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Professional and personal correspondence and printouts of e-mail, arranged in chronological incoming and outgoing sequences.

Chiefly relates to fundraising efforts, the first anniversary dinner, various conferences, and projects, and to some extent work with other organizations in the community. Arranged chronologically.

Correspondence is divided into two subseries, Departmental and Individual. Departmental correspondence folders are arranged chronologically. Individual correspondence was sent to and from particular staff members, and folders are filed alphabetically by staff member last name.

Correspondence is foldered by organization and topic and arranged alphabetically by folder title. Series includes correspondence regarding project ideas with major contemporary African American Studies figures such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John Blassingame, and Leon Litwack. "Fan Mail" folder contains international responses spanning from Sweden to Ghana to Nigeria. Original titles have been retained. Larger record storage containers are designated "RS."

Contains professional correspondence between Hine and her professors, colleagues, and students over the course of her career, and some administrative and interdepartmental memoranda from each of the universities at which Hine served as professor. Correspondence also includes some letters of congratulation, History Department Faculty Speakers Committee correspondence, departmental meeting minutes, correspondence related to commencement addresses, college advisory committee meeting minutes. There are also two groups of correspondence files for Hine's exchanges with publishers and foundations. Records are arranged chronologically with some gaps present.

Consists primarily of routine correspondence with individuals and organizations who have expressed interest in Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI) and its publications. The general correspondence and the "signed-on letters" folders contain numerous petitions and protest letters. The highlight of the series is the extended material on the New Zealand "Girlcott Initiative" launched by Marilyn Waring in 1985. Organized chronologically by year, then alphabetically by folder name.

The Correspondence Series is divided into two subseries, Restricted and Open. The correspondence in both subseries consists of letters to and from Wasserman and her staff chiefly concerning the professional affairs of various writers represented by the agency: contract negotiations, auctions, publicity, and discussions of writing progress. Correspondence is predominantly about rather than from the writers, although the papers of some--notably Richard Bausch, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, George Kennan, and Reynolds Price--contain a number of their own letters.

Chiefly professional letters of the late 1950s to 1970s received and copies of letters sent, as well as memoranda, alphabetically arranged by correspondent and chronologically arranged within the correspondent's file. Also contains miscellaneous attachments and other non-correspondence mailed to or collected by Marney, such as press releases, organizational charts, leaflets, bulletins, financial records, clippings, writings, and newsletters. In cases of correspondence with a prominent individual, or extensive correspondence with an individual or organization, a separate file has been maintained, for example the American Baptist Convention. Includes several files for Marney family members. This series may contain sensitive materials pertaining to various associates of Marney. Note the statement on the title page concerning this issue.

Many of the files on individual works contain color slides and photographs, fabric and embroidery samples, research and correspondence. This series does not include the completed works, which have been separately cataloged when held.

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Country Files were collected, arranged, and preserved by EPICA staff. The documents include newsletters, leaflets, position statements, advocacy materials, analytical papers, and the like, from grassroots groups, political parties, church bodies, academics, etc.

The materials in this series consist mostly of subject and research files accumulated by Evans during her career as a professor and historian of women's history. Subjects include feminism, minority women, religion, violence, civil rights, lesbianism, motherhood, socialist feminism, and employment. Other items include course and curricular materials, printed materials and publications, conference information, and some correspondence. This series includes a slide show from a feminist organization.

Contains student papers from various history courses offered at Duke. Professor I.B. Holley's History 195/196, "The Concept of a University," papers deal with topics relevant to the history and development of Trinity College and Duke University. Miscellaneous course papers include a bound volume from Prof. Laura F. Edwards "Women Making History in the Nineteenth-Century South," along with teacher evaluations from Prof. I.B. Holley's History 312. In addition to general topics in twentieth century American history, a majority of the Watson course papers consist of oral history projects in which students interviewed family members about their personal experiences during the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War.

This series contains materials related to Porter's career as a writer primarily notes and draft typescripts of his short stories and novels.

The Cylinders and Discs series collects together two groups of recordings. The first includes the media Brown recorded in the field, and consists of wax cylinders, aluminum discs, and lacquer-coated discs. The second group includes glass lacquer preservation copies made by the Library of Congress, from Brown's originals, in the early 1940s; among these is a set of five discs featuring Bascom Lamar Lunsford, which have been digitized.

Subdivided by century for Haggadot published from the 13th through the 19th centuries and by decade (e.g. 1910-1919) for those Haggadot created during the 20th and 21st centuries. The majority of the Haggadot (84%) are from the 20th century. Arranged alphabetically within each date subdivision.

