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Creighton Lacy has seved as a professor at Duke University Divinity School since 1953. The collection contains correspondence, reports, sermons, directories, memoranda, printed matter and clippings.

The Cronly family included Michael Cronly, Sr., auctioneer and real estate broker of Wilmington, N.C. and his wife, Margaret McLaurin Cronly and their nine children. Collection comprises correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, bound volumes, clippings and other print materials, and photographs of teh Cronly family of Wilmington, N.C. Topics include auctioneering and real estate in Wilmington, N.C.; Wilmington social life and economic conditions; Civil War experiences; African American life and condtions during Reconstruction; the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railway Company; railroad bonds; earthquake of 1886; and the Democratic Party and politics in North Carolina. Includes information on the Beatty, Cronly, McLaurin and Murphy families of North Carolina, and descriptions of Charleston (S.C.), Atlantic City (N.J.), Denver (Colorado), Genova (Italy), and the Hudson Fulton Celebration in New York City (1909). Of note is a detailed account of the Wilmington, N.C. 1898 insurrection and race massacre carried out by white supremacists, written by a woman in the Cronly family, possibly Margaret Cronly; the account is accompanied by a 6-page typed transcript.

The Sports Information Office provides information about Duke athletics to the media. They also facilitate press interviews with Duke athletes and coaches. The collection includes clippings, press releases, statistics, rosters, programs and press brochures/media guides about the cross country/track and field teams at Duke University. The material ranges in date from 1932-ongoing.

The Crowing Rooster Arts records contain original film, video, and audio resources as well as company records associated with Crowing Rooster Arts, a documentary and music production company focusing on Haiti's struggle for democracy and on labor, human rights, and immigration policy in Central America and the United States. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.

A collection of letters to Eastman from civil engineer Charles Sloane; journalist and social reformer Paul Underwood Kellogg; drama critic Clayton Meeker Hamilton; Eastman's secondary school friend Ida Langdon; an unidentified friend, Summer Robinson, and various other people (including Eastman's sister, Dorothy). Includes a folder of poetry and literature sent to Eastman by unidentified correspondents. There are no letters by Eastman in the collection.

The Cuban Revolution Materials collection comprises assorted printed materials and serials publications regarding the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Fidel Castro's governance, and U.S. foreign policy in Cuba in the 1960s, especially the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961. Committees and Organizations series contains assorted documents including leaflets, position statements, generated by pro-Cuba organizations based in major metropolitan areas, primarily New York City, in 1960 and 1961. Original sources are unknown; the collection was received as a transfer from the Duke University Library pamphlet collection.

Outdoor advertising company founded in 1912 in the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois environs.

Curtis Carroll Davis was a graduate student in English at Duke University from 1939-1947. The scrapbook includes correspondence, photographs, programs, invitations, telegrams, holiday cards and newspaper clippings accumulated during his early years as a doctoral student. It ranges in date from 1939-1942.

Author and medical doctor Cuthbert O. Simpkins (b. 1947) wrote the first biography of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (1926-1967), titled Coltrane: A Biography (Perth Amboy, NJ: Herndon House Publishers, 1975). The collection contains audio recordings of interviews Simpkins conducted with various family members, friends, and colleagues of Coltrane between 1971-1974 as a part of his research.

ALS. Hackett expresses his desire to visit the Polar regions and inquires if he may join an expedition.

The Cycles of Struggle: Genealogies of the Local Left conference was held at Duke University on November 11-12, 2005 with the purpose to "revisit the history of political organizing at Duke, in Durham, and in North Carolina… bringing to light the memory of this rich local history [to] inspire those already involved today in various forms of activism and those who might become involved in the future." Collection includes postcards, pamphlets, flyers, publications, comic strips, statement of purpose, and conference schedule. Collection includes postcards, pamphlets, flyers, publications, comic strips, statement of purpose, and conference schedule.

Cynthia Arnson is an author of research on US foreign policy, armed conflict, and human rights in Latin America, and is a former director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Collection contains materials related to research spanning Arnson's career, with primary emphasis on El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s and 1990s and additional emphasis on Guatemala and the broader Central American region in the same period and on Colombia from the 1990s to the 2010s. Materials include: congressional records and proceedings; reports from varied human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations; materials produced by the US Departments of State and Defense, including many declassified documents; and reporting on US foreign policy and events in Latin America by news outlets and intelligence agencies.

