Inventory of the Mary Margaret Wade papers, 1966-2007
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Wade, Mary Margaret
Title
Mary Margaret Wade papers, 1966-2007
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
9.4 Linear Feet
6555 Items
Abstract
6555 Items
Artist, writer, and arts educator.
Collection contains personal correspondence, photographs, writings and drawings, subject files, ephemera, and clippings. The photographs document Wade's personal life, her art exhibits, and trips to Cuba, Alaska, and Costa Rica. The drawings and writings primarily consist of published versions and drafts of cartoons, as well as some manuscripts of writings and drawings for texts, including the artwork for Have You Ever Seen an Ugly Bride?, an unpublished book by Wade and Elizabeth Lide. The subject files include a file for the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, an abortion rights petition signed by Norma McCorvey, and typescripts documenting the Kilbuck family, who were ancestors of Wade's that were missionaries in Alaska. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research, with the exception of a small number of items noted as restricted.
However, collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using this collection.
Also, 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.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Copyright Notice
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], Mary Margaret Wade papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Mary Margaret Wade papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in 2007.
Processing Information
Processed by Robert Ketner, August 2007
Encoded by John Mayrose, September 2007
Accession 2007-0108 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Mary Margaret Wade received a journalism degree from the University of Georgia and a Master of Education degree from Howard University. She taught art at the independent elementary school, the Atlanta School, and worked with artists' book press Nexus Press. Wade moved to Durham, North Carolina in 1996 and was program director for Arts for Life-Duke, a program for children suffering life-threatening illnesses at Duke University Hospital. Several of her political cartoons and drawings appeared in Southline and were published by Gordon Lish in the early 1990s. Her work was also featured in a solo show at the TULA Foundation Gallery in Atlanta, 1992. Wade served on the board of the Cape Lookout Environmental Camp and the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, and was the Board President of Solterra.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection contains personal correspondence, photographs, writings and drawings, subject files, ephemera, and clippings. The photographs document Wade's personal life, her art exhibits, and trips to Cuba, Alaska, and Costa Rica. The drawings and writings primarily consist of published versions and drafts of cartoons, as well as some manuscripts of writings and drawings for texts, including the artwork for Have You Ever Seen an Ugly Bride?, an unpublished book by Wade and Elizabeth Lide. The subject files include a file for the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, an abortion rights petition signed by Norma McCorvey, and typescripts documenting the Kilbuck family, who were ancestors of Wade's and Moravian missionaries in Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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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.
- Wade, Mary Margaret
- Lide, Elizabeth.
- Kilbuck, John, 1861-1922.
- Kilbuck, Edith, 1865-1933.
- McCorvey, Norma, 1947-
- Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, Inc.
- Cartoonists--United States.
- Political cartoons--United States.
- Editorial cartoons--United States.
- Political cartoons.
- Photographs.
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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| | Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits | ||||||
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| | Clippings | ||||||
| | Ephemera | ||||||
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Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence, 1966-2007
2 Boxes
Box 1
Caudle Family, 1986-1998
Ruth Laxson, 1990-1993
Lyle Ross, 1982-1995
Elizabeth Lide and Paul Kayhart, 1987-1990
Ruth and David, 1983-1994
Jeanette Stokes, 1986-1995
Bob Trotman, 1989-1996
John Ross, 1982-1996
Marilyn Smith, 1992
Melita Bryan, 1986-1987
Matilda and Alex Kirbysmith, 1986-1987
Andrew Forster, 1989-1992
Pattie Belle Hastings, 1990-1992
Gay Neale, 1986-1995
Byrd Wade, 1989-1996
Townsends
Stewart and Debbie Caudle, 1989-1992
Deceased Pet Care Memorial Gardens and Crematory, 1993
Grannie Pat, 1985-1989
Congressman John Lewis (5th district of Georgia)
Fred Crouch, 1974-1995
Gordon Lish, 1984
Brad Brooks, 1996-1998
Mark Gottsegen, 1983-1992
Box 2
Steve Snyder, 1987-1993
Marilyn and Cheryl, 1995-1996
Irene, 1983-1994
Sarah Lentz, 1989-1995
Ruth Laxson, 1986-1997
Ruth Laxson, 1998-2005
Ruth Laxson, 2006-2007
Elizabeth Lide, 1976-2000
Betty Hanes, 1983-1998
E-mail with Malcolm Jones, 2007
Letters and postcards to Mary Margaret, 1966-2001
Letters and postcards, 1981-1998
Letters and postcards, 1991-2007
Letters and postcards, 1980-2007
Cards from children, 2005
Artwork, Caitlin and David Caudle, 1987-1989
Picture files
Photographs
Box 2
Cuba, 2002 and 2004
Ashe County, North Carolina
Mary Margaret in hospice
Now You Get It, 1992
Mary Margaret and Malcolm Jones in Greensboro, North Carolina
Alaska trip, 1999
Emma Ming Kayhart
Decatur, Georgia
Cumberland Island, Georgia
Mary Margaret with Della and Daphne
Nexus Press
Caudle Family, 1995
Charles Byrd Wade, Jr.
