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The Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) Athletic Association was responsible for organizing athletic events, such as baseball and basketball games. The collection includes correspondence and contracts and ranges in date from 1912-1937.

Duke University has had a baseball team since 1889, when the first team was established at its predecessor, Trinity College (Randolph County, N.C.). The collection includes the scorebook of the Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) baseball team from the 1924 season as well as a few pieces of correspondence. The collection dates from the years 1924 and 1966.

The Columbian Literary Society was founded in 1846. The Hesperian Literary Society was founded in 1851. Records of both the Columbian Literary Society and Hesperian Literary Society documenting their activities. Included are numerous minute books, roll books, treasurer's books, book lists, constitutions and bylaws as well as some correspondence and programs for events co-hosted by the societies.

The Tom Triman Films are comprised of 132 super 8mm reels and one VHS videocassette, containing the productions of horror movie fan/historian/critic Tom Triman (1952-2010).

Eugene and Margaret Triman both served in the United States military during World War II; Eugene was a sailor and was stationed on submarines, and Margaret was a member of the Women's Army Corps. The majority of this collection consists of Eugene's letters to Margaret while the couple was dating and engaged to marry. There are also five photographs of their wedding day, in April 1946, as well as some newspaper clippings about Margaret's WAC service and two booklets on birth control.

Keith Tribe (b. 1949) is a British economic historian and academic translator whose work covers topics such as political economy, the history of economic thought, the development of economics as a discipline, historical figures Adam Smith and Max Weber, and agricultural economic history. Collection consists of materials documenting Tribe's work as an economic historian, particularly as it relates to British economists and the development of economics as discipline in Great Britain. Materials include subject files on and audiocassettes containing interviews with British economists. Other materials in the collection, comprising electronic files, document select publications, teaching, and other professional activities of Tribe. Acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.

The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) is a collaborative laboratory operated on the campus of Duke University. The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory records include progress reports and archived websites.

The Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC) was incorporated in 1965 as a cooperative venture between Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the goal of providing main-frame computing services, such as electronic data and batch processing, to the universities, RTI International and others. It dissolved in 1990 due to financial difficulties, the increased use of personal computers, and disagreements among the partners. Materials in the collection include administrative records, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial and statistical reports, memoranda, proposals, newsletters, photographs, slides, a scrapbook, and other materials from the Triangle Universities Computation Center.

Raging Grannies is an activist organization that promotes peace, justice and social and economic equality by raising consciousness through song and satire. They also aim to challenge stereotypical assumptions about advocacy and aging. This collection contains materials documenting the Triangle chapter of the Raging Grannies in North Carolina from 1998-2015.

Triangle Community Works! was formed in 1994 and consists of a coalition of groups, including ASPYN (A Safer Place Youth Network), The Gay and Lesbian Helpline, P-FLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and RRNGLE (Raleigh Religious Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality). Collection includes historical documents from several groups in Triangle Community Works!, including ASPYN, RRNGLE, and the Gay and Lesbian Helpline. Materials date from the 1970s to 2008.

ALS. Informs Talbot that upon his return to London he will suggest the appointment of a subcommittee to report upon a certain matter.

Josiah Charles Trent (1914-1948) was an American thoracic surgeon and rare book and manuscript collector. This collection primarily documents his medical education and training apart from his career at Duke University Hospital, as well his collecting activities, through his coursework, subject files, and writings. It was acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections.

ALS. Treat requests medical supplies and reports of Indian atrocities on the frontier.

The collection comprises 35 trans-inclusive zines gathered and distributed by the Transgender Oral History Project beginning in 2012, along with an informational folder for the project. The zines date from 1992-2013 or are undated. The majority feature single-issues, in only a few instances are there duplicate copies of an issue. Topics include the politics of patriarchy, sexuality, being queer; gender issues; developmental issues for adolescents and youths identifying as queer or trans; transitioning; instruction for children and allies, including use of pronouns; and the history of the Transgender Oral History Project.

William and James Trahern were merchants in Brunswick (Brunswick Co.), Virginia. Merchants' accounts, including daybooks, 1803-1806, and a record of cotton storage, 1825-1827, of William Trahern; and daybooks, 1806-1822, and an index of James Trahern.

The Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement Inc. (TAB) is a nonprofit organization focused on out-of-home media circulation research, founded in 1933. TAB rebranded as Geopath in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. The collection includes annual reports; financial data; instructional manuals; meeting records; newsletters; traffic survey and statistical research reports; and other printed materials that document ongoing developments and changing priorities at TAB especially for the years 1983-1996. Topics addressed include business relationships with plant operators; construction standards; education and training; outdoor poster design and visibility standards; public relations and outreach; research and reporting methodology; strategic planning and institutional reorganization. Individuals and organizations represented include A.C. Nielsen, Ad Council, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Anna Fountas, Association of National Advertisers, Byron Chandler, John Miller, Ken Sammon, Larry Hennessy, Market Information Services of America, Outdoor Advertising Association of America, and Wilbur Smith and Associates. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Outdoor Advertising Archives.

Posters and some brochures and pamphlets acquired by Bill Tracy during his time at the American University of Beirut. The majority of the collection consists of political posters from Palestine and tourism posters from Lebanon. Also included are some travel brochures and pamphlets about various sites in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon. Materials largely date from the 1960s to the 1970s.

Holograph document. Statement of payment due from Major Joshua Huntington for medical services for the years 1776-1778.

Eckard Toy was an American history professor and scholar who studied the history of race, the Ku Klux Klan, and neo-Nazis in the United States, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Collection includes Toy's research files and related materials on various extremist groups in the United States, particularly right-wing Christian extremists, the Ku Klux Klan, and Holocaust revisionists. Files are arranged by group or topic and at times include Toy's correspondence with various representatives. Notable groups include the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan, the German American National Political Action Committee (GANPAC), the Institute for Historical Review, and Christian Biblical America. Collection also contains Toy's research on Francis Yockey and Gordon Kahl. Materials from the IHR include two VHS tapes and one audiocassette on Holocaust revisionism.

Consists of genealogical information, correspondence, photographs, diaries, notebooks, and a manuscript autobiography relating to the large Townsend family of Felchville, Vermont.

Cuban people emigrated to the United States as refugees in 1980 during the Mariel Boatlift. A small percentage of them were imprisoned in the U.S. on felony charges, which are cause for deportation under immigration law. After a 1987 prison riot where Cuban detainees protested deportation, the migrants were granted an indefinite moratorium on deportation and a fair review of their case. A decade later many were still in federal detention centers awaiting review of their case, and they often wrote to Amnesty International for help. Collection consists largely of unsolicited correspondence from Cuban migrants written to Sarah Town while she interned with Amnesty International's Refugee Office. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive at Duke University.

The Town and Campus Club is an woman's organization in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1938 with the purpose "to follow the literary interests of the members and to promote friendship and social activity." The records of the Town and Campus Club primarily feature administrative and program records for the organization, including the constitution and by-laws, minutes, and treasurer's reports, as well other occasional records maintained by the secretary, along with program booklets, club histories, and member biographies and sketches. In addition, there is correspondence as well as color photographs, including two group photographs.

Administrative entity in France. Eighteenth century analysis of Tours-Anjou, Maine, and Touraine, France, containing a description of each province in the Généralité of Tours-Anjou, Maine, and Touraine; an estimation of the population; lists of various church dioceses and monasteries, and estimated revenues; lists of military posts; lists of noblemen and their property; an inventory of the royal domain; descriptions of the vineyards, farms, and cities under the Généralité's jurisdiction, including the wines and crops produced, and silk and textile manufacturers; prices for grains, livestock, and bread in the principal cities; outlines of the nature of the various taxes; complaints concerning the inequality and abuses of the tax system, and a plea for relief; and three maps showing the boundaries of the Généralité, its subdivisions, and the rivers, roads, and post stations along royal highways.

ALS. Papers consist mostly of letters written to Torrey by professional colleagues, botanists and geologists involved in exploration and surveyor expeditions. Notable correspondents include Louis Agassiz, A.D. Bache, Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Bentham, Jacob Bigelow, James Dwight Dana, William Darlington, Amos Eaton, Ebenezer Emmons, Asa Gray, A. Guyot, Robert Hare, Joseph Henry, Edward Hitchcock, John Lindley, Josiah Clark Nott, C.S. Rafinesque, and John White Webster. A complete list of correspondents is available.

James Patrick Toomey graduated from Duke with a degree in Engineering in 1983. The collection contains approximately 100 cartoons created by Toomey for publication in the student newspaper, The Chronicle. The cartoons range in date from 1981-1983.