Personal and family correspondence, including the almost unintelligible letters of her son, Arthur Wilson Clark, who was mentally deranged and often signed himself "Napoleon Bonaparte." The early letters contain a few scattered references to the Spanish-American War.

British businessman prominent in Jewish circles; executive of M.H. Greenman Ltd., a London firm specializing in the supply of handles to the furniture trade. Letters, financial papers, printed material and clippings, principally an exchange between Henriques and his friend and business associate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Max H. Greenman Roth. Also includes letters between Henriques and his son Peter and others. Focus is chiefly on the company business, but also contains considerable personal news and emphasis on Jewish affairs. Topics include Brazilian news and politics, Arab refugees, Peron's downfall, discovery of oil in Israel between Gaza and Beersheba in 1955, the death of prominent Jews, meetings with Louis Golding, Neville Laski, James Rothschild and Lord Samuel, among others.

Cyrus O. Weller was a physician in Columbus, Texas. Collection comprises a medical ledger (209 pages, plus 14 pages index), dated 1880-1886, of Texas physician Cyrus O. Weller, whose patients included African Americans. The ledger includes entries for various African-American groups, such as the Union Guiding Star Association, The United Brothers of Friendship, and the Knights of Wise Men. Includes names, dates, prices for treatment, type of visit, and any treatment details, including pulling teeth, excising tumors, treating fractures, vaccinations, and amputations.

Fred Chappell is an author and a poet, and is a retired English professor from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dabney Stuart is also an author and poet, and is a retired English professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Accession (2009-0211) (150 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1984-2009) consists of Fred Chappell's letters to Dabney Stuart, covering a wide range of topics from personal stories and updates on families to his musings on literature and poetry in general. Chappell frequently offers feedback on Stuart's latest writings, as well as seeks input from Stuart on his own work. Occassional drafts are included for Stuart to read.

Dade Media Inc. is a marketing and advertising agency based in Delray Beach, Florida. The collection includes promotional materials; trade literature; outdoor awards publications; slides and photographs of billboards and mall advertisements; audio cassettes; and other materials relating to outdoor advertising. Companies represented include 3M National, AK Media, Atomic Props and Effects, Eller Media Company, Foster and Kleiser, Honda, Institute of Outdoor Advertising (IOA), Metromedia Technologies (MMT), Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), Outdoor Advertising Magazine, TDI, Titan Outdoor, and Young and Rubicam (Y&R). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Dale B.J. Randall (1929-2016) taught in the Duke English Dept. from 1957-1999 and in the Drama Program from 1991-1999. The collection includes material related to both the English Dept. and the Drama Program as well as Randall's scholarly research. Types of material include correspondence, flyers, programs, clippings, and articles. The collection ranges in date from 1940 through the 2010s.

Dance Pages (circa 1983-1997), a quarterly magazine, presented its readers with articles about a wide range of dance genres, performances, companies, and individual dancers. The magazine also contained studio listings, book and video reviews, and information about dance history and health. Kenneth Romo and Donna Gianell, both professional dancers, created Dance Pages as a hobby, and they continued to serve as the publishers and editors of the magazine as it grew in size and scope. In 1995, the magazine changed names, becoming Dance & the Arts, and moved to a bimonthly publication schedule. The magazine ceassed publication in 1997. The collection includes publicity information, magazines, drafts of articles and advertisements, paste-ups for advertisements and magazine features, newspaper clippings, press kits, programs, flyers, brochures, catalogs, invoices, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, contact sheets, negatives, 35 mm slides, and transparencies.

The Dance Program Performance Films are a video record of the performances put on by the Duke Dance Program from 1990-2012.

Dr. Daniel Collins was a dentist from South Carolina, and the first African American on the faculty of the School of Dental Science at the University of California at San Francisco. The Daniel A. Collins Papers span the years 1946-1986 and document aspects of the career and life of Collins, politically active Bay Area resident. The collection consists of a few items of correspondence; newspaper clippings about personal friends and family members; copies of his transcripts from UC Berkeley; materials on the history of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and other documents. The papers also house a folder of records from the Cocoa Merchants' Association of America in which Collins was involved through his import business, Beacol Enterprises, Ltd., for which there are also a few records. Photographs from trips to Indonesia and Africa complete the collection. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.

