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Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project collection, 1940s-2020; 1940s-ongoing 115 Linear Feet (85,500 items)

The SPLC Intelligence Project Collection includes printed materials, serials, organizational literature, pamphlets, clippings, catalogs, fliers, and correspondence from a variety of groups monitored by the SPLC and its contacts between the 1980s and 2010. Included within the collection are many groups falling within the SPLC Klanwatch and Militia Watch projects. Organizations represented in this collection typically promoted anti-semitic, white supremacist, racist, separatist, or anti-Communist views and policies. Other organizations promoted Second Amendment rights, right-wing Christian and American nationalism, Y2K and survivalist preparations, and the rise of the Confederacy. SPLC's interests expanded across the political spectrum to include both right-wing and left-wing extremist literature.
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Southern Feminist, Inc. records, 1975-1990 5.5 Linear Feet

Southern Feminist, Inc. was an organization in Athens, GA from 1984-1989 that served as a communications device for women's political activism in the southern states. Their records consist chiefly of administrative files, which includes correspondence, article drafts, and subscription information. Also included is a group of feminist periodicals including Southern Feminist.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference collection, 1963-1968 0.1 Linear Feet

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. Its first president was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This collection comprises ephemeral printed materials and other reports about voter registration, protests, and the American civil rights movement, created by SCLC between 1963 and 1968.
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Southeast Women's Employment Coalition records, 1868-1991, bulk 1981-1990 103.5 Linear Feet 62,100 items

The Southeast Women's Employment Coalition Records (SWEC) span the period 1868 to 1991 with the bulk dating from 1981 to 1990. The multiracial, regional organization was founded chiefly to expand employment opportunities for women in the rural South. Correspondence, financial records, reports, printed material, personnel files, photographs, audiovisual material, writings, meeting minutes, and conference papers comprise the majority of the collection. Well documented are the Southeast Women's Employment Coalition's efforts: to provide leadership training for women; to encourage women to apply for nontraditional jobs, for example through its Women's Opportunity in Road Construction (WORC) Project; to promote women's employment in the tourism industry; to evaluate economic, social and political trends affecting women in the South such as child care, comparable worth, and nontraditional jobs for women; and to establish ties with other organizations seeking to improve women's economic status. Administrative concerns relating to the Southeast Women's Employment Coalition, including personnel, financial, and organizational issues are also well described. Represented extensively are their efforts to raise money from private foundations and businesses. Organizations highlighted in the collection include Public Affairs Research and Communications, Inc. and the Women's Technical Assistance Project. In general, information concerning these topics and organizations is scattered throughout the collection.

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Southeastern Women's Studies Association records, 1977-2010 2.0 Linear Feet

Group based in Southeastern United States, founded in 1977 at the first National Women's Studies Association Convention. SEWSA is committed to the promotion and support of women's studies and women's advocacy in schools, universities, and communities. Includes correspondence, minutes, newsletters, membership lists, papers presented at conferences, 12 photographs, SEWSA conference materials, and travel grant files. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies records, 1965-1981 8 Linear Feet 8,000 Items

Contains the records of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a cooperative institute established in 1963 under the auspices of the Duke University-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cooperative Program in the Humanities. Also contains materials relating to the Duke University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Types of materials include correspondence, grant proposals, budgets, invitations, rosters, announcements, minutes, local publications, and some conference papers. Major subjects include the Duke University Cooperative Program in the Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty, Duke University faculty, the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, university cooperation in North Carolina, renaissance study and teaching, and humanities study and teaching. Materials range in date from 1965 to 1981. English.
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Nancy Sours papers, 1962-1982 1.0 Linear Feet

Nancy Sours was a white civil rights and human rights activist who volunteered and worked in Mississippi, San Francisco, and Berkeley in the mid- and late-1960s. This collection contains correspondence, collected printed and published materials, and some personal materials documenting her volunteer work; her family's activities and travels; her involvement with various organizations such as Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); her friendships and sexual relationships; her experiences and opinions about her community organizing and activism; her mental and physical health; and her education at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Topics discussed in the various printed materials include civil rights, Black power, socialism and economic reform, gay liberation, women's liberation, reproductive rights, and Vietnam War protests. 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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Sheldon B. Sosna papers, 1922-2005 and undated bulk 1948-1991, bulk 1948-1991 8.6 Linear Feet 2600 Items

