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[Identification of item], James Fred Rippy Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
The James Fred Rippy Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in October 1953.
Processed by Archives Staff, October 2006
Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, January 2007
Accession A48-1503 is described in this finding aid.
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James Fred Rippy was born October 27, 1892 in Nubia, Tennessee. He married Mary Dozier Allen on August 19, 1915. He became a faculty member within the Department of History at Duke University in 1926 and taught until September 1936, when he left Durham to take a position at the University of Chicago. Upon retirement, he returned to Durham.
Contains the correspondence of James Fred Rippy while he was a member of the Department of History at Duke. They are largely copies of his own letters. The collection ranges in date from 1926-1935.
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