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Peter Klopfer is a Professor in the Department of Biology (previously known as Zoology). This collection contains ledger books and information relating to grants and research proposals, ranging in date from 1957-1971.

ALS. Thanks Metayer de Guichainville for Persian stamps received, proposes several subjects for articles, and mentions the manuscript of his work of volcanoes and earthquakes. A clipping on Parisian reaction to the Eiffel Tower is attached to the letter.

Douglas M. Knight, born in 1921, served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969. Knight was educated at Yale and served as president of Lawrence University prior to becoming president of Duke. After leaving Duke in 1969, he worked as an industry executive at several firms. Records include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, surveys, reports, writings and speeches, minutes, audio-visual media, honorary citations, clippings, and printed matter. Major subjects include the administration of Duke University, the planning of a new art museum, university development, Duke's Fifth Decade Campaign and fundraising, the Duke Board of Trustees, Knight's inauguration, the School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Forestry, the Graduate School of Business, student protest, African-American students at Duke, the takeover of the Allen Building by members of the Afro-American Society, and student rights. Major correspondents include R. Taylor Cole, E.R. Latty, Lath Meriam, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, R. Philip Hanes, Nancy Hanks, R. Patrick Ransom, George V. Allen, Charles B. Wade, Henry Rauch, Edwin L. Jones, Wright Tisdale, Les Brown, Ellen Huckabee Gobbel, Mark Pinsky, Graddon Rowlands, and Floyd B. McKissick.

Correspondence, diaries and notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, genealogical documents, printed materials, and other materials pertain to the John Knight family of Natchez, Mississippi and Frederick, Maryland. Materials in the collection date from 1784 to 1960, and the bulk date from the 1840s to the 1890s. The majority of the papers concern the personal, legal, and financial activities of John Knight (1806-1864), merchant, plantation owner, lawyer, and investor; Frances Z.S. (Beall) Knight (1813-1900), his wife; and their daughter Frances (Fanny) Beall Knight McDannold; as well as their children, relatives, friends, and business partners, especially banker Enoch Pratt and William Murdock Beall. Significant topics include: life in Natchez, Mississippi and Frederick, Maryland; their management of plantations and enslaved people; slavery in Mississippi and other Southern states; 19th century economic conditions, especially concerning cotton, banking and bank failures; U.S. politics in the 1850s-1860s; the Civil War, especially in Maryland; cholera and yellow fever outbreaks; 19th century family life; and the Knights' travels to Europe, Russia, and other places from 1850 to 1864. Genealogies chiefly relate to the descendants of Elisha Beall of Maryland, and the McCleery, Pettit, and McLanahan families of Indiana and Maryland. Papers of John Knight's wife, Frances (Beall) Knight, include her diaries, correspondence, and legal papers. There are also diaries kept by Fanny, their daughter, documenting her travels in the 1860s, as well as her school notebooks and correspondence.

Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Two letters written by Laura Knight on 1939 May 11 that provide letters of introduction for contacts in the United States on behalf of fellow artist Clara Klinghoffer. One is written to Klinghoffer, the other to Marion Fenhagen.

Document on folded parchment, written in French, from Maltese branch of Knights Hospitaller. Content currently unknown. More modern stamp in blue ink on document indicates that the document was in the "Archives de l'Ordre Malthe."

Mary Tarleton Knollenberg (1904-1992) was an American sculptor working primarily in bronze, stone and plaster. Her artwork characteristically portrays the female form and expressions of female identity. She specialized in nudes; however, her oeuvre also contains animals, busts, and portraits. The Mary Tarleton Knollenberg papers comprise photographs of her family and her sculptures, correspondence with her husband and fellow artists, journals, and ephemera related to her work and exhibitions. The collection also contains resources used in the creation of the retrospective Modern Figures, written by Tarleton's grand-niece, Ippy Patterson.

KNOW Inc. was a publisher and distributor founded in 1969 by members of the Pittsburgh National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter. Collection consists of assorted ephemeral printed materials distributed by KNOW Inc., relating to second-wave feminism and social sciences.

