7.99 Gigabytes

The Sanford School of Public Policy, originally called the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs, was established by on July 1, 1971, by then-President of Duke University Terry Sanford. This collection includes administrative records, promotional materials, and event-related materials from the Sanford School of Public Policy.
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Hart Leadership Program records, 1995-2001 1.0 Linear Feet

The Hart Leadership Program (HLP) is a part of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, offering courses and programs with a mission "to help students discover the power of leadership for public life." The Hart Leadership Program records include materials documenting the Service Opportunities in Leaderhship program and its predecessors, the Refugee Action Project and Interns in Conscience.
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Terry Sanford papers, 1926-1996 228.6 Linear Feet 130,000 Items

The Terry Sanford Papers document Sanford's career as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1986 to 1992. The collection contains papers dated from 1926-1992, with the bulk of the material dated between 1986 and 1992. His senatorial campaigns, views on issues, interactions with constituents, and activities in committees of which he was a member are documented throughout the collection. Sanford served on the following U. S. Senate committees: Select Committee on Ethics (Chair); Special Committee on Aging; Budget; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, including the Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy and Subcommittee on Securities; and Foreign Relations, including Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (Chair), Subcommittee on African Affairs, and Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs.

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Records and Papers of Terry Sanford, 1945-1998 265.5 Linear Feet

Terry Sanford was a politician and President of Duke University from 1970 to 1985. He was Governor of North Carolina from 1961-1965, a United States Senator from 1986-1992, and campaigned for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 1972 and 1976. The Records and Papers of Terry Sanford include administrative records, personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, sound and video records, and other materials gathered by Terry Sanford during his careers as a politician and the President and President Emeritus of Duke University.
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Margaret Sanger letter to Vachel Lindsay, 1925 February 13 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

The Margaret Sanger letter to Vachel Linsday regards a request from the contraception activist to the poet asking him to write a statement of support to be read at an upcoming birth control conference. Linsday responds by writing a note at the bottom of Sanger's letter replying that he wishes to father "twelve sons seven feet high" with the famously long-haired Seven Sutherland Sisters. The accompanying pamphlet contains the program for the upcoming conference.
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Sarah P. Duke Gardens records, 1926-2012 24.5 Linear Feet

The Gardens were a gift from Mary Duke Biddle in honor of her mother, Sarah P. Duke (Mrs. Benjamin N.). Construction began in 1932 and the site was open to the public in 1934. Ellen Shipman (1869-1950) designed the plans for both the construction and the plantings for the new gardens. Collection contains materials pertaining to the origins and activities of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens including planting plans, calendars, correspondence, feasibility studies, annual reports, a card catalog of plantings, and publicity. Materials in the collection date from 1926-2012.
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Manuel Sastrón papers, 1893-1900 2.5 Linear Feet Approx. 414 Items

Manuel Sastrón was a Spanish author and government official. Correspondence and other papers relating to the U.S. occupation of the Philippine Islands, collected by Sastrón, who was president of the Spanish Board of Liquidation for the transfer of the Philippine Islands to the U.S. Includes correspondence from U.S. commanders, official records of the liquidation board, reports of various administrative agencies in the Philippines, papers relating to social and economic conditions in the Islands, revenue reports, and papers relating to education and to the occupation.
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Sauer, Farrell & Co. records, 1870-2008 and undated 3.5 Linear Feet 45 Items

Sauer, Farrell, & Co. was a cigar manufacturing company located in Suffield, Connecticut, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection of ledgers, account books, order forms, and other ephemera relating to the sale and purchase of cigars by Sauer, Farrell, & Co., Cigar Manufacturers. Materials range in date from the 1870s through the early 1900s, and it is believed that the cigar company may have changed names throughout that period. The centerpiece of the collection is a specimen book of sample cigar box labels, created by the lithographers Heppenheimer & Maurer around 1878. The specimen book includes about 115 leaves, with labels affixed on each side of the leaf; the label colors range from two colors to multiple colors per label. Account books document cigar production, purchase, and sales information. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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J. Shelley Saurman medical case notes, approximately 1910s 0.1 Linear Feet (9 leaves)

Collection comprises 9 pages of medical case notes for eight individuals, seven of whom required surgery. One case history is incomplete. There are men and women, adults and children, and black and white individuals among the patients. Appendicitis was the most common complaint, but there is mention of gangrene, bladder trouble, and Pott's disease. Case notes include name of patient, symptoms and past treatment, and details of the operation, although no mention of the success of the procedure is provided.
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Eugenia Saville papers, circa 1950-1977 3 Linear Feet 1,000 Items