Family
Nativity Scene
Mary Margaret
Box 3
Installation piece, The Mattress Factory, Atlanta
A friend's (name unknown) installation piece at the Mattress Factory in Atlanta. Dated in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Wade is in several of the photographs.
TULA Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, 1992
Caitlin Caudle, 1998
Now You Get It installation and opening shots, 1992
Cuba and Key West, 2002
Alaska, 1999
(2 folders)
Mary Margaret
Kilbuck relative
Photographs of a Kilbuck relative visiting NC from Alaska. Books and research is available on the Kilbuck family who moved into Alaska in the early 1900s. They were well-known Moravian missionaries.
Slides
Mary Margaret and Malcolm Jones, Jr., 1983
Now You Get It, 1992
Photo albums
"Weekend at Fred's"
"The Riverton-Home-of-the-Freeze-Your-Ass-Off-Lumbee-And-Best-Fried-Chicken-Ever-Lazy-Crazy-Maizie-Days-of-Summer-Reunion,"
2004
Costa Rica
Cuba, April 25th-May 3rd, 2004
Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits
Photocopy of artwork for Have You Ever Seen an Ugly Bride?, 1971
A book by Mary Margaret Wade and Elizabeth Lide.
Box 4
Cartoons arranged alphabetically
A-R
Box 5
S-Z
Miscellaneous - to file
They Say captions
Ready to Go
Flip Side of Marilyn Quayle
Emperor's Clothes
They Say/Hamdige +/-
Cast of Characters
Eyebrow Migration
High Chaperone
Bad Thought
Caffeine Test
Wire to Which we are Down
Mood Milk
Printe Truth
School Trip to Orlando
AAR Studies in Religion
That Other Texan
Flannery O'Connor/Flip
Hambidge/New Yorker captions, 1994
Triumvirate
Comparative Study
Love, Sex, and Death, 1994
Estuary
Ten Thousand Points of Light
Routledge Sent to, 1993
Old Drawings
Elvis Guitar
Strategy
Triumphant
Voice Mail
A Quick Read
Unbound
Three Pieces of White Bread
Refuses to Relinquish Jaws Motif
Leap
Harlequin
The Conversation
Snow Sled
Unnamed folders
Box 6
Now You Get It, 1992
Now You Get It pamphlets, 1992
Bringing Home the Loot
A-Z, arranged alphabetically
Correspondence: an exhibition of the Letters of Ray Johnson, 1976
Printed materials from an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
P.O.V. Cartoons
Odor Eaters
Ideas for Arts for Life
Notebooks
(3 notebooks, one titled
"Arts for Life"
)
Journal, 1987 Aug. 11-1993 Jan. 24
Box 7
Travel notebook, 1973
Sketchbook
Arts festival of Atlanta, 1994
Printed booklet. Wade's transit bus card If you don't get art here, please get art somewhere was chosen by Arts Festival and was pulled at the last minute for fear of being sued by Charter Peachford Hospital, whose slogan was If you don't get help here please get help somewhere. (Note: Elizabeth Lide). Card printed on page 44; biographical information on page 72.
Exhibit booklets
Visual and in-progress
Ode to Mary Margaret Wade, 2007
Program from the Mary Margaret Wade memorial service and
"I am a Mary Margaret Wade Fan"
fans, 2007
Joy's Class's Magazine
From The Atlanta School where Wade taught art. The Atlanta School is an independent school that incorporates art into all subject areas. (note: E. Lide)
Box 16
Artist books by Mary Margaret Wade
(12 books)
Sprial notebook
Clippings
Correspondence
Subject files
Georgia Abortion Rights League petition
Signed by Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade).
Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South file
Kilbuck family history
(3 bound typescripts)
Mary Margaret Wade's great-grandparents were John and Edith Kilbuck, Moravian missionaries to Alaska.
The Joseph Henry Kilbuck family
Joseph H. Kilbuck: Excerpts from his letters
The Kilbuck Story
Resume and teaching philosophy
Travel Information
Alaska
(2 folders)
Cuba
Paris
(2 folders)
Box 8
Hambidge
Clippings
Biographies and obituaries
House of Magic
Cartooning + ists
Thousand Points
Nexus Press Olympiad
Other clippings
(9 folders)
Photocopied articles by Wendell Berry
Ephemera
Mary Margaret Wade letterheads
Collection of religious odds and ends
Box 9
Drafting supplies
From Wade's ex-husband Malcolm Jones.
Campaign and political buttons
Bumper stickers
Diplomas
University of Georgia, 1970
Howard University, 1973
Box 17
Paper book
Queens College 1967 Coronet
Oversize items
Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits
Dearest Santa Clause manuscript
RESTRICTED
Box 11
Clippings
Newspapers clippings of Mary Margaret's cartoons
Book forum,
October/November 2005
Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits
Charcoal rubbing
Photocopies of drawings
Box 12
Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits
Sketchbooks
Ten Thousand Points of Light
Box 13
Drawings, Writings, and Exhibits
Children's artwork
Magazines
Pieces designed by Mary Margaret Wade
Box 14
Posters
Newspapers
Ned Cartledge
Box 15
Posters
Oversize
OC:VII:9
Oversize folder 1
Poster
Art box
Oversize folder 2
Art boxes
