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E.D. Scott Account Books, 1847-1868 0.6 Linear Feet 2 Items

Merchant and wholesaler. Originally from Philadelphia, Pa. Two account books, one containing an inventory of merchandise Scott sold at wholesale prices in Washington, D.C. to Union Army sutlers in 1863 as well as a separate index. It lists the sutlers and sometimes the regiments to whom he sold supplies. The other account book, chiefly 1866-1868, details the sales and the stock on hand in the dry goods store Scott operated in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Educational Facilities Committee records, 1962-1986 5 Linear Feet

The Educational Facilities Committee at Duke University was created in 1962 as a standing committee of the University Committee on Long-Range Planning. The Educational Facilities Committee was appointed by the President and concerned itself with supplying adequate educational facilities to meet the needs of educational programs. In 1986, the Educational Facilities Committee and the Chancellor's Environmental Concerns Committee were combined to form the University Committee on Facilities and Environment. Committee chairs include Frank T. de Vyver (1962-1974), Frederick C. Joerg (acting 1969, 1972), George W. Williams (1974-1981), George Pearsall (acting 1977), and Calvin Ward (1981-1986). The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, clippings, charts, projections, blueprints, and maps of the Educational Facilities Committee. Major subjects include student housing and dining facilities, the Arts Center, landscaping, the Medical Center, the Art Museum, auditoria, libraries, space assignment and relocation, athletic facilities, and the University Center. English.
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Educom records, 1963-1972 3.75 Linear Feet 3750 Items

Educom (The Interuniversity Communications Council) was formed to provide universities an effective means of collaboration in their efforts to utilize the potential benefits of the emerging communications sciences for educational pursuits. Contains materials that reflect Duke University's membership in Educom and includes correspondence, Educom Bulletins, reports, and minutes. The collection ranges in date from 1963-1972.
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Edward Alston Thorne papers, 1820-1909 1.5 Linear Feet

Edward Alston Thorne was a white Confederate Army ordnance officer from Littleton, N.C. Collection comprises business and personal correspondence, legal documents, and other papers relating to Thorne's service in the Confederate Army (mainly in Virginia and North Carolina), his farming operations, and his activity as tax assessor of Halifax County.
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Edward A. Tiryakian papers, 1963-2008 2.75 Linear Feet

Dr. Edward Tiryakian taught in the Department of Sociology from 1965 until his retirement in 2004. He served as Chair of the Department in addition to positions as Visiting Professor abroad. He was appointed Director for the Center of International Studies in 1988 and served until 1991. The collection contains correspondence and materials related to the Dept. of Sociology, and the Center for International Studies as well as memoranda, clippings and correspondence regarding general University business but also the Nixon Presidential Library controversy and the Allen Building Takeover.
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Edward Augustus Holyoke letter, Salem, to Rev. Doct. Edward Wigglesworth, Cambridge, 1792, Jan. 16 1 items

ALS. Commends Wigglesworth's calculation of life expectancy figures from bills of mortality, collected by Holyoke, among others; confesses himself at a loss to explain why Americans enjoy a longer life expectancy than do the Swedish; and expresses his opinion that a tontine is a lottery and thus encourages gambling.
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Edward Brodnax Hicks papers, 1800-1913 4 Linear Feet (6 boxes; 7 volumes; approximately 3,516 items)

Edward Brodnax Hicks (1800-1858) was a lawyer, sheriff, and plantation owner from Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. Collection comprises correspondence, legal documents, mercantile records, notes, and other papers, of Hicks and of his son, David S. Hicks, planter, lawyer, land agent, and judge in the same locality. The material relates to legal and judicial activities, Texas land deals, economic conditions in Virginia, and the Atlantic and Danville Railway Co. Included also is an extensive series of letters and papers relating to the operation, in partnership with John W. Paup, of Spring Hill plantation on the Red River, Arkansas, after 1837. An early letter, 1840, describes the deaths ("losses") of enslaved persons at the plantation, and the building of better quarters. Letters also show that Hicks engaged in selling enslaved persons at New Orleans during 1852. Correspondents include Thomas Ewing, D.J. Claiborne, Jr., Leigh R. Page, John W. Paup, and Lewis Taylor.
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Edward Christian Simmons papers, 1933-1964 0.5 Linear Feet 200 Items

Edward Christian Simmons was an economics professor at Duke University. His collection includes correspondence with author Charles Holt Carroll, Carroll's manuscript for Organization of Debt into Currency and correspondence from John Maynard Keynes.
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Edward C. Prescott papers, 1964-2014 7.0 Linear Feet (Four boxes.)

Edward Prescott (1940-2022) was a Nobel Prize winner and a Regents Professor (of economics) at Arizona State University. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, teaching, and professional activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Edward Cutbush papers, 1794-1811 12 items

Papers include personal and official correspondence, a diploma from Pennsylvania Academy (the University of Pennsylvania), a certificate of service at the Philadelphia Hospital and a receipt of payment for services as surgeon's mate and senior surgeon. Diploma and certificate bear signatures of Caspar Wistar and Benjamin Rush, among others. Official communications from Samuel Smith and Paul Hamilton relate to the Navy Department affairs. Personal correspondence to James Rees, a friend and relative by marriage, relates to family, affairs on the Continent, especially in France, and the blockade of the Admiral of Tripoli in the harbor of Gibraltar. Mention is made of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Company and of his brother, James Cutbush.
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Edward Featherston Small papers, 1884-1921 and undated 0.5 Linear Feet

Edward Featherston Small was a photographer and salesperson for the W. Duke, Sons & Co. tobacco company in Durham, North Carolina. His papers include correspondence regarding W. Duke, Sons & Co. sales tactics during the 1880s as well as typescript drafts by Small, including some undated autobiographical essays and a 1907 history of his work for W. Duke, Sons and Co.
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Edward H. Chamberlin papers, 1896-2017 31.5 Linear Feet (26 boxes and two oversize folders.)

