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Ledgers and daybooks of a large Fayetteville, N.C., mercantile firm, chiefly in the 1880s, but also 1833-1835 and 1870s; and accounts of the firm with a black man who did hauling and errands, 1885-1888.
The A. M. Johnson Rayon Mills in Burlington, N.C., was originally built in 1927 and extensively expanded in 1929. The company was reorganized in 1930 as the Carolina Cotton Mills. The mill was closed in 1931.
A.P. Watt was the world's first literary agency and was the largest for its first thirty years of operation. Alexander Pollock Watt (1834-1914) began working as a literary agent in 1875 when a friend asked him to negotiate a contract with a London publishing company. By 1881, A.P. Watt had incorporated his business and begun to define the role of the literary agent. The A.P. Watt firm has remained in the forefront of the market in popular fiction and it has counted numerous important and/or best-selling authors among its clients.
Anderson Abercrombie was from Columbus, Ga.
The Abernathy family was located in Tennessee and Texas. Family members include Jesse Jones Abernathy (1817-1895), his wife Sarah Esther Howard Abernathy, and the Abernathys's children, Alfred (b. 1879) and Anesta (1880-1973). Both Jesse Jones Abernathy and Alfred Abernathy were physicians and professors at the Medical College of the University of the South, and Anesta Abernathy was a nurse. During the Civil War, Jesse Jones Abernathy worked as a Confederate Army surgeon in Bowling Green, Ky.
The collection is a Christmas letter, 26 December 1864, to C. P. Abernathy of Raleigh, N.C., from his sister in Mullberry Valley.
Personal papers of Milton "Ab" Abernethy and Minna K. Abernethy, white publishers of the journal Contempo and operators of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, N.C. Materials include: Ab's correspondence from his student days at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now North Carolina State University) in 1928-1929 (he was thrown out of N.C. State by the Honor Court for publishing an article about widespread cheating on campus); drafts and other papers related to articles he published while at N.C. State; correspondence from North Carolina political leaders while Ab was running the student Democratic Club at N.C. State; a letter from Clarence Darrow (who Ab had written for help with his appeal for expulsion); papers from 1929-1930 about a project he was working on related to the conditions of textile workers in the South; photographs of the Intimate Bookshop; and other papers. Also included materials documenting Minna K. Abernethy's leadership in the Daniels Defense Committee, an ad hoc group (marked by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a Communist front group) who advocated for the exoneration of Bennie Daniels and Lloyd Ray Daniels, two Black men accused of the murder of a white taxi driver in Pitt County, N.C. Even though their appeal went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the two men were ultimately executed. Daniels Defense Committee materials include correspondence with the Daniels' attorney, legal papers and research, papers on fundraising for a defense fund, leaflets with facts about the case, and other items. There is also a copy of The Enchanted Lake, signed by Joseph Caldwell.
The University of North Carolina's first art museum, established in 1937, was located in Person Hall and known as the Person Hall Art Gallery. In 1958, a new building was completed with funds from the bequest of William Hayes Ackland. The museum then moved and was renamed the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; in 1979 its name changed again, to the Ackland Art Museum. The museum was part of the Department of Art, and the department chairman served as its director, until 1974, when the museum became a separate administrative unit. (The bulk of the museum's pre-1974 records are among the Records of the Department of Art).
Native of Tennessee; author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. After his death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ackland's name was originally Acklen. Ackland travelled widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved in society in England and America. His papers, mostly dating from 1890, consist of extensive social correspondence; manuscripts of short stories, novels, and plays written by him; notebooks and scrapbooks on many subjects, especially reflecting social conditions during the Victorian age and into the early 20th century; personal diaries, 1894-1900 and 1927-1928; autograph letters and autographs of many British and American notables; reminiscences of his childhood near Nashville, Tenn., his education, and his legal practice and social life; and other items. Letters to Ackland include two, 1878 and 1879, from Henry W. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier about what he thought was involved in being a poet. Collected items incude single letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884, and James Russell Lowell, 1886, and two letters from John Greenleaf Whittier.
The collection contains compilations of genealogical information for white North Carolina families related to Rita Adams Simpson (b. 1928) of Charlotte, N.C., and Joseph Bradford Simpson (1920-1979) of Salisbury and Rowan, N.C. Compilations contain family trees, family histories, biographical information, copies of related historical documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Family lines represented in the genealogical information include Adams, Simpson, Roach, Gettys, Remer, Strait, Burns, Beckwith, Crowder, Ledford, Arnold, and Whisnant.
Agatha Boyd Adams was a University of North Carolina librarian.
The collection includes the correspondence of Charles C. Adams, director of the New York State Museum, concerning the writing and publication of a A Guide to the Winter Birds of the North Carolina Sandhills (1928), by Milton Philo Skinner (born 1879). Correspondence was mainly with John Warren Achorn (1857-1926), who originated the plans for the guide, financed it, and wrote some of the chapters; Skinner, field naturalist who wrote the major portion of the volume; and Edmund J. Sawyer (born 1880), who illustrated it. Also included are field study notes and photographs of the North Carolina sandhills area.
The collection includes letters received by E. F. Adams, of Vanceboro, N.C., from Benjamin Rice Lacy and J. S. Mann, rival candidates for treasurer of North Carolina in the Democratic primary of 1916, seeking Adams's support.
Correspondence, writings, interviews, and other material of white philosophy professor, E. Maynard Adams (1919-2003), chiefly documenting his professional life as a philosopher and faculty member at the University of North Carolina, but also including letters from Adams to his parents, 1937-1983. The collection contains Adams's professional correspondence and drafts of his writings as well as interviews with Adams by professors and students, films, and photographs of Adams. The interviews are primarily about Adams's ideas about important philosophical issues. Included are discussions of humanism, naturalism, metaphysics, logic, language, religion, morality, ethics, and Adams's criticisms of the economic system and ideas about structuring a humanistic economic system. Some interviews also discuss his life and the history of the University of North Carolina and its Department of Philosophy. Also included are audiocassettes of philosophy classes taught by Adams.
Audio recording of Scottish folk music with Campbell Read, a white resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., originally from Glasgow, Scotland. Recorded by Joel Adams, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, on 29 April 1966 for a Folklore 104 course. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a field collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff.
Lauren Adams (1979-) is a white artist originally from Snow Camp, N.C.. The Lauren Adams Digital Files relate to the research, design, and production of "Crazy Quilt," a work of art commissioned by the Ackland Art Museum. "Crazy Quilt" depicts historical events, people and places from North Carolina, with an emphasis on reimagining women's roles in society, politics, labor, and art. The digital files include designs for original collages and designs for the artwork, photographs and documentation from the installation, the proposal for the project, design and timeline notes, and a list of sources. There are also high resolution digital images of the entire work.
Ray T. Adams was a meat wholesaler in Washington, D.C., who purchased the Whalehead Club, which occupied a Corolla, N.C., beach mansion owned by Adams, 1939-1957. The collection includes scrapbooks, a guestbook, photograph albums, newspaper clippings, and other material of Ray T. Adams, relating to the Whalehead Club.
The Adams-Millis Corporation, a hosiery manufacturer, was founded in 1904 with headquarters in High Point, N.C. Adams-Millis produced socks for a number of different companies. One of its major clients was the Sara Lee Corporation, for which it manufactured Hanes brand socks. The idea of Sara Lee's acquiring Adams-Millis arose in 1985, when Adams-Millis was under the leadership of chairman and chief executive officer, James H. Millis, Sr. Serious meetings between Sara Lee and Adams-Millis officials concerning the prospect began in late 1986. The concept came to fruition in October of 1988, when Adams-Millis's stockholders approved the acquisition.
Kendall Addison was presumably a resident of the eastern shore of Virginia or Maryland. The collection includes accounts, presumably of Kendall Addison, of merchandise and shipping with some pages later used as a scrapbook for clippings, especially of recipes.
James Davis Jr. of Stokes County, N.C., married Elizabeth McAnally in 1817. Together they had 13 children including Mary Ann Davis, Emily Caroline Davis, and James William Davis. Mary Ann Davis married Wilson Fulton in 1841, and they had nine children. The Fulton family moved to Texas shortly before the Civil War. Emily Caroline Davis married Hiram Adkins, a tutor for the Davis family children, in 1858. Hiram became a preacher in the Davis family chapel and helped with its operations as well as running other businesses in Stokes County, N.C., including lumber mills.
William M. Adler, a white author and journalist, co-founded and published the community newspaper The People's Voice: The Newspaper for All the People of Halifax and Northampton Counties, 1982-1986. The People's Voice focused on worker rights, environmental issues, and small town politician malfeasance. The collection consists chiefly of organizational records and other miscellaneous materials relating to the business operations of the newspaper; documents relating to the North Carolina Community Owned Newspaper Network; and newspaper clippings about the newspaper. There are also materials relating to Adler's work in support of the Carolina Brown Lung Association.
Proceedings of the annual meetings of the North Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church for the years 1935, 1937, 1940, 1943-1946, and 1950. The meetings were held in Wilmington, Fayetteville, Kinston, and Rich Square, N.C. Presiding bishop for most of them was Monroe H. Davis of Baltimore, Md., who was suspended by the National Conference in 1946. Minutes for annual conferences begin with a roll of elders, deacons, lay members, prominent visitors, and other groups present. The Journal of Proceedings documents the activities of the Conference in three sessions per day over the five days of the Conference. Reports of the various committees are transcribed in the minutes, including most notably reports on the A.M.E. Church's missionary program and reports of the committees on the state of the country and the church, on education, and on temperance. Many of these reports are long essays that include, for example, statements on the meaning and value of education in general, for the African American community specifically, and the importance of supporting the A.M.E. Church's own Kittrell College. Reports on the state of the country describe economic hardships and work shortages in the Great Depression and World War II. The report on the state of the country for 1935 discusses the continuing problem of lynching, including the apparent tolerance of the white population for the practice, and notes recent Supreme Court decisions affecting the rights of African Americans. Conference minutes for each meeting close with detailed A.M.E. Church financial accounts, including the Dollar Money Report and reports of the treasurer, the Finance Committee, and others.
This collection consists of photographic images depicting African American members of the South Carolina African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and surrounding communities including Yorkville, Chester, and Spartanburg, S.C., during the 1880s-1890s. These formats include tintypes, carte de vistas, an ambrotype, and a lithograph. Among the people identified in the images are Reverend E. Hinton, Reverend H. Blake, Reverend R. C. Collins, and J. E. Young. Also included is the original photograph album, from which the images have been removed.
The AfterWWards Club, founded in 1985, was a social club based in Chapel Hill, N.C., for people who were excluded from the Welcome Wagon Club when that club began limiting its membership to three years. The AfterWWards Club allowed former Welcome Wagon Club members to continue in Welcome Wagon-like activities. It hosted several social events throughout the year, including a Fall Coffee, a Pig Pickin', and a Spring Fling. The Club also organized book clubs, bridge clubs, and a gourmet club. Club membership ranged between 71 and 315 until it disbanded in 2009.
Samuel A. Agnew grew up and attended college and seminary in Due West, S.C. In 1852, he moved to Mississippi, and thereafter lived in the northeastern part of the state, chiefly in Tippah and Lee counties, where he was an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister, teacher, farmer, and prominent local citizen. The collection contains a detailed diary of Agnew's thoughts, experiences, and activities; neighborhood news; public events, particularly as they affected the locality; relations with slaves and free blacks; the Civil War, during which he was in the area of operations of both armies; Reconstruction, which was tumultuous in his vicinity; the Ku Klux Klan; local and regional church affairs; farming and leadership in the local Grange; major natural events; frequent travels to Memphis and to other parts of Mississippi; and many other aspects of personal and public life that came within his view. There are occasional gaps in the diary before 1873 and after 1883.
David Wyatt Aiken (1828-1889), was a Confederate colonel, a South Carolina and United States representative, and an agricultural reformer.
Susan Grey Akers was dean of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina from 1932 until 1954. In 1950-1951, Akers served as a library science consultant in Tokyo, Japan. In 1954-1955, she was visiting lecturer in library science at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
The contract (6 p.) and specifications (13 p.) for the construction of the Confederate commerce-raiding vessel, C.S.S. Alabama, agreed upon between John Laird Sons and Co., shipbuilders of Birkenhead, England, and Confederate naval agent, James Dunwody Bulloch (1823-1901).
Mimeographed booklet of Vol. 1, No. 6, of the monthly bulletin of the Alabama Department of Archives & History in Montgomery, Ala. This issue of the bulletin, dated June 1925, chiefly pertains to the deserted town of Cahaba, the onetime capital of Alabama.
The Alamance Cotton Mill was established by Edwin Michael Holt and his brother-in-law, William A. Carrigan, in 1837, signalling the start of industrial development in Alamance County, N.C. The Alamance factory was located on Great Alamance Creek, site of Holt's father's grist mill. The plant was under Holt management for 89 years, during which time the Holt family controlled most of the county's cotton manufacture. The Alamance Cotton Mill operated under various names, including Holt and Carrigan, E.M. Holt and Company, E.M. Holt's Sons, and the L. Banks Holt Manufacturing Company. Business records and scattered business correspondence of the Alamance Cotton Mill include production, shipping, and time records; store accounts; letter books; and other materials relating to manufacture and sales. Papers are chiefly dated 1838-1884, with a gap from 1853 to 1868.
MICROFILM ONLY. History and recollections of lead and zinc mines and mining in Southwest Virginia, particularly in Wythe County, from 1750 to 1930. Included are extracts from The Story of Austinville, Va., compiled in 1930 by W. D. Borcherdt.
Audio recordings of public auctions created by sociologist, Edward H. Albert. The recordings feature auctions held in Randolph County, N.C., as well as recordings from the Missouri Auction School, which Albert attended as part of his research.
The Albertype Co., headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced postcards and other printed materials from 1890 until 1952. The company utilized a specific photomechanical processes process invented by Joseph Albert in Australia in the late 1860s, which was an improvement on the collotype photographic process. The company had teams of photographers who traveled across the United States taking and buying images depicting people, places, and activities in all parts of the country. A majority of the images were published as postcards and marketed to be sold in the locales depicted in the images.
Confederate ordnance officer and newspaper publisher in Greensboro and Asheville, N.C.
James L. Alcorn was a planter, brigadier general of Mississippi state forces during the Civil War, Republican governor, and U.S. senator.
Personal collection of Ray Alden, a white musician, record producer, artist, photographer, educator, and author. Collection consists largely of field recordings, festival and club performances, airchecks, and album master tapes of old-time music and bluegrass music. Recordings document many of the traditional musicians active in the 1970s and 1980s, including Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Fred Cockerham, Joe Val, J.D. Crowe, Hazel Dickens, Johnson Mountain Boys, and Bill Monroe, as well as recordings of emerging old-time musicians Alden recorded for his Young Fogies recording project and the Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival Festival. Also includes photograph albums of old-time musicians, including The Kimble Family; family photographs; and research files.
Correspondence of members of a Fayetteville, N.C., family, including letters, 1874-1878, from William T. Purviance, a relative with a cotton brokerage firm in Galveston, Tex., and New York City, concerning personal and family matters; letters, 1877-1878, from William Colin Alderman, a student at the University of North Carolina about student life and campus and town events in Chapel Hill, N.C.; and miscellaneous other letters.
President of University of North Carolina, 1896-1900; president of Tulane University, 1900-1904; and president of University of Virginia, 1904-1931.
John Thomas Alderman (1853-1932) was an educator, North Carolina state senator, Baptist historian, and Mason. Correspondence of John Alderman relating to his position as Masonic leader and articles and lectures written by Alderman on various topics. Correspondence between Alderman and various Masons includes information about members, dues, conferences, initiations, conferring of degrees, officer elections, resignations, expulsion of members for various reasons, and the distribution of philanthropic funds. Included are several undated articles and lectures Alderman wrote on topics such as the history of the Masons, the history of the Netherlands, American national songs, famous jewels, the business of education, the role of the family, and the Civil War.
Penelope Alderman was the wife of the Rev. Amariah Biggs Alderman (1819-1889), a Baptist minister who organized and pastored churches in Sampson County, N.C.
The Tony Alderman Collection consists of audio recordings compiled by Tony Alderman, a white old-time fiddler of Galax Va., who was a member of the Hill Billies and Buckle Busters musical groups. The recordings, which were dubbed from materials held at the Smithsonian, primarily contain old-time string band and early country music from Virginia and North Carolina, including live recordings of the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention held in Galax, Va. Other recordings include oral history interviews with old-time musicians, personal field recordings, television appearances, and other live recordings. The collection also contains related documentation, including detailed tape logs with artist names and song titles.
Mary Katherine Aldin is a freelance independent reissue producer and annotator. She wrote a blues column for the L.A. Weekly for more than 20 years; has contributed essays to several books and magazines on American roots music; and has hosted an American roots music radio show in Los Angeles, Calif.
Thomas M. Aldrich served in the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, United States Army, during the Civil War. The collection includes recollections, 25 pages, typescript, by Aldrich of his Civil War service, with a focus on the career of General Daniel Edgar Sickles, and two manuscript diagrams of the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., perhaps drawn by Aldrich in 1911.
The Alembic Club was the successor to the Science Club and the Journal Club. The Journal Club was founded on 25 January 1901 by faculty and students of the University of North Carolina Department of Chemistry. Meeting twice monthly from 1901 through 1921, the Journal Club discussed research articles published in scholarly journals. Presentations of members' research work was also encouraged. In 1924, the club was reorganized to include members from all physical science departments on the campus. This new organization was first named the Science Club, then the Alembic Club.
Members of the white Alexander and Hillhouse families of Sunbury, Ga., Washington, Ga., and Savannah, Ga., owned plantations, relied on enslaved labor, and had business interests in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennesse, and New England, including Fairfield Plantation and Hopewell Plantation. The collection includes some materials documenting enslaved labor, free Black men, 20th century Black employees, and abolitionist movements, including a letter written by May Brown, an enslaved woman. The majority of the collection contains extensive family and personal correspondence, business correspondence, plantation accounts, physician's accounts, estate papers, travel journals, and genealogical materials, primarily documenting white family, political, and religious life in Washington and Savannah, Ga., and in Connecticut and New York.
The Alexander family of Mecklenburg County, N.C. included six signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
A. F. Alexander was a student at what is now Princeton University.
Eben Alexander (1851-1910) was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, 1886-1910, and the United States minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, 1893-1897.
Edward Porter Alexander was an engineer, United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, and planter.
Chiefly letters, 1856-1870, to Emma Pauline Nicholson Alexander of Enfield, N.C., wife of Sydenham Benoni Alexander (1840-1921), from friends and relatives, particularly cousins, in various locations in North Carolina, including Tarboro, Hillsboro, Warrenton, and New Bern, and in Richmond, Va., Galveston, Tex., and Demopolis, Ala. Many of these letters are from friends who attended school with Emma either at the Salem Female Academy or at boarding school in Hillsboro, N.C. Writers of these letters tend to reminisce about school events, discuss classmates, or give news of their activities since leaving school. There are also many letters from Emma's cousins and other relatives. These letters chiefly discuss routine family affairs. There are a few letters that relate to the Civil War, including two 1864 letters from Emma's brother Edward A. T. Nicholson, who served as aide to Brigadier General Robert D. Johnston and was killed in the charge on Fort Stedman in 1864, about the conduct of the war and about an expedition into the Valley of Virginia; a letter, 8 November 1864, from Eugene B. Wiggins at Camp Manly to his cousin Emma; a 4 March 1865 letter from former classmate Mary H. Whitaker in Tarboro about rumors of Northern troops in the vicinity; and a 7 July 1865 letter to Emma about the death of her brothers. Also included are Emma's scrapbook containing poems, some of them clipped from newspapers and others handwritten, 1850s-1874, about fallen heros of the Civil War and the virtues of women, a few printed tracts, and other items.
Henry Quincy Alexander (1863-1929) was a physician working in the rural areas of Providence, N.C., and Matthews, N.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alexander was a member of the North Carolina state legislature for several terms, and one of the founders of the Mecklenburg Medical Society, where he served as the society's first president.
Isaac Alexander (born circa 1844) was a private in the 10th South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate Army, 1862-1865. The collection includes typed transcriptions of letters, 1862-1865, from Alexander to his mother, describing life in Confederate army camps and on the front, and commenting on commanding generals and on the situation in the South, as he moved from Mississippi to Kentucky to Tennessee. Also included is a bound volume, Letters of Isaac Alexander, 10th S.C. Volunteers, C.S.A./John Alexander, 1942, containing carbon copies of typed transcriptions of letters, many of which appear to duplicate those already on deposit. The volume includes an introduction, written by John Alexander, that contains background information about Isaac Alexander and his family.
The collection contains a typed copy of an original letter from P. G. T. Beauregard at Fairfax Court House, Va., to Judah P. Benjamin, Acting Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, concerning field defenses and the rank of Brigadier General M. L. Bonham.
The collection contains papers, chiefly 1775-1853, accumulated by Joseph McKnitt Alexander and others relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Resolves of May 1775, and the controversy over them, including later testimony of witnesses and copies of documents, papers of North Carolina officials concerning the publication of a pamphlet on the subject in 1831, and later letters related to aspects of the controversy.
Samuel Alfred Alexander was a schoolmaster and farmer in Alamance County, N.C.
William B. Alexander, a carpenter born in Plymouth, Mass., served as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, April-June 1861, and as a captain in the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, December 1861-December 1862.
William D. Alexander (b. 1841), of Mecklenburg County, N.C., was a Confederate hospital steward who served with the 37th North Carolina Regiment.
William Sample Alexander was the son of Hezekiah Alexander (1728-1801), a prominent early settler of Mecklenburg County, N.C.
The records of Larry Alford, a white librarian, document his time as Associate University Librarian for Technical Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The records contain correspondence, annual reports, planning files, and administrative records including taskforce documentation, committee files, and budget materials. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Algonquin books of Chapel Hill, Inc., is a publishing house incorporated in 1982 by University of North Carolina English professor Louis Rubin Jr., and Shannon Ravenel, a Saint Louis fiction editor who had been one of Rubin's creative writing students. The records of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Inc., include correspondence and other papers of the company's founder Louis D. Rubin Jr., who served as president and editor-in-chief, and of Shannon Ravenel, vice-president and senior editor. There are also author files, editorial materials, production materials, illustrative materials, galleys and advance uncorrected proofs, advertising and sales materials, book reviews and review requests, subsidiary rights materials, financial records, inventory records, and legal files. The Addition of April 2013 is Workman Publishing Company's Algonquin Books website and the Algonquin Books blog. Note that not all authors published by Algonquin are currently represented in the collection as files are transferred only when Algonquin staff members determine that they are no longer active.
Joseph Dill Alison (fl. 1861-1863) of Dallas County, Ala., was a surgeon in the Confederate Army. The collection includes a typed transcript of Alison's diary while stationed with the Confederate Army at Pensacola, Fla., in the summer and early winter of 1861 and in Mississippi thereafter, describing daily activities, medical facilities, and the medical situation at Vicksburg. There are gaps in the spring of 1862 and between 30 June and 26 December 1862. The diary ends with the fall of Vicksburg, 4 July 1863.
The collection is a portion of the vestry journal of All Saints Church, an Episcopal church in Waccamaw, S.C., chiefly concerned with building and business matters.
William Allan (1837-1889) was a Confederate military officer and an educator. The collection contains letters, deeds, estate papers, business papers, diaries, reminiscences, and other material documenting the life of Allan and of members of his family. Allan's volumes include reminiscences, written in the 1880s, of his early life and of the Civil War, during which he served as a colonel and chief ordnance officer for generals Jackson, Ewell, and Early in the Army of Northern Virginia; notes on the 2nd Battle of Bull Run; notes on his conversations with General Robert E. Lee, 1867-1870 (typed transcriptions); and Allan's diaries, 1872-1873, while a professor at Washington College, Va., and 1882-1888, while principal of the McDonogh School, Baltimore, Md. Other volumes include the reminiscences of his wife, Elizabeth Randolph (Preston) Allan (1848-1933), published in Richmond, Va., in 1938; and the reminiscences (microfilm of typed transcriptions) of his father, Thomas Allan (1802-1873), who emigrated from Scotland in the 1830s and became a nurseryman and dairy farmer at Winchester, Va. Also included are copies of items relating to Preston family and Allan family history.
H. A. (Harry Ardell) Allard (1880-1963) was a native of Massachusetts, graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1905, naturalist, specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906-1946, and author of several hundred articles on biological subjects.
John Volney Allcott (1905- ) was professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an architectural historian. These papers consist of correspondence, photographs, photocopies of manuscripts, and other material relating to the architectural history of North Carolina, particularly of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of this material was collected for use in two books by Allcott, Colonial Homes in North Carolina and The Campus at Chapel Hill: Two Hundred Years of Architecture.
Images depicting African American members of the Allen, Booth, and Snipes families of Chapel Hill, N.C. All three families have ties to the University of North Carolina. Included are images of Benjamin Booth and Easter Snipes, both of whom worked for the University during the later third of the nineteenth century. Some of the individuals depicted were likely enslaved by the University of North Carolina during their lives.
A. T. (Arch Turner) Allen was state superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina, 1923-1934.
Cornelius Tacitus Allen (1841-1915) had an interest in the history of Lunenburg County, Va. The collection contains chiefly research notes and biographical sketches related to Lunenburg County, Va., presumably by Cornelius Tacitus Allen. Also included are originals of minutes, 1840, of the Lunenburg Young Men's Literary Society, and a 20-page handwritten autobiography (written after 1843) by a Lunenburg man born in 1798.
Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, during the Civil War. He was the son of James and Emily Allen. He had several siblings, including James F. (Fred) Allen who served in Company K, 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Correspondence, diary entries, and other papers of Edward W. Allen during the Civil War. Most of the letters are from Allen to his parents in 1864 and 1865. Also included are letters he wrote to friends and letters his parents wrote to him, as well as some pages of diary entries, which Allen apparently sent to his parents. Letters discuss camp life, supplies, health, troop movements, and battles. Some letters also discuss the army service, disappearance, imprisonment, probable death, and return home of Edward Allen's brother, Fred Allen, who served in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Edward W. Allen was at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, February 1863-February 1864; at Vicksburg, Miss., March 1864; at Pulaski, Tenn., May 1864; near Atlanta, Ga., June-September, 1864; in Savannah, Ga., December 1864; Columbia, S.C., February 1865; in Goldsboro, N.C., March-April 1865; in Virginia, May 1865; in Louisville, Ky., June-July 1865; and back in Wisconsin, July-August 1865.
Planter of Pelika and Lafayette, Ala.. Also represented are his brother, Alexander A. Allen (fl. 1832-1870), planter and lawyer of Bainbridge and Lexington, Ga.; Alexander's son, Alexander A. Allen (d. 1918), reporter and editor of Macon and Atlanta, Ga.; Willia M. (b. 1853) and Ruth Linton Allen (fl. 1891-1914), Alabama educators and travelers; and other Allen family members and their Wheat and Linton relations.
James Allen was a planter of Warren County, Miss. Charles B. Allen was his son.
Letters to John Mebane Allen of Arkansas from friends and relatives in Alamance County, N.C., and extracts from a journal kept by Allen during his move from North Carolina to Arkansas in 1852, and compiled and indexed by Elizabeth White Furman, circa 1974. Letters, 1853-1859, from North Carolina discuss personal, local and agricultural news and occasionally comment on politics, the economy, railroad building, operating a tannery, mining, and the hiring and sale of slaves. A version with virtually identical contents was privately published in 1974.
Educator, attorney, and Confederate officer Joseph Nathaniel Allen (also known as Nat Allen) was born in Warren County, N.C., in 1834 and died in 1917.
Colonel Julian Allen came from Russian Poland to New Orleans, La. in 1849, lived in New York from 1850, aided the United States government in connection with Sherman's occupation of Savannah, Ga., and settled after the war near Statesville in Iredell County, N.C., where he was prominent in farming.
Video interviews, photographs, articles, and book chapters about self-taught/folk artists created by Margaret Day Allen and Robert John Allen, former members of the Folk Art Society of America's National Advisory Board and past presidents of the North Carolina Folk Art Society. Margaret Day Allen authored When the Spirit Speaks: Self-Taught Art of the South. Videos were recorded digitally by the Allens over a 10- to 15-year period. Materials document African American and white artists from Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Artists featured in the collection include: Ab the Flagman (Roger Lee Ivens), Minnie Adkins, John "Cornbread" Anderson, Michael Brien, Tammy Leigh Brooks, Benny Carter, Neolia "Nell" Cole, J. J. Cromer, John "Johnnie" Culver, Eric Cunningham, Bruce Davenport, Brian Dowdall, Winton and Rosa Eugene, Sam Ezell, Patti Fenick, Theresa Gloster, Edna Hackett, Eddie Hamrick, Eddie Hayes, Chris Hubbard, Clyde Jones, Stacy Lambert, Paul Lancaster, Arbon Lane, Jr., Eric Legge, Juanita Leonard, Tim Lewis, Peter Loose, Denny Maloney, Sam "The Dot Man" McMillan, Kessiah Freeman Meroney, Roy Minshew, Bruce New, Ashley Pierce, Sarah Rakes, Joe Reinhardt, Kathy Richards, Harold Rittenberry, Robert Roberg, O. L. Samuels, Cher Shaffer, Gabriel Shaffer, Rev. Johnnie Simmons, Vollis Simpson, William Thomas Thompson, Della Wells, and LaVon Williams.
Thomas Turner Allen (1841–1862) was born in Windsor, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina, and was class valedictorian in 1861. He joined the Confederate Army the April before graduation, and served as a private in the Warren Guards, Company “F,” Twelfth North Carolina Regiment. Allen was killed on 1 July 1862 at the Battle of Malvern Hill. Janie Outlaw Allen Candler (1862-1884), was the daughter of Thomas Turner Allen and Janie Outlaw Allen (1843-1862). After the death of her parents, she was raised by her maternal aunt Victoria Outlaw Pugh (1838-1896). She was graduated from St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, N.C. She married Robert L. Candler in 1883, and died in May 1884.
W. G. Allen (1824-1867), an army chaplain with the 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, wrote letters to his wife, Georgia Anne Swilling, from Chattanooga, Tenn., and Missionary Ridge, Tenn., from July to October 1863. Also included is one letter, 1866, written from Americus, Ga.
William C. Allen (fl. 1850-1859) was a merchant of Autauga County, Ala. The collection includes deeds, bills and accounts, promissory notes, receipts, and a few letters of Allen, chiefly related to estate settlements, including that of Dr. Hugh C. Hillhouse, Prattville, Ala., in the 1850s.
Captain William Allen served in the 39th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army.
Chiefly deeds, estate records, and other financial and legal items, including slave bills of sale, relating to Young Allen of Wake County, N.C., and to members of his family. Also included are some correspondence of the Allen family with relatives and others, some of which relates to settling the frontier in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi in the 1820s and 1830s, and a bawdy poem about a parson and a black woman.
Emma H. Allensworth was, in 1893, a young woman from Nashville, Tenn.
Charles M. Alley was a private in the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during the Civil War. After the war, he participated in a number of business ventures in Boston, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. He married around 1870 and had six children.
Chiefly genealogical materials relating to the Alexander, Allison, Barry, Cunningham, Graham, Johnston, Lockhart, Sample, Williams, and Young families of Cabarrus, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, and adjoining counties in North Carolina. Included is a family record book compiled by Reverend Thomas Johnston Allison of Mecklenburg County.
John Mack Allison Jr. of Brevard, N.C, served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Allison flew many combat missions with the 321st Bomb Group in West Africa in 1943. He was discharged in 1946 and served in the Air Force Reserve, 1952-1955. Allison died in 1990.
Robert F. W. Allston was a rice planter and civil engineer; surveyor general of South Carolina, 1823; member of the General Assembly, 1828-1832; state senator, 1832-1856; and governor, 1856-1858.
The University of North Carolina (Rho) chapter of the Alpha Chi Sigma collegiate chemistry fraternity began in 1909 as the Order of the Khems. In 1912, the group joined the national Alpha Chi Sigma organization. The group is a professional chemistry fraternity, although it has social functions as well. The national fraternity is divided into collegiate and professional divisions, with the professional members providing guidance and information for the collegiate.
The Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the national pre-medical fraternity, was established at the University of North Carolina on 30 March 1936. The chapter's goals were to foster the scholastic and social life of prospective medical students. The chapter organized lectures and seminars throughout the academic year. The major event was the annual new members' banquet.
S. S. Alsop was an attorney of Enfield, N.C., and a local historian. The collection includes notes and papers collected by Alsop for his history of Halifax County, N.C., and 160 pages of the original manuscript. Also included are items of information on prominent people of Halifax County and some correspondence, 1901-1907, about Alsop's writings.
Materials include land records, receipts, correspondence, and other papers pertaining to the Alston family of Chatham County, N.C. Most of the land records and all of the receipts are photocopies of original materials. The land records cover the period 1770-1831 and document transactions involving Joseph John Alston, William Alston, Gideon Alston, and others. Receipts primarily document the sale of clothing by Junius A. Alston, 1857-1897. Correspondence, 1851-1877, written by women and exchanged with relatives, contains news of family, literary pursuits, and bereavement. Other papers include a freedmen₂s contract and a proposal to open a school.
Archibald Davis Alston, lawyer and planter of Halifax County, N.C.
African-American artist Charles Henry Alston, nicknamed Spinky, was born 28 November 1907 in Charlotte, N.C. He was the youngest of five children born to the Reverend Primus Priss Alston, who was born into slavery in Chatham County, N.C., and Anna Miller Alston. After Primus's death, Anna married Harry Pierce Bearden, artist Romare Bearden's uncle, and moved the family to New York in 1913. Charles Alston worked as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, illustrator, and educator, gaining national and international recognition. His works are found among the holdings of individuals and permanent museum and gallery collections around the world. Alston married Myra Logan, a noted surgeon at Harlem Hospital.
Joseph J. Alston lived in Selma, Ala.
The collection contains a printed copy of the last will and testament of Joseph John Alston, Halifax County, N.C., 5 January 1780.
Trudy Alston lived near Raymond, Miss., during the Civil War. She kept an occasional diary of events that occurred, 1861-1864, during which time her brother Robert (Bob) and friend Edgar fought in the Confederate Army. The diary of Trudy Alston, 1861-1864, reports on daily activities of the Alston family and their friends, as well as events such as the death of various acquaintances during the course of the Civil War. The diary contains several pages of description of the Battle of Raymond (1863), which occurred close to Alston's home, as well as notes from friends departing for service in the Confederate Army. The diary concludes with a entry detailing Alston's brother Robert's capture by Union troops, probably at the Battle of Nashville, and his subsequent incarceration at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Microfilm of a stud book of William Alston of Waccamaw, Georgetown County, S.C.
Willis Alston (1769-1837) was a United States representative from North Carolina, 1799-1815 and 1825-1831.
MICROFILM ONLY. Genealogy and copies of wills and other family documents, compiled by Henry P. Alves of Guntersville, Ala., 1940-1949, about the Alves, Hogg, Norwood, Gayle, Hodge, Rudy, Jordan, Rivers, Fennell, Allison, and related families. Also included is a typed transcription of a short diary of James William Fennell, surgeon, 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment, concerning military movements and camp life.
Walter Alves of Orange County, N.C., was the son of James Hogg (1730-1804) and Ann McDowal (Alves) Hogg (1732-1801) of Scotland. The family emigrated to America in 1774, settling in North Carolina. His father legally changed his sons' last names from Hogg to Alves in honor of their mother. Walter Alves married Mary Amelia Johnston, daughter of William Johnston (d. 1785) and had with her nine children. Alves, a staunch Federalist, served in the North Carolina General Assembly, 1793- 1795; was a trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1795-1813; and speculated heavily in North Carolina and Tennessee lands.
Philis Alvic is an artist/weaver and writer who maintains a studio in Lexington, Ky. She weaves wall hangings using complex weave structures. Her textiles have been shown at more than 100 exhibits throughout the United States. The collection consists of documentation of early weaving in the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and around Penland, N.C.; the beginnings of the Penland School of Crafts (formerly Penland School of Handicrafts); and the weaving room at Crossnore School, Inc., in Crossnore, N.C. Materials include audio cassettes, documents, and photographic slides, most developed by Alvic with grant support from the North Carolina Arts Council and the North Carolina Humanities Council. Audiocassettes contain oral history interviews with weavers, their friends and relatives, and other people connected with the early years of the Penland School. Documents include pamphlets on the history of weaving in the Southern Highlands and other materials. Photographic slides include images of interior and exterior shots of the Penland School, portraits of weavers, slides of crafts, and slides of historic Penland photographs.
Collection consists of the 60 photographic prints used to produce Sodom Laurel Album (2002). Sodom Laurel Album, chronicles Dellie Norton and her family 1975-1994, who lived in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, located in Madison County, N.C. The collection also contains a copy of Sodom Laurel Album (2002).
William R. Amberson was a professor at the University of Tennessee Medical School at Memphis, 1930-1937, advisor to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and trustee of the Delta and Providence cooperative farms in Mississippi.
Collection of ambrotype photographs collected by the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. Ambrotypes were in production from the early 1850s into the early 1880s. Collection contains 22 images taken of individuals seated or standing for portraits, circa 1852-1880. Individuals appearing in the images include Omar ibn Said, a Black writer and Islamic Scholar who was enslaved for most of his life, and students at Wesleyan Female Institute in Murfreesboro, N.C. Also included are images depicting white soldiers who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, including General Bryan Grimes of the 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, members of the "Iredell Blues," and Meshack F. Hunt of the 5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Between 1984 and 1987, celebrations were held in North Carolina and England to commemorate the 400th anniversary of English colonists settling in America.
The American Association (later Alliance) for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, a division of the National Education Association, was formed in 1927 to awaken a wide and intelligent interest in physical and health education; to acquire and disseminate knowledge concerning it; and to promote such universal physical and health education as will provide well-trained teachers and secure adequate programs throughout the South. The Southern District includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was organized on 1-2 January 1915 in New York, N.Y., to promote the advancement of the standards, ideals, and welfare of the faculty at institutions of higher education. The Association has been most active in the areas of academic freedom and tenure. Thirteen professors at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill organized a chapter of the AAUP in 1916.
Intermittent records of the Chapel Hill branch (later the Orange, Durham, Chatham Counties branch) of the American Association of University Women, including correspondence, membership information, annual reports of activities filed with the national office in Washington, D.C., programs submitted at conventions of the North Carolina state division, board meeting minutes, yearbooks, newsletters, and other miscellaneous materials. Volumes are chiefly minutes and scrapbooks, 1923-1972. There are no papers for the years 1923-1927, 1932-1933, 1936- 1937, 1939-1940, or 1941-1942.
The American Cancer Society is a non-profit organization involved in cancer research, education, advocacy, and service. William Clyde BillFriday acted as president of the North Carolina Division of the organization in the mid-1950s.
Sixteen-page document, which appears to be presented as a speech, explaining and justifying the purpose of the American Colonization Society. The speaker cites the 1821 acquisition of Cape Montserrado on west coast of Africa, population data from the 1830 census (warning about the dangers of a growing Black population in the United States), and the Southampton Insurrection led by Nat Turner in 1831 (claiming to be about 1-2 years since "we heard of whole states agitated & alarmed"), as well as providing a lengthy justification of colonization with the mission of Christianity. The speech concludes by noting the need for funding. The American Colonization Society (originally known as the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America) was formed in 1816 to send free African Americans to Africa as an alternative to remaining in the United States.
In 1984, the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association (SFMA) and the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers (NFMA) merged to form the American Furniture Manufacturers Association (AFMA). Headquartered in High Point, N.C., AFMA provides educational services to its member companies, a comprehensive public relations program to represent the industry to consumers, government relations to relay member interests to national agencies and officials, and statistical information about home furnishings manufacturing. Records of AFMA and its predecessors, SFMA and NAFM, include correspondence, meeting materials, reports, financial records, surveys, and publications. The collection documents AFMA's organizational structure, member services, and program. Among the topics covered are membership education, management training, government relations, furniture flammability, pollution, safety, consumer affairs, statistical information, and public relations.
The collection contains bulletins and correspondence about American Legion Auxiliary activities in North Carolina, 1936, and membership and officer lists, 1934-1937.
The Southern Division was one of several regional organizations formed from the American Nurses Association. The regional divisions were established to promote the interests of the nurses in the terrritory comprising the division; for the interchange of ideas, and to bring the nurses of the division into closer fellowship (1929). The Southern Division members wre Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Clippings and manuscript notes of an undesignated Tennessean about national politics, chiefly about the American party, to which he was opposed.
The collection contains selected American and English playbills representing a larger collection of playbills for plays presented in the United States and England between approximately 1945 and 2005.
Jessie Daniel Ames was a white civil rights worker of Atlanta, Ga., Georgetown, Tex., and Tryon, N.C. Beginning in 1922, Ames served separate roles as secretary and vice-president of the Texas Committee on Interracial Cooperation. By 1929, she had moved to Atlanta, where she was director of Women's Work for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. During this time, Ames established the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which functioned as a volunteer component within the Commission.
Scattered family papers of Rufus Amis of Granville County, N.C., including letters, 1848-1850, to his first wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Ragland (1836-1900), from her brother, Robert L. Ragland in Colbert and Barton, Miss.; letters concerning Amis's illness and resignation from the Confederate Army; certificates; receipts; muster rolls, 1861, of Company I, 13th North Carolina Volunteers; and pages from the Amis and Chandler family Bibles and Amis family histories. Correspondence includes microfilm copies of two additional letters, one from Rufus to Bettie, 1857, telling her about prospects for settling in Arkansas and its advantages over North Carolina, and one, 1853, from John Barr Andrews, a student at the University of North Carolina.
North Carolina poet A. R. Ammons (1926- ), who, since 1961, has been on the English faculty of Cornell University. The collection contains letters from Ammons to his sister, Vida Ammons Cox; letters from Ammons to poet William Harmon of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; writings by Ammons, including poems and a World War II journal; photographs; and other items relating to Ammons. The Cox letters chiefly relate to family affairs and to Ammons's life while a student at the University of California at Berkeley and teacher in the Hatteras (N.C.) public school system; the Harmon letters chiefly deal with literary matters and with Ammons's college teaching career. There are also other Ammons materials.
The Amphoterothen Society was founded at the University of North Carolina in the 1912-1913 academic year as a student organization to promote extemporaneous speaking. The society was inactive from 1947 to 1952. In 1959, the society was reorganized by the Forensic Council as an honorary society to recognize thirteen students who exemplify the virtues of leadership, oratory, and service.
Lysander H. Amsden (fl. 1836-1837) studied engineering and worked on a railroad survey in Virginia under Moncure Robinson (1802-1891). The collection includes letters from Amsden, written while he was on a railroad survey at various places in Virginia, to S. M. Robbe, a friend who was a student at Norwich, Vt. The letters discuss Amsden's surveying work, his impressions of Halifax County, Va., and people in the Shenandoah Valley, and other matters.
The Jay Anania Collection consists of audio recordings, 1973, featuring music and interviews from blues performers Arthur Jackson (1911-1977) and Henry Johnson. Filmmaker, Jay Anania, made the recordings while he was an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They were conducted in collaboration with folklorist and record producer, Bruce Bastin, as part of Anania's personal film project on Jackson. Commonly known as Peg Leg Sam, Jackson was an African American blues harmonica player and medicine show performer, from Jonesville, S.C. In his interview Jackson discusses his experiences in show business, medicine shows, radio broadcasting, and riding freight trains. The collection also contains an interview with Henry Johnson, an African American blues performer from Union, S.C. This recording primarily consists of Johnson playing and singing blues songs on guitar. Both Jackson's and Johnson's musical careers ranged from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s.
The Anderson Family Papers document the family of Charles William Anderson and Lois J. Anderson and their pastoral work at the United Institutional Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C. Included are photographs of the African American family and church, biographical materials, awards and certificates, bible school yearbooks and writings, church financial records and printed materials, and audio reflections on life and ministry by Lois J. Anderson.
The Wilder and Anderson families were united when Page Wilder, daughter of Georgia King and Joseph J. Wilder, of Savannah, Ga., married J. Randolph Anderson (1861-1950), son of Edward C. Anderson, Jr. (1859-1876), also of Savannah, in 1895. The Andersons had three children: Page (Pagie) Anderson (b. 1899); J. R. Anderson (1902-1903); and Joseph (Joe) Wilder Anderson (b. 1904). Page Wilder Anderson married Henry N. Platt of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1921.
Anderson Brothers was a general merchandise firm in Rowan County or Davie County, N.C.
The collection contains 26 transcription discs recorded in the late 1940s by the western swing and country music group Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. The discs were distributed for radio programs by the Tiffany Music Company of Oakland, Calif. Also included are typed transcriptions of Bob Wills radio programs, printed promotional materials for the music group, sheet music for "Back in Dear Old Oklahoma" by "Cactus Jack" Cliff Johnson and Cliff Sundin, and two copies of a publicity photograph.
MICROFILM ONLY. Confederate officer and congressman, and lawyer of Macon, Ga. Chiefly correspondence between Clifford Anderson and his wife Annie during the Civil War. Letters discuss Anderson's military career in Walker's Division, camp life, movements, fighting, and family matters. Other letters are from a soldier in the Macon Light Artillery. Also included are some personal and family letters from before and after the war.
Edward Clifford Anderson (1815-1883) of Savannah, Ga., was a United States Navy officer, planter, Confederate Army officer, mayor of Savannah, insurance company representative, and railroad director. He was married to Sarah McQueen Williamson (1816-1884).
Edwin Alexander Anderson (1860-1933) of Wilmington, N.C., was an officer in the United States Navy.
Elizabeth Willis Gloster Anderson was an Episcopalian of Warrenton, N.C., LaGrange, Tenn., and Texas.
The Janet Anderson and Eugene Anderson Collection documents African American life and culture in rural Fayette County, Tennessee, especially the intersection of African American health crises and civil rights concerns. The collection consists of an interview with Janet and Eugene Anderson in May 2019 in Rossville, Tennessee, and copies of newspaper clippings, photographs, and flyers that supplement their stories about African American health activism in Fayette County. Topics include Tent City (1959-1960); the Appalachian Student Health Coalition in Rossville, Tennessee; the Poor People's Health Council of Rossville, Tennessee in the late 1970s; the Fayette County, Tennessee Civic and Welfare League in the early 1990s; and Janet Anderson's campaign for Fayette County Court Clerk in 1978.
George Burgwyn Anderson was a general in the army of the Confederate States of America.
George Wayne Anderson (d. 1872) of Savannah, Ga., was president of Planters Bank of Savannah for 40 years, railroad director, property owner, and executor or administrator of various estates. He was active in the business life of Savannah from the mid 1820s to the early 1870s. His son, Edward Clifford Anderson Jr. (1839-1876), also was a banker as well as a planter; factor and commission merchant; major with the 7th Georgia Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America; and later a colonel and militia officer.
Herschel V. Anderson, a native of North Carolina and later South Dakota state librarian and director of the Mesa Public Library in Arizona, served as a cryptographer and then cryptographic security clerk, 93rd Signal Battalion, 7th United States Army, outside Stuttgart, Germany, January 1956-July 1957. The collection contains letters, postcards, and scrapbooks of Vince Anderson during his cryptography service with the United States Army in Germany, 1956-1957. Letters to his parents in Raleigh, N.C., describe daily life in the Army, his fellow soldiers, and his explorations of Germany and beyond. They tell of his travels in the Black Forest; to Heidelburg and other parts of Germany; to and around Lake Constance; into Switzerland and Liechtenstein; to Copenhagen, Denmark; to Sweden; to Brussels, Belgium; and to London, Cambridge, Ely, and York, England. The scrapbooks contain picture postcards and written descriptions of places that Anderson visited in Europe. The addition of September 2000 contains typed transcriptions of memoirs by Mary Octavia Kemper Anderson (1871-1960) and her son, Paul Kemper Anderson (1898-1987).
James Patton Anderson (1822-1873), native of Tennessee, was a politician in Mississippi and Florida, Mexican War officer, federal officer in the Washington Territory, and Confederate congressman and general. The collection is a typed copy of an autobiographical sketch by Anderson describing his service in political and military posts for both the United States and the Confederacy, with notes added by his wife and daughter for the period 1864-1872.
The collection of food and travel writer, cookbook author, and magazine editor Jean Anderson (1929-2023) contains diaries, scrapbooks, collected recipes in volumes and loose papers, subject files, research files, writings, and correspondence with chefs, food writers, editors, and others. Collection materials span her career from the 1940s until 2023. Subject files pertain to different foods, many associated with cuisines and foodways in the American South. Topics include "Muffins," "Gingerbread," "Corn pudding," and "Green Goddess" (salad dressing). Research files pertain to foodways and other topics including North Carolina pottery and travel in Portugal. A small sample of Anderson's extensive library of foodways publications she collected over her lifetime forms a published portion of this collection and includes community cookbooks and chefs' self-published cookbooks, chiefly from North Carolina and the South. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection contains four volumes of testimony in the case of the State vs. John L. Anderson, J. P. Hoggard, Tom Canipe, J. F. Haraway, Florence Blaylock, Howard Overman, Avery Kimery, and Jerry Furlough, concerning the dynamiting of the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill at Burlington, N.C., in September 1934, during the general textile strike called by the United Textile Workers of America.
The collection is a compilation of genealogical notes, 1966-1967, compiled by Marie Epps Anderson, on the descendants of John Caldwell of Cub Creek, Va., scattered over many states and three centuries, with index.
Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright.
Robert Burton Anderson was a Presbyterian minister of Morganton, N.C.
A record of the distribution of slaves from the estate of H. Hunter, 1865, no place indicated; a license to practice medicine in South Carolina, 1819; and microfilm of a recipe book, 1804, belonging to Daniel Hughes and Elizabeth Potts of Maryland, containing recipes for foods, home remedies, and other items.
Andrew Methodist Chapel operated in Sampson County, N.C.
Alexander Boyd Andrews of North Carolina (1841-1915) was a Confederate Army officer, planter, and railroad executive.
Alexdander Boyd Andrews (1873-1946) of Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; active in the North Carolina and American Bar associations; chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; Grand Master of Masons of North Carolina; amateur statistician; active member of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association; and trustee of the University of North Carolina, East Carolina Teachers College, and Oxford Orphanage. The collection includes correspondence, autograph letters, and other papers of Alexander Boyd Andrews. The correspondence, chiefly 1911-1946, is with lawyers, judges, government officials in the United States and abroad, members of the Episcopal Church, newspaper editors, school administrators, and legislators. Subjects include Andrews's writings; his concern with gathering and disseminating information and statistics on legal education; his work on the American Bar Association committee on judicial salaries; adult illiteracy; the training of college teachers, including African Americans, in North Carolina; the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of North Carolina; the restoration of Fort Raleigh and a proposed monument to the Roanoake Colony; and other subjects of public concern and North Carolina historical interest. Included are four letters from William Howard Taft, 1921, 1923, and 1928. Also included are a scrapbook of clippings, composition notebooks with notes and references to Masonic history in North Carolina, and autograph letters collected by Andrews. The Addition of 1992 includes yearly files of correspondence, financial records, and other papers chiefly related to the Episcopal Church and North Carolina history.
The collection contains a letter, 16 March 1856, to Andrews of Rutherford County, N.C., from his brother, J. M. Andrews in Montezuma, Calif., describing his activities buying and selling gold dust, and his wish to come home; and an undated letter from a New York patent medicine dealer asking B. W. Andrews to be his agent for the area.
Charles Haynes Andrews (1835-1905) of Madison and Milledgeville, Ga., was a lawyer, businessman, Confederate Army captain, and author of a history of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment (3rd Regiment of Georgia Volunteers), which served in Maryland, Virginia, and other locations. The collection consists of personal correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, and genealogical materials of Charles H. Andrews and other Andrews and Harris family members. There are only scattered items for the period 1795-1855, consisting of legal and personal papers of the Haynes and Andrews families and of unrelated persons. The bulk of the papers, 1858-1904, consists of personal papers of Andrews and his wife, Florence Emma Harris Andrews, including correspondence between them and with family and friends. Civil War materials include Andrews's letters describing military action and camp life, a report concerning activities of Wright's Brigade in the battle of Sharpsburg, and records of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment. Other letters document land owned in Florida, positions as deputy clerk of Superior Court and judge of Morgan County, Ga., wartime and postwar hardships, and race relations. Beginning in 1890, a large amount of the correspondence concerns Confederate veterans' activities in Georgia and Andrews's writing of the history of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment. There are only a few items for the period after 1904; they are chiefly letters to members of the Andrews family asking for information on the Harris family, about which Charles Haynes Andrews Jr. did research. Undated material includes a number of items on the history of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment and Iverson Louis Harris's writings concerning his legal and political career in Georgia. A number of the volumes relate to Andrews's Confederate service, including diaries, Home Guard records, and the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment history. Also included are several scrapbooks of material on Milledgeville, Ga., and on the Andrews, Harris, and Hall families; a volume of original writings by Charles Eaton Haynes; Rebecca Ann Harris's commonplace book; a volume of data on the Harris and related families prepared by Iverson Louis Harris; a notebook containing an alphabetical list of persons buried in the Milledgeville cemetery; and printed materials, chiefly political, historical, literary, and scientific addresses, reports, and other writings.
Garnett Andrews (1837-1903) of Washington, Ga., Yazoo, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn. was a Confederate army officer, and served as Judge-Advocate at the Confederate court-martial trial of Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) and Jerome Bonaparte Robertson (1815-1890). Varied papers of Andrews consisting of letters to him from Rosalie Beirne of Monroe County, W. Va., before and after their marriage in 1867; estate papers of Rosalie's father, Andrew Beirne of Monroe County; papers pertaining to the courts martial of Confederate generals Lafayette McLaws and Jerome Bonapart Robertson for actions during the Knoxville campaign (Andrews was a Confederate judge advocate); genealogical charts, correspondence, and other items relating primarily to the Andrews family, but also including material on the Beirne, Garnett, and Key families; and letters from, scrapbook of, and collection of autograph letters from famous persons to Andrews's sister, Eliza Frances Andrews of Georgia, author and illustrator under the name Elzey Hay. Persons represented in the autograph collection include Braxton Bragg, Henry Clay, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Asa Gray, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Raphael Semmes, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs.
George Reid Andrews (1886-1941) of Montgomery County, N.C., was a Methodist and Congregational minister and member of the Committee on Education and Religious Drama of the Federal Council of Churches, the Church and Drama Association, and the Church and Drama League of America.
Materials documenting the congressional career of Ike Franklin Andrews, a Democrat who represented North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District from 1972 to 1984. For all or part of this period, the Fourth District included Chatham, Franklin, Randolph, and Wake counties. These papers consist largely of constituent correspondence, office files, and campaign materials. Topics documented include relations between constituents and federal agencies, federal projects in Andrews's district, and public policy areas in which Andrews took a special interest, especially agriculture, education, health, veterans' affairs, and the aged. Files of constituent correspondence on such issues as abortion, the Watergate scandal, busing for school integration, and women's rights also are included.
Mildred Gwin Andrews was executive secretary of the Southern Combed Yarn Spinners Association (SCYSA), 1936-1946; expert consultant on textiles to the U.S. Army Office of Quartermaster General and member of the War Production Board's Committee on Industrial Salvage during World War II; field representative for Dudley, Anderson, and Yutzy, a public relations firm, 1946-1952; and director of public relations, 1952-1955, and executive secretary, 1955-1968, of the American Textile Machinery Association (ATMA). While associated with the ATMA, Andrews managed the American Textile Machinery Exhibitions-International, 1952-1965. In the mid-1950s, Andrews directed publicity for the Tungsten Institute. Throughout her life, Andrews published books and articles chiefly, but not exclusively, about textiles. After 1970, Andrews ran a public relations firm, Andrewtex, in Charlotte, N.C. She was also a consultant for the first International Trade Mart in Honduras and a lecturer on textile machinery in Asian countries.
In the spring of 1998, professors Richard (Pete) Andrews, Nicholas Didow, and James Peacock taught INTS 092: Economics, Ethics, and Impacts of the Global Economy: The Nike Example. The interdisciplinary seminar was inspired in part by protests at UNC-Chapel Hill following the renewal of UNC's multi-million dollar deal with Nike. In the course, students examined Nike's labor practices. The course attracted national media attention, particularly when Nike Chief Executive Officer Phil Knight visited campus at the end of the semester to attend the class. Records include the syllabus for the class, notes, student papers and presentations (made accessible with permission), materials used in the course, and news clippings.
Stephen Tippet Andrews served with the 85th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He helped organize Company F and was mustered in as first sergeant of the company in the second half of 1861. Andrews was captured with the Plymouth Pilgrims on 20 April 1864 and was held captive at an unknown location for roughly one year. On 8 April 1865, he was honorably discharged. After the Civil War, he married Margaret Little and worked in a general store. He was appointed postmaster by President Benjamin Harrison and served in this capacity until his death on 13 June 1891.
T. Wingate (Thomas Wingate) Andrews was a school superintendent, 1908-1937, in Orange County, N.C, Reidsville, N.C., Salisbury, N.C., and High Point, N.C.; an official in various religious and state and national educational organizations; and an author on religious and educational themes.
Letter from Mrs. William Johnston Andrews, a white woman, to "The Johnstonian," c/o Jane E. Ward, Secretary, Raleigh, N.C., announcing a gift to the Johnstonian book club of a year's membership in the "American Federation of Art Society."
The Noah Angell Collection consists of unedited digital media documenting the African American gospel musician, Connie B. Steadman, of the Badgett Sisters, a folk and gospel group from Yanceyville in Caswell County, North Carolina. North Carolina-born artist, Noah Angell, created the born-digital audio and video materials as part of a documentary work on Steadman. Both audio and video files found in the collection feature interviews conducted by Angell with Steadman, as well as documentation of rural North Carolina, including audio field recordings and video landscape scenes.
Ledger and minutes book of the Anna Jackson Book Club, a literary club founded by women in Lincolnton, N.C., in 1895. The book contains accounts, a mission statement, minutes, and other reports, 1895-1899. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Anne C. Stouffer Foundation was established in 1967 by Anne Forsyth of Winston-Salem, N.C., to promote the integration of preparatory schools in the South. Over its eight years of operation, the Foundation helped 142 students, chiefly African Americans, gain admission to preparatory schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and other southern states. A driving force in the Foundation's work was novelist John Ehle, who was active in recruiting and placing students. By 1975, the Foundation's goal of preparatory school integration was largely achieved, and the program was halted.
Henry Beasley Ansell (1832-1920) was a native of Knotts Island, Currituck County, N.C.
The Anti-Apartheid Support Group (AASG) was organized and officially recognized as a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in October 1985. From 1985 to 1987, the AASG led the campus movement against apartheid by insisting on divestiture of all University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill holdings in companies operating in South Africa. Their protests and demonstrations peaked in March and April 1986 when the group erected shanties in front of South Building. The group was dismantled shortly after the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Endowment Board voted in October 1987 to divest all of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa.
The Apollo Records Collection consists of master lacquer disc audio recordings, 1943-1958, affiliated with Apollo Records, a record company and label founded in New York City in 1944. Bess Berman, one of the few women executives in the recording industry, ran Apollo Records from 1948 until it closed in 1962. The company and label was known for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop, gospel, jazz, and rock and roll releases. Notable artists featured on the recordings found in the collection include jazz saxophonist and composer, Charlie Barnet; African American comedian and film actor, Stepin Fetchit; African American male vocal group, The Four Vagabonds; African American gospel singer, Georgia Peach; African American male vocal group, The Larks; female vocal group, The Murphy Sisters; country and western singer, Merle Travis; harmonica instrumentalists, The Three Harpers; and African American blues singer and guitarist, Josh White. The collection also includes scattered memos and tape logs found with the lacquer disc recordings.
Lillie Vause Archbell (1854?-1946) of North Carolina was a leader in affairs of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The collection is two scrapbooks. The first contains clippings of poems, articles, and pictures from newspapers, circa 1870s-1880s, and including University of North Carolina commencement programs for 1882, 1885-1888, and 1891. The other scrapbook contains news items, poems, comic Valentines, etc., 1850s and 1862-1863, compiled by young women in the Archer family, Norfolk, Va. The clippings in the latter volume are pasted in what appears to be a letter book and register of the Spanish consul in Norfolk, circa 1831-1834. The volume is labeled Copiador de Cartas, and includes fifty pages not covered by clippings. These pages contain copies of some letters sent and records of others, all from 1834.
The Archibald D. Murphey Educational Club was formed on 27 October 1913 by members of the University of North Carolina faculty and staff to promote interest in and support for the public schools and teacher-training programs of North Carolina.
Mark Arduini was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 with a B.A. in American Studies. His honors thesis was I'm Home! This is Where I Belong: Narratives of Conversion in a Roman Catholic Community.
The collection includes mathematics exercise books from Orange County, N.C., 1794-1831; Lawrenceville, Va., undated; Wythe County, Va., 1829-1831; Moore County, N.C., 1841-1843; Lincoln County, N.C., 1842-1843, with two poems by Peter Stewart Ney (1787-1846); Person County, N.C., 1829-1838; Guilford County, N.C., 1817-1840; Nansemond County, Va., 1807-1809, with birth dates listed for members of the Scott family; County, N.C., 1812-1815, with remarks from later dates on purchasing slaves; and two volumes from an unknown location, 1832 and 1841-1874.
Grant Arledge was a farmer in Flat Rock, N.C. He raised cows and other animals; planted tobacco, potatoes, and other crops; cut and sold lumber; and manufactured and sold wine and spirits. Chiefly account books, 1899-1936, of Grant Arledge of Flat Rock, N.C, in which Arledge kept farm records, including notes on crops grown (tobacco, potatoes), livestock (calving, breeding, pasturing of cows), and other farm activities (wood cut and sold, fertilizers applied, beehives maintained). Also included are notes, some in the style of short diary entries, that include documentation of daily activities; recipes; and general facts and useful information. There is also much information that falls under the title "wet goods sold." Arledge was an active moonshiner, producing and selling non-tax-paid wine and liquor; the books list ingredients purchased, recipes for various concoctions, and when and to whom products were made and sold. Almost all of the books are account/memo books given away by banks, fertilizer companies, and other institutions. Most of these books include printed advertisements for goods and services offered by the company that distributed them. Many of Arledge's books were kept in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Books, distributed by R. V. Pierce's World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y. These books include advertisements for Pierce's patent medicines (especially the Golden Medical Discovery, which claimed to be effective against any number of ailments) and other services, including Pierce's Invalid's Hotel and urine analysis labs. Also included are general health and beauty tips and testimonials from satisfied customers, many with photographs.
A letter about routine family matters, 1796; a brief business letter, 1832; and forty-six deeds, plats, and pertinent legal papers relating to property and slaves in Bertie, Washington, and Chowan counties, N.C., purchased by Stark Armistead and other members of his family at Windsor and Plymouth, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, 1861-1864, from Edward Hall Armstrong with the 3rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, to his family in North Carolina, describing military experiences and camp life; scattered family letters and documents, 1859-1885; and transcriptions of Pearsall family Bible records.
Armstrong was the owner of Woodstock Plantation near Pine Bluff in Jefferson County, Ark., and a Confederate Army officer. His wife was Matilda Greene Armstrong (fl. 1832-1891). Also represented in the collection is his sister, Nancy (Nannie) Armstrong Percy (fl. 1850- 1888), wife of William Alexander Percy of Mississippi and mother of U.S. Senator LeRoy Percy (1860-1929).
John Armstrong lived in Orange County, N.C.
Martin W. B. Armstrong (fl. 1815-1819) attended the University of North Carolina, 1814-1819, but did not graduate from that institution.
Letters, 1992-1995, written by North Carolina folk artist Wiili Armstrong to Tori Knight Ferguson, the owner of the West Side Gallery in Raleigh, N.C., which represented Armstrong and his work.
The papers of the Lyman family and Appleton family of Waltham, Mass., and Savannah, Ga., the Arnold family of Providence, R.I., and White Hall plantation, Bryan County, Ga. comprise this collection. Central figures include Mary Ellen Lyman who married first J. Amory Appleton and second Charles S. Arnold; George Lyman Appleton (born 1841); and George's wife, Louisa Caroline Arnold, daughter of Samuel Green and Louisa Arnold. The collection includes correspondence, chiefly 1864-1870, of George Lyman Appleton while in Europe during the Civil War, and of his wife, Louisa; papers pertaining to the Lyman, Appleton, and Arnold families; diary, probably kept by Mrs. George W. Lyman during a trip to England in 1822; diary (1864-1869) kept by Mrs. Mary Ellen (Lyman) Appleton Arnold, telling of running the blockade from Wilmington, N.C., to Nassau, and life in Europe; personal diary (1864-1869) of Louisa Arnold; record (1842) of ships and cargoes of William Appleton and Company, Boston; and other miscellaneous family items.
Arnold family of Providence, R.I., and Bryan County, Ga., and Screven family of Savannah, Ga., as well as people enslaved by them at the familys' rice and other plantations. The Arnold plantations included White Hall, Cherry Hill, Silk Hope, Mulberry Hill, Sedgefield, and Orange Grove in Georgia. The Screven plantations included Nonchalance, Ceylon, and Brewton Hall, in Georgia; Proctor and Ferry in South Carolina; they also owned land on Tybee Island. Various members of the white families were also involved in medicine, law, railroad development, and politics. The collection includes business correspondence, financial and legal materials, and a farm journal of Richard James Arnold; and family and business correspondence, financial and legal materials, writings, farm journals, genealogical information, and other materials of members of the Screven and related families. Documentation about enslaved people, including names and birth and death information in some cases, as well as labor assignments and health conditions on plantations, is found in correspondence, estate disputes, medical receipts, deeds, and other papers in both subgroups.
Herman Frank Arnold (1837-1927), of Memphis, Tenn., was an American musician of Prussian birth.
Richard D. Arnold (1808-1876), native of Savannah, Ga., was a physician, educator, and Georgia state legislator. The collection includes letters received, mainly 1875-1876, by Richard D. Arnold from colleagues, patients, friends, and family. Also included is a scrapbook, 1850s to 1870s, concerning Savannah, Ga., civic affairs and state and national politics.
The collection documents Archibald Hunter Arrington, of Nash County, N.C., a white plantation and business owner and a Democratic congressman who held local, state, and national offices; his first wife Mary Jones Arrington (1820-1851); his second wife Kate Wimberly Arrington (1834-1871); his son John Peter Arrington (fl. 1851-1895), who was a sheriff of Nash County; his brother Samuel L. Arrington (fl. 1806-1866), who ran the family plantations in Montgomery County, Alabama; and the enslaved and freed people who provided the labor on the plantations. Papers relate to Arrington's agricultural and business pursuits in Nash County, N.C., and Montgomery County, Ala. Records documenting enslaved and freed people include provisions accounts, bills of sale, hiring out contracts, labor contracts for freed people, wills and estate inventories, and lists with ages and birthdates of enslaved people. Other materials include receipts for cotton sales; accounts with merchants; land records; and items relating to the purchase and sale of other goods and services. There are also business letters relating to the running of the family's plantations and personal letters that discuss family matters. Items relating to Arrington's political activity include a few published speeches and some notes on laws regulating the oversight of enslaved people; a series of letters, 1857-1858, to Arrington from D. K. McRae (1820-1888) on the latter's gubernatorial campaign and other matters; letters to Arrington reporting on voting and political alignment in Confederate regiments; a number of form letters to Arrington, in his capacity as a local official, from postwar military governments; and other letters that briefly comment on political matters, including letters from Bartholomew Figures Moore (1801-1878) and William Theophilus Dortch (1824-1889). Also included are several 1893 endorsements collected by J. P. Arrington in his quest for an appointment as deputy collector for the Internal Revenue.
George Wimberly Arrington of Nash County, N.C., was educated at schools in various North Carolina locations including Castalia, 1878-1879; Louisburg, 1879; the Bingham School at Mebane, 1880-1882; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1883.
Katherine Clark Pendleton Arrington (1876-1955) of Warrenton, N.C., was the daughter of Major Arthur S. and Victoria Louis Pendleton. Through her mother she was related to several prominent Virgina families. She was president and chief organizer of the North Carolina State Art Society, a trustee of the University of North Carolinaa, and a member of several women's clubs and patriotic societies for descendants of various groups.
Mary Jones Arrington of Rocky Mount, N.C., taught school in Franklin County, N.C., and was interested in genealogy and local history of Nash County and Edgecombe County, N.C. The collection includes correspondence and collected data of Arrington related to family and local history, including copies of 19th- and 20th-century letters, wills, and Bible records. Families represented include: Arrington, Ballard, Bullock, Bunn, Burt, Clopton, Drake, Hight, Jarratt, Lenoir, Nicholson, Noe, Philips, Sclater, Sims, Swann, Swepson, Thorpe, Vick, and Weston. Also included are copies of 67 letters, 1809-1861, of the Drake family who migrated from North Carolina to various western states, chiefly letters to the family members who settled in Muhlenburg County, Ky., from James Perry Drake (1797-1876), United States land official in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael Drake (1800-1860) Methodist minister and college president in Mississippi. Volumes are mostly notebooks but include minutes of the Rocky Mount Women's Club, 1916-1921.
Peter Arrington (1869-1916) of Virginia was a business man. His brother-in-law was Malvern Hill Palmer (d. ca. 1897), an attorney in Warrenton, N.C.
Samuel Lewis Arrington was born in 1899, probably in Rocky Mount, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina, 1919-1921, and was graduated from the Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University) School of Law in 1922. The papers of Samuel Lewis Arrington consist of a scrapbook, several telegrams congratulating him on his graduation from law school in 1922, and a birthday card from his mother from 1928 on which is listed his birth year. The scrapbook contains memorabilia from Arrington's days at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1919-1921. The book includes detailed listings of the rosters of various UNC athletic teams, comments and news clippings about their performance, and photographs detailing student life at UNC in the early 1920s.
William Joseph Eudy Billy Arthur, North Carolina editor, publisher, columnist, comedian, politician, and businessman. Arthur, a dwarf, toured on the vaudeville circuit, 1929-1930, then attended the University of North Carolina where he majored in journalism and was head cheerleader, 1931-1932. From the 1930s through the 1950s, he edited or wrote for several newspapers. He also represented Onslow County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1943-1945, and served as House reading clerk, 1955-1961. In 1962, Arthur opened a hobby shop in Chapel Hill, from which he retired in 1980.
Field recordings, 1952-1953, and other materials related to Malvin Newston Artley's Ph.D. dissertation research on traditional fiddlers and fiddle tunes of West Virginia. Artley, a white musician and music educator, recorded and collected these field recordings of old-time tunes played on the fiddle and Appalachian fretted dulcimer while conducting his Ph.D. dissertation research at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill. Artley's recordings were later duplicated by SFC staff and deposited into the collection in 1995. The majority of the recordings feature tunes by Emory Bailey, white fiddler from Shock, Gilmer County, W.Va.; Arden Wilson, white fiddler from Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va.; and unidentified dulcimer players. The collection also includes recordings, 1970, of Burl Hammons, white old-time fiddler from Pocahontas County, W.Va., originally recorded by Malcomb Owen, as well as a 1994 interview with Malvin Newston Artley on his dissertation research conducted by Wayne Martin, a white North Carolina based folklorist, fiddler, and arts administrator. The collection contains related documention, including tape logs, interview transcripts, and photocopies of original open reel boxes and field notes.
Samuel E. Asbury (1872-1962), native of Granville County, N.C., was an historian of Texas, mainly concerned with North Carolinians in the Texas Republic.
Ashe family of Alabama and North Carolina.
John Ashe (1720?-1781) was a Major General in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel A'Court Ashe, Confederate soldier, lawyer, historian, Democratic Party politician, and editor, grew up near Wilmington, N.C, and spent much of his life in Raleigh. He served with the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War, rising to the rank of captain. He wrote about North Carolina history, the Civil War, and the post-war South.
Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) was governor of North Carolina, 1795-1798.
William Willard Ashe was a native of North Carolina; botanist, and forester with the North Carolina Geological Survey, 1892-1905, and the United States Forest Service, 1905-1932.
Lester Eugene Asheim (22 January 1914-1 July 1997), William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975-1984, previously served as assistant professor, 1948-1952; dean of students, 1951-1952; dean, 1952-1961; and professor, 1971-1974, at the Graduate Library School (GLS) of the University of Chicago. He was employed by the American Library Association (ALA) as director of its International Relations Office (IRO), 1961-1966, and director of its Office for Library Education (OLE), 1966-1971. Asheim published notable works on book selection, manpower for librarianship, communication, and international librarianship. Papers, 1940s-1990s, document Asheim's professional activities, including his participation in professional organizations, his work for the American Library Association, his research, and his teaching. Included are correspondence, mostly 1980s-1992, with colleagues and former students; reports on accreditation of library schools; diaries of trips, 1962-1965, to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, reporting on libraries and library education there; a diary of his summer 1979 in Brasilia as a Fulbright lecturer; daily record books, 1960-1992, containing brief comments on his appointments and activities; research papers, articles, talks, and reviews, 1950-1988; and teaching materials. The teaching materials include course outlines, notes, and other materials for courses on research methods for librarians, especially content analysis; the library in society, focusing on censorship and intellectual freedom; agencies and media of mass communication; library education; and communication.
C. Ashley (1790-1848) of Little Rock, Ark., was a lawyer and United States senator, 1844-1848. The collection includes typescript copies of papers of Ashley, including four letters, 1833-1836, from his father, William Ashley, in Hudson, N.Y., chiefly about financial matters.
Samuel Stanford Ashley was a congregational clergyman and educator. He was a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1868 and the North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1868-1870.
John Durant Ashmore (1819-1871) was a planter of Sumter and Anderson districts, S.C.; member of S.C. House of Representatives, 1848-1852; comptroller-general, 1853-1857; and Democratic congressman, 1859-1860.
The Asian American Students Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel is a student organization that promotes awareness of the diversity of the Asian-American student community. The organization was founded as the Asian Students Association in 1989, but in 2018 voted to change its name to the Asian American Students Association to more accurately reflect its membership and focus on Asian American issues. From 1993 to 2006, the organization published East Wind, a magazine focusing on news and issues related to Asian and Asian-American life and culture. Each year, it hosts Journey into Asia, a cultural show featuring performers from a diverse range of Asian backgrounds, and Baby Blue, a basketball tournament. This collection contains design and promotional material for AASA events, programs from Journey Into Asia, a copy of the constitution-and-bylaws, member lists, materials related to the 2018 name change, cover photos for social media accounts, and profile pictures of AASA officers. It is accompanied by archived websites of email newsletters (2017-2018), selected Facebook events (2016-2017), and the organization’s website (2011).
Letter from E. S. Askew (1874-1958) of Windsor, N.C., to Fred M. Vinson, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, expounding his views on the superiority of the white race and the dangers of miscegenation.
The collection contains a typescript copy of the estate inventory of William Askew of Bertie County, N.C.