Eugenia Seville joined the faculty of the Duke University Music Department in 1947 as an instructor, and was eventually promoted to Assistant and Associate Professor in 1950 and 1960, respectively. She specialized in Italian sacred music, and directed the Duke Madrigal Singers from 1947 to 1972. She died in 2006. Contains course materials, music facsimiles, performance scores, materials related to the Duke Madrigal Singers, personal correspondence, and ephemera accumulated during Saville's research trips in the U.S. and Europe.
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Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979, bulk dates 1950-1979 1.5 Linear Feet (Three boxes.)

Lloyd Saville (circa 1915-1988) was a professor emeritus of economics at Duke University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Lynn Saville photographs, 1972-2015 and undated 21.5 Linear Feet (20 boxes)

The collection dates from 1972 to 2015 and consists of over 200 large color and black-and-white photographic prints of nighttime scenes selected from the work of photographer Lynn Saville in urban centers such as Paris, Rome, Venice, New York City, Durham, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Vermont, and other locations. The collection also includes 30 portraits of artists, feminists, writers, family members, and other individuals, as well as self-portraits. Supplemental materials such as book reviews and book maquettes round out the collection. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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John Lathrop Sayer papers, 1833-1872 13 items

Papers consist of three types of material: correspondence, loose manuscript leaves, and ms. notebooks. Correspondence consists of letters written by Sayer, his wife, Sarah A. Sayer, and the Superintendent at the Asylum, John Gray, during Sayer's stay at the Asylum. Loose manuscripts consist of miscellaneous notes, a poem, Sayer's teacher certification, and the school lists of both Sayer and his wife, then Sarah Ann Bennet. Notebooks: "Sketches of life" (a journal, tp., 23 pp., 1842-1859); "A book intended for writings" (notebook of essays and poems, tp., 23 pp., 1837); and an algebra notebook (tp., 85 pp., 1833) with notes on town bonds at the end (3 pp., 1872).
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Clydie F. Scarborough papers, 1918-1984 and undated 2.5 Linear Feet (950 items)

Includes correspondence, financial papers, legal and administrative papers, clippings, writings, and printed material pertaining to the Scarborough Nursery School, Talladega College, the United Fund Agency and other non-profit organizations, and John C. Scarborough, Mrs. Scarborough's husband. The collection documents, in part, the work of Mrs. Scarborough to provide effective and healthy daycare for African-American children in Durham, N.C. Includes photographs of the Scarborough Nursery School, a 1946 report from the Education Planning Council for Durham, N.C. City Schools, Fullwood family genealogical papers, and documents from the North Carolina Daycare Association.

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Scarborough family papers, 1760-1945, 1996 and undated, bulk 1803-1930 6 Linear Feet Approx. 2300 Items

Family based in Mt. Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina; relatives were located in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Related family names include Clarke, McLeod, Nash, and Smart. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, and other materials dating from the 1700s to the 1940s, relating to the Scarborough family based in Mt. Gilead, Montgomery County, N.C. Papers document rural life in N.C., cotton and tobacco farming, mercantile activities, and the experiences of family members in the Civil War and World War I, and their careers as teachers, local officials, and members of the Republican Party in the 20th century. Includes many letters from friends and relatives who migrated to other Southern states. Bound volumes include account books, court dockets, a scrapbook, a family history, and public school district registers. There are a few items referring to slaves, including two lists of slave names, most likely from N.C. Over 100 Civil War letters were exchanged between family members at home and relatives and friends serving as Confederate soldiers in N.C. locations such as High Point (Camp Fisher), Greenville, Raleigh (Camp Mangum), Tarboro, and Wilmington; Petersburg, Virginia; and Camp Winder and Jackson Hospitals in Virginia. The letters refer to battles, troop movements, camp life, the status of various individuals both at home and abroad, prices of commodities and produce, and life in home towns such as Mt. Gilead, NC, and Bruceville and Warrior Stand, Alabama.
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Herbert Scarf papers, 1951-2015 33 Linear Feet (22 boxes.) 1 Megabytes (One set.)