Retired advertising executive. Collection documents Sosna's long career as an advertising executive and consultant, and contains materials from a wide variety of formats, including correspondence, writings, printed material, advertisement proofs and clippings, sketches, scrapbooks, slides, negatives, and film. The collection primarily provides a record of advertising campaigns Sosna developed as a copy supervisor, creative director, and advertising executive at Gershuny Associates, Leo Burnett, Grant Advertising, Doherty Clifford Steers & Shenfield, Sullivan Stauffer Colwell & Bayles, Norman Craig & Kummel, and J.M. Mathes, from 1948 to 1973; the collection has limited material relating to the specific agencies for which he worked. In addition, the collection documents Sosna's later writings, lectures, and seminars as an independent consultant in retail and supermarket advertising from the 1970s through 2001, including a complete run of the Supermarket Advertising Newsletter (1981-2000) and a copy of his book Dodge #9: How to Never Make a Mistake: Achieving Success in a World That Is Always Looking for Someone to Blame (2001). Major advertising campaigns represented in the collection include: American Tobacco Company (Bull Durham and Silva Thins cigarettes); Bristol-Myers Company; Bulova Corporation; Dr Pepper Co.; Food Fair/Pantry Pride; Hoover Company; Ladies' Home Journal; Martex; Pabst Brewing Company; Procter & Gamble; Pure Oil Company; and Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. The collection also documents Sosna's role as supervisor of the Peace Corps advertising campaign in its first two years, from 1961 to 1963. Peace Corps materials include print advertisements; "Volunteer Radio Kits" distributed to broadcasters; one promotional film originally aired on American television; and a letter from Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., first director of the Peace Corps.
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Nancy Watkins Sommer scrapbook, 1948-1949 2 Linear Feet (1 box)

Nancy Watkins Sommers (1930-2018) attended Duke University's Woman's College and graduated with a Bachelor's in Music in 1952. Her scrapbook documents her first year at Duke University (1948-1949) and includes personal notes, invitations, newspaper clippings, and programs, particularly documenting her participation in the Duke Madrigals and her attendance and engagement with music, social gatherings, dances, and performance programs at Duke. Also includes materials from Goon Day, including her hairbow and sign, as well as some clippings from Oxford High School, her alma mater.
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Something Borrowed Something Blue records, 1997-2014 1.5 Linear Feet

Something Borrowed Something Blue is a co-ed Christian a cappella group at Duke University. The Something Borrowed Something Blue records include materials documenting the group's activities, beliefs, and music selection and performance. Also included are copies of several albums released by SBSB, and captures of the group's website from 2010-2012.
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Bic Retractable Pen Launch "Bic-Issimo" Promotion, 1965 1.0 Linear Feet

Consumer products manufacturer founded in 1945 in Clichy, France. Binder announces introduction of "skip-proof" pen with black-and-white photographs and other images and humorous text. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.facturer founded in 1945 in Clichy, France. Binder announces introduction of "skip-proof" pen with black-and-white photographs and other images and humorous text. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Society of Women Engineers, Duke University Chapter Records, 1997, 2006-2007 0.25 Linear Feet

The Duke University chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is an academic group for women engineering students at Duke University. Collection includes newsletters, meeting minutes and agendas, budget materials, flyers, the organization's constitution, program materials, photographs, and snapshots of the organization's website.
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Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, Duke University chapter records, 1930-2006 7 Linear Feet

The Duke chapter of Sigma Xi, an honorary society recognizing scientific research, was formed in 1932. Types of materials included in this collection are: pamphlets, minutes, financial records, membership nominations, rosters, and correspondence. Major subjects include research in science and medicine, honor society membership, Duke University scholarship, and Sigma Xi.
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Social Democrats, USA records, 1937-1994, bulk 1970-1994 101.9 Linear Feet 1.1 Megabytes (approximately 200 files) 60,551 Items

This collection (20,700 items, 35.5 linear feet, 1937-1984, bulk 1970-1984) includes office files and correspondence, and records from various organizations, such as the Young Social Democrats and the Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle East. Of note are some materials on prominent socialists, including Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, and Carl Gershman. There are also important periodicals and special publications from 1937-1968 documenting American labor history, the Jim Crow Era, and civil rights issues in the 1960s. (96-104)

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Charles T. Snyder papers, 1956-1970s 0.25 Linear Feet

Charles T. Snyder was a United States Information Agency (USIA) employee from 1956 to 1977 who worked primarily with the Africa Division of the Voice of America radio broadcasting program. Collection contains documents and photographs related to Snyder's work, with a particular focus on a 1959 trip around the African coast and the proposal and construction of the Liberia Relay Station. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Herman Snow papers, 1844-1892 0.1 Linear Feet (41 items)