The records of the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Services consist of administrative records including materials related to data processing, health and safety information, business and finance planning materials, committee files (including the Airport Advisory Committee), public safety and transportation files, department activity reports, administrative information services materials, files on Carolina North, correspondence, scrapbooks, and files on campus food services, energy services, Student Stores, and facilities use. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley (commonly known as the Eno River Association) is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to conserve and protect the natural, cultural, and historic resources of North Carolina's Eno River basin. Since its inception in 1965, the Association has worked to protect the environmental resources around the river and its tributaries, promoting education and advocacy through environmental and community programs, including a hike series and the long-running annual Festival for the Eno. The collection consists primarily of audio recordings, including interviews, live performances, radio broadcasts, and audition tapes related to the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley and their annual Festival for the Eno. Conducted by Dave Cook in 2002, the interviews found in the collection are with Association members who recall their experiences growing up near the Eno River and participating in the preservation and enjoyment of the local environment. Interviewees include Pat Bailey, Donald N. Cox, Holger Nygard, Thomas C. Ellis, Hazel Cash, John Blackfeather Jeffries, John A. Scarlett, and Mary Scarlett. The collection contains affiliated transcripts, 2000-2002, for some of these interviews as well as for interviews for which there is no corresponding recording. The majority of the audio recordings found in the collection relate to the annual Festival for the Eno and consist of live festival recordings, 1985-2010, radio broadcasts, 1995-1998, and performers' audition tapes, 1985-2010. Notable performers featured on the live recordings include Etta Baker, Shirley Caesar, Richard Big Boy Henry, Algia Mae Hinton, John Dee Holeman, Bobby McMillon, Tift Merritt, Frank Proffitt, Red Clay Ramblers, Ralph Stanley, Joe Thompson, Doc Watson, and Merle Watson. Also included in the collection is footage of the festival and promotional posters from select years, and ephemera found with the performers' audition tapes.
The Association of North Carolina Health and Science Libraries (ANCHASL) was formed in 1982 to promote excellence in health information services. The organization fosters resource sharing, information exchange, education, and professional growth of its members. It provides a forum for cooperation, communication, and exchange of ideas, and serves as a liaison to other organizations desiring input from ANCHASL members.
Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the Forum, and, in 1930, became assistant editor of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acquired the illness that led to his death, he turned over to Aswell a large amount of manuscript material. After Wolfe's death in September 1938, Aswell began editing the material Wolfe left behind. The result of this work was two posthumous novels, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1941), and one volume of short stories, The Hills Beyond (1941). Aswell moved from Harper & Brothers to the trade-book department of McGraw-Hill and then to Doubleday & Company, where he was senior editor. He succeeded Maxwell Perkins as administrator of the Thomas Wolfe Estate in 1947. Aswell died in 1958.
American novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (3 October 1900-15 September 1938) was born in Asheville, N.C., and attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from fall 1916 until his graduation in spring 1920. He died in Baltimore, Md., at age thirty-seven of tuberculosis of the brain.
Contains materials documenting the career of Daphne Athas (1923-2020), a white author and creative writing instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Primarily includes typescript drafts of literary works and files related to teaching, including lecture notes and photocopies related to specific texts. Typescript drafts include Battle and Circumstance, Chapel Hill in Plain Sight, Cora, Crack the Egg Your Own Way, Deeds of Love and Hate and Anger, Eastern Point, Entering Ephesus, Forty-One Language Exercises with Illustrations, The Fourth World, Greece by Prejudice, I Never Dreamed, The King Makes Himself, The Lay of the Land Mothers and Writers: A Memoir of Betty Smith, Music and Pure Meaning, Optical Illusions, Ouida General, The Pied Piper of Greenlaw, Taste of the Orange Kiss, Weather of the Heart, and Tolstoy's Search for God. Teaching and faculty files include records from Athas's stylistics class, Glossolalia (English 47W), including annual Glossolalia and Gram-O-Rama student performances; correspondence; and publicity materials.
The collection contains a diploma, 1849, of Martha A. R. Malone of Limestone Country, Ala., from the Tennessee Conference Female Institute, Athens, Ala., signed by Daniel Coleman, George S. Houston, and others; and a resolution, 1852, of a citizens' committee against disorderly conduct of part of the citizenry.
The Athens Boiler and Machine Works was formed from companies that started in Athens, Ga., around 1848. In 1972, the company moved to Elberton, Ga. It ceased operations in 1994. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, pictures, and other records of Athens Boiler and Machine Works in Athens, Ga. Correspondence chiefly concerns buying and selling goods, including such matters as giving or receiving price quotations or settling questions regarding invoices. In the 1930s, most correspondence is with other companies in Georgia and concerns selling shot wheels, emery rings, or buffers, or buying engines or felt. During World War II, much correspondence concerns selling boilers. There are also records relating to government agencies and requirements, including the Office of Price Administration, the Office of Defense Transportation, and the War Production Board. In 1944 and 1945, there are many letters to and from school systems about boilers for canning plants. There is also correspondence with several boiler, burner, and granite organizations, including the American Monument Association. There are also ledgers, financial statements, daily journals, inventories, price lists, purchase orders, and other financial records, including accounts receivable and accounts payable, 1935-1986. Other records are chiefly related to advertising and promotion of products. Scattered personnel records relate to employees, employment policies, pay, and benefits. There are also pictures of boilers, polishing wheels, machinery, and aerial photographs of an unidentified industrial area.
The collection contains genealogical charts showing descendants of Lewis Atkins, of John Smith and Mary (Gilchrist) Smith, and of Archibald McNeill. The charts include Alexander, Cameron, McAllister, McCraney, McKeithan, Murphy, Neill, Parker, Pope, Rand, Reid, Robinson, Wilder, and other North Carolina family connections.
James Atkins (1850-1923) was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; the bishop of North Carolina; the president of Asheville Female College, 1879-1889; and the president of Emory and Henry College, 1893-1896.
Belle Atkinson was a resident of San Marcos, Tex. The collection includes genealogical data and miscellaneous family papers of members of the Atkinson family of San Marcos and Gonzales County, Tex., 1860-1927; a letter about making friends at the University of Virginia, 1838; and a Confederate Memorial Day speech to a gathering of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, circa 1897, by M. A. Barber.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters of F. A. Wayne, Methodist, concerning religious practices and theological questions, and two religious lectures; and letters of several unidentified Confederate soldiers in Virginia relating to religious, battlefield, and hospital conditions.
William F. Atkinson of Goldsboro, N.C., traveled to Switzerland, 1868-1869, to recruit immigrant laborers to work as planters in North Carolina.
The Atlantic Coast Line was based in Wilmington, N.C., and possessed rail that ran through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. The Atlantic Coast Line later formed part of the CSX Transportation System.
William Attmore (1750-1800) was a merchant and shipper of Philadelphia, Pa., and New Bern, N.C., who married Sarah Sitgreaves (1771-1843) of New Bern in 1790. They had four children including a son, George Sitgreaves Attmore.
Atwood & Company was a Philadelphia, Pa., general merchandise wholesale firm. The collection includes correspondence of Atwood & Company. Letters are from merchants in the East, the Midwest, and scattered through the South, in regard to merchandise, shipment of goods, and payments and credit arrangements. Also included are letters from the merchants' bankers and lawyers.
Sergeant John Murray Atwood was a Union soldier who served in the 29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (29th Massachusetts Volunteers) and the 36th Massachusetts Volunteers.
August Wilhelm was the fourth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, (1859-1941). He continued to use the title Prince of Prussia after father's abdication in 1918; he supported the National Socialists in the 1930s.
The recordings on open-reel audio tape are of Appalachian musical artist Lily Mae Ledford in concert at the Augusta Heritage Center, a folklife organization on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia. Ledford (1917-1985), a fiddler and clawhammer banjo player from Kentucky, performed at Augusta in July 1983. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Jacob Luther Aull (1835-1923) of Aull Hills, Newberry County, S.C., owned sawmills, flour mills, and gristmills in Newberry County, S.C., 1854-1871, and in Dyson, Edgefield County, S.C., 1872-1923.
Members of the white Auman family lived chiefly in Randolph and Moore counties, N.C. The collection includes letters, diaries, deeds, scrapbooks, family photographs, warrants, business records, school materials, printed epehemera, and other material pertaining to the Auman family in southern Randolph County, N.C., chiefly from the early 19th to the late 20th century. Topics include family life and domestic and social activities; love-letters; the Why Not Academy in Randolph County; writings and communications of adolescent and teenage girls; Civil War disease, drill, conditions on the home front, and Confederate conscription; education in North Carolina; the family peach business and a whiskey distillery; World War II military training and service as an Army Air Corps airman on a B-24; military sports leagues; civilian life in the United States in the early 1940s; family history and genealogical research; the Panama Canal Zone during World War I; teaching and coaching sports at Hillsboro High School in Hillsborough, N.C., in the 1950s and 1960s; the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers; community organizations such as the Hillsborough Garden Club, the West End Woman's Club in Moore County, N.C., and the Durham-Orange Home Economics Association; public and private organizations in North Carolina concerned with access to abortion, disability services, education, mental health services, and human rights; legislative work on liquor laws; political correspondence and ephemera of the national Democratic Party, including a letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932; and debt and various crimes in Moore County, N.C., during the 1850s-1880s.
Howard Frank Auman Jr., was a white producer of, director of, and performer in Classic Country Theater and American Jukebox Theater: Back to the 50s & 60s Rock-N-Roll, which played in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tenn., from 2000 to 2007. The collection consists of publicity for these live shows and video recordings of some of the performances that aired on the Blue Highways Television Network.
In 1906 Frederick Aunspaugh, an insurance agent, married Ruth McCoy in Norfolk, Va., where they lived until 1925 when they moved to Raleigh, N.C. The Aunspaugh's daughter Ruth married Frank Daniels of Raleigh in 1929.
Jeremiah Austill (born 1794), a commission merchant, was involved in campaigns against Native Americans in Georgia and Alabama. The collection includes two typescripts: Partial autobiography of Jeremiah Austill, concerning his Indian campaigns in Georgia and Alabama, Andrew Jackson, and experiences as a commission merchant; and Early Life of Margaret Ervin Austill, including an account of the marriage of her parents, John Eades and Jenny Fee Eades, their emigration from Georgia to points south, and their experiences on the frontier and with the Cherokee Indians.
William Austine, of Connecticut, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and an officer with the United States Army in Mexico.
Records of the Auxiliary Services of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill primarily consisting of calendars, reports, staff meeting notes, and logs. The Auxiliary Services include Armored Car, Carolina Dining Services, UNC Student Stores, Carolina Managed Print Services, UNC Print Stop & Copy Center, Horace Williams Airport, Laundry, PID Office, UNC One Card, University Mail Services, and Vending. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Avery family of Burke County, N.C., was prominent in western North Carolina, owning extensive tracts of land and actively participating in local and state politics. Family members include Waightstill Avery (1741-1821), who served on the committee that drew up the first North Carolina constitution and was the state's first attorney general; his wife, Leah Probart Franck Avery; their son, Isaac Thomas Avery (1785-1864); his wife, Harriet Erwin Avery; and their children, William Waightstill Avery (1816-1864), Clarke Moulton Avery (1819-1864), Thomas Lenoir Avery (1821-1852), Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863), Alphonso Calhoun Avery (1835-1913), and Willoughby Francis Avery (1843-1876). The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, financial materials, and other papers relating to members of the Avery family and related Erwin, Lenoir, and Probert families. Personal correspondence concerns family affairs. Business correspondence concerns land; purchasing and hiring out of slaves; agriculture; politics; and financial, business, and legal affairs. Also included are several Civil War letters of Isaac Thomas Avery and Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863) with the 6th North Carolina Regiment, official war correspondence, letters concerning Isaac Erwin Avery's death at Gettysburg, and notes concerning deserters. Also included are bills; receipts; estate papers and wills; account books documenting the Avery plantation at Swan Ponds and other plantations, including the distribution of goods to slaves and purchase and hiring out of slaves; papers relating to gold purchases at the State Bank of North Carolina and gold mines; and a copy of Andrew Jackson's 1788 challenge to a duel with Waightstill Avery. Also included are biographical materials; genealogical materials; clippings; Civil War materials relating to Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863); publications by Isaac Erwin Avery (1871-1904); a recipe book and poetry of Harriet Erwin Avery; an undated, four-page dialogue poem, titled Folly's Dialogue, by the Colored Bard of North Carolina, the pen name of George Moses Horton, a Chatham County, N.C., slave and poet; and other materials.
MICROFILM ONLY. Avery and Marsh families of Petite Anse Island Plantation, later Avery Island, near New Iberia in Iberia Parish, La., and of Baton Rouge, La. Prominent family members were Dudley Avery (d. 1816), medical officer of the Drafted Militia in New Orleans, 1814-1816; his son, Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879) of Baton Rouge, lawyer, state senator, judge, and sugar planter; John Craig Marsh (1789-1857), who originally acquired Petite Anse Island Plantation; his son, George Marsh (d. 1859); and his daughter, Sarah Craig Marsh (1818-1878), who married Daniel Dudley Avery in 1837.
The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, financial materials, and other papers of white lawyer and jurist Alphonso Calhoun Avery (1835-1913) of Burke County, N.C. Correspondence concerns family and business affairs, legal work, land transactions, politics, and various legal and historical publications to which he contributed. Included are letters from Avery's son, Isaac Erwin Avery, about his experiences in Shanghai, China, 1894-1895. Legal papers consist of deeds, indentures, surveyors' reports, land plats, powers of attorney, and papers relating to Avery's legal career. Financial papers consist of bills, receipts, purchase lists, and account books. Also included are legal and financial papers relating to Western North Carolina Railroad contractors Chambers and Avery and to various family members' estates. Other papers include biographical and genealogical materials relating to the Love, Erwin, Thomas, and other families; Avery's publications and writings on Civil War and western North Carolina history; Civil War papers relating to Avery and his brother, Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery; recipe and remedy books of Susan Washington Morrison Avery; and volumes containing notes on legal cases, lectures on legal topics, and Civil War clippings and letters. Also included are letters and legal papers relating to land holdings of William Holland Thomas, Sallie Love Thomas Avery's father, who represented the North Carolina Cherokee and acquired vast amounts of land that came under dispute following his financial collapse. Letters concern the Thomas heirs' legal claims, some handled by Charles Walter Tillett, to the land, mineral rights, and Cherokee land boundaries. Legal papers relate to court cases about the lands and include indentures, plats, petitions, notes, testimony, and Thomas's power of attorney for the North Carolina Cherokee.
Isaac Avery was presumably an Anglican clergyman of Virginia.
James Avery (1791-1872) was a planter, chairman of supervisors of Burke County, N.C., common schools, and justice of the peace.
Awards Committee for Education, Inc., a foundation based in Winston-Salem, N.C., founded in 1981 with the mission of identifying educationally talented young people in the state, honoring them through recognition, and enhancing their educational opportunities.
William B. Aycock was a professor in the University of North Carolina School of Law, 1948-1985, and served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1957-1964.
Cyrus Aydlett (1909- ) was a native of North Carolina, who enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard as an ensign in 1942. He was a supply and coding officer for the Coast Guard and was sent to England in February 1944 on the U.S.S. Bayfield. He was involved in action at Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Normandy, and southern France. Discharged as a lieutenant in January 1946, he returned to his wife Augusta in Elizabeth City, N.C., and established the Elizabeth City Finance Company. The collection includes correspondence, journals, ship documents, military and travel memorabilia, newspaper clippings, and photographs chiefly relating to the World War II military career of Cyrus Aydlett; a few photographs from after World War II; photographs, 1918-1932, of Nags Head, N.C.; and yearbooks, 1923 and 1926, from the seventh grade of the Elizabeth City Grammar School, Elizabeth City, N.C. Correspondence is mainly between Aydlett and his wife Augusta and concerns daily life, family news, and Augusta's pregnancy and their new child, as well as Aydlett's travels in Europe and daily military life. Aydlett's journals, 1944-1945, provide information about life aboard his ship, the U.S.S. Bayfield, sailing conditions, Aydlett's duties as supply officer, and Aydlett's feelings and fears about going into battle. They describe visits to European cities and the devastation found in the bombed areas. They include considerable detail on the days leading to and following D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Also included are photographs of European cities and people and various members of the Bayfield crew. There are several notable images of troops mobilizing at Iwo Jima.
Romeyn Beck Ayres (1825-1888) of New York was a United States Army officer. The collection includes the diary of Ayres, August 1847-June 1848, describing travel from New York to Vera Cruz, Mexico, events in places where he was garrisoned in Mexico (Jalapa, Perote, La Puebla de los Angelos, Fort Loretto, and Mexico City), and journeys between stations.

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White folklorist Edward Babel began his studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. In 1975, Babel began conducting research for his thesis on the hammered dulcimer tradition, particularly that of Randolph County, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, audio tapes, and other materials, 1959-1980, relating to Edward Babel's research on the hammered dulcimer. Most of the items relate to dulcimers belonging to individuals, some of them musicians, or to museums. Included are a manuscript, audio recordings, and photographs, 1975-1977, relating to Harvey Jones, a hammered dulcimer player from Ramseur, N.C.; a manuscript and photographs, 1975, relating to Mrs. James P. Johnson's dulcimer, which had belonged to her father, William Butler; a manuscript and photographs, 1975, of a dulcimer belonging to the Old Salem, Inc., collection in Winston-Salem, N.C.; a manuscript and photograph, 1959-1975, relating to the dulcimer belonging to Mrs. Artemus Ward; a manuscript and photographs, undated, relating to the hammered dulcimer from the mid-19th century that was purchased by folklorist Alan Jabbour from a woman in Coleridge, N.C.; a manuscript, photographs, and audio recordings, 1975-1976, relating to Virgil Craven; and a manuscript and photographs, 1975, of a dulcimer on display at the North Carolina Division of Archives and History in Raleigh, N.C. The Virgil Craven audio recordings are of jam sessions held at Craven's home in Randolph County, N.C. They feature Virgil on hammered dulcimer, Lauchlin Shaw on fiddle, Fred Olson on guitar, and Glenn Glass on banjo.
Ellyn Bache, writer of Wilmington, N.C., grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s. She has published non-fiction under the pen name Ellen Matthews, and, with her husband, young adult fiction under the pen name E. M. J. Benjamin. Much of Bache's writing is set in southern locales and deals with race relations and southern culture in general. Papers consist chiefly of writings, including drafts of novels, short stories, and screenplays; journal and newspaper articles; and a musical play. Clippings are of fiction and non-fiction works, mid 1970s-late 1980s. There are also subject files concerning character development and historical research conducted while writing and revising The Activist's Daughter (Spinster's Ink, 1997), a novel about student activists and racial unrest at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963.
The collection contains a manuscript by Annie J. Backus, tracing the descent of Mrs. Thomas Pinckney Waring's family, of Savannah, Ga., from the Backus family of Norwich, England, 1637-1908. Genealogical research includes character and family sketches, ancestral anecdotes, and childhood recollections. Parents' marriage and courtship, mother's teaching school, and author's debut in society as well as encounters with Indians, condemned prisoners, and hurricanes are mentioned.
MICROFILM ONLY. United States senator from Georgia. Three diary volumes of Bacon, 1853, 1861, and 1868; and two letters, one from Bacon to his mother, 1864, and one to Bacon requesting aid in passing local bills. The 1853 volume, kept while Bacon attended school in Tuskegee, Ala., concerns school, play, church, relatives, and friends in Tuskegee. The 1864 volume deals with Bacon's experiences as an officer in the Ninth Georgia Regiment, including movement and engagements in the fall of 1864, with a map of the area around Bull Run and twenty- eight pages of extracts from letters Bacon had written home, August- November 1861. The 1868 volume concerns Bacon's trip from Macon, Ga., to New York City to attend the Democratic National Convention, and political meetings and related business in Georgia; it includes a copy of a speech Bacon delivered on September 5 in Covington, Ga.
Henry Bacon was a civil engineer, railroad executive, and stockbroker. He was a resident of Massachusetts; then Smithville (now Southport), N.C., 1867-1882; and Wilmington, N.C., 1882-1891. Bacon played a prominent part in the expansion of railroads throughout New England, the Middle West, and eastern North Carolina. The collection includes business papers and personal correspondence, 1836-1873, of Bacon, relating to the Boston and Maine, Great Falls and Conway, and Illinois Central railroads during their periods of building and expansion. Also included are maps, deeds, account books, and journals and diaries, which span the years 1867-1891, when Bacon lived in Smithville (now Southport), and Wilmington, N.C. The papers reflect Bacon's work, from 1876 until his death, with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on coastal surveys, channel improvements, port facilities, railroads, and army installations in Wilmington, along the Cape Fear River, and in Brunswick and New Hanover Counties.
Members of the Bacot family were cotton planters of the Mars Bluff Plantation near Florence in the Darlington District, S.C., and, beginning in 1865, partners in the Jarrot & Bacot Drug Store in Florence.
The collection is a Bible with birth and death dates for members of the Lord, Espy, and Bacot families of North Carolina.
Peter Brockington Bacot (1838-1924) was a physician of Florence and Charleston, S.C. The collection includes medical, drug, cotton, and personal accounts, scattered other medical and business papers of Bacot; and photocopies of items in other repositories.
The Badger family of North Carolina included George E. Badger, superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and United States senator, 1844-1855, of Raleigh, N.C.; his third wife, Delia Haywood Williams Badger; their children, Mary Badger Hale (b. 1836) and Thomas Badger (b. 1843); Badger's daughter, Kate Badger Haigh (b. 1827); and his wife's daughter Melissa Williams.
George E. Badger, superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and U.S. senator, 1844-1855, of Raleigh, N.C.
Kenneth W. Badgett of Dobson, Surry County, N.C., collected these materials. The collection includes items relating to Devotion, the Surry County estate that Richard J. Reynolds, Jr., and Elizabeth Dillard Reynolds built between 1930 and 1939 for entertaining and farming. Folger family materials include a bound memorial address for Alonzo Dillard Folger (1888-1941) of Dobson, who practiced law in Mount Airy, N.C., and served in the United States Congress, 1939-1941; three photographic portraits of John Hamlin Folger (1880-1963), also a lawyer and legislator of Mount Airy; and a photograph of the Folger house in Dobson, ca. 1900. Hamlin family materials include photocopies of clippings relating to fiddler Stephen Crawley Hamlin (1869-1936) and copies of photographs of Dobson and of family members. Materials relating to the W. E. Reid Company, general merchants of Dobson, include photocopies of letters, bills, and receipts, chiefly from 1931; a photocopy of a 1935 employee account book; a coin offering the bearer a $1.00 discount on merchandise at the store; and a copy of a photograph, ca. 1935, of the store. The addition of June 2001 contains research files compiled by Badgett relating to the Boy Scouts of America. Most of these materials are newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed matter, 1913-2001, that broadly address the topic of the Boy Scouts and homosexuality. Also included is a file devoted to Boy Scouts and minorities and other more general materials relating to boys and scouting.
William Badham Junior, of Edenton, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1852-1855.
George William Bagby was an author and editor in Richmond, Va.
Bagley family members included William Henry Bagley (1833-1886), clerk of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1868-1887; his wife Adelaide, daughter of Jonathan Worth; Worth Bagley, a United States naval cadet and ensign, who was killed in the Spanish- American War; William Henry Bagley (1877-1936), a newspaper executive in Raleigh, N.C.; Adelaide (Bagley) Daniels and her husband, Josephus Daniels, secretary of the Navy, United States ambassador to Mexico, and Raleigh newpaper publisher; and George C. Worth (1867-1937), a Presbyterian missionary in China.
Native of Currituck County, N.C., experimental farmer and seedsman, state and federal official. Personal and business papers of Dudley Warren Bagley, chiefly from the 1920s, relating to Bagley's activities as officer of many local, state, and national organizations concerned with cooperative marketing, political, practical, and scientific aspects of agriculture; as state legislator, 1933 and 1935; as trustee of North Carolina State College (now University) particularly interested in agricultural education; as an active Democrat; as civic leader for the multi-county area in the Albemarle-Currituck sounds region of North Carolina; and as 1st chairman, 1935-1940, of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority (unofficial papers). Considerable correspondence and two manuscript biographies concern Joseph Palmer Knapp (1864-1951), New York magazine publisher with a home in Currituck County, particularly relating to his interest in wildlife conservation and philanthropy. Ben Dixon MacNeill (1889-1960), North Carolina newspaperman, author, and authority on the North Carolina Outer Banks, was a regular correspondence. Bagley was a close friend from the early 1920s of Lindsay Carter Warren (born 1889), United States representative and comptroller-general and was in Washington, D.C., as Warren's assistant, 1940-1946 (unofficial papers). Separately arranged papers pertain to business affairs and plant experiments at Bagley's own farm where he bred new varieties of corn and other crops and grew high quality plants for sale as seed. Also included are papers of his wife, Ida Frost (Bray) Bagley (born 1896).
William Bagley was a white college student who attended the University of North Carolina in the 1840s. The collection consists of two volumes containing handwritten copies Bagley made of letters he sent to family and friends, chiefly while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1843-1845, and when he related local news from Plymouth and Williamston, N.C., 1845-1850. Also included is a transcription of an acrostic poem composed by George Moses Horton, a Black poet who was enslaved by the Horton family of Chatham County, N.C.
George F. Bahnson (1805-1869) was a Moravian minister and bishop in Lancaster, Pa., who moved to Salem, N.C., in 1849. The collection includes a diary, 1845-1846, of Bahnson, kept in a book in which daily devotions printed in German alternate with blank pages for diary entries. Bahnson kept his diary (in English) while he was serving as preacher and teacher in Lancaster, Pa. He recorded church and school affairs, congregational visits, personal and family events, and pious reflections.
Henry Theodore Bahnson was born in Lancaster, Pa., the son of George Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian bishop. In 1849, the family moved to Salem, N.C. Bahnson pursued theological studies at the Moravian Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa. In 1862, Bahnson returned to North Carolina, where he served in the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Battalion until his capture at the Battle of Gettysburg. After six months of captivity divided between the Baltimore City Jail and Point Lookout, Md., he was exchanged and began service with the 1st North Carolina Sharpshooters Battalion. He served with this unit until his capture in the course of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House, Va. After a brief internment in Virginia, he was released and made his way back to Salem, N.C. After the war, Bahnson studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; he spent the balance of his life practicing medicine in Salem, N.C.
The Bellamy and Bailey families of Florida and North Carolina included General William Bellamy (1790-1867), and Abram Bellamy (1799 or 1800-1839).
James B. Bailey (1820-1864), his wife, Mary N. Bailey, and their children, including their son, C.O. Bailey, moved from Hickory Bend, a plantation near Montgomery, Ala., to Alachua County, Fla., near Gainesville, in 1852. There, Bailey became active in local politics as county treasurer (circa 1857), candidate for commissioner of roads, and member of the county's Central Committee, which coordinated mobilization for the Civil War. During the war, Bailey served as Superintendant of Labor for the Engineers Department of Eastern District Florida. C.O. Bailey attended West Military Institute in Nashville, Tenn.
Writings and addresses by James Osler Bailey (1903-1979) about Thomas Hardy, Victorian literature, science fiction, and the teaching of reading and writing. Subject files include teaching plans, course syllabi, course examinations, subject notes, and a few letters from graduate students. Also included are a play, Strike Song: A play of the Southern mills, written by Bailey and his wife, Loretto Carroll Bailey, in 1929; material relating to William T. Couch; the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Turkey, where Bailey taught, 1954-1957.
Jesse James Bailey was born in Madison County, N.C. He served as sheriff of Madison County, 1920-1922, and of Buncombe County, 1928-1930. Much of his career as sheriff was spent enforcing Prohibition laws. In addition to his work as sheriff, Bailey worked for 58 years as a telegrapher and a detective for the Southern Railroad.
John Lancaster Bailey was a resident of Pasquotank County, N.C., then Hillsborough, and, finally, Asheville, N.C. He was a superior court judge, served in the state legislature, 1827-1830, and was a delegate to the state convention of 1835. Bailey married Priscilla Brownrigg of Edenton, N.C., in 1821. Their daughter was Sarah Jane Bailey Cain (1828-1927), wife of William Cain (d. 1855) of Orange County. Among their grandchildren were Elizabeth B. Cain (1850-1929), who married John Steele Henderson in 1874, and William Cain (1847-1930), engineer and professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina.
Mary E. Bailey (1845-1922) was likely the daughter of James B. Bailey of Alabama and Alachua County, Fla.
The documentary film Shalom Y'all, directed by third-generation southern Jew and New Orleans, La., native Brian Bain, details Jewish culture and identity in the American South. In the film, Bain travels 4,200 miles by car across the same route his grandfather took as a traveling salesman. Bain interviews a variety of southern Jews, including a Jewish African American police chief, a kosher butcher, a Golden Gloves boxer, and a former congressman. He also explores the role played by southern Jews in a variety of historical settings, such as the American Civil War, the civil rights movement, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) was professor of Greek at the University of South Carolina, 1898-1910, and at the University of North Carolina, 1910-1915. He was an author of textbooks and editor of classical texts. He was also a schoolmaster and teacher in the southern states before 1898. He received an M.A. in 1895 from the University of the South, graduated from the University of Virginia, and attended Colonel William Gordon McCabe's school in Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, notes, and writings of Bain, chiefly letters from southern classical scholars and other southern educators. Correspondents include Colonel William Gordon McCabe (1841-1920), founder and headmaster of the University School at Petersburg and Richmond, Va., and rector of the University of Virginia; Willis H. Bocock, professor of Greek at the University of Georgia; Eben Alexander; and Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924).
The collection of white University of North Carolina employee, Elizabeth Tannahill Bain (1893-1969) consists of one photographic album dated circa 1914 to 1933 and loose photographic prints. Captured in the album are scenic images of Chapel Hill and the UNC campus including Coker Arboretum, Battle Park, Commons Hall, and University Inn; university events including University Day in 1917 and a 1914 football game; student-led social activities and events; and students training on campus during the First World War. Also included are photographs from Virginia and Tennessee. Loose photographs are chiefly portraits of Bain’s family and friends including her parents Charles Wesley Bain and Isabel Plummer Bain.
Hope Bain (born 1795) was a Universalist minister who lived in Baltimore, Md., and in various towns in eastern North Carolina, finally settling in Goldsboro, N.C.
The collection of Isabel Plummer Bain and her husband Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915), a white educator, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina, contains a scrapbook about Charles Bain, newspaper clippings, notebooks, miscellaneous papers, and letters, including a 1917 letter to Isabel Bain from Elizabeth Blackwell describing her sudden departure from Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1862 during the American Civil War.
Alfred H. Baird (born 1843) was a Confederate colonel from Asheville, N.C.
Herman Glenn Baity was an internationally-known white sanitary engineer and professor of sanitary engineering at the University of North Carolina, 1926-1955.
The Baker family resided in Locust Hill, Caswell County, N.C., and Louisa County, Va.
Members of the Baker family resided in various regions of North Carolina and Virginia and included Lawrence Baker, Henry Baker, Mary Baker, James Baker, and Richard W. Baker.
The Bakers and related families lived primarily in Virginia and North Carolina from the 17th century to the 1930s. This collection contains chiefly correspondence, compilations, and copies of wills, letters, and other papers concerning the history of the Baker and numerous related lines, including the Allen, Ballard, Bray, Brownrigg, Cooper, de Graffenreid, Gregory, Iredell, Johnson, Jones, Keeling, Norworthy, Pipkin, Pugh, and Wiles families, collected by Blanche Baker, 1890s to 1930s. Original items include antebellum family correspondence of her father, William J. Baker (fl. 1830-1889) of Gates County, N.C.; and his letters home, 1862-1865, while a Confederate officer in Virginia. Also included are two letters in diary form. One, July 1841, is that of a young girl, probably Sarah Collins (fl. 1830-1882), later wife of William J. Baker, addressed to William, describing her daily activities. The other, June 1841, was kept by William J. Baker for Sarah, while he was studying law in Richmond, Va., and describes his studies and social activities.
The collection of historian Bruce E. Baker contains sound recordings made in 1961 of musicians performing North Carolina ballads, accompanying descriptive notes about the recordings, and a copy of his 1995 thesis written in fulfillment of a master's degree in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Baker's thesis titled Lynching Ballads in North Carolina examines the cultural effects of lynching in North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzes specific ballads, including "The Death of Emma Hartsell" and "The Murder of Gladys Kinkaid," which commemorate lynching cases in the state. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Contains the files of Cary Baker, a white music publicist and a specialist in American roots music based in Los Angeles, Calif. Materials consist primarily of photographs, press kits, and other promotional materials from the 1970s through the 1990s. Baker spent 42 years in the music industry as a public relations specialist, journalist, and reissue record producer, and founded the music publicity company Conqueroo.
Baker, a native of Connecticut, wrote these letters home to his future wife, Adelaide Raphel, describing his impressions of Little Rock, Ark., business prospects there, and a trip to New Orleans, La.
This collection includes several volumes containing the personal diary of Everard Green Baker (1828-1890), a white plantation owner of Jefferson; Panola; and Hinds Counties, Mississippi. Included in the diary entries, kept between 1849-1876, are recounted events of what happened to the people Baker enslaved. Included are descriptions of the untimely death in 1850 of a young girl who was enslaved, who perished of worms; an obituary for an (name unknown) enslaved individual who died of diarrhea and “dropsy” (edema); and descriptions of a brutal fight between an overseer and an enslaved man. Also included are entries regarding Baker’s social life; remedies for illnesses; recipes for food; and instructions for growing vegetables and curing meat; descriptions of the home front during the American Civil War; a genealogical table of the Baker family of Jefferson County, Mississippi; a copy of Elizabeth Green’s will, 1833; and typed transcriptions of the volumes. 
George Washington Baker of Washington County, N.Y., served with Company K, 123rd New York Volunteers in the Civil War. The collection includes letters of Lt. George Washington Baker, who served with the Army of the Potomac. He was involved in campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina, which he described in letters to his family in Upper Granville, N.Y. Included in these letters is much description of the Battle of Chancellorsville and the capture of Atlanta. He discussed at length army food, picket duty, and his opinions on current political issues, including the replacement of generals, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the presidential race. His sisters Lizzie and Ellen taught school in the South before the war, and the collection includes a few of their pre-war letters, among them Lizzie's description of a murder in Alabama, as well as other family letters written before and after the war.
The collection is a letter, 30 May 1807, to Isaac L. Baker, near Winchester, Va., from his uncle, Samuel Lewis, in Philadelphia, giving family news and describing the recent student rebellion at the College of New Jersey in Princeton.
Simmons Jones Baker appears to have been a physician of Scotland Neck, N.C.
William B. Baker of Goodales Corner, Me., was a federal soldier in Company D, 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
George Beall Balch (1821-1908) of Tennessee received an appointment in 1837 from Alabama as midshipman in the U.S. Navy. On the Princeton and the Falcon he took part in the Mexican War. As a lieutenant on the Plymouth he was a member of the Perry expedition to Japan. Balch remained in the Navy through the Civil War, commanding the Pocahontas and the Pawnee in operations along the east coast from Jacksonville, Fla. to Georgetown, S.C. After the war, Balch held a series of posts with the Navy, retiring as a rear admiral in 1883.
Mary and Elizabeth Baldwin were the socially prominent daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baldwin. They hosted events first in Macon, Ga., and, after 1933, in Savannah, Ga., where they socialized with students from Wesleyan Conservatory, where Mary studied journalism, and Mercer University. Elizabeth married Adam Leopold Alexander in 1939 and had two children. The collection includes two scrapbooks, some letters, and other materials. The larger scrapbook, constructed by Mary Baldwin, ca. 1927-1934, contains newspaper clippings, invitations, greeting cards, dance cards, programs, letters and notes, telegrams, bridge tallies, and photographs. Her second, smaller, scrapbook contains signatures and toasts, as well as photographs of family and friends. There are several folders of letters that were removed from the scrapbook and loose materials that did not necessarily come from the scrapbooks. These folders contain miscellaneous notes, letters from Adam Leopold Alexander to Elizabeth, and a small number of clippings. Also included are photographs, most of which are unidentified.
Articulate, analytical, lengthy letters from Daniel H. Baldwin, merchant of Savannah, Ga., 1860-1861, and New York City, 1867-1869, to William Baldwin in Massachusetts, commenting on the secession crisis, the Republican Party, the economy, Reconstruction, and race relations; and a receipt, 1859.
George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927), capitalist and civic leader, was born in Savannah, Ga. An 1877 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began his career as a chemist, but quickly became associated with diverse industries and companies, especially Stone & Webster, a Boston, Mass., firm of electrical engineers, financiers, and managers of street railway and public utilities companies. During World War I, Baldwin lent his business expertise to the shipping and shipbuilding industries. Throughout his life, he was an active Savannah civic leader and philanthropist.
J. A. Baldwin (fl. 1855-1864) was apparently a merchant of general goods in Covington, Richmond County, N.C.
John K. Baldwin was a skilled laborer of Bladen County, N.C., who did carpentry, blacksmithing, and mechanical work, and ran two sawmills.
The collection contains the autobiography of Lucy Hull Baldwin (died 1923), describing her childhood in Atlanta, Ga., during the Civil War, plantation life, living in New York, N.Y., and Savannah, Ga.; poems and short stories by her; and dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens.
Luther S. Baldwin was a general merchant of Lambville, Chatham County, N.C.
Russell Glenwood Baldwin (1925-2014) of Rocky Point and Leland, N.C., was a World War II veteran, graduate of the University of North Carolina, journalist, import-export business owner, technical writer, and founding mayor of Leland, N.C. Papers and photographs document his childhood; military service; education; political activism with organizations promoting world government and nuclear disarmament; and his successive careers. His writings document the intellectual life of a young man and include notes and essays on his reading habits and other self-reflective topics and fictional explorations of racism and interracial relationships, and the state of the world in the post-World War II era.
The collection contains miscellaneous items, 1940-1948, including a letter from Mrs. Hal Worth, North Carolina Society of County Historians, describing a trip into Randolph County, N.C., and enclosing a photograph of the tombstones of Andrew Balfour (died 1782), Elizabeth Balfour (died 1818), and their son; a newspaper clipping about Andrew Balfour's death; and a biographical sketch of Elizabeth Balfour from The State, 17 February 1940, who was appointed postmistress at Salisbury, N.C., in 1796.
MICROFILM ONLY. Lawyer, journalist, and farmer of Greenville, Miss. Diary giving detailed account of community culture, social and religious activity, and physical conditions around Greenville, Miss.
John Ball and Keating Simons Ball (1818-1891) were planters of Charleston District, S.C.
Records of three generations of the Ball family at a group of Cooper River plantations, Charleston District (later Berkeley County), S.C., including Cedar Hill, Halidon Hill, Hyde Park, Jericho, Limerick, Midway, and Quinby. Volumes include intermittent slave, planting, and weather records, 1804-1890; minutes, 1847-1858, of the Strawberry Agricultural Society; and a hog killing record, 1819-1834, detailing distribution of meat to slaves.
John Ballanfant of Pleasant Grove, Maury County, Tenn., was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1844.
The collection documents Rice Carter Ballard (c. 1800-1860), a white trafficker of enslaved people, enslaver, and owner of cotton plantations in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Letters and financial records, 1820s-early 1830s, concern day-to-day operations of interstate trafficking of enslaved people between Ballard in Richmond, Va., with John Armfield in Alexandria, Va., and Isaac Franklin in Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, La. There are also several letters from Henry Clay about court cases involving the legality of trafficking enslaved people and one from Mississippi Governor John Anthony Quitman about payment of a debt. Records, 1840s-1860, document Ballard's administration, in partnership with Judge Samuel S. Boyd, of a number of cotton plantations in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, including Wagram, Magnolia, Elcho, Karnac, Laurell Hill, Golden Plains, Quattlebaum, and Outpost (or Pecan Grove). Letters from Boyd, from the overseers at the various places, and from Ballard's cotton commission merchants in New Orleans discuss the enslaved people, improvements on the plantations, family life, politics (especially the Know-Nothing Party), and financial arrangements. There are three letters from enslaved people, all from women asking Ballard for help with emancipation or with pending sales of themselves or others. Also included are letters to and from his wife Louise Berthe Ballard about her life in Louisville, Ky. Volumes and other materials in the collection supplement the letters with details of trafficking enslaved people, their labor that the plantations depended upon, and their family units; Ballard's other financial activities; and plantation life.
Courtship letters, 1901-1905, of Etta Blanche Tate and George Newton Ballou written while Etta Blanche Tate was a student in Greendale, Va., at Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Va., and employed as a teacher in various locations in Virginia. George Newton Ballou wrote from his home in Ashe County, N.C., from the Eastern Normal College in Front Royal, Va., and in various locations in Tennessee where he worked as a photographer. The collection also contains digital transcriptions of the letters and a small amount of related material.
Thomas Balston (1883-1967) was director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., as well as a distinguished scholar of English book production, notably illustrations.
The Banjo Newsletter Collection consists of papers, photographs, and audiovisual recordings related to the Banjo Newsletter, a monthly magazine covering all aspects of the 5-string banjo. Papers found in the collection consist of scattered photographs, articles, catalogs, banjo tabs, advertising forms, and other printed materials loosely related to the publication. Photographs depict banjo players and events sponsored or covered by the Banjo Newsletter. Some of the images may have appeared in issues of the Banjo Newsletter. Audio recordings include live recordings, interviews, demos, and dubbed commercial recordings compiled by Donald Nitchie, co-publisher of Banjo Newsletter and son of Hub and Nancy Nitchie, who started the publication in 1973. Notable artists featured on the audiocassette recordings include Eddie Adcock, Bill Keith, Don Reno, Earl Scruggs, and Tony Trischka. Also included is a born digital video featuring "Banjo Bash at Buckeystown," an event that took place at the Maryland Banjo Academy in 1998.
The Bank of Cape Fear was chartered in 1804 in Wilmington, N.C., and opened its Hillsborough, N.C., branch in 1815.
The Bank of North Carlina, operating 1859-1874, succeeded the Bank of the State of North Carolina which liquidated in 1860, taking over its personnel, buildings, and activities.
Thaddeus Banks (1815-1879) was a lawyer of Hollidaysburg, Pa. The collection includes chiefly correspondence and business papers of Banks, consisting mostly of letters, 1839-1841, from Banks to his fiancee, Delia Jane Reynolds, and scattered letters to her, 1842-1864, after their marriage. Also included are letters of the Banks family of Pennsylvania; the Reynolds family, Quakers, of Cecil County, Md.; and John C. Reynolds, who was with the United States Office of Indian Affairs. Letters of John C. Reynolds concern fighting in the Second Seminole War and dealings with the Cherokee, Sac (or Sauk), and Fox Native Americans, and include a letter describing a trip, 1840, through Mammoth Cave. An 1807-1817 receipt book shows amounts paid for various expenses by Creswell Reynolds & Company, Reuben Reynolds, and others.
William A. Banks lived in Bryan, Tex.
The collection is a letter, 1857, from Joseph Banner to William B. Rodman describing the early history of Bath, N.C., as deduced from architectural remains and from the memories of old residents.
Lemuel Bannister was president of the Green Swamp Company, a lumber business based in Wilmington and Bolton, N.C.
C. F. (Charles F.) Bansemer was a native of Prussia, student at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Lexington, S.C., 1839-1841; pastor, teacher, and principal of academies in South Carolina and North Carolina.
The Baptist Student Union at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, formerly known as Baptist Campus Ministry, was a student organization located in the Battle House from 1965 to 2015. The records of the Baptist Student Union include scrapbooks and photographs documenting the group's activities, primarily from the 1980s to the 2000s. There are some photographs and one undated scrapbook from the 1950s and 1960s. Records also include meeting agendas and minutes, constitutions, correspondence, newsletters, programs, a history of the Battle House, and administrative records of the organization.
MICROFILM ONLY. Register, 1860-1862, of Barbee's Hotel, High Point, N.C.; register, 1863-1865, of that hotel as a Confederate wayside hospital, listing soldiers' names, complaints, and treatment; and a volume, 1864, from the 2nd North Carolina Hospital at Petersburg, Va., giving names of patients and medicine and diet prescribed.
The collection contains an address delivered by Algernon Barbee at a Methodist Sunday school celebration, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Collection of pages from a disassembled photograph album consisting chiefly of images depicting campus life at Barber-Scotia College, located in Concord, N.C., from the early 1930s. Barber-Scotia College was the first female historically Black college or university opened after the U.S. Civil War when it was founded by the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. in 1867. The school was created primarily to educate African American women in the fields of education and social work. Most of the photographs depict students of the school between 1930 and 1934, but numerous images of faculty and staff, and numerous views depicting buildings and grounds on the Barber-Scotia campus are also included. Materials appear to have been created by an unidentified student attending Barber-Scotia College. A majority of the images and pages have handwritten or typed captions that identify people, locations, and events depicted.
The collection of Greg Barbera, a white music journalist, musician, and band manager for PIPE, from Carrboro, N.C., chiefly consists of published versions of his writings, including an article reflecting on the tenth anniversary of Merge Records; photographs he took for the Raleigh, N.C. weekly The Spectator; and ephemera he collected, all of which document the local music scene of Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Triangle. Also included are notes and receipts for Mise en Scene, his book project about bands, bars, and people of the Chapel Hill music scene, photocopies of comics drawn by Kevin H. Dixon, and audio interviews conducted by Barbera with bands and musicians, including Melvins, Willie Nelson, and Aaron Stauffer.
The collection assembled between the 1950s and 1980s by white alumnus of the University of North Carolina Marion Durwood Barbour (1929-2016) contains nearly 8,000 picture postcards with views of nearly every North Carolina city and town during the first half of the twentieth century. These picture postcards depict parades and public gatherings; schools; agriculture; textile mills and other industries; vistas in the mountains and on the coast; courthouses, railroad stations and other public buildings; fires, floods, train wrecks, and other disasters; performances of outdoor dramas; and vignettes of the state’s military history. The collection also contains photographic postcards created by twentieth-century North Carolina photographers from across the state, including Bayard Wooten of New Bern and Victor Meekins of Dare County, and printed postcards produced by Albertype Company, Hugh Leighton Company, and other widely known printing companies of the era. Many postcards depicting African Americans, including agricultural laborers, prisoners on chain gangs, children, and elderly men and women, and postcards depicting members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in traditional costume including headdresses, illustrate racist stereotypes of the period. Some captions contain language that underline the racist undertones of the images.
Frances Barefoot (1927-2019), a white hollerer, was the women's winner, with her chihuahua Peanut, of the 1978 National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, N.C. The collection consists of a scrapbook, photographic images, the winner's trophy, and audio and video recordings that document her participation in the contest. Also included are a "Frances and Peanut" visor and a photograph book with reproductions of photographs depicting Barefoot at hollerin' contests in 1978 and 1979, her daughter's wedding in 1980, the inscription on her headstone, and handwritten notes Barefoot wrote about events at which she hollered.
Documentarian Pamela Barefoot's collection is composed of photographs, oral history interviews, and research files for her book published in 1978. Color slides taken by Barefoot depict tobacco farms, farmers, and workers during the late 1970s in the mid-Atlantic and southern United States, chiefly North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. Interviews with farmers, tobacco workers, and tobacco company owners comprise more than twenty hours of audio recordings. Most interviews have typed transcripts. Research files, consisting largely of printed items such as booklets and annual reports of tobacco companies, pertain to tobacco farming, the tobacco industry, agricultural science, and folklore related to tobacco. The collection also contains field notes, a scrapbook with newspaper clippings about Barefoot and her book, and a card file with quotations culled from the oral history interviews Barefoot conducted. Other materials in the collection pertain to Barefoot's research on shad fishing and the pork industry in North Carolina, including hog farming and the barbecue business. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Barkley family of Anderson District, S.C.
The collection includes military records, chiefly 1863-1865, of Benjamin F. Barnard, first lieutenant and quartermaster of the 23rd and the 59th Massachusetts infantry regiments, serving along the coasts of North Carolina and South Carolina and in Virginia, consisting of requisitions, invoices, receipts, reports, and other records.
Barnard was a member of the Gideonites who came to the South Carolina sea islands in 1862 in the Port Royal Experiment to educate freed slaves. He became superintendent of the Edisto Island School. Two letters, 1862, from Barnard in South Carolina to his uncle in Boston, and enclosures in those letters consisting of letters written to Major William Meggett Murray of Edisto Island in 1832 and 1860-1862. Barnard had found the letters to Murray hidden on Murray's plantation. Included among the letters to Murray are two, 1832, concerning a meeting of the State Rights and Free Trade Party of St. Johns Colleton, Charleston District, S.C.; two, 1860, about prospects for a convention in Columbia, S.C., and opposing participation in the presidential nomination process while favoring secession; and one, 1861, from the ordnance office in Charleston to Major Murray, requesting muskets.
Russell D. Barnard was editor and publisher of Country Music Magazine, from its founding in the early 1970s until he sold the publication in 1999. Country Music Magazine reported on contemporary and classic country music musicians and groups.
Brothers George Washington Barnard (1832-1862) and William C. Barnard (1841-1862) of Camden, N.J., fought on opposite sides in the American Civil War. William C. Barnard was a second lieutenant with the 3rd New Jersey Volunteers, and George Washington Barnard served in the Confederacy. Both died from wounds sustained in battles in 1862.
Albert Barner served in Battery D of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment and Company E, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division of the 175th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was honorably discharged and mustered out on 30 June 1865 at Savannah, Ga.
Chiefly financial papers of various Wilson, N.C., residents, some of whom were members of the Carr, Barnes, or Branch families, including estate inventories and papers relating to the hiring of slaves and the renting of land. Also included is some correspondence, 1859, concerning the building and financing of a girls' school in Wilson.
Collection contains images made by white photographer Billy E. Barnes taken during his career from 1959 to 1996. The majority of the images are black-and-white 35mm negatives, photographic prints, and 35mm transparencies (slides). Images were taken across the state of North Carolina and depict poverty in both rural and urban areas, racial tension, experiments in integrated education, poverty prevention/alleviation programs, and the social/political changes that occurred in the state during this span of almost four decades. A large portion of the collection documents the activities of the North Carolina Fund (1963-1968) as well as related organizations and programs that outlasted the Fund project. Images were taken across the entire state, but with a concentration in Durham and Orange County. There are also some images of locations outside North Carolina. Barnes's original descriptions are used when available (from personal photographic log) and, whenever possible, individuals, organizations, events, locations, and dates have been identified. Known groups, organizations, and individuals are listed as subject access points, as are identified locations. Throughout his career, Barnes incorporated new photographic formats and technologies into his work as a freelance photographer and as an official photographer for several N.C. organizations and companies. In 2003, he made the transition from traditional film-based (analog) photography to digital photography. The collection also includes 50 GB (61,200) of digital files representing his digital photographic work.
David Alexander Barnes graduated from the University of North Carolina with an A.B. in 1840. He lived at Jackson (Northampton County), N.C., and was a member of the state House of Commons in 1844, 1846, 1850, and of the Convention of 1861. He was a superior court judge from 1865 to 1868 and a university trustee in 1868. In 1873, he married Bettie Vaughan.
Office and other papers, 1910s-1950s, of David Collin Barnes, lawyer of Murfreesboro, N.C. Included are materials relating to Barnes's business and personal affairs. Among the files are some relating to Barnes's service on the Appropriations Committee of the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Richard T. Barnes (fl. 1861-1865), native of Murfreesboro, N.C., was a Confederate soldier with the Hertford Light Infantry.
Eugene Epperson Barnett was born in Florida and educated at Emory University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of North Carolina.
Mary A. Barnett was a farmer in Pineville, Mecklenburg County, N.C., whose husband, John W. Barnett, was killed in the Civil War. She maintained the family farm for several years after her husband's death.
Joseph Nicholson Barney (fl. 1839-1852) was a United States (and later Confederate) naval officer and native of Maryland. The collection includes a personal diary kept by Barney, containing ship's log entries while he was in Singapore and the East Indies, 1839, on the United States frigate Columbia, and diary and log entries while he was sailing up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America, 1849-1852, on the U.S.S. Vincennes, with frequent and sometime lengthy stays in port. Diary entries describe in detail his impressions in 1850 of Rio de Janeiro, Guayaquil, Ecuador, various California ports, and other locations, and note social and other daily events and Barney's reflections on self and surroundings.
William Joseph Barnhart was born in Boonville, Mo., in 1923. Barnhart joined the military in 1943, serving in France and Austria for 18 months. Beginning in April 1946, Barnhart attended the University of Tennessee where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1947 and a Masters of Arts in 1949. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1955. Barnhart served as dean of Florida Memorial College in Saint Augustine, Fla., and was on the English faculty at Shepherd University in West Virginia. He died in 1978.
George Scarborough Barnsley of Woodlands Plantation, Cass County, Ga., and Sao Paulo, Brazil, was a Confederate soldier, hospital steward, medical student, and assistant surgeon in the 8th Georgia Regiment. He emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. Members of Barnsley's family included his father, Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873), his brother, Lucien Barnsley (1840-1892), and his sister, Julia Bernard Barnsley (b. 1836). The collection includes correspondence, reminiscences, scrapbooks, printed pamphlets, and other materials, chiefly 1846-1873, relating to George Barnsley's years at school and at Oglethorpe University, his service during the Civil War, and his emigration to Brazil. Included are letters from Godfrey and Lucien Barnsley and reflections on life in Brazil in the late nineteenth century.
The collection consists of two letters from B. T. Barret to his father, Dr. John S. Barret in Aylett, Va., November 1835. The letters were written while B. T. Barret traveled with enslaved people whom he was transporting from his father's plantation in Ampthill, Va., to Claiborne, Ala., and describe the dismantling of a family whose members were enslaved, relations between the parties, and travel conditions.
Gerald A. Barrett was a professor in the business school of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, an expert in industrial-labor relations, and an arbitrator. Papers of Gerald A. Barrett are mostly files concerning hearings at which Barrett acted as arbitrator between labor unions and companies, mostly in the southeastern United States. Cases involve textile companies, tobacco companies, airlines, chemical companies, and others. Files may contain copies of original grievances, reports of Barrett's findings and decisions, Barrett's expense reports and invoices, correspondence with company and union representatives, and other items. Also included are Barrett's file on his membership in the National Academy of Arbitrators Committee on Professional Responsibility and Grievances, 1980-1983, and a few other letters.
Oliver Roger Barrett (1873-1950) was a lawyer, author, and collector of Chicago, Ill.
Daniel Moreau Barringer of Cabarrus County and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; North Carolina state legislator; United States representative, 1843-1849; minister to Spain, 1849-1853; active Whig and later Democrat; and member of the North Carolina Democratic Party state executive committee, 1860, and chair, 1872.
Two volumes of financial records of the Osmond Barringer Garage Company, an automobile dealership in Charlotte, N.C. Volume 1 contains sales invoices, 4 August 1916-1 March 1926; volume 2 contains an audit report for 1921.
North Carolina lawyer, politician, and Civil War brigadier general Rufus Barringer (1821-1895) was born in Cabarrus County, N.C.; attended the University of North Carolina, from which he was graduated in 1842; represented Cabarrus County in the House of Commons, 1848-1850; was a delegate to the 1875 North Carolina Constitutional Convention; and practiced law in Concord and Charlotte, N.C. He served with the First North Carolina Cavalry and then as commander of North Carolina's cavalry brigade until his capture at Namozine Church, Va., in 1865.
Susanna Elizabeth Barringer (fl. 1784-1788), a native of Ratzeburg, Germany, resided in Dutch Buffalo Creek, Mecklenburg County (now Cabarrus County), N.C.
Victor Clay Barringer was a North Carolina state senator, professor, Confederate soldier, and international legal scholar.
Excerpts, 1818-1824, from a diary of James Barrow (1757-1828), a Baldwin County, Ga., planter; excerpts from his autobiography, written in 1818; and notes on the history of the Barrow family.
Henry W. Barrow was probably a student at the University of Georgia at Athens.
Robert Ruffin Barrow (b. 1798) was a sugar planter and canal operator in Terrebonne Parish, La. Barrow was the son of Bartholomew Barrow (d. 1852), a merchant of Fishing Creek, Halifax County, N.C., and later a planter in West Feliciana Parish, La., where he settled on his estate, Afton Villa, in 1820. The younger Barrow owned six Terrebonne Parish plantations, including Residence, Myrtle Grove, and Caillou Grove, as well as plantations in Lafourche, Assumption, and Ascension parishes and in Texas.
John Alexander Barry served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. After the war he was a wholesale merchant and commissioner in Atlanta, Ga.
Audio recording of an interview with Ermon H. Godwin (1927-2009), a white hollering contest organizer, of Spivey's Corner, N.C., and his wife, Christine Godwin (1928-2017). Peter Bartis (1949-2017), a Greek American folklorist, recorded the Godwins at their home in January 1973, as part of his University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill master thesis project on classifying hollers in the United States. Ermon H. Godwin, who was also a bank official in Dunn, N.C., co-founded the National Hollerin' Contest, which is held annually in Spivey's Corner, N.C., to raise funds for the local Fire Department. The collection also contains a brief note describing the audiocassette recording found in the collection.
Recordings of an oral history interview conducted by Stephanie Bartis with her paternal grandmother, "Yiayia", who immigrated to the United States from Greece in 1909. In the interview Bartis's grandmother discusses "saints' lives", in particular those of St. Paraskevi and St. Rafael. Stephanie Bartis conducted the interview, which is chiefly in English but includes some Greek passages, as part of a spring term paper assignment for her English/Folklore 187 course taught by Daniel Patterson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes the interview on audiocassettes and a brief note by Daniel Patterson on the recording.
J. S. Bartlett was a Confederate soldier in the 1st and 11th North Carolina regiments, serving in North Carolina and Virginia, 1861-1865.
Stephen Chaulker Bartlett (1839-1879) of North Guilford, Conn., was a medical student at Yale University and at United States government hospitals during the first part of the Civil War. He received a commission as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy and was assigned to the steamer Lenapee in 1865.
Jacques Barzun, professor and critic, and Wendell Hertig Taylor, a retired scientist, were life-long friends and enthusiastic readers, critics, and collectors of detective fiction.
Savannah, Ga., lawyer, Confederate officer, state legislator, and president of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega, 1885-1894. Chiefly letters from William Starr Basinger written during the Civil War while he was a major, 18th Georgia Battalion, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and as a prisoner at Old Capitol Prison and at Johnsons Island, 1865. Also included are letters from Eddie Basinger while hospitalized at City Point, Va., discussing the evacuation of Richmond. Additional materials (on microfilm) include W. S. Basinger's reminiscences, through 1896, of his legal career, Confederate service, and term as president of the North Georgia Agricultural College, along with family historical materials, and seven letters, 1835-1836, from W. E. Basinger (d. 1836) while serving with the United States Army in Florida during the Second Seminole War.
The collection contains correspondence, diaries, and family records, 1833-1863 (chiefly 1847-1863), of the Bassett family of Mercer County, Ill., and Lewis County, Ky. Principal figures in these papers are Isaac Bassett (1791-1863), his sons John Ray Bassett (born 1821) and Isaac Newton Bassett (1825-1920), and Isaac Newton's wife Scienda Moore Bassett (1825-1861). Included is John Ray Bassett's diary, written in Lewis County, 1847-1851, describing his reading in history, literature, and law, and his thoughts on these subjects, and expressing Whig views on current events. Bassett often mentioned floods and business-related Ohio River traffic. A diary of Isaac Bassett, January-October 1863, Lewis County, briefly mentions Civil War activities, locally and elsewhere, and the daily household activities and health of himself and his wife until shortly before his death.
John Y. Bassett (1805-1851) was a physician of Huntsville, Ala. The collection contains letters relating to medical, financial, and family matters of John Y. Bassett and family correspondence of his wife, Isaphoene Thompson Bassett. The correspondence includes letters from editors Theodore Parker and William Gilmore Simms, 1849-1850, criticizing Bassett's article on race ethnology. After her husband's death in 1852, there are letters to Mrs. Bassett from her children, including sons Watkins (died 1862) and Henry Willis. Watkins wrote from Waco, Tex., where he was living with his uncle. Henry joined the Confederate Army and wrote from camps in Mississippi.
Bruce Bastin is a folklorist, author, and managing director of Interstate Music, a record label specializing in blues, jazz, R&B, country, western swing, Latin American, and world music. The collection consists of Interstate Music production masters, reference sound recordings compiled by Bastin, and sound recordings related to Bastin's book on American music publisher Joe Davis. The collection also contains documentation found with select sound recordings. Documentation consists mostly of tape logs, memos, letters, and photocopies of Interstate Music album artwork.
Mary E. Bateman lived at Argyle Plantation near Greenville, Washington County, Miss., with her cousin, Margaret Tiedeman Campbell. Her sister was Lavinia Bateman Ball; Lavinia's husband was Dr. Spencer Ball.
Letters, 1835, containing news of family, friends, and slaves, from Batre in Mobile, Ala., to his friend Mrs. J. S. Walker in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Ship captain Charles Wesley Battie is thought to have been a native of Massachusetts. He married Lizzie Scandlin (1858-1925) and lived with his wife and son, Herbert Scandlin Battie (1884-1942), aboard ship until around 1893, when the family settled in Greensboro, N.C.
The collection documents several generations of the white Battle family of Louisburg, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, N.C., as well as enslaved people who were claimed in ownership by the Battles or were trafficked to them through hiring of their labor, skills, and knowledge. Early Battle family papers, especially letters of Lucy Martin Plummer Battle (1805-1874), concern many aspects of North Carolina history, including white family relationships with enslaved people and their forced labor, life on the Confederate homefront, and social conditions and race relations during Reconstruction. Letters of William Horn Battle (1802-1879) also describe a wide spectrum of people and events while he served on the North Carolina Supreme Court and traveled primarily to Raleigh and Morganton. There are also materials relating to the Episcopal Church, in which the Battles were active lay members; the Chatham County Railroad; and the University of North Carolina. Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) materials include papers relating to his interest in the early history of North Carolina and of the University of North Carolina; his notes on the secret sessions of the North Carolina convention of 1861; clippings, notes, and drafts of his articles and speeches; a facsimile of his journal while he lived in Chapel Hill and worked as a tutor and studied for the Bar exam, 1851-1853; and correspondence of his family, including his wife Martha Ann Battle and their children. There are also many letters from Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), who was related to the Battle family through marriage. Papers of William James Battle (1870-1955), professor of classics and university administrator at Texas and Cincinnati, document family, family history, and personal affairs, but do not include many items relating to his professional career. Volumes are chiefly student notes and personal accounts kept by William James Battle, 1885-1909. There are also images of Battle family members and others.
The collection is a pen and ink map, undated and unascribed, of the Battle of Bethel, 10 June 1861.
Ivan Proctor Battle, born 1880, studied medicine at the University of North Carolina, 1900-1902, before receiving his doctorate from Jefferson Medical College in 1904.
Unrelated letters collected for their autograph value by Jane Battle and a few personal letters to S. Westray Battle. Included are the following: an order, 1693, presumably from King Charles II of Spain, to officials in Mexico; a letter, 1780, from Abner Nash (1740-1786) about North Carolina troops; a letter, 1852, from John Tyler (1790-1862) with comments on current events; a letter, September 1864, from Benjamin Cummings Truman (1835-1916) predicting Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah; a letter, 1864, from Brig. Gen. W. L. Quarles, C.S.A., to North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance about the status of officers of North Carolina regiments; a letter, 1866, from Horace Greeley advising against moving to California; a letter, 1865, from Queen Victoria in German; a letter, 1870, from William Dean Howells (1837-1920) about the lecture circuit; a letter, 1909, from Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) briefly discussing her background and the status of the women's suffrage movement; and a letter, 1914, from Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) about German- American relations. There are also notes from Charles George Gordon (1833- 1885), 1872; Rutherford B. Hayes, 1889; Thomas Nelson Page, 1903; Daniel Webster, undated; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), undated; Edward Lear (1812- 1888), undated; and George Cruikshank (1792-1878), illustrated with drawings in ink, undated.
Photograph album given to white North Carolina State Treasurer and President of the University of North Carolina Kemp Plummer Battle, as a gift given to him upon his retirement from the University. The album contains some of the earliest photographic views depicting campus known to exist. Subjects depicted in photographs include University of North Carolina buildings, grounds, faculty, staff, students, events, and Black people at the historically white University. Of particular interest are the images depicting three Black laborers; Ben Boothe, Eli Merritt, and Jerry Mason, who worked at the University for many years and interacted with Battle. A handwritten note states that the photographs in the album were taken in 1892, but the album contains materials from earlier in the nineteenth century including a composite image of the 1844 UNC faculty.
Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer and president of the Chatham Railroad. He was active in state affairs during the Civil War and served as state treasurer and as University of North Carolina president, 1876-1891, and professor of history, 1891-1907.
Lucy Plummer Battle of Raleigh, N.C., and Collier Cobb (1862-1954), professor of geology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were married in April 1904.
Leonidas Baugh was editor of the Abingdon, Va., Democrat.
John N. Baughman was a general store owner, tinner, scrivener, and postmaster who lived in Baughman Settlement in Hardy County, W. Va.
Frances Bavier was an actress chiefly remembered for her portrayal of Aunt Bee on the The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1960 to 1968 and for which she won an Emmy. Bavier retired in 1970 and, in 1972, moved to Siler City, N.C., where she lived a somewhat reclusive life. She died on 6 December 1989.
The collection contains the will of William Baxter, Rutherford County, N.C., dated 17 November 1845.
Poet Ronald H. Bayes (1932- ), resident of Laurinburg, N.C., began teaching creative writing at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in 1968. Bayes founded the St. Andrews Review and the St. Andrews Press, a magazine and small press dedicated to publishing both established and emerging writers, primarily poets, and created the St. Andrews Writers Forum. He published more than 16 poetry books and wrote reviews, poems, short stories, and a few plays. The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other materials, chiefly documenting Bayes's career as writer, editor, and college teacher. Cochran family correspondence includes letters exchanged by Cochran and Nessly family members, some in Oregon, chiefly about family news. There are also letters, mostly 1969-1972, from poets, Bayes's former students, editors, publishers, professors, friends, and politicians. Several of the letters have poems attached or included in the text. Correspondents include Carolyn Kizer, Dick Bakken, James Laughlin, Sam Ragan, Jo Slatton, Bill Butler, and Fred Parrott. Writings by Bayes, 1948-1999, are poetry chapbook manuscripts, single poems, book reviews, and a few plays and short stories. There are also writings edited by Bayes and writings by others, including poems submitted to Bayes for publication, a play by Romulus Linney, and short stories by Bill Butler. Collected publications include published anthologies and journals, most with contributions from Bayes; a few books, including several relating to Erza Pound; and a few newsletters. Also included are materials relating to the St. Andrews Review, the St. Andrews Press, the St. Andrews Writers Forum, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and other topics; printed promotional materials, most relating to Bayes's career; clippings, some containing Bayes's writings; photographs; and audio and video recordings of Bayes at various speaking engagements. The addition of March 2023 includes scrapbooks, photographs, audiovisual materials, and unpublished writings and drafts.
John Gayle (1792-1859) was governor of Alabama; his wife was Sarah Ann Haynesworth Gayle; their son-in-law was Thomas L. Bayne (1824-1891), lawyer, of New Orleans, La., and Confederate army officer. Hugh A. Bayne (1870-1954) was a lawyer and Army officer of New Orleans.
Daily records of the extensive and varied agricultural activities and family and neighborhood happenings at Bayside, a large plantation on Bayou Teche (near New Iberia), La., and also, during part of the Civil War, at another plantation on Bayou Mallet, near Opelousas, La. The record was kept by a proprietor, Francis DuBose Richardson, by members of his family, and by various overseers, and discusses crop production and the management of slaves and, after the war, of free labor.
John W. Beal served with the 81st Engineers, 106 Infantry Division, during World War II.
Family of Joseph Hoomes Davis (1809-1879), Methodist minister and educator of Virginia and North Carolina, and Anne Turberville Beale Davis (1809-1894). Principal family members included Robert Beale Davis (1835- 1864), son of Joseph Davis and his first wife, Martha Beale; Richard L.T. Beale (1819-1893), brother of Anne Davis; and the four children of Joseph and Anne, Wilbur Fisk (b. 1839), John W.C. (b. 1840), Olin (b. 1844), and Martha Anne (b. 1846).
George Beale was purser of the S.S. Peacock.
The collection is family correspondence, chiefly 1850s, of the Beall, Harper, and Jones families of Rowan, Davidson, and Caldwell counties, N.C., including letters from students at the following North Carolina schools: Davidson College (Davidson), Edgeworth Female Seminary (Greensboro), Bingham School (Orange County), and St. Mary's School (Raleigh). Also, guardian and other accounts, bills, and receipts.
Amanda Davidson was born at Rural Hill Plantation in Mecklenburg County, N.C., where her father was a planter and developer. In 1875, she married Andrew Jackson Beall and the two moved to Charlotte, N.C. Andrew Jackson (Hick) Beall was born in Murray County, Ga. During the Civil War, he served as a corporal in the Confederate Army and was wounded twice in the Battle of Chickamauga. Beall travelled extensively as a railroad agent. Around 1880, he began work in the sales commission business and later worked for Royal Arcanum, a fraternal insurance organization.
Harold Cranston Beall was the fifth child of William Dixon Beall (b. 1862), a Maryland minister, and Hannah Simpson Beall (b. 1862). He studied engineering at Johns Hopkins University and worked for the Bureau of Public Roads of the U.S. Department of Commerce until he retired in 1963. He lived in Bismarck, N.D.; Pierre, S.D.; and Decatur, Ga. Beall was married to Mary Young of Denton, Tex.
John Bramblett Beall (1833-1917) was born in Carroll County, Ga. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he served in the 19th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Virginia campaigns in 1861 and was wounded in the hip at Mechanicsville in 1862. During his recovery, he served as conscription officer at Manning, S.C., and tax collector in Carroll County, Ga. In 1864, he was elected major of a battalion of cavalry raised in Carroll and Heard counties. After the war, he served as a judge and edited several newspapers in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. The papers of John Bramblett Beall consist of twelve letters, 1860-1865, addressed to his cousin (later his wife), Mary J. Merrill. The letters discuss various aspects of military life during Beall's service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, including his time with the 19th Georgia Infantry Regiment and later as a conscription officer in Manning, S.C. Included are second-hand reports of military events, such as Shiloh and Jackson's victory at Winchester, Va., and a discussion of morale among Confederate troops and civilians when Beall was recruiting. The letters refer to aspects of everyday life on the home front in the Confederacy, including the price of food and lodgings in South Carolina.
John Yates Beall (1835-1865), Confederate soldier and acting master in the Confederate Navy. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Beall joined Company G of the 2nd Virginia Volunteers. After accepting a naval appointment in 1863, Beall led a failed attempt to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. He was captured soon after, tried before a Union military commission for espionage and violating the laws of war, and hanged at Governor's Island, N.Y., on 24 February 1865. The papers comprise two volumes, ca. 1865-1899 and ca. 1935-1942, documenting Beall's trial, his time in prison, efforts to free him, and his execution. The volumes contain transcripts of letters by and about Beall, and transcripts of miscellaneous items, including a biographical sketch of Beall; the warrant appointing Beall acting master in the Confederate Navy; his will; notes he made on his final wishes; and a clipping, 1935, regarding the legend of Beall's ghost. One letter from Beall's lawyer describes attempts to free Beall and Beall's last days. Letters written by Beall, who was imprisoned at Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor and at Fort Columbus on Governor's Island during February 1865, proclaim his innocence, communicate his last wishes, and request that his name be cleared. The biographical sketch mentions only briefly Beall's life as a student, a farmer, and a Confederate soldier prior to his trial.
Mary Harper Beall married Robert Beall, likely in 1858.
Audio recording, with accompanying transcript, of interviews and tales told by Joe Goins, Max E. Beam, and Ralph Abernathy, all truck drivers and residents of Cherryville, N.C. Charles K. Beam, a white industrial relations student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded the interviews on 18 March 1989 as part of class project for a folklore course taught by Daniel W. Patterson. The recording relates to Charles K. Beam's term paper titled "Truck Driver Tales: An Oral Tradition of Cherryville, N.C." The collection also contains a copy of the paper and a handwritten note from Beam to Patterson.
Jeffery Scott Beam is a white North Carolina poet. The collection includes papers, correspondence, poetry notebooks, publications, event programs and recordings, and other related materials of Jeffery Beam. Correspondence documents his role as an active member in the literary and gay communities. Also included are drafts and publication materials for his published books and files pertaining to his unpublished collections of poetry. There is also correspondence with poets Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer, James Broughton, Damon Sauve, editor of Oyster Boy Review, and others.
John Robert Beaman (1813-1892) spent his life in Sampson County, N.C. He married Elizabeth Robinson (1817-1895) in 1837 and built a house in Clinton, N.C. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Robinson (1792-1851), who was involved with a hotel. Both men were involved in the sale and hiring out of slaves, as well as the use of indentured servants. The Beaman and Robinson family papers consist of documentation of legal and financial transactions entered into by John Robert Beaman, John Robinson, or Robinson's agent, John Carroll. Included are indentures; bills of sale for slaves; notices of debts owed or paid; deeds of gift; wills; assessments of property; informal accounting lists; a survey of the Clinton Academy property; and correspondence of a financial nature. There is also a small number of the items relating to individuals with unspecified or unknown connections to either Beaman or Robinson, chiefly I. B. Cox and Charles Harrison.
Jesse S. Bean, of Saint Peter, Minn., served with the 4th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, Company H, during the Civil War.
MICROFILM ONLY. Lists of officers, members, and delegates to annual association meetings; rules of behavior, investigations of members, and excommunication proceedings; minutes of monthly meetings; and other records of the Bear Creek Baptist Church, Chatham County, N.C.
The Bear Family Records Collection consists of audiovisual materials compiled by the German based independent record label, Bear Family Records. The collection primarily contains American country music materials, including vinyl test pressings of 78-rpm records, commercially produced 16mm motion picture films, and dubbed U-Matic videotapes. The 78-rpm records feature recordings by the Carter Family, Tex Owens, and Goebel Reeves, while the film and video consist of television shows, short subject films, musicals, and western films.
Grace Pierson James Beard managed, by herself, a plantation in Fairfield County, S.C., during the passage of Sherman's army, 1865.
The collection includes diaries of Beattie while serving as judge advocate of the Department of Tennessee, Confederate States of America, and nine volumes, 1883-1917 passim, while a sugar planter, lawyer, and judge in Thibodaux, La.; diary, 1843, of Beattie's mother, recording daily life in Thibodaux and trips to New Orleans; and one volume containing records of land entries in Kentucky in 1780 and memoranda, 1824-1849, of Walker Reid (born 1783) of Kentucky, concerning family history and his religious experiences.
The collection includes scattered daybooks and ledgers for general merchandise sold at Bath, N.C., and Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., and a shipping book from Washington, N.C. Firms represented include Ellison and Marsh, and Boyd's Mill.
The collection is a volume containing a federal registration record kept at Washington, N.C., of ownership, sales, physical characteristics, and other information about ships engaged in coastal trade.
William Beavans, a Confederate soldier from Halifax County, N.C., served with the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I, and with the 43rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company D. He was wounded at Snicker's Gap, Va., on 18 July 1864 and died of his wounds at Winchester, Va., on 31 July 1864.
Sarah G. Beck (fl. 1863-1865) worked with the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. The collection includes passes and letters to Beck relating to her work with the sick and wounded in the United States Army under the auspices of the United States Sanitary Commission in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. One letter is from Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War.
Members of the Beckwith family include John W. Beckwith (1831-1890), an Episcopal priest in North Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and bishop of Georgia; his wife, Ella Brockenbrough Beckwith, and their daughter, Elizabeth Beckwith. The collection consists mostly of Civil War letters from Virginia relatives of Beckwith's wife, Ella; scattered papers of Beckwith as a Confederate chaplain and a volunteer aide to General William Joseph Hardee; and personal correspondence in the 1880s of Beckwith's daughter, Elizabeth.
Edmund Ruffin Beckwith (1890-1949) was a New York City lawyer.
