Minutes, financial records, correspondence, memorabilia, and other materials from various Durham labor unions and their local umbrella organization, the Durham Central Labor Union. Accession 2001-0007 has been interfiled with accession 1999-0158.
Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company founded, 1884 by J. A., J. M., and W. R. Odell, W. H. Branson, and Julian S. Carr. Headquarters in Durham, N.C. Dissolved, 1940. Letterpress copybooks, invoices, cancelled checks, check stubs, receipt books, and invoices and accounts from Joshua L. Baily and Co., Philadelphia brokers who sold goods for the company. Most of the material represents the years 1915-1934. Includes information on fluctuations in cotton prices, export trade in cotton cloth, types of cloth and machinery, freight rates, salaries, workers' medical care, tenement rents, stockholders, dividends, and distribution of excess profits.
Durham County is located in the northeast central North Carolina; it was established in 1881 from lands in Wake and Orange counties. The city of Durham was incorporated in 1866 and then again in 1869. Collection was assembled by library staff, and is arranged in rough chronological order beginning in 1868. Within the chronology, decades are broken down by subject. Formats include correspondence, deeds, leaflets, articles, events programs, booklets, maps, pamphlets, and some photographs. Subjects include: activism, performing arts, business, churches, clubs, courts, education, libraries, historic sites and landmarks, parades, city and county politics, public works, publications, real estate, senior citizens, utilities, Watts Hospital, women's clubs and women's history, preservation of Eno River lands, and the YMCA/YWCA. Materials relating to African Americans in Durham County are found throughout.
Collection comprises letters, bills, time books, ledgers, check stubs, inventories, broadsides, stock certificates, dye house records, and other materials. The bulk of the letters, 1895-1897, date to George M. Graham's service as secretary and treasurer of the Durham Hosiery Company, as do many of the volumes. Topics include machinery and supplies purchased from firms in the North, newly organized textile mills in the South, the installation and repair of machinery, the sale of hosiery, the purchase of yarn, wages offered, and the hiring of laborers.
Margaret Durham was an undergraduate student at Trinity College from 1912-1917. The scrapbook includes personal correspondence, photographs, clippings and assorted mementos of holidays and events held by fraternities and sororities.
The Durham Bicentennial Commission, officially registered as the Durham-County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, was a Durham County, N.C. organization responsible for coordinating and planning events to celebrate the American Bicentennial in 1976. Collection contains materials relating to the various activities sponsored by the Commission, the members of the various committees, financial records in the collection and the participants in the Folklife and Summer Arts festivals held in 1976. The lists of potential participants and actual participants name numerous artists, craftpersons, and musicians. Included also are three oversize maps of the NC Bicentennial Folklife Festival grounds. The official name of the Commission as registered with the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration was The Durham-County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
Robert Lee Durham was a star athlete who graduated from Trinity College in 1891. His collection contains correspondence, manuscripts of orations and songs, clippings and other printed materials.
The Durham Savoyards is a Durham (Durham Co.), N.C., production company for Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, founded in 1963 and incorporated in 1964. Collection comprises the archives of this organization and consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, programs, financial records, posters, director's notes, stage design, black-and-white and color photographs, music videocassettes, color slides, and clippings. Includes "The Savoyards, Durham Savoyards Limited, 1989" and "Mindful of the Whys and Wherefores; a Savoyard Producer's Journal" by James L. Parmentier. There are a few photographs that pre-date the founding of the Savoyards in 1963; they feature images of comic operas performed at the Southern Conservatory of Music in Durham.
Community theatre of Durham County, North Carolina. Established in 1947 and disbanded in 1994. The collection includes account books; tax and insurance records; board meeting minutes (dating from 1946-1994); scrapbooks and scrapbook files, arranged alphabetically (dating from 1950-1994); posters and handbills of the Durham Theatre Guild; audio and videocassettes; news clippings and photographs; and various ephemera, including buttons and t-shirts (dating from 1950-1993).
ALS. English translation available. Informs Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire that his present research relates to the heat generated by plants. Dutrochet measures this energy with a thermo-galvanometer, which Becquerel has taught him to use. Thanks Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire for informing him about recent events at the Academy and hopes that such inappropriate scenes will not recur, as they are detrimental to the reputation of the Academy. Comments upon the possible confirmation of the theory that swallows hibernate.
Henry R. Dwire was an alumnus of Trinity College and was appointed Duke University Vice President in 1941 and Director of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs in 1944. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, certificates and a diploma. The collection ranges in date from 1897-1944.
Approximately 2000 individual zines and nearly 800 titles, most self-published by women and girls 1985-2000. Most were produced in the United States, a few come from Canada and other countries. Subjects include feminism, riot grrrl, body image and consciousness, sexual abuse, music, mental illness, film, poetry, rock and punk music, comics, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality and bisexuality, and erotica. The collection includes four audiocassette tapes and one VHS tape. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massacusetts. Collection comprises two letters written by Earle, along with an unrelated cover addressed to her.
Business and professional correspondence of Pliny Earle, Sr., (1762-1832), inventor and cotton textiles manufacturer, and of Pliny, (1809-1892), physician and alienist, including a few personal letters to Miss Earle. Correspondence addressed to Earle, Sr., touches on politics, patent rights and carding machines. Correspondence addressed to Earle relates to mental illness and the institutional care of the mentally ill. He received letters from physicians, institutional administrators, and philanthropists, including a number of letters of introduction. Items, mostly ALS and 10 addressed envelopes, are arranged in roughly chronological order.
