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Ann Hopkins Papers.
Beth S. Harris
This is a collection of personal and professional papers related to the Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse (Wash., D.C. Federal District Court) and Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (U. S. Supreme Court) cases. The final decision capped a seven-year battle against Hopkins’ employer for gender discrimination and her final victory in 1990 helped to expand workplace discrimination laws to include gender stereotyping.
The collection date ranges from 1967-2001 and includes correspondence, court documents, materials related to the book So Ordered: Making Partner the Hard Way (University of Massachusetts Press, c1996), newspaper and periodical publications, photographs, and a scrapbook.
Additional personal correspondence (1965-1989) between Hopkins and a former Hollins professor are located in a separate collection: Julia Randall Papers.
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Charles Lewis Cocke Papers
Beth S. Harris
Personal and professional papers of Charles Lewis Cocke, educator, founder and first president of Hollins University, and Baptist layman.
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Henry Taylor Papers, 1960-2000.
Beth S. Harris
Papers of poet Henry Taylor. The collection includes literary manuscripts, student publications, and professional correspondence. Some files contain clippings, advertisement material, and photocopies of manuscripts
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Herta Taussig Freitag Papers, 1951-1999.
Beth S. Harris
This is a collection of papers related to the career of Austrian born mathematician Herta Freitag. The collection includes lectures, papers, presentations, correspondence, dissertation, photographs, certificates of membership and achievement, academic regalia, conference notes, newspaper articles, and biographical information.
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Julia Randall Papers
Beth S. Harris and Megan Stolz
This collection has manuscripts, teaching papers, and correspondence of poet Julia Randall. The correspondence include letters to or from colleagues, alumnae, and friends.
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Margaret Wise Brown Papers, 1938-1960.
Beth S. Harris
Materials related to the career of children's author Margaret Wise Brown. The collection includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, legal papers, biographical information, periodical publications, sound recordings, ephemera, and clippings
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Martha Louisa Cocke Papers
Beth S. Harris and Martha Louisa Cocke Miss
Martha Louisa Cocke, or "Miss Matty" as she preferred to be called, was the daughter of Hollins founder Charles Lewis Cocke and the second president of Hollins. This collection contains her official correspondence and materials related to her presidency at Hollins University and personal records, including correspondence, photographs, and artifacts.
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Shannon Ravenel Editorial Papers, 1977-1990.
Beth S. Harris
This is a collection of editorial papers for Best American Short Stories, published by Houghton Mifflin. The collection includes reading records, letters of notification, permissions, contracts, reviews and clippings related to BASS, manuscripts, drafts of introductions to the annual volumes, editorial correspondence to authors, Houghton Mifflin staff, and between the series editor and the guest editor.
Special Collections has many interesting collections from both the University Archives and Manuscripts collections. A finding aid is a tool that enables researchers to learn more about the contents of a collection.
A finding aid includes a number of components, such as biographical notes and a scope and content note. Materials within in a finding aid are usually divided into series.
A series groups related materials together, often by form, function, or activity such as correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, research notes, and photographs. A series may also be broken down into sub-series, such as correspondence, personal and correspondence, business.
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