The collection of law professor James P. Beckwith, Jr., contains three open-reel audiotape recordings of interviews with staff of the Cabin Creek Craft Cooperative. The interviews were recorded in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1974. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
In large part microfilm and photocopies. Family papers of James P. Beckwith of Durham, N.C. Included are letters and other papers, 1789-1869 (microfilm), reflecting the domestic and social life of the Arrington, Heath, Jones, Long, and Williams families, chiefly of Petersburg, Va., and Warrenton, N.C., especially the education of Dr. John Francis Heath (1819-1862) at Harvard University, the University of Berlin (including his journal while there), and the University of Pennsylvania; family Bible records (photocopy) of the family of Hugh Johnson (1762-1810) and Sally (Green) Johnson (1775-1848); genealogy of the Banister-Bolling-Eppes family (photocopy); and commonplace book, 1832-1865, of Mary Kearney (Davis) Williams of Montmorencie, Warrenton, N.C., containing diary entries, religious meditations, and copies of her letters to family members. Also included are the diaries, 1864-1865 and 1870 (microfilm) of Mary J. White of Warrenton, kept at Wilmiington, N.C., in 1864, while waiting with her father, John White, for an opportunity to run the Union blockade, and later at Ingleside, Warrenton, concerning church services and domestic affairs; recollections of General Robert E. Lee's visit to Warrenton, 1869-1870 (microfilm), written in 1934 by Mrs. Mary J. Beckwith; A Short History of the A.E.O.C. (a Harvard University social club), 1835, by Thomas Pinckney Rutledge (1815-1838), edited by James P. Beckwith; and account books, 1925-1961 (6 volumes) of Robert Paine Beckwith (1888-1969), physician of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., who specialized in pediatrics and obstectrics from the 1920s through the 1950s. Marginal notes contain genealogical information about his Halifax and Northampton counties, N.C., and Brunswick County, Va., patients, many of whom were from textile mill families.
Becky Johnson has photographed bluegrass musicians, festivals, conferences, and related events since the 1980s.
During the Civil War, many Confederate states, including Virginia, required slaveholders to contribute slaves to serve in the Confederate Army.
Ledger, 1868, consisting of records of Bedford's work as administrator of the estate of B. W. Bedford Junior, Panola County, Miss., including accounts for provisions advanced to farm laborers, and a summary of transactions, 1866-1868 and 1871.
Harvey E. Beech was born in Kinston, N.C., in 1923. He was a lawyer, philanthropist, and advocate of civil rights. While studying law in the early 1950s, Beech was asked to join a case against the University of North Carolina School of Law. In 1951, after a lengthy court battle, Beech and four other students became the first African Americans admitted to the UNC law school. He graduated in June 1952 and went on to practice law for more than 35 years. Harvey Beech died in August 2005.
Charles Oscar Beers (1834-1910) was the co-founder of the North Carolina Lumber Company, Lake Waccamaw, N.C.
Business records of Beeson Hardware and Lumber Company of High Point, N.C., dating from 1917 to 1931. The store was founded in 1893 by Newell Beeson and purchased by Amos Ragan in 1896. Robert R. Ragan took over store management duties in 1908. The business records document store inventory from 1917 to 1931 with equipment, merchandise, and prices listed. Also present are store account ledgers for 1907 to 1922. Undated indices by customer are present for some ledgers.
Members of the Beggs and Janssen families of New Orleans, La.
Howell Begle is a white entertainment and media lawyer and long-time activist on behalf of early rhythm and blues recording artists. In 1982, Begle met Ruth Brown, an African American recording artist with the Atlantic Recording Corporation in the 1940s and 1950s, who had had difficulty securing royalty payments. He agreed to represent her pro bono against the recording company. Over time, his list of pro bono clients grew to more than 30 artists who had recorded for Atlantic. Begle was also a major figure in the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, founded in 1988 in Washington, D.C., with $1.5 million in initial funding from Atlantic in partial fulfillment of a legal settlement with Brown and others represented by Begle. The collection includes detailed royalty statements from the Atlantic Recording Corporation that document payments to Ruth Brown, 1955-1964. There are also copies of contracts and correspondence related to royalty payments owed to other artists who recorded for Atlantic and other labels during the 1950s and 1960s, among them Nellie Lutcher, Jimmy Scott, Joe Turner, Harry Van Walls, the Clovers, the Coasters, and the Drifters. Also included are legal documents, articles of incorporation, correspondence, news articles, and other materials relating to the formation and administration of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation; scattered correspondence between Begle and Atlantic executives, including Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Michael Resnick, and Sheldon Vogle, documenting negotiations leading to the royalty settlement of 1988; correspondence with musicians involved in the Foundation, particularly board member Bonnie Raitt; letters relating to Begle's dissatification with and 1998 resignation from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation; photocopied news and periodical articles relating to Foundation; and calendars and promotional materials for the Foundation, some relating to the Foundation's annual award ceremony. Other items include Billboard chart research documents, 1950s-1960s; a chronology documenting efforts to reform royalty payment accounting at Atlantic Records, 1983-1993; programs from Ruth Brown's memorial service in 2006; correspondence with activists including Jesse Jackson, politicians including Congressmen John Conyers Jr. and Dennis J. Kucinich, and members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA); and 45rpm, 78rpm, and LP record albums collected by Begle. The additions consist of publicity materials for rhythm and blues recording artists; a poster advertisement for a Jimmy Brown and Ruth Brown performance; and additional audiovisual materials related to Charles Brown, LaVern Baker, and King Records founder, Syd Nathan.
Oliver Beirne (fl. 1860-1896) was a landowner of West Virginia and Louisiana and postmaster of Sweet Springs, W. Va. The collection includes business papers, including letters from a business associate, John Echols (1823-1899), and correspondence between Beirne's son-in-law, William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) and Beverly R. Johnston over a lawsuit involving a property dispute with John Smith Preston (1809-1881) of Abingdon, Va. Also included are bills, receipts, financial records, railroad stocks, and papers relating to the management of the Houmas Plantation, Ascension Parish, La.
Robert C. Belden (1811- ) lived in Maryland.
Microfilm of printed almanacs for 1792, 1797, and 1798, with notes on rice planting in Louisiana by Allard Belin.
MICROFILM ONLY. Brief intermittent entries by Bell of New York, later rear admiral, United States Navy, of places visited while a midshipman on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812 and under Stephen Decatur in the Mediterranean; and notes on other voyages along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., and in the Baltic and the Mediterranean. A description of Lord Byron, May 1822, is included.
Danny Bell, a member of the Lumbee and Coharie tribes, has been an advocate and advisor for American Indian students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since coming to the University in 1988 as a student loan officer. In 1996, he helped found the American Indian Studies program in the Department of American Studies, becoming the program assistant. He also serves as the advisor to the Carolina Indian Circle and the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA). In 2014 he was honored with the University's C. Knox Massey Service Award for his service to the Carolina community. This collection consists of photographs of American Indian groups and events at UNC-Chapel Hill and other North Carolina locations. Many images include faculty from UNC-Chapel Hill and University of North Carolina at Pembroke and members of the Carolina Indian Circle.
Indentures, deeds, bonds, and other legal papers, 1738-1841, of Hamon Bell of Camden County, N.C.; letters received by Bell; and Bell family data. Included are items pertaining to the sale and exchange of land and slaves with Caleb Dozier, members of the Sawyer and Lamb families, and Samuel F. Aydelette, and to the settlement of the estates of Alexandria Hastings and others. Letters, 1840-1841, are from Louisa Hastings Berry and her husband, M. R. Berry, of Shelby County, Tenn., giving personal and family news and descriptions of Shelby County social life.
Audio recording of an interview conducted in Gullah with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley, all African American residents of Edisto Island, S.C., about life on Edisto Island. Topics discussed include the local environment, effects of the Civil War, houses, food, fishing, and schools. Also included are Brer Rabbit and Brer Cooter stories, proverbs, and animal tales. Recorded by Herman Bell, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member in the Department of Linguistics, during the summer of 1967, probably at Milligan's home on Edisto Island, S.C. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation consists of tape logs, which include information about the collector and informants and descriptions of content.
The collection of white photographer John Cartwright Bell, Jr. (1914-1996) contains black-and-white photographic prints from the 1930s depicting historic North Carolina homes and buildings in Bertie, Camden, and Chowan counties and copy negatives made from a photographic album created by Bell.
Organized in December 1973 in Greensboro, N.C., the North Carolina Alumni and Friends Coalition (NCAFC) sought to strengthen the historically black universities and colleges in North Carolina, broaden African Americans' access to higher education in the state, and eliminate vestiges of the segregated system of public higher education that left predominately African American universities underfunded. NCAFC's membership comprised educators, students, community leaders, and the alumni associations of the five predominately African American universities of the University of North Carolina system (Fayetteville State University, Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Winston-Salem State University, and North Carolina Central University). Sarah M. Bell-Lucas was committee chair of the NCAFC Banquet and Publicity Committee, 1975-1982.
Land grants, deeds, bills, accounts, wills, other business Papers, and some family correspondence of David Coffield (d. 1818?) of Edgecombe County, N.C.; his sons, Spier W. Coffield and John W. Coffield; and their Whitaker, Bellamy, Hall, and other relatives in Edgecombe, Nash, and Halifax counties, N.C. Papers after 1835 are chiefly from the Bellamy family. Included are papers of various estates; papers of Stephen W. Carney (1762-1811) relating to racehorse breeding near Scotland Neck, N.C.; Dr. John F. Bellamy's business papers in Nash County; and a daybook, 1860-1861 (480 p.) of Whitaker, Batchelor & Co., a general mercantile firm in Enfield, N.C.
John Dillard Bellamy (24 March 1853-25 September 1942) was a Democratic congressman, North Carolina legislator, politician, lawyer, and manufacturer. He was born in Wilmington, N.C., the son of Dr. John Dillard Bellamy and Eliza McIlhenny Harriss. He served in the North Carolina Senate, 1891-1892, and in the United States Congress from 1899 to 1903. The collection includes five letters, 1894-1901, to John Dillard Bellamy about politics and business matters; one letter, 1891, written by Bellamy; an 1888 legal form; and an undated advertisement to lawyers from the Trust Department of the Commercial National Bank of Raleigh, N.C.
Marsden Bellamy, of Wilmington, N.C., was a paymaster in the Confederate Navy.
William James Harriss Bellamy was a native of Wilmington, N.C.
The collection contains a photostatic copy of an advertisement from a New York firm for an Iberville Parish, La., sugar plantation, containing a detailed description of the lands, farm, and woodlands, and an architect's drawing of the front and side elevation of the house, with floor plans of the interior.
Thomas Michael Bello (Tommy) was born in Raleigh, N.C. From March 1970 to March 1971, he was the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In May 1970, campus life was disrupted by student unrest over the war in Vietnam and specifically the killing of four students at Kent State University. Bello was instrumental in guiding the student body and communicating with the faculty and administration during this time.
Family correspondence of Harriet Armistead Ryan Benbury (1833- 1877), later Harriet Armistead Ryan Benbury Carter, of Edenton, N.C., consisting chiefly of Civil War letters from her husband, John Avery Benbury (1827-1862), captain in the 1st North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, in Virginia, describing battles, casualties, changes of command, and camp conditions; and letters from relatives and friends. Also included is later correspondence of the Benburys' daughter, Emily Benbury (Mrs. Hubert) Haywood, about family history.
George D. Benedict served in Company G of the 1st New York Dragoons during the Civil War. He was married to Sarah Benedict, who lived in Allegany County, N.Y. The 1st New York Dragoons originated as the 130th New York Infantry Regiment in 1862 and became the 1st New York Dragoons in 1863. The unit was mustered out 1865. The collection consists of letters, 1863-1864, from George D. Benedict, a Union soldier serving with the 1st New York Dragoons in Virginia and Maryland, to his wife, Sarah Benedict, at Belvidere, Allegany County, N.Y., and one letter from James Hall to Sarah Benedict telling her that her husband had been severely wounded. Benedict's letters describe military life, including picket duty, food, pay, and health, as well as news of fighting and news about friends.
Hill and Bennett family members include John E. Hill (b. 1836), a shoemaker who served with the Confederacy; his wife, Mary Eugenia Bennett Hill; her father, Risden H. Bennett; and her brothers Samuel Pines Bennett, who served in Clingman's Brigade and was killed in the Battle of Seven Pines in 1865, and Presly Lemuel Bennett, who served in the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment. The Hill family lived in Tiverton, Devonshire, England, and the Bennetts in Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C. John E. Hill settled in North Carolina in the 1850s.
Hugh H. (Hugh Hammond) Bennett (1881-1960), originally from Wadesboro, N.C., was a white soil scientist and conservationist with the United States Department of Agriculture, 1903-1951. This collection contains professional correspondence, photographs, and other materials of Bennett, concerning soil conservation surveys and projects in the western United States, Latin America, South Africa, and the West Indies; the Association of American Geographers, 1943-1945; and Bennett's writings. Also included are a diary, 1949, of a conservation survey trip to France, Italy, Tunisia, and Algeria; technical articles; biographical data; clippings, some arranged into scrapbooks, covering Bennett's life and work, 1935-1955; personal and family correspondence; and genealogical materials. Photographs are of land features; meetings with farmers, including members of the Navajo and Crow nations; community and other public events; and family. There are also films, including one about farm machinery produced by the New Holland Machine Co.
J. Kelly Bennette (fl. 1861-1864) of Wythe County, Va., served with the medical corps, 8th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America.
Confederate Army officer, having served as colonel with the 17th Georgia Volunteers and after as brigadier general of the 15th, 20th, and 2nd Georgia regiments (Toombs' Brigade), 1st Division, Army of Northern Virginia.
Berry Benson (1843-1923) of Hamburg, S.C., was a white Confederate army soldier in the 1st South Carolina Regiment. After the war he lived at Augusta, Ga., where he was a teacher, cotton trader, author, and inventor of a remunerative bookkeeping technique. The collection contains correspondence, writings, notes, American Civil War diary and reminiscences, and other papers of Benson relating to his early life, family history, and Civil War career. Writings include fiction; poetry; plays; humor; and commentary related to the Civil War, including Benson's experiences at the battles of Fredericksburg, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Bull Run, Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness; his escape from Elmira Prison; manners and mores; and other subjects. Other papers relate to Benson's expertise in handwriting, codes, ciphers, mycology, and other matters. Also included are full diaries from 1880 and 1884 regarding his travels in Mexico, Cuba, and Texas.
The collection is chiefly bills, receipts, and some family correspondence, chiefly 1853-1857, of members of the Benson family, farmers of Alamance County, N.C., Gentryville, Mo., and Arkansas. Also included are gubernatorial election returns for Orange County, N.C., 1838 and 1840.
The Rev. James M. Benson (1853-1919) was a Methodist minister from 1896 or 1897 until his death in 1919. A native of Hyde County, N.C., Benson attended Trinity College and served churches throughout eastern North Carolina.
John Benson was a justice of the peace and militia member of Lake Comfort, Hyde County, N.C.
Posters and photographs comprise the collection of artist, freelance photographer, and small business owner Michael Benson of Chapel Hill, N.C. Many of the graphic art posters designed and signed by Benson promote music performances at The Station at Southern Rail in Carrboro, N.C., which Benson owned from the 1990s until 2015. A few photographs depict musical performers including members of the British band The Cure and American soul singer James Brown. Other images depict scenes in Washington, D.C., Thailand, and Geneva, Switzerland. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Bentley Gordon Bentley lived in Hope, N.C., near Windsor, Bertie County.
The 1984 field recording on audio cassette tape contains childhood anecdotes narrated by Shirley Bentley of Hillsborough, N.C., and recorded by her stepdaughter, Melanie Bentley-Maughan, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the mid-1980s. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Audio recording of interviews and performances of songs by B. Best, I. Daughtey, K. Williams, F. Parker, L. Warren, M. Tart, and B. Jones, all of Sampson County, N.C., about corn shucking in Sampson County, N.C. Recorded around 1973 by Celia M. Benton, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student and Clinton native who grew up in Sampson County's Goshen community. The audiocassette recording relates to Benton's term paper on corn shucking in Sampson County that Benton wrote under the direction of white folklorist and UNC-Chapel Hill professor, Daniel W. Patterson.
Nelson Benton (1924-1988) was a native of Danville, Va., and 1949 graduate of the University of North Carolina. Benton was a television and radio news correspondent, who spent most of his career working for various divisions within CBS News, which he joined in 1960. Prior to that, he had worked for WBTV, the CBS television affiliate in Charlotte, N.C.
The collection contains a letter, 6 January 1832, from Daniel Webster to Benton about a disagreement concerning a publication agreement; and a letter of introduction, 1856, from Benton to the American minister in Russia written for Mr. and Mrs. William H. Appleton of New York.
The Berea College Collection of John Lair and Lester McFarland Recordings consists of reference copies of old-time and country recordings found in the Berea College Special Collections and Archives. The audio recordings consist mostly of country music radio programs associated with John Lair, a white Kentucky born broadcaster, folklorist, and music collector, including recordings of the Pinex Merrymakers and the Renfro Valley Barn Dance radio programs. The collection also includes an interview with white musician, Lester McFarland, of the country music duo Mac & Bob.
Photocopies of letters, 1830s-1870s, to and from Moses Ashley Curtis, Episcopal priest, teacher, and noted mycologist, who lived in Wilmington, Raleigh, and Hillsborough, N.C., and Society Hill, S.C. These documents were collected by Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley in preparation for their biography of Curtis, published in 1986 as A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas: the Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis, D.D. (1808- 1872), and were gathered from repositories in the United States and Europe. Many of the letters are grouped together according to where the originals are housed. Letters chiefly relate to Curtis's botanical studies, particularly to his investigations of various kinds of mushrooms.
Rabbi Dr. Sidney M. Berkowitz, originally of Terre Haute, Ind., graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1933 and from Hebrew Union College in 1936, at which time he was ordained as a rabbi. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1939. Berkowitz became rabbi of Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim (the Gates of Heaven), Mobile, Ala., in 1940 and volunteered to be a chaplain in the United States Army in 1942, where he served 42 months and was discharged with the rank of Major. Berkowitz became rabbi of Congregation Rodef Sholom, Youngstown, Ohio, where he served until a month before his death. He was committed to interfaith cooperation and had a deep and longstanding friendship with Bishop James W. Malone, who gave the eulogy at Berkowitz's funeral. Berkowitz married Pauline Anderson of England; they had two sons, Roger and R. Laurence.
The Michael Kalen Berkut Papers are a collection of essays that record Berkut's memories of military service during World War II. Berkut wrote about the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment on active duty in North Africa, Italy, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge in Netherlands. Also included is a copy of Il Fuhrer in Italia (1938).
Bernard of Petersburg, Va., was a lawyer, active Confederate veteran, and author (compiler and editor) of War Talks of Confederate Veterans, a collection of addresses delivered before the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate veterans of Petersburg. This collection includes correspondence, reminiscences, and fragments of a historical work by Bernard, chiefly concerning the 12th Virginia Regiment.
Diaries of Overton Bernard and his son, Jesse. Overton Bernard kept his diary while serving as a Methodist minister in Edenton, N.C., 1824, and as a bank employee in Portsmouth, Va., 1858-1863. Entries include description of church work and the progress of the Civil War around Norfolk, Va. Jesse Bernard, lawyer of Alachua County, Fla., kept his diary sporadically from 1856 to 1891. It contains entries relating to local religious affairs, lawyering, visits to Virginia, and the Civil War. There are few entries after 1861.
Jack Bernhardt (1944- ), music critic, archaeologist, and cultural anthropologist of Hillsborough, N.C., recorded, interviewed, and performed with country, old-time, bluegrass, gospel, and other musicians, including many well-known country music stars, old-time musicians, and scholars.
The Bernhardt-Seagle Company was a family-owned store that operated under the ownership of members of either the Harper or Bernhardt families from 1829 to 2008 in Lenoir, N.C. It sold general merchandise, furniture, household appliances, and hardware.
Edward M. Bernstein, professor of economics at the University of North Carolina, 1935-1940; principal economist for the United States Treasury Department, 1940-1946; assistant to the secretary of the United States Treasury Department, 1946; research director of the International Monetary Fund, 1944-1958; president of EMB (Ltd.) Research Economists, 1958-1981; and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution beginning in 1982. The collection includes reports and other writings on topics in international economics, particularly international finance and monetary policy, by Edward M. Bernstein and EMB (Ltd.) Research Economists; materials concerning the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944, materials about meetings of United States Treasury Department staff, and other materials relating to the establishment and research operations of the International Monetary Fund; some personal papers; and pictures, including pictures of the Bretton Woods conference.
Lawyer, U.S. senator from Georgia, and U.S. attorney general.
MICROFILM ONLY. Travel diary, October 1830-January 1831, of Berry's sister, Francenia Usher; letters, 1839-1843, from Berry's brother, Patrick Usher; and undated physicians' accounts. The travel diary was kept by Francenia Usher on a trip from Emittsburgh, Md., by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Fort Jackson, La., to visit her sister, Eliza Usher Berry, wife of William Augustus Berry, a United States Army doctor. Francenia Usher, a Roman Catholic, particularly noted churches, convents, and co-religionists encountered on her trip. The letters from Patrick Usher, were written in Texas and in prison in Mexico to his sister, Eliza Berry, in Wilmington, N.C. Patrick Usher's letters concern conditions and politics in Texas and details of a private invasion of Mexico in 1842.
Born in Hillsborough, N.C., the daughter of John and Mary Strayhorn Berry, Harriet Morehead Berry graduated from the State Normal and Industrial College at Greensboro, N.C., in 1897 and taught school from 1897 to 1901. From 1901 to 1921, she was employed by the State Geological and Economic Survey. During the absence of State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt during World War I, Berry acted as director of the Survey. During this period, she also took over Pratt's duties as secretary of the North Carolina Good Roads Association. After losing her job with the Geological and Economic Survey in 1921, Berry became editor of industry and commerce for the Greensboro Daily News, 1922-1924. In 1924, she was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was an early supporter of John W. Davis. During 1924 and 1925, she was secretary of the North Carolina Credit Union Association. From 1925 to 1937, she was employed by the State Department of Agriculture as an editor of Market News and director of publicity for credit unions. In 1927, she was appointed state superintendent of credit unions. Bad health forced her resignation in 1937.
Mary E. Strayhorn Berry (died 1934) was the daughter of William F. and Harriet Holden (Nichols) Strayhorn; and niece of Thomas Jackson Strayhorn (1831-1864), member of the Orange Guards, Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Microfilm copy of typed copy of sketch of Hyde County, N.C., written by Mary Leta Berry before she was graduated from the North Carolina College for Women in spring 1911. The sketch includes information on the county's history, social customs, and other matters.
Mainly the prenuptial correspondence, 1838-1840, of Elizabeth Sprague of Massachusetts and Oliver Arms of Lincoln County, N.C., mentioning climate, finances, crops, religious freedom of slaves, furniture, and selection of a place to settle. Also included are miscellaneous papers of the Berryhill family of Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Walter Reece Berryhill was director of student health services, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1933-1941, and dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1941-1964.
William Louis Rose Fortune Berson was a jeweler or clockmaker. He was a refugee from Santo Domingo who by 1830 had settled in Franklin, Tenn.
Julia A. Cotten Bethel (fl. 1858-1875) of Thomaston, Ga., was married to Thomas F. Bethel. The collection includes chiefly scattered letters to Julia A. Cotten Bethel from her brother, J. K. Cotten at Powder Springs and Acworth, both in Cobb County, Ga., 1858-1859, 1868, 1870, and 1875; and letters to Julia and Thomas F. Bethel, from her nephew, Joseph A. Cotten, with the 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment at Winchester, Va., and Manassas, Va., June-September 1861. J. K. Cotten wrote about financial difficulties in practicing medicine, about health and activities of family members, and about spiritual yearnings. Joseph Cotten wrote of conditions in camp and battle, especially at the First Battle of Bull Run. Also included are a few other family letters.
The collection is the personal diary of Mary Jeffreys Bethell of Rockingham County, N.C. The first part of the book contains short reminiscences of her immediate family. After her marriage in 1840, the diary contains entries relating to her home, neighborhood, the Methodist Church, constant religious activities including camp-meetings, her children, several of whom died young, and the Torian children, whom she referred to as nieces and nephews, and who lived in the Bethell household for years. There is frequent mention of journeys with her husband to Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas, with the possible intention of moving the family, and her negative reaction to the idea. During the Civil War, there is mention of her sons Willie and George entering the Confederate Army, and of news and visits from them. George, in the 55th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, was captured and imprisoned at Johnsons Island. Mary's husband entered the army in 1864 and she wrote of the difficulties at home after he left, including the departure of slaves. There are also reports of rumors and news of the fighting. After the war there are references to social conditions, difficulties with servants, etc.
The Robert D. Bethke Collection consists of audiovisual materials and subject files related to folk music and traditional life of the Middle Atlantic and Southern regions of the United States, including Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and West Virginia. Folklorist and University of Delaware Associate Professor, Robert D. Bethke, compiled the materials, along with undergraduate students enrolled in his folklore courses at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. Audiovisual materials in the collection consist mostly of interviews and live performances by folk, bluegrass, and blues performers, including folk singer, songwriter, and banjo player, Ola Belle Reed, of Ashe County, N.C.; traditional bluegrass guitarist and banjo player, Ted Lundy, of Galax, Va.; artist and blues musician, James "Son Ford" Thomas, of Washington County, Miss.; blues guitarist and banjo player, Franklin "Frank" Hovington, of Frederica, Del.; and folk singer, Mary Jane "Janie" Miller, of Cecil County, Md., among others. The collection also contains audiovisual materials documenting traditional life, as well as subject files that include clippings, student papers, song sheets and lyrics, transcripts of interviews, and photographic materials documenting folk performers chiefly from Delaware, but also from Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi.
Letters received by Betton, African American vice president of the National Agricultural Workers Union at St. Louis, Mo., from Harry Leland Mitchell and others, concerning the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and its successor organizations, and related printed material.
A. D. Betts was a minister of the North Carolina Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Confederate chaplain.
Doris Betts (1932-2012) was a white North Carolina author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, speeches, audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, and other materials. The bulk of Betts's correspondence is with editors, publishers, other college English professors, and literary organizations, although there are also some personal letters. Among these are personal letters from Doris Betts to Louise Abbot, friend and writer from Louisville, Ga., with reflections on the births of her three children, her writing career, books read, day-to-day life, and the illness and death of her husband. Manuscript materials by Betts are extensive, and typically include drafts; galleys; various publishing states, chiefly the printed literary journals and anthologies in which her writings appeared; reviews; and publicity. Betts is best known for her novels and short stories, but her archive also includes a significant collection of reviews and articles published in newspapers, newsletters, scholarly journals, popular magazines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publications, and other periodicals. Besides Betts's writing, there are also reviews, literary criticism, and bibliographies of her work; interviews and other articles about her; materials relating to awards she received; and publicity for speaking engagements and other literary programs in which she participated. In some cases, the text and/or audio and/or video recordings of the speeches she gave at these events are included. Other audio and video recordings include radio programs featuring Betts, such as the Storylines Southeast series. Betts's participation in various programs and committees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is also documented. Other materials include photographs of Betts; letters from Anne Beatty to her parents about her Peace Corps experiences in Nepal; and family history materials and writings. The additions consist of speeches and programs, correspondence with Joseph Flora, printed materials, and annotated drafts and books.
Microfilm of typescript of Recollections of the Spratt Family by Thomas D. Spratt, Fort Mill, S.C., 1875, including Spratt, Polk, Barnett, McNeal, and related families in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and upper South Carolina; and Some Extracts of Revolutionary Interest in Upper South Carolina Taken From Memoirs, Tradition, and History of Rocky Mount and Vicinity, by L. M. Ford, undated.
The family papers collected by William H. Biggers, M.D., of Atlanta, Ga., include an 1843 record of an enslaved thirteen-year-old girl named Minto, an 1849 note certifying a local preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church South; an 1852 receipt; Confederate money; photocopies and reprints of photographs and a scientific paper relating to a solar eclipse viewing party in Wadesboro, N.C., in May 1900; and time tables, 1945-1946 and 1962, for Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company.
The collection of white lawyer, judge, legislator, and United States Senator from North Carolina, Asa Biggs (1811-1878), contains an 1857 biographical sketch of Biggs, possibly written by Cushing B. Hassell; photocopy of a travel diary (7 p.) kept by Biggs on a trip from Williamston N.C., to Ocracoke, N.C., in 1832; and family history and biographical materials, including Some Bible and Cemetery Records of the Asa Biggs Family, compiled by Edwin R. MacKethan III in July 2003.
Martin County, N.C., was established 14 March 1774.
Herman Biggs (1832-1887) was a United States Army officer and native of New Jersey. The collection includes Civil War military papers of Biggs as chief quartermaster of the Department of North Carolina and Virginia, including telegrams received, many from Ambrose Everett Burnside, and two letterpress copy books of outgoing official messages. Also included are some personal letters and an album with photographs of more than 100 federal officers.
James Crawford Biggs was an attorney in various North Carolina locations, 1894-1933 and 1935-1950; solicitor general of the United States, 1933-1935; and federally-appointed trustee for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company.
Joseph W. Bigham and John Bigham were brothers from Mississippi who served with the Confederate Army.
Bill of sale for Bill, an enslaved person 17 years of age, who was trafficked by Weeks Parker to John W. Suttle in Philadelphia County, Pa., 24 July 1839. Bill is described as being of mixed race. The sale was witnessed by Silas Wright and W. C. Henry. Attached to the bill of sale is a political cartoon, circa 1861-1865, depicting enslaved people escaping to Union forces at Fort Monroe, Va., during the Civil War.
Bill of sale for Ester, an enslaved girl of 16 years of age, who on 1 January 1850 was trafficked through sale by William L. Perkins to A. W. Marshall in North Carolina. J. N. Pearce signed as witness to the sale.
Bill of sale for Sam, an enslaved person of 20 years of age, who was trafficked by John A. Watkins to Mumford D. Watkins, in Anson County, N.C., 11 January 1841. The sale was witnessed by G. D. Boggan.
The collection of record producer Scott Billington contains audio recordings of live performances and song demos; recording session notebooks; files for Rounder Records sessions and releases; and printed items. Collection materials date from the late 1960s to 2023 with most materials from the 1980s and 1990s relating to Billington's work with Rounder Records on the Modern Masters of New Orleans series. Recordings of live music include performances by Johnny Adams, Lou Ann Barton, Jimmy Buffett, Rita Coolidge, Deacon John, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bo Dollis & Wild Magnolias, Dr. John, Neville Brothers, Rebirth Brass Band, Fingers Taylor, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Tuts Washington. Demo tapes have unpublished recorded versions of songs by Jonnie Barnett, Bobby Charles, Dr. John, Earl King, Ernie K-Doe, Paul Kelly, Jimmy Lewis, Bucky Lindsey, Percy Mayfield, Dan Penn, Doc Pomos, Jerry Ragovoy, Carson Whisett, and others. Billington's session notebooks date from 1982 through 1987 and document recording sessions for After Dark by Johnny Adams, Hot Tamale Baby by Marcia Ball, The New Rules by Irma Thomas, Out of the Dark by Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and recordings made by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Solomon Burke, Holmes Brothers, and Sleepy LaBeef. Other session notebooks pertain to recordings of the 1982 and 1984 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Files for Rounder Records sessions and projects contain contracts, correspondence, lyric sheets, photographs, press clippings, proposals, receipts, reviews, session logs, track sheets, and other session materials. Artists represented in the files include Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Duke Robillard, Tuts Washington, and Zydeco Cha-Chas. Most files are listed with corresponding Rounder Records' catalog numbers. Printed items include posters for music concerts, programs for music festivals and the Grammy awards show, issues of Pop Top Magazine from 1974 to 1975 when Billington served as editor and wrote editorials, and issues of Rounder Records' newsletter Concentrics from 1981 to 1986. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
John Houston Bills was a Tennessee planter who was active in the Democratic Party, the Freemasons, a temperance society, and was a friend of President James K. Polk (1795-1849).
The collection includes letters exchanged between John Billups (fl. 1845), Deerbrook, Noxubee County, Miss., and Sarah M. Phinizy (fl. 1845-1859), his fiancee (later his wife) of Athens, Ga., discussing their courtship and upcoming marriage; and a letter of 6 June 1859 from Sarah in Philadelphia, Pa., to Joe Billups (fl. 1859), then her brother-in-law, discussing the care of her family during her absence.
The Bingham Military School (originally the Bingham School) was located near Mebane Station, N.C., 1865-1891, and moved to Asheville, N.C., in 1891. Robert Bingham was superintendent from 1873 to 1920.
The collections consists of 35mm color slides made in 1989 in Franklin County, N.C., by Pati (Patience) Bingham. The 37 images by Bingham document traditional methodologies of molasses and sorghum syrup making at a farm owned by the Wheeler family near Louisburg, N.C. Some images also depict members of the Wheeler family, Professor Glenn Hinson and students in his Methods of Ethnography course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who were visiting the farm on a field trip, and Bingham's spouse Georgia Wier, a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Robert Bingham (1838-1927) of Hillsborough, N.C., was a captain in the 44th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes two volumes of a diary Bingham kept, 1863-1864, while he was a prisoner at Norfolk, Va., Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, Ohio, and Point Lookout, Md.; and a letter, 14 March 1923, from him to his granddaughter, Henrietta Bingham, describing his Civil War experiences in Virginia, his capture, and his imprisonment. The diary, marked intended only for my wife, records thoughts Bingham hesitated to put into letters to his wife. The diary describes prison life, including quarters, gambling, work, escape plots, sermons, food, illness, and hospitals at various prison camps. Included are descriptions of the trip from Johnson's Island to Point Lookout; of Bingham's work making chairs and gold and silver rings, needles, and buttons; of his exchange of books with other inmates and guards; and of rumors, including rumors of cessation of prison exchanges, return of North Carolina to the Union, and Confederate privates signing oaths of allegiance.
The collection is a letter from D. G. Conrad, Scuppernong, N.C., to F. W. Bird, discussing native wine and asking for election news.
Diary, photocopy, circa 90 p., of Henry A. Birdsall with the 11th Michigan Cavalry Regiment chiefly in Virginia and western North Carolina. Birdsall wrote almost daily entries from 1 January 1865, when he was stationed near Lexington, Va., until 29 July 1865, when he was on his way home, having been discharged on 19 July. Entries average a few sentences in length and discuss Birdsall's work with muster rolls and payrolls, troop movements, and general military life. Entries beginning in March 1865 describe the 11th Michigan Cavalry's journey through western North Carolina and include detials of several skirmishes with remnants of Confederate troops. On 24 April 1865, Birdsall noted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which ..caused considerable excitement among the soldiers. They feel more like fighting than ever. Also included are a few pages listing expenditures and letters written and some pages of miscellaneous scribblings, including a Love Letter and a poem entitled Woman.
Alice McLellan Birney (1859-1907) of Marietta, Ga., was the founder of the National Congress of Mothers (later known as the National Congress of Parents and Teachers).
William Birnie (fl. 1842-1864) was a Charleston, S.C., merchant and president of the Bank of South Carolina. The collection includes letters, 1842-1864, to Birnie, from members of the Birnie and Ferguson families, mostly in Aberdeen, Scotland, about family affairs, commerce, economic conditions, and current events; letters from American relatives which contain information about life and industries in Charleston, S.C., in the early 1800s, railroad enterprises, and agricultural trade; and letters, 1862-1864, to Birnie in Greenville, S.C., from his nephews, who were managing his affairs in Charleston.
Catherine Ward Bishir (1942-) is a white architectural historian and historic preservation planner, chiefly working under the auspices of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Materials, circa 1976-1990, relating to Bishir's publications, most of which concern architectural history, architects, and historic preservation, particularly in North Carolina. Most items pertain to North Carolina Architecture (with Tim Buchman, 1990); guides to the historic architecture of eastern, piedmont, and western North Carolina (with Michael T. Southern and Jennifer F. Martin, 1996, 1999, 2003); or Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (with Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III, 1990). Included are letters, financial and legal materials, notes, publicity materials, and background research files. Also included are a number of Bishir's shorter works on architecture and historic preservation, as well as a few files relating to meetings and conferences of several professional organizations in which she has been active.
John R. Bittner was a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests included Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway. Bittner died in 2002.
Edwin Bjorkman (1866-1951) was a Swedish-American literary critic, translator, newspaperman, and author, and, from 1925, a resident of North Carolina. The collection includes literary, personal, and business correspondence, chiefly from 1907, writings and collected writings, of Edwin Bjorkman. His correspondence is divided into two series: Professional (literary), and Personal. The Professional series includes letters from many significant twentieth century authors, including Zoe Akins, Van Wyck Brooks, James Branch Cabell, Olive Tilford Dargan, John Galsworthy, Francis Grierson, Archibald Henderson, Henry Goddard Leach, William Lyon Phelps, Upton Sinclair, Freeman Tilden, and Allan Eugene Updegraff. Topics include Bjorkman's work as a translator of Swedish literature and drama, his World War I experiences in Sweden as an employee of the British Department of Information and the American Committee on Public Information, and his work in North Carolina as literary editor of the Asheville Times newspaper and, after 1935, as director of the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. The Personal series consists of correspondence of and writings of Bjorkman's family, including his four wives. The bulk of the papers consists of Bjorkman's writings and collected manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.
Members of the Black family lived in Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The collection contains correspondence and letters, business papers, newspaper clippings, Confederate army records, notes, genealogical material, and other papers related to the Black family. There are frequent gaps in dates. Earlier papers are business and family letters of David Black, merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va., including five letters, 1833-1848, from relatives in Scotland, who were linen weavers, discussing labor conditions and politics. The bulk of the papers regard the financial affairs of Robert Martin of Erwinton, S.C., and his Erwin relatives in the 1840s and after the Civil War. There also are business letters of U. M. Robert of Albany, Ga.
Archibald Ray Black (died 1889) was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1853; teacher; county superintendent of public instruction; and sheriff of New Hanover County, N.C. He also acted as the administrator for the estate of his father-in-law, James McDuffee.
James Conquest Cross Black (1842-1928) of Kentucky was a Confederate soldier in the 9th Kentucky Calvary Regiment, lawyer, state legislator, and United States representative of Augusta, Ga.
Collection of Lewis Black, a white Jewish actor and author best known for his stand-up comedy on television shows such as The Daily Show and Lewis Black's Root of All Evil. This collection primarily documents Black’s work as a playwright from the 1970s through 2000s, with some earlier materials documenting Black's high school and college days, including performances in Chapel Hill, N.C. Other materials document his stand-up comedy, films, and television appearances. The collection primarily includes drafts, scripts, notes, press and publicity materials, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials. Materials pertaining to educational projects from Baltimore Public Television and the 52nd Street Project are also included.
Microfilm of typed transcriptions. Papers of and pertaining to residents of Hardeman County, Tenn., chiefly antebellum. Among the items are thirty letters, 1821-1832, received by David Woods from his parents in Orange County, N.C., concerning family, social, and economic news; a diary, 1862-1863, of William J. Rogers of the 13th Tennessee Regiment, Confederate States of America; a memoir of antebellum society; letters, 1851-1853, from Hardeman County people who had moved to Paris, Tex., with personal, crop, and stock news; and other items.
Stanley W. Black, a white economist, is the Georges Lurcy Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Economics, where he has taught since 1983. Black is best known for his work applying the rational expectations theory to floating exchange rates. The collection consists of correspondence, research files and notes, and other materials related to Black's work at the Council of Economic Advisers, the Economics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, various federal government agencies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations Economic Policy Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the Economic and Theology Covenant Group at the United Church of Christ. Topics include rational expectations theory, Mongolia, North Carolina textile trade policy, the 1999 bond issue in North Carolina, international monetary policy, and the history of economic and European studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Microfilm copy of tobacco warehouse records, 1816-1817; blacksmith accounts, 1835- 1836; horse stud records, 1844-1864; scattered miscellaneous accounts; and a few family records of George Blackburn, planter of Woodford County, Ky.
Blackford Family Papers document members of the Blackford and Minor families of Virginia, as well as some of the people who were enslaved and manumitted by them. Correspondence consists chiefly of three generations of personal letters containing news of family and friends, but it is also a rich source for their perspectives on politics, slavery, abolition, race, and other topics; correspondence of Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (1802-1896) with the American Colonization Society and missionaries in Liberia; diplomatic and personal correspondence of William Matthews Blackford as U.S. charge d'affaires in the Republic of New Granada (Bogota, Colombia); and letters written by members of the Blackford family serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and in the armed services in both the First and Second World Wars. There are also a few letters written by enslaved, or formerly enslaved people. Other materials include 2 lists of enslaved people; diaries; photograph albums; the 1852 manuscript "Recipes in the Culinary Art Together with Hints on Housewifery &c."; and family history and genealogical files containing correspondence between family members, clippings, transcriptions and copies of historical documents, family charts, photographs, memoirs, reminiscences, and other narratives. Other items of note are a bill of sale, photograph, and estate papers for Peggy Dean, who was enslaved and later manumitted by the Blackfords; an address in 1837 to Cherokee Indians, Red Clay, E. Tennessee, advising them of the advantages of removal; issues of a newspaper published in Cavalla, West Africa in 1854; and childrens' writings, including a newspaper created by Blackford children. The Ambler, Byrd, Grey, Jacquelin, McClatchey, Mason, Morris, Washington, and Willis families are also represented in the collection, as are several plantations in eastern Virginia and near Tigerville, Louisiana.
B. L. (Benjamin Lewis) Blackford, who was white, worked for a time at an insurance company in Washington, D.C. The collection includes family correspondence of B. L. Blackford, his mother, and his brothers, Charles Minor and Launcelot Minor Blackford, including an 1853 letter from Charles Minor Blackford, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life and including two diagrams of his room. There are also 4 cartoon drawings about the insurance industry by Blackford.
Chiefly unrelated 19th-century letters from several different states collected by James Baylor Blackford of Richmond, Va. Topics include politics, military affairs, education, travel, migration within the United States, home life, religion, business, and agriculture. Included are letters referring to political events in Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and North Carolina; preparations for war with Mexico; employment of slaves in Mississippi and discipline of slaves in Texas; the education and social lives of teachers and students in Georgia, Maryland, and North Carolina; travel experiences of visitors to Mississippi, Tennesee, North Carolina, and South Carolina; experiences of men and women who migrated to Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and California; domestic and family news from people in North Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Virginia; and business and agricultural activities and prospects in Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and California.
Head of the Episcopal High School for boys in Alexandria, Va., 1870-1913.
Writer, collector, and performer Becky Blackley is an autoharp expert and enthusiast. From 1980 to 1993, she served as editor of The Autoharpoholic, an international journal that was dedicated to the autoharp. In 1981, she published Harp! the Herald Angels Sing!, a book of Christmas songs arranged for the autoharp, and in 1983, The Autoharp Book, a comprehensive history of the instrument. She has recorded and produced her own music, conducted autoharp workshops across the United States, and served as a consultant to instrument makers Oscar Schmidt-International. She currently works as a Russian-to-English translator.
Contains research files, interviews, correspondence, photographs, and publicity materials documenting the career of Ann Blackman, a white journalist and author. This collection primarily pertains to Blackman's years as correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau (1987-1990), and her work on the books Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998), The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History (Little Brown, 2002), and Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy (Random House, 2005).
William Cole Blackmer (fl. 1876-1878) of Salisbury, N.C., was a student at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1876 (class of 1878).
Daily records of patients and treatment given by a U.S. Navy surgeon at sea and in various ports, May-September 1845. Blacknall's ship is not identified.
The collection is a blacksmith's ledger, 1833-1835, probably kept by a member of the Sayers family of Williamson County, Tenn., with accounts for horseshoeing, sharpening tools, fixing wagons, and other jobs. Also included are miscellaneous accounts, memoranda, and copies, presumably made at the time they were sent, of letters concerning employment and a family visit from J. K. Sayers of Arrington, Tenn., and J. S. Sayers and others from Williamson County, 1875-1885.
Ruth Blackwelder, North Carolina writer and historian. Materials compiled by Ruth Blackwelder in the process of writing The Age of Orange: Political and Intellectual Leadership in North Carolina, 1752-1861 (1961).
Elizabeth Goodwin Blackwell (fl. 1814-1819) was a resident of Lunenburg County, Va. The collection includes miscellaneous accounts, 1814-1819, of Blackwell with members of her family and with a blacksmith; and other items including two personal notes to Miss Willie Haskins from W. L. Dalby, 1863 and 1865.
Margaret E. Blackwell of Murray's Ferry, S.C., tended the home front while her husband and sons fought in the Civil War. The collection consists primarily of letters, 1861-1865, received by Margaret E. Blackwell from family members in Pontotoc County, Miss., during the Civil War. Letters discuss home front conditions in Mississippi; the occupation of Fort Sumter; the fall of Vicksburg, Miss.; and the battle at Gettysburg, Pa. Members of the Blackwell family serving in the 2nd Mississippi Regiment and their role at Gettysburg are mentioned. Other letters discuss plantation management, and one letter from 1865 describes the treatment, especially medical care, of slaves and freedmen working on family plantations.
The Blackwood family of Orange County, N.C., included Robert P. Blackwood, an engineer for the Southern Railway Company who married Alice M. Craig around 1896. The couple's children included Mattie E. (1889- 1977), Annie, Florence, Vernon, Samuel, and Carl. While the family home appears to have been in Chapel Hill, family members made frequent visits to friends and relatives in Hillsborough and Reidsville, including the Rev. D. Irvin Craig, who was clerk of the Synod of the North Carolina and Orange Presbytery.
Frank P. Blair was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
William A. Blair lived in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Florence Arabella Blaisdell Diary, 1918-1919, was written while on a cross country tour with a traveling theater company that included her son, child actor Billy Blaisdell. Her entries record locations and her impressions of hotels, food, surroundings, and the company's performances of "Pollyanna." Of note are entries for southern towns in which prevailing attitudes about race are recorded.
Joel Clifton Blake (1831-1863) was a planter of Miccosukee, Fla., who was killed at Gettysburg while serving in the Confederate army.
The Tia Blake Collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, papers, and publications created and compiled by the white writer and singer, Tia Blake Wallman. Under the name of Tia Blake, Wallman recorded an LP of American and Irish folk songs at the age of eighteen with a small record label in Paris. The LP, titled Folk Songs and Ballads: Tia Blake and Her Folk-group, was released by SFPP (Societe Francaise de Productions Phonographiques) in February of 1971. The collection consists of materials related to this release, including a misprint copy of the LP, photographs, flyers, posters, correspondence, and a copy of the recording contract; an audio recording, 1973, of rehearsals and demos by Wallman and a guitarist; an audio recording, 1976, of original songs created by Wallman; audio recordings, 1956-1957, of Max Dunbar collected by Wallman and her mother, Joan Blake; a recording contract between Wallman and the National Film Board of Canada; writings by Tia Blake and Joan Blake; and photographs.
William Kennedy Blake was a teacher in Texas, 1848-1850, and in North Carolina, 1850-1859. He was president of a Methodist women's college in Spartanburg, S.C., from 1859 until shortly after the Civil War. He was a merchant in Spartanburg, S.C., after the Civil War.
John A. (John Augustus) Blakemore (1894-1986) of Washington County, Va., was co-founder and business manager of the White Top Folk Festival, held on White Top Mountain, Grayson County, Va., 1931-1936 and 1938-1939. The festival featured traditional singers, musicians, and dancers.
MICROFILM ONLY. Dean of Medical Department, University of the South. Travel diary, June-October 1881, of Blanc, later a noted physician, on a 102-day trip by railroad and steamer, from his home in New Orleans to Richmond, Va.; Niagara Falls; Montreal; New York City; and Washington, D.C.; returning by way of Georgia.
Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956), a white author, art collector, and interior decorator, was related by birth and marriage to the Amis, Hooper, Blanchard, and Butterworth families, many members of which are represented in the collection. Materials include Blanchard's personal correspondence, chiefly with her mother Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, and notes, memoranda, diary entries, clippings, pictures, and breeding and racing records, relating to Blanchard's book, The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred. There are also genealogical materials on the Amis and Dulany families and copies of Amis and Cameron family wills. Family letters of the Amis, Butterworth, and Blanchard families, include letters to and from the four Amis sisters after the death of their mother Sarah Greene Davis Amis in 1852, while they travelled in Europe and lived with their Butterworth relatives in New York and Morristown, N.J.; letters among the Amises and Butterworths after the latter moved, in 1864, to California, where Samuel Butterworth was managing a mine at Almaden; letters from Thomas Amis, who went to live with relatives in Madison Parish, La., in 1870; and correspondence to and from the Blanchards after their marriage when they travelled to Japan, 1906. Also of note are letters from Sarah Greene Davis Amis while she was living on a plantation near Columbus, Miss., in the 1830s and 1840s, to her grandomother in Warrenton, N.C., that document people enslaved by the Amis and Davis families. Additions to the collection include scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard between 1907 and 1954; the expansive memoir of Mary ("Mamie") Emily Amis Hooper, which mentions several enslaved or formerly enslaved people connected to the Amis family and describes enslaved life at Moorfield (Northampton County, N.C.), Little River (Lowndes County, Miss.), and Fortune's Fork (Madison Parish, La.), from the perspective of a white woman; miscellaneous other papers and volumes; and photographs chiefly depicting friends and family members and places visited.
The Lebey, Bland, and Courtenay families lived in Augusta and Savannah, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., and other locations.
Phil Blank is an artist, musician, and librarian. His work has been featured in art galleries local to the Chapel Hill, N.C., area, and in the Carrboro Citizen newspaper. Blank also plays accordion, tenor banjo, and tsimbl in the klezmer music group Gmish.
The Anderson Blanton Collection consists of 11 transcription discs, 1955-1956, of Oral Roberts' Broadcast, a Christian radio program produced by the evangelist, Oral Roberts, whose televised faith-healing ministry attracted millions of followers worldwide.
Clark Blomquist (also spelled Clarque or Clarq) of Carrboro, N.C., is a poster artist and musician in the bands the Kingsbury Manx and Waumiss.
The 1983 field recording on audio cassette tape contains a discussion about children's songs and rhymes with finger-play. Emily Mason Bloom, then a student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded the discussion with kindergartners and their teacher Debbie Glosson in a Chatham County, N.C., classroom. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection includes the will of James Blount, 1685, of Albemarle County, N.C.; bookplate of F. L. Blount; and a typescript history (2 copies) of the Blount family in North Carolina from the arrival of Sir James Blount in America, about 1662, to 1896.
Blue family members included Malcolm James Blue; his wife, Margaret Monroe Blue (d. 1934); and their seven children. The family lived in Efland, N.C., until Malcolm Blue's death in 1914. Lena Blue (b. 1880) moved to Raeford, N.C. Jane Cameron Blue (b. 1883) and Jean P. Blue (b. 1890) moved to Raleigh, the latter after serving as an army nurse in Brest, France, and Coblenz, Germany. John Wilmer Blue (1892-1934) joined the United States Army in 1917 and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. He was killed playing polo at Fort Benning, Ga, in 1934.
Victor Blue (1865-1928) of South Carolina was a United States naval officer from 1887-1919. He served in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia, and retired as a rear admiral. This collection contains naval assignment records, reports, letters, telegrams, notes, commissions, expense accounts and memoranda, and other records of Blue. Official naval assignment records constitute the bulk of the material. Personal papers include letters, invitations, calling cards, and photographs. The collection includes reports and reminiscences of an expedition into Cuba during the Spanish-American War; orders during the Boxer rebellion; and a manuscript article about Magdalena Bay, Baja California.
The recordings on audio cassette tape contain live radio shows and folk and traditional music concerts recorded between 1946 and 1977. Collected by an anonymous donor to the Southern Folklife Collection, the recordings feature bluegrass musicians and music groups including Buzz Busby, Flatt and Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys, Wilma Lee, Bill Monroe, Reno and Smiley, and the Stanley Brothers. Publications about bluegrass music from the donor were added to the Southern Folklife Collection's general holdings. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Gene Bluestein was a white English professor, musician, folklorist, and social activist. Influenced by the folk music revival, he taught himself to play banjo, performed as a musician, and provided educational programs on folklore and folk music in his classroom, on the stage, and on television. For most of his career, he taught English at California State University, Fresno, where he started and facilitated the Folk Artist in Residence Program. In 1974, while on sabbatical in France, he formed a folk music band with his four children called the Bluestein Family, which performed for over 20 years. The collection consists primarily of materials relating to the folklore and performing career of Gene Bluestein. Included are writings, a small amount of subject files, and field recordings made by Bluestein, Bluestein's educational programs on folk music, recordings of performances by Bluestein and the Bluestein Family, and recordings of other performers. The field recordings are mostly from Bluestein's doctoral research on Appalachian folk music and narrative and feature Cal Owens, Billy Edd Wheeler, Anna Barnett, Buell Kazee, and Fiddlin' Bill Jones, as well as Moses Asch, the founder of Folkways Records. The educational programs on American folk music include lectures, performances, interviews, and television programs. Recordings of the Bluestein Family include solo recordings by family members and in other groups. There are also recordings of a number of other folk musicians in performance, including Mike Seeger's Traveling Folk Festival, featuring Tommy Jarrell, Blanton Owen, Mike Seeger, Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, and Marc Savoy, and participants in the Folk Artist in Residence Program that Bluestein started at California State University, Fresno, including the Balfa Brothers, Bessie Jones, Kenny Hall, Richard Hagopian, Lydia Mendoza, and Jean Ritchie. Other items include recordings of Pete Seeger in concert, 1956 and 1957, and a 1969 benefit concert for playwright and social activist Marvin X (also known as Marvin Jackmon and El Muhajir) by the Fresno Folksong and Poetry Quartet (Gene Bluestein, Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and Peter Everwine).
William LeGette Blythe (1900-1993), native of Huntersville, N.C., was the author of several Biblical novels, award-winning biographies of prominent North Carolinians, and symphonic (outdoor) dramas based on the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Blythe graduated in 1921 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the original Carolina Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. He died in Huntersville in 1993.
William B. Blythe (1928-2000), an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, was a professor and Chief of Nephrology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas Frederick Boatwright was a lieutenant in the 44th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. Boatwright was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in May 1864.
William Haywood Bobbitt was a lawyer who served as resident judge of the 14th judicial district of North Carolina between 1938 and 1954. In 1954, Bobbitt was appointed associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 1969, he was promoted to chief justice of the Court. He retired in 1974.
Willis P. Bocock was a plantation owner of Marengo County, Alabama.
The collection of historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Herbert L. Bodman, Jr. (1924-2011) contains research files for his dissertation , which he completed at Princeton University in 1955. Bodman conducted research in Beirut, Lebanon, London, England, and Paris, France. Also included in the collection is an interview with a high-ranking member of Syria's Ba'ath Party. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Papers, bound volumes, and audio recordings related chiefly to white folklorist and professor of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, Ralph Steele Boggs (1901-1994), and Dominican folklorist, Edna Garrido de Boggs, careers in folklore. Included is correspondence with folklore scholars in the United States and in Latin America and scrapbook volumes, compiled by Ralph Steele Boggs that contain items documenting his professional life, his family, and post-retirement travel. Also included are manuscript volumes, apparently purchased by Boggs, containing eighteenth-century Spanish plays, one by Antonio Redondo; research materials created and compiled by Edna Garrido de Boggs on Dominican folk music and folklore; and audio recordings containing dubbed 1940s field recordings and commentary by Ralph Steele Boggs on the history of UNC Curriculum in Folklore, which he helped found in 1939.
Personal collection of white folklorist, healer, and herbalist Marina Bokelman, primarily consisting of fieldwork she and David Evans conducted from 1966 to 1968, when they were graduate students in the Folklore and Mythology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Materials include 35mm photographic negatives, annotated contact sheets and photographs, a cross-stitch sampler shown on the cover of the album The Blues in Memphis 1927-1939 (All the Uptown and Downhome Music of the Gateway to the Delta), Bokelman's 1968 dissertation, 'The Coon Can Gang': A Blues Ballad Tradition, and an unfinished manuscript of Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork. People documented in the collection include the musicians Rev. Rubin ("Rube") Lacy, Bubba Brown, Robert Pete Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Alan Wilson.
The Bill Bolick Collection contains audio recordings, hymnals, and song books compiled by the North Carolina-based country musician, Bill Bolick. Audio recordings consist mostly of recordings by the Blue Sky Boys, an influential American country music brother duo that was made up of Bill Bolick on mandolin and tenor vocals and Earl Bolick on guitar and lead vocals. Blue Sky Boys recordings found in the collection include radio programs, demos, home recordings, live recordings, test pressings, and other recordings. The collection also contains collected audio recordings of other folk and country music artists, as well as hymnals and radio program song books compiled by Bill Bolick and his family.
Robert Lewis Bolton, Baptist minister of New Orleans, La., and Millen, Ga. He married Lizzie Gary Griffith Compton (1882-1964), a nurse from Charlotte, N.C., in 1911. In 1935, Bolton and his family moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., where Lizzie Bolton became a travelling salesperson for The Farmer's Wife, a national magazine.
Born in Knoxville, Tenn., on 15 July 1937, photographer Robert Bolton discovered photography in his early teens. Bolton attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in art. Shortly after graduating from college, he became art director of Hogan, Rose & Co. Inc., an advertising agency in Knoxville, Tenn. Although he remained in this professional position for the rest of his life, Bolton continued to be an avid photographer until his death in 1988.
Members of the Bond family and Fentriss family include Louisa Fentriss Bond, her children, John M. Bond, T. C. Bond, and Sarah P. Bond Harlan, and her father, Frederick Fentriss, of Guilford County, N.C.
Richmond Pugh Bond (1899-1979) was a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection is chiefly photocopies of 17th-century and 18th-century British newspapers, journals, and other printed materials used by Bond in his research on American and British printing history. Also included are papers relating to Bond's service as a United States Naval Reserve aviation officer on active duty with the Pacific Fleet during World War II, including military papers and personal correspondence; and materials used by Bond as he prepared his book, Queen Anne's American Kings (1952), about Mohawk Indians in London.
Nine manuscript volumes of recollections written, 1916-1925, by Bondurant, daughter of Rev. James Morrison, Presbyterian minister, describing her childhood in Rockbridge County, Va., and her life as wife and mother in Buckingham County, Va., after her marriage in 1859. Also included is a 24-page manuscript by her husband, Alexander Joseph Bondurant (1836-1910) about his family background and childhood in Virginia, written in 1897, and five miscellaneous Papers, 1864-1919, including the by-laws of Buckingham County agricultural societies.
Jennette E. Bonebrake (fl. 1862-1866) was a resident of Warren County, Ind. The collection includes Civil War letters received by Bonebrake from her brother, Ben F. Bonebrake, and other federal soldiers, including John F. Leonard (1843-1924), serving with the 125th Illinois Regiment in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. Also included are letters from Martha E. Miller, a friend in Indiana, and photocopies of United States Army pension records of four veterans of the 125th Illinois.
Papers include a contract, 1764, between George Collins and Durham Leigh; a deed, 1795, from Duplin County, N.C.; and a fragment of a deed, undated.
John Henry William Bonitz was a German immigrant who came to Goldsboro, N.C., in 1859. He married Mary Stegner (1845-1921), also a German immigrant, in 1862, and moved to Wilmington, N.C., in 1887. He was proprietor, with his brother Julius, of the Goldsboro, N.C., Messenger and the Wilmington, N.C., Messenger newspapers, a hotel, and a farm.
Herbert Covington Bonner, of Washington, N.C., was a member of the United StatesHouse of Representatives from 1940 until his death in 1965. He was chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, 1955-1965, and chairman, 1951-1955, of the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee ("watchdog committee") of the Expenditures in the Executive Departments Committee, which made changes designed to eliminate waste in the handling of war surplus material and in military supply procurement. The papers consist of Bonner's office files, dating from November 1940, when he succeeded Lindsay C. Warren as representative from the First North Carolina District, which included, at one time or another, 14 counties of the northeastern corner of the state. In addition to the main chronological series, there are subject- and format-based series. The Rivers and Harbors series, 1940-1965, concerns federally-funded projects, such as channel and harbor improvements, erosion problems, dredging, etc., and the operation of the Dismal Swamp Canal. The Hoover Commission series, January-October 1950, concerns the proposed reorganization of the government that came out of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. The Bombing Ranges series, 1959-1965, concerns objections to having a weapons range or ranges in northeastern North Carolina. The Political series, 1959-1965, concerns the mechanics of Democratic Party organization and election campaigns. The Community Public Works Programs series, 1962-1965, concerns local public works projects that received federal funds. The National Seashore Park series, 1937-1965, concerns the establishment of a national park that spanned Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke islands, N.C. Also included are private bills, with related papers attached; scrapbooks, 1940-1965; speeches, 1940-1964; photographs, and photocopies of presidential memorabilia, some relating to the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
Macon Bonner (born 1836) of Washington, N.C., was a Confederate artillery officer who served in coastal North Carolina.
Open reel audio recording of white folk and blues singer and guitarist, Roy Book Binder, and African American blues singer and guitarist, Larry Johnson. Made in April of 1971, the recording features versions of blues songs performed by Roy Book Binder and Larry Johnson, including "Every Day of the Week", "Delia", "Shake It and Break It", and "Hesitation Blues", among others.
Elsie H. Booker (1923- ) of Durham County, N.C., is a white collector of antiques, artifacts, and papers of various families. Series 1 Markham, Leigh, and related families: Correspondence, business and legal papers, account books, genealogical information, pictures, and other materials of the Markham, Leigh, and other related families, chiefly of North Carolina. Markham family correspondence includes letters, 1873-1928, from William David Markham of Missouri, the Indian Territory, Texas, and New Mexico, containing information about crop and herd conditions, religion, business, and politics; and letters, 1880s-1900s, mostly from Wake County, N.C., and Bayboro, Ga., concerning Baptists, pregnancy, childbirth, education, deaths, and other matters. Also included are records relating to enslaved people; legal documents, 1867-1869, pertaining to the bankruptcy proceedings of Elizabeth C. Yancey of Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C.; post cards, 1907, picturing men hanged in Durham; scrapbooks of materials collected by Harold Cole Markham, while he was a high school student in Durham, N.C., and during his World War II tour of duty in the United States and Europe; photographs, collectors' cards, and prints, circa 1935-1945, relating to Adolf Hitler, the German military, and scenes in Europe during World War II; and ballads. Series 2 Durham and Lloyd families: Documents relating to the Lloyd and Durham families of Chapel Hill, N.C., include a teacher's application, 1900, for a position at a black public school, probably in Orange County, N.C.; an extensive series of love letters, 1941-1942, discussing dating, high school, and other topics of concern to teenagers; and a labor payroll schedule, 1947-1948, for state roadway construction work in Granville County, N.C. There are also twenty merchant's account books, 1884-1928, many of which probably belonged to W. A. Lloyd, and a diary, 1934-1938, documenting work on a roadway construction crew in piedmont and western North Carolina. Series 3. Abernathy, Blackwood, and other families: Items relating to the Abernathy, Blackwood, Moore, Peeler, Shepherd, Steele, and other unrelated families consist of private letters, business and legal materials, pictures, and other materials chiefly from North Carolina, with some items from Virginia and Pennsylvania. Correspondence covers such topics as family and social life, church meetings and religious revivals, farming and other work, elementary and higher education, military and home life during World War I, and the enjoyment of phonograph records and motion pictures. Also included are court documents, circa 1795, concerning a lawsuit involving the University of North Carolina; a Confederate parole record; and other items. Series 4. Pope, Hudson, and related families papers, 1884-1948: Chiefly private letters and scrapbooks of Elsie Hudson Booker and of other members of the Pope, Hudson, and related families of Durham, N.C. Of particular interest are 43 letters, 1914-1918, from Edna Pearl Pope to her future husband W. Curtis Hudson, discussing school, church, visiting, dating, movies, and other topics; more than 650 letters, 1938-1947, to Elsie Hudson from servicemen pen pals stationed in the European and Pacific theaters and stateside during World War II, including letters from Hudson's fiancee Marine Corps Pvt. Arnold Ellis of Durham, who was killed on Saipan Island in June 1944; and scrapbooks, 1939-1948, belonging to Elsie Hudson Booker, which contain letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, cards, souvenirs, and other miscellaneous items concerning her high school years, her undergraduate experience at the University of North Carolina, the death of her fiancee, and the birth of her son Curtis Booker.
The collection of white librarian and photographer Samuel Moyle Boone (1919-2008) contains black-and-white photographic negatives and prints and color sheet film transparencies. The images from the late 1940s to the 1960s depict the University of North Carolina campus; faculty and staff; authors Betty Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, and Kermit Hunter; campus sports including football; local events; and scenic views of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A significant subset of negatives documents the construction of the 1952 addition to UNC’s Louis Round Wilson Library.
The collection consists of a land grant, 28 June 1762, from the Earl of Granville to Daniel Booth of Orange County, N.C.
Contains materials relating to musician and entertainer Elvis Presley collected by Stephane Booth and David Booth, white faculty emeriti at Kent State University University and alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes photographs, sheet music, concert programs, concert and movie posters, movie lobby cards, and ephemera, including fan club pins, post cards, trading cards, and autographs. Also contains several items owned by Presley, including his music score for the song Jailhouse Rock from the televised '68 Comeback Special, and film prints of the 1957 feature film Jailhouse Rock.
Borden family of North Carolina and Lacy family of North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Family members worked in businesses, such as Southern Cotton Oil Co. and Borden Manufacturing Co. in Goldsboro, N.C., and as Presbyterian missionaries in China. Correspondence, scrapbooks, pictures, and other items of the Borden and Lacy families. Included is correspondence, chiefly 1880s-1940s, relating to family and Presbyterian Church matters. Also included are letters and other materials relating to Sallie McGavock Lacy's work, 1910- 1923, with the Southern Presbyterian Mission in China. There are also scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about world and family affairs, books of postcards from around the world, and genealogical materials about the Borden and Lacy families and also the Smith, Wissler, and Jones families to which they were related. The Addition of September 2018 includes letters from Captain William L. "Nick" Palmer, a UNC-Chapel Hill alum, to the family of Dana Lacy, written while serving in the Vietnam War during 1969-1970, and other materials related to Palmer.
The collection of the Borden, Broadhurst, and Taylor families of Wayne and Johnston Counties, N.C., contains correspondence, typed transcriptions of handwritten letters in the collection, and miscellaneous papers of the three related white families. The majority of correspondence dates from the first half of the twentieth century and includes letters sent from family members serving in the military during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Primary correspondents are Mabel Borden Broadhurst (1876-1969), her son Edwin Borden Broadhurst (1915-1965), who served in the United States Army Air Corps and later the Air Force, and her daughter Ellen Broadhurst Taylor (1913-2000), who assembled this collection and transcribed most of the correspondence. Mabel Borden Broadhurst's correspondence includes letters exchanged with members of the Weil family of Goldsboro, N.C., including Jewish American suffragist and social activist Gertrude Weil. Letters from Edwin Borden Broadhurst were written from the Citadel where he attended school for a year, from the United States Military Academy where he graduated in 1937, and from various locations where he was stationed with the Air Force including the Pacific theater during World War II. Ellen Broadhurst Taylor's correspondence includes letters from her son Jack Taylor, an officer in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Other papers pertain chiefly to Ellen Broadhurst Taylor's civic activities, garden society memberships, and interest in environmental protection, and to Edwin Borden Broadhurst's military career and tributes on the occasion of his death including U.S. Senator Sam Ervin's statement which was read into the Congressional record. Also included are documents related to Jack Taylor's military service and to the estates of Mabel Borden Broadhurst's father Edwin Borden (1831-1918) and her husband businessman Jack Johnson Broadhurst (1873-1939).
Edwin B. Borden was president of the Bank of New Hanover in Goldsboro, N.C., in the 1880s and 1890s and president of the Bank of Wayne in Goldsboro, N.C., in the early 1900s. He was married to Ella Lambert Borden, originally of Richmond, Va.
Letters from officers of southern colleges and universities answering an inquiry about the status of graduate education in the South, graduate study by blacks, and southerners educated in Europe before 1900. These letters were solicited as part of Borgognoni (also known as Mary Bynum Holmes Ricks) research for her doctoral thesis, A History of Graduate Work in the South.
MICROFILM ONLY. Records of several generations of the Anderson family, physicians and planters near Stateburg, S.C., chiefly their account books containing records of physicians' fees, planting, advances to freedmen, estates, and lumber. Also included are a diary, 1853-1857, of John Benjamin Anderson at Stateburg; Stateburg tavern accounts, 1834-1838; plantation records of Samuel Porcher Gaillard, 1863-1868; minutes of the Stateburg Democratic Club, 1890-1910; and a letterbook of Col. Thomas Childs (1796-1853) of Massachusetts as U.S. military governor of Puebla, Mexico, 1848.
Papers and audio recordings on the Brown Lung Association (BLA) compiled by white author and political science professor, Robert E. Botsch. The majority of the materials relate to Botsch's 1993 publication, Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association, which recounts the history of the BLA and the organizing efforts of textile workers in the Southeastern United States in the 1970s. Papers consist of newsletters, meeting agendas, pamphlets, and other materials produced by the BLA and related organizations, as well as Botsch's personal research files, including clippings, notes, and correspondence related to grassroots organizing efforts and the organizational, legal, and financial activities of the BLA. Topics include recruitment, fundraising, dust standards, and workers' compensation. Audio recordings consist of interviews conducted by Botsch with politicians and BLA organizers, as well as recordings from a 1982 symposium on "Cotton Dust Standards".
Albert Pike Bourland (1861-1927) was a professor at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., and executive of various education foundations. The collection includes miscellaneous papers of Bourland, including social letters from other educators and friends; papers concerning arrangements with Peabody College for leave to study in Leipzig, Germany, 1907-1909; a few items relating to Bourland's stay in Leipzig; personal financial papers; and other scattered items.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Franklin Boushelle, including a brief essay on the virtues of home; a Bible containing family records; and a poem commemorating the days of his youth at the Academy, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1845-1850.
Nathaniel Fleming Bowe (1810-1875) was a Richmond, Va., tobacco merchant.
The Southall, Bowen, Wheeler, Moore, and Peebles families resided in Lowndes County, Miss.; Northampton County, N.C.; Hertford County, N.C.; Denver, Colo.; Norfolk, Va.; Wayne County, Mich.; Ramsey County, Minn.; and Bulloch County, Ga. The collection contains the family correspondence and other papers of these families. Included are mostly brief and routine family letters, 1846-1860; affectionate letters during the Civil War between sisters in Columbus, Miss., and Hertford County, N.C., about family and community affairs and their teaching careers; letters from Confederate soldiers in many places, especially Wilmington, N.C., 1863-1864; and letters from Thomas L. Moore, officer on the C.S.S. Florida. Also included are letters written by family members about their lives and careers, including the work of William Cornelius (Neil) Bowen (died 1912), lawyer of Jackson, N.C., and Denver, Colo.; Episcopal Church affairs; community matters; and family activities and household management. Among the later papers are letters, 1890s, from students at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. There are also diaries of Sarah Clifton Southall of Columbus, Miss., 1859-1860; of Emily Bland Southall of Jackson, N.C., 1862, including a detailed description of the federal invasion of North Carolina; and of Julia M. Southall, 1862- 1876, written while she was teaching in Columbus, Miss., at Wesleyan Female College in Murfreesboro, N.C., and in West Point, N.Y., and including her reflections on teaching.
George W. Bowen, musical director and later drum major of the Drum Corps, 1st North Carolina Heavy Artillery (African Descent), United States Army, during the Civil War. The volume was printed as a diary for 1864, with three days per page. Bowen kept daily entries, 1 January-8 May, 24 June-8 August, and 11-23 September 1864. At the end, five entries from April and May 1863 appear. During most of this period, Bowen and his regiment were encamped in Washington, N.C., but, in late April 1864, they moved north towards Richmond, Va. Between 1871 and 1881, Bowen used the diary for miscellaneous notes and calculations. War-time entries describe Drum Corps practices; monitoring and fighting Confederates; the regiment's social life in Washington, N.C.; the move into Virginia; and a furlough to Pennsylvania. Included are lists of letters send and received, clothing and its cost, instruments for a band, and a financial account. The notes from later in his life include, among other things, several songs and recipes, measurements for shoes, and the amounts due from his boarders.
James G. Bowen (fl. 1847-1875) resided in Beaufort County, N.C., and acted as administrator of the estates of Thomas B. Latham and Zachariah Boyd.
Thomas Contee Bowie lived in Tensas Parish, La., between 1857 and 1877, during which time he kept bee hives and operated a cotton gin.
Erskine Boyce Bowles was president of the University of North Carolina System from October 3, 2005 to December 31, 2010. Records include correspondence, subject files, meeting files, and speeches and other materials relating to the administration of the University of North Carolina (System).
The Bowling Green State University Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives Collection of Publicity Materials consists of photographs and promotional material created or collected by commercial record companies to promote their Americana, country, rock and roll, pop, and blues artists. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
James Cloyd Bowman (1880-1961) was a native of Ohio, English professor in Iowa and Michigan, and an author of children's literature. The collection includes typescripts of The Adventures of Paul Bunyan and of eleven volumes of unpublished poems and fiction by Bowman.
Audio recordings, 1980, made by white folklorist and educator Paddy Bowman that contain an interview with playwright, professor, and humanitarian, Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981), as well as audio from an auction in Siler City, N.C. In the interview, Green discusses the civil rights movement and race relations in North Carolina and the author Zora Neale Hurston who audited one of Green's classes at the University of North Carolina in the late 1930s before UNC was desegregated. Green convened the class at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., so that Hurston, who was then a professor at the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, N.C., (today North Carolina Central University), could attend. The collection also includes a letter from Paddy Bowman to folklorist and UNC professor, Daniel W. Patterson, that contains details about the contents of the recordings found in the collection.
The Old Hickory Council of the Boy Scouts of America grew from a single troop organized at Fairview Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1911. The council operated Camp Raven Knob beginning in the 1950s. The collection consists of records, beginning in 1912, of the Old Hickory Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Included are letters, meeting minutes, reports, financial materials, clippings, training materials, membership lists, photographs, newsletters, pamphlets, and other items. Documentation is uneven; for some years, there are many informative letters, reports, and other materials, while other years are represented by only a few relatively minor items. Some items relate to scouting activities during World War I and World War II; many items document the planning and operation of camping sites, especially, beginning in the 1950s, Camp Raven Knob. Also included are photocopies of two 1964 documents relating to integration of the Council's troops; a videotape version of a 1955 film about Camp Raven Knob; and two audiotaped interviews, 1976 and 1982, with scout leaders; two photographs of African-American scouts associated with Mount Zion Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1944-1950s; and a CD of photographs entitled Wahissa and CRK Images Vol. 1, 1500+ Photos, 1970s-1990s.
William Henry Boyce of Bangor, Me., served in the United States army during the Civil War.
Boyd family of Warrenton, N.C., and the related Burwell, Massenburg, Norwood, Davis, and other families. Family members include William Henry Burwell (d. 1917); planter John Early Boyd (1812-1883) and his wife, Ann Bignall Jones Boyd (1816-1882); and their son, lawyer Henry Armistead Boyd (1855-1929) and his wife, Elizabeth Massenburg Norwood Boyd (1863-1944).
Bernard Henry Boyd (1910-1975), professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1975, was recognized as an inspiring teacher and interdenominational leader. He was particularly interested in Biblical archaeology and led summer archeological expeditions in Israel.
David French Boyd (1834-1899) was an officer in the Confederate Army. The collection is a typed transcription of a letter, 7 April 1864, from David French Boyd while a prisoner of war on a Union boat moored in Alexandria, La., to his friend General William T. Sherman concerning treatment Boyd received in New Orleans, La., and Boyd's views of the war and the South.
George W. Boyd (fl. 1832) was an agent of the New Potosi Company of New York, N.Y. The collection includes a letter from Boyd to his superior at the New Potosi Company, Richard Ray Ward, concerning gold properties he had examined in Georgia and the alleged efforts of two members of the firm in Georgia to deceive Boyd and defraud the company.
James Boyd (1888-1944) was an American author and journalist.