Mary Newby Toms (1871-1925) was married to Clinton White Toms Sr. (1868-1936), who was a trustee of Duke University from 1901-1932 and was president of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company from 1928-1936. Collection consists of two albums created by the Toms family; one memorializing Clinton White Toms Sr., and one created by Mary Newby Toms documenting a 1922 family trip to California.

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.

Tomlinson Store was a steam tanning works, shoemaking establishment and general store run by Allen U. Tomlinson in Randolph County, NC. Ledger B contains accounts of the Methodist and Quaker families that formed Union Institute as well as Brantley York and school faculty.

William E. Tolbert was a Union soldier and businessman of Chambersburg, Pa. Collection includes correspondence and business, personal, and legal papers of Tolbert and several members of the Tolbert (Talbot) and Huber families of Chambersburg, Pa., containing information about family affairs, Republican Party affairs in Chambersburg, and William E. Tolbert's activities with the Chief Engineer's Office of the U.S. Military Railroad in the Division of the Mississippi. There are a number of letters (1883-1922) to Emma Tolbert from her friend Elizabeth Russell, who was a Methodist missionary in Nagasaki, Japan.

Alfred Paul Tischendorf came to Duke in 1955 and served as Assistant Professor in the Department of History. His publications include "The Anglo-Mexican Claims Commission, 1884-1895," "The Loss of British Commercial Pre-eminence in Mexico, 1876-1911," and "British Experience in Georgia, 1865-1907." He died in Argentina while on sabbatical in 1962. Contains correspondence, research-related material, and miscellaneous material. There are a few pamphlets in the miscellaneous folder. The collection also contains a restricted folder which contains privacy-protected information. The material ranges in date from 1953-1961.

Dr. Edward Tiryakian taught in the Department of Sociology from 1965 until his retirement in 2004. He served as Chair of the Department in addition to positions as Visiting Professor abroad. He was appointed Director for the Center of International Studies in 1988 and served until 1991. The collection contains correspondence and materials related to the Dept. of Sociology, and the Center for International Studies as well as memoranda, clippings and correspondence regarding general University business but also the Nixon Presidential Library controversy and the Allen Building Takeover.

U.S. representative from Mass. Chiefly clippings and press releases relating to the life of George Holden Tinkham, a lawyer, Republican senator, and big game hunter from Boston, Mass. Tinkham's political career is well represented by the clippings and press releases (1919-1942), which show his position on foreign and domestic affairs, and detail his opposition to the prohibitionists.

Robert Cowin served as Circulation Director of Sports Illustrated, later Editor of Golf Magazine. Time Life Alumni Society certificate to Robert Cowin includes a Certificate of Historical Authenticity documenting the veracity of two memos copied from the Time Inc. Archives. One memo dated November 1950 from Cowin to Editor in Chief Daniel Longwell outlines Cowin's ideas for a new magazine that would become Sports Illustrated. The other memo, dated October 1969 from Garry Valk to Sports Illustrated staff, notes the departure of Cowin from Sports Illustrated and summarizes Cowin's role in the creation of the magazine. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

News magazine first published in 1923 in New York, N.Y. Mailing sent to college representatives promoting Time magazine. Includes sample package of Lucky Strike cigarettes (American Tobacco Company) as an example of student preferences; text of letter cites readership statistics for the magazine. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ALS. Informs Dr. Perlee that his, Tilton's, leg must be amputated and summons him to perform the operation.

Family from North Carolina, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Family and business letters, personal journals, deeds, legal items, and papers (chiefly 1830-1911) of William Norwood Tillinghast (b. 1831), merchant of Fayetteville, N.C.; William A. Norwood (d. ca. 1866), judge of Hillsboro, N.C.; and of the Tillinghast and Norwood families of Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. Contains information about the mercantile activities of the Tillinghast family; social life and customs in North Carolina before 1900; business and economic conditions in the South before, during, and after the Civil War; agriculture in the South Atlantic States before 1860; the secession of North Carolina; living conditions during the Civil War and Reconstruction; events of the war in North Carolina; the South during the late 19th century; and camp life during the Spanish American War. Correspondents include Kemp P. Battle and Henry Clay Robinson.

Nannie Mae Tilley (1898-1988) was a historian and curator of the Manuscripts Department of Duke University. This collection contains correspondence and other materials collected by Tilley from servicemen in World War II, many of whom were former Duke University students who worked or studied with her. The letters from US servicemen reveal attitudes about military service, details on their training and participation in World War II, news and reflections on Duke University, and life and news from Durham, North Carolina, and the American South during the early 1940s. A small group of letters is from the John E. Bonsack family, and concerns Bonsack family genealogy.

