Preliminary Inventory of the Juanita Morris Kreps Papers, 1945-2001 and undated (bulk 1968-1997)
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleJuanita Morris Kreps Papers,
1945-2001and
undated (bulk
1968-1997)
Creator
Kreps, Juanita Morris
Extent
37.10 Linear
Feet
15,410 Items
Repository
15,410 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research.
However, collection contains materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using this collection.
In addition, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
This minimally processed collection contains materials that are not immediately accessible because they
require further processing before use.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this
collection.
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], Juanita Morris Kreps
Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Juanita Morris Kreps Papers was received by
the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
as a gift in 2001.
Processing Information
Processed by Sue-Ellen Katz; Allan Maule
Completed March 8, 2002
Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan
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
Juanita Morris Kreps was born January 11, 1921, Lynch (Harlan Co.), Ky. She was Professor of Economics at Duke University (1958-1977), where she held the James B. Duke professorship (1972-1977), also serving as dean of the Women's College (1969-1972) and university vice president (1973-1977). She then was appointed U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and served for two years.
[top]Collection Overview
(Accession 2002-0082)(15,410 items; 37.10 linear
feet; dated 1945-2001 and undated; bulk dates 1968-1997)
Primarily incoming and outgoing correspondence
(1968-1979), speech drafts (1967-1997), twenty photograph
albums, fifteen scrapbooks, 692 color and 595 black-and-white
loose photographs, and over 100 negatives. Speeches are labeled by date and event and
folders include related correspondence. Kreps' audiences
included university students and alumni and women's
organizations, and speech topics focus on opportunities
for women, the value of women's work, age and gender in
economics and economic markets, and leisure and economic
growth. Other correspondence documents Kreps' career positions,
including Secretary of Commerce (1977, mostly
congratulatory messages); Duke University Dean of the
Women's College (1972, especially relating to the merger of
the Women's College and Trinity College); Public Director
of the New York Stock Exchange Board (1972, mostly
congratulatory messages); Women's Research and Education
Institute Board of Directors (1981-2001); and Carter
Presidential Center fundraiser (1983-2001). Photograph
albums and scrapbooks detail Kreps' visits to the USSR,
China, Japan (1975-1980) and contain clippings regarding
her cabinet position. There are also briefing books,
reports, notes, minutes, appointee recommendations, speech
drafts, and other documents relating to Kreps'
cabinet-level work. Other materials include monthly planners, desk calendars, and
telephone logs (1973-1999), and reprints of her published
articles.
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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.
- Kreps, Juanita Morris.
- United States. Dept. of Commerce--Officials and employees.
- Duke University--History--20th century.
- Duke University. Woman's College.
- New York Stock Exchange--History--20th century.
- Women economists--United States--History.
- Economists--United States--History.
- Feminism--United States--History.
- Cabinet officers--United States.
- Executive departments--United States.
- Stock exchanges--United States--History--20th century.
- Color photographs.
- Color negatives.
- Black and-white photographs.
- Black-and-white negatives.
- Photograph albums.
- Scrapbooks.
- Speeches.
- Clippings.
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession 2002-0011
Boxes 27 and 40 contain sensitive documents (student and appointee recommendations). Patrons must sign a privacy rights waiver form before using this collection.
Some of the materials in this accession are
not immediately accessible because they require further
processing before use. Please contact Research Services
staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Processing note: These materials have been
processed as they were received.
All hanging files have been removed and
replaced with empty folders. These empty folders divide the
material that used to be enclosed in each original hanging
file. Any tabs that were attached to the original hanging
files have been paperclipped to these empty folders. Any
hanging files without tabs are marked "Hanging file." The
number of folders contained within each original hanging
file has been noted to the right of the paperclipped
tab/label.
Photographs in boxes 41-43 arrived in
unlabeled envelopes. Each envelope was given a consecutive
number (
"Group x"
) and the
contents transferred to new photograph folders labeled with
that number. Some original envelopes contained folders
within them. These sub-groups have also been given
consecutive numbers.
The accession includes 11 black scrapbooks,
found in boxes 49-54. To distinguish one from another, all
have been assigned a consecutive number that is
paperclipped to the front cover.
Boxes 48-54 are oversize.
A supplementary container list provides
additional intellectual access by rearranging the
consecutively-numbered boxes of this list into broad
subject categories. It is appended to this document.
Box 1
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1975-1980
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 2
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1972-1974
Includes commencement addresses. Many
speeches focus on opportunities for women, the value of
women's work, and age and gender in economics and economic
markets.
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 3
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1970-1972
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Monthly planners,
1993-1999
Box 4
Monthly planners and desk calendars,
1978-1992
Resignation-Dean Kreps,
1971-1972
Hanging folder contains primarily outgoing
and incoming correspondence relating to the proposed merger
of the Women's College and Trinity College of Duke
University.
Box 5
Outgoing and incoming correspondence
relating to Kreps' tenure as a member of the Board of
Directors, R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.,
1975
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts and drafts of speeches and articles,
1967-1980
Includes many speeches given to various
groups of university students.