John Boyd was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on 18 February 1783, and died on 30 July 1858 at his plantation, Oak Grove. He owned a plantation on Bayou Lettsworth in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., which may or may not have been this Oak Grove. He may also have owned property near Donaldsonville, La. One of his daughters, Margaret Bruce, married Col. Henry T. Williams of Montgomery County, Md., and the Williams's daughter, Clara D., married Lt. Edward D. Seghers of the Confederate Army.
The collection documents the education and career of James Alexander Boyer (1909-1998), an African American educator, professor of English, dean of the College, and College president at St. Augustine's College of Raleigh, N.C., and his father, Charles Henry Boyer (1869-1942), who also was an African American educator and dean at St. Augustine's College. It contains scattered records and publications of St. Augustine's College, including histories and speeches, and materials relating to the work of James Alexander Boyer and the Educational Leadership and Human Relations Center to ameliorate the problems of desegregation of public education in North Carolina during the late 1960s. Other materials document James Alexander Boyer's intellectual interests; his service on the "slaveship" S.S. Naushon steamship and as a literacy remediation instructor in the U.S. Navy during World War II; and Boyer family history, including their friendship with Bessie and Sadie Delany. Audio tapes include discussions about prominent African American political figures and a 1997 conversation involving Boyer and others about the history of college athletics at St. Augustine's.
The Boykin family of Camden, S.C., included Alexander Hamilton Boykin (1815-1866), cotton planter, state legislator, and Confederate officer. The collection includes family, business, and military papers of Boykin family members, chiefly 1830s through 1862. Much of this material is correspondence and accounts with Reeder & DeSaussure, Charleston cotton factors, regarding cotton produced at the Plane Hill, the Boykin family plantation near Camden; bills of sale for land and slaves; legal papers; and correspondence among members of the Boykin and DeSaussure families, including Alexander Hamilton Boykin's wife, Sarah Jones DeSaussure Boykin (fl. 1835-1866) and his son, Alexander Hamilton Boykin, Jr. (1846-1923). There is also Civil War military material pertaining to Boykin's Rangers, which became Company A of the Second South Carolina Cavalry and which Boykin commanded in Virginia, 1861-1862. Items relating to Boykin family genealogy are also included.
Audio recordings of Demus Green (1913-1976), an African American storyteller living in Charleston, S.C., telling tales, anecdotes, stories about animals, and legends in the Gullah language. Demus Green was part of the Black community in the southern Lowcountry region of South Carolina, where he was known for his storytelling as well as for being an assistant leader at his local church. Demus Green was born in 1913 at the Combahee Plantation, Whitehall, S.C., a large plantation located on the Combahee River that was owned at the time by the white DuPont family. When Demus Green was around thirty years old, he moved to Charleston, S.C. to work for Hugh Lane (1914-2005), a third generation white banker. Alice D. Boyle, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, recorded Demus Green in Charleston, S.C., from 1971 to 1975. Boyle, who is from Isle of Palms, S.C., met Demus Green through her childhood friend, Kathy Lane, the daughter of Hugh Lane. The collection contains dubs of Alice D. Boyle's original recordings of Demus Green telling tales and stories, as well as a copy of Boyle's UNC term paper, titled "Uh Yeddy Um, but Uh Ent Shum...When They Gone, They Gone: The Stories of Demus Green", on Demus Green and his storytelling.
Francis A. Boyle (1838-1907) of Plymouth, N.C., was an officer in the 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment who was captured and sent to Point Lookout, Md., May 1864. He was subsequently transferred to Fort Delaware, Del., June 1864, where he became involved in the Christian Association of Confederate Prisoners, later called Confederate States Christian Association for the Relief of Prisoner.
The collection of television and film producer Steve Boyle (1955-) contains digital video recordings related to Boyle's documentary film "Return to Comboland" about North Carolina rock groups in the 1980s. Videos include footage of live rock music shows in North Carolina during the 1980s and interviews with musicians and additional performances recorded between 2007 and 2014. Live performances feature The dB's, Fabulous Knobs, The Spongetones, X-Teens, The Accelerators, Arrogance, and other power pop and jangle rock acts from that era. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Peter Braasch grew up in Durham, N.C. In 1994, he conducted fieldwork for his senior thesis at Yale University about the history of the commercial shrimping industry in coastal North Carolina. The collection includes audio tapes and research materials for Peter Braasch's senior thesis on the commercial shrimping industry on the North Carolina coast, Bug Hunting the Way to the New South: the History of Commercial Shrimping in North Carolina. The bulk of the collection is audio interviews conducted by Braasch with seventeen fishermen from Carteret County, N.C., and Brunswick County, N.C. Manuscript material includes logs of those interviews, a copy of Braasch's senior thesis, his research notes, unpublished reports of a sociological study of shrimp fishers sponsored by East Carolina University, and other support materials.
Charles William Bradbury was an insurance agent of New Orleans, La. Other members of the Bradbury family were of Manlius and Canandaigua, N.Y.; Cincinnati and Montgomery, Ohio; Madison, Ind.; and New Orleans, La. Besides Charles, family members represented include Jacob Bradbury (fl. 1817-1825); Cornelius S. Bradbury (fl. 1818-1848); Elizabth A. Bradbury (fl. 1817-1825); and Charles's wife, Sarah (fl. 1821-1844). Charles's mistress, Madaline Selima Edwards (fl. 1843-1848), is also represented.
The Braden-Hatchett Collection of Thomas Wolfe Materials was compiled over the years by William Hatchett and Eve Braden Hatchett at the Memphis University School in Memphis, Tenn. They developed a close relationship with Thomas Wolfe's brother Fred and corresponded with him frequently. One of the main goals of the Braden-Hatchett Collection was to collect a copy of every article written about Thomas Wolfe, an endeavor that was undertaken with the help of students at Memphis University School. In the early 1990s, the collection was donated to the University of North Carolina.
Malcolm Bradfield, son of John W. and Bessie Davidson Bradfield, was raised in Charlotte, N.C.
Henry Bradford (fl. 1804-1811) of Halifax County, N.C., was the son of John Bradford (d. 1786?) and presumably a Methodist minister.
Records, correspondence, and printed material related to the involvement of white environmentalist J. W. Bradley with Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM), an organization founded to support community issues arising from the increase in strip mining in Eastern Tennessee during the 1970s and 1980s. Materials in the collection include correspondence, legal documents, and printed material related to the issues of strip mining, truck weights, taxes, mining regulation, water pollution, and land equalization. Also included are copies of testimonies given by J. W. Bradley and Neil McBride to congressional committees; SOCM reports; and publications and correspondence from organizations including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Coal Creek Mining Manufacturing Company, and Beech Grove Mining Company.
Harriet Ellis Bradshaw was eight years old at the time of the events she describes.
The collection contains notes, articles, biographical sketches, a few letters, and miscellaneous other items collected by Annie Campbell Bradwell, relating to the 19th-century history of Bainbridge and Decatur counties, Ga.
Elias Brady of Warren County, Ind., enlisted as a musician in Company D, 86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Army of the Cumberland, in August 1862. He served until he died of smallpox in December 1863. His brother-in-law, Lieutenant Harris Gass, also served with the 86th. The collection consists of letters written home by Elias Brady and Harris Gass. The majority of the letters are from Elias Brady to his wife, Martha Gass Brady, sister of Harris Gass and daughter of John Gass. The letters, written from Kentucky, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Chattanooga, Tenn., discuss picket duty, camp life, troop movements, prisoner exchange, foraging, confiscating food, and news of casualties. Also included are letters from Harris Gass to John Gass at Rainsville, Ind., and copies of the Indiana state records of the military service of the two men.
The original owner of the collection was John Archibald Brady of Statesville, N.C.
Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a United States Army officer, Louisiana planter, Confederate Army general, and a civil engineer in Alabama and Texas following the Civil War. The collection includes military letters and telegrams from Bragg while he was serving with the United States Army in Missouri, 1852-1855, and as a Confederate general, 1862-1864, and a letter from him to his wife, 1853.
John Bragg was a Mobile, Ala., lawyer, planter, and politician. The collection includes papers consisting mostly of political and constituent correspondence, 1851-1853, while Bragg was a Democratic United States representative, concerning Mobile, Alabama, and national politics, especially political appointments. Also included are some letters during the same period from John's brothers, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), then a United States Army officer, and Thomas Bragg (1810-1872), governor and United States Senator of North Carolina, discussing political events in Washington, D.C., especially concerning the Army, and elections and politics in North Carolina. Also available are extensive papers relating to the management of John Bragg's cotton plantation in Lowndes County, Ala., 1866-1877.
Thomas Bragg was governor of North Carolina, 1855-1859; a United States senator from North Carolina, 1859-1861; and Attorney General of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1863.
William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse. He also taught at Atlanta University.
William G. Bramham (1875-1947) was a minor league baseball president who presided over the North Carolina State League from 1916 to 1917, the Piedmont League from its inception in 1920 until 1932, the South Atlantic League from 1924 to 1930, the Virginia League from 1925 to 1928, and the Eastern Carolina League from 1928 to 1929. Bramham was elected the third president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the umbrella organization for minor leagues, in 1933 and held this position until his retirement in 1946.
The 1966 field recordings on three open-reel audiotapes contain American Indian songs. The recordings were made by Jim Bramlett, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Field notes accompanying the recordings list the songs, including "Bush Dance Song," "Kingfisher Song," "Medicine Man Song," and "Morning Song of Wuakah." No other information, such as the locations where Bramlett recorded, the names of the performers, and the American Indian nations and tribes represented, is available. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Prominent members of the Branch family included John Branch (1782-1863), governor of North Carolina, U.S. representative and senator, secretary of the Navy, governor of the Florida Territory, and a planter in North Carolina and Florida; his son, William Henry Branch (1823-1910), cotton planter in Florida and merchant and farmer in Georgia; and his grandson, William Horton Branch (1852-1920), also a merchant and farmer in Georgia.
Joseph Branch (died 1864) was a lawyer of Tallahassee, Fla. The collection includes papers, chiefly from the 1840s, of Branch dealing with the legal and business affairs of clients, both individuals and firms, including the Southern Life Insurance Company.
Taylor Branch, journalist and historian, is best known for his research and writing on Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Audio recording of an interview and performance of ballads by Thelma Eckard and Lucy Belk, white ballad singers from Stony Point, Alexander County, N.C. Recordings include ballads by both women with particular attention paid to the ballads and events surrounding the 1916 flood in western North Carolina. Recorded by Charles W. Brandon, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, in one of the informants' homes in March 1972. While a student at UNC, Brandon took Daniel W. Patterson's "British and American Folksong" course and wrote a term paper on the ballad about the 1916 flood. The collection also contains supporting documentation, consisting of a collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff.
D. S. Brandon was a physician of Thomasville, Ga.
E. C. (Eugene Cunningham) Branson (1861-1933) was an educator, author, and editor, president of the State Normal School of Georgia, 1900-1912, head of its department of rural economics and sociology, 1912-1914, and founder and head of the rural social economics program at the University of North Carolina. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence and writings of E. C. Branson. The collection includes papers pertaining to research into all aspects of rural life in the South and in Europe, including an international correspondence and many writings; to his activities as professor at the University of North Carolina; and to varied other public and civic issues, in particular farm tenancy, illiteracy, and rural credit. He was actively involved in North Carolina movements concerning the reclamation of farm land, better port terminal facilities, and good roads. Few papers pertain to Branson's teaching career before 1914.
Emily Branson was the sister of Thomas Branson, Company F, 46th North Carolina Regiment.
Lanier Branson was a textile manufacturer of West Point, Ga.
Audio recording of interviews with some singing by Sarah Grant and Ostella Hamilton, both African American residents of Daufuskie Island, S.C., about life on Daufuskie Island, S.C. Sarah Grant (1888-1977) was a Gullah midwife and community leader on the island. At this time, little is known about Ostella Hamilton, whose name may be Estella Hamilton. Jack Brantley and Joe Evans, white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, recorded Sarah Grant and Ostella Hamilton at one of their homes on 11 March 1974. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of a collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff. According to the cover sheet, Jack Brantley and Joe Evans were students in Daniel W. Patterson's English 147 Folksong course who went to Daufuskie Island, S.C. for spring holiday and did some collecting as an experiment while there. Without having contacts or ties to the region, Jack Brantley and Joe Evans' fieldwork was more of an "experiment in collecting rather than a focused interview." The collection cover sheet states, "the informants [Sarah Grant and Ostella Hamilton], as I recall, were simply approached and cooperated to some degree, with questioning."
Walter Brashear (1776-1860) was a physician in Kentucky before 1822 when he moved to St. Mary Parish, La., where, after acquiring Belle Island Plantation and other landholdings in the area, he became a sugar planter and state legislator. The family of Effingham (d. 1850) and Ann Townsend Lawrence (fl. 1802-1830s) lived in Bayside, N.Y., until sons Robert (fl. 1820s-1850s), Samuel Townsend (d. 1839), Henry Effingham (1809-1876?), and Effingham, Jr. (1820?-1878) moved to New Orleans to take up merchandizing and sugar planting. Henry Effingham Lawrence married Frances Emily Brashear, daughter of Walter and Margaret Barr Brashear, in 1844.
The collection of author J. Lawrence Brasher (1947-) contains 39 field recordings on open-reel audiotape. Most of the recordings are untitled, some are labeled with the first names of individuals, and three are labeled "J.L.B. stories" and dated circa 1950, 1965, and 1967. "J.L.B." likely refers to Methodist minister and Brasher's ancestor, John Lakin Brasher (1868-1961), who is the subject of J. Lawrence Brasher's 1994 book The Sanctified South: John Lakin Brasher and the Holiness Movement, published in 1994. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Correspondence, sermons, lectures, lessons for Bible classes, notebooks, military records, drafts and offprints of articles, subject and research files, and photographs comprise the collection of Robert G. Bratcher, a white Southern Baptist minister and translator of the New Testament for the 1966 edition titled Good News for Modern Man. Correspondence is largely professional in nature and pertains to Bratcher's biblical scholarship and his affiliation with organizations including the American Bible Society from which he resigned in 1981 following a controversy with Christian fundamentalists. Military records reflect Bratcher's service in the United States Navy Reserve in the 1940s and 1950s. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, financial items, printed materials, and files on the New Testament edition titled Today's English Version. Of interest are materials related to the country of Brazil where Bratcher was born in 1920 to missionary parents from Kentucky. Materials include an original 1937 diary documenting a trip into Brazil's interior, a typed edition of his father Lewis Bratcher's 1925 journals from "An Exploratory Visit to the Interior of Brazil," and photographs of students and faculty at the Colegio Batista Brasileiro in Campos, Brazil during the 1920s.
Physician, state legislator, and Confederate Army officer, from Winnsboro, S.C.
Gustave Maurice Braune (1872-1930) was dean of engineering at the University of North Carolina, 1922-1930. The collection includes notes, mostly in German, on engineering and related sciences, 1891-1892, taken by Braune while he was a student at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Dresden, Germany.
Contains approximately 100 letters written by Alim Braxton to Mark Katz, dated August 2019 to April 2022. Braxton (artist name is Rrome Alone) is a Black writer, rapper, and death row inmate who has been incarcerated since 1993. Born Michael Jerome Braxton, he took the name "Alim" when he accepted Islam while in prison. Braxton has been collaborating Mark Katz, a white professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on an album,  Mercy on My Soul, and a book,  Rap and Redemption on Death Row.
Philip Northern Bray (1858-1938), of Currituck County, N.C., was a farmer and lumberman, and owner of a country store and barroom in Sligo, N.C.
Map of the French Broad River from Asheville, N.C., to Paint Rock, from Robert H. B. Brazier's survey in 1826. There is also a small piece containing the Tuckasegee River. Appears to be a copy of the survey for the western section of the Buncombe Turnpike, made by Brazier in 1826 at the expense of the Board for Internal Improvements. The maps are manuscript copies on glazed cloth.
In 1866, an unidentified southerner possibly from Mobile, Ala., traveled to Brazil to investigate emigrating there. He chronicled the events of his journey in a diary. He sailed from Baltimore, Md., stopping at the Caribbean port of Saint Thomas and at Pernambuco, Brazil, to refuel. He arrived in the Harbor of Rio and spent three months travelling in southeastern Brazil. After making a final stop in the city of Sao Paolo, he departed for the United States.
Microfilm of autobiography of John Hutchins (born 1774), son of Anthony Hutchins, an early Natchez, Miss., settler, with accounts of primitive agriculture, the Revolutionary War, frontier adventures, and trips down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and thence to New York or England. Also memoirs by Florence Bowmar Carson of daily life on Oasis Plantation in Coahoma County, Miss., 1892-1903, emphasizing the lives of blacks.
Daniel Breen Comic Collection includes of comic books and magazines, comic related posters, and books about the comic format and industry in the United States. The bulk of the collection consists of apporximately 25,000 comic books published or distributed in the United States between 1980 and 2000. There are no duplicates in the collection. Between 50,000 and 55,000 titles are included in the collection. Every major and many minor publishers are represented, with significant percentage being the output of "alternative" publishers. Every genre is included. In addition to the 25,000 regular format comic books, the collection also includes approximately 750 magazine-sized and off-sized books, approximately 200 comics-related posters published as for-sale items, and two boxes of books relating to comics and comics publishing.
Breese family of Charleston, S.C., and Asheville and Brevard, N.C. William Cebra Breese was cashier of the First National Bank of Charleston until his death in 1883. William Edmond Breese, son of Cornelia Edmond and William Cebra Breese, served in the Confederate Army's South Carolina Cadets and saw action at Kennesaw Mountain and other Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina battles. In 1883, he succeeded his father as cashier of the First National Bank of Charleston. In 1885, he moved to Asheville, N.C., for the health of his son, William Edmond Breese, Jr., and established the First National Bank of Asheville. When the bank failed in 1897, he was arrested and charged with conspiracy, embezzlement, abstraction, and misapplication. After six trials, he was acquitted of all charges. William Edmond Breese, Jr., son of Margaret Lowndes Perroneau and William Edmond Breese, graduated from the University of North Carolina and was active in politics. He served as a member of the North Carolina Senate and was mayor of Brevard, N.C. He married Rebekah Nicolson Woodbridge.
Adolph Bregman, mettalurgist with a specialization in non- ferreous metals, whose avocation was collecting and performing folk songs from all parts of the United States.
Addison Gorgas Brenizer (born 1839) of Charlotte, N.C., was a businessman and served in the Confederate army. His mother-in-law was Juliana Paisley Gilmer, wife of John Adams Gilmer of Greensboro, N.C., United States representative (American Party), 1857-1861, and later a Confederate congressman.
Mrs. Gilmer Brenizer (Nellie Waddell Brenizer) of Washington, D.C., worked for the Forestry Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a scientific illustrator. The collection includes genealogical materials relating to the Moore, Waddell, Yeamans, Swann, Brownrigg, Wright, Gilmer, Brenizer, and related families; personal and family correspondence, including letters from her father, L. R. Waddell of Smithfield, N.C.; photographs; scrapbooks; clippings; and materials dealing with the Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and various other ancestral societies. Also included is material relating to Mrs. Brenizer's work with the Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and a story written about the renovation of an 1810 house in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
The Brevard family included brothers Alexander (1755-1829) of Lincoln County, N.C., and Joseph (1766-1821), lawyer of Camden, S.C. The Brevards were related to the McDowell family of Charlotte, N.C. McDowell family members included Rebecca Brevard McDowell (1823-1904) and newspaper editor and businessman Franklin Brevard McDowell (1849-1928).
Ephraim Brevard (1744-1781) was a physician of Charlotte, N.C.
Theodorus Washington Brevard (died 1877) was a lawyer and politician of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida.
Thomas Brevard was a teacher of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Brewer and Paschal families of Chatham County, N.C., including Stephen Wiley Brewer (1835-1897), Confederate officer and county sheriff; his wife Mary Catharine Paschal Brewer (1846-1922); R. B. Paschal (1820-1870), who was elected Chatham County sheriff in 1854 and served six successive terms; and George Washington Paschal (1869-1956). There are also materials of the related Tilley family, including Bert Q. Tilley, motorcycle enthusiast and owner of Tilley's Cyclery, Raleigh, N.C., who was also a partner in Raleigh Flying Serice, operators of Raleigh Airport, Inc., and Poindexter Field.
Papers, 1800-1982, of the Kennedy, Bridgers, and Flowers family of Goldsboro and Raleigh, N.C., including correspondence, books, pamphlets, deeds, certificates, and promissory notes. Many of the 19th-century materials relate to Richard Lee Kennedy of Goldsboro, N.C.; James H. Everett, attorney, of Wayne County, N.C.; and D. H. (David Henderson) Bridgers, landowner, of Goldsboro, N.C.
Correspondence, writings, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and other materials of Ann Preston Bridgers (1891-1967), North Carolina actress and writer. Most of the collection consists of drafts and other materials relating to plays, novels, and short stories written by Bridgers. There is a large body of material relating to John C. Calhoun, apparently collected by Bridgers as background for her play, This Beautiful Structure. The remainder of the collection consists of letters from family members and friends, including letters from George Abbott, with whom Bridgers collaborated on the play Coquette, and letters from her brother- in-law, Jonathan Daniels; business correspondence and other material relating to a controversy over the rights to Coquette; and photographs.
John Luther Bridgers (1850-1932), lawyer and planter of Edgecombe County, N.C., was the son of John Luther Bridgers (1821-1884), lawyer, planter, and Confederate colonel. The collection includes letters, 1864, from John Luther Bridgers (1821-1884) to his son, John Luther Bridgers (1850-1932); letters 1870-1872, from friends and relatives to John Luther Bridgers (1850-1932); and letters, January-February 1861, from John Luther Bridgers (1821-1884) to W. E. Jones regarding tents for the Edgecombe Guards (later Company A, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America Army). The letters of 1864 from John Luther Brigers (1821-1884) to his son while the younger Bridgers was at school give advice about work and play and about relationships as well as news of home and family. The letters of 1870-1872 include some to John Luther Bridgers (1850-1932) from friends at the Virginia Military Institute, giving news of student activities and other matters. Also included are letters to Bridgers from his sister Routh in Kittrell, N.C., and in Richmond, Va., where she was in school, giving news of family and friends; letters from John L. Brigers (1821-1884) in Red Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., describing his life and health, advising his son, and inquiring about his affairs at home; and other letters from family and friends.
The collection contains genealogical materials and copies of related documents compiled 1920s-1960s by Lindsay M. (Mrs. Bernis) Brien of Dayton, Ohio, concerning the Bryan (Briand, Bryant) family of Ireland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and other places, especially the descendants of Morgan Bryan, who settled at the forks of the Yadkin River in North Carolina in 1748.
Willis Grandy Briggs (1875-1954) was a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer and postmaster, and served as Republican Party chair for Wake County, N.C.
D. A. Brigham (fl. 1885-1887) was a Presbyterian minister. The collection includes minutes of sessions, 1867-1887, and a register of communicants, baptisms, and funerals of the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation at Clarksville, Tenn., of which Reverend D. A. Brigham took charge in April 1885; and a catalog of Sunday school library books and their circulation, 1872-1873, probably of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Dyersburg, Tenn.
J. W. Brigham was a physician of Erin, Houston County, Tenn. The collection includes account books of Brigham, showing names of patients, dates of professional visits, and, in some entries, charges and prescriptions.
John Morgan Bright (1817-1911) was a lawyer, Confederate officer, and Democratic United States representative from Tennessee, of Fayetteville, Tenn. This collection contains letters, legal documents, speeches, newspaper clippings, pictures, and account books. The correspondence chiefly consists of letters received by Bright while he was in Congress (1871-1881). The letters concern politics, interests of constituents, and the business of the Committee on Claims of which he was chairman. Most letters relate to pensions and Civil War damages. Other papers include family correspondence, manuscript speeches, articles written for the Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer on Biblical topics, and account books of domestic expenses and of the law firms of Bright and Bright and Bright and Sons.
Herbert Hutchinson Brimley was a naturalist, author, and, for more than fifty years, director of the North Carolina State Museum in Raleigh.
Richard L. Brindley grew up on the family plantation in Wilmington, Del. Never married, he enlisted in the Union Army on 3 May 1861 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Deleware Infantry Regiment. On 14 May 1861, he was promoted to first lieutenant and was promoted to captain on 15 March 1862. Brindley was killed in action on 27 June 1862 while leading a charge during the Battle of Gaines's Mill in Virginia and was posthumously promoted to the rank of major.
The collection contains deeds and land transfer papers for land in Onslow County, N.C., owned in the 1860s and later by George Brinson (1815-1871) and his son John William Brinson (1848-1933). Also included are records copied from the Brinson family Bible.
The collection is three volumes of British commonplace books: one apparently belonging to Henry March, circa 1806, with poems written in two different hands, chiefly of Cowper and Southey, and a few poems clipped from newspapers; one from Bristol, circa 1807, with poems and bits of wisdom pasted on (80 pp.) and enclosures consisting of poems, memoranda, and a few letters; and one, circa 1859-1860, with meditations and comments on sermons and scripture. Enclosures to the 1807 volume include a letter of condolence, 24 April 1807, from J. P. Estlin(?) to Mrs. Milhouse in Bath; an undated letter from Mary Randolph to Susan Jacomb, containing personal news and inquiries; and a poetic tribute to the memory of Mrs. Bailey, the Amiable wife of James Baily Esq. of Bristol by B. H. D.
The collection consists of deeds and legal papers spanning from the reign of Elizabeth I to George III and including wills, marriage settlements, deeds, and leases, all on vellum.
The collection contains photostats, typed transcriptions, and microfilm copies of miscellaneous records from the British Public Record Office, arranged loosely into series as follows: records of cases in Chancery and the Star Chamber, 1600-circa 1630; port records of sailings, exports, imports, duties, etc., for forty British North American ports, 1768-1773; selected pages containing records, 1733-1770, relating to church silver supplied to North Carolina colonial governors Johnston, Dobbs, Tryon, and Martin; correspondence, 1758-1763, between North Carolina governor Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) and the successive commanders of British forces in North America, including James Abercrombie, John Campbell, fourth Earl of Loudoun, and Jeffery Amherst (bound typescripts); fragment of a government account book, undated (18th century, 10 pages); account of the Gross Produce of the Stamp Duties for the year ending August 1, 1713; correspondence and reports, 1663-1782, of the royal governors of Carolina and North Carolina with various departments of the British government, including land records and legislative journals (30 microfilm reels); disbursement records of the militia and loyalist refugees at Charleston, 1780-1782 (5 microfilm reels); and a list of the names of members of the Company of the Levant, circa 1606.
The collection contains financial and legal papers, and family correspondence (chiefly 1850-1889) of the Blodgett, Britton, and Moore families of Philadelphia, Pa., Northampton County, N.C., and New Orleans, La. Included are correspondence and legal items relating to land transactions in Philadelphia, the Blodgett Claim to land in central Washington, D.C., and various family estates; letters about life in New Orleans and rice production in Louisiana, 1845-1860; letters regarding community affairs in Philadelphia and in Warrenton, Va., 1871-1890, and J. Blodgett Britton's work as an industrial chemist in the late nineteenth century; and account books of Cornelius Godwin Cotten Moore (died 1888), physician of Northampton County.
Four ledgers from Britton's Store, a general store that operated near present-day Roxobel, N.C., in the early 19th century. The ledgers provide detailed accounts and records of the customers, transactions, and merchandise at Britton's Store, 1815-1819. Two of the ledgers are day books, listing detailed information about the store's daily transactions. The other two ledgers are account books, listing each customer's purchases over a four-year period. The account book for 1815-1816 contains an alphabetical listing of customers with their corresponding account numbers. It was reused by an unknown business concern to record accounts 1866-1872.
Molly Corbett Broad (1941- ) served as the president of the University of North Carolina System from 1997 to 2006. Records include correspondence, subject files, and other records related to the administration of the campuses of the University of North Carolina System. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Charles Wetmore Broadfoot was a Confederate officer, state legislator, 1870-1872, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and lawyer, of Fayetteville, N.C. He married Kate Huske, 1877.
Agnes (Sis) Cunningham, musician and magazine publisher of New York, N.Y., founded Broadside, a magazine devoted to topical songs, with her husband, Gordon Friesen, in the early 1960s. They recorded and published many of the leading folksingers of the folk revival. The collection contains materials from the Broadside offices. Sound recordings include open reel tapes and audio cassettes, many of which were used to transcribe topical folk songs for publication in Broadside. Additional recordings include demo tapes, live concert performances, and interviews, which were sent to the Broadside offices by friends, folk singers, and subscribers. The work of numerous performers is included (many of the most significant are listed in the online catalog terms below). Documentation materials include a log of the Broadside tapes, correspondence, and tape notes. The Broadside tape log is a list of the tapes in their original order. Correspondence and tape notes consist of materials included in the original tape boxes. Correspondence includes personal letters to Cunningham and Friesen from friends and contributors. Tape notes contain track listings of songs, dates of performances, and names of performers.
The Brock Family Papers, 1801-1904, pertain to the Brock Family of Jones County, N.C., who were white farmers who owned land and enslaved people until the Civil War. Most of the papers are related to Benjamin Brock Sr. (1829-1905). The collection consists of accounting records, including receipts for goods, medical, and other services, chiefly procured in New Bern, N.C.; estate settlements; deeds; indentures; and bills of sale of enslaved people. Correspondence and other records document Brock's household purchases, farming habits, and how he educated his children. Of note is a cipher book. Reconstruction era and later records indicate that formerly enslaved people worked as hired hands and sharecroppers on Brock's properties. The Kinsey, Franks, and Koonce families are also documented.
The collection of white photographer, poet, and painter Ignatius "Nace" Watsworth Brock (1866-1966) of New Bern and Asheville, N.C., contains glass plate negatives and positives and black-and-white photographic prints from circa 1889 to 1934. These images depict the towns of New Bern and Asheville and the surrounding areas and individuals including African Americans, members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Nace Brock, members of his family, photographer Bayard Wootten, S. Westray Battle, Cornelia S. Vanderbilt, and Edith D. Vanderbilt. Related materials include correspondence between Brock and Bayard Wootten, poetry written by Brock, and printed items. Like many photographers, Brock devised a classification system to manage the thousands of images he made, and often created titles to accompany photographic prints made for sale or display. Some of these classifications or titles contain offensive and racist language.
John Grammar Brodnax, physician and Confederate surgeon, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va. He practiced medicine in Petersburg, Va., and Rockingham County, N.C., where he also farmed. During the Civil War, Brodnax supervised several Confederate hospitals. The collection is chiefly family correspondence, 1827-1920, involving members of the Brodnax, Ruffin, Jones, Roulhac, Adams, Glenn, and related families of North Carolina and Virginia, and a few financial and legal items. Early items include several 1845 letters to Mary Brodnax, student at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., and one from North Carolina Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin in Raleigh to Robert Brodnax in Pittsylvania County, Va., about Mary's progress in school; and an 1849 letter to John Grammar Brodnax from relatives in Alabama about buying land there. Also included are letters, beginning in 1849, to John Grammar Brodnax from his uncle Thomas Withers, physician of Petersburg, Va., chiefly about family matters. Civil War era materials include letters and other items relating to Brodnax's army career, which he spent, for the most part, around Petersburg, Va. Included is a printed circular from the Confederate Surgeon General about administering smallpox vaccine. There are also several letters from Thomas Ruffin during this period that are chiefly about family affairs. Among the few items after 1865 is a 1908 letter from Nannie Roulhac about whether or not certain individuals had ever belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.
John Wilkes Brodnax was a physician and professor at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
Willis J. Brogden was an attorney in Durham, N.C., and associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Lila Markham Brogden was his wife.
The collection contains nostalgic recollections of plantation life just before the Civil War and an account of the war experiences and flight of the women and children of the Harris family from their Vicksburg, Miss., home.
Lawyer, and U.S. Representative, 1873-1875, from Mobile, Ala.
The collection is a typed genealogy of the English origins of the Brooke and Forester families from about 837 A.D., including a description of Bamborough Castle in Northumberland.
George Mercer Brooke (died 1851), native of Virginia, was an officer in the United States Army. The collection includes four letters from Colonel Brooke in Boston, Mass., May-July 1819, to Major Loring Austin, Cambridge, Mass., relating to Brooke's taking over Austin's army duties at Boston and arrangements for Austin's resignation due to ill health.
John Mercer Brooke was a United States and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute.
Iveson Lewis Brookes, teacher, Baptist minister, and planter, was born in Rockingham County, N.C. Brookes, a 1819 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., amassed, through marriage and purchase, considerable holdings of land and slaves in Jasper and Jones counties in Georgia and Edgefield County and other locations in South Carolina. He also worked in schools for much of his life (teacher at Greensboro Academy, Greensboro, N.C., 1819; rector of Eatonton Academy, Eatonton, Ga., 1820s; principal of Penfield Female Academy, Penfield, Ga., 1840s), employing overseers to manage his plantations while he taught and preached at various Baptist churches. He was also active in national and local Baptist affairs and was a staunch defender of slavery.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Papers consist of personal and professional papers of Fred Brooks, documenting his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the founding of the Computer Science Department. The collection includes grant proposals for the creation of the Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC) and for Brooks' work on computer graphics. Also included are a manuscript of Brooks' book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, speeches, and other writings, as well as audiovisual materials related to Brooks, including early video footage of microprocessors and audio recordings of talks and appearances by Brooks.
The collection consists of a detailed diary, 1 January-6 August 1862, of Captain Brooks, 46th Pennsylvania Regiment, while he was serving in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during General Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Brooks noted weather, his reading, camp life, plans and speculations, marches and movements, drills and inspections, news of Jackson's movements, his own paperwork, characteristics of areas he passed through, and events among soldiers. A few accounts and memoranda are included.
Audio recordings and related materials mostly containing radio programs, 1958-1961 and undated sponsored by the Haywood, Calif., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Gilbert Brooks, an African American radio host and son of Buster Allen Brooks, who founded the Haywood chapter of the NAACP, hosts the majority of the radio programs, which are mostly concerned with the status of African Americans in the mid-20th century; civil rights, education, employment, and the history of the NAACP are among the topics discussed. Select recordings include interviews or commentary by C. L. Dellums, an African American labor activist who was part of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, as well as a speech by Franklin Williams, an African American lawyer and civil rights leader. Also included are several tapes containing recordings of NAACP meetings and other activities.
MICROFILM ONLY. Civil War letters from Captain Brooks, 20th North Carolina Regiment at camps in North Carolina and Virginia, to his family in Brunswick County, N.C., describing his battle experiences in Virginia, and his and other officers' controversies with their brigade commander, General Alfred Iverson, over promotions.
Preston S. Brooks was a United States representative from South Carolina, 1853-1857.
William H. Broughton mustered into the Union Army on 4 August 1862 and was later made captain of Company D, 16th Maine Infantry Regiment. He was captured at Weldon Railroad, Va., circa August 1864, and mustered out on 5 June 1865.
Diary of Catherine B. Broun, wife of Edwin Broun, describing events and conditions in the area near her home at Sunny Bank, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Va., during and after the Civil War. Mrs. Broun wrote detailed descriptions of life situated between the opposing armies, her dealing with soldiers from both sides, difficulties in obtaining supplies, family affairs, activities of Mosby's raiders, behavior of slaves and freedmen, her husband's imprisonment by the federal authorities, hardships suffered by her family and friends, and, after the war, the education of her children. Also included are copies of Broun family letters, 1861 (9 items), written from Confederate Army camps in Charleston, Va. [now W. Va.], and 1863 (3 items) from Washington, D.C., and Loudoun County.
John Peter Broun was a planter of Richland County, S.C., and Lowndes County, Ala. His wife was Abby Hinman Day Broun of New York, N.Y. Family correspondence of Broun, planter of Richland County, S.C., and Lowndes County, Ala., and of his wife, Abby Hinman Day Broun of New York, before and after the Civil War. Included are letters from Broun in New York to his children; letters from his granddaughter, Decca Coles Singleton (Mrs. Leroy) Halsey, on family history and recollections of her childhood; earlier correspondence on plantation life; and slave lists.
Nathaniel Clenroy Browder (10 February 1904-7 November 1984) was born in Hickory, N.C., the son of Caroline Elizabeth Deitz and Nathaniel Clenroy Browder. He received an A.B.Ed. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1930 and taught high school in North Carolina. He worked for the Federal Writers' Project in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1939-1940. He took a drafting course at North Carolina State College in 1940 and then worked for the State Highway Department. In 1943, he went to work for the Signal Corps in Arlington, Va., and stayed on with the National Security Agency until his retirement. Browder returned to North Carolina and wrote, edited, and published books relating to North Carolina history.
The Brower family included John Morehead Brower (1845-1913), Republican United States representative, and Thomas M. Brower (fl. 1876-1877).
Joseph Brown was born in Columbus County, NC, on 9 July 1863. In 1890, he became interested in agriculture, and was chiefly responsible for the development of the strawberry-growing industry in North Carolina. Brown was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in 1893 and served there until 1928. During his first term as senator, Brown met Minnie McIver; the couple was married on 9 June 1898. Joseph Brown died 26 June 1937. Minnie McIver, born 1 January 1874 in Moore County, NC, taught music at high schools in Henrietta and Whitehall, NC, until she married Joseph Brown. Minnie Brown was active in many organizations and clubs in Columbus County, NC, and as a result, she was appointed to the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare; she served in that position from 1925 to 1937. In 1925 she became a member of the consolidated University of North Carolina's Board of Trustees. Minnie Brown died on 21 January 1957.
The Brown Lung Association (BLA) Records consist chiefly records of the central office of the Brown Lung Association, as well as related organizations, including the Southern Institute for Occupational Health and the Brown Lung Legal Center. Records document the organizational, legal, and financial activities of these groups. Topics include special projects, fundraising, staffing, state legislation, workers' compensation, federal regulations, and research on brown lung disease. Also included are materials relating to byssinosis cases heard before the North Carolina Industrial Commission between 1977 and 1981. Frequent defendants in these cases are J. P. Stevens, Burlington Industries, Cone Mills, and Fieldcrest Mills. Also included are a set of volumes that provide information on the North Carolina Industrial Commission, the Asheboro and Greensboro BLA chapters, medical panels, North Carolina legislation, and the North Carolina Governor's Panel on Brown Lung; photographs of unidentified textile workers; and audiovisual materials related to BLA events and textile workers.
Alexander Haskell Brown was a colonel in the Confederate Army, and a provost marshal of Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War.
The collection includes a letter, 12 December 1767, from John Wesley (1703-1791), London, to Dear Madam, concerning four women about whom the addressee may have heard some untruths; an anonymous letter, 23[?] April 1827, to John Randolph (1773-1833) concerning his duel with Henry Clay; and biographical sketches and steel engravings of Wesley and Randolph.
Bedford Brown (1795 – 1870), was a white United States senator and state legislator from Caswell County, North Carolina; whose son, Livingston Brown, married Ann E. Clark. Papers include a letter, dated 12 May 1860, written by an enslaved individual to his Uncle Ned on a neighboring plantation and a bill of sale for Lucy, an enslaved woman. Also included are family letters dated 1836; political correspondence of Bedford Brown in 1860; and of Livingston Brown, 1866 – 1876; and Caswell County deeds and miscellaneous papers. 
Bryant Council Brown was a student of Professor Horace Williams at the University of North Carolina. He went on to positions as secretary and legal counsel to the U.S. Congress's Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and as counsel to the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, a private group of insurance companies. Correspondence, pictures, and other items of Bryant C. Brown. Correspondence deals with personal and social matters and includes a discussion of classes with Horace Williams and three letters from Williams. Other items include materials relating to Brown's work with the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, 1933-1957, and with the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, 1957-1964.
Campbell Brown was a Confederate Army officer. The collection includes negative photostats of Campbell Brown's reminiscences, written 1867-1870, of his service as a major in the Confederate Army, especially in Virginia, 1861-1863, and during the Gettysburg campaign. He was sometime on the staffs of generals J. E. Johnston and R. S. Ewell. The reminiscences include minute details and incidents of camp life and battles and information about and comments on the officers Brown associated with.
Collection consists of audio recordings, including interviews, live concert recordings, radio broadcasts, studio master tapes; photographs; sheet music; newspaper clippings; correspondence; and promotional materials relating to African American rhythm and blues musician Charles Brown (1922-1999). Audio recordings include audiocassettes of live concerts and radio interviews, 2" studio multi-track tapes of the Charles Brown Trio recorded at Russian Hill in San Francisco, Calif., and DAT tapes of live gigs. Some of the interviews were conducted by Danny Caron, a white man who was Brown's guitarist and musical director from 1987 to 1999. Video recordings include digital video tapes and VHS tapes of concerts, including the Belgium Rhythm 'n' Blues Festival.
The collection of Donald E. Brown of Boonsboro, Md., contains research files, artist name files, newspaper clippings, magazine and journal articles, printed and published materials, correspondence, photographs, discographies, and other materials related to Brown's interests in country music artists, particularly Hank Williams, Sr., (1923-1953) and Elton Britt (1913-1972). Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Diaries of Evelyn N. Brown, a nurse who worked in various cities in Missouri. Diaries date between 1984 and 2009. Entries contain information on her day-to-day life, including the weather, errands ran, friends met, and some reflection. Also included is Brown's funeral program.
The Frank Clyde Brown Collection consists of dubbed field recordings of ballads, banjo music, fiddle tunes, dance music, singing games, songs, and stories, recorded in various locations in North Carolina by folklorist, Duke University professor, and founding member of the North Carolina Folklore Society, Frank Clyde Brown. The audio recordings, 1936-1940 and undated, primarily feature Anglo American folk and old-time music from western North Carolina, including the counties of Avery, Buncombe, Caldwell, Cleveland, Iredell, Watauga, and Wilkes. The collection also contains corresponding documentation, including select tape logs created by SFC staff and a tape index created by Duke University graduate student, Charles Bond, in 1971.
Fred Taylor Brown, Jr., served as an Army captain and colonel in the North Carolina Air Guard/U.S. Air Force. He earned a master's degree in public health administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 and established the Brendle Brothers Scholarship for Veterans (named after Fred's uncles) with his wife, Laura Brown. The collection contains three photographs, three corresponding name plates, and information about the Brendle Brothers Scholarship. The photographs are military portraits of Clell, Paul, and Jim Brendle.
Three generations of a prominent family from Wilkes County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn. Persons represented include John Brown (1738-1812), immigrant from Ulster, early landowner in western North Carolina and in Tennessee; his son, Hamilton (1786-1870), planter, businessman, sheriff, and militia officer of Wilkes County; Hamilton's sons Hugh Thomas Brown (1835-1861) and Hamilton Allen Brown (1837-1917); and Gordon, Gwyn, Finley, Lenoir, and McDowell relatives, including James Byron Gordon (1822-1864), Confederate general.
J. Smith Brown (born 1835) of Yates County, N.Y., was an officer in the 1st United States Sharpshooters and the 126th New York Regiment. The collection includes a handwritten statement by Brown giving an autobiographical sketch and detailed narrative of his Civil War service to 1864 as an officer of the 1st United States Sharpshooters in Virginia, and a description of the service of his brother, Captain Morris Brown Junior (1842-1864) in the 126th New York Regiment.
Publications and presentations relating to UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty member Jane D. Brown's research on adolescent exposure to mass media portrayals of sex, violence, and drugs and alcohol; materials relating to her term, 1994-1997, as Chair of the Faculty Council at UNC-Chapel Hill; photographs, circa 1990s, of Jane D. Brown with members of the Faculty Council, students, and UNC-Chapel Hill administrators; annotated lectures and talks; and biographical materials.
John H. Brown of Marblehead, Mass., served in the 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
John Judson Brown (1865-1953) was the Georgia state commissioner of agriculture, 1917-1927. The collection includes papers of Brown and of his son, Walter J. Brown, relating chiefly to the duties and activities of John Judson Brown as commissioner of agriculture. Topics include state regulation of dairying; inspection and analysis of foodstuffs, cotton seed meal, oil, fertilizer, and peanuts; statistics on acreage of flax, tobacco, cotton, and peanuts; food production and crop reports; labor shortage; diversification; combatting the boll weevil; work of county agricultural agents; corn and canning clubs; cotton ginners' cooperative associations; use of fertilizer in the southern states; and the campaign for the economic development of middle Georgia, 1923. The collection also includes papers of Brown's predecessor, James D. Price, and papers pertaining to the election campaign of 1926 in which Brown was defeated by Eugene Talmadge.
John L. Brown (b. 1829) was a Charlotte, N.C., merchant and state legislator.
Microfilm of typescript. Native of Tennessee who migrated to Arkansas; lawyer, landowner, insurance company executive, and planter. The diary, which contains daily entries of various lengths, covers the period of September 1821-March 1822, with a summary for the remainder of 1822, and the period July 1852-July 1865. The 1821-1822 entries deal chiefly with Brown's residence in Louisville, Ky., and his study of law with John Rowan of that place. They tell of his trip from home in Tennessee to Louisville, his course of study, his daily activities, and his trip home by steamboat. The diary ends with a summary for the remainder of 1822, chiefly discussing his settlement in Memphis, Tenn., where he practiced law. Interspersed in the diary are copies of letters to friends and relatives telling of his activities in Louisville, and several compositions. The diary for 1852-1865 contains a record of Brown's daily activities connected with farming, legal business, payment and collection of debts, purchases of supplies for the family, and work with an insurance company in Camden, Ark. It gives a full account of occurrences in the family circle, including illnesses, marriages, births, deaths, schooling, and participation in community activities. Brown discussed the weather frequently and noted its effect on the crops and on the river, which was the chief means of communication with the markets where crops were sold and supplies purchased. Also, he recorded names of books he read, his views on religion, and his political views as a Whig and later a member of the American Party. He was strongly opposed to secession and the diary contains many criticisms of the civil and military policies of the Confederacy throughout the Civil War. The entries for 1861-1865 indicate that he continued his legal and business activities until June 1864, when he accepted a position as funding agent for the Treasurer of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army. Brown wrote much about monetary inflation, the difficulty of getting enough food and clothing, and the thefts and destruction by soldiers of both armies who were stationed in the vicinity of Camden. The last entries of the diary record the break-up of the Confederate armies in Arkansas, the arrival of Federal troops, and the beginning of Reconstruction.
The collection consists of a facsimile of a letter to Mrs. George Stevens, of Boston, Mass., from abolitionist John Brown, written while he was in prison in Chestertown, Va., anticipating his execution.
Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894) was the governor of Georgia between 1857 and 1865 and a United States senator from 1880 to 1891.
Larry Brown was born in 1951 in Oxford, Miss. He briefly attended the University of Mississippi, but did not graduate. Brown served in the United States Marine Corps, 1970-1972, then worked as a firefighter for the Oxford Fire Department, 1973-1990. While a firefighter, Brown began to write fiction. His first book was Facing the Music (1988), a collection of short stories, and his first novel was Dirty Work (1989). Other novels include Big Bad Love (1990), Joe: A Novel (1991), Father and Son (1996), and Fay (2000). He twice won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Brown died in Oxford in 2004.
The papers of African American coal miner Major Brown and his spouse Leona Brown are chiefly financial items reflecting their household expenses and income from the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s in Lynch, Ky., a United States Steel Corporation company town in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Bills, receipts, cashed checks, and account balances for utilities, department and specialty stores, medical care, and life insurance form the bulk of the collection. Other materials include employment and pension documents, property records including taxes paid on their home in Lynch, documents related to the Lynch Independent Public Schools, funeral programs and death notices, and vital records for the birth of one of their children, social insurance, and the 1920 census. The collection contains only two letters, both from former Lynch residents, one post card, and a few greeting cards.
Letters, bills, and receipts, 1791-1797, sent to Moses Brown, merchant of Newburyport, Mass., from various shipping firms and commission agents in Wilmington, N.C. Included are papers relating to the shipping and sale of sugar, molasses, beef, and other items, and to the arrival and departure of vessels, including frequent reference to the Brig Polly, which was apparently owned by Brown, and its captain, Sam Chandler.
A musician on banjo, piano, guitar, and fiddle since childhood, Paul Brown spent years collecting and documenting traditional music in southwestern Virginia and northwest North Carolina. He worked in journalism and radio, especially for National Public Radio where, from 2001 to 2003, he was executive producer for weekend programming. He also served in several capacities as producer of NPR's Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition.
Robert V. N. Brown (1933-2006) was born in Belle Harbor, N.Y., and grew up in the Bronx, N.Y. In 1958, Brown moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to study southern history at the University of North Carolina. In 1961, Brown began publishing the literary magazine Reflections from Chapel Hill. In 1963-1964, at the height of the local civil rights movement, Brown published The Chapel Hill Conscience, a newsletter of the Committee for Open Business. His role in the Chapel Hill civil rights movement is chronicled in John Ehle's book The Free Men (1965). In 1966, Brown, along with writer Leon Rooke, began publishing the alternative newspaper The North Carolina Anvil, which ran until 1983, when Brown retired from publishing. Brown also operated a job printing studio called Buffalo Printing during the 1970s and 1980s to support his other activities. He died on 5 February 2006 in Hillsborough, N.C.
Roy M. (Roy Melton) Brown held various administrative positions in North Carolina state public welfare agencies, 1921-1934, and was director of the Division of Public Welfare and Social Work (now the School of Social Work), University of North Carolina, 1936-1945.
Sara Martin Brown of Liberty County, Ga., was married to Roberts H. Brown, a lawyer who served as speaker of the Alabama House of State Representatives, 1951-1953. Sara Brown's mother was Corrie McDowell Martin, and her sister, Mary Louise Perkins, was an artist who died in a plane crash on 3 June 1962 at the end of a European tour sponsored by the Atlanta Art Association. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and other items, 1895-1979, relating to Sara Martin Brown and to members of the Martin, Perkins, and Brown families of Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. The largest concentration of correspondence is to and from Sara Martin in 1935 during her engagement to Roberts H. Brown. These letters document their daily lives, wedding plans, family affairs, and education. Scattered family correspondence includes letters discussing military life in World War II, business endeavors, education, health, social engagements, and travel; 1924 letters from Roberts H. Brown's family to him at Culver Military Academy; and 1962 postcards from Mary Louise Perkins describing her experiences on the Atlanta Art Association's European tour. Newspaper clippings include accounts of Mary Louise Perkins's death and the civic activities of other family members. There are also a few photographs of Sara Martin Brown and Roberts H. Brown.
Tarleton Brown was born in 1757 and moved with his family to South Carolina in 1769. During the Revolutionary War, Brown enlisted as a private; he was eventually promoted to captain. After the war, he was active in public service and politics. He later moved to Boiling Springs, S.C., where he built several mills. The collection consists of an undated 20-page typed transcription of a microfilm copy of the 1862 publication of Tarleton Brown's memoir of the Revolutionary War, which he wrote sometime before his death in 1845. Brown began by describing the South Carolina countryside before the Revolutionary War, when it was a frontier society and still being settled. The bulk of his memoir relates to his experiences in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1780, when he fought under such commanders as William Harden, Francis Marion, and Andrew Pickens. Brown discussed his participation in the First Siege of Savannah, the Battle of Monk's Corner, and the Siege of Augusta, as well as his work as an army scout in both South Carolina and Georgia. The memoir also describes the relationship between Tories and Whigs in South Carolina. Included is a brief synopsis of his life after the war.
Weldon A. Brown is a historian of Blacksburg, Va.
A native of Leeds, York County, England, Martin Browne worked in the early 1770s as a merchant's clerk in Leeds, and later became a haberdasher in London. Between 1778 and 1789, he immigrated to Virginia and opened a tavern in Frederick County outside Winchester, Va. Browne also farmed; speculated in the flour trade between the Shenandoah Valley and Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Va.; and traded in cloth. His wife Molly was a weaver and also helped run the tavern until its close around 1805.
The collection contains Craven County, N.C., deeds, receipts, and miscellany, 1738-1821, and a letter, 8 November 1873, from W. E. Roberts of New Bern, N.C., to Mary S. Shepard that were collected by Mary Catherine Boyd Browne.
Richard Horace Browne was born in Southampton County, Va., in 1830. He graduated from Jefferson College (later Washington and Jefferson College) in 1851. In 1853, he moved to New Orleans, La., to attend the University of Louisiana Law School. After graduating, he remained in New Orleans and practiced law, primarily in United States courts. In March 1862, he joined the Louisiana Guard Artillery (Confederate Guards Response Battalion) commanded by Major Franklin H. Clack. He later served in the Army of Tennessee. After the war, he returned to New Orleans and continued working as a lawyer.
Howard Browning was a resident of Littleton, N C., and owned a general merchandise and cotton merchant business. He was the executor for the will of S. L. Barrell and, subsequently, the guardian of J. M. Barrell.
The Brownrigg family of Wicklow County, Ireland; Chowan, Pasquotank, and Hertford counties, N.C.; and Mississippi included Richard Brownrigg (d. 1771) of Ireland; brothers John and Thomas Brownrigg; Thomas's wife, Ruth; their son, Gen. Richard Thomas Brownrigg (b. 1793); and their daughter, Elizabeth Brownrigg, who married the Hon. John L. Bailey.
George Wolfe Bruce of New York was the son of George Bruce, co-founder and co-owner of Bruce Type Foundry, New York, and the brother of David Wolfe Bruce, Matilda Bruce, and Catherine Bruce.
The collection contains three apparently unrelated letters, 1862-1865, from Confederate soldiers in federal prisons at Point Lookout, Md., Elmira, N.Y., and Fort Warren, Boston, Mass., to their friends in Alexandria, Va.; a provost marshal's pass, 1862; and a scrapbook, kept by a grandmother of Anne B. Bruin (otherwise unidentified), containing newspaper clippings about the Confederacy as well as poetry, religious articles, and some articles on historic Virginia and the South, mostly dating from the 1880s and 1890s.
Sarah Catherine Brumby Simpson (1840-1915), daughter of John Greening Brumby (fl. 1830-1871) and Catherine Sarah Remley Brumby (d. 1863) of Benton and Goodman, Miss., is the central figure in these papers. Sarah had at least five brothers: Arnoldus (1832-1892), Robert E. (1834-1864), John Greening (1838-1863?), James R. (b. 1846), and Thomas Micajah (b. 1852); and three sisters: Virginia Carolina (1836-1915), who married a Mr. Wellons; Mary E. or Mollie (1844-1907), who married Augustus Vaughan; and Emily (b. 1848). In 1858, Sarah married Richard Simpson (d. 1871) of Covington, La., and Goodman, Miss. A businessman, Simpson traveled frequently througout Louisiana and Texas. Together they had four children.
The collection includes miscellaneous items of Laura Margaret Cole (Mrs. James R.) Smith (b. 1806) of South Carolina; her daughter, Laura Smith Brumby (fl. 1866- 1885); and her son-in-law, James R. Brumby (b. 1846). Included are a diary, 1833-1834, of Laura Margaret Cole Smith, with entries discussing courting, death and dying, and the nullification crisis of 1832, and her reminiscences, written as epsitolary fiction, recounting her childhood and daily life. Also included is a diary, 1884-1885, of Laura Brumby, describing a wagon trip from Thomasville, Ga., to Clearwater and Tampa, Fla.; and reminiscences, written in 1929, of James R. Brumby, a native of Holmes and Yazoo counties, Miss., Confederate soldier who served with the 7th Georgia Cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia, and chair manufacturer of Marietta, Ga., in which he detailed family history, including his experiences during the Civil War and Brumby family activities in the furniture business.
Ann Eliza Brumby was the daughter of Richard Trapier Brumby (1804-1875), a geologist from South Carolina. She attended school at Tuskegee, Ala.
Jane H. Jackson was born in Patterson, N.J., in 1829. She married Burroughs P. Brunner on 23 August 1854, and the couple subsequently moved to Charleston, S.C. Brunner appears to have died after a brief illness in October 1862. The papers of Jane Jackson Brunner include several poems, genealogical records, and a letter, all apparently written by Brunner. Also included are a plan for her tombstone; several news clippings relating to marriages and deaths in the Brunner and Kingsland families; two photographs, one of a portrait of Jane Jackson Brunner and the other of Brunner's house in Charleston, S.C.; a certificate of marriage that appears to relate to Brunner's sister, Kate A. Jackson, and another relating to Brunner's father, Joseph Jackson; and an exchange of letters in 1993 between Carol Melton and Elizabeth Bennoitt about the details of Brunner's life.
Represented are members of the related Bryan, Leventhorpe, Davenport, and Avery families, including Edmund (1791-1874) and Ursilla (Hampton) Bryan of Rutherfordton, N.C.; their daughters, Ann Eliza (Bryan) Mills and Louise (Bryan) Leventhorpe; Louise's husband, Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1899), an English-born officer in the Confederate Army; and their descendants, including members of the Hampton family of Henry County, Tenn., and the Avery family of North Carolina.
Bryan and Minor families of Georgia and Virginia, descendants of Jonathan Bryan.
Bryan and related Blount, Donnell, Shepard, Spaight, and Washington families of New Bern, N.C., and vicinity. Prominent family members included John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870), congressman and lawyer of New Bern and Raleigh, N.C.; his brother, James West Bryan (1805-1864), lawyer of New Bern; James W. Bryan's son, James Augustus Washington Bryan (1839-1923), Confederate ordnance officer and bank and railroad president, of New Bern; and James A. Bryan's son, Charles Shepard Bryan (1865-1956), businessman of New York and Asheville, N.C.
The collection contains grants, deeds, indentures, and land surveys, 1767-1855, of Clement Bryan and Needham Bryan of Johnston County, N.C., bearing the signatures of Benjamin Williams, Richard Caswell, Alexander Martin, and others.
George W. Bryan (fl. 1860-1880) was a planter and lawyer of Henry County and Worth County, Ga. He was married to Cornelia Stokes Bryan.
The collection is a scrapbook of Mary Biddle Norcott Bryan, wife of Henry Ravenscroft Bryan (1835-1919), a New Bern, N.C., judge. Included are Mary Bryan's reminiscences (about 80 p.) of her family, her life before her marriage in 1860, her wedding trip to Alabama, her life in Raleigh, N.C., during the Civil War, and her life in New Bern, N.C., after the war. Also included are newspaper clippings about family members; letters, 1830s-1890s, between members of the Norcott, Biddle, and Bryan families; items pertaining to the legal and judicial career of Henry R. Bryan; and other items. Of particular interest are letters, 1853-1855, written by Henry R. Bryan while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; letters, 1857, from Henry R. Bryan in Paris to his sister and his brother, describing his visits to England and Switzerland; and letters from Mary B. N. Bryan to her mother, describing her wedding trip to the southwest, especially to Mobile, Ala.
Shepard Bryan was a lawyer and judge, of Atlanta, Ga., and graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1891. The papers are chiefly letters, 1909-1945, from William Watkins Davies (1868-1945), also a lawyer (in Georgia and later, Kentucky) and University of North Carolina graduate, to Shepard Bryan. Beginning in 1941 there are also carbon copies of Bryan's letters to Davies. The correspondence is concerned with reminiscences of the University of North Carolina, life in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Hillsborough, N.C., anecdotes from the past, and news and memories of friends; current affairs, including comments on national and international events, political figures and trends, opinions, analyses, and predictions; books being swapped and read and discussed; and personal news of family, health, gardens, birds, travel, including Davies's trip around the world in 1928-1929, and other trips. Included in the correspondence are letters dealing with Davies's efforts to get his manuscript, Southborough, published; plans for the 50th reunion of the Class of 1891 at Chapel Hill; and many letters written during World War II about the war's progress, armchair strategy, and predictions. In addition to the letters of Davies and Bryan, there are scattered letters of: Robert W. Bingham, Arthur Lucas, Josephus Daniels, John M. Morehead, and Armand L. DeRosset. One folder contains articles and speeches by Davies.
V. S. Bryan lived in Savannah, Ga.
William S. (William Shepard) Bryan (1827-1906), native of Raleigh, N.C., practiced law in Baltimore, Md.
Journalist in Charlotte, N.C., Missoula, Mont., and Washington, D.C.
The collection includes a letter from John Screven to his son, John Screven Junior, 1801; record of a slave sale, 1858; letter to Mrs. Franklin Buchanan from James C. Palmer mentioning Admiral Buchanan's defeat by Farragut, 1864; two letters from Henry N. Marmaduke of the United States Navy Department Library enclosing sketches of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and Captain Catesby Jones, 1913; and three newspaper clippings on Admiral Buchanan.
Prominent members of the Buchanan family of Warren and Lincoln counties, Tenn., and McClellan family of Limestone County, Ala., included Andrew Buchanan (fl. 1820-1865), planter and merchant; his son, Felix Grundy Buchanan (d. circa 1910), Confederate soldier; Thomas Joyce McClellan (fl. 1836-1880), planter, Whig politician, and member of the Alabama Secession Convention of 1861; Thomas's son, William C. McClellan (d. 1869), Confederate soldier; William's son, Thomas Nicholas McClellan (1853-1906), Alabama state senator, 1880-1884, attorney general, 1884-1889, associate justice of the Alabama supreme court, 1889-1898, and Alabama chief justice, 1898-1906; and William's daughters, Matilda McClellan (fl. 1859-1914) and Kate McClellan Buchanan (fl. 1859-1917).
Annabel Morris Buchanan, composer, author, folk music collector, and officer of the National Federation of Music Clubs.
Franklin Buchanan of Maryland was a United States Navy officer and later admiral in the Confederate States Navy.
The collection of white photographers Paul Buchanan (1910-1987) and Allen Lafayette “Fate” Buchanan (1868-1951) contains 37 black-and-white photographic prints made from original negatives loaned to the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archive. The images depict unidentified individuals from North Carolina counties Mitchell, Yancey, Avery, and McDowell where the Buchanans worked between the 1920s and 1930s. Their photography was not stylized, and images appear spontaneous. Some images include dogs and horses.
William R. Buchanan of Philadelphia, Pa., served with Company A of the 29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. During this time, his unit was posted in Atlanta, Ga., where he was company clerk, working on the books and muster rolls, and later marched across Georgia with General William T. Sherman into Savannah, Ga.
The collection includes scattered family correspondence of the Haskew, Henderson, and Buchanan families of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, chiefly during the 1850s, discussing family and social life. Most letters were written from Memphis, Tenn.
Irving A. Buck of Front Royal, Va., served in the Confederate Army.
The collection of North Carolina author, poet, and educator, Sally Buckner (1931-), contains correspondence, materials relating to Buckner's editorial work, writings, materials documenting teaching and other literary activities, and other items. Correspondence is primarily with writers--among them Betty Adcock, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ruth Moose, Sam Ragan, and Shelby Stephenson--but there are also letters from editors, educators, friends, and political figures. Editorial files relate to the anthologies Words and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry (1995) and Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina (1999). Also included are published and unpublished writings; teaching materials relating to creative writing courses for college, high school, and middle school students; materials documenting her work with the North Carolina Poetry Society, the International Poetry Festival, and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame; photographs of Buckner and her family; and other items.
Thomas B. Buell, a retired naval officer, is author of The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War (1997); Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980); and The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1974). The collection contains drafts of Buell's book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War; comments by Jim Abrahamson, Don Higginbotham, and Herman Wouk, and others on the book; research notes; and other items relating to the book. Also included is material relating to a two-act play, The Puritan and the Cavalier, by Buell, adapted in 1998 from The Warrior Generals.
The collection contains scattered miscellaneous papers, including a copy of a deed, 1753, to John and Naomi Lynn; a contract, 1833, between Thomas Barbee and the trustees of Unity Session School; a receipt, 1856; an obituary, 1909, of Johnston Murdock; articles relating to Lutheran churches in North Carolina; and two letters, 1943-1944, to Miss Bessie from Miriam B. Morgan of Raleigh, N.C., regarding genealogy.
Collection contains anthropological work of Terry Buffington (1947- ), a Black cultural anthropologist and social activist originally from West Point, Miss. Buffington's research focused on Black men from West Point, Miss., who came of age during the civil rights movement and were influenced by SNCC field organizers like Ralph Featherstone and Stokely Carmichael. In addition to tapes and transcripts of this work, the collection contains materials documenting life and work in Clay County, Miss., 1950s-1970s, materials from Buffington's late husband, John Buffington, and a scrapbook highlighting the Oxford-Afro Cultural Center, 1981-1983, with which Terry Buffington was heavily involved. Also included are photographs, printed materials, LPs, and a commemorative poster of a SNCC organizational chart.
Letters and papers are comprised of three parts: 1) papers relating to the Packwood and Harris families, which include genealogical records, a legal document relating to the division of William Packwood's estate in Connecticut, and two letters, 1864, from the Harris brothers, prisoners at Johnson's Island, to their wives; 2) papers relating to the Duffel, Seghers, and Steel families, including genealogical records, three issues, 1792-1793, of the Belgian Journal de la Societe des Amis de la Liberte et de L'Egalite, papers relating to the Duffel estate, and five Duffel family letters, 1814-1818, which speak of the burning of Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, family news, army recruitment, speculations on new commercial ventures made possible by the war's conclusion, and detailed accounts, 1818, of the deaths of Edward Duffel's wife and John West Leonard; and 3) papers, 1832-1843, relating to the Claiborne family of Mississippi and Louisiana, including family gossip, discussions relating to marriage plans, and children's letters to their grandmother.
Munson Monroe Buford was born in Union County, S.C. He was a Confederate soldier, enlisting in 1862 in Company K, 5th South Carolina Cavalry. He accompanied General Wade Hampton's chief of staff in delivering dispatches arranging for the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. After the war, Buford became a farmer, landowner, trial justice, and sheriff of Newberry County, S.C. In the 1870s, Buford participated in the activities of the Red Shirts, a Democratic Party movement. He was the only member of the Ku Klux Klan ever brought to trial from Newberry County, S.C., in the United States Court. This trial (1872) ended in a hung jury and a mistrial. He was a member of the United Confederate Veterans, the Masons, and the Knights of Pythias and advocated for pension increases and tax exemptions for Confederate veterans, including securing pensions for slaves who went to war with their masters.
Microfilm copy of record book with lists of births, marriages, and deaths, 1799- 1906, of Hardin, Bugg, and Hartridge family members and some related families, chiefly of Georgia.
Henry Buinicky was born in 1918 in Charleston, N.H. He enlisted in the United States Army on 3 September 1943 and was soon after stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., for artillery training. Following World War II, he married Priscilla Langdon in 1947. He died in 2002.
Live audio recording of Elbert Freeman (ca. 1910- ), African American fiddler from Georgia, and Nathaniel Ford (ca. 1910- ), African American guitarist from Georgia, performing blues and old-time music on fiddle and guitar. Recorded by John Buinson on 8 April 1967 in Monticello, Ga. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former UNC library staff that includes a tracklisting and recording notes. Little is known about John Buinson and their connection to the open reel audio recording found in the collection. A note on the supporting documentation reads "obtained from John Buinson, North Georgia College."
Zbigniew Bujak was born 29 November 1954, in Lopuszno, Poland. He was a labor organizer and Solidarity activist in the 1970s and 1980s. He contributed to and distributed the then illegal Solidarity publications and other underground literature and organized a variety of strikes and civil resistance actions. He was involved in the leadership of the Solidarity movement and participated in the Round Table Agreements alongside Lech Walesa, Adam Michnik and other opposition leaders. In 1986 he received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights. Bujak was twice elected to the Polish Parliament in the 1990s and served as chief of the Main Tariffs Office in the government of Jerzy Buzek from 1999 to 2001. In 2011 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. The Orange Revolution was a series of peaceful protests against government corruption that took place in Ukraine between November 2004 and January 2005 in response to a contested presidential election between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovich. The opposition accused the authorities of rigging the election in favor of Yanukovich as well as other corrupt practices. The result of the two-month long civil resistance campaign was the annulment of the original election results and a re-vote, in which Yushchenko emerged as the clear winner. The protests ended with Yushchenko's inauguration on 23 January 2005.
The collection contains Berkeley and Colleton County, S.C., deeds and grants, 1705-1748, primarily relating to William and Mary Bull, Burnaby Bull, John Bull, John Wamsley, Elizabeth Peartree, and Thomas Elliot. Included are plats, 1869, from Beaufort County, S.C.
Edward William Bullard was a chief petty officer at the Norfolk Navy Yard (now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard), Portsmouth, Va., and later a gunnery officer on various United States Navy ships during World War II. His wife, Clara Kale Bullard, lived in Belmont, N.C., during the War. The collection includes personal correspondence, 1942-1945, between Edgar William Bullard, on active duty with the United States Navy, first as a chief petty officer at the Norfolk Navy Yard and later as a gunnery officer on various ships during World War II, and Clara Kale Bullard at home in Belmont, N.C. More recent materials document the Bullards' post-war activities in North Carolina.
In part, microfilm. The majority of the collection is correspondence. Included are letters to Mildred Ann (Fry) Bullitt at Oxmoor Plantation, Louisville, Ky., from friends and relatives, and a few from Virginia, Missouri, Alabama, Ohio, New Mexico, and England. The letters relate principally to family and community news. Many of the Civil War-era letters are from Confederate prisoners of war. Other letters relate to Morgan's raid of July 1862 and efforts to get aid to Confederate prisoners. Most late 19th-century letters were written by Thomas Walker Bullitt to his wife while he travelled on business for his law firm. He wrote from New York, Canada, and London, among other places. Letters in the late 1890s and early 1900s are from James Bell Bullitt to his parents while he was a student at Washington and Lee University and in medical school at the University of Virginia. Letters for the period 1903-1920 are principally of James B. Bullitt and his family in Oxford, Miss., and Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was teaching in the medical schools. During World War I he was stationed at a military hospital in France and wrote of his daily life. Letters from the period 1920-1945 are from James B. Bullitt's sister, Agatha Bullitt Grabisch, from Berlin, Germany, where she was a journalist and teacher. She wrote about economic and political conditions as well as about visitors and family affairs. Volumes include three diaries, 1857-1864, of T. W. Bullitt during his time as a student at Centre College, Danville, Ky.; while studying law in Philadelphia; and during the Civil War. John Bell Bullitt's diary, 1928-1929, describes his travels in western Europe. Materials on microfilm are items from the genealogical files of William Marshall Bullitt (1873-1957). Families represented include the Bullitts, Christians, Logans, and Frys.
Prominent family members included William Bellinger Bulloch (1777-1852) of Georgia, mayor of Savannah, U.S. District Attorney, solicitor general of the state, collector of customs, state legislator, U.S. senator in 1813 (appointed), and founder and president of the State Bank of Georgia, 1816-1843; his daughter, Laura, who married Joseph Lorenzo Locke (d. 1864), an officer in the United States Army from 1828 to 1836 and a major in the Confederate Army and Chief Commissary of the state of Georgia; and Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch (b. 1852), a physician and genealogist, of Georgia and Washington, D.C.
James Dunwody Bulloch (1823-1901) was a United States Navy officer and later a Confederate naval agent. The collection includes letters, 11 July and 30 October 1849, from Bulloch to his friends Thomas Holdup Stevens (1819-1896) and Anna Maria Christie Stevens of Pennsylvania, discussing Bulloch's recent trip from Pennsylvania to his home at Roswell, Ga., United States Navy activities, and other matters.
The collection of the white Bullock and Evans families of Vance County, N.C., and Granville County, N.C., contain late nineteenth and early twentieth-century women's journals kept by Sarah Cobb Bullock, Lillian Bullock, and Mary E. Bullock; Lillian Bullock's 1917 photograph album with images of Watts School of Nursing in Durham, N.C., and the Sarah Elizabeth Hospital in Henderson, N.C.; an 1860s autograph book of Richard A. Bullock from his student days at the University of North Carolina shortly before the Civil War; day planners of David Pirie Evans related to the construction and maintenance of the Kerr Lake Recreation Area in North Carolina in the early 1950s; genealogical and family history information; and materials related to the University of North Carolina.
The collection documents the white Bullock, Hamilton, Coleman, Tarry, and Watkins families of Granville (now Vance) County, N.C., Mecklenburg County, Va., and Lowndes County, Miss., as well as people who were enslaved by them; Sally Fain, "a free woman of colour," and Claiborn Littlejohn, a free Black person of New Orleans, La. Bullock family material consists of correspondence; financial and legal papers, including receipts and wills that document enslaved people and how they were trafficked; genealogical information; printed material; manuscript volumes of general store accounts; and some diary entries for the Bullock family of Granville County, N.C., especially William Bullock (1776-1829) and his son John Bullock (1799-1866). Early twentieth-century letters are chiefly to Mary E. Bullock from family members in Henderson, Williamsboro, Montpelier, and Nutbush, N.C. Materials of members of the Hamilton and related families concern Charles Eaton Hamilton, a plantation owner of Granville County, N.C., and Lowndes County, Miss.; people enslaved by him; and the families of his wives, Jane Coleman (d. 1850) and Sally Tarry Watkins, both of Mecklenburg County, Va. Correspondence concerns the trafficking of enslaved people and cases of self-emancipation by enslaved people; family and neighborhood news; courtship, child raising and the role of women as wives and mothers; the management of the family's plantations, including references to Indigenous people harvesting cotton in Mississippi; crop and land sales; Episcopal Church matters; the Civil War; and descriptions of life in Mobile, Ala., after the Civil War. There are also a few financial and legal papers, including a list of enslaved people with name, age, and in some cases familial relationships and occupational information, and a record book detailing plantation expenses in Mississippi, as well as other miscellaneous financial and legal documents belonging to unknown individuals.
The collection contains letters to and from Jefferson Davis, including an 1856 invitation from A. T. Bledsoe to Jefferson Davis to an evening party; a typescript copy of a letter, June 1823, from Sam Davis to his son Jefferson concerning family and personal news; and typescript and photostatic copies of a letter from Jefferson Davis to Major Walker Taylor in 1889, denying the rumor that he had intended to capture or assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Also included are photostatic copies of other items, including a bill, 1854, from Oak Hill Cemetery for burial expenses for Jefferson Davis' son; a letter, 20 March 1862, from S. Mullens, secretary of the Navy, Confederate States of America, to Jefferson Davis regarding the battle of the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimac); a letter, 27 February 1865, from Mrs. M. E. Trotter and Miss E. P. Buel, to Jefferson Davis, offering their services, perhaps as spies, to the Confederacy; and a letter, 18 December 1878, from Jefferson Davis to C. E. Hooker responding to inquiries about former personal belongings. Additional items include a typescript copy of a letter, 3 September 1883, from Jefferson Davis to Hancock Taylor, General Abe Buford, and R. H. Taylor, declining an invitation to appear at the dedication of a monument to Zachary Taylor; and a printed reproduction of a portrait of Stonewall Jackson, with a photostatic copy of an explanation from the artist, J. R. Graham.
Alabama lawyer, legislator, and secessionist, whose father came south from Rhode Island.
The Frank W. Bullock Papers, 1982-2006, consist of legal documents and notes for civil and criminal cases Judge Bullock presided over in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and opinions he wrote when he sat by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Topics include free speech, antitrust, environment, class action lawsuits, product liability matters, aviation disasters, federal securities law litigation, discrimination in employment and education, patent and trademark disputes, civil rights, campaign finance, and attorney's fees, among others. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection includes diaries, scattered correspondence, and writings of a family of Methodist ministers and editors of church publications of North Carolina. Among other volumes are the diary, 1838-1844, and autobiography, 1842, of Sidney D. Bumpass (1808-1851), while a minister and editor at various places in North Carolina, and the diary, 1842-1854, of his wife, Frances Moore Webb Bumpass (1819-1898), editor and publisher of the "Weekly Message" of Greensboro, N.C., 1851-1871, and officer in the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. There is very little information about Frances's editing or missionary activities. Also among the volumes are the intermittent diary, 1874-1899, of Sidney and Frances's son, Robah Fidus Bumpass (1850-1933), who was a Methodist minister in the North Carolina Conference for 54 years, and a diary of Robah's 1906 trip to Europe and the Middle East. In addition, there are scattered letters, including one from 1847 about a service Sidney Bumpass led that was attended by Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker; poems by family members; and stories by Robah Fidus Bumpass. There are also four scrapbooks, chiefly containing 20th-century clippings on church and world affairs, and material collected by Paul F. Bumpass about racial violence in Tennessee in 1946 when he was the district attorney responsible for investigating and prosecuting the cases.