Edward Chamberlin (1899-1967) was a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, research, and writings. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
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Edward James Parrish papers, 1888-1926 and undated 9.2 Linear Feet (31 boxes; 3 oversize folders; and 6 volumes)

Tobacco manufacturer, resident of Durham, North Carolina, and Tokyo, Japan. The papers of Edward James Parrish primarily consist of business and personal papers, correspondence (chiefly 1900-1921), and photographic collections of Parrish and of his wife, Rosa Bryan Parrish. Items include a notebook on tobacco trade in China and Japan (1894-1900), letter books (1900-1904), and a scrapbook created by their only daughter Lily Parrish. Turn-of-the-century photograph albums relate to the Parrishes time in Japan (circa 1899-1905) and form a large series of their own. Two were assembled by Kichibei Murai of the Murai Brothers, a Tokyo cigarette manufacturing company of which Parrish was the first vice-president; they contain photographs of his residences and of banks, mines, oil fields, farms and tobacco factories in which he had an interest. Also included are seven fine souvenir albums with large hand-tinted albumen prints from noted Japanese studios, including that of Kusakabe Kimbei. There are also personal photograph and postcard albums of the Parrish's travels in Japan, Korea, and China, and Mrs. Parrish's reminiscences and impressions of her life in Japan. Loose family photographs and portraits dating from about 1890 to 1920 round out the collection.
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Edward Jenner papers, 1777, 1800-1822 1.4 Linear Feet (1 box and 2 volumes; 71 items)

Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was an English surgeon and naturalist known for developing the smallpox vaccine. This collection dates from 1777-1822 and consists mainly of letters written by Edward Jenner to family and friends as well as officials and associates concerned with smallpox vaccination. The collection also includes prescriptions, poems, and a notebook (1810-1812) with Jenner's details on his patients and their treatments for various illnesses, including syphilis, gout, and heart ailments, along with records of many vaccinations. Correspondence topics include: activities of various vaccination programs at home and abroad, including the Royal Jennerian Society and the National Vaccine Establishment; medical cases and consultations; Jenner's recognition in Parliament as discoverer of the smallpox vaccine and his appointment as physician extraordinary to George IV; requests for positions on behalf of others and for the return of a relative who was a prisoner of war in France; updates on health and activities of family members and acquaintances, including the health of his wife Catherine, who suffered from tuberculosis; and financial matters. Family correspondents include Catherine Jenner, brother-in-law William Davies, nephew William Davies, and sister Mary Black. Other correspondents include John Hunter, Thomas Pruen, Thomas Paytherus, Charles Henry Parry, Samuel Bell Labatt, and Charles Murray.
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Edward Norris Kirk papers, 1829-1865 0.1 Linear Feet (7 items)

Collection comprises one letter written by Kirk in 1861 to reject an invitation, and six letters written to him. Correspondents include abolitionist editor Joshua Leavitt; musician and hymn composer Thomas Hastings; missionary Jonas King; minister, abolitionist, and "Father of Modern Revivalism" Charles Grandison Finney; clergyman and author William Jenks; and a neighbor, G. R. Buckland. Topics include a sermon by Finney on "true" Christian belief and Kirk's evangelistic plans; a request for Kirk's appearance at a benefit; an introduction for a Greek revolutionary, Michael Kalopothakes; the mission to the Armenians; and placement of two young people.
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Edward Parker Read advertising and promotional materials, 1900s-1940s 0.1 Linear Feet

Edward Parker Read (1868?-1944) was a Black pharmacist, jurist, entrepreneur and activist based in the Philadelphia area. Collection includes flyers, mailers, postcards, pamphlets and broadsides that advertise a range of products and services provided by Edward Reads's several business entities: patent medicines; herbal remedies; mineral-spring tonics; sanitarium facilities; palm readings; perpetual calendars; and ready-reference encyclopedias. Company and product names reflect contemporary interests in health spas, folk medicine; spiritualism; and Native American imagery. Materials also reflect an interest in economic development and social networking within the Black community. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collection, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
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Edward P. Bond letter, 1866 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Edward P. Bond was a committeeman for the New England branch of the American Freedman's Union Commission, in Boston, Mass. Collection comprises a letter (undated) written by Edward P. Bond to Mr. Snow, regarding he and his wife's unsuccessful application for teaching positions. Bond wrote his letter on a letter he forwarded from J. Parkman regarding the matter.
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Edward Raymond Zane letters and petition, 1960 0.5 Linear Feet

Several hundred letters and petitions, dated February-March 1960, from citizens of Greensboro, N.C. to Chairman Edward Raymond Zane and other members of the Advisory Committee on Community Relations, expressing support for or opposition to integrated seating at the Woolworth and Kress lunch counters in the wake of the Greensboro sit-in demonstrations of early February 1960.
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Edward Telfair papers, 1762-1831 (bulk 1771-1807) 8 Linear Feet approx. 911 Items

Personal, business and political correspondence and other papers, concerning Telfair's mercantile interests in Savannah, his legal work, the Revolution in Georgia, Georgia patriots, planting in Georgia, especially rice and tobacco, the Creek Indians in the 1780s and 1790s, slaveholding and economic conditions in Georgia, land speculation and settlement, the establishment of the federal government, politics during the 1790s, Telfair's administration as governor, and American trade with Great Britain. The bulk of the material is for the period 1771-1807. Includes scattered letters from many Georgia patriots and politicians including Abraham Baldwin, Joseph Clay, Sr., Seaborn Jones, Jr., and others.

