Contains the professional papers of Thomas E. Frothingham (1926-2011), chief of the General Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics in the Duke University Medical Center (1973-1988). Types of materials include contracts, reports, meeting notes, budgets, grant proposals and memoranda pertaining to Duke's Department of Pediatrics, the Duke Child Protection Team and the Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina, Area K, and the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program. Major subjects include community and rural health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation General Pediatrics Academic Development Program, and Duke University Medical Center. Materials date from 1974 to 2007.