Herman Snow was a Unitarian minister and spiritualist, as well as a religious book and newspaper agent. Collection comprises 41 items, including 36 letters written to Snow and five manuscripts. Many of the items were annotated by Herman Snow in purple pencil. There are two letters concerning the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Connecticut, and Snow's two-page handwritten memorial of his service there, 1845-1846; two 1866 letters on a white school in North Carolina and the "Freedmen's & Union Society, and the establishment of white and freedman schools in Wilmington, N.C.;" letters from spiritualists Seldes J. Finney, William Denton, A. E. Newton, and H. H. Brown; a 1888 letter from Mary Gunning regarding spiritualism and science; an 1892 letter containing a prospectus for the New World, a religious serial; as well as an 1892 letter from Richard Hodgson of the American Branch of the Society for Psychical Research. Manuscripts include an 1850 resolution for Snow's separation from the Rockford Unitarian congregation, the 1863 certificate issued to Snow by the Harvard University Theological School, and a letter of introduction authorizing Snow as a business agent for the CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.
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Ann Barr Snitow papers, 1950s-2019 102 Linear Feet

Ann Barr Snitow was a feminist activist, writer, and professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. The collection includes teaching files, subject files, materials documenting Snitow's involvement in various feminist activist groups and organizations, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, her work with Ellen Willis, feminist publications in Eastern European languages, writings, speeches, correspondence, interviews, Carol Jacobsen films, and recordings of Snitow's feminist radio shows on WBAI in New York.
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SNCC Legacy Project records, 2010-2023 1.8 Gigabytes 0.5 Linear Feet

The SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) was founded in 2010 to preserve and extend the legacy of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). The SNCC Legacy Project records have administrative files, budget and program materials, and correspondence between board members, including Courtland Cox and Larry Rubin, documenting the activities of the SLP.
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Edmund Snare papers, 1836-1867 0.8 Linear Feet (4 items)

Edmund Snare was a physician and resident of Huntingdon (Huntingdon Co.), Pennsylvania. Collection comprises a ledger (dated 1836-1867) and three documents, including a letter (1864 January 19) appointing Edmund Snare as an examining surgeon of the Pension Office; a printed document (dated 1864-1866) with a handwritten list of pensioners he examined; and a letter (July 1866) from Snare to pensioner John Horst requesting more details regarding his injury, with Horst's responses. The last portion of the ledger (approximately 53 pages) contains Snare's records regarding his examinations of soldiers, primarily from Pennsylvania regiments, who had been discharged for various injuries and diseases from both the Civil and Mexican wars. The ledger was initially used (118 pages) to record transactions for a mercantile business belonging to another Edmund Snare, presumably a relative of Dr. Snare.
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Robert Smythe papers, 1975-1986 7.9 Linear Feet

Robert Smythe is a natural resources consultant and an officer of the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club. Collection consists of correspondence, reports, clippings, and publications chiefly relating to Smythe's work in North Carolina with the Sierra Club. Includes information about environmental issues in North Carolina such as air and water quality, waste management, energy conservation, and land use, as well as the Club's efforts to influence the North Carolina Legislature on environmental matters.
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Willis Smith papers, 1919-1954 and undated 130.4 Linear Feet 97,813 Items

Lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1950-1953, from Raleigh (Wake Co.), N.C. Personal, political and professional papers, including correspondence, notes and speeches, financial papers, clippings, printed material, pictures, and other miscellaneous papers. The major portion of the collection consists of personal papers; the office files from his years as U.S. Senator, much of which is routine correspondence; files kept while Smith was president of the American Bar Association, 1945-1946; papers relating to other legal organizations; and files pertaining to his service as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke University, 1947-1953.
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William Patterson Smith papers, 1791-1943 26.4 Linear Feet 22,305 Items

Personal and business correspondence of William Patterson Smith (1796-1878), merchant and planter of Gloucester County, Virginia; and of his son-in-law Isaac Howell Carrington (1827-1887), provost marshal at Richmond (1862-1865) and attorney in Pittsylvania County and Richmond, Va.