Engineer, author, and entrepreneur, of Charlotte (Mecklenburg Co.), N.C. Collection contains letters and papers relating to Tompkins' work in the Pennsylvania steel industry, specifically with the Bethlehem Iron Works, his career as an industrial engineer in North Carolina with the Westinghouse Machine Company, his personal life, his activities as co-owner of the Charlotte Observer and his disputes with the editor, J. C. Hemphill, his patents and inventions, his business activities and involvement with the textile, brick, and other industries, and the settlement of his estate. Includes ledgers and a stockholders' minute book of the D. A. Tompkins Company.

Papers consist of Drake's professional and personal correspondence. His correspondents include the Philadelphia physician, John Vaughan, to whom he recommends the chemist Robert Best; General Zachary Taylor; Kentucky Governor Robert Perkins Letcher, to whom he recommends Bishop B.B. Smith as Superintendent of Public Instruction; Coleman Rogers, with whom he had a personal disagreement; a patient, Mrs. Davis; and his grandson, Josiah C. Drake.

Autograph manuscripts, signed. Two sonnets, on his mother's miniature and on the burial of his son, April 20, 1883.

Daniel A. Livingstone is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biology at Duke University, with longstanding research interests in biology, limnology, paleolimnology, zoology, and other subjects. The Daniel A. Livingstone papers include the extensive correspondence of Dr. Livingstone from the 1980s to 2001 as well as other materials related to his research and teaching at Duke University.

Daniel McGregor Williams was a University of North Carolina graduate, civil engineer, water resources expert, and member of Company D of the 105th Engineers Regiment of the 30th Division of the American Expeditionary Force in the latter part of World War I. Collection is arranged into six series: correspondence, 1917-1918; addresses and writings, 1918-1933; miscellany, 1917-1957; clippings and printed material, 1918-1975; pictures, 1918-1920s; and volumes, 1924-1952. Correspondence includes commendations and military orders, while the writings include a personal account of Williams's war experiences, with detailed information on his division, its members, and engagements. Printed materials include clippings about Durham, North Carolina's water supply. World War I photographs include members of Company D, 105th Engineers, and the ship ZEALANDIA. Some photos are from the early 1920s and some show a clearing of land for the building of an electric power plant in Asheville, N.C. The volumes include a report on the power possibilities of the Flat River; a report on water improvements for Durham, N.C.; an annual report of Durham, N.C.; and a report on steps necessary to insure electric power in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Autograph receipt, signed, of payment from Robert Carter for the medical service rendered to one of his slaves by Mrs. Frances Morgan.

Planter and legislator of Camden, South Carolina. Collection comprises Daniel W. Jordan family and business correspondence, account books (1836-1877) and other financial papers, Jordan's accounting diploma from 1827, shipping records, notes on family history, and other material. Includes records and correspondence concerning Jordan's turpentine business, plantation management, the sale of cotton, slavery and associated labor and production, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, St. Mary's College (Raleigh, N.C.), the wreck of the steamship Charmer (1861), in which Jordan's daughter perished, and student life in Charleston, S.C.

Activist, community organizer, and theater director. Executive director of Charlotte's Lesbian and Gay Community Center. He also founded One Voice, a gay, lesbian and gay-affirmative chorus in Charlotte, NC, and OutCharlotte, an annual cultural festival that celebrated LGBT culture through theater, dance, music, visual art, film and video. Collection documents the activities of Dan Kirsch and his work with various North Carolina gay and lesbian organizations. Organizations represented in the collection include One Voice, the N.C. Lesbian and Gay Pride Board, PELAG, Time Out Youth, OutCharlotte, NC Pride, and The Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Charlotte.

Danny Lyon (1942- ) is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker originally from New York. The collection contains photographs and other writings created while Lyon served as a staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) between 1962-1964, later materials related to his books and films about the civil rights movement and its leaders, his time spent documenting Texas prisons between 1967-1968, and later projects related to several of the prisoners he met during his time in Texas. Materials related to Lyon's engagement with SNCC span 1963-2021 and include various photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, manuscripts, clippings, audiovisual materials, and other assorted files showcasing SNCC activities, civil rights marches, protests, demonstrations, and violence and discrimination against African Americans. Materials related to Lyon's work with Texas prisons span from 1950s-2011 and include photographs, correspondence, collected prison records and mugshots, legal files, clippings, manuscripts, drafts and maquettes, artwork, audiovisual materials, and other assorted files depicting the experiences of prisoners in several units of the Texas Department of Corrections (now the Texas Department of Criminal Justice) between 1967-1968, and several prisoners afterwards in several books published by Lyon including Conversations with the Dead, The Autobiography of Billy McCune, and Like a Thief's Dream. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts and the John Hope Franklin Center for African and American History and Culture.

