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  Draft Proposal for Afro-American Studies Program (8)

  In the fall of 1968, students pushed for Duke to establish an African and African American Studies curriculum. No such curriculum was established by faculty or administrators, and within months, students began to take direct action. Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean records, 1911-2010
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  CDC Vital Signs

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  "Imperfect Reflection." Painting from Making the Invisible Visible: An Artist's Perspective.

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  James Thomas

  James A. Thomas, 1931, Oil on canvas, 27" x 37", by Douglas Chandor
  
  James A. Thomas (1862-1940), a friend and business associate of James and Benjamin Duke spent over thirty years in China managing operations for the British-American Tobacco Company. Thomas was instrumental in the creation of a Far Eastern collection in the Duke University Library. This painting was commissioned by Duke University and previously hung in the West Campus Library along with 26 other portraits of Duke contributors and administrators. After his death in 1940, a proposal to continue the book collection and establish a James A. Thomas Memorial Room in what was then the Woman's College Library was approved. The room was officially dedicated on December 1, 1942.
  
  Artist Douglas Chandor (1897-1953) was a portraitist who was commissioned to paint famous figures: Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill among others.
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  “Savonnage Infructueux,” (Fruitless Soaping)

  In this image, the “traitor” Dreyfus is beyond recognition, his features distorted by the conventions of anti-Semitic caricature. He receives the monetary ablutions of another stereotyped Jew who bears a large masonic pendant. The paranoid casting of the Jewish people as part of a complex “Masonic” plot was common amongst anti-Semites, and Masonic iconography in an image like this would have signaled a conspiratorial agenda of Jews, Masons, socialists and rootless finance capitalists seeking to destroy France. Chanteclair combines these three types in the figure on our right, who is engaged in a fruitless attempt to launder the guilt of his comrade. “Only blood can clean a stain like this,” the caption warns, as a shadowy group of armed men, readying their guns, forms in the background. Only weeks after Dreyfus had been accused in the pages of La Libre Parole, Chanteclair’s cartoon is intended as a warning for those seeking to expunge the captain of his guilt.
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  Bill Turner in the 1969 Chanticleer

  Bill Turner (Class of 1971) as he is featured in the 1969 Chanticleer
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  Brenda Brown Armstrong in the 1970 Chanticleer.

  Brenda Brown Armstrong (Class of 1970) as she is featured in the 1970 Chanticleer.

  Tags Chanticleer
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  Janice Gill Williams in the 1969 Chanticleer

  Janice Gill Williams as she is featured in the 1969 Chanticleer
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  Clarence Newsome in the 1972 Chanticleer

  Clarence Newsome (Class of 1972) as he is featured in the 1972 Chanticleer
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  Brenda Brown Armstrong

  Brenda Brown Armstrong as she is featured in the 1970 Chanticleer.
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  Lyon dans son lustre

  Artist and engraver Claudine Brunand was likely related to the artist and woodcutter Michel Brunand. She worked for a number of printers and publishers in her native Lyon as well as in Germany. We know her for this charming, inventive, and marvelously original frontispiece. In a map of Lyon configured in the shape of a rampant lion, Brunand manages to incorporate each street and the city hall, along with heraldic shields and banners flying in the breeze. 

  Tags 1600s, Engraving, Printmaking
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  Letter from Charles B. Falls (Class of 1928) to President Knight

  A letter sent by Duke alumnus Charles B. Falls to President Knight in reaction to the Allen Building Takeover.
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  ASA Duke 1995 Memorandum

  A 1995 Memorandum Submitted to President to President Nan Keohane from the Asian Student Association
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  Dear Mom

  Dear Mom. Charlotte Murray. 2008.
  
  This book features photographs of the artist's family with letters from Charlotte and her sisters written to their mother 27 years after her death.
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  Dear Mom

  Dear Mom. Charlotte Murray. 2008.
  
  This book features photographs of the artist's family with letters from Charlotte and her sisters written to their mother 27 years after her death.
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  The Yellow Wall Paper

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  Cover of Sinkan Geka Seiso, 新刊外科正宗 (Orthodox of Surgery)

  There are four juan(卷), meaning 4 volume. This is the image of juan san (卷三), volume three.
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  Table of content from Sinkan Geka Seiso, 新刊外科正宗, Vol. I.

  This is the table of content from volume one, about various skin diseases and treatments.
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  Drawing of internal body organs

  This image is from volume one showing the zàng-fǔ (臟腑) organs in human body. The term zàng (臟) refers to the organs considered to be yin in nature and the picture shows all five organs – Heart(心), Liver(肝), Spleen(脾), Lung(肺), Kidney(腎). The term fǔ (腑) refers to the yang organs and the picture shows only three of them – Small Intestine(小腸), Large Intestine(大腸) and Stomach(胃), it doesn’t include Gall Bladder(膽), Urinary Bladder(膀胱) and San jiao (triple burner 三焦). In traditional Chinese medicine, Zang-fu organs have all the essential functions of human body.
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  Drawing of a woman with shank ulcer

  This image is from volume one showing an woman with shank ulcer (臁瘡) and boil (鈕扣風) on her neck.