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Edward W. Kinsley correspondence, 1862-1889 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Correspondence, chiefly incoming, concerns Edward W. Kinsley's activities on behalf of societies aiding emancipated slaves, in lobbying for Congressional action to grant equal pay to African American troops in the Union Army, and personally assisting former slaves. Civil War letters, sent from white and African American soldiers, aid workers, and notable political and military men, document the service of the 55th Massachusetts Regiment during its service in South Carolina and Georgia, with mention of the 54th Massachusetts, and the 35th Regiments of U.S. Colored Troops; life in New Bern, N.C. during its occupation; and engagements with Confederate troops. Reconstruction letters from a variety of sources comment on efforts to educate and provide for the freed slaves; citizen reaction to having an African American officer, James Monroe Trotter, in charge of enforcing peace and emancipation in Orangeburg, South Carolina; and politics in the 1870s, especially in Massachusetts.
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Edwin and Anita Low papers, 1920-2007 1.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Edwin and Anita Low were Southern Baptist missionaries (Edwin was a physician, Anita was a teacher) in Ogbomosho and Kontagora, Nigeria between 1950 and 1961. This collection contains family correspondence, photographs, writings, and a co-written memoir compiled of diary entries and letters about the Lows' lives and work in Nigeria.
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Edwin and Terry Murray collection of newsprint comic strips, 1920s-1980s 64 Linear Feet

Collection consists of Edwin and Terry Murray's collection of clipped comic strips from newspapers, including Blondie, B.C., Gasoline Alley, Gordo, Buz Sawyer, Apartment 3-G, Bugs Bunny, Archie, Mary Worth, Moon Mullins, Out Our Way, Judge Parker, Steve Canyon, Kerry Drake, Campus Clatter, Chief Wahoo, Priscilla's Pop, Green Beret, Hi and Lois, Boner's Ark, Dennis the Menace, The Jackson Twins, RIP Kirby, Wizard of Id, Smilin' Jack, Beetle Bailey, Popeye, and many others; as well as assorted full comics sections (also known as funnies) from American newspapers such as The Washington Post, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Overseas Weekly, the Detroit Free Press, The Chicago Defender, Asbury Park Sunday Press, The Durham Sun, The Durham Morning Herald, The Greenville News, and The News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.). The bulk of the comic strips date from the 1950s through 1970s.
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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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Edwin and Terry Murray Fanzine collection, 1948-2019 43 Linear Feet 1150 Items

Edwin L. and Terry A. Murray, brothers residing in Durham, N.C., have been collectors of comic books and other pulp culture for forty years. The Murray Fanzine Collection contains approximately 1150 comic book, science fiction and fantasy fanzines, collected by Edwin and Terry Murray, representing fandom in these genres from the early 1950s to 2019, as well as advertisements for fandom gatherings and conventions. The collection is organized into one series that is loosely separated into two sections: the first, and larger, consists of comic book fanzines ranging from the beginning of comic book fandom in the early 1960s to the retrospective volumes published in the early 2000s. The fanzines include reviews, advertisements and commentary, as well as biographical information on a variety of artists and writers, including Carl Barks, R. Crumb, Will Eisner, Steven King, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Though an assortment of superhero and comic strip characters published by DC, Dell and Marvel Comics, among others, are cited, one character in particular, Donald Duck, recieves more attention than the others. The second section consists of a sampling of science fiction and fantasy fanzines (including fantasy fiction) ranging from 1952 to the early 1980s, including information on artists and writers such as Vaughn Bode and Harlon Ellison. Most of the fanzines in the collection were printed independent of large scale publishing techniques, utilizing ditto, mimeograph, hectograph and, later, photocopy, on paper of varying degrees of quality. There are also three additional accessions (2010-0107, 2019-0078, 2019-0103), which have been minimally processed.
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Edwin Burmeister papers, 1960-2008 14.4 Linear Feet (25 boxes.) 1 Megabytes (One set.)

Edwin Burmeister is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke 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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Edwin Clarke Gregory papers, 1877-1948 and undated 2.8 Linear Feet 3,699 Items

Lawyer and North Carolina legislator, from Salisbury (Rowan Co.), North Carolina. Papers, primarily legal, business, and political correspondence, of Gregory and of his father-in-law, Lee Slater Overman, lawyer and U.S. Senator from North Carolina. Gregory's papers give much information on his career in the North Carolina Senate and relate to such topics as agriculture, gold mining, public aid, and public libraries. A majority of the papers before 1930 pertain to Overman's service in the U.S. Senate (1903-1930) and refer to such events as the North Carolina senatorial contest of 1902, the Espionage Acts of 1914 and 1915, and Alfred E. Smith's 1928 presidential campaign in North Carolina. Includes letters of Margaret Overman Gregory relating to her activities in charitable foundations and the American Red Cross about the time of World War I. Correspondents include Josiah W. Bailey, Josephus Daniels, Frank P. Graham, and Sam Rayburn.
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Edwin Clark papers, 1798-1930 and undated 4.8 Linear Feet 3,636 Items