North Carolina woman who taught school in Europe. Letters (76 items; dated 1951-1953) to parents chiefly sent from Paris with a few from Germany, describing social life and post-war atmosphere. Includes one photograph of New Year's Eve party, and telegram. Addition (200 items; dated 1976-1997) contains 42 ledgers and two loose-leaf file folders containing Knox's journals. There are also copies of the family's newsletter, and some of Knox's correspondence.

Direct marketing and advertising executive based primarily in Chicago, Ill. Jim Kobs papers include: correspondence, mail order catalogs, mailings, print advertisements and advertising designs, research reports, slides and photographs and audiovisual materials (audiocassettes, videocassettes, 16mm film, DVD) that document Kobs' career in direct, database and catalog marketing. Companies and institutions represented include: Amoco, AT&T, Bankers Life, Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, DHL, Direct Mail Advertising Association (DMAA), Direct Mail Marketing Association (DMMA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Encyclopedia Britannica, Gander Mountain, General Electric, General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Mayo Clinic, Montgomery Ward, Playboy, Prudential, Scott Paper, Tupperware, U.S. Navy recruiting, Wayside Gardens and Xerox. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

The Koinonia Community was a Christian farm community founded in 1942 in Americus (Sumter Co.), Ga., by Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England. Collection comprises one article (1953, reprinted from MOTIVE magazine by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church), as well as two memoranda soliciting support for the community as a result of violence directed toward it during the 1950s because of its interracial composition.

Henry E. Kolbe graduated from Duke University in 1933. The collection includes Kolbe's writings, correspondence, and photographs. The material ranges in date from 1928-1934.

Claudia Koonz is an emeritus professor of history at Duke University, whose research has focused on Nazi Germany and on ethnic hatreds and fears. The Claudia Koonz papers include some records related to the Refugee Action Project and a proposed center for research on human security.

Copywriter and advertising executive with Gimbels and Macy's department stores and the Ogilvy & Mather agency.

ALS. Sends information on cases of artificial anus.

Advertising executive with Doyle Dane Bernbach and DDB Needham agencies in the New York and Los Angeles offices; marketing executive for Universal Pictures. Collection spans the 1950s-2015 and includes policy and training manuals, media campaign reports, speeches and writings and press clippings, other printed materials, print advertisements, photographs, slides, and other materials that relate to Kornblit's career in advertising at the Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) and DDB Needham agencies. Companies referenced include American Tourister (American Luggage), Thom McCan shoes, and Volkswagen. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Set of 95 photographic color images in slide format, taken by Jeff Kosokoff, a librarian at Duke University, Durham, N.C., while traveling in Japan, mainland China, and Taiwan from January to April 1983. The images are arranged by geographic location, in alphabetical order: Akira, Japan; Hong Kong; Hohhot (or Huhhot), the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in North China; the Inner Mongolia grasslands; and Taipei, Taiwan. Subjects includes the rural landscapes and cityscapes of each area and its citizens, including street scenes and street art, markets, advertising and other signs, vending machines, and modes of transportation. Photographs taken in Inner Mongolia include dwellings (yurts), families and individuals in native dress, domestic Bactrian camels, and some scenes from the city of Hohhot. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Jeanette Kostyrka was a Catholic anti-abortion activist who distributed prayer cards encouraging "spiritual adoption" of "unborns." The collection primarily consists of requests for and acknowledgements of receipt of prayer cards, as well as a small amount of other correspondence and anti-abortion brochures and pamphlets, including some with images of fetuses.

Preprinted Jewish marriage certificate for bride Freyda Koyfman and groom Barukh Zilberglayt from the Galata and Beyoglu Eskenazi Society in Istanbul, Turkey. Stamped, sealed and signed.

Paul Jackson Kramer, a world renowned educator, scientist and author, was professor of botany at Duke University from 1931-1995. The Paul J. Kramer Papers reflects Kramer's career as a university professor and plant physiologist, his participation in various scientific and learned societies including his service within the National Science Foundation and on the U.S. Air Force's Committee on the Disposal of Herbicide Orange, and his involvement in the development of the Botany Dept., the Phytotron, and Duke University. Materials include correspondence, reports, writings and addresses, memoranda, research and teaching material, photographs, and printed matter. Major subjects include Kramer's contributions in the field of botany, particularly plant-water relationships, the physiology of forest trees, and botanical research in controlled environments. English.