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Ernestine Friedl served as chair of the Dept. of Anthropology and as Dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University. She studied gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the Chippewa. The Ernestine Friedl papers include personal and professional correspondence, subject files, course materials, articles, reprints, field notes, and sound recordings related to her anthropological research and her roles as professor and administrator at Queens College and Duke University. English.

Collection of research files and materials kept by the Friends of Democracy while they monitored various fascist and communist propaganda organizations and figures during World War II and immediately following the war.

The Friends of Duke Chapel was founded in 1974 to provide the means for interested persons to organize into an ongoing, supportive, participatory group to support the ministry and program of Duke Chapel. The records consist of correspondence, official letters to members, advisory board and committee minutes and reports, newsletters, and other organization publications. Materials are present from 1973 to 1999. English.

The Friends of the Duke University Library promotes understanding of the Duke University Libraries through special events and gathers financial support for various Library endowments and projects. Types of materials include agendas, printed matter, correspondence, minutes, programs, gift reports, financial material, contest records, and publications of Duke University Friends of the Library. Major subjects include Duke University Libraries, academic libraries, and library fund raising. Materials range in date from 1935-1987. English.

The Fritz London Memorial Prize Committee (formerly known as the Fritz London Memorial Award Committee) awards a monetary prize to outstanding scientists in the field of low-temperature physics. The prize was established in memory of Duke University physicist Fritz London. The collection contains correspondence, by-laws, conference listings, lists of prize nominees and awardees and other papers of committee members relating to the establishment of the award and the selection of the winners. Material in the collection ranges in date from 1957-2011.

Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780-1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer, and a Quaker philanthropist. Collection comprises some letters, poetry copied by Fry, and two portraits.

Robert Jerome Fuhrman was an advertising and marketing executive and entrepreneur, co-founder of Eggland's Best, based in Pennsylvania. The Robert Jerome Fuhrman papers consist of clippings and marketing reports. Products include Beech-Nut baby foods; Crest toothpaste (Procter & Gamble/Benton & Bowles); Eggland's Best eggs; and Ricola candies and cough drops. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Account books for a blacksmith in Abingdon, Va.

Retailer of private-label household goods, founded in Hartford, Conn. in 1906 by Alfred Fuller. Collection consists of articles; catalogs; memos; newsletters; sales brochures and other printed materials distributed to sales agents primarily in the Fort Wayne sales district. Many of the items bear the name of William Levy, Fort Wayne area sales manager, or Emil "Doc" Joy, who was the manager for the Chicago sales region to which the Fort Wayne operation belonged. Materials address sales advice; ways to approach prospects during door-to-door sales efforts; promotional sales drives; and economic and community concerns related to the impact of World War II. There are also materials that focus on promotion of a Debutante brand of cosmetics and efforts to recruit women sales agents. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.