Merchant, of Weldon (Halifax Co.), N.C. Records and business correspondence of a general merchant of Weldon, N.C., together with daybooks (1880-1918) and ledgers (1878). Also includes a letter from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., concerning a son in college; and a letter from an instructor at Oak Ridge Military Institute, Guilford Co., N.C. (1917).
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Edwin Grant Conklin papers, 1885-1939 6 Linear Feet 1675 Items

Edwin Grant Conklin was a biologist and an educator. Collection contains chiefly family and professional correspondence. Includes letters addressed to Conklin; to his wife, Belle Adkinson Conklin, and to other family members. The majority of letters are written by Conklin and his wife, parents, and children. Conklin's correspondence with wife Belle pertains largely to their dating courtship. There are lettters from other relatives, friends, academic and scientific colleagues, Freedmen, educators, and Methodist clergymen.
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Edwin Harrison Cady papers, 1858-2000, bulk circa 1961-2000 44.3 Linear Feet 26,881 items

The papers consist of correspondence from Jay B. Hubbell and John Olin Eidson. The Eidson letters (5 items) discuss the upcoming program of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association of America and suggest Richard Armour as the featured speaker. The letters are arranged chronologically.

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Edwin Lee Jones papers, 1908-1981 and undated 4.4 Linear Feet 3,268 Items

Official observer of the atomic bomb test in Bikini, Marshall Islands, July 1, 1946. Former secretary-general, general manager, president, and chairman of the board of J. A. Jones Construction Co. of Charlotte, N.C. Consists of correspondence, addresses and writings, legal and financial papers, clippings, printed materials, photographs, memorabilia, diaries, and scrapbooks related to Edwin Lee Jones and members of his family, including his father, daughter, son, wife, and brothers. Topics include the activities of the J. A. Jones Construction Company, Duke University student life, the Methodist Church, the Marshall Islands atom bomb tests, ship-building in WWII, and the military career of Edwin's son in the Marine Corps on Parris Island, SC, and in other schools in the South. Although most of the pictures are of the Jones family, there are also photographs relating to an awards ceremony held in honor of J. A. Jones Construction Co.'s prodigious production of "liberty ships" during WWII. The writings and addresses and printed materials document Jones's activities with various religious and philanthropic organizations, while the volumes include a travel journal, as well as several scrapbooks and ledgers recording Jones's personal expenditures from 1918 to 1959. Numerous legal and financial papers pertain to the settling of Jones's estate following his death in 1971. Addition includes letters (5 items; dated 1946) written by Jones describing the preparations for the atomic bomb test and the effects of the explosions on Bikini and Kwajalein atolls.
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Edwin Peacock papers, 1915-1997 and undated, bulk 1940s-1997 0.8 Linear Feet 630 Items

Edwin Peacock was co-owner (with John Zeigler) of the Book Basement in Charleston, S.C. This collection largely consists of letters (some copies) to Edwin Peacock and John Zeigler, chiefly regarding their friend, author Carson McCullers. Many letters are from translators and biographers of McCullers (Virginia Carr, Jacques Tournier, and Robert Duparc). It includes letters from both Carson and Reeves McCullers to Peacock and Zeigler as well as copies of the McCullers letters to each other while Reeves served in the armed forces in France during World War II. Some letters were written by Carson McCullers to Peacock during her stays at Yaddo. The collection also includes playbills of McCullers' plays, reviews of her books and plays, and other printed material concerning her as well as 56 photographs of the McCullers, their family, and their friends.
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E. F. Bleiler Checklist of Fantastic Literature typescripts and related materials, circa 1947-1949 1.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

E.F. (Everett) Bleiler was a novelist, editor, and scholar of science fiction and fantasy literature; he was the author of The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. This collection of original annotated typescripts from circa 1947-1949 relates to the compilation, editing and publication of the Checklist, and consists of the prefatory material, as well as substantial portions of the checklist as prepared for publication by Bleiler and Melvin Korshak, co-founder of Shasta Publishers and co-editor of the Checklist. Also includes a few related typescripts and the author-publisher contract from 1949.
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Effinger & Aiken account books, 1895-1920 3 Linear Feet 358 Items

The wholesale firm of Effinger & Aiken, located in Baltimore, Maryland, supplied consumer goods to stores in cities and rural towns from Maryland to Florida during the early 1900s. The collection includes eight business account books of Effinger & Aiken together with roughly 350 related business correspondence and papers. The account books document the firm's sale and shipping of goods such as crockery, glassware, wooden items, hardware, tools, and building materials throughout the southern Atlantic states. Each of two leather-bound ledgers begins with an alphabetical index listing the customer and internal accounts recorded within the ledger and their corresponding page numbers. The related business correspondence and papers, which chiefly document the firm's difficulties with debt collection, are loosely inserted in these ledgers near the associated customer accounts. Four cloth-bound daybooks record customer names with itemized purchase and/or payment transactions each day. The daybook with entries from 1895 to 1896 most likely does not pertain to the transactions of Effinger & Aiken. One small, cloth-bound account book records, in tabular form, amounts "Collect," "Cash," "Credit," and "Wholesale" for each day of the month from June 1905 to July 1920; and another small, cloth-bound account book records daily collections from 1906 to 1907.
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Egbert S. Oliver papers, 1935-1983 4.5 Linear Feet

Professor of American Literature at Willamette University and Portland State University; served as a Fulbright lecturer to India. Collection includes an unpublished manuscript, Melville, Rebellious Optimist; a holograph manuscript of Elizabeth Shaw and Herman Melville: The Story of Their Family Life; correspondence with publishers, microfilm of recommendations to the Dept. of State for Herman and Gansevoort Melville’s consular and other appointments, letters from colleagues, newsletters of the Melville Society, a sketch of Vernon Parrington, clippings and other miscellaneous items.
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Eileen Weiss papers, 1978-2017, bulk 1993-2013 8.5 Linear Feet 9.32 Gigabytes

