James H. and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans family papers, 1925-1991.

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James H. and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans family papers, 1925-1991.

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Correspondence; genealogical, financial, and legal papers; subject files; writings and speeches; scrapbooks; and pictures relating to the Biddle, Duke, Semans, and Trent families of Durham, N.C., and elsewhere. Correspondents include Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Giorgio Ciompi, Archie K. Davis, Wilburt Cornell Davison, Vittorio Giannini, Iain Hamilton, Nancy Hanks, Deryl Hart, Marshall Ivey Pickens, Howard A. Rusk, James H. Semans, and Mary Elizabeth Switzer. Many of the subjects in the collection focus on North Carolina, including endowments, the arts and art patronage, the history of hospitals, public institutions, universities and colleges, Durham, N.C., especially its politics and government, the North Carolina School of the Arts. Other subjects include The Duke Endowment, including its Board of Trustees, Duke University Medical Center, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and local and national rehabilitation. Other subjects include domestic architecture in New York and photos depicting social history in Palm Beach, Fla. Files and galley proofs for James H. Semans' autobiography are also in the collection.

22, 500 items (39 linear feet)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7171678

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Switzer, Mary Elizabeth, 1900-1971

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Mary Elizabeth Switzer, government official, was born on February 16, 1900, to Julius F. and Margaret (Moore) Switzer of Newton, Mass. Switzer graduated from Radcliffe College in 1921 with a B.A. in international law. She moved to Washington, D.C., where her first position with the federal government was as assistant secretary to the Minimum Wage Board. She worked for the Department of the Treasury until 1953, principally for the Public Health Service and the Federal Security Agenc...

Rusk, Howard A., 1901-1989

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Ciompi, Giorgio.

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Hamilton, Iain, 1922-2000

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Iain Ellis Hamilton was one of the most important British composers of the mid-to-late twentieth century. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1922, he lived most of his life in London (where he died in 2000), with a twenty-year period in America as a professor at Duke University. He first apprenticed to become an engineer and followed this pursuit for seven years before entering the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in 1947. His engineering background instilled a certain structure t...

Davison, Wilburt Cornell, 1892-1972

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U. S. pediatrician and first dean of Duke University Medical School. From the description of Diplomas and other papers, 1887-1969. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35870432 Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilburt Cornell Davison : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619997 Pediatrician, first dean and founder of the Duke University Medical Center. From the descrip...

Trent, Josiah C. (Josiah Charles), 1914-1948

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U. S. thoracic surgeon. Intern in surgery at Duke Hospital from 1939 to 1940; assistant resident in general surgery at Duke from 1940 until 1944; resident in general surgery at Duke from 1944 to 1945; associate professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Duke from 1947 until his death in 1948. Married Mary Duke Biddle in 1938. From the description of Josiah C. Trent papers, 1930-1957. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 731030577 U. S. thoracic ...

Pickens, Marshall Ivey.

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Hart, Deryl, b. 1894.

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Julian Deryl Hart (1894-1980), was Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke University from 1930-1960 and President of the University from 1960-1963. From the description of J. Deryl Hart records, 1959-1980 (bulk 1960-1963). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55635815 ...

Semans, James H.

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Student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine class of 1936. Semans was a urologist in Atlanta, Ga., from 1947-1953. From the description of Family papers, 1878-1953 (bulk 1930-1953). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25912997 ...

North Carolina School of the Arts

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Fifty-five high school seniors filed into the school auditorium for NCSA's first school commencement on June 8, 1966 to hear Dr. Vittorio Giannini, the first president of the school charge the graduates with the responsibility of continuing their growth as artists. More than half were to return in the fall as college students. At the second commencement, in addition to the second high school class, bachelor of music degrees were presented to the college graduates. As the school's graduates left ...

Giannini, Vittorio, 1903-1966

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Composed 1946.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto grosso for string orchestra / Vittorio Giannini. 1946. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51987515 Composed 1931. First performance by the National Youth Administration Symphony Orchestra, New York, June 23, 1940, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite for orchestra / Vittorio Giannini. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). ...

Mary Duke Biddle Foundation

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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: ...

Trent family.

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Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 1896-1961

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

Semans family.

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Davis, Archie K.

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Archie K. Davis wrote "The Boy Colonel of the Confederacy" (1987) and was chair of the board of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company; president of the American Bankers Association, 1966; and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. From the description of Archie K. Davis papers, 1927-1986 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26243280 Archie K. Davis, North Carolina banker, was born 22 January 1911, in Winston-Salem. A graduate of the University of North Carol...

Hanks, Nancy, 1927-1983

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Arts organization administrator and consultant. From the description of Papers, 1894-1987 (bulk 1945-1983). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 27694194 Government official, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1924-1983; (bulk 1969-1977). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19595466 1927, Dec. 31 Born, Miami Beach, Fla. ...

North Carolina Museum of Art.

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Duke University

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Duke Endowment. Board of Trustees.

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