The Buncombe family, Goelet family, Rogers family, and Smith family lived in North Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, dating from the colonial period to the 20th century.
Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, married sisters Sarah and Adelaide Yates in 1843 and established homes and families in Wilkes County and later Surry County, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, bills, and receipts, including slave bills of sale, of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker relating to their North Carolina property, planting interests, family matters, and arrangements for exhibition tours. Also included are an account book, 1833-1839, showing income from public appearances and itinerary; clippings; photographs; articles about the twins by Worth B. Daniels and Jonathan Daniels and related material; and Joined at Birth, a 1998 videotape about the twins that was made by Advanced Medical Productions of Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Discovery Channel. The Addition of November 2011 is a ledger with entries presumably penned by Chang and Eng's business manager Charles Harris detailing the business-related and personal expenses of Chang and Eng during exhibition tours of Cuba, Europe, and the United States and for a period after they settled in North Carolina in 1839.
Christopher Wren Bunker served in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. He was captured 7 August 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio. The collection consists of seven letters, 1863-1864, from Christopher Wren Bunker serving in Tennessee and Virginia to his sister, and one letter, 12 October 1864, from Bunker in prison to his father, mother, brother, and sisters. The letters describe the weather and conditions in the army and give news of friends. The letter from prison discloses that Bunker had been captured and had been ill with smallpox at Camp Chase. The collection also contains an account book, 1880s, documenting personal and farm financial records of Christopher Wren Bunker.
Papers of white lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, congressman, and Democratic Party politician, Benjamin Hickman Bunn (1844-1907) include political correspondence, legal documents, financial materials, and some items related to the Bunn family of Nash County, N.C. Political correspondence chiefly concerns congressional elections and North Carolina Democratic Party conventions in the 1880s and 1890s and contains frequent references to the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance. Other political materials are speeches, petitions to the North Carolina General Assembly and to U.S. Representative Bunn who represented North Carolina's fourth congressional district. Slight family correspondence is primarily with Bunn's daughters. Legal documents include deeds, indentures, contracts, a will, and court documents, such as summons for relief, depositions, reports of referees, and criminal and civil case dockets. Of note are court documents for Hilliard v. Rowland which originated in Nash County, N.C., and was heard by the State Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1873. Financial materials are chiefly receipts and account balance sheets. Other items include an essay on "Bootlicking" (circa 1855) by Bunn's brother William, a University of North Carolina student, notebooks with remedies and pharmaceutical uses for various substances, certificates of membership to masonic temples, a wedding invitation, and a genealogical file compiled by descendants.
Maude Davis Bunn was born in 1888 in Yadkin County, N.C. She attended Meredith College in Raleigh, where she met lawyer J. Wilbur Bunn. They married on 17 September 1913 and had five children. Maude Davis Bunn was active in community and political affairs, traveled widely, and wrote a column based on her experiences for the Raleigh Times.
The Bunting Family resided in Wilmington, N.C.
The Brian Burch Collection consists of silent Super 8mm motion picture films of the 1973 Ole Time Fiddler’s & Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C. Shot by roots music fan, Brian Burch, the Super 8mm home movie footage primarily depicts festival attendees, leisure activities, and performances by old-time and bluegrass musicians. The collection also includes an edited digital version of the films made by Brian and Gillen Burch.
The collection of white student Lillian Alexander Burch contains black-and-white photographic prints and color photographic postcards from her 1930 study travel tour of the United States with the Extension Division of the University of North Carolina. Prints and postcards are mounted in an album with handwritten captions by Burch. The images depict popular tourist sites on the west coast of the United States, other tour participants, and camp scenes. Photographs taken at the Hal Roach Studio in California include images of comedic actors Oliver Hardy and Charley Chase. Other materials include loose photographs, pamphlets, ephemera, and a handwritten poem titled “Wyoming.”
Leonard M. Burford was a cotton planter of Lowndes County, Ala.
Burgess and Hunter was a Raleigh, N.C., firm of physicians and druggists. Albridgeton S. H. Burgess practiced medicine in Raleigh circa 1810-1822.
Emsley Burgess lived in Franklinville, Randolph County, N.C. His wife was Nancy Caviness. Burgess was buried in the Franklinville Methodist Cemetery. Tinsmith Thomas T. Hunt was born in Guilford County, N.C. He married Nancy Dougherty Stockton in 1822. The Hunts were Quakers, who had a large family and, by 1849, a small tract of land in Franklinville. The collection includes four items that relate to Emsley Burgess and his family and a diary, with entries 1845-1847, that was most likely written by Quaker tinsmith and farmer Thomas T. Hunt, while he and his family lived in Guilford County, N.C. The Emsley papers are two Randolph County, N.C., deeds of land, 24 December 1846 and 29 March 1849, to Burgess; a 25 April 1850 letter from J. A. Leach of Trinity College to William Burgess asking William to work for him in Thomasville during the summer; and a 27 May 1866 letter from B. C. Burgess in Westfield, Indiana, to his father, Emsley Burgess, about wages and job prospects in Indiana. The diary details farm and mechanical work, activities of family members, visits from neighbors, deaths, health, and attendance at Friends meetings in North Carolina. It ends just before the Hunts moved from Guilford County to Randolph County. Also included is a photocopy of Diary of a Tinsmith by L. W. Cates, which appeared in the Randolph County, N.C., Genealogical Journal (Fall 1996 and Spring 1997). The article argues for Thomas T. Hunt as author of the diary and provides a transcript of it.
Lucy D. Burgess taught English in schools in Gatesville, Gates County, N.C., and South Mills, Camden County, N.C., in the 1940s. She also wrote poetry, plays, and stories, and supplied newspapers with feature and local news articles. Her husband Fred Ross Burgess was principal of Gatesville High School, 1940-1941, and of South Mills High School, 1942- 1944. Their two sons were Fred Ross, Jr., and Colburn Randolph Burgess.
Joseph Benjamin Burgin (1835-1913) of Burke County, N.C., served in the Civil War in the 22nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company K, from 1861 until 1863, during which time he was promoted to Sergeant and then 2nd Lieutenant. After the Civil War, Burgin worked for the Western North Carolina Railroad and lived near Old Fort, N.C. Burgin married Margaret E. Burgin in 1859. They had four children.
The Peter Burgis Collection consists of an audio recording of a presentation given by sound recording collector and former chief Sound Archivist for the National Library of Australia, Peter Burgis. Burgis presented the paper, titled "John Edwards, A Salute to a Great Australian," at the Australasian Sound Recordings Association Conference, which was held at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in April 1991. On the recording Burgis discusses John Edwards (1932-1960) of Sydney, Australia, who was one of the first collectors of early American country music and a pioneering discographer of this music. An audiocassette recording of Burgis' presentation was sent to folklorist and former chair of the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Daniel W. Patterson, at the request of Irene Edwards by Australian sound recording collector, David L. Crisp. Also included in the collection is a letter from David L. Crisp that was mailed with the audiocassette when it was sent to Patterson by Crisp in 1992.
The Burgwyns, a white family of Northampton County, N.C., included such prominent family members as Henry King Burgwyn (1813-1877), planter, and his sons Henry King Burgwyn Jr. (1841-1863), a graduate of the University of North Carolina and a colonel in the 26th North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A.; William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn (1845-1913), who served in the 35th North Carolina Regiment, was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School, and a lawyer in Baltimore, Md., and Henderson, N.C., where he also ran a bank; John Alveston Burgwyn (1850-1898), planter, merchant, and government official of Northampton County; and Thomas Williams Mason Long, husband of Maria Greenough Burgwyn Long and a North Carolina state senator and physician who was active in the field of public health. The collection includes miscellaneous papers of the Burgwyn family of Northampton County, N.C. The bulk of the papers, other than the volumes, are those of William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn of Henderson, N.C., chiefly in the 1880s, and consist of deeds, family letters, and papers pertaining to Henderson Female College. Volumes include a plantation diary, 1885-1889, and account books, 1880-1907, of John Alveston Burgwyn, and a record of cotton pickers' wages, 1919. Other items include copies of six colonial family letters from Wilmington, N.C.; a plantation account book and letters to the overseer from Henry King Burgwyn in Europe in 1851; letters from and diaries of Henry King Burgwyn Jr., as a Confederate officer, and a few of his other papers; and Maria Greenough Burgwyn Long's records of the Episcopal women's auxiliary at Roanoke Rapids, N.C., 1915-1917. The Additions of 2005, 2006, and 2013 consist primarily of correspondence among various Burgwyn family members, including George Pollock Burgwyn, Anna Greenough Burgwyn, Margaret Ann Bynum Jordan Ridley, Thomas Ridley Burgwyn, Marian Greenough Burgwyn Long, and Frank Patterson Hunter Jr., 1850-1994, discussing family matters. There are also some Burgwyn family portraits, 1860s-1890s; papers concerning Thomas Williams Mason Long and his career in public health, 1908-1964; and photographs of Long's early twentieth-century mosquito eradication project in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn, lawyer, judge, and bank president, of Woodland, Northampton County, N.C. Among other activities, Burgwyn was president of the Farmers Bank of Woodland; superior court judge, 1937-1953; and member of the North Carolina legislature from 1917 through the mid- 1920s. He married Josephine Griffin of Woodland in 1911 and had four children: John Griffin; W. H. S. Jr.; Margaret E.; and Henry K.
Charles Dale Beers (1901-1976) was a protozoologist and professor of zoology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection contains Charles Dale Beers's lecture notes, illustrations, class schedules, and publications from his time at UNC and his time as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Also included are research files on Beers and his wife Alma Holland Beers compiled by UNC-CH Botany Librarian William R. Burk containing correspondence with Beers's relatives, photographs, clippings, and other materials.
William R. Burk, who is white, served as Botany Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1979 to 2009. Over the course of his career, he compiled these files on faculty in the departments of Botany and Zoology. He compiled the files intending to write a book on the contributions of faculty in the Department of Botany in the twentieth century. Instead, he wrote Putting Down Roots: Foundations of Botany at Carolina, 1792-1902 (BRIT Press, 2017), a history of the early teaching of botany at the University.
William R. Burk is the former head of the John N. Couch Biology Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His areas of research include the history of the Department of Botany at the University of North Carolina. Alma Holland Beers was the first woman research assistant in the Department of Botany at the University of North Carolina. From 1926 to 1944 she taught courses in general botany, classification and morphology of ferns, and the history of botany. Beers collaborated on two books with Department of Botany Chairman William Chambers Coker: The Boletaceae of North Carolina, 1943; and The Stipitate Hydnums of the Eastern United States, 1951.
Accounts kept by Burke of Rowan County, N.C., as guardian of Joseph D. Cowan, and, presumably, as a general merchant, including records of hiring slaves and selling tobacco.
Thomas Burke was a native of Ireland who emigrated first to Virginia where he practiced medicine, then to North Carolina (1771) where he was a lawyer. He served in the provincial congress; was a delegate to the Continental Congress; and was governor, 1781-1782.
William B. Burke (1864-1947) was a Methodist missionary in Shanghai, China. The collection includes letters to Burke and his wife Addie from his mother and his father, John William Burke, publisher and stationer of Macon, Ga. Topics discussed include the yellow fever epidemic in Florida, 1888; American politics and immigration legislation affecting the Chinese, 1890; and the business depression in the United States, 1891. Volumes are a handwritten sketch of the life of John William Burke, by George G. Smith, and two scrapbooks of a newspaper column, Life's Reflections.
Burlington Industries, Inc., founded by James Spencer Love (1896-1962), opened its first cotton manufacturing plant in 1924 in Burlington, N.C. The company found success throughout the 1900s, focusing on the development of diverse products, innovative technology, and a well-trained workforce. The company continued to grow until the 1990s, when significant financial losses led to its bankruptcy filing in 2001, and subsequent purchase in 2003 and merging with Cone Mills in 2004 into International Textile Group (ITG). The collection consists of the records of Burlington Industries, Inc., including office files of James Spencer Love in which he corresponded with management, other industry-related companies and organizations, and with politicians and other public figures about the textile business, organized labor, and international relations, particularly with Cuba; corporate history materials; accounting and operations records for various mills; public relations materials; photographic and audiovisual materials that depict employees, machinery, plants, products, and company events, including the Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament; product samples; and other related materials.
The Burnett family, farmers of Granville, N.C., included Atlas A. Burnett, (fl. 1842-1863); Zach Burnett, one time resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., (fl. 1842-1863); Ferrington Burnett, (fl. 1842); Martha Burnett, (fl. 1842); and Anna Burnett.
The collection consists of a typescript copy of an account of the life and Confederate service of Marcus LaFayette Burnett (b. 1845), describing his family history, his grandfather's emigration to Old Fort, N.C., in 1770; pioneer life; hunting; Revolutionary War battles in North Carolina and South Carolina; and Marcus LaFayette Burnett's Civil War experiences, including his service under Wade Hampton and descriptions of battles and camp life.
The John Henry Burnett Papers, 1914-2007, consist of scattered legal and political correspondence; a letter with family news from his wife, Ruth Deaton Burnett; handwritten religious writings; the Pender County Centennial commemorative book; and "Life Was Full: A Biographical Synopsis of John Henry Burnett and Ruth Deaton Burnett."
Microfilm of scrapbook with clippings and other materials relating to Civil War battles, Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the Burnett family of Kentucky. Also included are a few poems and reminiscences.
Memoir written by Edwina Burnley and Bertha Burnley Ricketts, describing their family and their childhood at Somerset plantation, near Hazlehurst in Copiah County, Miss. Their father, Edwin Burnley (b. 1798), moved to Mississippi from Virginia in 1832 and married Maria Louisa Baxter (1820-1907) of Persippany, N.J., in 1852. The memoir describes plantation life, including many details about activities, relatives, neighbors, and slaves.
The Burns family had members and relatives located in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Casey Burns was born in 1975 in Hendersonville, N.C. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1993 to 1998, receiving a degree in journalism. During these years, he began to be involved in the independent rock music scene in Chapel Hill as a poster artist and musician. In 2006, Burns relocated to Portland, Ore., where he continued to create poster art.
MICROFILM ONLY. Selections from scrapbooks compiled by Burroughs for his children, including letters, clippings, pictures, and other papers of and about the Burroughs family of Brunswick, Ga., and their Berrien, Hazelhurst, MacPherson, Johnston, and other relatives. Most items are of William Berrien Burroughs (1842-1917), including 19th-century family correspondence, letters he wrote while serving with the 7th Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War, and clippings of his historical articles. A copy of a letter, 1870, from Sidney Lanier, and of letters from Lanier's wife, Mary D. Lanier, are included.
The collection is a map of Columbus, Ga., during the Civil War, showing the location of major buildings, drawn from memory by George J. Burrus, 1928.
Alfred M. Burton was one of several sons of Robert and Agatha Burton of Granville County, N.C. He was licensed to practice law in North Carolina, 1807, and in Tennessee, 1808, and settled in Lincoln County, N.C., in the first decade of the 19th century. His seventh child, Sarah Virginia, married Robert Simonton Young of Cabarrus County, N.C., who was killed in the Civil War, leaving her with four children and property in North Carolina and in Milan County, Tex.
The collection contains 12 audio recordings made on open reel tapes in the late 1950s and early 1960s of old time, bluegrass, and gospel music. Performers include banjo builder Charles Burton (b. 1894) of Kentucky and "Roy - Jack and the Sandy River Boys." Several recordings are labeled "Singing School." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
H. G. (Hutchins Gordon) Burton was a United States representative (1819-1824) from and governor (1824-1827) of North Carolina.
Robert Burton, Revolutionary War officer, delegate to the Continental Congress, lawyer, and politician, owned a large plantation near Williamsboro in Granville County (now Vance County), N.C., as well as much land in what eventually became Tennessee.
Thomas W. Burton and his wife Nancy lived in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., from about 1850 to 1908.
The Burtwell family was chiefly in western Tennessee and Florence, Ala. The collection includes correspondence of members of the Burtwell family, chiefly discussing family news and travel to West Point, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.
Burwell family of Warren, Vance, and Granville counties, N.C., and Mecklenburg County, Va., and the Williams family of Warren County, N.C. Prominent Burwell family members were Armistead (d. 1819), Lewis (fl. 1792-1848), and Spotswood (1785-1855), all tobacco and cotton farmers in Mecklenburg County, Va.; Spotswood's children, William Armistead (1809-1887), tobacco and cotton farmer of North Carolina, Lewis D. (1813-1874), Blair (1815-1848), Armistead Ravenscroft (1820-1867), George Washington (1823-1873), Robert Randolph (1829-1892), and Mary Anne Spotswood (1825-1874), who married Dr. Otis Frederick Manson.; and William Armistead's son William Henry (1835-1917), also a tobacco and cotton farmer in North Carolina and Virginia. Personal, business, financial, and legal papers of the Burwell family, including items concerning growing and selling tobacco, cotton, and other crops; slave purchases, sales, and births; runaway slaves; plantation management by Lucy Crawley Burwell in the 1820s; gold-mining in Burke County, N.C.; horse breeding; civilian conditions during the Civil War and William Henry Burwell's purchase of a substitute to take his place in the Confederate army; taxes, farm, and household expenses; William Armistead Burwell's tenure as chairman of the Board of Superintendents of the Common Schools of Vance County, N.C.; estate settlements; the genealogy of the Burwell family; and records relating to the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church and to a black school in Vance County, N.C., in the 1880s. Also included is an album of photographs taken and developed by Fannie Brodie Burwell, a young woman in Wilson, N.C., before her marriage in 1907. Papers of the Williams family include letters regarding the establishment of local academies in North Carolina and letters from students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1810s and 1830s. There are also two letters from Patrick Henry (1736-1799) about selling beef and slaves.
Armistead Burwell (1839-1913) was a lawyer of Charlotte, N.C., state senator, and North Carolina supreme court judge.
Edmund Strudwick Burwell was one of twelve children of Robert Armistead and Anna (Robertson) Burwell, both Presbyterian educators. Edmund S. Burwell attended Mr. Ralph Grave's school in Granville, N.C., during the Civil War, while his father and four older brothers served in the Confederate Army. He attended Hampden-Sidney College, 1866-1867, and later became a businessman in Charlotte, N.C.
George W. Burwell was a physician, planter, and businessman of Mecklenburg County, Va. He had family and business connections to Henderson, Granville County, N.C., and other locations along the North Carolina-Virginia border, largely through his brothers H. H., Louis, William, and Armistead R., and the family of his wife Elizabeth Gayle Burwell, particulary her parents Thomas Gayle (d. 1855?) and Elizabeth Gayle (d. 1868?).
Isabelle Busbee resided in Raleigh, N.C., in the first decade of the 20th century. In May 1906, she and several companions traveled to Europe, sailing from New York on the SS Haverford. In the course of her travels, she visited England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In the last days of her journey, she visited Rome where she received an audience with the Pope on 19 August 1906. She returned to the United States aboard the RMS Carpathia, arriving in New York on 9 September 1906. The papers of Isabelle Busbee include a diary detailing her trip to Europe in the summer of 1906 and papers related to her travels. The diary contains details of daily excursions undertaken by Busbee and her traveling companions. Entries discuss the historic and cultural sites they visited in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Most diary entries relate to travel circumstances and accommodations. Related items include a restaurant receipt, an itinerary of the trip, and schedules for activities aboard the Haverford and the Carpathia.
Trent Busby (1921-1991), gynecologist and obstetrician of Salisbury, N.C., was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and of Johns Hopkins Medical School (1946). In 1953, he opened his practice in Salisbury. In 1963, he became chief of staff at Rowan Memorial Hospital, where he had also served as head of OB/GYN. He retired in 1990. The collection comprises medical records, 1950s-1990s, of Trent Busby's patients. Records provide information on specific illnesses and treatments and on women's health in general.
Bush & Lobdell of Wilmington, Del., was a firm that supplied heavy machinery, parts, and tools for gins, textile works, railroads, and agriculture. Principals in the firm were Charles Bush and George G. Lobdell. The collection includes letters to Bush & Lobdell written by agents in Mobile, Ala., New Orleans, La., and Macon and Savannah, Ga., concerning orders, finance, and politics; and by southern railroad companies requesting wheels and axles.
John Bush was an adjutant officer to North Carolina troops in the Revolutionary War.
The Bushyhead Family Collection consists of materials relating to the Cherokee language project created by Robert H. Bushyhead and Jean L. Bushyhead Blanton, of Cherokee, N.C. There are audiocassettes, videotapes, and handwritten and typed preschool through twelth grade curriculum materials; notes related to the development of the preschool Cherokee language curriculum in reservation child care facilities; unpublished Cherokee and English language dictionaries; supporting project documentation; biographical materials and clippings about Cherokee language preservation; and miscellaneous items.
The Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club held its first meeting on 12 May 1943. The club was affiliated with the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. and with the North Carolina State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. The collection contains the records of the Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club of North Carolina.
The collection contains papers of the Butler family of North Carolina, including a promissory note, a receipt, and a land survey, 1768-1788, relating to William Butler, Regulator leader; papers of William Butler's son and grandson, 1823-1834, regarding a disputed inheritance; and a volume, 1882-1885, kept by an unidentified school teacher (possibly a member of the Butler family) in Yadkin County, N.C., containing pupils' names and daily grades.
MICROFILM ONLY. Scattered items from the Butler family, including The Butler Family of South Carolina, 1610-1895, a memoir written in 1906 by Mrs. H. B. McBee of Greenville, S.C., describing Brooks, McBee, Thompson, and other family connections; The Young Heroes of Shiloh, an undated pamphlet published by the South Carolina Colportage Board, Charleston, S.C.; God Save Carolina and Victory of Manassas, two handwritten war songs; and three letters from women, 1865-1868, reflecting feelings after the war, comments on current reading, and personal matters.
Algernon Lee Butler, attorney in Sampson County, N.C., 1931-1959; active member of the Republican Party; and U.S. District Judge for Eastern North Carolina, 1959-1978.
James W. Tufts was a New England manufacturer and the founder and owner of a resort at Pinehurst, N.C. His son, Leonard W. Tufts, followed his father as owner of Pinehurst.
Charles S. Butler (1875-1944), a native of Tennessee and an admiral in the United States Navy, entered the Medical Corps of the Navy in 1900.
The collection of Texas jurist Edward F. Butler (1937-) contains digital copies of his self-published travel writings. Destinations described in (2004) and (2003) include Europe, Russia, Belarus, Oman, United Arab Emirates, India, Nepal, Singapore, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Thailand. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Florence Faison Butler was an active member of patriotic genealogical organizations and the wife of United States Senator and Populist leader Marion Butler.
George Edwin Butler was co-superintendent of public instruction of Sampson County, N.C., and lawyer of Clinton, N.C.; trustee of the University of North Carolina; director of the Bank of Clinton; member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1905; member of the Republican State Executive Committee; delegate to several Republican national conventions; and unsuccessful candidate for several offices, including state attorney general, U.S. Senator, Superior Court judge, and Supreme Court Judge.
Major George P. Butler was principal and commandant at Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga. His wife was Livy Carlton Butler, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. H. H. Carlton of Athens, Ga.
MICROFILM OF TYPESCRIPT. Correspondence of Lucy Wood Butler of Charlottesville, Va., and Waddy B. Butler, who met while Waddy Butler was a student at the University of Virginia. They were married on 3 July 1861. The majority of Waddy's ten letters to Lucy were written from Fernandina, Fla., where he was attempting to make a career as a lawyer and also dabbling in state politics. He was an officer in a local militia group and entered the Confederate service at the outbreak of the war. Lucy Wood's diary begins in the spring of 1861 and continues with few significant interruptions until the spring of 1863. She speaks of her work sewing uniforms and treating ill soldiers, reports of skirmishes and battles (1st Manassas, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh among them), her struggle with typhoid fever, the deaths of friends and relatives, her reflections on the nobility of the Southern cause and a woman's role in it, and her growing sadness with the course of the war.
Marion Butler of Sampson County, N.C., was president of the North Carolina and National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union; state and national Populist Party leader; member of the North Carolina Senate; United States senator, 1895-1901; and Republican Party leader after 1904. He owned and edited a newspaper, the Caucasian, located at various times in Clinton, Goldsboro, and Raleigh, N.C. He practiced law in Washington, D.C., 1901-1938.
The Regulator movement in colonial North Carolina was a rebellion initiated by residents of the colony's inland region who believed that royal government officials were charging them excessive fees, falsifying records, and engaging in other mistreatments.
Microfilm of two pamphlets on rice growing in Louisiana, one by William Butler and another by an unknown author.
G. K. Butterfield (1947-) is a Black civil rights activist, U.S. Army veteran, lawyer, judge, and U.S. representative from Wilson, N.C. The collection consists chiefly of photographs, speeches, printed materials, newspapers, political ephemera, audiovisual materials, and artifacts that document G. K. Butterfield's personal and professional life; Black history, including judicial, political, and civic leaders in Wilson, N.C., the state of North Carolina, and in the United States; and politics and political figures in Washington, D.C., while Butterfield served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Topics include Butterfield's education at Charles H. Darden High School and North Carolina Central University; his career in law (at Fitch, Butterfield, and Wynn), in the judiciary (North Carolina Superior Court and North Carolina Supreme Court), and in politics (representing the 1st district of North Carolina in U.S. Congress); his lifelong social justice activism, especially for voting rights; awards and recognition, including congratulatory and thank you correspondence from presidents, Congressional colleagues, and others; local and national news coverage of current events, including September 11th, and national politics, including elections and impeachment; Butterfield's perspective on the Obama presidency; celebratory events, such as swearing-in ceremonies and anniversary observances of historic people and events, including the death of John Lewis and the Selma March; and G. K. Butterfield Sr.'s affiliation with the Old North State Dental Society. There are also files of ephemera, photographs, and artifacts curated by Butterfield that relate to his personal and professional life, work, and interests.
Joseph Button was Virginia Commisioner of Insurance, 1925-1929. He also served on the Virginia Military Institute's Board of Visitors and was a member of the Noble Order of the Blue Goose and of the Shriners. He became president of Union Life Insurance Company, Richmond, Va., in 1929.
Ralph Potts Buxton was a Fayetteville, N.C., lawyer, judge, Republican Party leader, member of the state convention of 1875, and candidate for governor, 1880.
School notebook, circa 1867, of Jess Bynum, containing translations of Homer, later used as a scrapbook of clippings about the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and other topics.
John Bowen Bynum was a lawyer of Northampton County, N.C.; member of University of North Carolina class of 1848; and member of N.C. state legislature, 1853.
William Preston Bynum (1820-1909), Republican, lawyer, prosecutor, and associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The collection includes papers of William Preston Bynum (1820-1909) and members of the Bynum family. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, and financial papers relating to legal matters, 1850s through 1910s. Civil War and political correspondence is slight. Papers chiefly concern land and estate settlements, mortgages, paying of notes, sale of land in Virginia and North Carolina, the business of the High Shoals Manufacturing Company, the Adams Mining and Reduction Company, and the King's Mountain Gold Mine. Also in the collection are letters, essays, and financial papers of Bynum's brother, John Gray Bynum (d. 1857), and John Gray Bynum's record book, April-June 1838, kept when he was serving as a colonel commanding North Carolina volunteers assisting in Cherokee removal in western North Carolina. Papers of the family of Moses Ashley Curtis include journals of Armand DeRosset Curtis (1839-1856) as a boy traveling with his father from North Carolina to Massachusetts in 1851 and to Charleston in an unknown year, as well as an account book and an unidentified volume that appear to have belonged to Moses Ashley Curtis. The addition of June 2002 includes additional material relating to legal matters, to the High Shoals Manufacturing Company, and to personal matters, as well as a few papers of Curtis A. Bynum. The addition of July 2012 includes letters to Bynum written by Archibald Henderson and W. M. Bond, 1913-1915. The addition of August 2022 includes a handwritten ledger,1849-1861, of John Gray Bynum, William Preston Bynum's brother; a loose sheet of paper with sums and amounts calculated; a loose copy of a 1928 promissory deed for furniture and 500 dollars to Mr. Curtis Bynum of Asheville, N.C.; and a slip of paper with a handwritten inventory of the journal's contents, presumably written by the donor Hank Barnet.
The collection includes photocopies of seven items, 1794-1834, including an undated manuscript map, pertaining to property, land titles, and business transactions of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, Norfolk County, Va., and Camden County, N.C.; and two unrelated items, a United States Treasury order, 1854, and a letter asking help in locating a Mr. Cooper, 1855.
Lois Tomlinson Byrd, a white journalist, received her A.B. in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1935. After graduation, she worked at the Tribune in New Bern, N.C. In mid-1936, she became the first director of the Meredith College News Bureau. The original deposit consists mostly of letters, 1934-1937, to Lois Tomlinson Byrd from former fellow co-eds at the University of North Carolina. Letters discuss social life, careers, memories of university days, husbands and relatives, and other matters. Also included are a few items relating to a co-ed sponsored dance that Byrd organized at UNC in 1935, and photocopies of some of Byrd's comments about materials in the collection. The additions consist of correspondence; subject files; and printed material, including newspaper clippings, brochures, and ephemera. Topics include Harnett County cultural resources student life for women students at the University of North Carolna at Chapel Hill during the 1930s, as well as alumnae relations; women's clubs during the 1950s; the Republican Party, civic engagement, governance, and services in Lee County, N.C.; North Carolina history; get well cards; churches; and other local concerns. Also included are newspaper articles (Social Notes and The Lee Scene), biographies, and other writings by Lois Byrd.
Sam Byrd was an author, actor, and producer, of Mt. Olive, N.C.
William M. Byrd of Linden, Ala., was a lawyer, state legislator, and state supreme court judge.
The collection consists of two notebooks that contain transcripts of about 92 letters, written by William Byrd II between 1717 and 1724; poems; a short story manuscript; character sketches; an epitaph for Edward Nott's monument; and a diary written in code covering the years from 1739 to 1741.
James R. D. Byrn was a resident of Orange County, N.C.

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The C.S. Brown Regional Cultural Arts Center and Museum Records document the history of the C.S. Brown building in Winton, Hertford County, N.C., as it served the African American community from its inception as the Chowan Academy in 1886 through its subsequent reconstitutions as the Waters Normal Institute (1886-1943), C.S. Brown High School (1943-circa 1970), C.S. Brown School (circa 1970-1986), and finally as it is known today, C.S. Brown Regional Cultural Arts Center and Museum (1986-). Materials include institutional histories, scrapbooks, photographs, diplomas and awards, student letters and work, programs and invitations, school publications, Parent Teacher Association minutes, and bound journals documenting student accounts, cafeteria records, and student grades.
Contains audio and video recordings of interviews with plaintiffs and attorneys who were involved in the 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court case, a landmark employment discrimination case. These oral histories were conducted by Latino American attorney and historian Raymond Caballero in 1991, at the time of the 20th anniversary of the ruling. The case was brought against Duke Power Company by thirteen Black men who were employed as janitors at Duke Power's Dan River hydroelectric power plant in Draper, N.C., to challenge discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. Caballero interviewed several of the plaintiffs, Julius Chambers (lead attorney, working on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), Kelly Alexander, Jr. (the son of the state president of the NAACP at the time of the case), and attorneys who represented Duke Power.
The Cabarrus and Slade families of North Carolina included Stephen Cabarrus (1754-1808), a French immigrant, North Carolina politician, and namesake of Cabarrus County, N.C.
George Hovey Cadman was a soldier in the 39th Ohio Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
The Caffery and Richardson families of Iberia Parish, La. Prominent family members include Bethia Liddell Richardson (d. 1852); her husband, Francis DuBose Richardson (b. 1812), sugar planter at Bayside Plantation on Bayou Teche and state legislator; their daughter, Bethia (Richardson) Caffery (fl. 1866-1907); and her husband, Donelson Caffery (1835-1906), son of Donelson Caffery (fl. 1830s) and Lydia Murphy Caffery McKerall (fl. 1835-1881), lawyer of Franklin, La., sugar planter, Confederate soldier, state legislator, and U.S. senator, 1892-1901.
The collection contains genealogical data for the Caffey family and one letter from W. S. Catts.
The Andy Cahan Collection consists of 43 recordings, 1986-1989, created and compiled by Andy Cahan, a musician, music historian and former graduate student of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The recordings are primarily interviews and performances of musicians from the Galax, Va., and North Carolina region, and feature Walter Raleigh Babson, Mabel Crockett, Onie Green, Carlie Roosevelt Marion, and Nell Smith. Also included in the collection are recordings, 1986, made by Cahan to accompany his term paper while studying folklore as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Members of the Cain family resided in North Carolina and Mississippi during the 1940s.
William Cain (1847-1930) was a mathematician and civil engineer.
The Calder family resided in Wilmington, N.C. Prominent members included brothers William Calder (b. 1844) and Robert E. Calder.
David Franklin Caldwell was a politician and businessman of Greensboro, N.C. Caldwell was a member of the North Carolina legislature, 1848-1858, 1864, and 1879.
Letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell (1903- ), to Richard Johns (1904-1970), editor of Pagany, about material submitted by Caldwell to the magazine, the craft of writing, other material in Pagany, other magazines and writers, and Caldwell's own work and publishing plans. There are a few family letters, 1943, to Margaret Bourke-White, from whom Caldwell had just been divorced; clippings about Caldwell; a typescript of a chapter from a biography of Caldwell dealing with his marriage to Helen Caldwell Cushman; and other items.
James B. Caldwell of Alabama was 19 years old when he entered the Civil War in the 13th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. He served in the regiment in Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
John Caldwell was a merchant of Morganton, N.C.
Joseph Caldwell was the first president of the University of North Carolina where he was also a professor of mathematics.
Samuel Caldwell (1750-1825) and his wife Elizabeth Gullick Caldwell resided in Gaston County, N.C.
Tod Robinson Caldwell was a lawyer and Republican governor of North Carolina, 1871-1874, from Burke County, N.C.
Wallace Everett Caldwell was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1922-1961, and author of books and articles on ancient history. The collection includes professional correspondence, 1923-1962, chiefly relating to Wallace Everett Caldwell's career as a professor of ancient history at the University of North Carolina, and Caldwell's writings about ancient history. Also included are personal letters, 1931-1961; subject files; photographs; diplomas; clippings; and other items, among them a photograph album from Caldwell's honeymoon in 1915. In the subject files is an 1864 letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to R. S. Jennings about a copy of Martel's Picture of Central Park; the connection between this letter and Caldwell is unclear. Other materials pertain to Caldwell's membership in the Masonic Order and his service as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, 1950-1951. There are also photographs and other pictures relating to various aspects of Caldwell's life, including his Masonic work.
Creighton Lee Calhoun (1934-2020) was a white heirloom southern apple collector, author, and retired Army lieutenant colonel who lived in Chatham County, N.C. The Creighton Lee Calhoun Papers on Southern Apples consist of notebook binders of images of apples, Calhoun's correspondence with apple cultivators in the South, his annotated research files documenting southern apple varieties and their origins, and newspaper clippings about apple varieties and his apple research. Also included are several visual catalogs used by traveling nursery vendors that illustrate apples.
William Calk (fl. 1775) traveled from Prince William County, Va., to Boone's Fort on the Kentucky River in 1775. The collection is a typescript copy of a daily journal, 13 March 1775-2 May 1775, kept by Calk while on this trip.
The Callahan family of Vinton, Va., included brothers Thomas William Callahan and Warren E. Callahan. Thomas Callahan served in the United States Marines (1st Marines) during World War II in Japan, 1943-1945; Warren served in the United States Army (32nd Infantry) in Japan and Korea during the Korean War, 1949-1951. The collection includes war-time letters from Thomas William Callahan and Warren E. Callahan. Thomas's letters, 1943-1945, follow him from the Marine barracks at Parris Island, S.C., to Japan, and finally to Portsmouth, Va. The letters, about half of which date from January to May 1944, mainly describe everyday military life, including food, weather, and health issues. Two of the letters are from cousin Bill Sheaff, who fought in the war with a different unit. Warren's letters, January 1949-October 1951, follow him from Fort Jackson, S.C., to Japan and Korea. The letters mainly detail everyday military life in training camps and overseas. He also described civilian life in Korea and Japan. Three photocopies of wartime photographs accompany Warren's final letter, 20 October 1951.
Audio recordings of fiddle contests and fiddling conventions recorded by John N. Callahan, a white fiddle contest organizer of Birmingham, Ala. The open reel audio recordings mostly feature folk and bluegrass music on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin performed at fiddle contests and fiddling conventions across the southern United States, including the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. The collection also contains field recordings made by John N. Callahan at musicians' homes, as well as supporting documentation consisting of tape logs prepared by former library staff and scattered flyers and promotional materials compiled by John N. Callahan.
The collection is a partial genealogical sketch, 1945, involving Cadwallader Jones, Willie Jones, and the Brodnax and Callum families of North Carolina and Virginia.
MICROFILM ONLY. Record of baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, burials, and special offerings at Calvary Church, Tarboro, N.C., and a history of the Episcopal Church in Edgecombe County written in 1878 by Joseph Blount Cheshire.
The collection contains a marriage settlement between John P. C. Whitehead of Burke County, Ga., and Catherine E. Fitzsimmons, Richland County, S.C., in trust to Charles A. Rowland.
Sallie Wood Moore was born in Hertford County, N.C. She married Samuel James Calvert (1856-1944) in 1878. The Calverts lived in Jackson, Northampton County, N.C., and had five children.,
The Orange County, Durham County, Person County, and Raleigh, N.C. plantations of the Cameron family were home to several generations of white Cameron and Bennehan family members and more than one thousand people enslaved by them. The Camerons also owned substantial plantations and enslaved people in Greene County, Ala., and Tunica County, Miss. North Carolina plantations and family houses included Belvin's Quarter, Bennehan Square, Bennehan Mill (later Red Mill), Bobbitt's, Brick House, Burnside, Eno Mill, Eno Quarters, Fairntosh (sometimes referred to as "Home House"), Fish Dam, Horton Grove, Hunt's Place, Jim Ray's, Jones's Quarter, Leathers, Little River, McKissack's, Mill Quarter (or Person's Mill), North Point, Peaksville Place, Person, Snow Hill, and Stagville. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal documents, and account books that detail plantation management, as well as the relationships, social lives, and well-being of wealthy white men, their wives and children, and the community of enslaved people whose forced labor generated the family's wealth. Of note are materials that identify or document enslaved people, including plantation lists and ledgers that record names, ages, family relationships, labor, and provisioning; bills of sale; account records that show medical care, labor, and supplies; and legal case files that concern enslaved people claimed as property. There is extensive information about Richard Bennehan's store at Stagville, N.C., and the Stagville and Fairntosh plantations, including crop records. Other topics include Duncan Cameron's legal career, the State Bank of North Carolina and the banking industry, the education of the Cameron children at various schools, the development of the University of North Carolina, the state militia, the Episcopal Church, railroads, and state government. There are also speeches, writings, printed material, pictures, and miscellaneous other types of personal papers.
Bennehan Cameron, a white plantation owner, railroad executive, industrialist, and promoter of good roads, of Fairntosh and Stagville plantations, Durham County, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, farm account books, breeding records, family history materials, and other items relating to Bennehan Cameron's many interests and activities. Documented are his involvement in agricultural organizations, farming and dairying operations, the North Carolina National Guard, railroads, the Good Roads movement in North Carolina and elsewhere in the South, the North Carolina legislatures of 1915-1921, the construction of Revolutionary and Confederate monuments, horse breeding and racing, the Society of the Cincinnati, and Anglo-American amity organizations. Included is extensive correspondence reflecting the activities of the Cameron family of Hillsborough, N.C., and the family of Bennehan Cameron's wife Sallie Mayo Cameron of Richmond, Va.; genealogical materials relating to the Bland, Broadnax, Cameron, Mayo, Nash, Roane, and Ruffin families; and broadsides opposing women's suffrage.
D.C. Cameron was a farmer in Moore County, N.C.
John Donald Cameron (1820-1897) lived in Fayetteville, N.C.
Published novels and stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon and Sherlockiana collected by white librarian Mary Shore Cameron (1908-1968) in the mid-twentieth century. The collection contains bibliographies; first editions published in England and the United States; foreign language editions; paperbacks; compilations; plays; Sherlock stories in magazines and newspapers; scholarly and popular articles; reviews and literary criticism; other writings and publications by Arthur Conan Doyle; manuscript items signed by Doyle and other authors; rare book dealer catalogs; parodies and pastiches; maps and pictorial works; and programs, ephemera, and publications of Sherlock societies including the Baker Street Irregulars. Also included are Cameron's scrapbooks and her correspondence with Sherlock scholars Nathan L. Bengis, William S. Baring-Gould, Luther L. Norris, John Bennett Shaw, and others. Serials including The Baker Street Journal are regularly added to the collection. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
Sarah Rebecca Cameron of Hillsborough, N.C., daughter of William Cameron (1816-1893) and Emma S. (Moore) Cameron, was a novelist under the pseudonym of H. M. Legrange, and author of articles and poems for children's and religious magazines. She was an active supporter of the Confederate cause. In the 1870s and 1880s she was employed by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Photograph album containing 369 black and white photographic prints depicting white soldiers in training activities, camp life, and equipment at Camp Davis, in Holly Ridge, N.C. Camp Davis was built by the United States Army in 1940 and served as a location for anti-aircraft training until 1944.
Records of Camp Sea Gull and Camp Seafarer, YMCA coastal sailing camps located at Arapahoe, N.C. Office files, printed materials, operations manuals, photographs, and audiovisual materials document the work of white founding director Wyatt Taylor and the board of directors, the early years of the camp and ongoing development and expansion, advertising, communications across the broader YMCA network, counselor training, and campers and the camp experience.
The collection contains audio cassette tapes that are likely copies of recordings made in the 1980s of Piedmont blues musicians from North Carolina and Virginia performing in their homes, in the studio, and at music venues including the Festival for the Eno in Durham, N.C. Piedmont blues is noted for fast finger picking on guitar with alternating bass lines and a ragtime feel. Musicians featured on the recordings include Big Boy Henry, John Tinsley, Thomas Burt, Chris Turner, and Lightnin' Wells. Also included are field notes about the recordings and a printout from a database with a listing of 45 rpm records produced in North Carolina. Information about the collector David Camp was not available with the collection materials. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Printed material including flyers, pamphlets, brochures, posters, and other ephemera primarily from local and statewide elections with a limited amount from national elections. There are also materials relating political and social movements such as amendments to the state constitution, affirmative action, and civil rights. Topics include the Iraq War, Eddie Hatcher, Jesse Helms, the Occupy movement, Amendment 1, and the Tea Party movement.
John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) was associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and assistant secretary of the Confederate War Department and related to the Campbell, Colston, Groner, and other families represented in this collection.
Allen Leroy Campbell (1921-2011), of Statesville, N.C., served in the United States Navy during World War II. Campbell attended boot camp at Camp Peary, Va., and was in Gulfport, Miss., and Camp Shoemaker, Calif., before boarding the U.S.S. Oakland, where he was stationed until his separation from the Navy at Camp Shelton, Va., on 22 January 1946. He and his wife, Hazel, had two children, Allen, Jr., and Virginia.
Elizabeth Rose Campbell was born in 1952 in Rocky Mount, N.C. She received her B.A. in studio art and journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. She worked as assistant editor of the Southern Economic Journal, 1975-1976, and as assistant editor of the Chapel Hill, N.C., based The Sun, A Magazine of Ideas, 1977-1981. Campbell worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, N.Y., in 1982; she began publishing her own essays and poems in The Rose Reader in 1984; and she started an astrological consulting service called Wild Rose Consulting in 1985. Beginning in 1989, Campbell typically spent summers in Tivoli, N.Y., and winters in Chapel Hill, N.C. Intuitive Astrology: Follow Your Best Instincts to Become Who You Always Intended to Be was published in 2003. Campbell died of cancer in 2004.
Given Campbell (1835-1906) was a lawyer from Saint Louis, Mo. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army, was commissioned a captain, and served with Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry. By the end of the war, he was given charge of Jefferson Davis's personal escort.
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell was a Confederate congressman and officer, lawyer and Mississippi supreme court justice.
The collection contains genealogical correspondence, 1920s and 1930s, of J. Bulow Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., and an accumulation of family papers and data concerning the Campbell, Bulow, Orme, Hay, Paine, Baldwin, Crowell, Edmonston, Beall, Crawford, Geddes, McChesney, Wilson, and related families. Nineteenth century documents include three letters, 1820-1821, from David Crowell Campbell (1800?-1862), a student at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; other Campbell family letters, 1809-1825; and papers relating to land and slaves owned by John Bulow Campbell (1829-1885) of Baldwin County, Ga.
Letters to Professor Campbell, Washington College (Lexington, Va.) from Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 1858, about the Lexington Sabbath School for Negroes, and from Gen. Robert E. Lee, 1867 and 1870, about college matters.
The collection of white missionary teacher John Charles Campbell (1867-1919) and white educator Olive Dame Campbell (1882-1954) contains diaries, notebooks, correspondence, articles, reports for organizations and foundations, printed items, and photographs documenting the New England couple’s work in education and community organizing in the southern region of Appalachia during the first half of the twentieth century. Diaries and notebooks chronicle Olive’s travel in the mountains of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee and later Scandinavia where she studied the Nordic folk school movement. Notes and diary entries written in southern Appalachia contain her detailed observations about the region, its inhabitants and their traditions, fellow missionaries, folk music particularly English ballads, and mountain travel. Articles, reports, correspondence, and printed materials pertain chiefly to mountain work conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation, Council of Southern Mountain Workers, Mountain Valley Cooperative, Inc., Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild, Southern Highlanders, Inc., other organizations, and the John C. Campbell Folk School, which was founded by Olive after John's death. Photographs depict members of the Campbell and Dame families, modes of travel in the mountains, industry especially logging, scenic vistas, mountain homes and families, John C. Campbell Folk School students and their craftwork, other schools in Appalachia and Scandinavia, illegal distilling operations, and the American southwest where John traveled in 1892. Also included are images made by photographer Doris Ulmann, who visited the Folk School in 1933.
The Tillerow Campbell papers consist of the 1858 bill of sale documenting the purchase of Tillerow Campbell, a three-year-old African American child, for $335 by L. V. Campbell, a white lawyer in Union Grove, Iredell County, N.C.; the loyalty oath of L. V. Campbell, signed 3 August 1865, in which he swore to "abide by faithfully and support all laws and proclamations made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves"; a letter, 1872, to L. V. Campbell from Richard A. McLaughlin, a lawyer and accountant, concerning an estate settlement for which Campbell had been charged for "negro hire" for 1863-1865, rent of land, and principle and interest on "one-third of a Negro Boy sold Sept 21st 1854...to 1st Apl 1872 is $244.47"; an undated cash valuation of L. V. Campbell's property; and two newspaper clippings with death notices for L. V. Campbell and his wife, Mrs. L. P. Bennett, who remarried after his death.
W. Creighton Campbell (fl. 1876-1880) was a Presbyterian minister in West Virginia. The collection contains two volumes. The first is a diary kept by Campbell for just over one year, 28 May 1879 to 1 April 1880, relating to his life and ministry in Harper's Ferry, W.Va. The second, earlier volume, dated 1876 to 1879, is comprised of four main sections: the constitution, bylaws, and meeting minutes of the Berkeley Springs Library and Reading Room Association of which Campbell was one of four directors; notes on the history of Protestant churches since the Reformation; sermon notes on prophecy and three books of the New Testament; and 14 undated diary entries.
Charles Henry Campfield (fl. 1835-1847) was a resident of Savannah, Ga.
Students at the University of North Carolina established a chapter of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in 1860. Although the association initially was run entirely by the students, the university encouraged it and eventually provided it with a building. The YMCA disbanded in 1870 but was reestablished in 1876 and has operated continuously since then. In addition to providing a center for religious life on the campus, the YMCA took the lead in organizing an orientation program for new students, published the student handbook for many years, ran the book exchange, and played an important role in early athletics at the university. From 1926 to 1943, the YMCA sponsored the Institute of Human Relations, which brought speakers of many religious and political persuasions to the university. The institute was disbanded during World War II but was reestablished as the Carolina Symposium in 1956. The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) was established on campus in 1936 and began to sponsor programs and events of a similar nature. In 1954, the paid staffs and advisory boards of the YMCA and YWCA were merged; however, the two associations maintained separate student cabinets until 1973. The merged organization was known as the YMCA-YWCA until 1976, when its name changed to Campus Y. The Campus Y has focused increasingly on community service and issues related to social justice and race relations. The director of the Campus Y reports to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
The original owner and possible creator of the collection was P.M. Candle, who may have worked for the United States Department of the Treasury. Candle sent the images to his wife enclosed in an envelope from the Office of the Federal Prohibition Director in Greenville, S.C. The Bureau of Prohibition, part of the Department of the Treasury, was responsible for the enforcement of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited the sale of alcohol, 1919-1933. During Prohibition, the Bureau of Prohibition regularly raided and dismantled moonshine and other liquor stills, arresting numerous people for the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol.
Harry L. Canfield, an Ohio native, was a Universalist minister in Greensboro, N.C., and Kinston, N.C., 1922-1936.
Mary Grace Canfield (1864-1946) was a native of Vermont and the wife of the Reverend Harry Lee Canfield (1860-1942), a Universalist minister working in North Carolina. The Canfields came to North Carolina in the 1920s.
Mrs. Charles Albert Cannon (Ruth C. Cannon) was an active member of the Garden Club of North Carolina and a resident of Concord, N.C.
Correspondence, subject files, photographs, tapes, clippings, and other material, circa 1920-1991, documenting the life of Isabella Walton Cannon (b. 1904), mayor of Raleigh, N.C., 1977-1979. Included is documentation of Cannon's activities as mayor, as well as material relating to her interests in women's rights, senior citizens, and other civic affairs, and correspondence and other items from her years as the wife of a U.S. State Department official serving in China and Liberia, 1945-1954.
The collection contains a land grant to John Cannon, February 5, 1787, signed by William Moultrie, governor of South Carolina.
Speech by Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926) of Illinois, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, at the Guilford College Meeting House near his birthplace, concerning the contributions to American life of North Carolina Quakers and the responsibilities of the Caucasian race.
Since at least the eighteenth century, members of the Cantrell family have lived throughout the South, including in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
John Lucas Paul Cantwell (1828-1909) was born in Charleston, S.C., the son of Patrick Cantwell, an Irish immigrant, and Lydia Lucas Cantwell. In between stints working as a drug clerk in Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans, La., Cantwell served in the Mexican War as a member of the Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. Sometime during the 1850s, he moved to Wilmington, N.C., and began serving in the 30th North Carolina Militia. During the Civil War, he served in several Confederate military units and spent time in federal prison at Fort Delaware, Del., Morris Island, S.C., and Fort Pulaski, Ga., as a member of the Immortal 600, a group of prisoners taken to Morris Island, Fort Pulaski, and Hilton Head, S.C., by federal forces in an attempt to save those places from Confederate fire. After the war, he became a produce broker in Wilmington and kept up his connection with the Wilmington Light Infantry and with Confederate veterans' organizations.
The collection includes correspondence, volumes, financial items, and other materials, mostly 1811-1899, of the Capehart family of Scotch Hall Plantation, Bertie County, N.C., plus some material of the related Martin family of Philadelphia. Correspondents include Susan Bryan Martin (b. 1815), who married George Washington Capehart, and her father, Peter Boyd Martin (1777-1838), who settled in Alexandria, La. Letters discuss personal and family matters, including fears and hardships endured by members of the family and their friends in Virginia or in areas of North Carolina occupied by Union forces during the Civil War. Of particular interest are the letters of William Rhodes Capehart, son of George W. and Susan (Martin) Capehart, describing his life as a surgeon and soldier in the Confederate Army. Also included are volumes containing slave records, 1840-1864; miscellaneous accounts; genealogical information; and a recipe book containing a list of the names of former slaves who remained at Scotch Hall after the war.
Family records in two Bibles: Capehart records of marriages, births, and deaths, 1800-1851; and Capehart and Rhodes records of marriages, births, and deaths, 1822-1878.
The collection is primarily Civil War letters to Meeta A. Capehart of Kittrells, Granville County, N.C., from her husband, Captain Baldy Ashburn Capehart, assistant quartermaster, 15th North Carolina Battalion, in Virginia and North Carolina, describing his activities and duties and advising his wife on the management of their farm. Also included are scattered Armistead and Capehart family papers and colonial land grants from the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina.
The collection is chiefly family letters from Susan Bryan Martin Capehart and George W. Capehart of Bertie County, N.C., to their son, William Rhodes Capehart, who was attending school in Edenton, N.C., 1846-1849, giving him news of home and advice. Also included are seven letters from William R. Capehart serving as a Confederate soldier, apparently with the 10th North Carolina Regiment, chiefly at Cheraw, S.C., October 1863-March 1864, about military and personal matters; a routine personal note, 1867, from Robert E. Lee; and other scattered family letters.
Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was a Confederate brigadier general and Episcopal bishop in South Carolina. The collection includes letters to Capers: one from General Stephen Dill Lee concerning responsibility for strategic errors at Spring Hill, in the Nashville-Franklin campaign, 1864; and two about a Bible given by Capers to William Rowlinski during the Civil War.
Photographic images created by white photographer David B. Capps, depicting scenes from the Ann Arbor Blues Festival (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ann Arbor Folk Festival (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Benefits for The Ark (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention (Union Grove, N.C.). Materials include photographic negatives, contact sheets, and selected photographic prints made from negatives. Many prominent African American blues and jazz musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s are represented in the photographs. Also included are some festival programs and other printed materials related to exhibitions of Capps's photographs.
Candie Anderson and Guy Carawan, a white couple married since 1960, met as a result of their mutual involvement in the civil rights movement. The Carawans have been involved in the work of the Highlander Research and Education Center (formerly the Highlander Folk School) in Tennessee, an institution that supports and provides educational resources for progressive social and political causes in the South. The original deposit of materials is chiefly audio tapes and corresponding field notes that reflect the Carawans' efforts to document the cultures of various groups of people in the South and elsewhere, beginning in the early 1960s. Included are historically significant speeches, sermons, and musical performances recorded during major civil rights demonstrations and conferences in Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta, and other southern cities; field recordings of worship meetings, songs, stories, and recollections from Johns Island, S.C., that document the African American heritage of the rural South Carolina Low Country; recordings of interviews with residents of south-central Appalachia concerning problems associated with coal mining and rural poverty; recordings of performances by Appalachian musicians, among them Hazel Dickens; recordings of remarks and musical performances by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax; a discussion between Guy Carawan and Studs Terkel; recordings of performances by Mayne Smith and Martin Mull; and recordings of Latin-American, Celtic, Australian, and Hungarian vernacular music. Corresponding field notes include song lists, transcripts, box lists, memos, and photocopies of original audio housing. The Addition of 2006 contains audio recordings of musical performances and interviews collected by Guy and Candie Carawan, many of which feature members of the Johns Island, S.C., community. The Additions of 2010 primarily contains materials relating to the Carawan's professional and personal projects in the areas of civil rights, folk music and culture, and social justice, as they relate to Appalachia, the Highlander Research and Education Center (HREC), and the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Materials relating to civil rights were collected by Candie Carawan in 1960, when she was an exchange student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., where she was arrested for participating in a sit-in to protest racial segregation of lunch counters. The Addition of 2017 documents the Carawans continuing work on civil rights, Appalachia, the Sea Islands, folk music and culture, and social justice projects in partnership with HREC and others. Also included is a memoir project intended to serve as a field guide for cultural service workers and policy makers who have an impact on the quality of community cultural life.
Records of the UNC Cardboard Club primarily contain photographs depicting the Club's displays at Kenan Stadium and during the 1966 Beat Dook Parade. The Cardboard Club coordinated and produced displays at UNC football games, using colored cardboard squares to form words and images in the stands. The collection also contains other materials documenting the Club's activities including cards used to direct participants at football games and grid paper plans for cardboard displays.
The Cardinal Health Agency was a Lumberton, N.C., organization created under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. The organization's mission was to assess health needs in southeastern North Carolina and to plan ways to meet them in an efficient, cost-effective manner. The collection documents the work of the Cardinal Health Agency of Lumberton, N.C., through reports, memoranda, correspondence, audiotapes, and photographs. Office files include various versions of Cardinal Health Agency's Health System Plan and Annual Implementation Plan, as well as health project evaluation records. The Executive Reading File contains correspondence, internal memoranda, project evaluations, news releases, and director's updates. Project Review files include materials relating to decisions on proposed health projects that required federal funding. Files relating to other North Carolina health systems agencies, including the Piedmont Health Systems Agency and the Western North Carolina Health Systems Agency, contain health system plans, annual implementation plans, and project review manuals. Also included are photographs of members of the board of directors and audiotapes of board and committee meetings.
Thomas J. Carey of New Branford, Conn., served as a private with Company E of the 15th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in the spring and early summer of 1865. The collection contains the diary kept by Thomas J. Carey during the Civil War, with a few later entries. During the Civil War, his unit was posted to Lenoir County, N.C., and Craven County, N.C., in eastern North Carolina. Carey's diary contains descriptions of New Bern, N.C.; various skirmishes; the Battle of Wise Forks; provost duty at Kinston, N.C.; friendly relationships and conversations with local inhabitants; and his reactions to Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination. Company E was mustered out of service on 27 June 1865 and returned home to New Haven, Conn., to be discharged on 12 July 1865. Later entries address Carey's reintegration into civilian life and his wedding. A partial transcript is included.
Carhart & Roff was a merchant firm based in Macon, Ga., that was founded in 1841. The firm was named for its originators and principal investors, Elijah H. Carhart (1827-1885) and Aaron A. Roff (1815-1880).
Bob Carlin (1953-), a white musician, music producer, author, and collector, was born in New York City, N.Y. He has authored several books on southern music traditions, African American music, string bands, shape note singing, Primitive Baptist music, banjo music, and other topics, many having to do with the western Piedmont of North Carolina. He has also produced many recordings, including African American Note Choirs of Alexander County, North Carolina (2002).
The Richard Carlin Collection on Eubie Blake consists of a 1970 radio interview with African American ragtime composer and pianist, Eubie Blake. Music editor, Richard Carlin, acquired a dub of the interview as part of his research on Eubie Blake. The collection also contains scattered paper materials found with the audio recordings, including a clipping on Eubie Blake and a radio program tape label.
Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) of Sumner County, Tenn., was a lawyer, editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. The collection contains the papers of Edward Ward Carmack, chiefly pertaining to his elections to the House, 1896 and 1898; his Senate re-election defeat in 1906; and his defeat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1908. Included are correspondence and papers relating to the campaigns along with speeches and letters of congratulations; political scrapbooks including one concerning the Philippines; clippings; messages received about Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s, including items relating to land in Lakeland, Fla.; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; pictures primarily of unidentified individuals, including postcards of African American agricultural laborers; and two photograph albums of African American agricultural laborers from the Rosemary farm or plantation, probably in Alabama.
Francis McMillan Carmack was a teacher and Campbellite Christian (Disciples of Christ) preacher.
The Carmichael family lived in Augusta, Ga.
John F. Carmichael (1761-1837) of Fort Adams, Miss., and Pinckneyville, Miss., U.S. Army surgeon, cotton planter, postmaster, and collector for the Mississippi District for the United States Treasury; John Carmichael Jenkins (d. 1855), doctor, horticulturist, and cotton planter of Natchez, Miss.; and an unidentified individual, surname Winchester (possibly Josiah Winchester, who served as guardian to Jenkins's children after Jenkins's death). Both Carmichael and Jenkins were natives of Pennsylvania. Papers include correspondence with cotton factors, business agents, and overseers; business and personal accounts and receipts; legal papers; medical notes; lists of supplies; and other items. Items, 1779-1834, belong, with one exception, to John F. Carmichael. Items dated 1833, 1838-1855, belong to John Carmichael Jenkins, and four items, 1871-1872, 1882, and 1896, are possibly those of Josiah Winchester. Undated papers belong mostly to Jenkins, with a few for Carmichael. Carmichael's papers document medical supplies and postal accounts at Fort Adams, Miss.; shipping along the Mississippi River between Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, La.; and the sale of cotton grown at his Cold Spring Plantation in Wilkinson County, Miss. Jenkins's papers document crops and the work of slaves on River Place Plantation in Adams County, Miss.; the cotton market; experimentation with fruit growing; outbreaks of disease in and around Natchez; and, to a small extent, Jenkins family life and activities at Elgin Plantation outside Natchez, where Jenkins seems to have operated an apothecary.
MICROFILM ONLY. Reminiscences and family correspondence of Carmouche, daughter of John Tinsley Jeter (1799-1862), Point Coupee Parish, La., sugar planter, and wife of Emile A. Carmouche (died 1885) of St. Landry and Shreveport, La. Reminiscences (266 pages), written 1913-1915, concern plantation, family, and social life before and after the Civil War, and life in New Orleans during the war. Most items are family letters, including letters, chiefly 1850s, from Carmouche's father, John Tinsley Jeter, to her mother, Ann Watkins McAshan (1814-1878), and letters, 1860s, from Emile A. Carmouche to Annie. These letters deal with activities in Point Coupee and New Orleans, Emile's imprisonment by Union forces in New Orleans, and other matters.
Carney family of Wilmington, N.C., including brothers H. Gaston Carney and Marshall F. Carney, and Marshall Carney's daughter, Lucy Ann Glover. H. Gaston Carney and Marshall Carney were soldiers in World War I. The collection contains World War I items, photographs, souvenirs, and newspaper clippings chiefly relating to H. Gaston Carney and Marshall F. Carney. Materials mainly date from 1918 to 1964, although a few of the photographs are from the late 1890s. Included are five small diaries kept by H. Gaston Carney, September 1918-March 1919, that document his everyday experiences as a soldier in France during World War I. The diaries were transcribed by Lucy Ann Glover in 2002. Photographs include images of military and civilian life. Newspaper clippings relate to the 1927 American Legion reunion in France that Marshall Carney attended and document H. Gaston Carney's insurance industry honors and love of golf. Also included are souvenirs from the American Legion reunion, brochures from a trip to Cuba, and other items.
Kate S. Carney was the daughter of a merchant of Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The Carolina Association for Medieval Studies was established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to bring together students studying the European Middle Ages in various academic departments at Carolina and nearby universities. Though officially a student organization, the association welcomes faculty, staff, and others interested in medieval studies as members. In addition to its regular meetings, the association sponsors reading groups, lectures, and social events. It also compiles resource lists and publishes a newsletter.
The Carolina Black Caucus formed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974. The organization, known as the Black Faculty Staff Caucus (BFSC) prior to the late 2000s, promotes affirmative action, recruitment and hiring of African Americans, racial justice and awareness, and equal opportunities for all minority members of the university community.
This collection contains donated and found materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection documents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s decision to suspend in-person classes, planning for Fall 2020 semester, and implementation of various policies and plans to address teaching, learning, and working at the university. The collection also includes personal accounts of the pandemic for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill affiliates as well as North Carolinians from the surrounding communities.
This collection consists of the records of The Carolina Center for Public Service, which was established in 1999 to develop and coordinate partnerships between UNC-Chapel Hill and communities throughout North Carolina. These records include promotional publications about the Center, the Buckley Public Service Scholars, the APPLES Service Learning and other programs, and records related to the Tar Heel Bus Tour.
In 1873, the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherfordton Railroad was reorganized as the Carolina Central Railway Company. In 1875, the company completed a line to Shelby, N.C.
The Carolina Feed and Lumber Company was located in Cherokee County, N.C.
The Carolina Folk Festival was established in December 1947 as an activity of the University of North Carolina's Folklore Council. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, director of the Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, N.C., was the moving force in the festival's establishment and organized the first festival, held 18-19 June 1948. Lunsford became director of the Carolina Folk Festival. The records of the Carolina Folk Festival consist of files of Russell Marvin Grumman, director of the university's Extension Division and chairman of the Folklore Council. They detail the establishment of the Carolina Folk Festival and the organization of the annual festivals held from 1948 through 1953.
The Carolina Forum was organized on 1 July 1948 to bring leaders of government, labor, industry, and education, to speak on the University of North Carolina campus. In part, the Carolina Forum took over functions of the Carolina Political Union, which had been organized in 1936 by political science students to bring political leaders to speak on campus and to hold roundtable discussions on current political topics. After the advent of the Carolina Forum, the Carolina Political Union continued to function, but its activity was limited to weekly discussions and occasional speakers. Records include correspondence, 1937-1948, of the Carolina Political Union and, 1948-1959, of the Carolina Forum. The correspondence primarily consists of requests for speakers to come and arrangements for their visits. Also included are dismantled scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on speakers from the 1940s and loose clippings from the 1950s. Some of the 1965-1966 material addresses the Speaker Ban issue.
The Carolina Gay Association was founded as the Gay Awareness Rap Group in February 1974. Later that year, the group successfully applied to be a university-recognized student organization and changed its name to the Carolina Gay Association (CGA). The support, advocacy, and social organization met regularly in Craige dormitory. In 1976, the CGA sponsored the first Southeastern Gay Conference and began publishing Lambda, the first LGBTQ+ student publication in the United States. The organization has continued to be active on campus and has changed names several times: Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association (1985-1992), Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians, and Allies for Diversity (B-GLAD, 1992-1998), Queer Network for Change (QNC, 1998-2003), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender - Straight Alliance (GLBT-SA, 2002-2010), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance (GLBTSA, 2010-2012), Sexuality And Gender Alliance (SAGA, 2012 - present). Records include materials related to the group's recognition by the university in 1974, pamphlets, flyers, conference programs, photographs, issues of Lambda and LGBTQ student publications from other universities, clippings, and letters to and from the CGA, including correspondence with Chapel Hill aldermen about anti-discrimination policies. Also included is a report on the results of a survey conducted by UNC graduate student Michael Grissom.
The Carolina Hispanic Association (CHispA) was founded in the fall of 1990. The student organization promotes awareness and appreciation of Latinx/Latina/Latino cultures and provides support for the Latinx community on campus. Records consist of event posters and flyers. Materials from the 2017-2018 academic year were created and distributed digitally, but were compiled and printed prior to transfer to the archives.
The Carolina Indian Circle was founded in in 1974 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization's mission is to support Native American students on campus academically and socially and to educate the campus community about Native American culture and issues. Records consist of a news clipping related to the organization's activities and a brochure from the 1988-1989 academic year.
For many years Chapel Hill's only hotel, the Carolina Inn was built in 1923-1924 by John Sprunt Hill, a white trustee and benefactor of the University of North Carolina. Hill operated the Inn as a private business until 1935, when he donated it to the University, which placed it administratively within its Business Organization (later the Division of Business and Finance). Until 1993, the manager of the Inn reported to the officer responsible for auxiliary enterprises. In accordance with Hill's gift, income from the Inn supported the Library's North Carolina Collection. The Inn was renovated in 1939 and 1969-1972. In 1993, the University hired Doubletree Hotels, Inc., of Phoenix, Ariz, to run the Inn, with the University using its share of the profits for library support.
The collection consists of two photograph albums, a few loose photographs, and two newspaper articles relating to the activities of the Carolina Mountain Club of Asheville, N.C., in the 1930s. The first photograph album highlights outdoor activities of club members, both men and women, from December 1930 to May 1932. Nature photographer George Masa (1881-1933) was a founding member of the club and served as club photographer until his death in 1933. George Masa is believed to have taken many of the images in the first album and is also present in several of the group photographs found in the first album. The second album, circa 1937, depict views from various locations in western North Carolina.
The Carolina Panel Company of Lexington, N.C., began manufacturing high quality hardwood plywood in 1927 to supply the local furniture industry's demand for plywood. Roswell B. Robbins served as secretary-treasurer and general manager of the company, 1927-1938. Upon Robbins's death in 1938, C. Hamilton Hargrave took over as manager. Over the years, Carolina Panel's business expanded to include furniture makers all over the eastern United States. By 1988, however, a marketing research survey found that the demand for the plywood produced by Carolina Panel was drying up. In 1990, the board of directors sold the company to R. E. Lineberry, Inc. Records of the Carolina Panel Company, 1970-1991, include pictures of employees working at the company's factory, a 1970 article about the company, comparative profit statistics, a marketing research survey about the future of the industry, and documents concerning the sale of the company.
Carolina Performing Arts was established in 2005 with the appointment of Executive Director of the Arts, Emil Kang. Its role is to program and run music, dance and theater performances from international and local professional organizations and student organizations on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus. The bulk of the materials consist of clippings, correspondence and fundraising records related to renovations to Memorial Hall, preparation for the 2005-06 inaugural season and relationship-building between Emil Kang, Carolina Performing Arts and various arts, public service organizations, and donors around campus and North Carolina. Records also include promotional posters, program books and inserts, season brochures, The Rite of Spring and Bolshoi Ballet commemorative and promotional stationary, marketing, budgeting and fundraising materials, meeting notes, newspaper clippings and various informational packets from organizations around North Carolina.
C. Horace Hamilton (1901-1977) was Assistant Director of the Carolina Population Center, 1967-1973.
The Carolina Quarterly, successor to the University Magazine, was established in 1948 as the literary publication of the University of North Carolina Student Government. Originally restricted to publication of student poetry and short stories, it soon broadened its scope to include fiction, poetry, graphic work, and book reviews produced by student and non-student authors. The records include correspondence with contributors, including one letter each from Stephen King and Annie Dillard; contributor contracts and biographies; issue publication records; financial statements; policy and procedure records; sales and marketing materials; and other records of the Carolina Quarterly. With a few exceptions, manuscripts of articles are not included in the records.
For many years, an organization of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students and faculty organized, planned, and supervised the biennial Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs, a week-long program of speeches, panel discussions, seminars, and other activities focusing on a topic of current political, social, economic, or cultural interest. Under the leadership of University President Frank Porter Graham and Dean of Students Francis F. Bradshaw, the Symposium originated in 1927 as the Institute of Human Relations.
The Carolina Trucking Development Company was based in Wilmington, N.C., in the early part of the twentieth century. The Company appears to have been primarily devoted to agricultural development and was involved with establishing farming communities in several counties in North Carolina, some of which were populated by immigrant groups, including German, Dutch, Italian, and Polish peoples.
The undated recording on audio cassette tape contains old time music performed by the Carolina Twins, who were Gwen Foster (1903?-1954) a textile worker from Gaston County, N.C., and David O. Fletcher (1900-1958). The Carolina Twins were on Victor Records in the late 1920s. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The University of North Carolina's Student Union was established in 1931. Its membership included students, university staff, alumni, trustees, and those who had contributed toward the construction of Graham Memorial (named for Edward Kidder Graham), the building that was to house the union until 1968. The Frank Porter Graham Student Union, a larger building, was completed in 1968 and as of 2012 continued to house the Union. While in Graham Memorial, the Student Union was called Graham Memorial Student Union. In 1968, its name became Carolina Union. Defined by the university as a student organization, the union has an activities board, made up of students, which plans and coordinates programs. The activities board, however, is overseen by the union's board of directors and director; the latter is a full-time administrator who reports to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
Records of the Carolina Vegetation Survey, a long-running multi-institution project to document plant life across North Carolina and South Carolina, including field surveys and data analysis reports. Though the project focuses on the Carolinas, there is also some data for locations in other states.
The Carolina Women's Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was founded in 1997. Through its programs and services, the Center works to represent women and their interests on campus and beyond. The Center focuses on issues of violence prevention; gender, difference and diversity; closing the gender gap, and family advocacy. Records of the Center include materials related to its programs, events, and advocacy; subject files on issues of interest to the Center; committee records and reports, and clippings and publications.
Milton Stover Carothers (1932-2004) of Tallahassee, Fla., was a Presbyterian minister who worked for significant periods of time in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. A 1954 graduate of Florida State University, he held pastorates in Salisbury, N.C., 1958-1963, and Covington, Va., 1963-1969, and served in campus ministries at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, for 17 years, at Florida State University.
The Carpenter family of Virginia and North Carolina included Bushrod Carpenter and Corydon Carpenter.
The collection is the will, 23 October 1784, of George Carpenter of Burke County, N.C.
Typescript of Anthology of death on Three Mile Creek by Jake Carpenter of Avery County, N.C. From 1842 until 1900, Carpenter recorded local deaths and frequently added comments on the life of the deceased and the cause of death. In 1915, he added a comment on the death of bank robber Frank James. Later this material was read to Naomi Barrier Cuthbertson, who added remarks which have been recorded with her name after each. This typed copy was prepared from the original by Denise M. Abbey with the aid of Mary M. Sloop and Theron Dellinger, preserving Carpenter's spelling from his own handwritten record.
James O. (James Ozborn) Carr, a lawyer of Wilmington, N.C., was a state legislator, served as United States District Attorney, 1916-1919 and 1933-1945, and was a leader in the North Carolina Democratic Party.
John M. Carr (fl. 1864) was a federal soldier who served with the 100th Indiana Infantry Regiment, campaigning in Georgia. The collection includes a typed transcription of Carr's diary while he was serving in Georgia, June-December, 1864. The diary describes troop movements, camp life, and the towns through which Carr passed.
The papers of white businessman and public figure Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) of Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., document his financial interests in tobacco, textiles, and banking; affiliations with the Methodist Church, the Democratic Party in North Carolina, and organizations commemorating the Confederacy; and philanthropic support of institutions of higher education, particularly the University of North Carolina (UNC). Papers include letters, printed items, business records, legal documents, diaries, photographs, lessons for Sunday school, and addresses written and delivered by Carr. The rhetoric in many addresses reflects Carr’s positions on what he and his contemporaries called "the race problem." In keeping with white supremacy movements in North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century, Carr defended the institution of slavery, claiming it had been beneficial to the enslaved, and argued for denying full citizenship rights to African Americans. Included are Carr's 1899 speech supporting an amendment to the North Carolina constitution that disenfranchised African Americans and his address at the 1913 dedication of the Confederate monument later known as "Silent Sam" on the UNC campus.
Laura Noell Carr, of Durham, N.C., was married to Austin Heaton Carr (1894-1942), president of Durham Hosiery Mills. They had two children, Austin Heaton Carr Junior (born 1920) and Charles Noell Carr (born circa 1930).
The Leslie G. Carr Papers, 1966-1969, consist of a copy of Carr's FBI file and loose papers documenting his social and political activism, particularly his involvement with Students for a Democratic Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas Neely Carruthers (1900-1960) was an Episcopal clergyman and bishop of South Carolina.
The collection pertains to Eve Carson, Morehead Scholar and student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007-2008, who was shot and killed in March 2008. The collection contains emails from her campaign for student body president, as well as an additional email and card.
The collection contains typed copies of notes on the Corstorphen (originally Corstorphine) family of Scotland, who settled, after 1746, in Halifax County, N.C.
David Miller Carter was a lawyer and landowner of eastern North Carolina; Confederate colonel and military judge; legislator, 1862-1865; resident of Washington, N.C., until he moved to Raleigh in 1874.
David Carter was a planter of Hyde County, N.C.
Farish Carter was a planter, land speculator, and entrepreneur of Scottsborough Plantation, near Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga., and owner of a plantation at Coosawattee, Murray County, Ga. Carter married Eliza McDonald, sister of Charles J. McDonald (1793-1860), and had five children: Mary Ann (d. 1844), Catherine (d. 1851), James Farish (b. 1821), Samuel McDonald, and Benjamin Franklin (d. 1856).