Collection comprises twenty-five black and white gelatin silver 16x20 inch exhibit prints, representing a larger body of work on contemporary Iowa rural culture. The images portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. Scenes include cemeteries, slaughterhouses, farms, abandoned grain elevators, and fields. Individuals inhabiting the scenes include young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, hunters in fields, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish families, as well as more recent arrivals to Iowa, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and migrant workers in the fields and at home. The prints are housed in exhibit mats. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Daphne Muse is an African American writer, educator, cultural event planner, and social commentator from Washington, D.C. Her papers include a portion of her typescript and handwritten correspondence collection; materials related to her time with Drum and Spear Bookstore and her involvement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; her ephemeral publications and materials related to the cultural and political experiences of African Americans and persons of African descent; her study of multiculturalism in children's literature; and her academic tenure at UC Berkeley.

New York-based advertising agency formed in 1985 by the merger of the Benton & Bowles and D'Arcy-MacManus and Masius advertising agencies. In 2002 the agency closed upon acquisition by French company Publicis. Collection includes memoranda; correspondence; reports; corporate publications; marketing research reports; manuals; employee reference material; press releases; a press book; speeches; clippings; photographs and negatives in color and black-and-white; films, video and sound recordings, and DVDs; book manuscripts; financial papers; and a scrapbook. The collection documents the history of Benton & Bowles advertising; the merger of the D'Arcy MacManus Masius and Benton & Bowles companies; the early careers of William Benton and Atherton W. Hobler; employee training, recruitment, and management; corporate publications; and marketing research. Clients represented include the Procter & Gamble Company, General Foods Corporation, Allied Chemical Corporation, Avco Corporation, Colgate Palmolive Co., Florida Citrus Commission, International Business Machines Corporation, and West Point Pepperell. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Darlene Clark Hine is an African American professor, historian, college administrator, and published author in the field of African American history.

Darrin Zammit Lupi is an award-winning photojournalist based in Malta whose work often focuses on issues related to refugees, immigration, migrants, and disasters in Europe and globally. The collection includes five bodies of documentary work with 100 photographic prints and approximately 20,000 digital files of low-resolution and full resolution images, video, supporting journalistic documents and data, and web archived content of Zammit Lupi's website. The "Malta Detention" project consists of color photographs taken between 2004-2013 of African migrants and asylum seekers in Malta detention camps. The "On Board the MV Aquarius" project comprises color photographs and materials compiled in December 2017 while on board a migrant search and rescue ship operated by the non-profit organizations SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans frontières. "Journeys of Hope-Refugees in the Balkans" includes color photographs and files created in 2016 while documenting migrants and refugees in the Balkans. "Migrants within the Maltese Community" project entails color photographs and files compiled between 2002-2018 documenting the circumstances of migrants once they leave transitional housing or "open centers." The "Migrants at the Ukraine/Poland Border" includes mostly black-and-white prints alongside color images and other digital files documenting Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion in 2022. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.

Hosiery manufacturer and English emigrant. The collection includes letters, diaries and miscellaneous papers documenting the business enterprises and family life of Barrows.

David B. McCall was an advertising executive and humanitarian. He was the originator of the idea for the children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock. The David B. McCall Papers span the years 1939-1999, with the bulk documenting the years 1980-1994, and are comprised of clippings, correspondence, business reports, photographs, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, videocassettes, audio tapes and phonograph records. In particular, three main areas of McCall's career are represented: as an advertising executive and partner in agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Ogilvy Benson & Mather, McCaffrey & McCall, David J. Mahoney, Inc., the Sawyer Miller Group, and Shepardson Stern and Kaminsky; as a corporate director for the Hunter Fan Company, Save the Children, and two local radio broadcasting corporations, among others; and as a humanitarian involved with organizations such as the Committee for the Support of Roe v. Wade, CARE, and Refugees International. In addition, there is a substantial body of McCall's speeches and writings that reflect both the wide range of his professional and personal interests and commitments as well as his status as a public intellectual in high demand, as well as a number of files containing correspondence, clippings and articles concerning David Ogilvy, McCall's mentor in advertising. Major advertising campaigns represented in this collection include Mercedes Benz of North America, North American Philips, Life magazine, the American Can Company, Lever Brothers Company, and the Zippo Manufacturing Company, along with public relations work for such clients as the National Football League, Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), and the Regional Bell Operating Companies. Major humanitarian issues documented in the collection include the Unsell protest movement against the war in Vietnam, tobacco advertising aimed at children, land mine removal, refugee welfare, and support of abortion rights. McCall was also involved in political campaigns for a number of notable candidates, such as John Lindsay (New York), Harvey Gannt (North Carolina), George Kevarian (Massachusetts), Ramón Mitra (Philippines) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru). While McCall is recognized as the originator of the idea behind the popular children's educational television series Schoolhouse Rock!, the collection contains very little documentation concerning that project apart from a copy of the original soundtrack.

