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Travel Grant Opportunity: Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library



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
Sallie Bingham 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.

We strongly encourage applicants to speak with the Reference Archivist
before applying for the grant. Past applications have demonstrated that
those who spoke with a staff member about their projects produced stronger
applications. We can lead you to potential sources of which you may not
otherwise be aware.


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unpublished sources.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 consult our web site at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/ or
contact Amy Leigh, Assistant to the Director, at CWHC@duke.edu,
tel.919.660.5967, 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, franklin-center@duke.edu, tel.919.660.5922, 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,
Reference Archivist, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising &
Marketing History, hartman-center@duke.edu, tel. 919.660-5827, 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
Duke University's on-line library catalog
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.

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 this web site or any of the 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.

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.




Jacqueline V. Reid
Reference Archivist
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Duke University
jvreid@duke.edu
(919) 660-5833
fax (919) 660-5934
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/

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