Howard Easley was a psychologist and professor of Education at Duke University from 1930 to 1957. Collection includes correspondence, course materials, manuscripts, lists, printed matter, and other papers concerning the Education Department, parapsychology, educational psychology, testing and related subjects. Correspondence, 1936-1942, with students, colleagues and editors includes copies of 1938 letters between J.B. Rhine and Virginia Harding, mother of purported psychic Faith Harding.
The East India Company was an English joint-stock company formed in 1600 that ruled portions of South Asia until 1858. This collection contains over 55 documents including miscellaneous legal papers, correspondence, receipts, and extracts largely relating to the East India Company's operations and employees; three documents relating to Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, the Nabob of Arcot (1745-1795); manuscripts relating to Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803), who traveled to India in 1774 as one of the first justices of the Supreme Court at Calcutta; and a petition written by the wife of Almas Ali Khan, an important administrator in Awadh and one of the key figures in the trial of Warren Hastings. These manuscripts seem to have formerly been part of Sir Thomas Phillipps noted collection.
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.
ALS from William Tully informs Eaton that Stephen Van Rensselaer is at home. Eaton responds with an ALS to Van Rensselaer informing him of what his sons will need to bring if they are to accompany his expedition. In a later ALS Ebenezer Emmons solicits Eaton's editorial advice for the second edition of his "Manual of mineralogy and geology."
Advertising executive and music director for Young & Rubicam and Benton & Bowles agencies in New York. First African American with hold general creative managerial responsibilities in a major American advertising agency. Noted composer and concert pianist.
The Economic Science Association is a professional organization devoted to economics as an observable science, using controlled experiments to learn about economic behavior. The collection consists of founding documents and bylaws of the ESA, as well membership lists, some business and conference meeting materials, and some files relating to the operation of Experimental Economics , the journal of the organization.
Frank W. Fetter (1899-1991) was a professor emeritus of economics at Northwestern University. This collection priarmily documents his professional life through his correspondence and diaries, writings, research, professional and faculty activities, and photographs. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Franklin Fisher (1934-2019) was the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, teaching, writings, and professional activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Bruno Foa (1905-1999) was a professor of economics and an economic advisor and consultant. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and professional activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Duncan Foley (born 1942) is the Leo Model Professor Emeritus of Economics at The New School for Social Research. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his writings, research, correspondence, and teaching. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
William Frazer was a professor of economics at the University of Florida. This collection contains material related to economist Milton Friedman, including interviews conducted by Frazer. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Myrick Freeman (circa 1936-2022) was the William D. Shipman Professor Emeritus of Economics at Bowdoin College. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his professional activities, correspondence, writings, and research. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Jim Friedman (born 1936) is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. This collection documents his professional life through his research and dissertation. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
William Henry Glasson (1874-1946) was Professor of Political Economy and Social Science at Trinity College and Duke University and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and research. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Crauford Goodwin (1934-2017) was the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Economics and administrator at Duke University. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
William Gorman (1923-2003) was an emeritus fellow at Nuffield College. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and research. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Clifford Hildreth (1917-1995) was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Minnesota. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence and writings. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Randall Hinshaw papers, 1930-199718 Linear Feet (12 record cartons, two document boxes, and three audiocassette boxes.)1.4 Gigabytes (One set.)
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Randall Hinshaw (1915-1997) was a professor of economics at the Claremont Graduate School. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, professional activities, and teaching. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
The History of Economics Society seeks to promote communication, dessiminate knowledge, and encourage inquiry into the history of economics. This collection contains membership and financial records, papers and proceedings of annual meetings, officer's correspondence, constitution and bylaws, and publications, including accepted and rejected manuscripts from the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
The History of Political Economy is a scholarly journal that focuses on the history of economic thought. This collection documents the activites of the publication and includes rejected manuscripts. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Calvin Hoover (1897-1974) was the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Economics and dean of the Graduate School at Duke University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Leonid Hurwicz (1917-2008) was a Nobel Prize winner and Regents' Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Minnesota. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is an international non-profit organization committed to promoting awareness of and advancing scholarship in feminist economics. This collection documents their founding in 1992 and subsequent growth through records related to their self-governance, Annual Conference, and academic journal Feminist Economics. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Frederick Joerg (died 1983) was a professor emeritus and administrator at Duke University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his faculty, administrative, and professional activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Homer Jones (1906-1986) was Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and speeches. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Lawrence Klein (1920-2013) was a Nobel Prize winner and the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance, Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-2022) was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, and research. Acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
H. Gregg Lewis (1914-1992) was a professor emeritus of economics at Duke University and the University of Chicago. This collection documents his professional life through his research, writings, and teaching. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Thomas Mayer (1927-2015) was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Davis. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence and writings. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Lionel McKenzie (1919-2010) was the Wilson Professor of Economics, Emeritus at the University of Rochester (after beginning his career at Duke University). This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, teaching, and professional activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Gerald M. Meier (1923-2011) was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics and Policy Analysis, Emeritus at Stanford University. This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings and speeches, and research. It forms parts of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Karl Menger (1902-1985) was a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.