Eileen Weiss is a grassroots activist involved in documenting and raising awareness of human rights conflicts primarily in Bosnia, Kosovo in the 1990s and the Darfur region in Sudan in the 2000s-2010s as well as for interfaith awareness among the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in New York City after September 11, 2001. Collection includes organizational and event files, correspondence, handouts, newsletters, clippings, audiovisual materials, and other assorted materials. The Eileen Weiss papers focus on human rights conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Darfur with news, rallies, demonstrations, education, and events through Weiss's involvement in grassroots organizations such as Jews Against Genocide (JAG), Jewish Ad-Hoc Committee on Bosnia (JACOB), and the New York Coalition for Sudan. The collection also documents her efforts in cultural pluralism through interfaith work with the Same Difference Interfaith Alliance project, co-founded by Weiss, with community programming, arts, and education. Materials range from 1978-2017, mostly between 1993-2013. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
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E. Ireland Illustrated Travel Diaries, 1916-1920 1 Linear Feet 5 volumes

E. Ireland was a mature, unmarried Scottish woman at the time she authored a series of travel diaries from 1916 to 1920. Collection consists of five volumes (686 pages) of an illustrated travel diary kept by E. Ireland, a mature unmarried Scottish woman, between 20 August 1916 and 28 February 1920. The diaries document Ireland's travels throughout the United States, Canada, Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, New Britain, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Africa, and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Typical entries describe local inhabitants and customs, conversations with fellow travelers, and sites visited. Many entries include sketches, pasted in postcards, photographs, postage stamps, menus, passenger lists, and other ephemera.
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Elaine Katz collection of women's trade cards, 1870s-1920s 0.75 Linear Feet

Elaine Katz is a collector of books and ephemera. This collection was created by Katz and contains more than 800 cards documenting numerous women's businesses and professions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including millinery, dressmaking, and fancy work, as well as many other types of businesses and work. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Elaine Rose Papers, 1944-1946, 1998 1.25 Linear Feet

Elaine Rose graduated from Duke University Woman's College in 1946. While at Duke, she was president of the Nereidian Club, a women's synchronized swimming club on Duke's East Campus that staged a water pageant each year. This collection contains photos and newspaper clippings about the Nereidian Club and other Duke-related activities; a program from the Nereidians' 1946 water pageant; and some Duke memorabilia.
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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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Elbridge Gerry Walker papers, 1801-1903 4 Linear Feet 1155 Items

Druggist and court clerk, of Scottsville and Glasgow, Ky. Correspondence and business papers dealing primarily with the drug business and containing information on the practice of medicine in ante-bellum Tennessee and Kentucky. Includes papers relating to Walker's later activities as clerk of the Circuit Court of Allen County, Ky., and personal letters of various members of the Walker family of Kentucky.
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Eleanor Elliott papers, 1768-2006 and undated (bulk 1951-2006) 55 Linear Feet

Eleanor "Elly" Elliott was a women's rights activist, a board member of NOW's Legal Defense and Education Fund, a Barnard College Board Member, served on the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs and was an editor at Vogue magazine. These materials consist of personal papers from the Elliott family and administrative files from Elliott's work in various women's rights organizations and philanthropic activities. It also includes photographs, scrapbooks and some audio/visual materials.
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Eleanor Foa Dienstag papers, 1955-2011 14 Linear Feet

Eleanor Foa Dienstag is a feminist activist, writer, and corporate communications specialist. These materials document her professional life and include drafts of her writings, research on Renée Richards, media appearances, and materials related to the production of her books Whither Thou Goest and In Good Company.
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Eleanor King commonplace book, 1781-1783 0.2 Linear Feet

Eleanor King, possibly of Liverpool, England. Commonplace book, 13 pages; 31 cm x 19 cm, dated 1781-1784, kept by Eleanor King. The book contains poems--some original, others attributed--interspersed with cooking and medicinal recipes. King typically signs her name and gives the dates with each entry. Recipes range from "Raison Wine," to "Sherif Cake," to her "Elixer of Health." One poem, possibly written by King, is devoted to the pleasures of breastfeeding and is titled: "On Seeing a Lady Nursing her own Child." The commonplace book once included several other pages which were cut away from the book at an early date.
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Eleanor Vere Boyle letter, approximately 1870 May 11 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916) was an British artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children's books. Collection comprises an autograph letter, signed E. V. B., written by Boyle to Mr. [L?]awley on May 11, regarding payment for wine glasses and his portrait in the Pall Mall Magazine.
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Elgin Wendell Mellown papers, 1939-1969 2 Linear Feet 67 Items

Collection contains bound manuscript diaries kept by Elgin W. Mellown (1904-1975), while superintendent of public schools in Sumter Co., Alabama during the 1940s-1960s, and other materials which shed light on conditions in Alabama schools during that period. The diaries are sometimes difficult to interpret: on occasion Mellown used an entry for organizing his thoughts on a subject, but most of the time entries consist of briefly jotted reminders and sometimes only appointments. Names are often rendered as abbreviations. Collection also contains audio tapes featuring interviews with school staff and citizens, both black and white. There are also slides related to Mellown's work.