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 6
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1980-1985
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 7
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1984-1985
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 8
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1984-1987
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 9
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1985-1986
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 10
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1969-1970,
1985,
and
1998-1999
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 11
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1962-1969 and
1981-1982
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 12
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1981
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 13
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1981-1982 and
1990-1991
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 14
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1988-1989
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 15
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1984
and
1987
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 16
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1983-1984
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 17
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1982-1984
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 18
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1982
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Reprints of published articles and a
few drafts of articles,
ca. 1963-ca. 1978
Topics include the aged population in the
work force and their impact on economics; economic growth
and leisure.
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat brittle paper before use.
Box 19
Reprints and other copies of
published articles and drafts of articles,
1971-1972
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newspaper and coated fax paper before use.
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1974-1978
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Calendar,
1978
Box 20
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1974-1978
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
"The Economist
Diary,"
1970
[Empty.]
Box 21
Appointment books, calendars, and
phone logs,
1973-1978
Visa for the USSR,
[1972]
Transcript of speech,
1979
Box 22
Incoming and outgoing memoranda,
drafts of speeches, notes and minutes from meetings, and
other documents generated during Kreps' tenure as Secretary
of Commerce,
1977-1980
Box 23
Incoming and outgoing memoranda,
drafts of speeches, notes and minutes from meetings,
informational files, and other documents generated during
Kreps' tenure as Secretary of Commerce,
1976-1980
Includes Kreps' response to her appointment,
1976
[Oversize material from folder
"Notes of the Secretary-Misc.,"
2 of 4 removed to box 53.]
Box 24
Published articles and drafts of
speeches and reports,
1972-1976
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newspaper before use.
Incoming and outgoing personal
correspondence as Secretary of Commerce, M-Z
1977-1979
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
[Oversize material from folder
"M,"
3 of 4 removed to box 53.]
Box 25
Incoming and outgoing personal
correspondence and memoranda as Secretary of Commerce,
[M-Z]
1977-1979
Includes reports and articles sent to Kreps
for her information and action.
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 26
Incoming and outgoing personal
correspondence and memoranda as Secretary of Commerce,
[M-Z]
1977-1979
Includes reports and articles sent to Kreps
for her information and action.
Box 27
Incoming and outgoing memoranda,
drafts of speeches, notes and minutes from meetings,
informational files, and other documents generated during
Kreps' tenure as Secretary of Commerce,
1976-1980
Includes Kreps' recommendations for
appointees to various positions within the Commerce
Department, as well as staff evaluations.
Contains sensitive information (peer
reviews and evaluations). Patrons must sign a waiver
concerning privacy rights. Contact Research Services.
Box 28
Briefing books,
1979
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence, D, F-G, K-L,
1977-1978
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 29
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence, D, G-H, K-,
1977-1978
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 30
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence, A-C, H,
1977-1979
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 31
Information files, talking points,
notes, autograph requests, and other documents generated
during Kreps' tenure as Secretary of Commerce,
1978-1979
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence, A-B,
1979;
letters from White House, Congressmen, Governors, Senators,
1978-1979
Box 32
letters from White House,
Congressmen, Governors, Senators,
1978-1979
Congratulatory letters and Kreps'
responses, A, C-F,
1977
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 33
Incoming and outgoing memoranda to
President Carter,
1977
Congratulatory letters and Kreps'
responses, B,
1977
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Correspondence, D-H,
1979
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 34
Correspondence, H-L,
1979
Congratulatory letters and Kreps'
responses, P-S,
1977
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 35
Congratulatory letters and Kreps'
responses, U-Z and I-N,
1977
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Box 36
Congratulatory letters and Kreps'
responses, O and T,
1977
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1995-1997
Box 37
Correspondence regarding appearances
and transcripts of speeches given,
1992-1995
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 38
Incoming and outgoing correspondence
regarding the Carter Presidential Center,
1983-2001
Correspondence and fundraising
materials for Bill Clinton,
1993-1996
Memoranda and campaign materials
from the Democratic Caucus,
1983-1988
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence, minutes, notes, invitations, and other
documents relating to Kreps' tenure as member of the Board
of Directors of the Women's Research and Education
Institute,
1981-2001
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat coated fax paper before use.
Box 39
Congratulatory letters for Kreps'
position as Public Directory of the New York Stock Exchange
Board,
1972
Clippings about Kreps,
1969-1976
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newspaper before use.
Black-and-white and color
photographs of Kreps and of her house,
ca. 1970s
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Incoming and outgoing personal and
professional correspondence,
1972-1975
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Contains sensitive information (student
recommendations). Patrons must sign a waiver concerning
privacy rights. Contact Research Services.
Box 40
Incoming and outgoing
correspondence,
1968-1973
Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Correspondence regarding positions
and appointments Kreps accepted or declined,
1972-1973
Drafts of speeches and articles and
speech ideas,
ca. 1970s
Briefing book and other information
on the pulp and paper industry for Kreps as Secretary of
Commerce,
1978
Box 41
Color and black-and-white
photographs and negatives of Kreps in personal and
professional roles, undated
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 42
Color and black-and-white
photographs and negatives of Kreps in personal and
professional roles, undated
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Includes photographs of Jimmy Carter and
Walter Mondale and others.