Herbert Scarf (1930-2015) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Sally Schauman collection of work by women photographers, 1920-2002, 2022 9.25 Linear Feet (5 boxes; 4 oversize folders)

Sally Schauman was an art collector and resident of Durham, North Carolina. Collection consists of 25 prints by the following 20th century women photographers, assembled by Schauman: Berenice Abbot; Catherine Angel; Ilse Bing; Ruth Bernhard; Esther Bubley; Debbie Fleming Caffery; Sandra Russell Clark (2); Imogen Cunningham (2); Laura Gilpin; Mona Kuhn; Helen Levitt (2); Genevieve Naylor; Anne Noggle; Mary Peck; Susan Seubert (2); Joyce Tenneson; Charlotte Watts; Eudora Welty; Marion Post Wolcott; and Bayard Morgan Wootten. Subjects include portraits (among which Maya Angelou, Martha Graham, Carson McCullers, Marianne Moore, and Eleanor Roosevelt), landscapes, animal and botanical images, and studies of the American South. The photographs are almost all gelatin silver, with a few platinum prints and color inkjets. The mounts range in size from 8x10 to 22x28 inches, with one panoramic print measuring 10x30 inches. An obituary and funeral service program are also in the collection. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.
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John Jacob Scherer papers, 1931-1959 4.8 Linear Feet 4,000 Items

The John Jacob Scherer (1881-1956) Papers span the years 1931 to 1959. They chiefly consist of subject files and printed material but also include writings, sermons, clippings, and subject cards. The collection primarily relates to Scherer's career as an independent labor arbitrator for several companies and labor unions in Virginia including: Mead Corporation, United Paper Workers of America, Brooks Transfer Company, and the Teamsters Union. Included are two volumes of typed transcripts of proceedings of arbitration cases. Other areas represented in the collection are Scherer's career as a Lutheran minister in both West Virginia and Virginia. There is no information pertaining to his personal life or his tenure as an associate justice. In the Subject Files Series is information pertaining to labor arbitration from 1937-1955, such as literature from both labor unions and the companies. This information contains the grievances of each party, and also contains Scherer's notes and recommendations for specific cases. The Printed Materials Series contains published texts collected by Scherer that pertain to labor arbitration. The Miscellaneous Series includes Scherer's writings on labor arbitration and also a few sermons and church addresses. Photocopied newspaper clippings in this series concern both Scherer's labor arbitration and ministry.

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Thomas E. Scheuer papers, 1965-1970 1.25 Linear Feet

Thomas E. Scheuer (1932-1999) served as Senior Editor with the National Association of Broadcasters' Code Authority division in New York from 1960-1965. Collection consists of correspondence and reports that document Scheuer's career with the NAB Code Authority. Correspondence relates to auditing and editing television commercial scripts for compliance with the broadcasting code, including: disparaging remarks or insinuations regarding competitor products; fact checking claims in advertising copy; images of consumption of drugs or alcohol; and the status and propriety of endorsements and testimonial advertising. The collection also includes 16mm films of commercials for the Drackett Company's drain cleaning product Plunge creating by the Grey Advertising agency. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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James A. Schiff collection of Reynolds Price letters, 1981-2006 0.1 Linear Feet (14 items)

James A. Schiff is associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Collection comprises thirteen letters and one postcard Reynolds Price wrote to James Schiff, 1981-2006. Topics include the plays, poems, novels and other writing projects in which Reynolds is engaged, as well as projects completed by Schiff, particularly those related to Price. Other topics include opinions of various writers, especially John Updike, teaching, and the authors' plans to meet. Includes envelopes.
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James A. Schiff collection of Josephine Humphreys letters, 1993-1997 0.1 Linear Feet (4 items)

James A. Schiff is associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Collection contains four letters written by Josephine Humphreys to James A. Schiff; two contain forms she returned to him. The letters primarily relate to work on books regarding author Reynolds Price.
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Gertrude Raffel Schmeidler papers, 1943-1983 30.8 Linear Feet

Gertrude Raffel Schmeidler (1912-2009) was an American parapsychologist and experimental psychologist best known for developing the "sheep-goat" theory related to individuals' beliefs in ESP abilities. Collection consists largely of research files that document Schmeidler's research and contributions to parapsychology, with correspondence, writings, and other materials supplementing the research files.
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Knut Schmidt-Nielsen papers, 1939-1994 and undated 18 Linear Feet 13,500 Items

