FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Duke University
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library Research Grants
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke
University announces the availability of grants for researchers whose
work would
benefit from access to the library's archival and rare printed collections.
These
grants are offered by the library's research centers: The Center for
Women's
History and Culture; The John Hope Franklin Research Center for
African
and African-American Documentation; and The John W. Hartman Center
for
Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Researchers may apply for grants
from more
than one center. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
The Mary Lily Research Grants
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture documents the
public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and
unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers,
and
organizational records complement print sources such as books and
periodicals.
Particular strengths of the CWHC are feminism and radical feminism in
the U.S.,
women's prescriptive literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, girls?
literature, artist's books by women, and the history and culture of
women in the
South. Also, a number of prominent women writers have placed their
personal and professional papers at Duke.
For more information about the Center for Women's History and Culture,
please contac Amy Leigh, Assistant to the Director, at [EMAIL PROTECTED],
tel.919.660.5967, FAX 919.660.5934.
John W. Hartman Center for
Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
The major collections available at the Hartman Center are the extensive
Archives of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) the oldest advertising
agency
in the U.S. and a major international agency since the 1920s; the
advertisements
and a moderate amount of agency documentation from both D'Arcy,
Masius,
Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) and Wells Rich Greene; and the Outdoor Advertising
Association of America (OAAA) archives and related collections documenting
billboard
history.
The Center holds several other smaller collections relating to 19th and
20th century advertising and marketing, supported by a growing number
of
books, periodicals, films, and videos. In addition to research grants
up to $750 for the use of any of the
Hartman Center's collections, the Center will fund up to three J.
Walter
Thompson Research Fellowships. Each Fellow will receive a stipend of $1000
during
his or her stay in Durham. Fellowships are available to researchers planning
to
spend a minimum of two weeks at Duke doing research that focuses on
the J.
Walter Thompson Company Archives.
For more information about the Hartman Center, please consult our Web
site at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/ or contact Jacqueline
Reid,
ReferenceArchivist, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising &
Marketing
History,[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel. 919.660-5827, FAX 919.660.5934.
John Hope Franklin Research Center
for African and African-American Documentation
The holdings of the Franklin Research Center include letters, diaries,
ledgers, photographs, films, and rare books documenting some three
centuries of African-American experience. The Center is especially
strong in the
areas of nineteenth-century slavery and African-American life in the
post-World
War II civil rights era. Noteworthy collections include: the archives of
the
Behind the Veil oral history project, with more than 1,000 oral
histories
collected from black southerners who lived during the Jim Crow era; a
collection of
oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted by
historian Joe Sinsheimer; the Leroy T. Walker Africa News Archive--the
research,
clipping, and publication files of Africa News Service, one of the
nation's most
respected sources of information from and about Africa; and the
papers of
prominent African Americans, such as Fannie B. Rosser and Asa and Elna
Spaulding.
For more information about the Franklin Research Center, please consult
our Web site at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin or contact
Joseph
Thompson, Director, [EMAIL PROTECTED], tel.919.660.5922, FAX
919.660.5934.
For More Information About the Collections:
To conduct a detailed search of the holdings of the three research
centers via the Internet, please check the following sites:
Finding Aids--detailed descriptions of a subset of our archival
collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/findaids/
Duke University's on-line library catalog http://www.lib.duke.edu/
Guide to the Cataloged Collections of the Manuscript Department of
the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (Richard C. Davis and
Linda A. Miller, eds., 1980), available in research libraries or
on-line at
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/guide/.
Uses of Grant Money:
Grant money may be used for travel to the Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library, costs of copying pertinent archival resources,
and
living expenses while pursuing research here.
The Application Process:
Obtain an application form from any of the Web sites or contact people
mentioned above. Submit the completed form and required attachments to
"Grants
Program" at the address below or to the appropriate research center via
e-mail.
If you wish to apply to more than one center for the same project,
simply
check the appropriate boxes at the top of the application form to indicate
that you
have chosen this option. Grants will not exceed $1,000 even if awarded
jointly.
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Deadlines:
The next cycle of awards will be for use between March 2001 and August
2002. Request application information at any time; forms will be sent out
beginning in October 2000. Applications must be received or postmarked by
January 18,
2001. Awards will be announced on March 15, 2001.
Mailing Address:
The mailing address for all three centers is Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library; Box 90185; Duke University; Durham, NC
27708-0185;
U.S.A.
joseph thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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