Box 43
Color and black-and-white
photographs and negatives of Kreps in personal and
professional roles, undated
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 44
"Flower"
album, convocation at St. Lawrence University,
1975
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
4 black-and-white prints, newspaper
clippings, and event program
"Black"
album, trip to Japan,
1978
Newspaper clippings.
"Red"
album, Kreps as professor,
1967-1975
1 color and 45 black-and-white
photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Green"
album, US National Trade and Economics Exhibition, Beijing,
1980
45 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Garden"
album, photographs of places in China, undated
40 color prints.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Red
binder,"
"Mission to
China,"
undated
40 color prints.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 45
"Juanita M.
Kreps, Secretary of Commerce"
album,
1977 January
23 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Brown"
album, census celebration,
1980
45 color prints.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Beige"
album, visit to Russia, undated
16 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Brown
binder,"
visit to China, Japan, and Hawaii,
1979
36 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Blue"
album, sightseeing in China, undated
42 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"American-Romanian Economic Commission
Meeting,"
Washington, DC,
1977
31 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 46
"Large brown
binder,"
1961-1976
Newspaper and magazine clippings about
Kreps.
"Blue
binder,"
1945-1970
Newspaper and magazine clippings about
Kreps.
"Green
binder,"
visit to Saudi Arabia,
1979
18 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Small brown
binder,"
conference,
[1980?]
30 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Red
binder,"
graduation, US Merchant Marine Academy,
1978
7 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 47
"Brown
binder,"
visit to India and Moscow,
1978
60 black-and-white photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Blue
binder,"
dedication of a JC Penney's store to Kreps,
1975
"Brown"
album, Union Gas plant dedication ceremony, Korea,
1977
20 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Two
"burgundy"
albums, international
conference, Warsaw, Poland, 1975
33 black-and-white and 4 color
photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Brown"
inscribed album,
"An Evening
Together,"
1985 September 5
47 color photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 48
album, 7th session of Joint
American-Polish Trade Commission, Warsaw, Poland,
1977 Nov. 28-1977 Dec. 2
10 black-and-white and 140 color
photographs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 49
"Kreps 1"
scrapbook,
1977
Includes 90 black-and-white and 1 color
photograph.
"Kreps 2"
scrapbook,
1977
Includes newspaper and magazine clippings
and programs.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
Box 50
"Kreps 3"
scrapbook, Secretary of Commerce, 1978 Nov.-1979
Jan.
Includes 7 color photographs and newspaper
and magazine clippings.
Attention: Contains photographic materials.
"Kreps 4"
scrapbook,
1977 Feb.-May
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
Box 51
"Kreps 5"
scrapbook,
1977 Sept.-Dec.
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
"Kreps 6"
scrapbook, 1979 Feb.-April
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
Box 52
"Kreps 7"
scrapbook, 1978 Jan.-Mar.
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
"Kreps 8"
scrapbook,
1978 April-June
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
Box 53
"Kreps 9"
scrapbook, 1976 Dec.-1977 Feb.
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
"Kreps
10"
scrapbook, 1978 June-Oct.
Includes newspaper and magazine
clippings.
Oversize material removed from box
23, folder
"Notes of the
Secretary-Misc.,"
2 of 4
Oversize material removed from box
24, folder
"M,"
3 of 4
Box 54
"Kreps
11"
scrapbook, 1977-1978 Jan.
Includes 90 black-and-white and 12 color
photographs.
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Rearrangement of Preliminary Container List
To provide additional access to the
materials listed in the preliminary container list, this
quick virtual rearrangement by box has been created. The
archivist identified three broad categories that would
benefit from this kind of tracking: Speeches,Secretary of Commerce Records, and
Calendars and Monthly Planners.
The Speeches category is
organized into groups by dates (1960s-1977; 1977-1979;
1979-2001). The contents of this first category overlap
with the second, Secretary of Commerce
Records. It is organized into groups by type of
material (calendars and monthly planners; correspondence,
minutes, notes, briefing books, etc.; photograph albums;
scrapbooks; speeches). The third category,
Calendars and Monthly Planners,
also overlaps with the second, and is organized into groups
by dates (1960s-1977; 1977-1979; 1979-2001).
Note that many of the box numbers are
repeated, as each box usually contains material from
several categories.
Speeches
1960s-1977
Boxes 1-3, 5, 10-11, 19-20,
40
1977-1979
Boxes 1, 5, 19,
20-21
1979-2001
5-18, 37
Secretary of Commerce Records
Calendars and monthly
planners
Boxes 4, 19, 21
Correspondence, minutes, notes,
briefing books, etc.
Boxes 22-33
Photograph albums
Boxes 44-48
Scrapbooks
Boxes 49-54
Speeches
Boxes 1, 5, 19-21
Monthly planners and calendars
1960s-1977
Box 21
1977-1979
Boxes 4, 19, 21
1979-2001
Boxes 3-4
