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Personal papers, 1899-1943

Carolina Folklore Society.

The Personal papers series includes correspondence, biographical information, writings, addresses, lectures, clippings, diaries, coursework, blueprints, and slides. Some material relates to Brown's work as a student, professor, and folklorist, but the majority of the papers concern Brown's role in the construction of the Duke University campus. It includes correspondence with the Horace Trumbauer architectural firm, manufacturers' literature, construction progress reports, diaries of trips made in 1924 and 1926 to look at other campuses, and a lantern slide presentation on the campus. This series contains records documenting James B. Duke's views on architecture and his involvement in the planning of the campus. Also present is a diary/scrapbook kept by Brown and President William Preston Few during a 1924 tour during which they visited some twenty colleges and universities around the Eastern United States. In addition, the collection features speeches and writings by others about Brown and on the North Carolina Folklore Society.

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Contact sheet(s): 1725-1734, 1971-1979 Box 109, Folder 6, Item RL10032-COS-1725 - RL10032-COS-1734

the Personal Files Series. Also included are images of folkloric wall painting from Benares, India.

Series: United States: New York; India: Benares; Nudes; Night

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Daniel Ellison, 2015 Approximately 0.6 gigabytes Digital-materials UA01150016-SET-0001

where he graduated in 1977. He later received graduate degrees in both folklore and law from the

Daniel Ellison grew up in New York and Miami before attending college at Duke University, from where he graduated in 1977. He later received graduate degrees in both folklore and law from the University of North Carolina. Ellison founded the Durham Arts Place after graduating and became involved in activism. Over the years, Dan has become involved in the Duke LGTBQ Network, and as of 2016 teaches classes as an adjunct professor at Duke on Non-Profit Cultural Institutions and the intersection of law, identity, and the performing arts. In this oral history, Ellison describes the broader culture at Duke in the mid-1970s. Ellison talks about his own sexual identity as one of ambivalence during his years at Duke. Ellison discusses the differences between LGBTQ life during his student years at Duke and the LGBTQ life he observes as an adjunct professor and involved faculty member. Also discusses is activism around LGBTQ rights in Durham and the surrounding area.

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Harriet R. Holman papers, 1869-1986 16.5 Linear Feet About 7909 items

Cherokee Indians -- Folklore

Author and professor of English from Anderson, S.C. Collection is chiefly significant for Holman's correspondence with writers, publishers and colleagues concerning the teaching and writing of American literature. Significant correspondents include Jay B. Hubbell, Rayburn Moore, Henry Field, Ann Page Johns, Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., Dr. Jeremiah N. Fusco, Corydon Bell, Guy Davenport, Edith Buchanan, Margaret Meaders, David Stocking, Marion Kingston Stocking, Newman I. White, E. M. Lander, Jr., Mattie U. Russell, and members of the Thomas Nelson Page and John Fox families. There are also letters from South Carolina authors, including Rosa Pendleton Chiles, Sidelle Ellis, Patricia Kneas Hill, Katharine M. Jones, Mary Boone Robertson Longley, and Alice L. O'Connell. Also includes works written or edited by Holman and others, a typed transcription and audio recordings of Cherokee stories as told by Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey, clippings, notecard files, printed material, and photographs of Thomas Nelson and Florence Lathrop Page, and Nannie Mae Tilley.

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Into the Fields Folklife Documentary Project, Summer 2002 1 of 4 Box 49

26 Maribel Salgado - Mexican Folkloric Dancer, by: Gerardo Martinez, 2002 Aug. 2 Woodworking, by

Genoveva Camacho's Traditional Practice of Making Herbal Medicinal Teas, By: Juana Ortiz, 2002 July 26
Maribel Salgado - Mexican Folkloric Dancer, by: Gerardo Martinez, 2002 Aug. 2
Woodworking, by: Lorena Meridez

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Emilio Nasser photographs and video on La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan, 2016-2022 .5 Linear Feet (1 box) 789 Megabytes (1 mp4 video file)

Folklore -- Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State)

Emilio Nasser (1980- ) is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist originally from Argentina and currently based in Switzerland. Collection consists of 24 inket color photographs, one six-minute digital video, and a reproduction of a field notebook, all part of Nasser's project to document a local legend about a river creature called "La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan" and the social aspects of legends, mythologies, and collective memory. Images include views of the river and its waterside town, Tlacotalpan, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, and portraits of individuals wearing a large headdress representing the creature. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts Awards collections at Duke University.

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George W. Jackson scrapbook, circa 1920-1935 1.5 Linear Feet 1 Item

College, Jackson was a member of the Columbian Literary Society, the Folklore Society and the Biology and

George W. Jackson graduated from Trinity Park School in 1921 and attended Trinity College from fall 1921-spring 1923. The scrapbook contains programs, clippings and black and white photographs as well as correspondence. The scrapbook ranges in date from circa 1920-1935.

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Europe -- Description and travel, 1798-1940 118 items

There are some areas of overlapping subjects, for example, when a pamphlet concerns local folkloric

Included in this series of 118 items are pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, and guides -- many of them illustrated. Some items have pull-out maps, and others have very fine and sometimes quite large engravings.

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Clare Leighton papers, 1940-1968 5.8 Linear Feet 594 Items

Collection of North Carolina Folklore, a seven-volume series published by Duke University Press from 1952

Clare Ellaline Hope Leighton was an English printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939. The Clare Leighton Papers date from the mid-twentieth century and include woodblocks, preparatory prints and drawings, engravings, and correspondence related to Leighton's artistic practice.

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Folklife Documentary Project, 2002 Box 49

August 4 Evening Mass in the Fields, by: Bonnie DeBlois, 2002 July Maribel Salgado, Folkloric Dancer; by

Genoveva Camacho's Traditional Practice of Making Herbal Medicinal Teas, by: Juana Z. Ortiz and Ann Plonk, July 2002
Reactions on Labor Camps after the Theatre Group Performs, by: Daniel Mendez, 2001 August 4
Evening Mass in the Fields, by: Bonnie DeBlois, 2002 July
Maribel Salgado, Folkloric Dancer; by: Gerardo Martinez, 2002 August 2
Give us this day our daily bread, by: Alma Navarette and Raul de Anda, 2002 July
Por Ser Mojado, by: Alicio Carvajal, 2002 July
Art, Craft, and Design, by: Isabel Aguilar and Maggie Villagran, 2002 July
Home, Sweet Home, by: Lucina Benito and Elizabeth Smith, 2002 July
Fourth of July, by: Manuel Rodriguez and Hope Bastian, 2002 August 5

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