The Dunlop family of Petersburg, Virginia, engaged in the manufacture and export of tobacco for more than a century, their interests dating back at least to 1820 when James Dunlop built a large factory. His brothers Robert and David also were involved in manufacturing, and the business of David Dunlop and his descendants is the one represented here by an important, although incomplete, set of records. The proprietorship of the firm varied over the years and is not always clearly defined in the existing records. The Letter Book, 1842-1846, indicates that David Dunlop was operating under his own name. He was also a partner with his brother in the firm of John A. Dunlop & Co. of Louisville, Kentucky, with whom he corresponded. A brother was in the Petersburg Company of Dunlop & Tennant (letter of July 24, 1844). The letters indicate considerable business with Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

Law School Dean's papers cover a wide range of topics relating to the management and operations of the law school. Some of the law school deans were faculty members before or after their time as dean, and there may be information from their time as faculty members within their papers. Further historical information about the deans of the law school is available here: http://www.law.duke.edu/history/deans

Kwilecki assigned a unique number to each print, indicating the roll number, month and year, and frame number. However, quite a few have no print numbers. When titles or dates are not present, they have been supplied in brackets by the processing archivist.

The Departmental Materials series contains academic and administrative materials produced by the Drama Program and the successive Department of Theater Studies. The materials have been organized into two subseries. The Administration subseries includes departmental records and the Performances subseries is comprised of materials related to student and faculty productions.

Houses materials related to the desegregation of the Durham, N.C. city schools, proposed redistricting, and the repeated failed attempts to consolidate the city and county administrative units into a single school district (accomplished in 1992). Formats include memos and internal school board documents, clippings, correspondence from parents, legal files and briefs, study and survey reports, maps, proposals (in both draft and completed form), and a printed booklet. The extensive court files mostly pertain to the NAACP suit of Wheeler, Spaulding, and Thompson v. the Durham City and County School Boards, begun in 1960 and continuing on through 1975; they are of particular interest in documenting the various court mandates and school board proposals for desegregation plans. The later court papers (from 1974 and 1975) contain useful summaries of the process of desegregation, as well as progress reports and statistics gathered by the school board and submitted to the court. Researchers interested in the attempted merger of the city and county schools may wish to consult the files on the bond issues of 1967-1973 in the Subject Files Series, which contain some related materials. Those interested in federal financial support for desegregation may also wish to consult the files on the Emergency School Aid Act of 1972.

Series contains documents related to detention facilities holding immigrant and refugee populations of interest to Florida Immigration Advocacy Center, particularly Haitian populations. The series focuses on Krome, Turner Guilford Knight, and Guantanamo detention facilities as well as county jails and other facilities holding immigrants and refugees. Many files deal with allegations of abuse and mismanagement within the facilities. Files include legal documents such as affidavits and court records and other materials such as newspaper articles, correspondence, government reports, and PR materials. Also included are files related to Haitian asylum and repatriation and materials related to Guantanamo children and child refugees. Sensitive and confidential material has been moved to the Restricted Files series. Files are arranged in approximate alphabetical order.

Series includes 745 black-and-white photographs, dated 1900-1941 (most dates were assigned rather than provided), and ranging in size from 2.25 x 3.25 in. to 9.75 x 7.75 in., with the majority 4.75 x 6.75 in. There are also 5 safety negatives and one slide present. Staff sorted the images according to location, except for the presentation photographs, where the original order of the photographs was maintained. Images feature Lucy's residences, both in the American legation quarters and her "Temple house;" locations in and around Beijing; as well as other locations in China, Japan, Cambodia, and the Philippines. A subset of 15 photographs contains images captured during the Peking riots of 1912. There is also a folder of images of the Calhoun's that were taken in the United States.

Contains papers relating to development and funding at the Center for International Policy. The papers take two forms: grant proposals addressed to the various donors of the Center, or subject files detailing the work of the various programs at the Center with materials used in the grant writing process. Typically the documents were written by a number of staff members within the office. Organized alphabetically by name.

Includes one diary maintained by Harriet T. Danforth (1858 Jan.3-1859 Nov. 30?) and her daughter Emma Danforth Wynn (1860? Aug. 26-Dec. 13), and two of Walter Sutton's. Sutton's notations include financial information.

The Diaries series contains 21 diaries kept by Wood for the years 1856 to 1885. The journals dating from 1859 to 1866 reflect the the years Wood served as a missionary in China. Diary entries relate Wood's voyage to China, his observations on life and customs in China and on the Tai-Ping Rebellion, and the illness and death of his wife Ellen, who accompanied him to China.

Consists of typed transcripts of diaries. The first dates on the folder represent the time periods covered by the diary entries, the date in parentheses is the approximate date of the transcript. Arranged chronologically by the dates of the diary entries.

Roundell Tristram Toke's personal narratives of his military service in China and Japan take the form of three bound commercial daily diaries and one disbound diary, housed in two custom boxes. A leather cigar case labeled with Toke's service history is also preserved along with the diaries.

Arranged in chronological order, with loose papers from individual volumes placed in folders immediately following that particular volume.