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William D. Smith papers, 1816-1921 0.75 Linear Feet

William Doddridge Smith was a land owner, Justice of the Peace, and attorney in Clarke County, Virginia. The collection is mainly comprised of diaries, account books, ledgers, and an autograph album from several members of his extended family and covers multiple generations who lived at various times in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Ohio. Surnames represented are: Page, Smith, Thompson, and Williams. Three of the diaries are written by H.M. Williams (b.1842), who traveled to Cincinnati as a Christian missionary in 1882. Her diaries record her daily activities such as visiting the sick, attending meetings of various social and religious societies, and teaching Sunday school. One notebook was written by Mary Page Thompson (b. 1869) while she attended State Normal School in Baltimore (Md.) 1889, and includes notes on biology, psychology, and religion, including notes on a discussion of Christian missionary work in China. There are several items relating to Philip Doddridge Thompson (b. 1838), a Christian minister who worked in several states and one ledger that indicates that William Doddridge Smith was a Justice of the Peace in Clarke County, Virginia in 1866. The collection also includes one folder of indentures, deeds, and wills, the bulk of which was created during 1816-1854 and is related to the business and legal dealings of William Doddridge Smith and his father, Edward Jaquelin Smith, who were active in Virginia and West Virginia. There is also one folder of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
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William Smith papers, 1785-1860 1 Linear Feet

Correspondence, writings, and printed materials relating to Smith's advocacy for the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and in Britain's colonies in the West Indies. Collection contains notes, statistics, and research on the slave trade between Africa and the British West Indies; slave revolts and the conditions on sugar plantations in the Caribbean; abolitionist tracts discussing moral, economic, and religious opposition to slavery; and diagrams of slave ships documenting conditions for enslaved people and casualty rates during transport. The bulk of the collection's correspondence is addressed to Smith. Letters of William Wilberforce and the Wilberforce family discuss personal affairs, politics, abolition, and other matters. Letters from Thomas Clarkson discuss the antislavery movement. Letters from Smith's constituents discuss politics, social conditions, parliamentary reform, British foreign trade, slavery in the West Indies, and economic conditions. Correspondents include Priscilla Buxton, Thomas Fowell Buxton, and Zachary Macaulay. Also contains a partially unpublished poem of Robert Southey entitled To the Exiled Patriots.
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William Alexander Smith papers, 1765-1949 20 Linear Feet (51 boxes; 9 separately bound volumes)

William Alexander Smith was a textile manufacturer and businessman of Ansonville, North Carolina. Collection includes correspondence, account books, business records, and other papers, relating to Smith's career as a merchant, cotton textile manufacturer, farmer, and investor. Includes material relating to the family's agricultural, mercantile, and milling enterprises during the antebellum period, with references to Smith's interests in education, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Civil War, and the United Confederate Veterans, and to automobile manufacture, banking, commercial finance, cosmetics, furniture, insurance, lumbering, patent medicine, personal loans, self-propelled railway passenger cars, real estate development, tobacco processing, and the mining of gold in Alaska and Montana, copper in Arizona, and mica in North Carolina. Correspondents include Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, Francis Johnstone Murdoch, and George Stephens.
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Washington M. Smith papers, 1830-1916 and undated 11.4 Linear Feet 8,578 Items

Planter, banker, and lawyer, of Selma, Alabama Business and personal correspondence and other papers of Washington M. Smith and the Smith family, containing information on Smith's interests in banking, law, and agriculture, on economic conditions in Alabama after 1840, public schools and their establishment in Alabama, tax collection in the Confederate States, social life and customs in Selma, economic conditions during Reconstruction, Smith's successful efforts to reestablish in New York and England his former affluency, and family affairs. Includes a series of letters of Smith's daughter, Ella, and her husband, Hilary A. Herbert. Most of the items before 1850 and after 1869 are family letters and papers.
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Walter H. Smith Collection of Beat Literature, 1950-2009 4.1 Linear Feet 225 Items

Walter H. Smith donated this collection of Beat Literature. The majority relates to the career and life of Allen Ginsberg, a founding member of the Beat Generation. Other writers represented include Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, and Anselm Hollo. Accessions (2009-0113) and (2009-0130) (200 items; 3.5 lin. ft.; dated 1959-2003) include books, compilations, journals, magazines, and other publications with works by and about Allen Ginsberg. Also included are posters and broadsides advertising events, readings, or publications by Ginsberg; many of these are signed. Accession (2010-0098) (25 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1950-2009) includes writings and some correspondence from Diane di Prima, Anselm Hollo, and Anne Waldman; also includes some Allen Ginsberg materials. Accession (2011-0045) (27 items; 1.5 lin. ft.; dated 1963-2007) includes pamphlets and publications by Gary Snyder.
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Tim Smith "The Hutterites" project collection, 2010-2024 1.75 Linear Feet (1 oversize box) 854 Megabytes (1 file)

