EH.N: ANN: Research Grants Available - Hartman Center, Duke University

[Lynn E. Eaton]

The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing 
History, part of 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.

The Hartman Center holds an extensive collection of over 3,000,000 
items - correspondence, publications, advertisements, photographs, 
slides, films, books and serials - that document the history of 
advertising, sales, and marketing over the past two centuries. In 
addition to the J. Walter Thompson (JWT) Company Archives, the most 
comprehensive historical record of any advertising agency, the Center 
contains the collections of other key companies and individuals in 
the dynamic fields of advertising, marketing and sales.

The grants available through the Hartman Center include general 
Travel to Collection grants of up to $750 for the use of any Hartman 
Center collections. Additionally, up to 3 JWT Research Fellowships 
are available. 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 JWT Company Archives.

The deadline for application is January 15th, 2008. For more 
information, and the application form, please visit the following 
website:

http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/hartman/travel-grants/index.html

[Grant information for the other two centers in the Rare Book, 
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library - the Sallie Bingham 
Center for Women's History and Culture and the John Hope Franklin 
Collection of African and African-American Documentation - are also 
available at the website listed above.]

Hartman Center applicants are encouraged to contact the Center's 
Reference Archivist, Lynn Eaton. Past applications have demonstrated 
that those who spoke with a staff member about their projects 
produced stronger applications. Contact information is listed below.

Thank you.


Lynn E. Eaton
Reference Archivist
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library
103 Perkins Library
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0185

PH: 919-660-5827
FX: 919-660-5934

lynn.eaton at notes.duke.edu