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Elias Fulp papers, 1869-1908, undated 2 Linear Feet (1 box, 3 volumes, and 1 oversize folder)

Elias Fulp (1859-1924) was a physician and pharmacist from Walnut Cove, North Carolina. This collection consists mainly of the financial records of Elias Fulp's medical practice in Stokes County, North Carolina. It also includes a small amount of family and business correspondence (1869-1902), as well as legal and financial records (1903-1906) related to Fulp's role as trustee during Sidney H. Reid's bankruptcy proceedings. One financial account book (1870-1876) contains details of estates and guardianships administered by L. A. Paschall of Granville County, NC.
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Eliot Dudik photographs, 2009-2010 2.0 Linear Feet (1 box)

Collection comprises 39 digitally printed color photographs selected from a project by photographer Eliot Dudik, "Road Ends in Water," which documents the expansion of U.S. Route 17 in South Carolina and the landscapes, buildings, inhabitants, and way of life in the areas affected by this highway project. Images include house interiors, churches, abandoned buildings, remains of Confederate breastworks, hunting and fishing camps, natural areas, a "hanging tree," old rice fields, and portraits of local people. The prints are sized 15x19 inches. Dudik's work received the 2015 Archive of Documentary Arts Award for Emerging Documentarians and has been published as a photobook in 2010. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Elisha North manuscript, [not before 1811]. 1 items

Manuscript pages from a proposed, but never published second and revised edition of North's book, "A treatise on a malignant epidemic, commonly called spotted fever". Available are photographs of the title page of North's own copy of the book, which bears marginal notes in his hand. Reader is referred to the article by Pleadwell, "A new view of Elisha North ... ", in Annals of medical history, 6 (1924). The manuscript and North's copy form the basis of this essay.
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Eliza Beckwith commonplace book, 1860 1 Volumes

Eliza Beckwith appears to have been a student in 1860 at an unidentified normal college (a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers) in an English-speaking country, most likely Great Britain, Canada, or the United States. The collection consists of a single commonplace book with the name Eliza Beckwith or perhaps Eliza Beckwith Burton on the front cover. Twenty manuscript pages contain 30 poems and short phrases collected from college acquaintances, some with titles such as The Enquiry, Happiness, Remember Me, Prudent Simplicity, The Old and New Year, Friendship, and The Rights of Woman. A few of the poems are extracts taken from Tennyson and Wordsworth, but most appear to be original pieces from fellow students including Annie Kemball, Martha Ardley, Louisa Gillingham, Annie Morris, Helen Taylor, and Lizzie Capez. A few pieces are signed and dated College 1860, Christmas 1860, or Normal College.
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Elizabeth A. McMahan papers, 1926-2010 and undated 16.4 Linear Feet 9105 Items

The collection contains primarily correspondence and greeting cards, including correspondence with John Craig Wheeler (considered the father of "black holes") on parapsychology and its intersection with theoretical physics. Also includes news clippings and scrapbooks documenting McMahan's life; illustrations she made describing her travels aboard Pacific-traveling cargo ships; several of her self-published children's books; and compilations of her cartoons from "The Meadowlark, " a newsletter published by Carolina Meadows, a retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

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Elizabeth Annie Dickenson papers, 1906-1936 1.0 Linear Feet

Elizabeth Annie Dickenson was a white British nurse stationed in Wales and Lahore during World War I. This collection contains two captioned albums with Dickenson's photographs of herself and other nurses and soldiers; two certificates documenting Dickenson's nursing and midwifery service; a nurse's scarf; and a framed portrait of an unidentified nurse. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collection (Duke University) and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Elizabeth Arden letter to Mrs. Hyatt, 1926 June 26 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Elizabeth Arden was a pioneering cosmetics entrepreneur. In this letter, she writes to advise a potential customer on matters relating to health and beauty. Arden advises her to get plenty of rest, eat a balanced diet, and to use products from Arden's Venetian line in order to soothe her chapped hands. Arden writes, "I know that where one is a busy housewife and has many duties in a country home, it is hard to get rest and relaxation. Perhaps you are of the naturally alert, quick, nervous type and use up a lot of energy everyday."
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Elizabeth Baldwin Harris diaries, 1858-1893, 1958 0.5 Linear Feet 20 Items

Elisabeth Baldwin Wiley Harris was a resident of a large plantation near Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia. The bulk of the collection consists of six volumes and fragments of a manuscript diary with daily entries from 1862 to 1893, written by Elizabeth Harris. Although there is a fragment of the diary dated 1858, the daily entries begin Jan. 4, 1862, and continue, with brief interruptions for illnesses and family crises, until Oct. 26, 1893. Harris occasionally mentions local and national politics, events connected with the Civil War, and slavery, but most of the entries concern the weather, family matters, births, deaths, illnesses, the state of her soul, and daily activities. The collection also contains one letter dated 1860, two letters dated 1957 and 1958, and a genealogy from the donor which gives background information about the author and her family.
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Elizabeth C. Alden papers, 1970s-2000s 3.4 Linear Feet 1344 Items

This unprocessed accession is comprised primarily of published materials (magazines, newsletters, and photocopies and clippings of newspaper and magazine articles) and of a few manuscript items related to women's employment, religious, legal, and domestic issues. The papers document Rev. Alden's feminist activism during the 1970s and early 1980s while she was living in Texas. Rev. Alden's folder titles and original arrangement of items were maintained. This collection is open for use.

