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Durham, N.C., club organized "to promote interest in literary study and to further social enjoyment." Limited to thirty female members. Collection includes club history research, program booklets for the length of the club's operation, various correspondence from club members, meeting minutes, and historical versions of the constitution and other administrative materials.

Advertising executive and producer for Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) and other agencies, primarily based in New York; later self-employed as a commercial producer and documdentary filmmaker based in Cary, N.C. Collection includes correspondence and television commercial production notes (including bids, casting notes, shooting sequences, storyboards, staffing lists and expense reports) and audiovisual materials in multiple formats (videocassettes, digital video, video tape reels). Companies represented include Audi, Cheerwine, HBO, Health-tex (VF Corp.), Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, New York Times, NFL, Road Runner (Time Warner) and the U.S. Postal Service. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

The Hall family was originally from Wilmington (New Hanover County), N.C. Mimeographed copies of letters (1949-1965) sent to the Hall family of Wilmington, N.C., by the Missionary Correspondence Dept. of the Board of World Missions from Presbyterian missionaries in Africa, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Formosa, Japan, Korea, and Mexico. Earlier family correspondence includes letters (1898-1902) from a student at Wellesley College and others (1887-1911) relating to Presbyterian women's work and foreign missions.

2 ALS. Jackson describes the political situation in New Hampshire in 1775 and voices his concern regarding an outbreak of smallpox in a small town on Lake Winnepesaukee, fearing that it might spread through the countryside.

Specialty retail firm based in Chicago; originally a hardware store in the Bowery section of New York, established in 1848. Collection includes advertising and sales data; articles; artifacts and memorabilia; audiovisual materials (VHS tapes; CDs); catalogs and direct-mail solicitations; clippings; correspondence; financial reports; manuscripts of company histories; newsletters; photographs; print advertisements; testing reports and product reviews; and other printed materials that document Hammacher Schlemmer's history and operations from its inception as a seller of hardware and tools through its evolution as a retailer of specialty items. Entities represented in the collection include Hammacher Schlemmer Institute; Invento Products; Lewis & Conger; Plummer Ltd; Plummer McCutcheon; and Sky Mall. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Residents of Frederick County, Maryland. Collection consists chiefly of business and legal papers of various members of the Hammond family of Maryland. The earliest items (1750s-1820s) are land grants and other land records of Nathan Hammond and Vachel Hammond. The papers of Thomas Hammond, who served as a judge of the Orphans' Court of Frederick Co., are mainly the records of his service as administrator of several estates or as guardian of orphans, but also include farm records, financial receipts, and slave purchases. The papers of Dawson V. Hammond, brother of Thomas, concern the administration of estates, including Thomas's holdings. There are a few references to Unionist sympathies in Maryland during the Civil War and economic conditions in the U.S. during the 1870s.

Normal school chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Va. Collection contains fundraising appeals, advertisements for printing facilities, invitations to commencement exercises, a list of subscribers, an image of the campus (Virginia Hall and surrounding area), and a plan for an additional building.

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.

Hannah Hutchinson married Samuel Mather in 1731; the couple settled in Boston, Mass. She died in 1781 (some sources have the death date 1752) and Samuel died in 1779. Collection comprises a request written by Hannah Hutchinson Matter on 3 April 1858 to Edward Hutchinson, asking him to fulfill the pecuniary bequest made to her by his father and to give the sum (4 pounds) to her son, Samuel Mather, Junior. The back of the request contains Samuel's note, dated 3 May 1858, stating that he received the money.

Collection of color slides and black-and-white negatives with images taken by an unidentified photographer during travels in Europe and the United States, with a focus on cities and historical sites in Greece, London, Paris, and Italy. Almost all the slides are of landscapes or tourist sites, but there are a few images with people in them. The black-and-white nitrate negatives contain many images of individuals, both adults and children, perhaps family members, chiefly taken in the United States in the 1930s; there are also shots taken in Florence, Torcello, and Venice, Italy. Original captions are in German.