Preliminary Inventory of the DoubleTake Records, 1908-1999 (bulk 1994-1999)
[top]Descriptive Summary
Title
DoubleTake Records,
1908-1999 (bulk 1994-1999)
Creator
DoubleTake [Magazine]
Extent
28.5 Linear Feet
19,000 Items
Repository
19,000 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], DoubleTake Records, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
Materials were transferred into the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library in 1999.
Processing Information
Processed by Don Sechler
Completed September 1999
Encoded by Lisa Stark
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
DoubleTake, formerly associated with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is now published from the Boston, MA, area. It was established in 1995 to publish photography, fiction, poetry, and essays documenting the human experience "as it is and as it might be."
[top]Collection Overview
Collection holds story manuscripts (with editor's marks), correspondence, and production files for issues 1-16, 1994-1999. Files of editors Jay Woodruff, Rob Odom, and other editors contain correspondence with writers whose work they were interested in publishing and editing. There are postcards and transparencies used in various issues; and a complete run of the magazine through spring 1999. There are two unidentified files.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- DoubleTake
- Editors--United States--Correspondence
- Periodical editors--United States--Correspondence
- Documentary photography
- American literature
- Photojournalism--Periodicals
- Photographs
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession 1999-0187 DoubleTake Records, 1994-1999
Correspondence with Writers, 1994-1997 (bulk 1994-1995)
Jay Woodruff, Managing editor, 1994-1997
Correspondence A-M
Box 2
Correspondence N-Z
Production Files
Missing files for issues 4 and 6.
Issue No.1
Box 3
Issue No.2
Issue No.3
Issue No.5
Box 4
Issue No.7
Issue No.8
Issue No.9
Box 5
Issue No.10
Issue No.11
Box 6
Issue No.12
Issue No.13
Box 7
Issue No.14
Issue No.15
Box 8
Executive Editor's Files
Rob Odom's office files, chiefly relating to marketing and publicity; maintained in alphabetical order.
A-E
Box 9
E-P
Box 10
P-W
No files X through Z.
Box 11
Correspondence with writers
Alphabetical by writer's last name
Accession 1999-0263 DoubleTake Records, 1908-1999
Production Files:
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Box 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Box 3
Issue 4
Issue 6
Box 4
Prints and Transparencies/negatives
Primarily for issues 3,6,7,9-12, but possibly others
Box 5
Postcards
DoubleTake issues, 1-16
Accession 1999-0336 DoubleTake Records 1994-1999
Production Files by issue, then author
General materials also interfiled
Issue 3: Winter 1996
(2 folders)
Adam Schwartz
Josip Novakovich
Jonathan Veit
Issue 4: Spring 1996
(2 folders)
Charles Baxter
Lee Martin
Joyce Carol Oates
Shipping--Label--Inventory--Advertising--Correspondence
Issue 5: Summer 1996
(11 folders)
Edward Hirsch
Elliott Dark
Rick Bass
Peter Feibleman
John Vachon
Jayne Ann Phillips
David Aronson
Bill Hayes
Bill McKibben
Rafael Campo
Reynolds Price
Shipping--Labels--Art--Correspondence--Editorial
Issue 6: Fall 1996
(2 folders)
Revised pages
Final master set
Issue 7: Winter 1997
(3 folders)
Master set
"Final affected pages"
Proof
Issue 12: Spring 1998
John Cheever
Issue 13: Summer 1998
(2 folders)
Lookmark 13
New Views 13
"Here" 13
Gen. Ed.
Garden City 13
Toni Morrison
Issue 14: Fall 1998
(9 folders)
Tip-on
Captions
Masthead 14
Kelleen Zubick
Czeslaw Milosz
Susan Lasher
Oliver Sacks
Sven Birkerts
Editor's note
Kanan Makiya
Robert Kerrey
Bookmark 14
There [William Carlos Williams]
Peter Brown
Box 2
New Views 14
View finder 14
Moment in hist. 14
Amer. Gazetter 14
Here [Sue Halpern] 14
Gen. Ed.
Contributors 14
Credits & Permissions - 14
Editor's Story 14
Sue Halpern
In Progress: Beck
In Progress: Ackerman
In Progress: Grazda
Sylwia Kapuscinski
Boylston
Lookmark
Lawrence Diller
Gary Whitehead
N. Gallagher
Alec Wilkinson
Michael Lesy
Nigel Pitman
Tina Rathbone
Box 3
Ehud Havazelet
Stephen Koch
Barney/Verdella
Michael Cunningham
Xiaoda Xiao
Ethan Canin
Edward Hirsch
Pattiann Rogers
Frank X. Gaspar
Li-Young Lee
Robert Cording
John Haines
Anthony Petrosky
Bruce Beasley
Jeff Worley
W.S. Merwin
Marcos Cafagña
Arthur Smith
Baron Wormser
Issue 15: Winter 1999
Lookmark 15
Issue #?
Percy
Hurston