Hodding Carter III, a white journalist and politician, was born in New Orleans, La., on 7 April 1935 to journalist and publisher Hodding Carter II and Betty Werlein. He grew up in Greenville, Miss., and graduated from Princeton University in 1957. Carter served in the United States Marine Corps after college and then began working at the Delta Democrat-Times as a reporter, then managing editor, and finally associate publisher. Carter was co-chair of the delegation that ousted Mississippi's white Democratic Party delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. He participated in Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter's presidential campaigns and was named Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and State Department spokesman during the Jimmy Carter administration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Carter worked in various capacities for public affairs television shows and was a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. From 1995 to 1997, Carter taught journalism at the University of Maryland. He became president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 1998. In January 2006, Carter became the University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carter married Patricia Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under President Jimmy Carter, in 1978.
Photograph album, 1947, probably belonging to white actor Hope Carter of Asheville, N.C. Photographs were taken during the filming of Tap Roots, in which Hope Carter was a stand-in for Susan Hayward. Movie production on location in Asheville vicinity and the Smoky Mountains. Album contains black-and-white and color snapshots, and some newspaper clippings related to filming. Topics include aspects of on-set movie production, such as scene construction. A majority of the images have hand-written captions. There are staged scenes of white actors in costume portraying Civil War soldiers and African American actors portraying enslaved people. Also included are images of white actor Boris Karloff, in "red-face," portraying a member of Choctaw Nation named Tishomingo. Includes pictures of Hope Carter, Boris Karloff, Susan Hayward, and other 1940s era Hollywood actors.
The Tom Carter Collection consists of field recordings, 1970-1973, created and compiled by folklorist, historian, and musician, Tom Carter. The audio recordings feature old-time musicians from the central Piedmont area of North Carolina and the North Carolina and Virginia border region, performing old-time tunes and songs. Some of the artists featured include, Tommy Jarrell (1901-1984), Anglo-American old-time fiddle and banjo player, of Mt. Airy, N.C.; Gaither Carlton (1901-1973), Anglo-American old-time fiddle and banjo player, of Deep Gap, N.C.; Fred Cockerham (1905-1980), Anglo-American old-time fiddle and banjo player, of Low Gap, N.C.; Emit Valentine, Anglo-American button accordion player, of Franklin Co., N.C.; Archie and Lenwood Thompson, Anglo-American fiddlers, of Franklin Co., N.C. The collection also includes an interview Carter conducted with Virgil Craven, hammered dulcimer and fiddle player; two other pieces of writing by Carter; and extensive field notes created by SFC staff. Field notes include technical information about the tapes, as well as description of contents, including musician names, song titles, banjo tunings, and background information on the musicians recorded.
The Tom Carter and Blanton Owen Collection primarily consists of audio recordings, 1948-1975, created and compiled by folklorists, Tom Carter and Blanton Owen. The majority of the collection consists of field tapes, 1973-1974, created by Carter and Owen as part of their joint fieldwork project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Titled, Traditional Instrumental Music From Southwest Virginia: A Field Collection and Oral History, the fieldwork project comprised of documenting the traditional music found in one region of the Southern Appalachians through recorded music, interviews, and photographs. The collection contains dubbed copies of the original field recordings that Carter and Owen created as part of the grant-funded project, as well as a copy of the original grant proposal with handwritten notations. The recordings primarily feature traditional instrumental music, mainly fiddle and banjo played in the old-time style, from southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina, including Carroll, Patrick, Grayson, and Floyd counties, Va., and Alleghany and Surry counties, N.C. Included are performances of ballads, early country music, gospel songs, bluegrass music, dance calls, and tin pan alley, as well as interviews, telling of legends, and other spoken material. The music is performed on fiddle, banjo, piano, hammered dulcimer, Appalachian dulcimer, accordion, guitar, harmonica, jew's-harp, autoharp, steel guitar, and Hawaiian guitar. Performers include Huston Caudill, Luther Franklin Davis, Armstead Roscoe Parrish, Dan Tate, Fred Cockerham (1901- ), Estil Cortez Ball, Albert Hash, Kyle Creed, Taylor Kimble (1892- ), Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985), and Virgil Craven (1902-1980). The collection also includes additional dubbed audio recordings, circa 1948-1949, featuring the Shelor Family, Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, Ernest Stanley Band, Dudley Spangler, and J.W. (John Watts) Spangler (1882-1970), as well as field notes created by Tom Carter, Blanton Owen, and staff of the Southern Folklife Collection. The field notes correspond to the audio recordings found in the collection and may include notes on performers' names, technical information about the field tape, a brief description of contents, song titles, and tunings.
The Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler Collection consists of field recordings, 1973, of Willie Trice (1910-1976), an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer from North Carolina. The two recordings, which were made by Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler in Orange County, N.C., feature Willie Trice on guitar and vocals, as well as in conversation. The collection also contains corresponding documentation, or tape logs, created by former SFC staff members.
W. Horace Carter (1921- ) of Tabor City, N.C., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who was editor of the Tabor City Tribune and writer of books and articles on fresh-water fishing and deer and duck hunting.
Robert Looney Caruthers was a Lebanon, Tenn., lawyer, state legislator, Whig politician, founder and professor of law at Cumberland University, United States Representative, 1841-1843, state supreme court justice, and Confederate governor of Tennessee.
Interviews and field recordings created by white archivist and traditional musician, Mike Casey, while he was a graduate student in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The majority of the recordings feature traditional musicians from North Carolina and West Virginia, including Lauchlin Shaw, white old-time fiddler from Spring Lake, Cumberland County, N.C.; Clarence Williams (1928- ), African American gospel singer and farmer from Fayetteville, N.C.; and Melvin Wine, a white old-time fiddler, of Braxton County, W.Va. The collection also contains a series of recordings made in Duplin County N.C., including interviews with residents and field recordings of a Baptist church revival, as well as documentation related to the interview and field recordings of Lauchlin Shaw found in the collection.
Thomas Casey (died 1847), a native of South Carolina, was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1834. The collection includes a letter from Casey to Marien Passage in Mobile, Ala., describing his situation as a new cadet at the United States Military Academy.
Yadkin County native Jerry Casstevens was a regionally well-known bluegrass banjo player who performed mostly in Yadkin, Surry, Wilkes, and neighboring counties of North Carolina and Virginia. Casstevens mastered many styles of music on the banjo, but preferred to play bluegrass. During his 40-year musical career, Casstevens won or placed in many contests, including Union Grove and Galax fiddlers' conventions. He led many different groups, but the Bluegrass Masters, with his son Mike Casstevens, was perhaps the best known.
Caswell County, N.C., was established in 1777.
The Caswell County Historical Association, headquartered in Yanceyville, N.C., was organized in 1954 to promote the study of local history and genealogy.
Richard Caswell was governor of North Carolina, 1776-1779 and 1785-1787, general in the state forces during the Revolutionary War, state comptroller, and speaker of the state senate.
The collection contains miscellaneous Revolutionary War papers, chiefly relating to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1781-1782. The collection includes letters, reports, invoices, and other papers of the North Carolina General Assembly and of Governor Richard Caswell concerning military activities and supplies, records of local proceedings, and other items.
William Richard Caswell of Dandridge and Knoxville, Tenn., was a lawyer, planter, railroad director, volunteer army officer in the Mexican War, and Tennessee militia general early in the Civil War.
William Richard Caswell (1809-1862) of Tennessee was an officer in the United States Army who served as aide-de-camp to Major General Gideon J. Pillow during the Mexican War. The collection includes letters written from Mexico during the Mexican War by Caswell, addressed to Ephraim H. Foster and Thomas Hord in Tennessee, describing camp life and the progress of the war.
MICROFILM ONLY. Register of guests at Catawba Springs Hotel, Lincoln County, N.C., in two volumes, 1838-1854, showing names, residences, and destinations. Also included are notes by historian Chalmers G. Davidson concerning the history of the hotel.
Geraldine Gerry Spinks Cate (1910-1998) was a musician, music educator, and social activist in chiefly in Raleigh, N.C. She studied at the University of South Carolina; Westminster Choir College; Teachers College, Columbia University; and the Juilliard School. Cate held positions at Silliman University in the Philippines, where she was sponsored by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Peace College, the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, and Saint Mary's College, all in Raleigh; the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C.; and other institutions. Cate was especially dedicated to interracial reconciliation.
Correspondence, business records, and other papers of members of the Cates family of Burlington, N.C. These papers document John Wesley Cates's activities as a businessman, school board member, and city booster; his daughter, Bertha Cates's, activities as a coal merchant in Burlington; his daughter, Verna Cates Stackhouse's, activites as a supervisor at the King Cotton Mill in Burlington and as an active Democrat; and a number of personal and civic concerns of the family. The papers include thirty-three diary volumes kept by Bertha Cates, discussing her daily activities, 1937- 1979. Organizations with which members of the Cates family were involved include the Burlington Merchants Association, the North Carolina Retail Coal Merchants Association, the First Baptist Church of Burlington (of which John W. Cates was a founder), the Burlington Business and Professional Women's Club (of which Bertha Cates was a founder), and the North Carolina Retail Coal Merchants Association.
The collection contains detailed records of two trips made by Henry L. Cathell of New York City. On the first trip, 22 November 1851-29 April 1852, undertaken to recover his health, Cathell and his family travelled by boat to Savannah, Ga.; by railroad to Macon, Ga.; and by stagecoach to Quincy, Fla., where they spent 6 December 1851-5 April 1852 hunting, fishing, and socializing. The travellers returned by way of Macon, Chattanooga, Tenn., the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, Cleveland, Ohio, the Great Lakes, Buffalo, and Albany, N.Y. On the second trip, 3 February-2 March 1856, while in mourning for his wife, Cathell visited Savannah and Quincy and passed through Wilmington, N.C., Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., and Philadelphia, Pa. In addition to the travel narratives the volumes contain itemized accounts of expenses and a record of letters written.
Boyd Cathey of Raleigh, N.C., is a white conservative political activist. The collection contains materials relating to the political campaigns of several North Carolina and national conservative political candidates. Included are clippings, campaign literature, some correspondence, and other items from the campaigns of David B. Funderburk for United States Senate, 1985-1986; Pat Robertson for president, 1987-1988; Jesse Helms for United States Senate, 1988-1990; and Pat Buchanan for president, 1991-1992. Cathey was particularly active in the Robertson and Buchanan campaigns. There are also a few letters from Senator Sam Ervin Jr., Terry Sanford, historian Gene Genovese, writer Russell Kirk, film critic Norman Stewart, and Vincent S. Waters, Roman Catholic bishop of Raleigh. Materials in additions are similar to the materials in the original political deposit and relate to elections in 1992 and 1996.
Joseph Cathey was a farmer, miller, and merchant in Haywood County, N.C. He was the son of William Cathey, one of the earliest Haywood County settlers. Cathey represented Haywood County at the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835, and he served one term in the North Carolina Senate in 1842.
This collection consists of a set of 919 highly visual printing blocks used by the Propaganda Fide printing press in Rome between the 17th and 19th centuries, chronicling the propagation of the Christian faith in numerous languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Syriac, Burmese, Croatian, and Greek. Some blocks use the esoteric alphabets Malachim, the Celestial Alphabet, and Transitus Fluvii. The blocks also illustrate biblical scenes and other decorative printing elements, including coats-of-arms, decorative borders, initials, and headpieces. Many are wrapped in scrap printed paper with an image of the block. Founded in Rome in 1622, the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ("Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith") is a college of the Catholic church, now known as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. To aid in the church's mission to spread the Catholic faith throughout the world, it established its own press in 1626. The press produced materials in at least 23 languages, including guides for priests trying to learn a new language and publications that communicated Catholicism's tenets.
Cavin and Leonard family, chiefly farmers and teachers of Iredell County, N.C. Among Arabella Cavin's children was John H. Cavin. John H. and Sarah Cavin's children included John Y. Cavin, who taught school in Texas, and Milas, who taught in North Carolina. Milas and Laura Freeland Cavin's children included Meta; Ida; Wyatt; and Wade, who married Pearle Leonard and lived in Troutman, N.C. Wade and Pearle's children included Robert W. and Wade Leonard Cavin, who served with the U.S. Navy in World War II. Leonard family members included Margaret Bustle, who, after the death of John Bustle, married Martin S. Leonard in 1833. Their children included Robert R. Leonard, father of Pearle Leonard Cavin.
The Sheps Center for Health Services Research was founded in 1968 as the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Services Research Center. It was initially funded by the National Center for Health Services Research. 1991, the Center was named for its first director, Cecil G. Sheps.
The collection of white pharmacist Aros Coke Cecil (1897-1958) of High Point, N.C., consists of a twenty-page photograph album Cecil assembled in 1918, a year after he graduated from the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy. Each album page contains between two and four photographs depicting student social life on the UNC campus and scenes in Chapel Hill, N.C., and High Point, N.C. Included are images of commencement, campus buildings, dormitories, women on campus, an African American man on the university's housekeeping staff, and the University of North Carolina Student Battalion, which became the university's Reserved Officer Training Corps when the United States entered the First World War. Documents related to the draft and Cecil's induction into the United States Army in 1918 are also included.
Handwritten funeral announcements, 1900-1918, for local circulation, giving names of the deceased and the dates and hours for burial services to be held in Cedar Grove Cemetery, probably in Wilson County, N.C.
The Center for International Understanding of the University of North Carolina (System) was founded in 1979 through the efforts of North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt and First Lady Carolyn Hunt. It was known initially as the North Carolina Center for International Understanding (NCCIU). After it became affiliated with the national non-profit organization Friendship Force International (FFI), it was known as the Friendship Force of North Carolina. That affiliation ended in 1988. Though headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., the center has been administratively a part of the University of North Carolina (System) since its inception. Its mission has been to educate North Carolina's business, policy, and education leaders about the world and to foster greater global engagement on the part of the state. Its programs have included numerous international exchanges and partnerships. Since 2002, much of the center's activity has focused on building cultural competency among the state's K-12 students.
The collection includes land grants and surveys, bills of sale, court orders, contracts, business agreements, debt settlements, correspondence, military reports concerning the strength and condition of militia units, a will, and a marriage contract. Many items originated in Davidson County, Tenn., and Cheatham County, Tenn, though Williamson, Sumner, and Crockett counties are also represented.
Collection of white jazz instrumentalist, composer, and avant-garde guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, including self-produced recordable compact discs, vinyl records, and a flyer for the music festival ChadFest 2020. Chadbourne created the artwork for each album. Recordings include performances and compositions by many people, including some Black musicians. Artists include: Chris Eubank, Carrie Shull, Joe Westerlund, David Licht, Karl Straub, Don Helms, Susan Alcorn, Jimmy Carl Black, Dave Fox, Jeb Bishop, John Zorn, Kramer, Michael Hurley, and others. Also included is Chadbourne's 2013 book Dreamory, a collection of his tour and dream diaries and teenage and draft dodging memoirs.
James Chalmers (fl. 1820) resided in Halifax, Va., and had two daughters who attended school in Salem, N.C.
Hope Summerell Chamberlain of Raleigh, N.C., wife of Joseph Weddington Chamberlain, was a clubwoman and author of local history.
The collectionincludes manuscripts by and about members of the Chambers family of Iredell County, N.C. Volumes include the account book, 1816-1865, of Joseph Chambers (1791-1848); account book, 1841-1884, of Joseph Chambers and his son, Pinckney Brown Chambers at Farmville, an Iredell County plantation, and at Morganton and Statesville; merchants' accounts, 1852- 1854, kept at Salisbury, N.C.; captain's record book, 1865, for Company C, 49th North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A.; three volumes of Chambers family history from 1708 to 1918; and miscellaneous letters.
Henry A. (Henry Alexander) Chambers was a native of North Carolina who became a lawyer, historian, legislator, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and United States Post Office agent in Tennessee.
Lenoir Chambers was a native of North Carolina. Chambers worked as a newspaper editor in Norfolk, Va., 1929- 1961, and was the author of Stonewall Jackson (1959) and Salt Water and Printer's Ink (1967).
Chiefly letters addressed to Captain Callcott Chambre at his house in Lambeth near Fox Hall on the south bank of the Thames, at Charing Cross or the Strand, or no address; one letter addressed to George Chambre (probably a brother of Callcott Chambre), Black and White Court, London, from his cousin, ----- Meath); and one to Mr. Henry Martin, who may have been a Chambre cousin. The letters were written chiefly by Callcott Chambre's wife Kathren. The other correspondents--J. Labie (?), William Newman, Thomas Ward (?), ----- Meath, and Judeth (sister of Callcott and George Chambre)--appear to have been personal friends or kinsmen. The letters seem to be concerned with personal and family matters and business arrangements within the circle of family and friends. One of the letters (signature missing) was written aboard the Alice and Frances.
Charles Lyon Chandler (b. 1883) was a United States foreign service officer, Philadelphia banker, history professor, and author.
Margaret Rogers Chandler (fl. 1780s-1860), daughter of John Rogers (1723-1789), patriot leader, member of the Continental Congress, and first chancellor of Maryland, was also descended from the Lee family of Virginia. She married Walter Story Chandler in 1799 and resided in Georgetown, D.C., where she raised a large number of children. One of her sons, Colonel Daniel Thomas Chandler (1820-1877) served on General Robert E. Lee's staff during the Civil War. The collection includes letters, family histories, genealogical papers, and financial and legal documents relating mainly to members of the Chandler, Lee, and Rogers families of Virginia and Maryland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Many of these papers were apparently compiled through genealogical research conducted by Margaret Rogers Chandler. Letters from family members often include genealogical information in reply to Margaret Chandler's inquiries. Most of the correspondence is with Chandler's son, Colonel Daniel Thomas Chandler (1820-1877), concerning family history and family business. Many of the legal and financial documents relate to Daniel Thomas Chandler and his sister, Mary Chandler. Financial information concerns bank dealings and taxes. Legal documents include wills, real estate dealings, deeds, and promises of indenture. A 1926 real estate agreement's connection to the collection is unclear.
Verne E. Chaney established Thomas Dooley Foundation and Intermed Inc., which became Intermed International in 2000. He trained as a general surgeon and later a thoracic surgeon at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Records kept by various Chapel Hill, N.C., weather observers, including records, 1854-1862, by Professor James Phillips; and records, December 1879-1882, by Professors W.B. Phillips and Francis Preston Venable. Also included are weather records, July-August 1880, for Roan Mountain, Mitchell County, N.C.
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, bird lists, mimeographed bulletins, and reports and advertising received by the Club; letters, 1975-1976, from William W. Thomas Junior, of Peking, China, and Joe Jones of Albany, Ga., recounting the history of the Club; and other items.
The Chapel Hill Board of Trade of Chapel Hill, N.C., was established by Chapel Hill business people in July 1905 and endured at least through April 1907. Members who led the organization included J. H. Pratt, H. H. Patterson, and R. L. Strowd. The group met several times a year.
The Chapel Hill Choral Club operated under the aegis of the Music Department of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its members were drawn from both the University and the surrounding communities. From 1949 to 1963, Joel Carter, a professor in the Music Department was the Club's musical director.
The Chapel Hill Council of Churches was an interdenominational organization established in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1947.
The Chapel Hill Country Club apparently was founded in 1907.
The Chapel Hill General Store in Chapel Hill, N.C., was in operation around 1893.
The Chapel Hill Historical Society was formed in 1966 in Chapel Hill, N.C. In 1974, the oral history committee was established to conduct interviews with local Chapel Hill and Carrboro, N.C., residents in an effort to preserve first-hand recollections about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, local African American communities, and local mill-worker communities. One of the first major projects conducted was a series of interviews with men and women who had worked in the Carrboro textile mills in the early and mid-20th century.
The Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Company was incorporated in 1879 and organized in 1880 to mine iron ore found about one mile north of the University of North Carolina. At the time of the company's organization, there were five stockholders: William J. Askew, Preston L. Bridgers, R.R. Bridgers, Robert F. Hoke, and William S. Primrose. Robert Hoke was elected chair of the company and William Primrose was elected secretary. Mining began in November 1880 and appears to have continued into the 1890s. By 1892, however, the mine seems to have closed.
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church was located in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Chapel Hill Telephone Company of Chapel Hill, N.C., apparently began operating in 1901.
Records of the Chapel Hill Woman's Club, Chapel Hill, N.C., including board and general meeting minutes, secretary's reports, treasurer's files, yearbooks, pamphlets, club directories, periodicals, and other materials.
The collection of the Chapel of the Cross, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, N.C., includes a minute book, 1895-1897, of the meetings of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at the Chapel of the Cross and blueprints and other materials, 1913-1979, concerning construction and renovations of the building and grounds of the church.
Sophia Chapin Tunnell (fl. 1852-1896) was a native of New England who moved to teach school in South Carolina and Kansas. The collection is chiefly papers of Sophia Chapin (later Mrs. Robert M. Tunnell), including letters from her to her father, Moses Chapin, in Massachusetts and Vermont, describing life in Abbeville District, S.C., in the 1850s; her occasional diary, 1870-1896, while she was living in Kansas; letters from relatives in Brandenburg, Ky., 1859-1860; autograph albums; and other items.
F. Stuart Chapin, noted urban and regional planner, whose primary research interests included urban and regional growth systems and human activity patterns. Chapin was professor of urban and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also founded and directed the Center for Urban and Regional Studies and worked with the Institute for Research in Social Science.
Alfred Chapman (1813-1876), native of Orange County, Va., was an official of the United States and Confederate war departments.
Charles Albert Chapman, apparently a Virginia native, attended the United States Army's Command and General Staff School of the General Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 1925-1926. In 1926, he began a tour of duty as an instructor at an Army school in Hawaii. In 1931-1933, he was at various Army camps in Illinois. Agnes Gray Butterworth, also from Virginia, taught school in Hampton, Va. An undated business card included in the collection suggests that she may later have been an interior decorator with the Hecht Company in Washington, D.C.
John Kenyon Chapman (1947-2009), known as Yonni, was a white, life-long social justice activist, organizer, and historian who focused his academic and social efforts on workers rights and African American empowerment in central North Carolina. Chapman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1947; graduated from Harvard University in 1969; and then moved to Atlanta, Ga., to join the fight for African American equality. He relocated to North Carolina in 1975 and worked as a laboratory technician at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital for about ten years. During this time, Chapman became active in local social justice struggles and community organizations. He helped organize his coworkers against unfair working conditions, became involved with the Communist Workers Party, and participated in African liberation and anti-apartheid struggles. Chapman was a survivor of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979. Throughout the 1980s, he was active in progressive social justice campaigns. In the 1990s and 2000s, Chapman was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he focused his activism and academic work on historical accuracy, African American empowerment, and civil rights education in and around Chapel Hill. During this time, Chapman founded and directed two racial and social justice organizations: the Freedom Legacy Project in 1995 and the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth in 2005. From 2002 to 2005, Chapman ran a successful campaign to abolish the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award on campus, an action that opened a dialogue about the history of slavery and racism on campus. After a 30-year battle with cancer, Chapman died on 22 October 2009 in Chapel Hill. The collection documents Yonni Chapman's social activism and academic activities, covering nearly four decades of progressive racial, social, and economic justice struggles in central North Carolina. Organizational correspondence, notes, newsletters, and reports document the activities of the Communist Workers Party, the Federation for Progress, the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, the New Democratic Movement, the Freedom Legacy Project, and the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, among other organizations on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and in Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and Greensboro. Workers rights and racial justice campaigns and commemorations, including the Greensboro Massacre and the campaign to end the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award on campus, are documented in paper, audio, visual, and photographic formats. Photographs, slides, contact prints, photographic negatives, posters, banners, signs, and screen-printed t-shirts, chiefly created by Chapman, document a variety of demonstrations, meetings, and social justice events. Audio and video materials, largely created by Chapman include documentaries, meetings, speeches, and demonstrations captured on audio cassettes, VHS tapes, 8mm video cassettes, and DVDs. Research materials for Chapman's graduate doctoral work include audio and paper files of interviews with participants in the Chapel Hill civil rights movement. There are also audio files recorded by Chapman on a digital voice recorder in the year leading up to his death that contain lengthy discussions with local activists about continuing his social justice work after his death; audio recordings and a video photograph montage from Chapman's 2009 memorial service; photographs of Chapman with friends and family; and other items.
Kena King Chapman (1839-1892) of Smithfield, Va., was an ordnance officer and 2nd lieutenant in Company A, 19th Virginia Battalion, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, Confederate States of America. The collection is Chapman's diary, 3 April-24 April 1865, while serving in the Confederate army, describing the surrender at Appomattox and the closing days of the war, as well as his journey home to Smithfield, Va. The diary also includes some financial accounts, a list of men present at the surrender at Appomattox, and poems.
William Gerard Chapman (1877-1945) was the president of the International Press Bureau of Chicago.
Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (1763-1844), French General of the Army, sometime ambassador to Vienna, and one of the marshals of France during the Empire, was acting as governor of Hanover from June 1804 to September 1805 and was in command of an army corps from Hanover. In 1810, he was elected crown prince Charles John of Sweden, and was King Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway, 1818-1844.
The collection contains a ledger of customers' accounts in Charleston, S.C., for gunsmithing, blacksmithing, brass work, clock repair, locks and keys, buggy and boat repairs, and various kinds of home repairs.
The collection is a volume containing minutes, October 1819-April 1836, of monthly meetings of the Charleston Board of Fire Masters, including reports on the condition of the public fire squads and their equipment, expenses incurred in recent fires, work on public wells and pumps, water casks, engine houses and other necessities, and names and members of various squads; and clippings, 1880s and 1890s, concerning the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association of Charleston.
Established in 1972 by Robert M. Hicklin, Jr., the Charleston Renaissance Gallery is a fine art dealer in Charleston, S.C. The collection contains reference files prepared by the gallery on the artists that they represented. Files contain articles, photographic materials, and other information about artists and their works as well as materials relating to the transactions managed by the gallery. Also included is the Charlston Renaissance Gallery website, harvest beginning March 2019.
Alexander Charns, a lawyer from Durham, N.C., wrote Cloak and Gavel (1992), a study of the relationship between the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Albert A. Chase served in the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment as acting assistant surgeon from 7 April to 28 June 1865. At the end of the war, Chase was contracted by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, to serve as a physician in the Raleigh district of North Carolina.
Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955), a native of Massachusetts, was professor, 1910-1918, and president, 1919-1930, of the University of North Carolina; president of the University of Illinois, 1930-1933; and later chancellor of New York University.
Nancy Winbon Chase of Eureka, Wayne County, N.C., chaired the Women's Division of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, 1951-1961, and was the representative from Wayne County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1962-1978.
The collection is a 1936 typed manuscript titled "A Soldier in the Saddle: Portraying the Life and Character of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest" by Claude McVeigh Chastain, a white salesman, department store manager, and self-taught historian residing in Charlotte, N.C. This biography is focused on the Confederate officer's experience during the American Civil War and does not touch on Forrest's Ku Klux Klan leadership during Reconstruction.
The collection contains records of unrelated businesses in, and of the local government of Chatham County, N.C., including general merchants' ledgers and daybooks; blacksmiths' accounts; trustees' and executors' accounts; the docket book of a local court, 1825-1848; accounts reported by local officials, 1846- 1868, including the sheriff and superintendents of common schools; and a record of hours worked and wages paid, 1898-1900, at a Bynum textile mill owned by John Milton Odell (born 1831). Among the persons represented are James Gaines, William Merony, Robert Ragland, Charles Judson Williams, H. C. Luther, William Patterson, J. W. Hooker, George W. Thompson, Eliza A. Leach, Isaac Clegg, Thomas J. Clegg, Womack & Moore, James M. Farrar, and W. A. Nash. Among the localities represented are Pittsboro, St. Lawrence, Oak Forest, and Bymun.
The collection contains detailed letters, 25 March and 31 March 1777, and reports from James Milles, manager of the iron furnace on Tick Creek, Chatham County, N.C., for the Revolutionary government of North Carolina. The reports are directed to Archibald Maclaine (1728-1790), a state commissioner.
Richard Thurmond Chatham, Democratic congressman, industrialist, and philanthropist of Elkin, N.C., worked for the Chatham Manufacturing Company, owned by his family and the world's largest manufacturer of blankets, 1919-1955; served in the U.S. Navy, 1917-1919 and 1942-1945; and served in the U.S. Congress, 1949-1957, where he was a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Letters from Kemp Battle, W. B. Phillips, and J. M. Horner to Edward A. Oldham on the life and character of John Chavis, African-American educator.
The Cheairs and Hughes families of Maury County, Tenn. included Nathaniel Francis Cheairs (1818-1914).
MICROFILM ONLY. Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886) was born in Nashville, Tenn. He served in the United States Army as captain and colonel in the Mexican War, later going to California, 1849-1853, and returning to Tennessee to serve as major general in the state militia during the 1850s. Cheatham became a major-general in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served under Polk, Hardee, and Hood. Personal correspondence and military papers of Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, relating chiefly to his Mexican War experiences, his Civil War activities, and post-war discussions of Confederate military activity. Fragments of reports of Civil War military engagements, Confederate Army maps, and Mexican War muster rolls. Three volumes contain a diary and memoranda covering parts of Cheatham's Mexican War experiences; muster rolls of a company of the 1st Regiment 1st Brigade, Tennessee Volunteer Militia (circa 1846), which Cheatham led; and notes and rolls of a Nashville military company, 1892-1893, led by one B. F. Cheatham, presumably Cheatham's son.
John Cheesborough was born in Georgetown, S.C. He was cashier of the Bank of Charleston, first in Charleston, S.C., and later in Columbia, S.C. Anderson died at Biltmore, N.C.
William Cherry was a resident of Edgecombe County, N.C.
Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850-1932) was Episcopal bishop of North Carolina from 1893 until 1932.
G.K. Chesterton was an English essayist, literary and social critic, novelist, and poet.
Members of the Cheves and Wagner families lived in South Carolina and Georgia. Prominent family members included Ann Hrabowska Wagner (fl. 1814-1818) of Charleston, S.C.; Langdon Cheves (1776-1857) of South Carolina, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1814-1815) and president of the Bank of the United States (1819-1822); Mrs. Charles West (fl. 1879-1919) of Baltimore, apparently Langdon Cheves's daughter; and Charlotte McCord Cheves (fl. 1853-1878) of Savannah, Ga., wife of Cheves's son, Langdon Cheves, Jr.
Francis Thornton Chew was a Confederate naval officer.
The Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Chi Psi Fraternity was originally chartered 16 November 1855 and was the first chapter of Chi Psi established in the South. It was active until the Civil War, but at the onset of war, it dissolved. It was re-established as a local fraternity at the University in 1923, but was not re-chartered as a chapter of Chi Psi until 1928. Since that time it has remained one of the most active and respected fraternities on campus. The records of the Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Chi Psi Fraternity consist mainly of correspondence, minutes of annual meetings, chapter publications, and chapter histories.
James Saxon Childers (1899-1965) of Alabama was a writer and editor.
The collection is one sheet of a ledger account, 1851, for groceries and supplies purchased from Robert Childers by C. C. Green, location unknown.
Members of the Norton, Chilton, and Dameron families were planters of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Edward J. Chilton was a student at the University of North Carolina who served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was born in Brownsville, Tenn., in October 1840. After working as a farmer, he entered the University of North Carolina in 1859, where he was a member of the Dialectic Society. He died at the Siege of Yorktown in 1862.
William D. Chipley was an officer in the 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes a book of autographs of fellow prisoners and songs and poems by various authors, collected by Chipley while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio.
Mrs. W. S. Chisholm was a resident of Savannah, Ga.
The collection chiefly contains papers of James Heyward North (1815-1893) of Charleston, S.C., United States and Confederate naval officer, and purchasing agent for the Confederate Navy in Europe. He and his wife, Emily, wrote from sea, from England and France in 1861-1866, and from their farm, to his sisters and his daughter Eliza Drayton (Mrs. Alfred) Chisolm in South Carolina. The letters concern family matters and their travels. Also letters of Alfred and John Chisolm while serving in the Confederate Army with the Marion Artillery and Boykin's Rangers in Virginia, on the coast of South Carolina, and in North Carolina, to their mother, Jane Chisolm (Mrs. William C.) Bee.
Michael Chitwood, a freelance writer living in Chapel Hill, N.C., was raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. He has published books of poetry, including Whet (1995), Salt Works (1992), and The Weave Room (1998). The collection consists chiefly of published poems in journals and other publications of Michael Chitwood, 1978-1997. Also included are poetry journals; handwritten drafts of poems from Salt Works, Whet, and The Weave Room; drafts of miscellaneous poems; a small amount of correspondence; and some other materials regarding Chitwood's published works.
Eliza Williams Chotard (b. 1798), wife of William P. Gould, grew up in Alabama and other southern states. The collection is Chotard's autobiography, written circa 1868 for her daughter, about her early life in the South, the Chotard family experiences in New Orleans during the war with the British in 1812, and Williams, Chotard, and Willis family background. It consists of the handwritten original of pages 9-28 and microfilm of a typed transcription of the entire work (32 pages).
Contains materials documenting the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Invisible Empire, Inc., a white supremacist organization formed in North Carolina in 1985 that later organized chapters in Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina. This collection includes a small amount of correspondence to and from Ku Klux Klan members, minutes of the Lincolnton, N.C. (Bull Dog Unit 213) chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from February 1990 to April 1993, a small amount of correspondence related to requests for parade permits from N.C. town governments, photocopied newsletters from Imperial Wizard Virgil L. Griffin and Grand Dragon Charles Beasley from 1989 through 1993, a few white supremacist newspapers, fliers promoting the Klan and marches, constitution and laws of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a business card for Imperial Wizard Virgil L. Griffin. The minutes record the routine activities of a Klan meeting (opening prayer, acceptance or recruitment of new members, upcoming marches, fundraising, and occasional related to racial incidents at schools or other venues. The newsletters offer further discussions on current events and white supremacy. These items materials offer a look at the day-to-day (or week-to-week) operations of a white supremacist organization and provide numerous examples of racist newsletters.
The Church of the Saviour was an Episcopal church in Jackson, Northampton County, N.C., that was founded before the Civil War.
Clinton A. Cilley, native of New Hampshire, lawyer, and U.S. Army colonel in the Civil War, who moved to Lenoir and Hickory in western North Carolina after the war, became a judge, and married Emma Sophia Harper (1844-1922), daughter of James Clarence Harper (1819-1890).
The collection contains miscellaneous papers relating to United States forces during and immediately after the Civil War, including United States naval orders and correspondence, 1863-1865; muster rolls and pay rolls, 1864; a United States Bureau of Information manuscript, 1863, listing the organization of the Army of Northern Virginia; a narrative report of signal activities at Beaufort, N.C., in connection with seige of Fort Macon, N.C., 1862; a manuscript outline of General George Stoneman's last cavalry raid, 1865, written in 1867 by a participant; maps of waterways in Vicksburg, Miss., and Savannah, Ga.; an account of the siege of Fort Pulaski, Ga., by a member of the 48th New York Infantry Regiment, which operated siege guns on Jones and Daufuskie Island, S.C.; a Union soldier's description of treatment in rebel jails, 1865; a letter of complaint regarding the federal occupation of the North Carolina Military Institute, 1865; and miscellaneous pictures, biographical sketches, and other papers.
The collection contains collected specimens of unused envelopes, decorated with Union and Confederate patriotic and polemic sentiments, mottos, cartoons, and emblems, mounted in an album. There are 350 Union items, 215 Confederate. The spine of the album is imprinted Envelopes of the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865.
Letters to Clack of Brownsville, Granville County, N.C., mainly from Allie S. Clack, her brother, while he was serving with the 23rd North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A., in Virginia and North Carolina and recovering in a Virginia hospital, concerning his experiences in camp, battle, and hospital. One other letter, 2 October 1862, is from Carrie Clack's cousin, John R. Clack, describing the Confederate victory at Harper's Ferry, W.Va.
J.F.H. Claiborne was a white lawyer, U.S. Representative, editor, planter, and historian of Mississippi and Louisiana. The collection has relatively few items pertaining to Claiborne's personal activities but includes letters he wrote while a law student in Wytheville, Va.; records of the 1842-1843 commission on Choctaw Indian claims; a few papers of Governor John Anthony Quitman; diary of Willis Herbert Claiborne as a Confederate officer at Vicksburg in April-July 1863; J.L. Power's notes on the Mississippi secession convention; materials collected by Claiborne in preparation of his history of Mississippi, among them biographical and autobiographical material on prominent leaders, including photographs of Colonel William F. Dowd; writings of Claiborne and others on a wide variety of contemporary and historical subjects; and a Mississippi pocket map.
Chiefly letters received, 1813-1836, by Magdalene Hutchins Claiborne, wife of Ferdinand Leigh Claiborne, near Natchez, Miss., from her Louisiana and Virginia relatives about personal and family matters. Also included are printed funeral notices and other correspondence, including a letter from Jefferson and Varina Davis accepting a wedding invitation.
Thomas Claiborne was a United States and Confederate army officer from Nashville, Tenn. The collection includes family correspondence, military papers, and reminiscences of Claiborne, including military records, letters to his wife Annie A. (Maxwell) Claiborne, and letters from relatives and fellow officers while he was with the United States army in Oregon, New Mexico, and other places in the West, 1849-1861; personal and military correspondence as a Confederate staff and cavalry officer in both the Virginia and Tennessee theaters of the Civil War; and slight postwar correspondence. The recollections, written circa 1890's, cover the Mexican War, frontier service, and the early part of the Civil War.
MICROFILM ONLY. Contemporary transcriptions of business letters and original records of accounts of Clark and Carnal of Plymouth, Washington County, N.C., factors dealing in corn, rum, salt, tar, cotton yarn, and other commodities.
Members of the Clark and Blizzard families resided chiefly in Clinton and Fayetteville, N.C., and in Patterson, N.J., as did members of the related Kernshaw and Hightower families.
Henry Toole Clark, Jr. (1917-), of Scotland Neck, N.C., was a white medical doctor, professor of community medicine, and university administrator in medical schools in the United States and the West Indies, and a consultant on planning and operating university health centers. Henry Toole Clark Jr.'s papers document his professional career, civic activities, and personal life. The bulk of the collection relates to Clark's employment as a medical administrator at the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina, and as director of the Connecticut Regional Medical Program (CRMP). Much material relates to his work as director of Project Hope in Jamaica, and his extensive consulting activity at the Tuskegee Institute, in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic, and at the University of Leiden and the National Institutes of Health. Materials relating to his participation in professional organizations, including the Society of American Administrators, the American Hospital Association, and the Association for Academic Health Centers, are also included. In addition, Clark's involvement with tennis, church, and and charities, such as Habitat for Humanity, in Chapel Hill, N.C., and in Woodbridge, Conn., and with alumni affairs at the University of North Carolina, with Sigma Nu fraternity, and at the University of Rochester are also documented.
James Clark (1779-1839) was a circuit judge, state legislator, United States representative, and governor of Kentucky. The collection includes a letter from Clark, while a United States representative from Kentucky in Washington, D.C., to Colonel Leslie Combs, Lexington, Ky., commenting on proposed changes in the judiciary system, Creek Indian lands in Georgia, and confidential sessions on nominations for the United States representative to the Panama Congress to be held later that year.
MICROFILM ONLY. Ten letters, 1854, 1861-1863, and 1879, to or from Amanda Farr Hall, her husband, and brothers of Hinds County, Miss.; and a farm journal, 1853-1856, of William Henry Anderson, Hinds County. Most of the letters are to Hall from her husband, B. F. Hall, serving in the Confederate Army in Tennessee, discussing camp life, impending battles, concern about Vicksburg, and other matters. The journal is a record of a variety of farm tasks and also includes descriptions of personal and family activities.
Walter Clark (1846-1924) was a Confederate soldier, orator, historian, and chief justice of North Carolina. The collection includes scattered papers including speeches on political, religious, and civic occasions; miscellaneous literary writings; notes concerning legal rights of women; bills from a European trip, 1881; clippings; and miscellaneous other papers of Clark. Included is a letter, 1889, from William Jennings Bryan to Clark about the popular election of judges and senators and the Philippines. Also included are Civil War reminiscences by two North Carolina women. One of these, handwritten with typed transcription, is unascribed; it was written about experiences in Hillsborough, N.C. The other, typescript only, is apparently by a Mrs. Wiswall of Washington, N.C.
Desmond Clarke was a librarian of the Royal Dublin Society and biographer of Arthur Dobbs (1868-1765), colonial governor of North Carolina.
Henry S. Clarke was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina, 1845-1847, and afterwards a lawyer in Greenville, N.C.
Mary Bayard Clarke (1827-1886) was poet and novelist of North Carolina and Texas.
Confederate soldier. Chiefly letters, 1862-1863, to Clarke from his father, Colin Clarke (1792-1865), planter and lawyer, living at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Va., describing hardships of life under occupation by Union forces during the Civil War. The letters describe difficulties obtaining food and clothing, trouble with slaves, prices of commodities, methods of smuggling articles through the Union lines, and depredations by federal troops. Also included are a short autobiography of Maxwell Clarke, written in 1890, describing his education in the antebellum period and his Confederate Army experiences; some Confederate commissions and orders; and genealogical material on the Clarke, Goode, and Bland families.
William J. Clarke of New Bern and Raleigh, N.C., was a businessman, Confederate officer, and postwar Republican leader. Clarke married poet and novelist Mary Bayard (Devereux) Clarke (1827-1886).
Francis Osborne Clarkson (1895-1984), of Charlotte, N.C., was a University of North Carolina alumnus (1916), lawyer, North Carolina Senator, and North Carolina Superior Court judge. He was married to Cama Burgess Clarkson. His father, North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Heriot Clarkson (1863-1942), and his mother, Mary Osborne Clarkson, also lived in Charlotte, N.C. The Clarkson family spent significant time in Little Switzerland, a vacation community in Western North Carolina that was founded circa 1909 by Heriot Clarkson. Josephine A. Osborne (1880-1966) was Francis O. Clarkson's aunt. Her father, Edwin Augustus Osborne (1837-1926), was a lawyer, Confederate colonel, Episcopal priest, and superintendent of Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, N.C.; he also served as a chaplain in the Spanish-American War.
Heriot Clarkson (1863-1942) of Charlotte, N.C., was a lawyer, state and local official, and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1923-1942.
The Classic Sounds of the South Collection includes audio and video recordings of concert performances by country music artists Tift Merritt and the Carbines, Johnny Irion, and Sarah Lee Guthrie, as well as a concert poster by graphic artist Ron Liberti resulting from a concert series sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Folklore, 7-8 December 2001.
Undated account (10 p.) of a white eyewitness, Thomas W. Clawson, then city editor of the Wilmington (N.C.) Messenger, of the November 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup, called "race riots" by its white supremacist supporters, that murdered Black citizens, overthrew elected government, drove opposition Black and white political leaders out of Wilmington, and destroyed Black-owned property and businesses. Also included is a notarized copy of the editorial, 18 August 1898, concerning southern womanhood by African American newspaper editor Alexander L. Manly, which was used by white supremacists to incite the massacre and coup.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, 1832-1839, to Francis Sorrel of Savannah, Ga., from Alexander Claxton, native of Maryland and commodore in the United States Navy, concerning family and professional matters in Baltimore, Md., and New York, N.Y.
Charles Clay was an Anglican priest and farmer in Albemarle and Bedford counties, Va.
Letter, 29 July 1818, from Thomas Fearn, an Alabamian in London, to C. C. Clay, Huntsville, Ala., discussing his plan for emancipating the slaves in Alabama, his medical studies, and a proposed reading room in Huntsville.
Henry Clay (1777-1852) of Kentucky was a United States Senator, Representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and unsuccessful presidential candidate. The collection contains three original letters (two from Henry Clay, one to him); an undated note from Clay to Louisa Smith; a newspaper clipping of a letter from Clay to J. M. Clayton, 1844; photoprints of two letters from Clay; and a statement about two of the original letters. The original letters are one from Charles Burchard and John J. Foote to Clay, 1844, asking him to issue a statement of his stand on slavery; Clay's response to Burchard and Foote, indicating that his stand was well known; and one from Clay to S. W. Whiting, 1844, about an error made in the publication of one of Clay's speeches. The photoprints are of a letter, 1837, from Clay to Seth Wheatley about political matters, and from Clay to Hamilton Smith, 1834, about politics and commerce.
Papers of Joseph Clay, mainly 1860-1865, including Confederate passes, circulars, military orders, tax returns, army engineers' records of slaves impressed to work on Savannah defenses, bills, and receipts; and property papers from Chatham, Bryan, and Thomas counties, Ga.
The collection is a letter from Mary Clay (1766-1803), a teenage girl in Camden, S.C., to her sister Anne (Nancy) Clay in Savannah, Ga., with a description of a dance she attended and a brief reference to the British occupation of Charleston, S.C.
Frances Broadfoot Claypoole was a genealogist from New Bern, N.C. The collection is primarily letters written to Claypoole during the 1930s and 1940s requesting data on branches of her family and various other New Bern families. Also included are a few financial and legal papers and letters, 1766-1856, the earlier ones relating to business in Boston, Mass., and the later ones to land ownership and other business in eastern North Carolina.
Thomas L. Clayton (1834-1905) of Asheville, N.C., was the son of Ephraim Clayton (1804-1892) and Nancy McElroy Clayton (d. 1892). He married Emma A. Clayton (1829-1887). During the Civil War, Clayton served in the Confederate army, stationed in Georgia during the Atlanta campaign in 1864, and later in Alabama. After the war, Clayton became a contractor with the Western North Carolina Railroad. Chiefly letters between Thomas L. Clayton and his wife Emma, many written while he was serving in the Confederate army. Other correspondents include Clayton's father, mother, brother, and friends in the Confederate army. Topics include the election of Abraham Lincoln and the southern reaction, fears of possible slave uprisings, and feelings in Asheville about secession. After Thomas Clayton joined the Confederate army, there are letters relating to Thomas's war experiences, including reports of battles around Atlanta, Ga., and Emma's trials on the homefront. Post-war letters are chiefly about routine personal and business affairs. Also included are a few items relating to railroad surveying, damage caused by federal troops, and other matters.
Vera Allen Cleaver (1919- ) and Bill (William Joseph) Cleaver (1920-1981) were married in 1945. They collaboratively wrote hundreds of stories for pulp magazines and sixteen novels for children and young adults.
The collection documents the white Clegg family and enslaved and (likely) formerly enslaved people who worked at the family's farms, mercantile businesses, and gold and mineral mines in Moore, Chatham, and Forsyth Counties, N.C. Materials include account ledgers and time books kept by brothers Isaac N. Clegg (1823-1864), Thomas J. Clegg (1828-1862), and William Baxter Clegg (1834-1912) for Rock Springs Steam Saw Mill and Soapstone Mills, with entries for enslaved people and (likely) formerly enslaved people, usually listed with only a first name; a copy of a January 1865 letter concerning conscription of people enslaved at the farm of William Baxter Clegg to work on fortifications for the Confederate States of America Army; scattered financial documents; documents from the mid-1870s pertaining to the establishment of a Moore County, N.C., chapter of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; copies of an 1890s political newsletter titled The Shooting Stick; correspondence received by Marie Lee Clegg (1872-1960) in the late 1890s; and William Russell Clegg's University of North Carolina law school notebooks from circa 1905. Other white Clegg family members represented in the collection include Isaac N. Clegg (1823-1864) and Thomas J. Clegg (1828-1862).
Cyril Clemens (1902- ) was editor of the Mark Twain Journal and president of an international Mark Twain society. The collection includes letters received by Clemens in connection with the Mark Twain Journal, including responses to inquiries about George Santayana; two letters (photocopies), 1936 and 1951, from Robert Frost to Clemens, about Frost's habits as a correspondent and other matters; and a letter (photocopy), 1943, from Winston Churchill to Clemens, pertaining to Churchill's contact with Mark Twain.
Jesse A. Clement was a farmer of Mocksville, Davie County, N.C.
Josephine Dobbs Clement (1919-1998) was raised in Atlanta, Ga., and received her B.S. degree from Spelman College in 1937. She received her M.A. degree from Columbia University the following year. In the late 1940s, she moved with her husband, William A. Clement, to Durham, N.C., where she was active in civic affairs and in Durham and North Carolina politics. Her activities included co-chairing the successful gubernatorial campaigns of Democrat James Hunt's in Durham County in 1980 and 1984. The collection includes correspondence relating to Josephine Clement's work with a variety of business and civic organizations in Durham, N.C., and Durham County, N.C., including the Durham City Board of Education; the Durham County Board of Commissioners; the North Carolina Democratic Party, especially on James Hunt's 1980 and 1984 gubernatorial campaigns; and the White Rock Baptist Church. There are also letters and other materials pertaining to Clement's personal life and to the lives and civic work of her husband, William A. Clement, and their children, including William A. Clement, Jr. Also included are materials relating to other Dobbs, Jackson, and Clement family members, among them Mattiwilda Dobbs, June Dobbs Butts, and Maynard H. Jackson.
William A. Clement was an executive of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and a business and civic leader in Durham, N.C. He was married to Josephine Dobbs Clements and was the father of six children. The collection contains personal and professional papers of Clement, including correspondence, clippings, speeches, reports, pictures, and other items documenting his family life, career, and business and civic activities, as well as his participation in church and fraternal organizations. Included are letters and other materials relating to North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; insurance organizations, including American College of Bryn Mawr, Pa. (formerly the American College of Chartered Life Underwriters), the Life Insurance Agency Management Association, Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association, and the National Insurance Association; Penn Community Services (formerly Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School) of St. Helena Island, S.C.; corporate boards, such as Wachovia Bank and North Carolina Central University; civic and fraternal organizations, such as the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Democratic Party, Durham Academy, the Madeira School, Talladega College Alumni Association, the United Fund of Durham and Durham County, and White Rock Baptist Church. Clement's business and civic expertise and influence also connected him to Durham political and economic issues, including urban renewal of the Hayti Shopping Center. There are also photographs, apparently from the 1930s and 1940s, of African American men and women, both portraits and in groups engaged in social activities.
A. H. Cleveland served in the 10th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery regiments during the Civil War. During April 1865, Cleveland's unit occupied Raleigh, N.C. Following news of General Robert E. Lee's surrender, Cleveland marched with General William T. Sherman's army towards Washington, D.C.
Edmund Janes Cleveland (1842-1902) of New Jersey was a federal soldier with Company K, 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment who served during the Civil War in eastern North Carolina, 1864-1865.
The collection contains a poem entitled A Prayer for Louisiana, by Zuleika Haralson Cleveland, written during Reconstruction, praying for deliverance from Republican control.
The collection includes the papers of the Click family of Rowan County, N.C., consisting chiefly of deeds and wills; a letter, 1835, from relatives who had moved to Indiana reporting conditions there; family letters and papers related to the sale of tobacco, 1880-1895; and scattered items pertaining to the Lutheran church in North Carolina. The family name was also spelled Glucke and Gluicke.
The collection includes three daybooks, 1833-1835, 1841-1843, and 1861-1865, for Young and Allison and R. W. Allison, general merchants in Concord, N.C., and another, 1841-1843, from Hallowell, Me., each showing names of customers, items purchased, and prices in a chronological record of transactions.
William Pinkney Cline was a smith from Catawba County, N.C., who joined the Confederate Army as a private in the 46th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, also known as the Catawba Braves, on 13 March 1862. He saw action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. He deserted on 19 August 1863, returning on 28 September 1863. After a stay in the guardhouse, he returned to duty in the spring of 1864 and was killed in action at the Wilderness on 5 May 1864.
The collection includes family, political, and business papers of several prominent western North Carolinians, including Mrs. Jane (Poindexter) Clingman of Yadkin county, chiefly family correspondence; her son-in-law, Richard Clauselle Puryear (1801-1867), Yadkin planter, Whig U.S. representative, 1853-1857, and member of the Confederate Congress, including bills, receipts, accounts, letters written from Washington, D.C., letters written and received at Richmond, Va., during the Civil War, and an account book for blacksmith and wagon-body work; and her son, Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897), U.S. senator and Confederate general. T. L. Clingman's Papers, 1828-1890, chefly concern his mining and mineral interests, including gold mines in Georgia, the Chestatee Hydraulic Company of New York and Georgia, the Yahoola Rver and Cane Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company of Boston, and lands and minerals in western North Carolina. Political correspondence for the 1850s is included, relating primarily to North Carolina. Also available is an account of General George Stoneman's Raid, April 1865, on the Puryear family home in Yadkin County.
T. L. (Thomas Lanier) Clingman was a businessman, mountain explorer, Confederate officer, and legislator for North Carolina and the United States.
The collection is the monthly records of cotton weighed in the Port of New York, including New York City warehouses, New York docks, Staten Island, New York Warehousing Company, Franklin Stores, Harbeck V. Watson Stores, Clinton Stores, unlicensed stores, on shipboard, and at presses.
Caroline Elizabeth Burgwin Clitherall was a plantation owner's wife and school teacher who lived in Belleville and Walterboro, S.C., at Thornbury Plantation in North Carolina, and in Greensboro, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile, Ala. Her husband George Campbell Clitherall (d. 1829) was a planter and physician. Her children Eliza Inglis Clitherall Moore (1802-1886), Harriet A. Clitherall Spotts (1808-1834), George Bush Burgwin Clitherall (1814-1889), Frances King Clitherall Battle (1817-1849), Madeleine Clitherall Battle (b. 1818), and Alexander Baron Clitherall (1820-1869). She was the daughter of John Burgwin (fl. 1751-1800) and Eliza Bush Burgwin (d. 1787) of the Hermitage near Wilmington, N.C.
James Clitherall travelled as an escort to Mary Izard Middleton (Mrs. Arthur) and Henrietta Middleton Rutledge (Mrs. Edward), wives of two members of the Continental Congress, from Charleston, S.C., to Philadelphia, Pa., in April-July 1776.
The collection of white locomotive engineer and photographer, Frank Clodfelter, consists of fourteen black-and-white negatives with a corresponding contact sheet (1952-1981); color photographic slides (1964-1981), and manuscript materials. The black-and-images depict railroads and scenery in Western North Carolina. The color photographic slides depict railroads, steam engines, and scenic views; the Centennial celebration of Saluda, North Carolina; the Delware and Hudson Railway sesquicentennial in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and views of New York and Eastern Tennessee. The manuscript materials include the original envelopes (with typewritten descriptions) for the images in Series 1, an itemized list of the color slides in Series 2, and a promotional flyer for the book Fog and Steam: A Regional Look at Steam in North America.
Susan Letitia Rice Clotworthy (1885-1931), of Hillman, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., compiled genealogical data regarding the Gaines and related families, who were located in many places in the South and West, including Alabama, California, Georgia, and Mississippi. The collection includes chiefly correspondence, 1885-1936, and genealogical data about inter-related southern families, including the Booker, Broaddus, Carnahan, Dalton, Everett, Gaines, Hall, Jennings, Lyne, Madison, Martin, Nicklin, Pendleton, Potter, Rice, Royce, and Taylor families. Eighteenth-century items are chiefly wills and copied letters, and early 19th-century items are very scattered correspondence of members of the Gaines family located in many places in the South and West, including George Strother Gaines (1784-1873), pioneer of Alabama and Mississippi.
The Club, a women's social group in Chapel Hill, N.C., that functioned from 1932 to 1982. The main purpose of the Club was for the members to become better acquainted with each other over their mending bags and baskets, but most meetings also included short programs of intellectual value presented by each member in turn. Membership was limited to 12 persons.
The Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH) was an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light Company's Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C.
William Coalman served in the 6th Regiment of North Carolina Troops in the army of the Confederate States of America. Howell A. Curtis served in this regiment as well. Coalman was married to Elizabeth Curtis, sister of Howell A. Curtis and daughter of Madison Curtis, the recipient of the letter.
Albert Coates (1896-1989) was director of the Institute of Government at the University, 1931-1962, and a professor in the University of North Carolina's School of Law. In 1928, he married Gladys Jane Hall (1902-2002), who by all accounts played an important and integral role in many of the projects that Albert Coates undertook.
MICROFILM AND PAPER: All but one item (speech of Carrie Hunter) are microfilm of originals in private hands at time of filming. Miscellaneous papers of two families, the Cobbs of Georgia and the Hunters of Alabama, united in the marriage of James Edward Cobb of Thomaston Ga., and Liberty Tex., and Caroline (Carrie) Elizabeth Hunter of Tuskegee, Ala. The collection includes fragments of a young man's diary of a journey, 1819, from Georgia to Cahaba, Ala., to locate new lands; a book of William A. Cobb of Georgia, father of J. E. Cobb, with memoranda of dealings with overseers and notes on his experiences while a volunteer officer in the 1836 Creek War; Carrie Hunter's extensive diary, 1860-1868, at Tuskegee; letters of Carrie's brothers, James (d. 1863?) and Hope, who joined the Confederate Army, and her speech to their company upon presenting them with a flag sewn by the ladies of Tuskegee; J. E. Cobb's diary, 1862-1864, as a Confederate officer in the 5th Texas Regiment serving in Virginia, and his letters from federal prisons, 1864-1865, to a young lady from Baltimore; the diary and memoranda, 1863, of Captain D. U. Barziza of the 5th Texas Regiment, during the Gettysburg Campaign; and other items.
Collier Cobb, a white geologist and professor at the University of North Carolina, was born in 1862 in Wayne County, N.C., the eldest of the seven children of Martha Louisa Cobb and Needham Bryan Cobb, a Baptist minister and the first person to receive a Master's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1856. Collier Cobb attended Wake Forest College, 1878-1880, and the University of North Carolina briefly in 1880. In 1879, he completed hisSchool Map of North Carolina, which was adopted by the State Board of Education and went through six editions. From 1889 to 1886, he taught school. From 1885 to 1889, he studied at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Annisquan, Mass., and at Harvard University, where he studied geology and also worked as an assistant on the United States Geological Survey. In 1892, he returned to Chapel Hill to become assistant professor of geology at the University of North Carolina. He eventually became head of the Geology Department, retiring in 1933. Besides teaching at the University, Cobb was also involved in community activities, especially those relating to schools. Cobb was married first Mary Lindsay Battle, with whom he had three children (William Cobb, Collier Cobb Jr., and Mary Louisa Cobb), second Lucy Battle, a cousin of his first wife; and third Mary Knox Gatlin of Little Rock, Ark. Cobb's sister, Lucy M. Cobb, was a writer, genealogist, and active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and his daughter, Mary Louisa Cobb, was chief of the Correspondence Bureau of the UNC Extension Division, 1922-1954. The collection chiefly consists of materials relating to the lives and work of Collier Cobb and his sister, Lucy M. Cobb, but there are also materials relating to Collier Cobb's father, Needham Bryan Cobb; Collier Cobb's three wives; his daughter, Mary Louisa Cobb, especially while she was attending Fassifern, a school for girls at Hendersonville, N.C.; his son, Collier Cobb Jr.; and other members of the Cobb family. Included are letters and related materials, both personal and professional. Among the correspondents are botanist Harriet E. Freeman of Boston and geographer/botanist Roland M. Harper. There are also clippings relating to the Cobb family or to scientific subjects and writings by Lucy M. Cobb; Collier Cobb, including a book manuscript on evolution and biographical sketches of Kemp Plummer Battle, Maria Edgeworth, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Joseph Austin Holmes, George Horton, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Denison Olmsted, Laura Battle Philips, William George Randall, and others; as well as journals, account books, address books, a commonplace book, a recipe book, and a family Bible with annotations and enclosed ephemera. Some of the volumes relate to Needham Bryan Cobb's ministerial activities before, during, and after the Civil War. Pictures are of members of Cobb family members, friends, and relatives; the family's Mount Auburn Plantation; the Cobb family homes in Chapel Hill; the University of North Carolina campus; geological field expeditions; and travels. Included is a series of glass plate negatives depicting the University of North Carolina campus, people, travels to Alaska and China, and other subjects. There are also maps; childhood drawings; genealogical materials relating to Lucy M. Cobb's career as genealogical researcher for hire; financial and legal documents belonging to Needham Bryan Cobb; diplomas, including the first Master's degree awarded by the University of North Carolina; and other items. The Addition of 2009 includes Collier Cobb correspondence, writings, and other materials, as well as materials relating to the Chapel Hill, N.C., community activities of Collier Cobb Jr. and his wife, Emma Cobb. There are also photographs of University of North Carolina faculty, Collier Cobb, Nancy Cobb, Collier Cobb Jr., and Emma Cobb.
The Cobb and Whitfield families of North Carolina and Florida included John P. Cobb (1834-1923), who was born in Wayne County, N.C., married Sally Eliza Whitfield in 1865, and moved to Florida, and James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841) of Falling Creek and Strabane, Lenoir County, N.C., who was a planter, state senator, and major general in the North Carolina militia. The collection includes 18th- and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties. Also included is family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state.
Photographs made by white photographer Collier Cobb in a variety of settings during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, chiefly in Chapel Hill, N.C. and other locations in North Carolina. A majority of the images depict scenes on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection is composed largely of glass plates (slides and negatives), as well as some photographic prints. Subjects depicted in photographs include University of North Carolina buildings, grounds, faculty, staff, students, events, and African Americans at the historically white university; residences and churches in Chapel Hill, N.C.; logging in western North Carolina; North Carolina schools in Bertie, Columbus, Craven, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston, Guilford, Harnett, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Onslow, Robeson, Sampson, and Wake counties. Also included are some images depicting members of the Indigenous communities of modern-day Alaska, Canada, and Siberia which Cobb photographed during a trip to the area. Cobb originally described people depicted in some images as "Eskimo(s)" and "Indian," terms he likely misapplied.
Gaston D. Cobb of Caswell County, N.C., was a surgeon in the United States Army.
The collection contains a typed transcription of the will of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), of Cherry Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Ga. Cobb emancipates William Hill from enslavement and leaves $50 per year to another enslaved man, Fellow Ben. At the discretion of his brother, John A. Cobb, Howell Cobb leaves much of his estate to his nephew, also named Howell Cobb (1815-1868). There is also a $50 check, dated 11 January 1851 and signed by Speaker of the House Howell Cobb, written to U.S. House of Representatives member David Rumsey, Jr., a representative from New York.
Lucy Maria Cobb (1877-1969) was a teacher, professional genealogist, and free-lance writer of Raleigh, N.C.
The collection consists of interviews of Ned Cobb (1885-1973), an African American farmer and a former member of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union in Tallapoosa County, Ala., and his family, by Theodore Rosengarten (1944- ), a white historian of American civilization. The interviews describe Cobb's life as a sharecropper, then independent farmer, in east-central Alabama, his involvement with the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, his 12-year imprisonment for shooting at sheriff's deputies intent on seizing a neighbor's livestock, and his life after leaving prison. Included are 18 tapes of interviews with Ned Cobb, 20 tapes of interviews with his family, and five tapes of interviews with unidentified persons. There is also a small number of tapes containing music and other recordings. Rosengarten edited and re-ordered the interviews for his book All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974).
Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) was a lawyer of Georgia and later a Confederate brigadier general. The collection includes typed transcriptions, chiefly letters, 1858, from Cobb to William Letcher Mitchell (1805-1882), Georgia lawyer, educator, and engineer, written while Cobb was on a trip to New Orleans, up the Mississippi River, to New York City, and south through Virginia. The letters describe the journey and discuss religion and Presbyterian church affairs. Also included is an undated letter from Robert E. Lee to Cobb's brother, Major General Howell Cobb, on the death of Thomas Red Rootes Cobb, who was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
William Borden Cobb of Goldsboro, N.C., served a sergeant in the Chemical Warfare Services section of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Cobb was stationed in La Pallice and Saint Sulpice, France. When the war ended, he attended the American Expeditionary Forces University in Beune, France.
The collection of Calin Coburn documents the performance career of his grandfather, the western singer-songwriter and film actor Bob Nolan, who was leader of the musical group Sons of the Pioneers and author of western song classics including "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" and "Cool Water." Collection materials include promotional photographs, family photographs, posters for western movies, Sons of the Pioneer song catalog with lyrics sheets, sheet music, volumes of Bob Nolan materials compiled by Coburn and Elizabeth Drake McDonald, periodicals and newsletters, copyright documents, and slight, scattered correspondence. The collection also contains audiovisual materials consisting of live performances, demos, studio recordings, test pressings, movie clips and soundtracks, and award ceremony tributes and appearances.
Two mid-19th-century mathematics notebooks of William Kerr Cochran. The notebooks contain mathematical rules, examples, and computations. Cochran, of Scottish descent, is thought to have lived in Rutherford County, N.C. His daughter Mary Jane Cochran (b. 1838) was a school teacher there before moving to Texas around 1883 to live with her sister and brother-in-law John Morehead.
William McWhorter Cochrane (1917- ) of Newton and Chapel Hill, N.C., and Washington, D.C., worked for the United States Senate in various capacities for more than 40 years.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of Cocke family members of Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi, especially General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866) and his sons and sons-in-law. Included are materials documenting plantations owned by family members, family letters, and other items.
Harrison Henry Cocke was a U.S. Navy officer of Prince George County, Va.
Philip Charles Cocke (1879-1949) of Asheville, N.C., was a lawyer, Democratic Party worker, local official, and member of many fraternal orders. He was known as an impromtu speaker and orator for local occasions and celebrations.
William Michael Cocke (1815-1896) of Tennessee was a lawyer, judge, and United States representative, 1845-1849.
Monroe F. Cockrell (born 1884) of Chicago, Ill., was a writer on historical topics. The collection includes miscellaneous papers including maps of the military campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest, including the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 1864, and the Battle of Corinth, Miss., 1862, compiled by Monroe F. Cockrell in the 1940s; a chart of the descendants of Andrew Cockrell; articles on Chapel Hill College of Missouri; information about the burial places of generals killed in the Battle of Franklin; and historical articles, presumably unpublished, by Cockrell, on the Confederacy, specifically concerning Major Wilmer McLean, McLean's homes at Appomattox and Bull Run, Va., P. G. T. Beauregard, and other topics (articles written 1952, 1959, 1963, and distributed by the author in 1964).
MICROFILM ONLY. Scattered family correspondence of Coffee, chiefly letters, 1860- 1862 and undated, from his wife, Somerville Smith Coffee, at Galveston to him while he was in Collin County in north Texas. Somerville Coffee's letters discuss her daily activities, neighbors, and how much she missed her husband. Also included are two letters, 1840 and 1848, from Thomas J. Coffee of Mississippi to his family.
Alexander Donelson Coffee (1821 or 2-1901) of Florence, Ala., son of General John Coffee (1772-1833), was a planter and Confederate captain in the 16th Alabama Infantry Regiment.
The collection contains two military order books for a Tennessee militia regiment and a brigade under the command of John Coffee (1772-1833) during the War of 1812 and the American war on the Creek Nation known as the Creek War (1813-1814) or Red Stick War. The order books are dated November 1812 to April 1813 and September 1814 to March 1815.
James Park Coffin, of Batesville, Arkansas, was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, class of 1859. In the 1920s, Coffin made a regular effort to keep up with his classmates, particularly those living in Arkansas. When he started corresponding in 1920 there were 12 remaining alumni from that class year; by 1927 there were just three. Papers consist of correspondence of James Park Coffin from the 1920s, primarily with classmates from the class of 1859. Most letters relate to health and family members, and some contain memories from Civil War service. Other correspondence relates to Coffin's efforts to contact UNC alumni living in Arkansas in the early 1920s and letters related to the history of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Also included are biographical notes about Coffin and regular reports on surviving alumni from the class of 1859.
Oscar Jackson Coffin was a journalist, professor of journalism, 1926-1956, and the first dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, 1950-1953.
The Willa Cofield Brick School Collection, 1895-1990s, documents the history of the Joseph Keasbey Brick Agricultural, Domestic, and Normal School (later renamed Brick Junior College), a traditional and trade school for African American students founded by the American Missionary Association near Enfield, Edgecombe County, N.C. Included are lists of students, images of students and buildings, printed materials, published and unpublished histories of the school, interviews with alumni and their children about daily life at school, and other materials that relate to Cofield's Brick School history project.
The collection contains letters from Coghill, serving with the 23rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, to his family in Granville County, N.C., concerning camp life, military movements, and battles, including the battle of Gettysburg.
Samuel J. Cohen (Jimmy) and Luba Tooter Cohen, both Jewish immigrants from Russia, were married in New York, N.Y., in 1920. They moved to Blytheville, Ark., where Jimmy worked in construction, evenutally opening his own business, S. J. Cohen Company. Their son Jerome Cohen (1922-2013) later joined the family business. Both Jimmy and Jerry served in World War II. The collection includes papers, family histories, photographs, home movies, and sound recordings relating to the Cohen, Tooter (also spelled Tudor), Dimand, and Freedman families, chiefly of Blytheville, Ark.; New London, Conn.; New York, N.Y.; and Minsk and Odessa, Russia. Papers document military service with the Seabees, a Naval construction regiment, during World War II; the S. J. Cohen Company; elementary education in Russia; civil engineering education in the United States; immigration; and ethnic cooking. Materials include personal and business correspondence, immigration and citizenship papers, military papers, school materials, recipes, newspaper clippings, postcards, and financial materials. Some of the school materials are in Russian (translations included). Family history materials include oral history interviews and transcripts, recorded by Marcie Cohen Ferris, that document emigration of Russian Jews and their adjustment to life in the United States in the 1910s. Family photographs document children and adults at play and family gatherings from the early 1900s to the 1960s, Russian military dress in the 1910s, a United States military base in the Pacific during World War II, and construction sites related to work done by the S. J. Cohen Company. Other photographs document African American sharecroppers, cotton farming, and a hunting camp. Home movies, filmed by Jerry Cohen, record the history of significant construction and engineering projects of S. J. Cohen Company. The films also record daily life in the Cohen family, including Temple Israel and the Jewish community of Blytheville, as well as family vacations and visits to Huddy Howoritz Cohen's home and family in New London. Slides are chiefly of family vacations and S. J. Cohen Company engineering projects. Sound recordings consist of spoken work recordings that were possibly created by Samuel J. Cohen. The Addition of 2016 consists of Black-and-white photographic prints depicting construction work and civil-engineering projects by the S. J. Cohen Company at various locations in northeastern Arkansas, 1920s-1940s.
Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869) was a philanthropist of Philadelphia, Pa. Her niece, whom she raised, was Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen (Mrs. Solomon Cohen) of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. The collection includes letters of a close-knit Jewish family, including letters, 1837- 1862, from Rebecca Gratz to her niece Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen concerning southern Jews, social and cultural events in Philadelphia and Charleston, and family members; letters, 1842- 1853, from Grace Aguilar (d. 1847), British Jewish author, discussing religious beliefs, literature, and personal news, and from her mother, Sarah Aguilar, after Grace's death; letters, 1860-1864, to Miriam from her son, Gratz, in Confederate army camps, at Georgia Military Institute, and at the University of Virginia about school activities, religion and philosophy, Jewish-Gentile relations, the sadness of family separations caused by the war, and other family- and war-related matters; and miscellaneous family papers. Volumes, 1824-1829 and undated, include Miriam's commonplace and poetry books.
The collection of Norm Cohen (1936-), folklorist, author, and former executive secretary of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation, contains an extensive library of books and serials about country, folk, bluegrass, and blues music; commercial recordings on compact disc and 78 rpm and 45 rpm discs; and research files and project files for his work on early country and folk music, especially the railroad in American song and "ethnic music." Research files contain field notes, discographies and bibliographies, newspaper clippings, reprints of articles, tape logs of interviews with old time musicians, record catalogs, programs for folklore conferences and music festivals, noncommercial audio recordings, photographs, and correspondence with publishers and with folklorists including Willie Smyth and Archie Green. Other materials include drafts of Cohen's writings and documents related to the John Edwards Memorial Foundation, particularly the organization's record reissues and its journal, JEMF Quarterly. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Ronald D. Cohen, a white professor of history at Indiana University Northwest-Gary, 1970-2005, wrote and edited numerous books and articles, many about American folk music, and co-produced compilations of folk and topical songs. He edited Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography, written by Agnes Cunningham (Sis) and her husband Gordon Friesen. Sis Cunningham was a songwriter and musician who performed with the Almanac Singers, a 1940s group of folk musicians, and the Red Dust Players, a 1939 radical agitprop group that performed plays in aid of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Gordon Friesen was a newspaper journalist and artist. Cunningham and Friesen fled anti-Communist harassment in Oklahoma and moved to New York City where they founded and published Broadside, a magazine that documented topical and folk songs, beginning in the early 1960s. Photo-Sound Associates was organized by Aaron Rennert, Ray Sullivan, and Joel Katz in Greenwich Village in connection with Lee Hoffman and Caravan magazine to document the folk revival movement in New York City. Rennert and Sullivan did the photography, while Katz recorded the concerts. The collection consists of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials relating to Ronald Cohen, Sis Cunningham, Gordon Friesen, Broadside, Photo-Sound Associates, and many others, chiefly from the folk music scene. Broadside papers, 1957-1999, include original artwork; operations correspondence; transcriptions of songs; articles; press releases; and concert flyers. Cohen papers, 1932-2009, include correspondence; materials related to recording and book projects, including interview transcripts; and research files documenting his studies of American topical songs and protest songs, the folk revival movement, and McCarthy-era Communism. Sis Cunningham papers, 1914-1998, include correspondence, family memorabilia, and original songs, plays, and writings. Some materials relate to the Red Dust Players. Gordon Friesen papers, late 1930s-1983, include correspondence, drawings, and writings, many documenting his career as a newspaper journalist and novelist. Photographs include images of Sis Cunningham, Gordon Friesen, and their family; a few unidentified old downtown storefronts and cars; and the folk revival movement in and around New York City as captured by Photo-Sound Associates. Audiovisual materials include Cohen's collection of audio recordings of folk music radio programs, interviews, conference recordings, and commercial recordings, as well as Cunningham and Friesen's family films and videotapes documenting the 1991 Richard Reuss Memorial Folk Music Convention.
The collection contains two nineteenth-century ledger volumes with accounts for stores in Louisiana and Mississippi that were owned by the Cohn Brothers, a business founded by Jewish merchants who emigrated from Alsace, France. One ledger dated 1876 to 1884 documents business transactions for stores in Bayou Sara, La. and St. Francisville, La. The second ledger dated 1878 to 1879 documents business transactions for stores in Mississippi, including Clifton, Miss. Transactions noted in the volumes include freight charges and purchases of dry goods, sugar, coffee, liquor, beer, fabric, thread, buttons, shoes, tobacco, lumber, bricks, photographs, stamps, and other items. Accounting entries provide sales details for hundreds of customers including formerly enslaved African Americans.
Octavius Coke (1840-1895) was an lawyer, Democratic politician, and North Carolina secretary of state, 1891-1895. He was born in Williamsburg, Va., moved to Edenton, N.C., after the Civil War and to Raleigh in 1880. With his first wife, who died in 1876, he had two children, Carolina and Octavius, Jr. With his second wife, Kate Fisher, he had four more children. The collection includes letters, notes on tariffs and state banks, and an internal revenue statement for 1891. Three of the letters were written by Octavius Coke, Jr., in the 1890s. Letters to his sister Caroline and to his stepmother in 1897 describe his position with the American Tobacco Company and his life in Cincinnati. A letter, 14 January 1899, to his stepmother from Havana, Cuba, describes his life in the 1st North Carolina Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War.
The Dale Coker Collection of Banjo Tunes and Ballads contains field recordings and related documentation created by white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, Dale Coker. Field recordings feature old-time banjo tunes and singing ballads and other songs by Lloyd Ballard, white banjo player and singer, of Mt. Olivet, Henderson County, N.C., as well as old-time songs on fiddle and banjo by Jenes Cottrell (ca. 1901-1980), white singer, banjo player, banjo maker, and craftsman, of Ivydale, Clay County, W.Va., with his sister, Phoeba Parsons, and brother, Noah Cottrell. Coker recorded the musicians in their homes from 1974-1975 as part of his interdisciplinary folklore coursework at UNC. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including tape logs prepared by former SFC staff and term papers by Coker that correspond to the recordings found in the collection.
Robert Ervin Coker (1876-1967) was a zoologist and marine biologist, associated with the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1902 to 1923, professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 1923 to 1949, and author.
