Family papers, 1894-1960 (bulk 1920-1939).

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Family papers, 1894-1960 (bulk 1920-1939).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25912931

Correspondence, legal papers, scrapbooks, pictures, and miscellaneous memorabilia relating to Mrs. Biddle's personal and family life, as well as her social, cultural, and philanthropic activities in New York City and Palm Beach, Fla. Individuals represented in the correspondence include: Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle, Karl Bock, Angier Buchanan Duke, Benjamin Newton Duke, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, Mary Few, William Preston Few, Frederic Moir Hanes, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Ellen Shipman. Major subjects include Duke Homestead, Duke University, Elon College, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Trinity College and Women's College of Duke University.

1875 items (2.5 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7151315

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Elon College

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Bock, Karl, 1888-1975.

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Semans, Mary Duke Biddle Trent

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Interviewee married James H. Semans; interviewee b.1920. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597351 Member of the Duke family and a female philanthropic leader in health care at Duke and in the Durham community. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, 2007. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: ...

Shipman, Ellen, 1869-1950

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Landscape architect. From the description of Ellen McGowan Biddle Shipman papers, 1914-1946. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074470 ...

Few, Mary Dodgen

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Mary Dodgen Few (1912-1992) was an author of historical fiction: Carolina Jewel (1970); Under the White Boar (1971); Azilie of Bordeaux (1973); and a family history volume: The Dodgen Story (1985). From the description of Mary Dodgen Few Papers 197u-1992. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 63211475 ...

Biddle, Nicholas Benjamin Duke, 1921-

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Duke, Sarah Pearson Angier, 1856-1936.

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Duke University. Woman's College

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The Woman's College was established at Duke University in 1930, as a coordinate to Trinity College for men. As a coordinate college within Duke University, the Woman's College fostered a community that allowed for shared university faculty, curriculum, and educational facilities, while giving women an opportunity for leadership through their separate student government, social standards committees, and judicial board. Alice M. Baldwin was named its first Dean. The College merged with Trinity Col...

Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 1896-1961

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Joseph Biddle was a Burlington County, New Jersey, assemblyman. ...

Duke, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton), 1855-1929

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Tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, and philanthropist, of Durham, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1834-1984 (bulk 1884-1929). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122600897 From the description of Benjamin Newton Duke papers, 1834-1984. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405927 1855, Apr. 27 Born to Washington and Artelia Roney Duke; Orange Co., N.C. ...

Few, W. P. (William Preston), 1867-1940

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William Preston Few was an educator, President of Trinity College from 1910-1924, and President of Duke University from 1924-1940. From the description of William Preston Few records and papers, 1814-1971 (bulk 1911-1940). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55635814 Born in Greenville, S.C. on December 29, 1867, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Rachel Kendrick Few, William Preston Few attended Wofford College, Spartanburg S.C. (A.B., 1889), and Harva...

Biddle family.

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Duke, Angier Buchanan, 1884-1923.

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Biddle, Mary Duke, 1887-1960

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Philanthropist and supporter of the arts. Born Mary Lillian Duke. From the description of Family papers, 1894-1960 (bulk 1920-1939). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25912931 ...

Hanes, Frederic M. (Frederic Moir), 1883-1946

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Chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University (1933-1946). Pathologist and neurologist (1931-1946). From the description of Frederic Moir Hanes papers, 1927-1968. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 57559276 ...

Duke University

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