Tim Smith (born 1978) is an award-winning photographer based in Manitoba, Canada. "The Hutterites" is part of an ongoing project by Tim Smith, entitled "In The World But Not Of It", documenting the Hutterites, Anabaptists who live communally in colonies in Canada and the United States, largely removed from broader society. Materials span 2010-2024 and include 25 color prints sized 18x24 inches featuring various Hutterite colonies particularly the Deerboine Hutterite Colony in Manitoba, Canada; a directory; a Christmas program; a tiechel (headscarf); journal notes written by Smith; postcards and small ephemera related to Smith's exhibitions; and one video file showcasing cattle branding at Forty Mile Hutterite Colony in Montana, United States. Topics include family life; marriages; communal living; farmwork, ranching, and livestock; depictions of women and youth; adoption of new technology; and religious practices. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts.
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Thomas Smith deed of manumission, 1803 July 19 1.0 Linear Feet (1 item)

Thomas Smith was a resident of the burrough of Norfolk, Va. Deed of manumission of "negro Sue," more commonly known as Susannah Mallory, former property of Charles King Mallory, of Elizabeth City County, [Va.?], by Thomas Smith in the Court of Norfolk County, Va., on 1803 July 19. In the document Smith makes it clear that the sixty dollars he paid for her purchase from Charles King Mallory was advanced entirely by Sue and that he acted only as her "Friendly agent" in the matter, with no interest in holding her as a slave. The deed is witnessed by Richard Henry Lee and R. C. Archer.
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Steven B. Smith "Photographs of the suburban West" exhibit prints, 1995-2005 3 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 1 CD-ROM, 26 prints)

Collection contains twenty-six 16x20 inch black-and-white matted digital prints used in Smith's book, THE WEATHER AND A PLACE TO LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUBURBAN WEST, published by Duke University Press (2005). Subjects include tract housing in the West, construction sites, and other suburban landscapes that convey the impact of humans on the Western environment. His work received the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Collection also includes CD of artist talk given by Steven Smith at the 2005 exhibit opening, "Steven Smith: Photographs of the Suburban West." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Peter Xavier Smith papers, 1860-1951 and undated 12.4 Linear Feet 12,905 Items

Peter Xavier Smith was a member of a Catholic family living in Norfolk, Virginia. Chiefly personal correspondence centering around a Catholic family from Norfolk, Va. Many of the letters concern student life and events at Georgetown University. There are scattered letters from U.S. Congressmen.
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Nancy Lee Smith scrapbook, 1950-1956 0.5 Linear Feet 1 Item

Nancy Lee Smith was an undergraduate student at Duke University from 1950-1954. The topics of her scrapbook include: social and academic life at Duke, women at Duke, dormitory housing, North Carolina Methodist Youth Fellowship, and Women's Student Government Association.
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M. A. M. Smith letter, 1863 June 5 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

M. A. M. Smith was the wife of a Civil War soldier who resided in Mazeppa, Minnesota. Collection comprises a letter (1863 June 5) M. A. M. Smith wrote to a friend, discussing the conduct of the war ("What is to become of the country. How long shall or must we wait for the right man in the right place to do the wash."), politics, her psychological state, the state of her farm, and the safety of her husband. She notes, "Cares, work, weariness, the blues, dumps, without the ling, are doing their legitamate [sic] business in bringing gray hairs & wrinkles. Will be a regular "roan," ha. ha."
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The way it was, or at least how I remember experiencing it, 1980-1986 0.6 Linear Feet (1 upright hollinger, 1 upright half-hollinger)

Collection comprises Lola Frances Wilson Smith's 920-page typescript autobiography, including Wilson and Carroll family history, focusing on the period between 1909, when her parents married, and 1944, when she gave birth to her first child. Includes an additional 36 pages of introductory material where Smith describes herself. Smith accompanies her narrative with hand-drawn maps and illustrations or photocopies of illustrative material from other sources. She also includes copies of documents (marriage licenses, government documents, certificates, etc.) obituaries, genealogical charts, newspaper articles, family photographs, and private letters. Pages 885 to 920 are included as representative of Smith's working draft for the piece.
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Joseph Belknap Smith papers, 1802-1916 5 Linear Feet 1305 Items