William Chambers Coker was a botanist, teacher, writer, who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1902-1945, serving as chair of the Department of Botany and editor of the journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.
The collection includes letters, poems, essays, and other items chiefly relating to lesser-known English literary figures, 1822-1928, purchased from Norman Colbeck, dealer in literary manuscripts, of Vancouver, B.C. There are only a few items, usually letters or handwritten poems, for most of the writers represented. These writers include Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), Mathilde Blind (1841-1896), Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948), William Broome (1689- 1745), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), William Dyce (1806-1864), Florence Farr (1860-1917), including references to W. B. Yeats and essays on the social status of women, Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886), Robin Ernest William Flower (1881-1946), including eleven letters apparently to John Freeman (1880-1929), Richard LeGalliene, Augustus Septimus Mayhew (1826-1875), Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893-1944), Winthrop Mackworth Praed, (1802- 1839), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Other items include a 183-page typescript autobiography by W. J. Ibbett; an annotated copy of The Song of the Stars and other Poems, by Alpha Crucis (London: Cassell, Petter, Galphin & Co., circa 1882), with letters from R. D. Smith; an unascribed handwritten collection of hymns and poems, 1822, some designated for particular Sundays and holy days; a family history and genealogy of the Grant family, 1718; a 189-page volume of handwritten poems by Emily Sarah Holt (b. 1836); and handwritten diary entries, 1896-1900, probably by William Canton (1845-1926) and his wife, chiefly recording and reflecting on activities and conversations of their young children, Winifrid V. Canton (b. 1890) and Guy Canton (b. 1896).
The collection includes copies of three Colcock family letters. Also includes are items relating to Dr. Henry Woodward, South Carolina settler, and the military career of Richard W. Colcock. Genealogical data on Colcock, Hutson, Bacot, and de Saussure families is included.
MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography of the personal life, ancestry, and family events of William F. Colcock of Jasper and Beaufort counties and Charleston, S.C., planter, lawyer, speaker of South Carolina House of Representatives, Democratic United States representative, 1849-1853, and collector of the port of Charleston, 1853-1865. The narrative, written in 1877 and 1886 (with later notes in another hand), mentions events of his public life, but relates mainly to family life.
Prominent Cole and Taylor family members include James C. Cole and his wife, Mary Catharine Cole (1799-1862), of New Bern, N.C., who were the parents of four daughters and two sons. Three of the daughters--Mary Catherine (d. 1900), Harriot G. (circa 1826-1921), and Sarah A. (d. 1900), wife of Alexander Taylor--lived together in Chapel Hill after about 1862 while running a boarding house. James Cole Taylor (b. 1855), surveyor, chemist, metallurgist, railroad superintendent, and banker, was the son of Sarah A. Cole Taylor.
Emmett Cole of Barry County, Mich., was mustered into Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment in September 1861. In October 1861, his unit sailed for the Carolinas, eventually encamping on Hilton Head Island, S.C. He participated in several campaigns and was wounded and apparently captured. He appears to have died of his wounds in Charleston, S.C., around the end of June 1862.
Posters for music festivals and blues concerts held in Greenville, Miss., and Vicksburg, Miss., from 1996 to 2008 featuring artists such as Marvin Sease, Bobby Rush, Sheba Potts Wright, Willie Clayton, and others. Posters were collected Howard D. Cole of Cary, Miss.
MICROFILM, except for 4 photographs. Correspondence, a pocket diary, photographs, and other material of Jesse Wilson Cole, of Sanford and Pinehurst, N.C., chiefly dating from 1944 when he was receiving training in the United States Army Air Corps and on active duty with the 491st Bomber Group, and letters of condolence, to Cole's parents late in 1944 and early in 1945 when he was reported missing and after his death was confirmed. Letters from Cole concern his training and experiences in England; letters to him relate largely to family matters. The diary contains notes by Cole about his activities in England.
Lucy Davis (Cole) Cole lived in Richmond, Va. and compiled genealogical information about her family. The collection contains genealogical papers, including A Sketch of the Family of Charles William Cole (1848-1914) and his wife Julia Quincy Cole of Warren County, N.C., with records of Davis, White, Quincy, and Mayfield family connections, compiled Cole in 1951; Quincy Notes, records of the Quincy family and its Adair and Hancock connections, compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman for Lucy Cole in 1950; and letters, 1941-1943, to Lucy Cole from John White Hicks (1860-1943) concerning old days in Warren County, N.C., especially recollections of friends and relatives there before he left in 1885.
Speeches, correspondence, and teaching materials of Richard R. Cole, white professor and dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1979 to 2005. Speeches were given from 1988 to 2016 to alumni detailing developments in the then School of Media and Journalism. There are also materials and photographs relating to Richard R. Cole's spring break class trips to Cuba from 1991 to 2016 among other items.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters of Sgt. Cole, Medical Division, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, to his mother in Mebane, N.C., during his service with the AEF in France and occupied Germany. Military operations described include the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
William Coleman married Cynthia Swain in 1812 and then Ann Evelina Baird in 1831.
Confederate Captain D. Coleman was an officer with various units of the Army of Tennessee and with detached cavalry in Bedford County, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and Chicamauga, Ringgold, and Dalton, Ga.
Dorothy Meares Coleman (1890-1981) was a native and resident of Fairfield County, S.C. Her parents were Richard Ashe Meares, an engineer who participated in bringing electricity to rural areas of South Carolina, and Louise Woodward Palmer. Dorothy had five siblings: Kate DeRosset Meares, Harriet Woodward Meares, Gertrude Palmer Meares, Gaston Meares, and Elizabeth Bessie Meares. Dorothy Meares married Allen Coleman in 1920 and with him had Louise, who married John Fowler in 1942. The collection includes scattered correspondence, clippings, writings, printed materials, and photographs of Dorothy Meares Coleman and family, chiefly 1895-1979. Also included are genealogical and biographical materials concerning the Palmer, Woodward, DeRosset, and Meares families of South Carolina; materials concerning Woodward Baptisit Church in Chester, S.C., and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgeway, S.C.; two 1861 certificates of Disability for Discharge; an 1862 letter to Lieutenant Edward Spearman from the auditor's office of the North Carolina Troops Headquarters; and family photographs, including a daguerreotype of Harriet Woodward.
Elizabeth Pendleton Coles was the daughter of Edmund Pendleton (1823-1899), member of the first graduating class at the Virginia Military Institute, 1842; lawyer in Botetourt County, Va., Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, La., before the Civil War; colonel of the 15th Louisiana Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia; lawyer in Buchanan, Va., and Lexington, Va., after the war; and member of the Virginia state legislature, 1869. She was the second wife of Walter Coles, whom she married in 1872. Their son, Edmund Pendleton Coles, was born in 1873.
Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist who worked at Harvard University, social activist, and prolific author. His work especially concerns the experiences of children, but he has also written about contemporary literature, psychology, religion, and other dimensions of American culture.
John Ewing Colhoun was a planter, lawyer, South Carolina legislator, and U.S. Senator.
The collection contains filk music songbooks, lyrics, sheet music, and zines from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Included are the “Filk Bible,” “The First Ozark Trilogy Filksong Collection,” and issues of the zine, The PHILK-FEE-NOM-EE-NON, irregularly published by the Philk Press in conjunction with meetings of the Southern California Filkers Anonymous group. Much of the filk music represented in the collection has popular science fiction and fantasy fiction themes including homages to Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Drafts of works published primarily by the University of North Carolina Press including orginal manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. Most titles relate to the state of North Carolina or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or are written by authors from North Carolina. Many drafts have notations or corrections throughout. Authors represented include Paul Green, Jessie Clifford Redher, Richard Gaither Walser, and Bayard Wooten.
Elizabeth Collier was a young woman who lived at Everittsville, a village near Goldsboro, N.C. In 1865, she took refuge in Hillsborough, N.C.
Virginia Omega Collier, a Black woman who attended Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (known as North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University since 1967), located in Greensboro, N.C., from 1941 to 1943, compiled this photograph album in the 1940s. The album documents her time at the University as well as her family life and home in Plainfiled, N.J. The album includes images depicting Collier and her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters, students in classroom settings, vacations on the Jersey Shore, soldiers on leave, and events like homecoming parades. Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina was the first land grant funded historically Black college or university opened in North Carolina after the U.S. Civil War when it was founded in 1891.
Anne Cameron Collins, daughter of Paul Carrington Cameron (1808-1891) and Anne (Ruffin) Cameron (d. 1897), of Hillsborough, N.C.; wife of George Pumpelly Collins (1835-1903), plantation manager in Tunica County, Miss.
Benjamin Mosely Collins was born 18 August 1840, to Mary Ann Cottrell and Michael Collins, at Pleasant Hill, the family's home plantation near Ridgeway, Warren County, N.C. During the Civil War, he served as a captain in the Confederate Army. He died 8 March 1913. His father, Michael Collins, was born 16 May 1778, to Elizabeth Collins and Michael Collins. He was a planter, slave owner, and mill owner with assets in Rockingham County, N.C.; Vance County, N.C.; and Warren County, N.C. He died in 1856.
The collection is composed of Phillip G. Collins' research files on his father Ruey "Curley" Collins (1915-1986), a white banjo, guitar, and fiddle player and a country music performer chiefly on radio programs from the 1930s through the mid-1950s. Research files contain photocopies of publicity photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, biographical information including a transcript of an interview with the elder Collins, chronologies of his music career, and lists of radio shows, television shows, movies, recordings, and honors. Also included is an audio cassette tape with a selection of Curley Collins' vocal and instrumental performances in the early 1980s and a 1983 interview with him. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Private William A. Collins of Statesville, N.C., served in Company C of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment from March 1862 until his death in December 1862.
George Colmer (1807-1878) graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, La., and lived in the town of Springfield in Livingston Parish, La., from 1841 until his death in 1878. Colmer practiced medicine, served as Justice of the Peace, was a land owner and land agent, and built and operated a slave hospital. Colmer is credited with identifying the first epidemic of polio reported in medical history in West Feliciana, La., in 1841.
The Colonial Dames of America, founded in 1890, is an international society of women whose direct ancestors held positions of leadership in the Thirteen Colonies. Headquarted in New York City, N.Y., the organization's goals include historical education and preservation.
The Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, Sir Humphrey Gilbert Chapter (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Records consist of scrapbooks of programs and events, invitations, meeting agendas, menus, photographs of events, membership lists, recording and corresponding secretary records.
The 1958 session recording on open-reel audiotape was made by Colonial Records of Chapel Hill, N.C. It contains two songs, "I'm Hilda" and "Under Age & Over-Age," which were recorded with an audience. The artist is not identified. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
David Grant Colson (1861-1904) was a Kentucky lawyer and state legislator, Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, with the United States Pension Bureau, 1882-1886, and an army officer during the Spanish-American War. The collection includes a scrapbook containing clippings about Colson's career, promotional items from his election campaigns, and military commissions.
Raleigh Edward Colston (1825-1896) was born in France of American parents. He was a college professor in Virginia; Confederate brigadier general; headmaster of military schools in North Carolina; on the general staff of the Egyptian Army, 1873-1878; lecturer and author; and clerk in the United States War Department, 1883-1894. The collection is primarily military correspondence of Colston concerning Confederate Army movements and organization in Virginia, and personal letters to his family during and after the war. The personal correspondence includes letters to his daughters, Lou (Colston) Byrne Ragland and Mary (Colston) Lippitt, containing fatherly advice; and discussions of his health, especially as he began to need nursing care. Also included is correspondence with Egyptian and Confederate army officers, American magazine editors, appreciative readers, and friends; a diary (10 volumes), 1874-1896, brief and irregular, describing life in the Egyptian Army and travels in Africa and Europe, as well as life in Washington, D.C., and gradually declining health; clippings of magazine articles by Colston, mainly on Confederate and Egyptian topics; and a few letters in the 1840s from his parents, Virginians living in France.
Marie Watters Colton of Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., represented the 51st district in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1978-1994. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate, Colton married Henry E. Colton. The couple lived first in Chapel Hill and later in Asheville. After her husband, an Asheville City councilman, declined to run for state office, Marie Colton campaigned for and won the seat. Colton, a Democrat, was the first female Speaker Pro Tempore of the House, serving in that role from 1991 to 1994. In recognition of her advocacy of women and children's issues, Colton was appointed to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1994.
Simeon Colton (1785-1868), native of Connecticut, was a Congregational and Presbyterian minister, who lived for some time near Fayetteville and Asheboro, N.C., where he taught at schools and preached to Presbyterian and Methodist churches.
The collection contains a list of the honorary members of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Arthur St. Clair Colyar (1818-1907) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, businessman, and Confederate congressman of Nashville, Tenn.
The Comer family, white cotton planters, lumber yard owners, and enslavers of Barbour County, Ala., included Catherine Lucinda Comer (d. 1898), who, widowed in 1858, continued to farm cotton and to operate the family's corn mill and lumber yard, and her six sons. People enslaved by the Comers included Burrell, who was a personal assitant to John Wallace Comer during the Civil War. The collection includes letters, 1860-1864 and undated, to and from various members of the Comer family, chiefly about family and business matters. The earliest letters are from Catherine Lucinda Comer in Barbour County, Ala., to Hugh Moss Comer at school in Warrior Stand, Ala.. Letters describe family and neighborhood life, including details of the family businesses and finances and news of the farm and of the people enslaved by the family. During the Civil War, there are letters relating to the service of John Wallace Comer with the Army of Tennessee. Undated items include a poem about a faithless sweetheart and a letter from Hugh to Catherine about having shoes made for him. Also included is a photograph of Burrell and John Wallace Comer in his Civil War uniform.
Braxton Bragg Comer of Birmingham and Comer, Barbour County, Ala., was president of Avondale Cotton Mills, planter, merchant, and prominent politician, who served as president of the Alabama Railroad Commission, 1904-1907; governor of Alabama, 1908-1911; and U.S. senator, 1920.
John Fletcher Comer was a cotton planter of Barbour County, Ala., where he also ran a sawmill and corn mill. J.F. Comer was the father of Braxton Bragg Comer, who, in 1906, became governor of Alabama.
Laura Beecher Comer (1817-1900) was a native of Connecticut and niece of prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher. In 1848 she married James Comer (1797-1864), a cotton planter in Alabama. They moved in 1853 to Columbus, Ga., where she lived until her death in 1900.
The collection contains illustrated postcards created in Japan between 1905 and 1935. Photomechanical reproductions, drawings, maps, and other graphics depict Emperor Meiji, Emperor Taishō, Emperor Hirohito, the imperial family, imperial palaces, the Japanese navy, the admiralty, war ships, the Japanese army and cavalry, dirigibles and airplanes, including biplanes, hydroplanes, and fighter planes, and Japan’s war flag and navy ensign. Also pictured are naval victories, naval ports and harbors including Hyogo Harbor, the annexation of Korea, shipping route to Europe, the imperial court, Japanese theater, and samurai. Many postcards appear to venerate the emperors and admiralty and glorify Japanese military victories during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and the First World War (1914-1918).
The Commercial was a newspaper in Wilmington, N.C.
The Commercial Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pa., was in operation from 1897 to 2010. Modeled after the great exhibition halls of the World's Fairs (World Fair, Universal Exposition) of the late nineteenth century, the Museum offered a vast selection of displays and information related to commerce and trade in Pennsylvania, across the United Sates, and the international marketplace. The Museum maintained a large collection of photographs documenting a variety of industries, agriculture, and trade in many areas of the United States. These images were marketed for use in publications around the United States and the world.
The collection is a carbon copy of letter, 1931, concerning the privately printed volume, Ivey Mills, 1729-1886, by Joseph Willcox, referring to genealogical data concerning the White and Willcox families of Philadelphia, Pa.
John H. Comstock (fl. 1861-1863) was a Confederate naval officer. The collection includes letters received by Comstock and Comstock's Confederate naval commission. One letter, 1862, from a friend, [I. E.?] Fiske, describes river engagements near Yazoo City, Miss. The other, 1863, from Comstock's father, discusses fighting around Clinton, La.
The Concord Steam Cotton Factory, also referred to as the Concord Manufacturing Company, was organized by Paul Barringer and others in Concord, N.C., in 1836. It produced cotton yarn, shirting, and nails. It was succeeded in 1879 by the Odell Manufacturing Company, which went out of business in 1907. The collection contains an 1856 letter to stockholders, acts of incorporation, records of stocks and property, minutes of meetings of the board of directors and general stockholders for the Concord Steam Cotton Factory, minutes of stockholders' meetings for the Odell Manufacturing Company, and related items.
Cone Mills Corporation (and predecessor Proximity Manufacturing Company and its other subsidiary and affiliated companies) manufactured denim and other textiles chiefly in North Carolina and South Carolina. Moses Herman Cone (1857-1908), Ceasar Cone (1859-1917), and other Cone family members began investing in the textile industry in the late nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century were world leaders in textile manufacturing.
Benjamin Cone was born in 1899, a member of the prominent Cone family of Greensboro, N.C. He was a friend of Thomas Wolfe while both were students at the University of North Carolina. Cone graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1920; he was mayor of Greensboro, 1949-1951.
Herman Cone (originally Herman Kahn) was born in 1828. He was a Jewish-German immigrant who left Bavaria, Germany, for the United States in 1845. Cone eventually settled in Jonesborough, Tenn., where he successfully ran a dry goods store. Two of Cone's sons were founders of the Cone Mills Corporation, a textile manufacturing company in Greensboro, N.C. Cone died in 1897.
The collection includes miscellaneous papers from various sources divided into the following series: correspondence, 1861-1865; songs, poems, clippings, photographs; maps, diagrams, and drawings; Benjamin W. Austin's collection of Confederate autographs, photographs, and clippings; official papers (including printed forms, North Carolina and other muster rolls); scrapbooks; recollections; and other items.
An assembled collection of printed song texts and poems for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The collection contains reminiscences, written circa 1924-1925, by Confederate soldiers of North Carolina and their civilian contemporaries and collected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of North Carolina; letters to Mrs. John H. Anderson, Fayetteville, N.C., a U.D.C. official; and a long letter to James Boyd reacting to his book, Drums. The reminiscences deal with memories of various wartime affairs; two deal with wartime Christmases.
The collection contains speeches to Confederate veterans' groups, recollections of North Carolina and Virginia soldiers and civilians, and biographical sketches of Confederate generals and Civil War battlegrounds. Items include reminiscences of Confederate soldiers in the 3rd Virginia Volunteers, and the 35th, 59th, and the 67th North Carolina Regiments, describing camp life, troop movements, and battles; a description of an expedition from Marion, N.C., to the coast during the Civil War, using slaves and equipment to obtain salt from seawater; reminiscences of family life, slaves, household work, cooking and dyeing, on Meadow Hill plantation in New Hanover (now Pender) County, N.C.; and several addresses on Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864).
Papers from the Confederate army engineer's office at Charleston, S.C., including drawings of railroad bridges, accounts for slave and free labor, military messages, and lists of personnel.
Company H of the 49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States of America Army was known as the Gaston Rangers. The company was formed in Gaston County, N.C., and, on 21 April 1862, became part of the 49th Regiment. It was led by Captain Charles Q. Petty, 22 March 1862-5 August 1864.
The 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Army of the Confederate States of America was organized in Danville, Va., on 18 June 1861 as the 11th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. The designation was changed to the 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment in November 1861. William W. Kirkland of Orange County, N.C., was elected colonel on 3 July 1861. The Regiment was part of the Army of Northern Virginia. The collection consists of an order book with entries, 12 July 1861-6 April 1864. Orders were issued by Robert E. Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, J. E. Johnston, I. G. Trimble, G. B. Crittenden, J. A. Early, R. S. Ewell, G. W. Smith, Stonewall Jackson, the secretary of war, and others. Orders concern troop movements, camp life, discharges, furloughs, and supplies, among other things. Included are Lee's outline of the Confederate victory at Manassas, Va., and Beauregard's order concerning General Butler's treatment of women in New Orleans, La. There are also records of articles passed by the Confederate government and announcements of days of fasting and prayer issued by Jefferson Davis.
The collection contains daily records of men on leave from various companies of the Eutaw Regiment (25th South Carolina Infantry Regiment), Confederate States of America, and a few other records of the Regiment.
The Confederate States of America Bureau of Conscription, 7th North Carolina Congressional District was concerned with enrollment, exemptions, substitutes, work details, partially disabled soldiers on limited service, senior reserves, deserters and other absentees from active units, and manpower problems related to Confederate soldiers from Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, and Stanly counties, and was responsible to the state conscript office at Raleigh, N.C.
Live audio recordings of the Sounds of the South Conference, held 6-8 April 1989 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference gathered more than 300 participants, including record collectors, folklorists, musicians, record producers, librarians, archivists, and traditional music lovers, to celebrate traditional southern music and the official opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial collection at UNC's library. The conference included panel discussions, papers, and addresses on topics related to history and issues in field collecting and recording traditional music, including old-time, bluegrass, gospel, country, conjunto, Cajun, and American Indian music, and the history of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation collection. Presenters and panelists featured on the recordings include Guy Carawan, Tom Carter, Norm Cohen, Cece Conway, Ray Funk, Alice Gerrard, Archie Green, Bess Lomax Hawes, Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Bill C. Malone, Paul Oliver, Dan Patterson, Anne Romaine, Anthony Seeger, Mike Seeger, and David Whisnant, among others. Also included in the collection are field notes associated with select recordings. Field notes contain recording credits, session titles, speaker names, and topics discussed.
The Bruce M. Conforth Collection on Lawrence Gellert consists of papers and original field recordings related to the independent white music collector, Lawrence Gellert, who recorded African American vernacular music in the American South from roughly 1920-1940. Folklorist, Bruce M. Conforth, compiled the materials as part of his ongoing research on Lawrence Gellert, which culminated with Conforth's 2013 publication, African American folksong and American cultural politics: the Lawrence Gellert story. Papers consist primarily of research files on Lawrence Gellert compiled by Bruce M. Conforth, as well as lyric transcriptions, musical scores, notebooks, writings, and other materials by Lawrence Gellert. Original field recordings consist of African American work songs, chants, spirituals, and blues songs recorded by Lawrence Gellert in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Edward Conigland was an Irish immigrant, lawyer, member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1865, and counsel for Governor William W. Holden at his impeachment, 1871.
The collection contains genealogical papers of the Williams family of Caswell County, N.C., and Halifax, Va., including a genealogical table, 1948, tracing the descent of John Kerr Connally from John Williams; ten letters, 1948, from Mrs. Oliver (Connally) Posfay about her family history; and the family Bible of John Kerr Connally, containing birth and death records of Williams family members.
William L. Connelly (fl. 1817-1838) of Burke County, N.C., was commissioned justice of the peace, 1817, and later was captain of a company of North Carolina militia volunteers serving in the effort to remove the Cherokees from North Carolina (Trail of Tears).
James Conner (1829-1883) was a Confederate brigadier general. The collection includes typed transcriptions of letters from Conner, in Richmond, Va., and New Market, Va., September and October 1864, to his mother in South Carolina discussing conditions in Richmond, desolation in the Valley of Virginia, the current military situations, and his own needs and reputation.
Juliana Margaret Courtney Conner was the wife of Henry Workman Conner of Charleston, S.C.
Henry G. Connor was a lawyer, legislator, bank president, and judge of Wilson, N.C.
Otelia Carrington Cunningham (Mrs. David M.) Connor of Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C., clubwoman and newspaper feature writer.
Educator, historian, secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, University of North Carolina professor, first archivist of the United States, and author of numerous books and articles on North Carolina history.
The Loren Connors Collection consists mostly of reference copies of commercial audio recordings created and compiled by composer, Loren MazzaCane Connors. The recordings, which primarily feature avant-garde and experimental guitar music by Connors, include commercial releases, promotional copies, annotated personal copies, and self-released material by Connors, as well as compilations and collaborations by Connors with other artists, including Kath Bloom, Keiji Haino, Jandek, Suzanne Langille, and Alan Licht, among others. The collection also contains photographs and printed materials related to Connors, including a copy of his chapter book, Autumn's Sun (1999).
A 1990 oral history interview conducted by Molly Conrecode, a white folklorist, with Bland Simpson, a white author, playwright, songwriter, and musician, who was a member of the North Carolina string band, the Red Clay Ramblers. In the audiocassette recording Bland Simpson discusses Diamond Studs, a musical about Jesse James that he wrote with Jim Wann, and how that musical led to his playing piano with the Red Clay Ramblers beginning in the 1970s. Other topics addressed by Simpson include regionalism and pluralism in the music of the Red Clay Ramblers, the introduction of brass instruments to the band's music, and Chapel Hill, N.C., during the 1970s. The collection also includes a note from Molly Conrecode to the Southern Folklife Collection regarding the donation of the oral history interview to the SFC.
The Conservation Council of North Carolina Records, 1969-1974, consists of correspondence, press releases, and reports documenting efforts to develop a coordinated program to cultivate public understanding and support for natural resource conservation issues and to influence environmental policies at state and federal levels. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection contains, in part, photostatic copies of a broadside presenting the constitution and a list of members of the Constitutional Society, organized in Richmond, Va., 11 June 1784, for the preservation of liberty; and some printed minutes of the Society.
Contempo was a journal of literature and social commentary published by Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1931 to 1934.
Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C.
A video recording of Piedmont blues guitarist, Etta Baker (1913-2006), created by white folklorists, Cecelia Conway and Elva Bishop. Etta Baker, born Etta Lucille Reid, claimed European, African American, and Native American ancestry. She grew up in Caldwell County, N.C., where she learned to play Piedmont blues, ragtime, and fiddle tunes from her father, Boone Reid. After working in a textile mill for over 25 years, Baker retired at the age of 60 to pursue a career as a musician. Cecelia Conway and Elva Bishop created the video recording, One Dime Blues: Ms. Etta Baker at Home (1986), with grant funding from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts. It documents Etta Baker at age 73 playing banjo and finger-style guitar at her home in Morganton, N.C., by herself and alongside her sister, Cora Phillips, who also plays the guitar. Songs featured on the videotape include "One Dime Blues", "On The Other Hand Baby", and "Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad", among others. Between songs, Baker talks about her songs, family, and hobbies.
The collection contains open reel audiotape recordings of old-time fiddler and banjo player Tommy Jarrell (1901-1984) from Mount Airy, N.C., his sister Julie Jarrell Lyons, a ballad singer of Round Peak, N.C., and other members of the Jarrell family, who were of Scottish heritage. In May 1976 at the Jarrell family home in Surry County, N.C., white folklorist Cecelia "Cece" Conway and white musician Alice Gerrard recorded extensive interviews with Jarrell and his family, as well as live performances of Jarrell playing old-time tunes on fiddle and banjo and Lyons singing ballads and hymns. In the interviews, Jarrell and others discuss their musical heritage and family history. The collection also contains related documentation, including scattered tape logs and photocopies of titles and notes found on original open reel audiotape boxes.
The Cecelia Conway and Tommy Thompson Collection consists of field recordings of African-American old-time musicans from North Carolina. Created by Cecelia Conway and Tommy Thompson in 1974, the live recordings feature John Snipes, African-American old-time two-finger and clawhammer fretless banjo player of Haw River, Alamance County, N.C.; Dink Roberts, African-American old-time banjo player of Haw River, Alamance County, N.C.; and Joe and Odell Thompson, African-American fiddle and banjo player from Mebane, Orange County, N.C. The recordings include old-time tunes and song from both African-American and Anglo-American fiddle and banjo traditions of the Carolina Piedmont. Also included in the collection are corresponding tape logs created by SFC staff. Tape logs include song titles, playback speed, and track configuration.
The Cook Family Papers chiefly consist of Civil War military records and letters of C. J. Cook, David Haze Cook, and Carolina Cook. Military records concern medical furloughs. Letters from family and friends at home in Mt. Gilead, N.C., discuss health, farming and social activities, religion, cavalry horses, the locations of other family and friends serving in the Confederate Army, and rumors of a Negro uprising.
Bill Cook was the producer of The Glenn Reeves show, a country music television program based in Jacksonville, Fla., and broadcast on WFGA-TV in the early to mid-1960s. It was networked over 15 stations in the southeastern United States. The show starred singer and songwriter Glenn Reeves (1932-1999), best known for recording the original demo of Heartbreak Hotel, and featured a number of prominent country music artists as guests.
Charles Alston Cook (1848-1916) of Warrenton, N.C., and Muscogee, Okla., was a lawyer; planter; active Republican; associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1901-1903; and member of the Oklahoma state legislature, 1909-1910.
Records, December 1863, of Homer A. Cooke, a U.S. Army quartermaster in the New Bern, N.C., area, including financial and personnel records, accounts of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and records of quartermasters' stores. Many of the personnel were former slaves hired as laborers.
James Wallace Cooke (1812-1869) was a United States and Confederate naval officer of Beaufort, N.C.
Robert Bruce Cooke, born in Swepsonville, N.C., who held positions in various textile mills in Virginia and North and South Carolina until 1941 when he became a supervisor at the Erwin Cotton Mills, Durham, N.C., from which he retired around 1963. He and his wife Aylene Edwards Cooke, who worked as a librarian when the couple lived in Rutherfordton, N.C., were active in many historical and art associations in the state.
Mrs. William J. Cooke was active in conservation efforts in North Carolina during the 1910s.
MICROFILM ONLY. List of persons buried in the Cool Springs Baptist Church Graveyard, Lee County, N.C., compiled by Richard Groce around 1940.
The records of the Cooleemee Historical Association (CHA), founded in 1989, document the work of Jim Rumley, Lynn Rumley, and the CHA board to establish and operate the Textile Heritage Center and Mill House Museum in Cooleemee, N.C.; to promote the study of North Carolina's cotton mill culture; and to preserve and disseminate the history of Erwin Cotton Mill No. 3 and its company town in Davie County, N.C., that were operated by Cooleemee Water Power & Manufacturing Company and later Burlington Industries from 1892 to 1969. Records include cotton mill family life surveys completed by former mill town residents; correspondence; financial reports; materials related to the annual Textile Heritage Festival; educational materials for the CHA program "Discovering Our Heritage" for elementary school children and for the Kids' History Club; materials pertaining to the Southwide Textile Heritage Initiative including its publication Bobbin and Shuttle; museum records including visitor logs of the Textile Heritage Center; CHA publications including the newsletter Cooleemee History Loom; and CHA promotional materials.
The collection, a community archive developed and organized between 1989 and 2016 by the Cooleemee Historical Association (CHA) in Davie County, N.C., documents work life in the Erwin Cotton Mills No. 3 and social life in the company town of Cooleemee, N.C. between 1898 and 1969 when the mill closed. Materials collected by CHA board members Jim Rumley and Lynn Rumley include blueprints of the plant and other structures in town, financial ledgers, employment records, telephone directories, research files, subject files, scrapbooks, yearbooks, trade union publications, and family and personal papers donated by Cooleemee residents. Organizations reflected in the materials are the Local No. 251 of the Textile Workers Union of America, the company's commissary, post office, churches, schools, fraternal orders and social clubs such as the Odd Fellows and Daughters of Liberty, and local business including the drug store, movie theater, hotel, dairy, bank, beauty parlor, and newspaper the Cooleemee Journal. Topics reflected in the materials include construction of the mill and town, work in the mill on the shop floor particularly in time studies, athletics and recreation, health and medical care, military service and the world wars, food, African Americans in Cooleemee, public education, and the textile industry.
Harold Dunbar Cooley was United States representative from North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District, 1934-1966, and chair of the House Committee on Agriculture, 1949-1966.
Herbert Arthur Cooley (fl. 1863-1864) of Lockport, N.Y., served in the 3rd New York Calvalry near New Bern, N.C., and Kinston, N.C., Newport News, Va., and Portsmouth, Va., and other locations in eastern North Carolina and Virginia.
William Henry Cooley (also spelled Coley) was the son of Zalmon Cooley of Cold Spring, Fairfield County, Conn. He served in Company H, 1st Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the summer of 1861 and re-enlisted in the fall in Company G of the 7th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. The collection includes Civil War letters written to his family by Cooley serving in northern Virginia and on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The letters contain considerable information on military life, conditions at camp, events around him, rumors, activity of his unit, guesses about the future, and other matters. Also included are a tintype of William Henry Cooley; three letters written by his sister, Eliza Gilbert; and a fragment of a letter by Eliza Gilbert's husband Walter.
Educator, educational historian, and child labor reformer Charles L. Coon taught in Lincoln County and Charlotte, N.C., and served as superintendent of schools in Salisbury, N.C., 1903; as superintendent of African American normal schools in North Carolina, 1904-1906; as chief clerk of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1907; and as superintendent of schools in Wilson and Wilson County, N.C., 1907-1927.
Audio recordings of performances of Scottish fiddling from Canada by Douglas Stewart, a white fiddler from Belle River, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Clarence MacLean, a white fiddler from Belfast, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Recorded by Ivan H. Mann, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, and Fred Coon, a white old-time musician and banjo player, in August 1976 at the musicians' homes. The collection contains dubs of Ivan H. Mann and Fred Coon's original recordings, as well as supporting documentation consisting of a cover sheet prepared by former library staff.
Douglas Hancock Cooper (1815-1879) of Mississippi was a soldier in the Mexican War and the Confederate Army, and an Indian claims agent.
Hugh C. Cooper (fl. 1858-1875) was a resident of Christian County, Ky. The collection includes personal correspondence of Cooper, including letters, 1858-1875, from friends in Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee, concerning personal, social, and political affairs. Included is a letter, 1860, from Cooper's brother-in-law, James Andrew McKenzie (1840- 1904), a Kentucky state legislator, member of Congress, 1877-1883, minister to Peru, 1893, and prominent member of the Democratic Party, concerning his move to Texas.
Lenox Gore Cooper was the son of William Bryant Cooper (1866-1959) and Frances Ada Gore Cooper of Wilmington, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1921, served with the United States Navy in World War II, was a real estate and insurance executive in Wilmington, and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1957- 1972, and the Board of Governors, 1972-1975. Correspondence, clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia chiefly relating to Cooper's work with the University and his other philanthropic, educational, and civic activities.
Samuel Cooper was a native of New Jersey, adjutant general in the United States Army, and adjutant general and inspector general in the Confederate Army.
Thomas Cooper, born in London in 1759, immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1794. Well-known for his political beliefs, Cooper eventually pursued a career as a science professor and became the second president of South Carolina College in 1821.
William Bryan Cooper (1866-1959), merchant of Wilmington, N.C., served as lieutenant governor of North Carolina in the administration of Governor Cameron Morrison, 1921-1925.
William Cooper was a planter of Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala., and Magnolia Plantation, Coahoma County, Miss. He travelled frequently between his home at Tuscumbia, Ala., and his plantation in Coahoma County, Miss.
The Cooperative Program in the Humanities was a joint program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Created in 1963, it operated until 1971, supported by grants from various foundations. Its chief activity was the awarding of fellowships to humanities faculty at colleges and universities in Virginia and the Carolinas. Selected faculty spent an academic year engaged in study and writing at UNC and/or Duke. The program also sponsored the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a summer institute that continued for several years after the program ended.
MICROFILM ONLY. Papers of David Thomas Copeland, including a diary of Copeland and his son James Isaac (1868-1929), farmers of Laurens County, S.C.; about fifty letters between David Thomas Copeland, with the Third South Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1865, and his fiancee, Mattie Adair, in Laurens District, S.C.; and a few other items. The diary describes daily work, family and social activities and J. I. Copeland's schooling. David Thomas Copeland's Civil War letters deal with his military experiences in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, including the Battle of First Manassas, the battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, 1864, and Johnston's final campaign, 1865. Adair's letters deal with community life, farm work, and other matters.
James Isaac Copeland (1910-1995) was a historian and the director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967-1975.
Members of the Copp family resided in Savannah, Ga. The collection includes correspondence and other papers, chiefly 1820-1850, of members of the Copp family. Correspondence, 1820-1850, consists primarily of letters to D. D. Copp (died 1856?) of Savannah from his brothers Joseph A. Copp and William J. Copp, and his friend, A. H. (Alexander Hamilton) Avery, as well as one letter each from his brothers, Belton A. Copp of Groton, Conn., and George Copp of Plymouth, Lowndes County, Miss., and a few other letters. Joseph A. Copp, apparently a minister, wrote from Sag Harbour, Long Island, N.Y., primarily about religious matters. William J. Copp wrote first from Winchester, Tenn., about his decision to study and practice law, and about economic problems, the currency issue, and presidential politics in Tennessee; later from Aberdeen, Miss., primarily about family matters; and still later from Prescott, Wisc., again about family matters. Alexander Hamilton Avery wrote from Springfield [Mass.?], about his business there and comparing life there to life in Savannah. Other papers include a letter, 21 August 1861, from Charles Copp at Camp Mercer, Tybee Island, Ga., about camp life; papers of Mary Copp Wilbur, 1866-1900, about her family, local charities, and Presbyterian Sunday School matters; and manuscript poems and fiction by Fedora Isabel Copp Wilbur concerning Civil War and Reconstruction issues and other matters.
Burwell J. Corban (born 1853) was a farmer, merchant, and magistrate of Corbandale and Palmyra, Montgomery Country, Tenn. This collection contains records of Burwell J. Corban and his father. Volumes are chiefly daybooks and ledgers for general merchandise business in the 1850s and 1865-1878. Also included are records of judgments in minor cases tried by a Montgomery County, Tenn., magistrate, 1854-1877; a magistrate's docket, 1858-1890; physician's accounts, 1852; scattered accounts for lumber milling, blacksmith work, and wages; a schedule of local mails; and a list of local subscribers of newspapers, 1850-1861.
Alma Jordan Corbitt was secretary and, beginning in 1940, executive clerk in the North Carolina Governor's office during the McLean, Gardner, Ehringhaus, Hoey, Broughton, Cherry, and Kerr Scott terms. She also worked for several judges on Superior Court cases.
James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981) of Wilkes County and Guilford County, N.C., was the North Carolina poet laureate, 1953-1981, and a newspaper publisher.
Cid Corman (1924- ) is a poet, editor of the journal, Origin, owner of the Origin Press, editor and translator of the work of several other poets, and literary critic. Corman, who has lived mostly in Japan since 1954, received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1974.
John Hamilton Cornish (1815-1878) was an Episcopal minister of Aiken, S.C. Cornish left his home in Michigan Territory in 1833 to attend Washington College, Hartford, Conn., from which he graduated in 1839. He then studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York City but did not complete his education. He became a tutor on an Edisto Island, S.C., plantation and later ran an academy there. He was ordained in 1843 and thereafter served in many Sea Island and Low Country churches before becoming rector of Saint Thaddeus in Aiken in 1846. He married Martha Jenkins of Edisto Island and had several children, including Rhoda Cornish, Mattie Cornish, Mary Cornish, Sadie Cornish, Ernest Cornish, and Joseph Cornish, who also attended the General Theological Seminary.
Contains the professional files of Joan Cornoni-Huntley (1931-2019), a white professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and a division director for the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health. Materials include her publications; questionnaires, instruments, and scales about major diseases; articles on statistical methods and data analysis for epidemiology; and classic papers in epidemiology.
Susan Cornwall Shewmake (circa 1825-1905), of Alexander (Burke Co.), Ga., was the daughter of Francis Cornwall and the wife of Oscar Lassiter Shewmake (fl. 1820-1885).
The collection is a letter, 2 November 1796, from Vice Admiral Cornwallis, uncle of General Cornwallis, to Mr. Scott respecting the Pondicherry prize money.
John Kincaid (died circa 1869) of Burke County, N.C., was a planter and business man. He served as justice of the peace for Burke County and as agent of a gold mine company. Andrew Jackson Corpening (1818-1904) was the administrator of John Kincaid's estate. His brother was John E. Corpening (fl. 1852-1879) of Caldwell County, N.C.
Montgomery D. Corse (1816-1895) served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was born and died in Alexandria, Va.
Gregory Corso (1930- ) was a poet of the Beat movement; he is often associated with Allen Ginsberg. Corso's published works include The Vestal Lady on Brattle (1955), Gasoline (1958), and The Happy Birthday of Death (1960).
R. R. Corson, of the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, served as captain and Assistant Adjunct General to Brigadier General George D. Bayard.
Dabney Cosby (1779-1862) of Raleigh, N.C., was a builder engaged in contructing courthouses, jails, houses, and other buildings in Virginia and North Carolina.
Emma Lee Hutchison Cosby was raised in Bath County, Va. She married Henry Preston Cooley and taught in a private school in Warm Springs, Va. Later she worked briefly as secretary to temperance leader Carrie Nation and pursued interests in genealogy and writing.
Lucy S. Costen of Gatesville, N.C., was chairperson of the Gates County Civil War Centennial observations.
Photographs and audio recordings of musicians created by white North Carolina photographer, Daniel Coston. Photographs consist mostly of digital images, 1996-2007, of performances by country, folk, and rock musicians, including Big Star, J. J. Cale, Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Andy Griffith, Tift Merritt, Ralph Stanley, and Wilco, among others. Digital photographs also include documentation of music festivals, such as MerleFest, as well as documentation of a memorial for Robert Moog, inventor of the first commercial synthesizer. Audio recordings found in the collection consist of digital copies of live recordings, 1975-2003, by Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Sarah Carter, and Maybelle Carter.
Cotten family members include Robert Randolph Cotten of Pitt County, N.C., his wife, Sallie (Southall) Cotten, (1846-1929), and their children and grandchildren.
Bruce Cotten (1873-1954) was born in Wilson, N.C., and over his lifetime became a serious collector of books and other materials related to North Carolina. The collection includes volumes acquired by Cotten including merchandise daybooks and ledgers of several firms in Bertie and Chowan counties, N.C.; order books, 1811-1813, of United States troops at Norfolk and of Virginia militia; and a record book, 1824, of Virginia militia observance of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette's visit to Yorktown, Va. The merchants' account books include one of John D. White of Bertie County, 1802; a ledger of general merchandise, Norfleet & Murdaugh, Bertie County, 1815-1816; and general mercantile books of unnamed firms of Edenton, N.C., 1802, and of Murfreesboro, N.C., 1816-1861. The order books contain chiefly general orders and court martial records.
Bruce Cotten (1873-1954) was born in Wilson, N.C., and over his lifetime became a serious collector of books and other materials related to North Carolina.
Elizabeth Henderson Cotten (1875-1975) worked in the Southern Historical Collection and was secretary of the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
John Henderson Cotten was a United States Naval Academy graduate and career naval officer. He commanded a destroyer in the Pacific in World War II and taught at various naval schools in the 1950s.
John Milton Cotten (1846-1928) was a Confederate Civil War veteran and a farmer in Pitt County, N.C. He was married twice, to Alvania Watson with whom he had five children, and then Fannie Thomas with whom he had one child. His brother was Robert Randolph Cotten (1839-1928), who served in the North Carolina. House in 1908 and in the North Carolina. Senate in 1910, and who also farmed the Cottendale and Southwood plantations in Pitt County.
Lyman A. Cotten (1874-1926) was a United States naval officer. The collection includes official and personal correspondence, account books, scrapbooks, diaries, lectures, and technical articles of Lyman A. Cotten, relating to his 32 years of naval service, beginning with his education at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., 1894-1898, and including his participation in the Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrection, Boxer Rebellion, Naval War College, Japan, China, World War I, and conflicts in the Near East.
Lyman Atkinson Cotten (1909-1990) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1936 and from Yale University in 1941. He taught English at the University of North Carolina for 34 years, retiring in 1974. Cotten was a trustee of the Order of the Gimghouls, a secret society at the University, from 1952 until his death. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Modern Language Association.
Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991) taught English literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1940 to 1974. The collection includes correspondence, guest lists and party plans, printed poetry by Kathleen Conyngham Greene and Richard Lloyd-Jones, a directory of the Order of the Gimghoul, notes on literature, and photographs belonging to Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991). Included in the correspondence is a carbon copy of a long letter dated 23 March 1956 from Lyman Cotten's brother John Henderson Cotten to his mother Elizabeth Henderson Cotten (1875-1975) describing his visit to a family in Takehara, Japan, including a stop at Hiroshima, Japan. Also included are a cassette tape, a film, and several audiotapes, some containing talks by others about various writers.
Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's issues. Cotten was a leader in both the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Congress of Mothers, through which she worked to advance the legal and educational status of women. She also published articles and poetry, most notably The White Doe (1901), a verse history of the Lost Colony.
Joseph Benson Cottrell (1829-1895) was a Methodist minister of Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, and Kentucky.
John Nathaniel Couch (1896-1986) was a mycologist, professor of botany at the University of North Carolina, winner of scientific and teaching awards, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Correspondence, research materials, teaching materials, photographs, and other papers. Included are Couch's correspondence with William Chambers Coker, Lindsay Shepherd Olive, and others, about publications, conferences, his faculty appointment, the University of North Carolina Botany Department, Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Academy of Science, his opinions of National Science Foundation proposals, botany students from India and Pakistan, and other topics. Research materials include grant applications, articles, notes, drawings, and photographs relating to Couch's discovery and study of fungi of the genus Actinoplanes and his study of other fungi, including genera Coelomyces and Septobasidium. Other papers include Couch's files of teaching materials, his files on his participation in professional organizations, files on the controversy over merger of the Departments of Botany and Zoology into a Biology Department, and files on Botany Department business, including hiring practices relating to women.
William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964.
MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters, January-July 1864, from Coulson, with the 78th Ohio Regiment on the way to Atlanta, to his wife in Morgan County, Ohio, concerning marches, the countryside he passed through, military engagements, health, food, weather, and other matters. Also included are letters telling of Coulson's death and miscellaneous family papers, including a pocket memo book of day labor and wages due, 1856-1867.
John Ellis Coulter was a general merchant and operator of fertilizer, lumber, livestock breeding, milling and threshing, farm machinery sales, and other businesses in Burke and Catawba counties, N.C. He was also a justice of the peace, Democrat, prohibitionist, and Lutheran.
African American businesswoman and cook Mildred Council (Dip) was born on a farm in rural Chatham County, N.C, in 1929. In 1957, Council became the manager of Bill's Barbecue, a restaurant owned by her father-in-law in Chapel Hill, N.C. She opened Mama Dip's Country Kitchen in Chapel Hill in 1976. The Mildred Council Papers consist of personal, family, and restaurant materials. The original deposit includes handwritten and typed drafts for Mama Dip's Kitchen (1999). The drafts contain extensive descriptions of farm life in North Carolina during the Depression of the 1930s; notes on Mildred Council's family in Chatham County, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and elsewhere; and information relating to ingredients and preparation of various southern-style recipes. The addition of January 2020 documents Mildred Council and her extended family in social, business, and church settings. Materials include correspondence, printed materials, writings, recipes, photographs, an interview, and scrapbooks with publicity about Mildred Council and Mama Dip's restaurant.
The Couper family of Glynn County, Ga., included John Couper (1759-1850), his sons, William Audley Couper (1817-1898) and noted agricultural researcher James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866), and grandson, planter and Confederate officer, James Maxwell Couper (fl. 1865). Their plantations included Altama, Hopeton, and Elizafield.
James Hamilton Couper of Glynn County, Ga., was a white manager and part owner of Hopeton, Altama, and Elizafield plantations that were based on a workforce of more than fifty enslaved people. The collection of four volumes documents the names of enslaved people and transactions about them, as well as operations of Hopeton, Altama, and Elizafield plantations. There are names of other enslavers, crop records, and some notes on Couper’s daily life. Additionally, Couper was a scientific agriculturalist and some of the volumes contain extracts from agricultural journals and observations related to the crops grown at the plantations; chiefly cotton, rice, sugar cane, corn, and peas.
William Audley Couper, son of John Couper (1759-1850) and younger brother of James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866), married Hannah Page King (d. 1896), daughter of Thomas Butler King (1800-1864) and Anna Matilda (Page) King (d. 1859). Couper managed Hamilton, a plantation on St. Simon's Island, Ga., from the early 1840s until 1861, and later lived at Carteret's Point and in Ware County, Ga.
Richard Coureton (fl. 1838) was a new settler in Ray County, Mo.
William Courtney and Major William O'Neel were in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. They were taken as prisoners of war by forces led by Lord Cornwallis, possibly in North Carolina during the summer of 1780.
Edmund DeBerry Covington was the son of Benjamin Hamilton and Jane Wall Covington, born 25 September 1823 in Rockingham, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and graduated in 1844. He died of pneumonia on 25 December 1845.
H.W. Covington attended Yale College in 1836.
The Henry Bosman Covington Papers, 1840s-1920s (bulk 1870s-1880s), consist of sermons, poems, and other writings by the Methodist minister of Paris, Henry County, Tenn., and other places in western Tennessee; letters to him; and other papers concerning the Covington, Ray, Boyd, and Cook families in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Texas. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Letters to or about Henry Harris Covington, Episcopal clergyman of North Carolina, chiefly letters of recommendation. Included are two letters from Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), dated 1 September 1890 and 13 April 1916.
Howard E. Covington is a reporter and author who has written extensively about North Carolina people and events.
Thomas Cowan (fl. 1850-1851) attended Trinity School near Raleigh, N.C.
A. C. Cowles was born in 1833 in Hamptonville, N.C. He served as North Carolina state senator from Yadkin County, 1865-1866 and 1870-1874. He married Margaret Caroline Reynolds, with whom he had three children.
Calvin Josiah Cowles (1821-1907) of Wilkes County, N.C., was a merchant specializing in roots and herbs who traded with the North and England. Cowles was a Whig and post-war Republican, superintendent of the United States Mint at Charlotte, N.C., 1869-1884, and consistent promoter of land, mining, and railroad development in northwestern North Carolina. The papers consist of letterpress copy books, 1877-1907; mercantile account books; land surveys and papers relating to Cowles's land holdings in North Carolina, Kansas, and South Dakota; papers relating to his copper and mica mines in northwestern North Carolina; business correspondence; and numerous letters exchanged between Cowles and his ten children giving a detailed picture of their education and careers. Correspondents included: Frank Armin, William Brandreth, A. W. Finley, Colonel Julius Gray, George B. Hanna, John Hinsdale, William W. Holden, Phineas Horton, Davenport Jackson, Max Long, Colonel George Polk, Henry Reynolds, Charles Strauss, William T. Sutherlin, William H. Taft, Harvey Terry, Robert Vance, and John A. Young. Also included are letters to and from son Arthur Duval Cowles, who bought his father's business in 1869 and moved it to Ashe County, N.C., and campaign papers of another son, Charles Holden Cowles, Republican United States representative, 1908-1910. The bulk of the material is dated after 1875; there is little pertaining to C. J. Cowles's political activities during Reconstruction.
Richard Green Cowper (fl. 1846) was a resident of Murfreesboro, N.C. The collection includes a letter, 1794, from George Washington at Philadelphia to Christoper Cowper, of Suffolk, Va., acknowledging the receipt of $450 relative to the sale of some land, and a typed transcription of a deed and mortgage for the land; an indenture, 1843, signed by Richard S. Cowper, sheriff of Hertford County, N.C.; two letters, 1846, to Richard Green Cowper, sojourning in Mariana, Fla., written by his wife at Murfreesboro, N.C., giving home news; a letter (typed transcription), November 1861, from Samuel A. Riddick of Hertford County, N.C., at Camp Ruffin, a Confederate training facility; and an acknowledgement, 1866, to George Vernon Cowper (1846-1916), a student at the University of North Carolina, from William H. Seward (1801-1872).
Members of the Cox, Koonce, Battle, and Franck families lived chiefly in Jones and Onslow counties, N.C., and of Winston County, Miss.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers of the Cox family of Randolph County, N.C., including indentures, deeds, land surveys, and court orders.
Anna Cox, the daughter of Peyton A. Cox (died circa 1895) and Mary E. Wheeler Cox (fl. 1885), was born about 1885, and spent her early childhood in Salem, Forsyth County, N.C. Her brothers and sisters were William A. Cox, John M. Cox, George H. Cox, Emma Cox, and Flora L. Cox. In 1897, Anna Cox moved to Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., to live with her brother William (Will) and his wife, Lizzie Hadley Cox. She attended high school there and graduated in 1901. Shortly after her graduation, she returned to North Carolina and taught school in a Forsyth County community called Nain.
Scrapbook of Clyde Linwood Cox (1914-1969), one of the first two Black police officers in Durham, N.C., and the first Black detective in the state of North Carolina. Cox used a program for the October 1946 Police Ball held at the City Armory to hold newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items related to his early law enforcement career and to the hiring of Black officers elsewhere in the South. The program includes information about the Police Ball, Durham history, and a letter from the white Durham Chief of Police H. E. King, in which he mentions that Cox and fellow Black policeman James B. Samuel have "proved to be very valuable." The program also includes two-page spread with individual portraits of Durham officers, including six Black patrolmen: O. C. Johnson, J. S. Frongerbur, Frank McCrea, Joe Barnes, Samuel, and Cox. There are approximately 30 newspaper clippings and a letter of commendation to Cox from the police chief of Wilson, N.C., for Cox’s help in breaking up a lottery racket. There are a number of photographs of Cox and other Black officers in uniform, as well as a photograph of Cox in civilian clothes when he was promoted to detective. Also included is a signed confession from an individual charged in a stabbing, which may have resulted in a death.
James Trammell Cox (1921-1962) was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina and the University of Iowa, teacher of creative writing and literature at Clemson College, S.C., the University of Iowa, and Florida State University, and author of poems, critical essays, short stories, and novels. The collection include papers, chiefly 1945-1964, of James Trammell Cox, including correspondence with friends and literary agents, materials related to Cox's teaching of creative writing and literature, manuscripts of reviews, articles, poems, and stories by Cox, and related clippings and memorabilia.
Scattered papers, chiefly 1830s-1870s, of Cox, businessman, local official at Kinston, N.C., and mayor of Goldsboro, N.C. These papers include accounts and receipts of Cox, his father, and other relatives; financial records of Cox as board chairman of the Lenoir County, N.C., common schools, 1852-1861; general merchandise accounts, 1865-1867; accounts with labor and domestic help, 1884-1889; accounts, receipts, and vouchers of Cox as an agent of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, 1868-1869; letters, 1860, from Cox's son, James G. Cox, a student at the University of Virginia, 1860, and notes, presumably made by James G. Cox, from law lectures given by Professor John Barbee Minor at the University of Virginia, 1860; two items, 1863, relating to hiring slaves, signed by Washington Duke (1820-1905); and various other personal, public, and business papers.
Letter, 20-22 September 1832, to Cox, Wayne County, N.C., from her daughter, Avis Woodard, a Quaker, who had recently moved to New Garden, Ind., to be in a free state. The letter discusses advantages of living in Indiana where there are no slave holders.
Edward Cox (d. 1853) owned six farms in Henrico County, Va. His son, Thomas Edward Cox, physician and farmer in Henrico County, was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He married Frances Eleanor Grant, probably in the 1840s, and had one surviving child, Martha Ellen.
MICROFILM ONLY. Day book, February 1850-September 1851, containing accounts for general merchandise sold by Cox at Cedar Grove in Greene County, N.C.
William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court judge; United States congressman from North Carolina, 1881-1887; and secretary of the United States Senate, 1893-1900. Correspondence among members of the Cox family and between William Ruffin Cox and political and military associates; transcripts of Cox's speeches in congress and published annual reports he produced as secretary of the Senate; and miscellaneous financial, legal, and other items. Discussions of political matters are not extensive; military correspondence chiefly concerns appointments and promotions. There is one letter, 1887, from Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).
Items include Gap Road, by George Folsom Cranberry (1876-1956), a short story, 23 pages, typescript, undated; Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke, by Ralph Ellison (born 1914), an essay concerning African American literature and folklore, 16 pages, typescript with handwritten emendations, undated; Daughter of the Piedmont: Chapel Hill's First Co-Ed Graduate, the autobiography of Sallie Walker Stockard (born 1869), edited by Ione M. Kilmer, discussing life in rural Alamance County, N.C., in the late nineteenth century and the author's education at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere, 97 pages, photocopy of typescript, undated; and a handwritten copy of poems of various authors including Arthur Cleveland Coxe.
Letters written to Mrs. Tench C. Coxe, a member of the Coxe family of Asheville, N.C., congratulating her on the birth of her daughter, Eliza, on 5 August 1909. Other items are telegrams, a wedding invitation, and a University of North Carolina 1868 commencement ball invitation.
Diary, 1-20 December 1830, apparently of Marianne B. Cozens, a Northerner, possibly the second wife of Daniel Cozens, describing a sea journey on the ship Othello from New York to Charleston, S.C., and a few days in Charleston, on her way to North Carolina. Cozens wrote of the terror associated with a storm at sea, of the reactions of her children to the voyage, and of her impressions of Charleston.
The collection contains a religious ballad, without musical score, written by Abram Crabtree Junior.
Hugh Craft (1800-1867) was a farmer and merchant of Holly Springs, Miss.; his first wife was Mary E. Pitts; his son was Henry (born 1823); and his daughter was Martha. Martha's husband was James Fort (1822-1878). Edward Alston Thorne (born 1828) served with Ransom's Brigade, Confederate States of America, in North Carolina and Virginia.
The Craig, Flowers, and Ferris Papers document three white families in Vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss. Members include William C. Craig; New York cotton and sugar broker William R. Craig (1870-1931); Seraphina Brooks Flowers (1824-1868); Vicksburg businessmen Uriah Grey Flowers (1883-1947) and Edward Gibbs Flowers (1880-1945); Mississippi Council of Garden Clubs president Hester Craig Flowers (1885-1987); Shelby Flowers Ferris; Mississippi state senator Grey Flowers Ferris; and author, filmmaker, folklorist, and professor William R. Ferris Jr. (1942- ) (Bill Ferris). Some family members lived at the Ceres Plantation in Warren County, Miss. The collection consists of business and personal correspondence, including a copybook containing the outgoing letters of Seraphina Brooks Flowers, who successfully petitioned federal officers to allow her to visit her son in the Rock Island, Ill., prison during the Civil War; financial and legal papers; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks; journals; travels diaries; creative writing; and genealogical materials. Topics include family news; the Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency; real estate; farm life; intergenerational relationships; divorce; international travel; garden clubs; the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; family history; the Allen Cooperage Company in Nanachehaw, Miss.; and heritage tourism in Louisiana and Mississippi. Pictures are chiefly portraits and candid photographs of various members of the Craig, Flowers, and Ferris families and their dogs, livestock, houses, gardens, and travel.
David Irvin Craig (1849-1925) was a white Presbyterian minister in Reidsville, N.C. The collection includes diaries, accounting books, notebooks, and some loose papers. Diary entries, 1884-1925, describe Craig's perspective on the Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898, called race riots by its white supremacist supporters, that murdered Black citizens, overthrew elected government, drove opposition Black and white political leaders out of Wilmington, and destroyed Black-owned property and businesses. Craig commented on other racist violence against Blacks, also called race riots by the perpetrators, that followed Black world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson's defeat in 1910 of white former world heavyweight boxing champion Jim Jeffries. Craig also described his experiences with African Americans at the polls on election days. Other topics include President Grover Cleveland's appearance at the Great Centennial Celebration of the Presbyterian General Assembly in May 1888; local and national elections; prohibition; meetings with the Synod and Orange Presbytery in the General Assembly; his perspective on farm life, family members, and the local gossip; history of the Craig and Strayhorn famiies; and his experiences on the Craig family plantation in Orange County, N.C. Accounting books include information about marriages, baptisms, and burials performed by D.I. Craig; insurance information; lists of new members of Reidsville Presbyterian Church; salary, expenditure, and debt information for D.I. Craig and his family; sermons preached; and prayer meetings held at Reidsville Presbyterian Church. The notebooks, 1876-1878, consist of a collection of writings, sermons, and lectures given by educators at the Theological Seminary in Columbia, S.C., and they also include some written thoughts and reflections of D.I. Craig. Loose papers, 1878-1925, include clippings mentioning D.I. Craig's life and work, a program for Reidsville Presbyterian Church, and photographs of New Hope Cemetery in the 1920s. The Addition of August 2010 consists of a single volume providing genealogical information about the Craig family written by D.I. Craig in 1899. Among the enclosures are a transcription of a letter purported to have been found by a servant at a federal army camp near Camden, S.C. Dated 26 February 1865, the letter from Thomas J. Myers to his wife in Boston, Mass., recounts the looting and pillaging that occurred, likely in Camden, S.C., as General William T. Sherman's army travelled north through the state.
Hardin Craig (1875-1968) was a Shakespearean and English Renaissance scholar and professor of English at several universities, including Stanford University, 1928-1942, and the University of North Carolina, 1942-1949.
Letters from southern librarians, archivists, editors, and local historians received in response to inquiries by Craig while she was preparing her University of North Carolina master's thesis, The Survival of the Chivalric Tournament in Southern Life and Literature. Correspondents discussed details of tournaments they had attended or heard about and referred Craig to other knowledgeable sources.
In 1931 a commission of nine members was appointed to recommend revisions to the state constitution of North Carolina. Burton Craige (1875-1945), a lawyer of Winston-Salem, N.C., was one of commission members, along with Lindsay Carter Warren (born 1889) and John Johnston Parker (1885-1958).
The Florence Cramer Scrapbook, 1920-1926, is a "My Girlhood Memories" recordkeeping book with photographs, handwritten notes, calling cards, and other ephemera documenting high school friendships in Jackson, Miss. Eudora Welty was a classmate who signed and is otherwise mentioned in the book.
Crane and Capes was an Orange County, N.C., firm dealing in meat and hides.
John Bensell Cranmer was a physician of Wilmington, N.C.
The collection consists of deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, 1782-1850, relating to members of the Pickren, Gilbert, Crook, Mitchell, Franklin, Richardson, Jones, Anderson, Clark, Griffin, and other families, chiefly resident in Craven and Jones counties, N.C. Most of the items relate to land or other property transactions.
MICROFILM ONLY. The collection includes travel diaries, 1839-1854, and about 20 family letters, 1826-1895, of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford (1824-1895), daughter of John Gayle. Sarah Crawford's diaries describe traveling from Alabama to New York and attending school there, 1839-1840; visiting in South Carolina; attending President Zachary Taylor's inaugural ball; traveling in Vermont and Canada, 1849; and travels in the South, New York, England, France, and Spain, and returning to Mobile, Ala., 1853-1854. Also included is William Crawford's diary, 1852, kept while he was traveling in Switzerland and Italy.
The collection contains genealogical notes, 1946, by Elle Goode Hardeman and a letter to her from Mrs. Hugh M. Lokey concerning Charles Crawford (1738-1813) and the Crawford family in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
George Dewey Crawford was born in Cornelia, Ga., at the end of the 19th century. He attended Cornelia public schools, Piedmont College, the University of North Carolina (Class of 1920), and Emory Law School. At UNC, Crawford was active in many clubs, publications, sports teams, and theather productions. He was a member of the Carolina Playmakers, along with Thomas Wolfe and Paul Green. He married Mary Creech Williams and practiced law in Fort Pierce, Fla. The scrapbook primarily relates to Crawford's years as a student at the University of North Carolina, 1918-1920. There are, however, a small number of items from his childhood and family; his education at Piedmont College; and his post-UNC activities, including a class reunion, in 1921. His activities at UNC are documented items from his participation in societies; student publications; clubs; sports teams; the student battalion; the 8th International Student Volunteer Convention in Des Moines, Iowa; and university theatrical productions. Photographs include candid shots of Crawford and his friends on campus, sporting events, his future wife, and campus theatrical productions. There is a photograph of Paul Green and several pages of signatures and toasts, among them one from Thomas Wolfe.
Papers documenting the career of Dr. James J. Crawford (1931-2013), a white professor of microbiology and an expert in dental infection control at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. His work in microbiology and infection control helped prevent the spread of the hepatitis B virus and AIDS within dentistry. Materials include papers, photographs of infection control methods, and his "If Saliva Were Red" slides. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
Audio recording of African American folk songs from North Carolina submitted by Portia Crawford with her 1965 master's thesis, "A Study of Negro Folk Songs from Greensboro, N.C. and Surrounding Towns." Portia Crawford, a Black instructor, music researcher, and musician of Greensboro, N.C., originally made the recordings from 1960 to 1963 on audiodisc. The collection contains copies of these recordings on open reel audio, as well as supporting documentation. Audio recordings contain mostly unaccompanied singing by African American vocalists, including Joe Goodman of Reidsville, N.C., Harvey Reaves of Greensboro, N.C., Leon Becton, Margaret Becton, Beverly Green, Diane Holman, and Johnny Workman, among others, all from Greensboro, N.C. and surrounding towns. The vocalists range from age 10 to 106, including a formerly enslaved person, Dory Boyd. Types of songs performed include spirituals and children's songs. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) field collection cover sheet and tape logs prepared by former SFC staff.
Thomas Crawford (1785-1844), lawyer and native of North Carolina, was an officer in a militia unit involved in the Creek War and later an Alabama judge and statesman.
Thomas Crawford, who was enslaved by Thomas Mosley of Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Ky., was sold by Mosley to James Crawford, also of Mount Sterling. Thomas Crawford was manumitted by James Crawford in 1842 and moved to Delaware, Ohio, with his wife Hattie and their children. The collection contains a letter, 1 April 1844, from Thomas Crawford to his former enslaver, Thomas Mosley, commenting on his life in Delaware, Ohio. In the letter, Crawford addressed Mosley as Farther and mentioned receiving money from Mosley, which he used to pay off a mortgage debt, and renting property out to a Dutchman to crop on the haves. Thomas Crawford also mentiond his son, Steward Crawford, in the letter. Also included is a copy of the 1836 will of James Crawford, containing instructions to manumit Thomas Crawford after his death and urging Thomas to move his family to Ohio.
Willie S. Ketchum (fl. 1861-1870) was the wife of William H. Ketchum (fl. 1861-1870) and widow of Alexander M. Creagh. The collection includes family correspondence, chiefly 1860-1870, of Willie S. Ketchum; papers relating to the estate of Alexander M. Creagh; and scattered other items. Correspondence includes letters, 1861-1863, from Major William H. Ketchum, Confederate States of America, to his wife, from army camps in Mississippi giving news of fighting, describing camp life, discussing the situation in his area, and advising her about her plans; and letters, 1867-1869, from Ketchum in Mobile, Ala., to his wife in Paris, France, discussing family matters, finances, the fall of cotton prices and the depressed economy in Mobile, politics in Alabama, and race relations. Also included are letters exchanged by other family members, including one, 1868, describing social life in Rome, Italy, and presentation to the Pope; one 1869, describing Hot Springs, Ark.; one, 1869, from Paris, describing the Emperor and his family ice skating in the Bois de Boulogne; and one, 1870, describing Saratoga, N.Y., and a boat trip down the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to New York City. Early papers include letters in French from members of the Denis family of Paris and New Orleans, La. Papers after 1870 include letters, 1890, of sympathy on the death of Amanda Creagh DeFord.
William J. Creasey (born 1822) of Newburyport, Mass., was an officer in the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and was involved in General Ambrose E. Burnside's invasion of eastern North Carolina, 1862.
Mary Elizabeth Farrow Credle (1881-1946) was the daughter of Wilson T. Farrow (1837-1916) and Mary Elizabeth (Respess) Farrow (1846-1905). The collection contains chiefly business papers (deeds, accounts, receipts, contracts, letters), but also personal correspondence preserved by Mary Farrow Credle from preceding generations of the Credle family, Farrow family, and Respess family in Beaufort County and Hyde County, N.C. Members of the families were engaged in coastwise shipping, maintaining ships, buying and selling lands and slaves, farming and other businesses. Included are papers of Isaiah Respess, merchant and trader, who was imprisoned alternately by the Confederate and Federal authorities during the Civil War; the Reverend Joseph B. Hinton (1788-1872), antebellum state legislator, of Beaufort County and Raleigh, N.C.; Wilson T. Farrow (1837-1916) of Ocracoke Island and Washington, N.C.; and their kin. Earlier papers are Beaufort and Hyde county deeds; material after 1894 is sparse. The Civil War items document Isaiah Respess's mercantile activities in New Bern, N.C., and Beaufort, N.C., while under Union occupation, trading with New York firms.
William Ayden Creech represented Wake County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1977-1979, and in the North Carolina Senate, 1979-1982, and served as district court judge for Wake County beginning in 1983.
The Creecy family of Pasquotank County, N.C., included Elizabeth Brosher Creecy Winston (1845-1921) and her parents, Mary B. Perkins and Richard Benbury Creecy (1813-1908). R. B. Creecy was a lawyer, journalist, author, farmer, and alumnus and trustee of the University of North Carolina.
John A. Creedy was born in England in 1919. When Creedy was eleven, he and his family immigrated to the United States where they settled in Chapel Hill, N.C. Creedy entered the University of North Carolina in 1935, where he studied economics and edited The Carolina Magazine. In June 1939, he founded The Union Advocate in Durham, N.C., a weekly that provided educational features about labor, many of which were obtained either from national publications of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) or the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and documented trade union news. In 1940, he joined the staff of the Durham Morning Herald as a reporter, farm editor, and book review editor. After World War II, he worked chiefly in public relations for airlines and other transportation services.
The collection consists chiefly of account ledgers and correspondence related to the Crenshaw family, specifically F. W. Crenshaw (1824-1902) and F. W. Crenshaw, Jr., (1856-1936) white plantation owners of Butler County, Ala., with landholdings near Manningham and Greenville. One ledger predating the Civil War and emancipation contains substantial information about the enslaved people on land owned by Jacob Lewis Womack (1806-1877) that was inherited by the Crenshaws. Lists of enslaved men and women include names, years and dates of birth, and in some cases the names of their mothers. Work assignments and allowances for clothing and crops are also recorded in the ledger. Ledgers spanning the 1890s to the 1930s contain accounts for sharecroppers and tenant farmers, many of whom were likely African American men and women who had been enslaved or were descended from slaves held by Jacob Lewis Womack. Letters received by F.W. (Willie) Crenshaw, Jr., from siblings and cousins comprise the bulk of the correspondence. One cousin, T.C. Crenshaw (likely Thomas Chiles Crenshaw, 1848-1944) wrote lengthy letters in the 1920s and 1930s discussing his view that formerly enslaved people had been better off under slavery and his support for Prohibition. Other papers include genealogical and family history information on the Crenshaws and related families and a manuscript book of ballads compiled by Mrs. F.W. Crenshaw, Jr.
The white Crenshaw and Miller families owned tobacco plantations and enslaved people in Hanover, Pittsylvania, and Halifax counties Virginia and Calhoun County, Texas. The collection contains scattered documents, including bills of sale, contracts, wills, tax receipts, and a broadside, that document the people enslaved and trafficked by the Crenshaws and Millers, insurrections by enslaved people in Virginia and North Carolina circa 1810, the manumission of enslaved people the early 1800s, a Christmas celebration by a community of enslaved people in Hanover County in 1812, and contracting work with freed people in 1865. The bulk of the collection is legal and estate papers, primarily of Nathaniel Crenshaw, Charles Crenshaw Jr., Sarah Bacon Crenshaw, and William Miller, including correspondence, deeds, wills, bonds, writs of summons, contracts, land plats, court orders, articles of agreement among other items.
The collection contains a typed genealogical account of the Cresswell family of Pennsylvania.
James W. Crewdson, teacher, farmer, and Baptist preacher of Illinois and Kentucky, son of Samuel B. Crewdson (1802-1833) and Nancy H. Milliken Crewdson (1808- 1839), and husband of Amanda Jackson Crewdson (d. 1872) with whom he had six children and Sara C. Wylie Crewdson with whom he had one child.
Correspondence, chiefly 1866-1867, of William Louis Criglar with firms in Mobile and New Orleans concerning supplies, equipment, and financing for Criglar, Batchelder and Co., his lumber milling business in Escambia County, Ala., and the adjoining Florida counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa; a descriptive list of slaves belonging to the company, 1862; and other related items.
Commonplace entries made by James A. Crocker, teacher of Warsaw, Wyoming County, N.Y., and diary entries made by him, 1847-1848, while teaching in Falling Creek, Wayne County, N.C. The diary entries discuss plantation life, treatment of slaves, attendance at a Baptist church, Crocker's school, and other matters.
George Cronin was a private in the U.S. Army who was stationed in Korea in 1946 during the post-World War II occupation.
The collection contains photostatic copies of miscellaneous items, including special orders (one relieving Major S. Croom from duty) and a note, 15 January 1865, from Robert E. Lee, about restricting short supplies of coffee and sugar to men in the trenches.
Croom, native of North Carolina, botanist, planter in Gadsden County, Fla., died with his immediate family in a shipwreck.
Thomas Baylie Cropper was a sea captain and the son of Catherine West Cropper (d. 1855) of Accomack County, Va. Cropper commanded several transatlantic merchant ships that sailed out of Philadelphia and New York. In 1843, he married Rosina Mix (fl. 1833-1878) with whom he had three children: Catherine (b. 1844), Rose (b. 1846), and John (b. 1848). Family members represented include Thomas's two sisters, Elizabeth C. Gibb and Ann C. Arbuckle Savage; two brothers, P. W. and Coventon; his niece Catherine F. Gibb; and his cousin superior court judge and congressman Thomas Henry Bayly.
MICROFILM ONLY. Crossroads Primitive Baptist Church, a member church of the Mountain Association, was founded at Baywood, Grayson County, Va., in June 1845. The church was constituted by thirty-two members; as of 1971, membership was about seventy-five persons. Three volumes containing minutes of monthly church meetings, lists of members and records of their status in the church, and other material, and two photographs relating to the Crossroads Primitive Baptist Church. Church minutes constitute the bulk of these records.
Members of the Crowder family of Wake County, N.C., and the Miller family of New Bern, N.C., include J. M. Crowder, a farmer near Raleigh, N.C.; his wife; his daughters Bettie Crowder and Mary Crowder, students in Warrenton, N.C.; his sons; and Bettie Crowder's husband, Alex Miller, and their son Clarence Miller.
John H. Crowder, a 16-year-old African American lieutenant who fought in the United States Army during the Civil War, was born in 1846 in Louisville, Ky., to free parents. After being abandoned by her husband, Crowder's mother, Martha Ann Stars, moved with her son to New Orleans, La. During the Civil War, from 1862 to 1863, Crowder served in the 1st Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guard under the command of Major General Benjamin F. Butler. The Louisiana Native Guard was one of the first regiments of people of color to serve in the Union Army. Crowder was killed in action at the battle of Port Hudson in 1863.
Charles Robert Crowe, historian, was on the faculty of the University of Georgia. C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South, taught at Yale University from 1961 until 1977. The collection includes three audiocassettes containing an interview with C. Vann Woodward by Charles Robert Crowe in which Woodward's life and career are discussed.
The collection is a typed transcription (location of original unknown) of a letter, circa 1892, from M.E.W. to the editor of the Times (place unknown). The writer was a niece of Colonel John Crowell (1780-1846), a Creek Indian agent in Georgia and Alabama, 1821-1836, whose removal was demanded by the governor of Georgia. The letter defends Crowell against charges made against him at the time of the events and then later by historians, particularly Jared Sparks.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley in Leamington, Warwickshire, was an occultist, eccentric, author of poems, erotica, and writings in the field of magic.
Crown Hosiery Mills was founded in 1913 by G. H. Kearns in High Point, N.C. Kearns was joined in the business by his two sons, Amos R. and Charles L. Kearns, who took over the business after his death in 1962. Both Amos and Charles Kearns died in 1979. Amos R. Kearns, Jr., joined the business in 1958. After he acquired Crown in 1978 in a leveraged buy-out from his father and uncle, he was president and sole stockholder. Crown Hosiery filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations in 1991.