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz letter to Dr. Thomas Hill and photograph, 1886 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. Collection comprises an autograph, signed letter Elizabeth Cary Agassiz wrote to Dr. Thomas Hill on January 20 [1886] regarding his article on her husband published in the Unitarian Review in December 1885. Also includes a printed photograph of her.
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell letter to Ellen Nussey, [1855] July 27 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was a novelist and short-story writer. Collection contains a letter Elizabeth Gaskell wrote to Ellen Nussey on [1855] July 27 regarding her work on her biography of Charlotte Brontë, and making arrangements to meet with Nussey to review any letters "which you may think it right to entrust me with." She refers to having already reviewed letters held by Mr. Nichols, Brontë's husband, but never mentions Brontë by name.
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Elizabeth Fink papers, 1971-2015 7 Linear Feet 779 Gigabytes

Elizabeth Fink was a human rights lawyer who represented prisoners killed and injured during the 1971 Attica prison uprising. The collection consists of photographs gathered as evidence used in the subsequent lawsuits on behalf of Attica prisoners, represented by Fink, as well as some copies of trial transcripts and audiovisual recordings of news coverage, interviews, and footage.
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Elizabeth Gotham papers, 1880s-1971, bulk 1910s-1930s 0.6 Linear Feet (One document box and one half document box.)

Elizabeth Lucina Gotham (1887-1968) was a baby nurse in New York, NY who eventually came to be in the employment of Mary Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. beginning in the early 1920s. She went on to serve the family of their daughter Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans in Durham, NC. This collection documents the Gotham family and Elizabeth's relationship with the Duke-Biddle and Trent-Semans families.
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Elizabeth Hargrave papers, 1977-2010 3.7 Linear Feet 1576 Items

Elizabeth Hargrave is an Episcopal lay woman and multi-issue activist who served as the Chair of the Davidson County (N.C.) Commissioners, the N.C. Council of Churches Committee for Equal Rights, and Episcopal Diocese of N.C. Collection contains religious and activist conference and workshop materials, printed materials, clippings, a campaign T-shirt, one audiocassette, photographs, Davidson County (N. C.) Commissioner campaign materials, Charlotte Women's Political Caucus materials, and files related to public education in North Carolina. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Elizabeth Hatcher Conner Collection, 1933-1945 2.0 Linear Feet

Elizabeth Hatcher, Duke University class of 1939, was a photographer and member of the Explorers' Club, along with her future husband Bob Conner. The collection includes many photographs, a scrapbook, letters, and other materials documenting campus life at Duke in the late 1930s.
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Elizabeth Johnson Harris memoir, 1922-1923 .1 Linear Feet (1 notebook)

Photocopies and original of a bound handwritten memoir (85 p.) by an African American woman from Summerville and Augusta, Georgia, Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942). Begun in September, 1922, the memoir describes Harris' childhood in Augusta, Georgia, race relations in Boston, Massachusetts and in Augusta, Georgia, her ambivalence about her place in society as an African American, and the history of her church activities and schooling from childhood through adulthood. She conveys anecdotes and histories about her ancestors during Reconstruction, including her grandfather's grant of land in Summerville (Augusta) from a former enslaver, James W. Bones. She includes many details about her courtship and marriage, as well as descriptions of the adult lives of several of her children. There are also tipped-in photographs and newsclippings. The appendix (12 p.) contains poetry and news stories by Harris, folk tales, and two obituaries about Harris. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Elizabeth Mapes Horner papers, 1936-1941 1.75 Linear Feet

Elizabeth Mapes attended Duke University from 1937-1941 and was active in social and campus events, including Parapsychology Laboratory experiments and the Woman's College orchestra. The collection includes one large scrapbook containing programs, invitations, cards, and memorabilia, as well as several small files of photographs and clippings.
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Elizabeth Parry bill of cost in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate child, circa 1730 0.1 Linear Feet

Resident of New England. Collection comprises a 1-page bill detailing the costs incurred by Elizabeth Parry during childbirth, including charges for a midwife; food and board; sugar, bread, spices, oatmeal and fruit; a "watch on fixed nights" and candles; the child's linen and clothing; two cords of firewood; a fire wood cutter; and two trips to Boston during the lying-in. Also includes the cost of "time spent to go to authority to make complaint of Edward Dix the father of my above[said] child." The bill is signed by Parry, and witnessed by John Phillips, Joseph Lynde, Jonas Bond, and Edward Emerson.
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Elizabeth Ringgold diaries, 1910-1924 0.3 Linear Feet (4 volumes)

Elizabeth Ringgold was a resident of rural northeastern Oklahoma. Chronicle of routine farm activities. Daily entries document family and social life and more broadly the effects of World War I, the intrusion of the oil industry, and routine socialist and Ku Klux Klan activities.
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Elizabeth Roberts papers, 1945-1990 and undated 4.5 Linear Feet 4550 Items

This collection includes chiefly correspondence and printed material concerning North Carolina medical associations and women's auxiliaries in which Mrs. Roberts, wife of pediatrician Dr. Bennett Watson Roberts, was involved. Organizations include: National Organization for Mentally Ill Children; Auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; American Cancer Society; N.C. Council of Women's Organizations; and Southern Medical Association. Other materials relate to Roberts' work in Saint Philip's Parish and Episcopal Church, Durham, N.C.