Biologist whose main area of research was in animal physiology, particularly that of the camel. Schmidt-Nielsen spent the bulk of his career at Duke University, from 1952 to 1995, during which he published approximately 300 articles, and key works such as Animal Physiology, and Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important? Collection contains correspondence, research notes, field data, published materials, lecture notes, memos, reports, grant applications, and other materials. The papers span the years 1939-1994, documenting Schmidt-Nielsen's active research and teaching careers.
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Hannah L. Schmitt photograph album, 1920-1922 0.5 Linear Feet

Hannah L. Schmitt was a camper at Michigamme girls camp in Michigamme, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. Schmitt was born in Toledo, Ohio. Collection comprises a cloth-bound photograph album maintained by Schmitt when she attended Camp Michigamme, beginning in 1920. The album contains 243 black-and-white photographs, most measuring 4x2.5 inches. Images document camp life, and show Hannah and other young women living in tents, canoeing, swimming, playing sports, cleaning, entertaining themselves, reading and relaxing.
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Ann Imlah Schneider papers, 1959-2014 and undated 10.7 Linear Feet

Ann Imlah Schneider's most extensive and recent government service was at the U.S. Department of Education, where she was senior program officer for several of the Education Department's grant programs for international education, under Title VI (of the Higher Education Act). Collection primarily includes publications regarding issues in education, including foreign languages and international and area studies, study abroad, internationalization, business education, and teaching. There are also research files on international education and foreign languages, area studies, Title VI, and governmental regulations; files regarding Schneider's work with Title VI higher education centers for international and area studies; and files related to the Center for Education within the U.S. Department of Education, primarily regarding appropriations.
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Isaac Schomberg papers, 1747-1773 8 items

Papers relate to Schomberg's petition and appeal to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians. Schomberg was summoned by the President and Censors of the College, to be examined for a license. He declined to do so and his practice was interdicted. Schomberg then commissioned Sir George Lee to test the legality of this decision.
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Terry Schooley papers, 1980-1982 1.0 Linear Feet

Terry Schooley is a feminist organizer, teacher, and former Delaware state representative. She was a leader in the National Organization for Women and served as Coordinator of the North Carolina ERA Countdown Campaign. This collection consists of Schooley's North Carolina ERA Countdown Campaign report (1982); clippings and publicity about the Equal Rights Amendment ratification campaign; photographs and ephemera collected from various marches, events, and outreach encouraging ERA ratification by North Carolina; and some related materials and correspondence from Eleanor Smeal and Governor Jim Hunt. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Brenda Schoonover papers, 1994-2008 2.1 Linear Feet 1000 Items

Brenda Schoonover was the former ambassador to Togo (1998-2000) and the interim ambassador to Belgium (2003-2004). Accession (2009-0259) (1000 items; 2.1 lin. ft.; 1994-2008) consists largely of speech files and other items created by Schoonover during the latter part of her career in the U.S. Foreign Service, including her ambassadorship to Togo, her time as Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her subsequent post as Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Belgium, where she became interim ambassador in 2003. Speech topics range from international diplomacy, the Peace Corps, September 11th, trade, foreign relations, and West Africa development. Also included are media articles, the majority from Belgium newspapers in 2003-2004; miscellaneous photographs and letters; and numerous videocassettes documenting ceremonies and programs during her time in Togo. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Schulte-United department store display records, 1934-1940 0.2 Linear Feet

Schulte-United was a chain of variety/department stores that began by David A. Schulte in New York, in operation primarily in the northeast United States from 1928-1954. Collection includes correspondence, design sketches, awards, and black-and-white photographs of store fixtures, merchandise display cases, and show window display designs. Collection includes photographs produced in Auburn and Peekskill, N.Y., Passaic, N.J., and Zanesville, Ohio. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Henry and Ida Schuman papers, 1920-1997 and undated 12 Linear Feet Approx. 6915 Items

Antiquarian book dealers based in New York City with close ties to Duke University physician and rare manuscripts and book collector Josiah Trent. Collection consists chiefly of card indexes representing the medical history rare book and manuscript inventory that Henry and his wife Ida Schuman assembled and managed as part of their antiquarian book business. The cards were very likely used to assemble the dealer catalogs published by the Schumans. Many of the cards record purchases and other transactions, and which institution acquired the item. The larger card file consists of 14 boxes and are alphabetically organized by author or title. Smaller cardfiles exist for mathematical works and other unidentified divisions. There are also several boxes of the Schumans' business and professional papers, including several folders of correspondence between the Schumans and their clients, including Dr. Josiah Trent of Duke University, and bills of sale for rare books and manuscripts. After her husband's death in 1962, Ida Schuman carried on with the business until her death in 1977. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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