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David B. Shatzer was a salesman in Franklin Co, Penna. Census records indicate that Shatzer may have also been a shoemaker at this time. Possibly b. 1841 in St. Thomas (Franklin Co.), Penna. Collection comprises a copy (48 pgs.) of "Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book designed for Farmers, Mechanics and all people" distributed by the World's Dispensary Medical Association. Half of the pages were printed with advertisements and testimonials for Pierce's pharmaceutical products, along with his articles on the diseases of women, men, liver, blood, and lungs. It also includes an advertisements for the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. The rest of the pages contain handwritten notes made by Shatzer regarding his sales of Downing's galvanic battery, which was likely an electronic device used to treat various ailments, including headaches, rheumatism, neuralgia, and joint pain. Shatzer primarily recorded testimonies about the effectiveness of the device, but a few notes provide his sales figures. In addition, some notes suggest that Shatzer also sold pictures, copies of the Lord's Prayer and other prayers, and a product in bottles. It is clear that all of his sales were in Franklin County.

Collection contains correspondence, account books, receipts, statements, and other papers, chiefly relating to David Bullock Harris's training at West Point (1829-1833), his military career, and his tobacco business in Virginia, Kentucky, and England. Includes Civil War military papers and maps, accounts of the sale of slaves, and accounts of trade with Brazil. Also present are letters from Frederick Overton Harris, David's father, while in the Virginia House of Delegates, and from Nathaniel W. Harris, his brother and business partner. Other correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, D. H. Mahan, and Sylvanus Thayer.

American-born missionary and photographer who lived in Haiti during the 1970s. The black and white and color images in the David Cutrell Photographs portray life in the village of La Hatte Cadet in Haiti in the 1970s. Missionary David Cutrell lived in La Hatte Cadet and documented daily life with a Roliflex camera. Images include landscapes, portraits and snapshots of everyday life including family groups, children, adults, gardening, livestock, house repair, market day, and religious ceremonies and artifacts. Collection includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and 35mm and 2" color slides. Arranged in order by format and roll number. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts.

ALS. Writes regarding arrangements for the proofreading of Parry's Botanical report, to be published after his own geological report on the Northwest.

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Business executive, photographer and author based in New York; considered a pioneer in the field of public relations. David Finn papers include memos, art exhibit brochures, Ruder Finn print advertising and publications, and articles written by Finn and others. Companies represented include American Can, General Mills, Ruder & Finn, and Whirlpool. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

David Fisher is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Israel whose films have been shown internationally at film festivals, theaters, and special screenings. His film, The Round Number (2021) was influenced by his father's diary and experience during the Holocaust and Fisher's own questions about how and why the six million figure was written into canon, and what its meaning can tell people about the Holocaust. The collection includes electronic files of the film, trailers, frame stills, poster designs, reviews and accolades, and materials from film festivals The Round Number premiered at between 2021-2023. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts.

Dr. David Flournoy's ledger from his work as a physician attending patients in Caroline Co., Va. Entries typically include the names of his patients (including an indication of whether they were African American) and their various charges accrued due to his treatments, visits, prescriptions, etc. Also includes 2 manuscript items: a letter and a receipt.

David Fowler was an advertising executive who served as Worldwide Creative Director for the Ogilvy & Mather agency in New York. Collection includes booklets, briefing materials, presentations, texts of speeches and other materials in printed and electronic formats that document Fowler's career in advertising, brand management and marketing. Companies represented include Ammirati & Puris, British Petroleum, Coca-Cola (Fanta), DuPont, Goldman Sachs, Motel 6, and Ogilvy & Mather. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

David Edward Gatten is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Collection consists of one film reel: "Film for Invisible Ink case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" (dated 2010; 20 minutes, black-and-white, sound, 16mm). Also includes two copies of the catalog from Gatten's 2012 travelling retrospective of his career: "Ex Libris: Texts of Light," as well as an announcement for the 2012 premiere of his first digital film "The Extravagant Shadows". Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.