Papers concerned with Tilghman's law practice in Chestertown, Md., and his service in the Maryland legislature (1788-1793). Includes genealogical information about Maryland's Eastern Shore, information about economic and agricultural conditions in Maryland in the late 18th century, Tilghman's vicissitudes because of his Loyalist sympathies during the Revolution, his efforts to advance the interests of his constituents while he served in the legislature, and the Tilghman family. Volumes include a digest of legal cases in which Tilghman participated, legal notes, court dockets, and a summary of estate laws in Maryland. Includes three letters from Henry Pearce. Two of these letters are to James Tilghman, William's father, regarding the purchase of Pearce land, slaves, stock, etc.

Patent granted to Tiemann for a surgical instrument called the scarificator. Consists of a form statement, signed by President Andrew Jackson; three drawings of the instrument; and specifications regarding the instrument, written and signed by Tiemann. Patent issued in 1834 and renewed in 1846.

ANS. Requests a meeting with recipient.

Career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the Union Army cavalry during the Civil War. Collection comprises Tidball's manuscript (5 pgs.) on poor whites in the South. He divided his study regionally, discussing working class whites on the Georgia coast versus those in the southern Alleghenies. He outlined the impact of slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period on this class of people. Includes a one-page transcription.

Holograph documents, signed. Accounts of expenses incurred by the town of Salisbury and by various inhabitants against Dr. Luther Ticknor. Papers also include Adam Reid's Discourse delivered at the funeral of Luther Ticknor.

James Olin Tice, Sr. (1897-1979) was an inventor, school teacher (Miami Technical High School), and baseball fan. The James O. Tice Company's "goose egg" scoreboard featured a mechanical goose that would deposit a zero ("goose egg") after a scoreless inning in baseball. A variation of the design included a gosling that would correct any errant deposits of zeros on the scoreboard. The intent was to provide humorous entertainment for fans at baseball games. Collection includes articles; blueprints and design notes; a promotional brochure with testimonials; photographs and prints of Tice's "goose egg' scoreboard design, a promotional display, along with images of college and municipal scoreboards intended for comparison to the Tice design. Scoreboard images are from fields and stadiums in Tampa and Miami, Florida; Duke University; Loyola College of New Orleans; and the Universities of Alabama and California. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Outdoor Advertising Archives.

Thursday Club was a social group begun by Alexander Wayne Bell (class of 1966) and other Duke University students in 1965. The guest book contains the signatures and comments of students and administrators who attended the club gatherings.

ALS to his nephew, then a student at Phillips Exeter Academy. Throop praises the academic reputation of the school, relates news of a cotton mill fire and reports on the health of various family members.

ANS. Requests that addressee communicate information regarding veterinary schools directly to Lieut. Cabanis.

Historian, professor, clergyman, and activist; resident of Durham, N.C. The papers of Earl E. Thorpe span the years 1942-1990, the bulk of the materials having been generated during the years 1965 to 1982. Primarily, materials in the collection address Thorpe's work at North Carolina Central University (formerly North Carolina College), and his tenure as visiting professor at Harvard and Duke universities. Topics include student activism, teaching, racial and departmental politics on campus, and the development of viable African American Studies programs. Thorpe's service as chair of the program committee for the 1979 meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH), and his term as president of the ASALH in 1980 are also well represented. Personal correspondence with family and students, and material reflective of Thorpe's life in the ministry are scattered throughout. Some materials also touch on North Carolina and Durham politics and race relations.

Correspondence of the related Compton, Thornton, Treadway, and Wainwright families of London, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, centering around William C. Thornton.

Dame Sybil Thorndike was a distinguished British actress best known for her work on stage. In this letter to the actress and playwright Elizabeth Robins, Thorndike thanks her for the gift of some heather from Yorkshire. She also sends her regards and thanks to "Lady Bell" for her support. The letter is addressed to Robins at Rounton Grange, the North Yorkshire estate which was the family home of the writer Florence Bell ("Lady Bell"). Bell and Robins were close friends and collaborators. Thorndike refers to a play; at the time of this letter, she was in rehearsals for the 1922-23 London production of Shelley's The Cenci at the New Theater, directed by her husband, Lewis Casson. This letter connecting three key female figures of the London stage is evidence of the strong support network these women formed in a male-dominated arena.