Speculator and one of the founders of the Columbia Mining Company in Columbia Co., Ga. Collection (672 items; dated 1802-1872, bulk 1845-1872) includes personal and business letters, letterpress books (1849-1855), scattered diaries (1845-1907), miscellaneous business record books, and other papers of Smith and members of his family, mainly concerning Smith's speculative enterprises in mining, railroads, cotton planting, the Columbia Minining Co., and grain mills in Georgia, Tennessee, and other parts of the nation. The bulk of the material is of the period 1845-1872. Includes information on gold mining in Georgia and Tennessee, business conditions in the South before and after the Civil War, and the development of the railroad system in the South.
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John K. Smith papers, 1867-1924 0.5 Linear Feet 70 Items

African American farmer and family of Meadowview (Washington County), Virginia. Correspondence, legal, and financial papers of several generations of a rural black family in Washington County, Va., concerning personal and family matters, men working away from home, county taxes, black societies, religious activities, insurance and other topics.
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J. Holmes Smith papers, 1939-1940 and undated 0.1 Linear Feet

Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in India from 1930 to 1940, at Lal Bagh Ashram in Lucknow. Recalled to the United States in 1940 after participating in activities supporting Indian Indepedence and opposing India's forced participation in WWII as part of the British Empire. Collection comprises a telegram (8 Dec. 1939) to Smith from Jawaharlal Nehru inviting him to a meeting, an undated black-and-white photograph of that meeting or another Smith held with Nehru and others, a letter from Nehru regarding Smith's advancing in the United States the cause of India's independence (10 Jan. 1940) and commenting on imperialism, a letter from Rabindranath Tagore urging support of India's independence (16 Jan. 1940), and an undated booklet containing an"Homage" to Mahatma Gandhi following his death.
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J. Benjamin Smith papers, 1965-1988 1.3 Linear Feet 75 Items

J. Benjamin Smith was Duke Choral Director from 1968-1988. The collection includes clippings, black and white group photographs, correspondence, sheet music notebooks, "Fontainebleau Alumni Bulletin," and Smith's conductor's baton. The collection ranges in date from 1965-1988.
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J. Alfred Smith papers, 1902-2022 32.25 Linear Feet

Reverend Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr. is a Black minister who served as Senior Pastor at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, CA for several decades. He also taught for many years at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (now Berkeley School of Theology). This collection contains recorded and written sermons, teaching materials, event files, and other papers that document Smith's pastoral and teaching career. Materials in the collection document Smith's work to bridge denominational, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic divides in California and throughout the United States. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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Hilrie Shelton Smith papers, 1941-1983 2 Linear Feet 1,500 Items

Hilrie Shelton Smith began his long association with Duke University in 1931 as Professor of Religious Education. He remained at Duke until his retirement in 1963. He H. Shelton Smith was an expert on American religious thought and was considered the dean of American ecclesiastical thought and history. His collection contains material pertaining to his life including materials such as Smith's correspondence with colleagues; the correspondence and printed reviews concerning his individual books; and his sermons, addresses, and lectures. Materials in the collection date from 1941-1983.
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Gerrit Smith letters and newspaper clipping, 1865, 1867 0.1 Linear Feet (3 items)

Gerrit Smith was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Collection contains two letters and a letter to the editor of a newspaper, all written by Gerrit Smith in 1865 and 1867. In the letters, Smith comments upon being married ("any married man is not his own keeper") and an invitation he must reject because of his age. The topic of the letter to the editor is Smith's relationship to abolitionist John Brown.
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Franklin E. Smith papers, 1818-1890 and undated 3 Linear Feet Approx. 939 Items

Sea captain and naval officer, of Linwood (Delaware Co.), Pennsylvania Correspondence and other papers of Franklin E. Smith and his family, concerning Smith's various sea voyages from about 1818 to 1860, his marriage to Mary Carolina Trainer, his service in the Mexican War, his blockading activities aboard the U.S.S. Bienville during the Civil War, other events of the Civil War period, Smith's post-war life, and his conversion to Catholicism. Correspondents writing to the Smiths include Thomas F. Bayard, Henry R. Bringhurst, John M. Clayton, Charles I. Du Pont, George P. Fisher, Arthur H. Grimshaw, and Henry H. Lockwood.
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Florence Moss Smith papers, 1916-1973 4 Linear Feet circa 3,840 items

The Florence Moss Smith Papers span the period 1916 to 1973 and consist almost entirely of correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of letters exchanged between Florence and Frank Smith during their courtship and after their marriage between 1942 and 1945 when Frank Smith was serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. While this World War II correspondence forms the crux of the collection, the papers also chronicle Florence Smith's life from her undergraduate days at Duke University until the marriage of her children more than three decades later. One of the greatest research values of the collection, is its depiction of the impact World War II had upon families.

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