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Elizabeth Wilhelmina Jones collection, 1959-1960 0.1 Linear Feet (19 items)

Harrogate College Union is the alumnae association for Harrogate Ladies' College in Harrogate, England. The Union was established in 1895. Elizabeth Wilhelmina Jones, or M. E. Jones, was headmistress of the school 1898-1935. Collection comprises materials related to a celebration, hosted by the college union in 1959, of Elizabeth Wilhelmina Jones' 90th birthday, along with items related to her memorial the following year.
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Elizabeth Winspear metamorphosis book, 1799 0.1 Linear Feet

Collection comprises a full-color, four-page manuscript metamorphosis book, with verses and pen-and-watercolor illustrations by Elizabeth Winspear, who was possibly a resident of New England. Each page features two flaps that fold out in stages to reveal new illustrations. Characters include Adam and Eve, along with a lion, griffin, and eagle, and themes include the attainment of wealth, and impact of sickness and death. Includes a clamshell box.
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Eliza Wilson diary, 1854-1860 0.3 Linear Feet

May be the author Eliza Wilson (Mrs. Robert Wilson) of Kirkdale, Liverpool, England. Entries describe the social life and travel of a British woman living in India with General Craigie, his wife, and daughters. They left England in November 1854, traveled by ship with stops in Egypt, and arrived in Madras in January 1855. The group lived in Madras but journeyed to other cities in southern India, including Bangalore, Mysore, and Vellore. There are references to the Sepoy Rebellion, 1856-1858, before Wilson departed India in 1860.
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Eliza Wright Murphy papers, 1847-1927 1.2 Linear Feet 950 Items

Teacher, from Atkinson, N.C. The papers of Eliza Wright Murphy consist of correspondence, poems, school essays, receipts, printed material, reports, and photographs. Most of these items are the personal papers of Eliza and her brothers: Edwin Edgar Murphy (1874-1914), John Gerald Murphy (b. 1872), Paul Percy Murphy (b. 1878), Isaac Wright Murphy, and C.C. Murphy, referred to as "Neil." Also includes material concerning the Arran-on-Black River Literary and Historical Society in Wilmington, N.C., including programs, minutes, memos, and reports, and the Presbyterian Mission Hospital in Kiangyin, China. The correspondence consists of several hundred letters to Eliza and her brothers from friends and relatives in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. News about local events and the correspondent's personal life are the chief subjects discussed. Correspondents outside of the immediate family included members of the Vidal and Wright families.
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Ella Fountain Pratt papers, circa 1850-2008 18 Linear Feet

Ella Fountain Keesler Pratt (1914-2008) was a Duke University employee for almost thirty years. Ms. Pratt was also a patron of the arts and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina. This collection contains documents, records, photographs, and notes that document her life as a Duke employee and Durham arts organizer. Items include personal notebooks, photographs of family and events, art exhibition catalogs, and audio recordings of performances at Duke University. The collection materials range in date from circa 1850 to 2008.
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Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas papers, 1848-1978 and undated, bulk 1848-1889 7.75 Linear Feet

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907) was a white woman, avid reader, suffragist, and Southern nationalist who lived in Georgia. Collection contains diaries (partially unbound) and scrapbooks address that address Thomas' reading; studies at Macon Female College (now called Wesleyan College) in Macon, Ga.; conversion to Methodism; clothing and dress styles; gossip and social life; shopping and prices; church services; courtship by and marriage to Jefferson Thomas; and plantation life in Burke and Columbia counties.
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Ellen A. Hedrick letters, 1900-1904 0.1 Linear Feet (7 items)

Ellen A. Hedrick (1869-1957) was one of the eight children of Mary Ellen Thompson (1829-1905) and southern anti-slavery activist Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick (1827-1886). Collection comprises seven letters, five written by Ellen A. Hedrick during an international tour taken June-September 1904, one by Ellen's travel companion, C., in 1904, and one by her mother in 1900. Ellen Hedick's letters document her travels across England and Wales, France, Amsterdam, Holland, and Germany, with descriptions of manners, her surroundings, and modes of travel. Ellen's fellow traveler, C., also writes to an unidentified, intimate female friend, about the wedding of this friend's brother, the illness of a traveler, people she is meeting during her travels, and abundant fruit available. In her letter, Ellen's mother writes of plans she has for Ellen's visit, and requests sewing supplies for projects she has begun.
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Ellen Huckabee papers, 1924-1979 0.5 Linear Feet 500 Items

Ellen Huckabee held a variety of administrative leadership positions during her more than 20 years at the Woman's College, including Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, and Dean of Undergraduate Instruction. This collection documents Huckabee's career and her strong interest in fostering education in women through travel. Her interest in understanding generational differences and their significance in effectively educating students is highlighted here. Her post-retirement civic participation is captured in her formal statement at a public meeting in 1979 against the proposed East-West Freeway in Durham. The collection ranges in date from 1924-1979.
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Ellen Terry note and cabinet photograph, between 1878-1902 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Dame Ellen Terry, considered the leading Shakespearean actor of her time, was a member of the company at London's Lyceum Theatre from 1878-1902. Collection comprises an autograph note on Lyceum Theatre letterhead (5"x8"). The actor Ellen Terry writes to "Olga" to schedule a social engagement. She writes, "I'm much grieved to hear of you mother ..." and sends "best remembrances" to Olga's husband. There is also an undated cabinet photograph, by Window & Grove photographers, London.
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Ellis H. Hudson photographs and papers, 1920s-1950s and undated 1.4 Linear Feet

Ellis Hudson was an American physician who founded a Presbyterian mission hospital in Syria and studied non-venereal syphilis there. The Ellis H. Hudson Photographs and Papers date from the 1920s to late 1950s, and consist of black-and-white photographs and negatives of people in Syria with non-venereal syphilis relating to Hudson's research on this topic in the early twentieth century, as well as galley proofs of maps, charts, graphs, and tables from his book Non-Venereal Syphilis: A Sociological and Medical Study of Bejel (1958). Many of the photographs also appear in this book. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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