Frank Crowther (1932-1976) was a journalist and 1960 graduate of the University of North Carolina. He had professional connections to the United States Virgin Islands, the Democratic Party, the National Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the 1983 interview conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Esther J. Cruikshank, Ruth West discusses foodways and restaurant work. The sound recording is on audio cassette tape. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
George Cruikshank was a British artist, social and political caricaturist, and illustrator. The collection includes correspondence about the temperance movement; invitations to lecture and to attend social events; requests for assistance, autographs, and illustrations for worthy causes; copies of about thirty letters written by Cruikshank; manuscript fragments; and scattered references to Cruikshank's drawings and designs. Also present are two caricature sketches by Cruikshank, possibly of Queen Victoria; letters to Cruikshank's wife, Eliza Cruikshank; and a separate series of correspondence to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson (1827-1896), physician and crusader for various preventative medicine projects, who served as executor for the estate of George Cruikshank, primarily about the estate.
Professional papers of Carole L. Crumley, white professor (emerita) at the Department of Anthropology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection chiefly consists of research files, including oral history interviews, pertaining to her ethnographic research in France and to archaeological excavations in France. Correspondence and publications, as well as photographic slides and prints and other audio recordings are also included.
Charles Harvey Crutchfield was born in Hope, Ark., on 27 July 1912, grew up in Spartanburg, S.C., and matriculated at Wofford College for one year, 1929-1930. He began his career in broadcasting in 1929 as a radio announcer and worked at a number of radio stations before joining the staff of WBT in Charlotte, N.C., in 1933. Crutchfield held several positions at the station and at its parent company, retiring as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. Crutchfield had a decades-long friendship with the Reverend Billy Graham and was chiefly responsible for launching Graham's television presence. Following his retirement, Crutchfield founded his own consulting company, Media Communications, Inc., which was devoted to broadcasting issues, and was active with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications, as well as in the larger broadcasting community and in professional and civic organizations.
The collection of journalist and author Paul Cuadros contains images of central North Carolina and Latinx immigrant communities in and around Siler City that were taken by Cuadros while he conducted research for his 2006 book A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America. Images document community members including farmworkers, poultry plant workers, and school children; cultural and social events and celebrations such as quinceañeras and Fiesta Latina; church events such as a passion play; and public events including a September 1999 meeting of the Siler City School Board, a February 2000 anti-immigration rally led by white supremacist David Duke, and the local response rallies. Cuadros also documented housing, hog farms, schools, churches, and migrant education programs.
Cub Creek in Charlotte County, Va., was a Scotch-Irish settlement first inhabited in 1730. The collection includes a typescript history of Cub Creek from its beginning in 1730 to 1929.
The Cucullu family of Louisiana and Alabama had French, Spanish, Mexican, and Nassau connections.
The collection includes miscellaneous papers of the South Carolina Cudworth family including two letters, 1824-1825, from Benjamin Elfe Junior, in Columbia, S.C., where he was seeking a job; a letter, 1852, from Israel Cudworth, a Massachusetts relative, giving family news; and a handwritten fifteen-page semi-annual report, 1871, from W. H. Adams, the pastor of the Circular Church, a Congregational church in Charleston, S.C.
The collection documents several generations of the related white Culp and Browne families of Union, S.C., and Johnston, S.C. The two families are related through the marriage of chemist Francis Bartow Culp (1905-1981) and Agnes Nora Dunlap Browne Culp (1908-2008), whose extensive correspondence from the 1930s through the 1960s forms a large part of the collection. Also included are family letters, financial documents, photographs, photograph albums with tintypes and cartes de visite, travel diaries and ephemera from European trips in the early twentieth century, manuscript cookbooks from the 1850s and 1930s, genealogical material including an application for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and mid and late nineteenth-century plantation journals possibly from the Culp House, which was built for merchant Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1888). The antebellum journals contain references to enslaved people.
Stephen Berry Culver (1841-1902) of Sandy Hill, N.Y., was a graduate of Union College, carpenter, teacher, bookkeeper, active member of the Methodist Church, mining and chemical engineer, and clerk in the Naval Office, New York, N.Y., 1884-1902.
The Cumberland Association was a declaration, 20 June 1775, signed by citizens of Cumberland County, N.C., associating to resist Britain. The Cumberland Association is also known as the Liberty Point Resolves.
H. H. (Henry Harford) Cumming was a lawyer of Augusta, Ga. The collection is a letter from Cumming to his friend, John M. O'Connor of New York, giving personal news, including news of a woman who was his choice and of his recent admission to the bar, and mentioning the gubernatorial campaign in Georgia.
Joseph B. Cumming was a major in the 5th Georgia Regiment during the Civil War, serving on the Florida coast in 1861 and thereafter chiefly in Tennessee. He later joined Walker's Brigade and, after Walker's death, became a member of the staff of General John B. Hood.
John Wilson Cuningham was an agriculturalist and state Democratic Party leader, from Person County, N.C. Wilson served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1844 and 1864-1865, and later in the state Senate.
James Cunningham (fl. 1797) lived in Blount County, Tenn., with his wife and children and is believed to have moved from there to Knox County, Tenn. The collection consists of one letter, 25 January 1797, from James Cunningham to his uncle Robert Cunningham of Pennsylvania, containing updates on the health, marital, and financial situations of various family members, commenting on a recent church (denomination unknown) split, and describing the physical characteristics of his Blount County neighborhood and land on which he intended to build in Knox County.
Robert Cunningham was an officer in the War of 1812. The collection includes a letter, January 1847, from Joel R. Poinsett to Captain Robert Cunningham, Rose Mount, Laurens District, S.C., about family, business, personal, and horticultural activities; and letter, 22 August 1868, from Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886) to Mrs. Robert Cunningham, Laurens District, S.C., telling of a recent visit to Washington, D.C., and Mount Vernon.
Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843-1913) of Tennesee was the founder and editor of the Confederate Veteran (Nashville, 1893-1932). The collection is chiefly letters, 1891-1909, to Cunningham, relating to the contents and circulation of the magazine, veterans' affairs in general, and litigation over the management of the Confederate Memorial Association. Papers, 1924-1945, consist of correspondence between Edith D. Pope, who succeeded Cunningham as editor, and manuscript dealers Forest H. Sweet of Battle Creek, Mich., and C. M. Crook of Birmingham, Ala., concerning the sale of memorabilia, and an article by Pope on Cunningham.
Microfilm of papers, 1695-1884, in the Cupola House, Edenton, N.C., including land papers, wills, deeds, accounts, and other business and miscellaneous papers of persons in the Edenton, N.C., area, relating to local government and institutions, military affairs, especially during the War of 1812, shipping and mercantile activities, and estate settlements and guardianships. Included are papers of the Baptist Meeting House, the mercantile firm of Collins, Allen, & Dickinson, the Edenton Academy, Edmund Hoskins, and the Roberts and Rombough families. Also included is an original 1948 photograph of Cupola House.
In the fall of 2017, Professor Jina Valentine's ARTS 391: Curatorial Practices class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill created "Footnotes (revisions)," an exhibit exploring the 2015 renaming of Saunders Hall as Carolina Hall and responding to the permanent exhibit installed in Carolina Hall in fall 2016. The exhibit was on display in the John and June Allcott Gallery in Hanes Hall from November 9 to December 5, 2017, and presented visitors with an interactive experience modeled on a special collections reading room. Visitors could pull boxes from shelves and review folders of records at tables in the gallery. This collection includes the folders of documents featured in the exhibit, postcards provided for exhibit visitors to write their thoughts to Chancellor Carol Folt, and a copy of ruptures vol. 1, a zine by campus organization Feminists Liberating Our Collective Knowledge (FLOCK). Numbers following folder titles reflect the locations of the folders in boxes in the exhibit space. Originals of many of the documents featured in the exhibit may be found in the Wilson Special Collections Library.
Unrelated items from various places, including a volume, compiled in 1833-1834 by a Kentucky medical student, of formulae for making and administering medicine; a volume of miscellaneous recipes for cakes and desserts; and other recipes and receipts for food and medical care.
Programs, book lists, membership rosters, and related records, 1900-1995, of the Current Literature Club of Louisburg, Franklin County, N.C. Founded in 1900, the Club drew its members mainly from the wives of local businessmen and teachers at Louisburg College. Included is a history of the club, 1900-1995, by Sarah I. Davis.
The Curriculum, Music, and Community Collection consists of video documentation of summer workshops hosted by the Curriculum, Music, and Community (CMC), a collaborative educational program designed by the School of Education and the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support North Carolina teachers in their efforts to incorporate the music and musical traditions of their communities into their regular classroom instruction. Attendees of the CMC workshops included teachers, as well as traditional musicians and dancers from Ashe, Surry, Haywood, and Caldwell counties. The recordings include discussions on lesson plans and connecting teachers with artists, as well as, performances by gospel musicians, clog dancers, square dancers, and old-time string bands.
Claude Currie of Durham, N.C., was a Democratic state senator representing the 11th District (Durham, Orange, and Person counties), and chairman of the Committee on Public Health, 1971-1972. The collection includes the political papers of Currie relating to the 1971 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Included are correspondence, brochures, and other papers relating to various issues before the legislature. About half of the collection consists of letters received from constituents regarding abortion legislation.
Ellen Bruce Currie (1920- ) grew up in Raeford, N.C. Her maternal grandparents were Ruth Hairston Pannill Gordon (1850-1928), a cousin of Jeb Stuart, and Melville Cox Gordon (1838-1892). Currie's father was lawyer James Wharey Currie (1879-1935), her mother was Ruth Pannill Gordon Currie (1885-1947), and her brother was James Gordon Currie (1919-1964). Currie worked for the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Veterans Administration in Richmond, Va., and then at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Professional genealogist Cora Christabel Curry was born in Oxford, Ohio, where her father, William Wallace Curry, was the pastor of a Universalist Church. From 1881 to 1930, Cora Christabel Curry was a government clerk, primarily in the Bureau of Navigation. Curry also served as the librarian of the National Genealogical Society and historian of the Henckel Family Association.
J. L. M. Curry was a southern educator.
Moses Ashley Curtis (1808-1872), born and educated in Massachussetts, was a white Episcopal teacher and rector at various posts in North Carolina and South Carolina between 1835 and 1872. Besides his clerical and teaching duties, Curtis was also a noted mycologist. The collection contains the correspondence, papers, journals and notebooks, and scientific materials of M.A. Curtis, along with the correspondence of his wife Mary Jane DeRosset Curtis, their children, and members of the Curtis and DeRosset families, chiefly in North Carolina and South Carolina. Correspondence primarily consists of early DeRosset papers; letters from M.A. Curtis's parents, Reverend Jared Curtis and Thankful Curtis, and his daughter, Caroline, to M.A. Curtis while at Williams College; correspondence between M.A. Curtis and Mary Jane DeRosset; letters from relatives of Mary Jane DeRosset Curtis of Wilmington, N.C., and Charleston, S.C.; letters from the Curtis childen while they were at school and as adults; letters from John H. Curtis while he was serving in the Confederate army; and scattered letters about activities of the Episcopal Church; letters to Curtis from other botanists, including Henry William Ravenel, Asa Gray, and M.J. Berkeley, primarily regarding fungi and related scientific topics. Topics are generally related to family news and daily life, along with some discussions of news and politics. Some letters mention slavery and particular people enslaved by Curtis and DeRosset family members. Included is an 1841 letter discussing the trial of a man accused of murdering an enslaved person, and letters, 1859-1860, discussing the forced separation of enslaved people by the DeRosset family after the death of Armand DeRosset. Later papers, 1873-1929, are family correspondence, papers relating to the disposition of Curtis's scientific materials, and letters from Catherine Fullerton describing her travels and teaching experiences in Cuba, 1910-1919. Also included are diaries, botanical notes, school notebooks, sermons, photographs, and church music, as well as Curtis's diary, 1830-1836 and undated, that contains descriptions of his life in Wilmington, N.C., and his employment as a tutor for the children of former Governor Edward Bishop Dudley.
Mary Curtis was the widow of Jessie Curtis, a private in Captain Vooly's Company, 6th Regiment, Virginia Militia.
W. G. (Walter Gilman) Curtis was a native of Massachusetts, and a physician of Smithville, N.C., (now Southport) and Wilmington, N.C.
Mahlon D. Cushman, a Union soldier during the Civil War, served as a private in Company I of the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 1862-1864. As part of the Union garrison at Plymouth, N.C., the 16th Connecticut, with the 18th Army Corps, defended against a Confederate land and naval attack, 17-20 April 1864. On 20 April 1864, the Union garrison at Plymouth surrended, and Cushman was sent to the Andersonville Prison at Camp Sumter, Ga. He was paroled in November 1864 and discharged with disability in June 1865.
DuBrutz Cutlar (1832-1898), lawyer of Wilmington, N.C., received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1853.
The collection contains a fragment of an assignment, 14 November 1772, on sheepskin; a typed transcription of a special order, 8 September 1861, from General Robert E. Lee to General Henry Jackson; and a typed transcription of a letter, 9 September 1861, from Sarah Hillhouse Alexander Lawton to General H. R. Jackson, about war-time conditions in Savannah, Ga.

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Edith Mitchell Dabbs, a white author, was born in 1906 in Dalzell, Sumter County, S.C. She married James McBride Dabbs in 1935, and, in 1937, settled at Rip Raps Plantation, the Dabbs family home just outside Sumter. She was active in documenting the history of Saint Helena Island, S.C., an interest stemming from her knowledge of Penn School, a school for African Americans that functioned on the Island between 1862 and 1948, with which both she and her husband were involved. The collection includes a handwritten transcription of a letter, 1791, from Abigail Capers. Saint Helena Island, S.C., describing her life at Laurell Hill, an indigo plantation; a photocopy of a transcription of parts of a diary, 1862-1864, of Penn School founder Laura M. Towne (1825-1901), with discussions of African Americans on Saint Helena Island, the work of members of the Port Royal Experiment there, Union troops in the area, and other matters; photographs of drawings, probably 1860s, of buildings on Saint Helena Island; other items relating to Penn School and to life on Saint Helena Island; and drafts of Walking Tall.
James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a white professor of English at the University of South Carolina and Coker College, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn School Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, administrative records, and other materials that document Dabbs's professional involvements and interests, including his leadership roles in civil rights councils, religious organizations, and other groups. Almost all of the papers date from 1923 to shortly before Dabbs's death in 1970. Topics include observations on social and political issues of the day (especially in the American South), concerns about racial inequalities and segregation, Dabbs's opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and Dabbs's own life and religious beliefs. Most writings are drafts are of books, articles, addresses, short stories, poems, and other writings by Dabbs, and most correspondence is between Dabbs and fellow political and religious group members, publishers, and readers of his articles and books. There is light and scattered correspondence with prominent authors, activists, and historians, including Anne Braden, Sarah Patton Boyle, Hodding Carter, Isabel Fiske Conant, Paul Green, Myles Horton, George Mitchell, Eudora Welty, and C. Vann Woodward, among others; some writings by others; and a few photographs of Dabbs's university and church colleagues.
Charles William Dabney was a scientist, educator, and author. Also represented in the collection are four generations of his ancestors, including William Dabney (circa 1707-1772?); Charles Dabney (1745-1829); Charles William Dabney (1786-1833); Charles William Dabney (1809-1895); Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898); Lavinia (Morrison) Dabney (1823-1905); and James Morrison (fl. 1817-1865).
Chiswell Dabney was presumably a lawyer of Lynchburg, Va.
Cornelius Dabney, University of Virginia student and school teacher, was the son of William Winton (b. 1816) and Martha Ann Bosher Dabney of Richmond, and later Enfield, King William County, Va.
The collection includes copies of letters, 1861, from the Soldiers Aid Society, Holmes County, Miss., concerning supplies sent to the Confederate wounded at Richmond, Va.; a letter from Reverend Basil Manly (1798-1868) to his son, R. Fuller Manly, discussing the inauguration of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889); and a printed circular letter to parents from Landon C. Garland (1810-1895), president of the University of Alabama, concerning cadets who wished to join the Confederate Army.
The Daguerreotype Collection contains 14 images taken of individuals and couples seated or standing for portraits, circa 1839-1860. Individuals appearing in the images have been identified whenever possible. Known individuals are listed as subject access points. All of the images in this collection are encased with the exception of one framed item. Included are images of John Calvin McNair, who endowed a lecture series on science and religion at the University of North Carolina and an image of a painting of Richard Bennehan of the Cameron family of Orange County, N.C.
The Daily Tar Heel is the student-run newspaper for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The newspaper published its first issue on 23 February 1893. Originally a University sponsored organization, the newspaper incorporated as an independently operated non-profit in 1989. Images created by student staff photographers comprise the bulk of the collection. Many images created between 1990 and 2001 and between 2007 and 2017 appeared in The Daily Tar Heel and the University Gazette, and other University publications, but the majority of these images were never published. Also included in the collection are digital copies of newspaper issues published between 2011 and 2017; office files; letters and special issues of the The Daily Tar Heel and The Chronicle related to friendly betting by newspaper staff on Carolina-Duke basketball games; and issues of The Daily Tar Hole and The Daily Tar Hell, spoof newspapers created by newspaper staff at Duke University and North Carolina State University.
Victor Dalmas was born in Kentucky and moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1954. He served in the Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring in 1968. He received a degree in political science from the University of Maryland and studied English at Pembroke State University and North Carolina State University, 1974-1979. Dalmas served as associate editor of the literary quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, published at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He was also a freelance writer and publisher. Dalmas died on 23 April 2001. The collection includes correspondence relating to draft manuscripts and edited copy for issues of Pembroke Magazine during Dalmas's tenure as editor, 1974-1979, among which are issues on Paul Green and Erskine Caldwell. Also included are letters to and from various writers, especially from North Carolina, and materials relating to books edited and published by Dalmas through Dalmas/Ricour, Publishers.
Filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer (1960-) of Durham, N.C., has made several documentaries, including Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997) and Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999). The collection consists of transcripts and videotapes from Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999) and video masters from Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997). Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues traces the career Durham, N.C., blues musician Richard Trice. Videotapes feature interviews with Trice; trips to where he lived, worked, and performed; and footage of a 1998 blues workshop at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham with Trice and blues musician John Dee Holeman. Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway takes a look at the grassroots of stock car racing with interviews of drivers, family members, and track officials involved in minor league competition.
Miscellaneous typed items including the Civil War reminiscences of W. R. I. Dalton, Confederate naval courier to England and France; an account by Hamilton H. Dalton of his service with the U.S. Navy off the African coast, including the capture of a slave ship; and a Henderson family genealogy.
Laura Randolph Daly was an instructor in the 1910s through the 1930s at Snow Hill Institute in Snow Hill, Ala., and at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. She later worked for the United States government in the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPACS).
Daisy Gertrude Dame was the sister of Olive Dame Campbell. She served as a kindergarten teacher at Oneida Baptist Institute, Oneida, Ky., July 1909-April 1910.
Administrative records of Dan River Mills, Inc., of Danville, Va., include business correspondence of the mill's presidents H.R. Fitzgerald, Robert West, and George Harris; financial records; annual reports; newsletters; and photographs. There are materials about the 1951 and 1974 strikes at the mill; fashion shows; advertising; mill housing; and other topics.
Records of the Dance Marathon, a student-led fundraiser for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital, including planning materials, reports, newsletters, promotional materials, and mix CD track lists.
The Barbara Dane Collection consists of sound recordings of American folk songs sung by Barbara Dane (formerly Barbara Cahn) and Rolf Cahn. Recordings are on instantaneous disc. The collection also includes a hand-decorated album that originally housed the sound recordings.
Bessie Heath Daniel, a white farmer, teacher, and amateur historian, of Person County, N.C. She attended the State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in Greensboro, N.C., and worked there in the office of the president. She also held positions as the treasurer of the Kanuga Club near Hendersonville, N.C., and as an administrative assistant in the Agricultural Extension Service of Roxboro, N.C., and Person County. Daniel held numerous clerical positions, taught at Roxboro High School and the Hillcrest School in Flat River, and from 1923 to her retirement managed the family tobacco farm. From 1957 to 1975, she hosted a weekly radio program on WRXO in Roxboro, N.C., devoted to Person County history. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal materials, and other items relating to Bessie Heath Daniel and others. Personal and business correspondence is mostly among Bessie Heath Daniel, Sallie Barnett Daniel, Lewis Heath Daniel, Bertha Daniel Cloyd, and their friends and family. Topics include tobacco farm management, rural household affairs, and the daily life of young female college students in the early 1900s. Financial materials including financial and legal documents from the 19th and 20th centuries; documents relating to Lewis Heath Daniel's employment at the distillery warehouse in Roxboro, N.C.; bank books; account books (one of which includes a muster roll for Company A, 35th Battalion of Home Guards and a list of names and birth dates of slaves born 1813-1864); documents relating to the Daniel homestead and tobacco farm in Flat River, N.C.; and receipts. There are also materials relating to Bessie Heath Daniel's weekly radio program; school materials including a cipher book, possibly of J. A. Lunsford; an Album of Remembrance of Carrie Scott while attending the Warrenton Female Collegiate Institute; materials relating to Bessie Heath Daniel and Bertha Daniel Cloyd's education, such as notebooks, essays, tests, and grade reports; historical and genealogical materials including pages of a family record including birth, death, and marriage dates for the Ward, Bacon, Lamkin, Gregory, Edwards, and Scott family members, 1753-1886; printed materials; photographs, including a daguerreotype of Ann Lunsford Daniel; and other items.
Ellen Long Daniel was the widow of Confederate General Junius Daniel (1828-1864).
Joseph John Daniel (1783-1848) of Halifax County, N.C., was a legislator and a member of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Correspondence, financial and legal material, account books, and other material of Nathaniel Chesley Daniel and Anne H. Bullock Daniel (1804-1883), and of other Daniel family members from Tranquility Plantation, Granville County, N.C. Two photographs of three former slaves of the Daniel and Bullock families are included.
Surgeon in United States Navy, Confederate Army, and in Jacksonville, Fla. Microfilm of a detailed medical journal of the three-year cruise of the U.S.S. San Jacinto, steam sloop-of-war, written during the voyage by Dr. R. P. Daniel, Assistant Surgeon.
Charles Cleaves Daniels, North Carolina and New York City lawyer, brother of Josephus Daniels, worked for the United States government during the 1890s in connection with the protection of Indian lands from fraud in Wyoming, Utah, Connecticut, and Oklahoma, and later in Minnesota and New York.
Frank A. Daniels (Frank Arthur Daniels Jr., born 1931) of Raleigh, N.C., was president and publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer and a civic and business leader. His father, Frank A. Daniels Sr., and his grandfather, Josephus Daniels, were also publishers of the News and Observer.
Frank A. Daniels (Frank Arthur Daniels Jr., born 1931) was president and publisher of the News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C.
Publisher of the Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer; civic leader in Raleigh, N.C.; son of Adelaide Worth Bagley and Josephus Daniels, founder of the News and Observer, secretary of the Navy, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Jonathan Daniels (1902-1981) of Raleigh, N.C., editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and author of numerous historical and political books and articles. Daniels was also administrative assistant to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and worked in the Harry S. Truman administration.
Josephus Daniels was the owner and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer; secretary of the Navy in the administration of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921; and U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1941.
Letters from Robert E. Daniels, an Indiana native and surgeon with the 8th Medical Battalion, U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, to his wife Marie G. Daniels and young daughter Lorabel. Letters in 1941 are from Robert, then a student officer at Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa., from which he complained of the compressed nature of his studies. By September, Robert had been transferred to Fort Jackson, S.C., from which he wrote about camp life. By July 1944, Robert, promoted to lieutenant colonel, was writing letters from Somewhere in France containing a fair amount of description of camp life, bombing and strafing, his interest in the French language and food, and the plunder he was collecting and sending home. By January 1945, he wrote from Somewhere in Germany, chiefly about camp life, but, occasionally about his activities in the field and in camp hospitals. By May, the war in Europe had ended, and Robert was able to tell Marie about his movements since his arrival in Europe. Also in May, he described a brief leave he took to visit Paris. Letters from Europe end in June; by July, Robert was home on leave. In August, he was assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., from which he complained of feeling like he was preparing for another war. In the last letter, dated 6 September, Robert speculated on when he would be released from service. There are also a few routine letters from friends and relatives.
Marcus and Yetta Danneman, a Jewish couple, owned a grocery store in Atlanta, Ga., from 1939 to 1986. Their grocery store was across the street from the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Sr.'s family attended and pastored.
Missouri E. Eley, daughter of Susan E. Vann and Lawrence Eley of Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., married George T. Darden of Hertford County in 1862. They had at least one child, named Eley, born in 1863 or 1864.
Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968) was an author and poet of Asheville, N.C., who used the pen name Fielding Burke.
William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr. (1953- ) is an African American economist and researcher. He is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. The collection chiefly consists of professional correspondence and other professional papers, including writings, grant proposals, conference-related materials, and other papers relating to Darity's research, largely focused on the racial achievement gap; inequality by race, class, and ethnicity; and social and economic policy as they relate to race and ethnicity.
Erik Darling (1933-2008) was a white American songwriter and folk music artist, born in Baltimore, Md., and raised in Canandaigua, N.Y. In the 1950s, he formed with Bob Carey and Alan Arkin what became the Tarriers. In 1956, the Tarriers' Banana Boat Song sparked a craze for calypso music. In 1958, Pete Seeger left the Weavers singing group, and Darling was asked to take his place; he stayed with that group until 1962. Darling then formed the Rooftop Singers, which popularized the 12-string guitar in its recording of Walk Right In. Darling subsequently released several solo albums, wrote many instrument instruction books, and compiled his 2008 autobiography. The collection contains correspondence, scores, sheet music, song lyrics, photographs, moving image materials, audio recordings, and other items related to Erik Darling and his musical career. Correspondence discusses song writing and other activities. Correspondents include Fred Hellerman, Don McLean, Al Perrin, Pete Seeger, and other folk artists and friends. Also included are handwritten and photocopied scores with annotations by Darling; song lyrics by Darling and various collaborators; and printed and photocopied versions of sheet music. There are also clippings relating to the 2004 reunion performance of the Weavers; photographs of both the Tarriers and the Weavers; negatives from the 1954 Musical Americana Tour; several DVDs and videotapes that relate to various groups; recordings of phone interviews conducted by Darling with friends and associates, including Billy Faier, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger, while in the process of writing his autobiography I'd Give My Life: A Journey by Folk Music (2008) and compact discs containing notes for and chapters from the autobiography; and recordings of music by Darling and others, including commercially released audiodiscs, demos, dubs, mixes, and masters of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The Additions consist of artwork by Erik Darling.
Dashiell of Richmond, Va., was an illustrator of scenes in Richmond, Va., Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans, La.; an importer of French fashion prints; and a business woman.
The collection contains the records of the Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Chapel Hill, N.C., including minutes of meetings; membership data; and scrapbooks of letters, photographs, and records of World War II activities in Orange County, N.C.
Tom Davenport is a white independent filmmaker and film distributor living in Delaplane, Va. He began work in film with documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock and Don Pennebacker in New York and made his first independent film in 1969. In 1970, he returned to rural Virginia and started an independent film company with his wife Mimi Davenport as co-producer and designer. The collection includes materials documenting the making of Tom Davenport's films It Ain't City Music, about country music; Born for Hard Luck, about Arthur Jackson (also known as Peg Leg Sam), a harmonica player, singer, and comedian who performed in medicine shows; The Shakers, about the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community, New Gloucester, Me., and the Canterbury Shaker community, Canterbury, N.H.; Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains, about the Joines family of North Carolina; A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle, which documents the Landis Family of Creedmore, N.C., and other local gospel singing groups; the series From the Brothers Grimm, retellings of classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales set in Delaplane, Va.; The Ballad of Frankie Silver, which tells the story of Frances Silver, who was hanged for the murder of her husband Charles Silver; Remembering the High Lonesome, about John Cohen, a filmmaker and photographer, and his work in rural Kentucky in the 1950s; When My Work Is Over, which tells the story of African American storyteller Louise Anderson; Remembering Emmanuel Church, which tells the oral history of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Fauquier County, Virginia; and a recording of a concert performed by the New Lost City Ramblers string band in February of 2000. Included are grant applications, transcripts, field notes, correspondence, financial material, study guides, production related notes, and publicity related to each of these films. There are also release prints of select films; recordings that contain interviews and other sound used for these films; moving image materials used in the creating of these films; materials relating to other film projects directed by Tom Davenport; printed materials relating to Davenport; posters advertising Davenport's films; and other items. Other materials include photographic documentation of Texas farmworker marchers, white and African-American communities in the Ozarks and the Delta of Arkansas; Henry Atkins, the first African American to run for Congress in Arkansas; Bobby K. Hayes campaigning for a U.S. Senate; and portraits of people in line outside Robert Kennedy's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Requisitions, invoices, and receipts for military supplies of Lieutenant Colonel William Davenport, 1st Infantry, United States Army West Florida, and his subordinates; a letter and reports concerning forays against Indians and building a permanent camp; and data on Davenport's army career.
Scattered family papers and data pertaining to the descendants of John Daves (1748-1804) of New Bern, N.C., and to related branches of the Haynes, Pugh, and Collins families. Correspondence includes letters, 1803- 1818, received by Josiah Collins, Jr. (1768-1839) of Edenton, N.C. from relatives in New Bern, N.C., concerning business, banking, and family matters; deed of sale for slaves, Craven County, N.C., 1816; and letters, 1855, to Edward Graham Daves (1833-1894) of Cambridge, Mass., concerning the illness and death of his brother Jack.
The collection includes family and business correspondence, chiefly 1835-1856, account books, ledgers, and day books of the Davidson family of Mecklenburg County, N.C., who lived at Rural Hill Plantation, 1833-1890; Ingleside Plantation, 1867-1875; and Dixon Plantation, Gaston County, N.C., 1872-1893. Among the correspondents are Adam Brevard Davidson (1808-1896); his wife Mary Laura (Springs) Davidson of York County, S.C.; her father, John Springs; John M. W. Davidson, a physician; Robert H. M. Davidson, a lawyer; and William S. M. Davidson. Also included is correspondence with members of the family in Florida. Volumes consist of ledgers and family business records, 1813-1874.
Allen Turner Davidson (1819-1905) and his family lived in Asheville, N.C.
Chalmers Gaston Davidson (1907-1994) was an author and professor of history at Davidson College in Mecklenburg County, N.C. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, chiefly with other North Carolina writers. Many letters concern the annual North Carolina Writers' Conference. The Addition of 2002 contains scattered personal letters of and invitations received by Chalmers Gaston Davidson and his wife, Alice Gage Davidson, primarily concerning the Blowing Rock Country Club.
John Matthew Winslow Davidson was a physician of Florida.
Five letters addressed to Davidson, Buncombe County, N.C.: two, 1851 and 1852, from his cousin Zebulon Baird Vance, written while Vance was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, concerning college activities and other matters; one, 1863, from Vance, then governor, regretting that it was not in his power to favor Davidson with a certain position; one, 1861, from Davidson's brother, Allen Turner Davidson, concerning the latter's election to the Confederate Congress; and one, 1863, from Isaac M. C. Dunn, Davidson's father-in-law.
Richard Davidson (1947-), a medical physician and educator, was among the founding participants of the Vanderbilt Student Health Coalition at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. (1970-1971) and the Mountain People's Health Council in eastern Tennesee (1975-1976). The Student Health Coalition focused on training medical professionals and medical students for community organizing around local health fairs in isolated Appalachian communities in Tennessee and Virginia. The fairs brought health care to communities that otherwise would have gone without due to location or economic status. The Mountain People's Health Council follows a model similar to the Student Health Coalition. Both the Student Health Coalition and the Mountain People's Health Council continue to provide these services to communities and remain active today.
Theodore F. (Theodore Fulton) Davidson (born 1845) was a lawyer and Democratic party leader of Asheville, N.C. and attorney general of North Carolina, 1885-1893. The collection chiefly includes letters from Davidson to his wife, Sarah Lindsay Carter Davidson, and letters to her from friends and members of the Carter family. Several letters to the Davidsons, 1921-1923, are from associates in Dresden, Germany, and discuss post-World War I social, political, and economic conditions in Germany, including the perceived influence of Jewish people. Also included are scattered letters about legal business and Democratic Party affairs received by Theodore F. Davidson; a scrapbook of his career; notes on cases tried in Cherokee County, N.C., in 1870; and a Buncombe County, N.C., merchant's account book.
Thomas Benjamin Davidson (1840-1864) of Louisiana was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and then a private in the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
The collection contains scattered documents assembled by white lawyer and historical manuscripts and autograph collector Preston Davie. Documents are chiefly related to diplomatic efforts and military actions in the southeastern colonies during the American Revolutionary War and to politics during the early national period after the war. Early documents dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries pertain to French, British, and Spanish colonies; the French and Indian War; land ownership in North Carolina and South Carolina; and colonialism in relationship to the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek Nation, Saponi Indian Tribe, and Tuscarora Nation. Several nineteenth-century items are related to the forced removal of people of the Cherokee Nation from their land and forced migration west on the Trail of Tears (1838-1839). A few items document enslavement of African Americans in the American South.
William Richardson Davie was a lawyer, state legislator, Revolutionary officer, member of the United States Constitutional Convention, Federalist governor of North Carolina, and peace commissioner to France, and was influential in the founding of the University of North Carolina. He moved from Halifax County, N.C., to Lancaster District, S.C., in 1805.
Rachel M. Davies was the creator of the Bridges Academic Leadership for Women program, a professional development program for women in higher education who seek to gain or strengthen their academic leadership capabilities. The papers consist of materials relating to the North Carolina Literary Festival (including posters, news clippings, and correspondence with authors, publishers, and organizers, status updates and post festival reports), the Bridges Academic Leadership for Women program, and the Carolina Publishing Institute (including conference handouts and programs). Acquired as part of University Archives.
William W. Davies of Hillsboro, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina as an undergraduate and a law student, 1891 and 1892. He was a captain in the 3rd Georgia Volunteers, U.S.A., during the Spanish-American War; a member of the Red Cross Expeditionary Forces; and a lawyer in Louisville, Ky., and Atlanta, Ga., who wrote on historical subjects after his retirement.
Family letters comprise the bulk of the collection. Correspondents are members of white families related by marriage, the Davis family of Stokes County, N.C., and the Fulton family of Lampasas County, Tex. Early letters from James Davis (1793-1873) written near the start of the Civil War from Red Shoals, N.C., contain references to "the negroes" and "the blacks," presumably enslaved African Americans, and to illnesses including diphtheria. Letters from Jesse Fulton (1857-1937) are chiefly to Mary Kathrine "Katie" Smith of Round Rock, Tex., whom he later married. Other items include an 1899 pamphlet about Methodist minister James Needham, an undated newspaper clipping with a wedding announcement, and notes about the letters that were written by a descendant.
Hill and Davis families of Warrenton, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, genealogical material, printed items, and other materials of the extended Hill and Davis families. Materials prior to 1867 concern the families' activities in the Methodist Church in eastern North Carolina. After 1867, the material relates to Louisa Hill Davis and her daughters; Louisburg Male Academy and Louisburg Female Academy and their successor institution, Louisburg College; and the genealogy of the Davis-Hill-Toole-King-Fuller-Long-Seawell family. The addition of October 2001 contains letters, 1933-1964, received by Ruth Jenkins, who became a member of the Fuller-Malone branch of the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. The bulk of these letters were written by Private George Shaw during his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the United States and French West Africa. The addition of October 2003 contains family letters; financial materials; genealogical materials; and writings, including some of poet and novelist Edwin W. Fuller, of the Fuller branch of the extended Hill and Davis family.
The Davis and Walker families were residents of Wilmington, N.C. Prominent family members included George Davis (1820-1896), lawyer, attorney-general of the Confederacy, and well-known orator; and his son, Junius (1845-1916), who practiced law with his father and shared his interests in local and family history. Junius married Mary Orme Walker, daughter of Thomas Davis Walker (1822-1865), president of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad during the Civil War, and Mary Vance (Dickinson) Walker (1821-1900). Also represented is Platt Dickinson Walker, son of Thomas D. Walker and Mary V. D. Walker, associate justice of the North Carolina supreme court, 1903-1923.
The collection contains accounts of J. H. Davis of the Davis Canning Company, Carteret County, N.C., relating to wages, oysters purchased and shipped, factory furnishings, and cash.
Aaron Davis (1819-1903), of Newark, N.J., was a harness and patent medicine manufacturer and an inventor. The collection includes miscellaneous papers of Davis, including two notebooks of recipes for rubberized coatings and varnishes for harnesses. Also included are other business papers; ten Essex County, N.J., deeds, 1806-1862; and data on members of the Davis family and March family.
Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) of New York, N.Y., was an architect and draftsman who was engaged to design the Chambers Building at Davidson College, N.C.
Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and, in 1998, received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. She worked in the Soutern Folklife Collection, 1999-2001.
Archie K. Davis wrote The Boy Colonel of the Confederacy (1987) and was chair of the board of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company; president of the American Bankers Association, 1966; and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
Burke Davis was a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C.
Audio recordings of Donald Davis, a white storyteller, author, and Methodist minister, of Haywood County, N.C., telling Jack tales, stories from his uncle Frank, tales from his other aunts and uncles and his grandmother, and other tales of his own, which were inspired by his family.
Elias Davis was captain of the 8th Alabama Regiment, Confederate States of America.
The collection includes (in part, microfilm) writings, lectures, and some correspondence of Hayne Davis, a North Carolina native, New York lawyer, and writer active in promoting international political organizations. Papers pertain to Davis's interests in Christian Science, judicial reform, the World Narcotic Association, the Inter-parliamentary Union, and other international peace organizations, and to his activities as legal adviser to the Colombian legation in the United States, 1904-1912, and as founder of the American Peace and Arbitration League. Also included are directors' minutes of the Practical Peace League, 1908.
Hester A. Davis, white archeologist and anthropologist, attended graduate school at Haverford College in 1954 and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1955 to 1956. Davis and other graduate students conducted field research at the Qualla Boundary (sometimes called the Cherokee Indian Reservation) for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina. She wrote her masters thesis, "Social Interaction and Kinship in Big Cove Community, Cherokee, N.C.," based on this fieldwork. The collection includes fieldwork notes, reports, and other materials from the research conducted by Hester A. Davis and Haverford College students at the Qualla Boundary near Cherokee, N.C. Included are the students' observations and descriptions of the community's physical environment, demographics, social structure, economy, education, assistance programs, and everyday life.
The collection of two white anthropology graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hester Davis (1930-2014) and John L. Grant, consists of photographic materials relating to their 1957 master’s theses. The collection contains black-and-white negatives, black-and-white photographic prints, color slides and black-and-white glass slides. The images depict the community and social aspect of Qualla Boundary, home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation in Western North Carolina.
James E. Davis (fl. 1847-1850) was a resident of Duchess County, N.Y. The collection includes letters from Davis to his friend, W. Steuart Eno, Pine Plains, N.Y., discussing personal life and business in Dutchess County in 1847 and in Montgomery, Ala., 1848-1850; and one letter, 1857, from Rufus Eno in jail, charged with murder, in Bardstown, Ky., to Frances Gordon.
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mississippi planter and president of the Confederate States of America. The collection contains scattered letters to friends from Jefferson Davis and other items, including a typescript of a letter from Judah P. Benjamin, 1880, and a letter from A. D. Heineman to Davis, 1863.
The collection contains a typewritten copy of a biographical sketch of Joseph Jonathan Davis (1828-1892), lawyer of Franklin County, N.C., by Thomas A. Ashe.
Lieutenant L. B. Davis served in the 60th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War.
Photographs compiled by white student Louise Davis, a member of the Chi Omega sorority and the first woman commencement marshal when she graduated in 1937 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. At the time these photographs were taken, enrollment of women students at UNC was strictly limited. These images depict student life on the campus from the perspective of a woman in a predominately male environment. Subjects include campus buildings, students, and campus life at the University.
Marion Stuart Davis was a Louisburg, N.C., architect, who specialized in the construction of churches and schools. His sister, Mabel Irwin Davis, was a teacher at Louisburg College and a librarian of the Warren County Memorial Library. This collection includes Marion Stuart Davis's personal and business correspondence, architectural project files, legal and financial papers, Masonic papers, family history materials, and materials relating to the history of Louisburg College. Also included are Mabel Irwin Davis materials, chiefly letters; financial papers; writings; school papers; and notebooks containing attendance lists, notes related to teaching at Louisburg College, and original writings. There are also some materials relating to Davis's sister, Mary Davis Allen, who served as president of Louisburg College; his wife, May Amanda Holmes Davis; and to other family members.
Matthew Smart Davis was born in Warren County, N.C., in 1830. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1855 and married Sarah Louisa Hill in 1856. He was principal of the Louisburg Male Academy, 1856-1881, and, for a number of years prior to 1880, he was also Franklin County superintendent of schools. From 1880 to 1896, he was chiefly involved in farming and serving as Franklin County treasurer. In 1896, he reorganized the Louisburg Female Academy (later Louisburg College) and served as its president until his death in 1906. The collections includes school, financial, legal, and other materials relating to Davis and his school and farming career. School materials include items relating to Louisburg College (the former Louisburg Female Academy and College) and to the Louisburg Male Academy. Louisburg College materials include fire insurance policies, 1897-1906; an art teacher's application for employment with recommendations attached, 1913; and a financial statement, 1914. Louisburg Male Academy materials include bills and receipts from bookstores, printers, and other merchants; a copy of the boarding house rules; a copy of the Rules of Government of the Pupils; closing exercises from the 1870s; and various grade books and assignment sheets. Financial materials relate chiefly to Davis's farming and family activities. Legal materials relate to the 1879 Orange County libel suit between H. A. Foote and Blair Burwell, for which Davis appears to have served as mediator, and to various estates that Davis administered, particularly that of W. H. Spencer. The Spencer materials are deeds and other financial items generated by W. H. Spencer during his lifetime and materials relating to the settlement of his estate, as well as materials relating to Spencer's duties as Franklin County superior court clerk, including many bills for court charges and other services. Also included are letters, report cards, and other items relating to Davis's days at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and to his family in Warrenton, N.C., 1852-1856; Davis's appointment as principal, 1855, and exemption from military service, 1863; and his certificate of appointment as Franklin County justice of the peace, 1887.
Orin Datus Davis was a banker of Salisbury, N.C. The collection includes banking papers of Dolphin Alston Davis (1802-1881), his father-in-law, William H. Horah, and his son, Orin Datus Davis, and their several predecessors and associates at the Salisbury, N.C., branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. Most papers are from the period before D.A. Davis came from Fayetteville, N.C., to become cashier in 1835. Bank correspondence with prominent North Carolinians and records of routine financial transactions is included. Other papers are mainly of D.A. Davis and concern antebellum businesses in which he had an interest and the common schools of Rowan County, N.C., of which he was chairman of the Board of Superintendents, 1854-1866. Included are bills, notes, checks, and lists; estate account books from Fayetteville and Salisbury, and account books for merchandising and transportation enterprises, and the bank; records of a temperance society at Salisbury, 1842-1849; and Davis family letters, 1891-1905. Also present are federal tax returns and applications for business and professional licenses received by United States Internal Revenue district officers H.H. Helper, Samuel W. Wiley, and others, mainly 1865-1868.
Rebecca Pitchford Davis (1812-1900) of Fishing Creek, Warren County, N.C., was married to Edward Davis (fl. 1861-1865) and had sons who served in the Confederate Army.
Three letters, November-December 1863, from Union soldiers in Tennessee, concerning the execution of Sam Davis at Pulaski, Tenn., on 27 November 1863, as a Confederate spy.
Published sound recordings and books relating to jazz music collected by Raleigh, N.C., collector Theodore Earl Davis, Jr. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
W. W. H. (William Watts Hart) Davis (1820-1910) was an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. The collection includes official communications and orders, April-December 1863, at Beaufort, St. Helena, and Morris Island, S.C., of Davis while serving with the 25th and 104th Pennsylvania regiments on the South Carolina coast.
This collection contains four account books, 1873-1903, of white physician A. G. Davison of Luzerne County, Pa., in which he kept records on his patients. Entries record charges for visits, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. The first volume documents that Davison had an equal partnership with white physician and druggist E. F. Kamerly in 1873. In 1874, Kamerly had three-fifths of the partnership and Davison had two-fifths. The remaining volumes do not show an apparent partnership between Davison and Kamerly. Although the first page of the third volume contains information from 1903, the rest of the volume appears to pertain to 1880-1886.
Letters, 1876-1882, concerning family matters and community affairs, many of them from Mary Oester Dawkins of Spartanburg, S.C., to Sarah Rebecca Dawkins Henry of Mecklenburg County, N.C.; and genealogical material concerning the Dawkins, Henry, Morgan, and Nuckolls families.
James Dawkins (fl. 1837-1843) was a cotton planter of Wilkinsville, Union District, S.C. The collection includes photocopies of letters and miscellaneous items, 1837-1843, of Dawkins; earlier family deeds; and a partially legible, slight diary and memorandum book of Thomas E. Dawkins, a Confederate soldier in Virginia, 1861-1862. Included are a letter from a relative in Texas and one from Dawkins's brother in Mississippi about life in those places and letters from commission merchants in Columbia and Charleston, S.C., about sales of cotton.
Francis Warrington Dawson was the editor of the News and Courier, a newspaper of Charleston, S.C.
Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; served as director of the school's clinical field education program, 1960s-1990s.
Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson was a Selma, Ala., lawyer and politician, Confederate officer, and United States commissioner of education.
Recordings of the Rising Stars of Louisa Anniversary Program featuring the Rising Stars, a modern African American gospel quartet, performing at the St. Steven's Baptist Church in Stevensburg, Va. Included are congregational singing, solo gospel, and spirituals, religious testimonials, sung prayer with response, and shouts. Douglas Turner Day, a white folklorist who received his masters in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, made the recordings, presumably as part of his masters thesis research on an African American gospel program in central Virginia. Also included are dubs from the Clive Harris Collection, comprised of assorted band music and excerpts from interviews with Clive Harris, as well as related documentation prepared by former SFC staff.
MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections by W.A. Day of Catawba County, N.C., concerning his Civil War experiences with the 49th North Carolina Regiment in Virginia, in Winder Hospital in Richmond, and in prison at Point Lookout, Md. Included is discussion of Day's feelings when he, as a prisoner at Point Lookout, heard of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and discussion of Christmas during the war. Also included are anecdotes of Reconstruction in Catawba County, with notes about the Ku-Klux Klan; the history of Rehoboth Methodist Church in Catawba County; and other material.
Charles E. Daye is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection consists of organizational records relating to the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, the North Carolina Fair Housing Center, the North Carolina Poverty Project, and the Triangle Housing Development Corporation; materials relating to an unpublished book project, Litmus Law; grant applications, presentations, and other material related to a study of educational diversity in law schools; and reports and other materials relating to committees working on diversity issues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant of land and titles by Louis XV, and a letter from Calonne. Business letters, beginning 1786, refer to the exportation of sugar from the De Caradeuc plantation on Hispaniola and the insurrections there. Letters from the De Caradeuc family in France to the family in the United States refer to the conflict between church and state in the early days of the Third Republic. Correspondence is chiefly 18th-century and written in French, but papers from 1878 to 1893 are in English. Twentieth- century papers are invitations and other family material. Also included are a Civil War and Reconstruction diary, 1863-1865, of James Achille de Caradeuc (1816-1895) of Aiken and Charleston, S.C., chiefly consisting of reflections on current events, a memoir by James A. de Caradeuc, family records, and a fragment of an unascribed novel dealing with a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War.
Paul L. De Clouet served in the Confederate army in Virgina and West Virginia. His father was Alexander De Clouet (fl. 1832) of Louisiana, a Confederate congressman. The collection includes scattered family correspondence of the De Clouet family of St. Martinville, La., including a letter, 1830, from Madame De Clouet in Paris, France, concerning the European political situation; two letters, 1832, from Alexander De Clouet, then a student in Paris, to his grandfather about his plans for studies; and three letters, 1861, from Alexander, serving in the Confederate Congress, to his son Paul L. De Clouet, serving in the Confederate army, concerning family and military matters; There are also a few items concerning Charlottesville, Va., and the University of Virginia, circa 1860-1861; and a contract with laborers, 1869, presumably from St. Martinville.
Baron Christoph von Graffenried (1661-1743) of Switzerland, Landgrave of Carolina, founded New Bern, N.C., in 1710. His family and descendents resided in Switzerland and America.
Henry William De Saussure (1763-1839) was a judge of Columbia, S.C.
Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman and editor. Theological and other writings and speeches composed by DeWitt while he was a student at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in the 1860s and later; correspondence concerning Cumberland Presbyterian Church matters; letters to DeWitt from members of his family at Searcy and Marion, Ark., while he was at school; papers related to the Searcy Debating Society; and miscellaneous other items.
Civil war era letters and diaries of Aaron Leonidas DeArmond (1827-1864), white farmer of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and sergeant in the 30th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate States Army. In diary entries and letters home to his wife Nancy Jane Edwards DeArmond (b. 1836), he comments on campaigns and battles, including Second Manassas, Fredericksburg where he was wounded, Chancellorsville, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and on his imprisonment at Camp Lookout, Md., and City Point, Va. DeArmond advises Nancy on operating the farm and planting the crops in his absence, and he refers by first name to individuals who may have been enslaved African Americans both on the farm and encamped with the C.S.A. In addition to the original letters and diaries, the collection contains both handwritten and typed transcriptions, research files containing materials about family history and Civil War battlefields, commemorative Civil War issues of (2012) by descendant Martha R. Brown. The book is a fictionalized account that is based in part on DeArmond's letters and diary entries. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection is Recollections of My Childhood, recollections by Marie Louise Morris DeMilly of her early life in France and emigration with her family to Florida after the Revolution of 1830.
Audio recordings of oral history interviews compiled by white folklorist and arts administrator, Douglas DeNatale. The recordings feature interviews with white storyteller, Malcolm Shaw, and Lauchlin Shaw, white farmer and old-time musician, from Spring Lake, N.C., about their family, persons of Scottish heritage in North Carolina, and Lauchlin Shaw's music. The collection also includes dubs of oral history interviews that DeNatale conducted with residents and former textile workers of New Bern, N.C., dubs of local ballads and songs from the Blue Ridge Institute Archives at Ferrum College, and documentation related to the recordings found in the collection.
Kate (Catherine) Douglass DeRosset Meares married Gaston Meares, a Confederate Colonel who died at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862. They had three sons: Armand Meares, Richard Ashe Meares, and Louis Henry Meares. Most of Kate DeRosset Meares's extended family also lived in Wilmington, N.C., including her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Armand John DeRosset.
The DeRosset family descended from French Huguenot Armand John DeRosset, who immigrated to the American colonies in the 1730s and settled in Wilmington, N.C., where four generations of DeRossets worked as physicians and merchants. Family members included Armand John DeRosset (1767-1859) and his wife Catherine Fullerton DeRosset (1773-1837) and children Moses John (1796-1826), Catherine Fullerton Kennedy (1800-1889), Eliza Ann (1802-1888), Magdalen Mary (1806-1850), and Mary Jane Curtis (1813-1903). Also included were Armand John DeRosset (1807-1897), his wife Eliza Jane Lord DeRosset (1812-1876), and their children, Katherine Douglas Meares (1830-1914) and Louis Henry (1840-1875) and Louis's wife Marie Trapier Finley DeRosset (1844-1870) and daughter Gabrielle de Gondin Waddell (b. 1863).
Charles Alfred DeSaussure, son of planter Louis McPherson DeSaussure, grew up on his family's plantation in Beaufort County, S.C., at the family's summer home in McPhersonville, S.C., and in the town of Beaufort, S.C. In 1863, he joined the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery Company and fought with them until the end of the Civil War. The collection includes an undated 22-page typed transcription, source unknown, of the memoir that Charles Alfred DeSaussure wrote sometime after the Civil War at the request of his children. The memoir deals primarily with DeSaussure's childhood experiences as a planter's son in antebellum Beaufort County, S.C. He wrote in great detail about the daily plantation life at Woodstock, including crops, how the slaves lived, relationships between slaves and masters, jobs and positions on the plantation, how the southern elite socialized, and what he called southern hospitality. DeSaussure wrote about the differences between life in Beaufort County and at his summer home in the McPhersonville, S.C., pinelands. He also wrote about the role of Episcopal Church in daily life and about the education and pastimes of young men in South Carolina. As a student at the College of Beaufort, he learned as much out of class as in class, including how to swim and sail. Also included are two photocopied maps showing the locations of many of the places mentioned in the memoir.
Henry Alexander DeSaussure resided in Charleston, S.C. The collection is a volume containing memoranda, 1886-1900, on family history and genealogy compiled by DeSaussure; transcriptions of older family records and historical papers, 1693-1894, relating to the DeSaussure, Thomas, Chiffell, Ladson, Singleton, Hutchinson, Smith, Blanchard, Gourdin, Caldwell, and allied families; and materials relating to the Huguenot Society of South Carolina in Charleston.
Louis M. DeSaussure was a physician and planter of Beaufort County, S.C., son of Henry W. DeSaussure, longtime state chancellor.
Lieutenant Colonel Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure (1822-1886) of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the South Carolina Militia, which was later absorbed into the Army of the Confederate States of America, commanded Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, December 1860-January 1861, and artillery at Morris Island, March-April 1861, in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. He served in the South Carolina legislature, 1848-1864.
Joseph M. DeSimone (1964- ) is a chemist and inventor with joint appointments to the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. The collection consists of student lab notebooks; binders documenting scientific meetings, data and results, grant proposals, site visits, and reports; and videotapes of the classroom and lab of Joseph M. DeSimone and news coverage and publicity about his research and inventions.
Earl Dean (fl. 1940-1957) was a sometime writer of biographical articles.
Henderson Deans (fl. 1860-1920) was a Confederate soldier from North Carolina who served with the 66th North Carolina Regiment.
Microfilm copy of diary kept by S. O. Deaver and his nephew, James McElroy, farmers of Madison County, N.C. Entries deal chiefly with farm, family, and neighborhood events.
Edmund Deberry was a United States Representative from North Carolina, first as a National Republican, 1830-1831, and later as a Whig, 1834-1843.
The Mini Page, created by Betty Debnam Hunt, a white woman from Raleigh, N.C., and first published in 1969, is a weekly feature delivered through about 500 newspapers across the United States. Targeted mainly at children, their parents, and educators, The Mini Page covers a different topic each week and teaches readers through puzzles, recipes, activities, and pictures. The collection consists of volumes of weekly editions of The Mini Page, 1969-2007, and other Mini Page publications and products, including joke and activity books; ephemera; and booklets and resource guides on topics including the United States government and history, environmentalism, learning foreign languages, and healthy living habits. The collection also includes school newspaper contest materials; reader correspondence and survey materials; office files of advertisement ideas and elements, correspondence, contracts, clippings, awards, and speeches; slides of classroom scenes, the Mini Page office, and trips to Saudi Arabia, China, Colorado, and Taiwan; and data digital video discs of Mini Page elements, 1996-2007.
The Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball of Durham, N.C., was established in 1955 by Mrs. Thomas Davenport Wright. In 1961, Mrs. Wright and others founded the Debutante Ball Society of Durham, N.C. Over the years, various traditions have been incorporated into the program, but the core events remain the same. The debutante social season begins when the names of the new debutantes, chiefly from Durham, Chapel Hill, and Orange County, N.C., are announced in May at the Mothers Day luncheon. Additional parties and other social events take place during the summer and fall. The season culminates with the cotillion and ball in December. The collection chiefly consists of scrapbooks of the Debutante Ball Society of Durham Inc. of Durham, N.C. The scrapbooks document yearlong preparations and events associated with the annual ball held in late December. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, announcements, invitations, yearbooks, and other materials that show the young women in formal, semi-formal, and casual attire as they attend parties held in their honor, learning about society, etiquette, and the traditional debutante dances. Also included is a pin with the Society's crest; ball programs; The Debutante Register, 1951; and a video recording of the 2002 Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball.
James E. Decker of Baldwinsville, N.Y., was a Union soldier during the Civil War. He served in Battery B of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, also known as Pettit's Battery. Decker was promoted to corporal on 10 December 1862 and was later promoted to sergeant on 1 September 1863.
The David Deese Collection consists of audio recordings of bluegrass and country music and related documentation compiled by banjo player, David Deese. Audio recordings, 1961-1980, are made up of personal recordings, festival recordings, radio programs, and dubs of commercial recordings. Of particular note is a tape of commercial recordings sent to David Deese when he served in the Vietnam War. Related documentation consists of tape logs of recordings found in the collection and elsewhere.
Kevin Delaney was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C. Between 1970 and 1974 he traveled through Ireland, Scotland, and the American Midwest and Southeast, recording country, blues, gospel, bluegrass, and old-time musicians and performers who otherwise might not have been heard.
Columbus Delano was a resident of Mount Vernon, Ohio. Delano was later a United States Representative and Secretary of the Interior under President Grant.
Delta Cooperative Farm, started in 1936 in the community of Hillhouse (later called Rochdale) in Bolivar County, Miss., and Providence Cooperative Farm, started in 1939 near Cruger in Holmes County, Miss., were attempts by Cooperative Farms, Inc., a philanthropically supported corporation, to help southern agricultural laborers out of their economic plight. The cooperatives were organized around four principles: efficiency in production and economy in finance through the cooperative principle, participation in building a socialized economy of abundance, inter-racial justice, and realistic religion as a social dynamic. To these ends, the Delta and Providence cooperatives were to pay African Americans and whites equal wages for work and provided social and other services, most of which were open to neighboring communities. These services included a cooperative store; a medical clinic, eventually run by physician David R. Minter; a credit union; a library; a community building; religious services; educational programs; summer work camps; and community institutes. In addition to growing cotton, agricultural operations eventually included a dairy farm, a beef farm, a pasteurizing plant, and a saw mill.
The Delta Health Center was established in the mid-1960s, in the rural, all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., and served Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty was widespread. The Center, which was federally funded through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was one of the first community health centers in the United States. The comprehensive community health center model aimed at building upon traditional health services by addressing the underlying causes of illness, including economic, environmental, and social factors. Originally, Jack Geiger, a white medical doctor, served as project director and John Hatch, a white medical doctor, as director of community health action. The collection contains business files documenting the establishment and operations of the Delta Health Center, including the efforts of John Hatch, Jack Geiger, and others to obtain and maintain federal funding for the Center from the Office of Economic Opportunity; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Department of Health and Human Services. Major topics include health care for minorities and impoverished communities, social medicine, nutrition, environmental health, and medical education and training. Materials document the economic, social, and health conditions of the residents of the Mississippi Delta, especially the African American community in northern Bolivar County; John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey's efforts with the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm and Cannery; the role of the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council; and the Delta Health Center's relationship with other health facilities, medical schools, and outreach programs, including the Mound Bayou Community Hospital (with which it merged in 1972), Meharry Medical College, the Delta Ministry, and the Columbia Point Health Center (now the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center), and others. Included are administrative records, correspondence, financial materials, grant proposals, legal materials, personnel files, reports, studies, education and training materials, publicity materials, photographs, printed matter, and other items. Of note are newspaper articles, protest photographs, and other items related to Mississippi Governor Bill Waller's vetos of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's federal funding, and photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in March 1965. Audio recordings include speeches of and interviews with persons connected with the Delta Health Center, among them director Andrew James. Also included is a recording of Stokeley Carmichael speaking at North Carolina Central University in March 1970; a recording of a 1968 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah Conference Center in Edwards, Miss; and a website with an organizational history and information about services, locations, and providers.
On 19 March 1887, the Beta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity was reorganized, 21 years after it had been disbanded in 1866.
The Alpha Lambda Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, an international fraternity of business administration students, was chartered at the University of North Carolina in 1925.
The collection contains petitions, 1926-1927, from Sigma Delta to Delta Upsilon; records of the North Carolina Chapter of Delta Upsilon; records of the North Carolina Delta Upsilon Foundation; and records of Don Watkins, adviser to the chapter. Chapter records include alumni newsletters; bylaws; budgets; newspaper clippings; correspondence; incorporation certificates; meeting minutes; membership lists and alumni directories; photographs; publications, including a history of the chapter; event fliers and other publicity items; rush booklets; and a reel-to-reel audiotape of the 1967 Founder's Day Banquet. Foundation records include correspondence, financial information, meeting minutes, and a great deal of information on the Delta Upsilon house renovations, including correspondence with the architects, public hearing notices for zoning meetings, fund raising information, newspaper clippings, and architectural plans. Don Watkins's records include correspondence from the university to him about fraternity performance and correspondence between Watkins and fraternity members and alumni. Photographs of students and fraternity members in social settings include images of white students wearing blackface at what is likely a Halloween party in the mid 1980s.
Norman H. Dement of Tupelo, Miss., was a traveling salesman in the Midwest. He was drafted into the United States Army in December 1942 and served as an administrator in the Army Air Forces during World War II until his discharge in the fall of 1945. He served with several units, including the 55th Fighter Group and the 8th Air Force. Much of his service was in England. This collection is chiefly letters written by Norman H. Dement to his wife, Jane Hall Dement (Jenny), first as a traveling salesman and then as a soldier in World War II. World War II letters describe many United States Army Air Forces practices including those involving censorship and military secrecy, post-war demobilization, and promotions. Dement's letters also contain detailed descriptions of his off-duty life, including journeys through England, Scotland, and Bavaria. Letters frequently address the financial needs and concerns of his wife and family back home. Also included are a few miscellaneous items, including blank picture postcards of Lake Junaluska, N.C., and Washington, D.C.
During the 1960 election, the North Carolina Democratic Party was led by Bert L. Bennett, state executive committee chairman, and operated out of headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. Democratic candidates for whom the state party campaigned in 1960 included John F. Kennedy for President of the United States and Terry Sandford for Governor of North Carolina.
Alice Denham (1927-2016), author, adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York, and model, born in Jacksonville, Fla., and graduate of the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1949) and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1950). Denham has published numerous novels, articles, television and movie adaptations, and short stories, among them The Deal, which was filmed in 1988. The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, writings, and pictures of Denham. Included are copies of her novels, among them Amo (1974); Adios, Sabata (1971), a novelization based on a Western movie; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1968), based on a popular television series; and My Darling from the Lions (1968). Also included are manuscripts of three books by Denham, Shabby Genteel: A Southern Girlhood; Terminatrix, or Equal Opportunity Mayhem; and Sleeping with the Bad Boys. Also included are articles and published and unpublished photographs of Denham, including a Playboy centerfold.
Reverend Samuel D. Denison was secretary of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church, New York.
Elias Smith Dennis (died 1894) of Illinois was a general in the United States Army during the Civil War. The collection includes manuscript copies of documents defending Dennis against charges by a newspaper that he had sold provisions to Confederates while his Union troops at Black River, near Vicksburg, Miss., were underfed.
Emery B. (Emery Byrd) Denny was an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1942-1962, and chief justice, 1962-1966. The collection is chiefly correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, printed items, notebooks, a diary, speeches, and other material documenting the career of Denny as lawyer and judge. Files pertaining to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the 1940 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of J. Melville Broughton are also included.
Louis Addison Dent (1863-1947) was a lawyer who held several federally appointed positions under Republican administrations.
Charles Lefebvre Desnouettes was a businessman and Bonapartist emigre living in Aigleville and Demopolis, Ala.
Devereux, Chester & Orme was a firm in New Bern, N.C., involved in the shipment of goods to the North Carolina coast and the West Indies. The principals in the firm apparently were John Devereux, Stephen M. Chester, and Robert V. Orme.
Hardware merchant and banker of New Orleans and Confederate veteran.
John Devereaux was chief quartermaster of the state of North Carolina.
The collection includes letters between half-sisters Margaret Mordecai, later Mrs. John Devereux, and Ellen Mordecai (1820-1916), later Mrs. Samuel Fox Mordecai, daughters of Moses Mordecai of Raleigh, N.C., and scattered letters of other family members. Margaret's and Ellen's letters were written while they were attending schools in Philadelphia, Pa., and Petersburg, Va., and after their respective marriages. After her marriage, Margaret Mordecai Devereux split her time between her husband's Bertie County, N.C., plantation, Runiroi, and her family home in Raleigh. Ellen and her two children lived in Raleigh after her husband's death in 1854. Letters relate to experiences at school in Philadelphia, books the sisters were reading, social life and daily activities at Runiroi, and other family matters.
Thomas Pollock Devereux (born circa 1845) of Wake County, N.C., was a Confederate soldier in the 2nd Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia during the last months of the Civil War.
Charles Dewey was born in New Bern, N.C. He began his banking career in 1820 with the New Bern branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. In 1827, he was elected cashier of the main branch in Raleigh. After the Civil War, he was elected cashier and later president of the Raleigh National Bank. In 1837, Dewey married his third wife, Julia Ann Haylander (1804-1886), a native of Philadelphia. One of Charles Dewey's children was Charles Francis Dewey (b. 1825), an 1844 graduate of the University of North Carolina, who became a physician in Goldsboro, N.C.
George Stanley Dewey was born on 20 September 1841, in New Bern, N.C. He was the son of Oliver Stanley Dewey (1807-1884) and Matilda Sparrow Dewey (1816-1875). Dewey attended Yale University from 1859 to 1861. In May 1861, he left college to volunteer as a member of Company H, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. He enlisted as a private, but was promoted to the rank of captain in 1864. He held this rank until his death on the battlefield of Chamberlain's Run, Dinwiddie Court House, Va., on 31 March 1865. O. S. Dewey and Matilda Sparrow Dewey's daughter Emily Hall Dewey (1845-1930) married Jesse Davis Claypoole. The collection includes letters from George Stanley Dewey describing his experiences as a member of Company H, 1st North Carolina Cavalry, 1863-1865. Letters discuss his life as a soldier, his regiment's movements, and a few battle skirmishes. Also included are a few letters from relatives and family friends. An addition contains letters of Emily Hall Dewey Claypoole, her husband Jesse Davis Claypoole, his sister Carolina Claypoole, and other Dewey and Claypoole family members. Letters, 1933-1990, are chiefly of Emily Dewey Mitchell (b. 1909) of Chapel Hill, N.C., before and after she married Lawrence London (1908- ) in 1936. These letters discuss family matters, news of friends, travel in Europe, and news about Chapel Hill and life at the University of North Carolina.
The collection contains an unpublished manuscript on the history of Reconstruction by David Miller Dewitt of Kingston, N.Y.; county maps of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida; and Dewitt's correspondence with H. G. Connor of Raleigh, N.C., in which Connor expressed his appreciation of Dewitt's work.
Correspondence, writings, notebooks, printed materials and notes, audio-visual material, and other items of author and poet Diane Di Prima. Correspondents include Di Prima's friends, family, students, editors, and publishers. Among the letters is an undated postcard from Ezra Pound. Topics include Di Prima's writings, comments on works submitted for editing by Di Prima, family activities, and Di Prima's health, among other matters. There are also notebooks in which Di Prima recorded her daily activities, dreams, poems, travels, health, and other matters; calendars; books of phone messages; and other notebooks. Among the writings are multiple drafts of Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years and her long poem Loba. There are also drafts of lectures given by Di Prima, unpublished short works written by her, Memoirs of a Beatnik, and her unpublished book Not Quite Buffalo Stew. There are also some published and unpublished works by other authors. Also included are periodicals, including poetry journals and zines collected by Di Prima; printed fliers, programs, catalogs, and other items related to poetry events and educational opportunities; handwritten notes on various topics; materials from conferences Di Prima attended; financial materials; and drawings and artwork. Photographic materials include photograph albums; photographic prints; and slides of Diane Di Prima, her family, and her travels across the United States. Moving image materials are primarily recordings of readings of Di Prima's poems and interviews conducted with her. Audio materials are recordings of classes taught by Di Prima and recordings of readings of her poetry.
Wilse Dial (fl. 1863) was apparently a Unionist sought by the Confederate conscription department.
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Inc., was established on 8 July 1974 as a non-profit corporation. Its object was to preserve, maintain, restore, and enhance those literary, historical, and artistic properties that are entrusted to it by the Dialectic Society and the Philanthropic Society of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Records include meeting minutes and agendas of the foundation's Board of Directors, the corporate charter, bylaws, financial records, and records of its Bicentennial Committee.
The collection includes 17 letters, including two to Dickens and fifteen to Edward J. Fraser, and two announcements apparently in Dickens's hand relating to a fund-raising effort to aid John Pyke Hullah (1812-1884), whose music school had burned in August 1860. Hullah, a composer and music teacher, was a long-time friend of Dickens, with whom he collaborated on an operetta produced in 1856 and other projects. Correspondents, many of whom wrote to agree to perform in benefit concerts, include Charlotte Sainton, Sir Julius Benedict, J. Sims Reeves, Sir Charles Halle, Charles Santley, and Francesco Berger. Also included in the collection is a carte-de-visite of the cast of No Thoroughfare, Louis Lequel's adaptation of the book of the same name by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins.
The Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011, documents the singing and songwriting career of the pioneering bluegrass and folk musician, as well as her support for working class concerns, labor unions, and the coal-mining community. Materials include personal and business correspondence, song lyrics, photographs, posters, tour and event promotional materials, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, interview transcripts, drafts of Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens and related materials, family genealogy, and address books. The collection also contains audiovisual materials of award ceremonies, radio programs, and demos featuring Hazel Dickens and others.
Faculty papers, 1960s-1980s, of Roy S. Dickens, who served as director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1982 to 1986. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Marcus Overton Dickerson was a captain in the 34th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Francis Asbury Dickins (1804-1901), planter of Ossian Hall in Fairfax County, Va., agent for the U.S. War and Treasury departments and lawyer of Washington, D.C., specializing in government claims, son of Asbury Dickins (1780-1861), also held various government positions. Francis Asbury Dickins married Margaret Harvie Randolph (d. 1891), daughter of Harriot Wilson and Thomas Mann Randolph (1792-1848) of Tuckahoe Plantation in Goochland County, Va. Francis and Margaret had five children who lived to maturity: Francis Asbury, Jr. (called Frank) (1841-1890), Frances Margaret (called Fanny) (1842-1914), Harriot Wilson (1844-1917), Thomas Mann Randolph (called Randolph) (1853-1914), and Albert White (1855-1913). The collection includes chiefly correspondence of the Dickins and Randolph families before, during, and after the marriage of Francis Asbury Dickins and Margaret Harvie Randolph in 1839. Most letters discuss social and family matters, including daily activities and trips made chiefly within the United States. Early letters document Francis Dickins's government service; later letters document plantation life at Ossian Hall. Civil War letters reflect Francis Dickins's several arrests for display of Confederate sympathies and the war work of Fanny and Frank. Many post-Civil War items relate to the children of Francis and Margaret Dickins. Frank and Albert worked on railroads in the West; Randolph became a U.S. Marine; Harriot married Henry Theodore Wight; and Fanny lived with her mother and traveled among family members. Items relating to Margaret and Fanny document the women's financial concerns, travel abroad, and genealogical interests. There are also diaries, account books, commonplace books, scrapbooks, school notebooks, and other collected materials, 1804-1903, relating to various family members, and photographs, chiefly of Randolph family relatives. Also included are materials relating to Francis Asbury Dickins's law practice, especially his work as an agent for claims against the Mexican government in the 1830s through the 1850s, and against the U.S. government, particularly pension claims lodged by veterans of various wars.
Platt K. Dickinson (fl. 1835-1861) was a New York businessman who moved to Wilmington, N.C., in 1815 and became a plantation owner and lumberman.
Members of the Dickson family of Charleston, S.C., and Asheville, N.C., included John Dickson (1795-1847), a Congregational minister, teacher, and physician; his first wife, Mary Augusta Flinn Dickson; their children Mary Joanna (1823-1824), Andrew Flinn (1825-1879), John Augustus (born 1828), Samuel Howard (born 1831), Henry Robertson (born 1833), and Charles McIntyre (1835-1836); his second wife, Louisa O'Hear Dickson; and their children, James (1840-1840) and Sarah (born 1841). Other related persons include Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872), Henry S. Dickson, Joseph O'Hear, and John O'Hear.
William G. Dickson was a University of North Carolina alumnus, attorney, and state representative of Burke (now Caldwell) County, N.C.; wife Peggy McDowell Dickson (1783-1854); father General Joseph Dickson (1745-1825); brother James Dickson; and son Robert Moffit Dickson (1820-1855).
C. Clay Dillard was born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1839 and died in Leaksville, N.C., in 1863. She was graduated from the Edgeworth Female Seminary, Greensboro, N.C., in 1856, after which she traveled around the South, often visiting the plantation of her sister May and brother-in-law, General Thomas Rivers, in Somerville, Tenn. The collection consists chiefly of Dillard's journal entries detailing her personal life, 1856-1863. Dillard started the journal during her last year at Edgeworth. In that year, she discussed her classes, friends, and teachers. After graduation, she chronicled her travels throughout the South, including stops in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Saint Louis, Mo., and visits to her sister and brother-in-law's plantation. Throughout the journal, Dillard discussed the tragedies of her life in terms of her Christian beliefs. The main focus of the journal is Dillard's romance with William Lafayette Scott, her teacher at Edgeworth. She often wrote of her feelings towards him even after the relationship was terminated by family members who considered him to be of inferior social status. Also included are a letter from William L. Scott to one of his cousins discussing the romance; a picture of the plantation Dillard's father bought in Tennessee; a printed poem attributed to Dillard, and a newspaper clipping about one of Dillard's relatives during the Spanish American War in Cuba.
Dillon and Polk families resided in Tennessee and Virginia.
Microfilm. Genealogy, 78 pages, tracing several lines of early French families in Canada and Louisiana in the 17th century. A large part of the genealogy concerns the descendants of Nicholas Drussakis of Greece, whose son Andrea Dimitry arrived in New Orleans from Greece in 1799. Other families mentioned in the genealogy include Destouches, Powers, Wood, Scott, and Lagarde.
Journalist, diplomat, and educator of New Orleans, La. Letter from Dimitry at Washington, D.C., to a friend, Morton McMichael, discussing Dimitry's candidacy for the presidency of Franklin College in Louisiana, higher education in the state, and politics.
Charles Augustus Ropes Dimon of Salem, Essex County, Mass., enlisted in the United States Army during the Civil War and rose to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier general. The collection includes personal correspondence and military papers of Dimon. Half of the items are letters written by Dimon to his fiancee, Sarah Braden, and to friends and relatives, chiefly from Ship Island and Vicksburg, Miss., and Baton Rouge and near New Orleans, La., concerning personal news, daily life, and military situations in which he was involved. Other papers are commissions, order, vouchers, and requisitions.
MICROFILM ONLY. Miscellaneous family papers, mainly family and personal letters, 1854-1855, to the Roulstones and Dinwiddies in Tennessee from William I. Dinwiddie in Red River County, Tex., concerning crops, family, and local news. Also included is a letter, 1861, from W. M. Palmer, with the 13th Mississippi Regiment, describing the Battle of Manassas.
Sarah Louise Dittenhaver (1901-1973) was a composer and piano teacher of Asheville, N.C.
Bound volumes of records documenting the establishment and administration of the Division of Laboratory medicine in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1973-1995. This division merged with the Department of Pathology in 1995 to become the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Includes annual reports, meeting minutes, and other records documenting the Division's history. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Audio recordings and other materials from several series of lectures in 1990, most of which were sponsored by the Dixie Diners, a graduate history lunch group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lectures include: North Carolina's New Museum of History by John Ellington; Opening the Broders: The Cultural Politics of the Columbus Quincentenary by Alicia Gonzalez and Theda Perdue; A History of Southern Protest Song by Charles Joyner; Country Music and the Academy: A Thirty-Year Personal and Professional Odyssey by Bill C. Malone; Oral History of an Ex-Slave Community by Sydney Nathans; Migrants and Immigrants (Mexicans in North Carolina) by Martha Nelson; The Politics of Culture in the Alabama Black Belt by Allen Tullos; and The Meanings of 'Hillbilly': Images of Mountain People in American Media by Jerry Williamson.
The collection contains typed copies of two letters concerning Dixon family genealogy. Correspondents include David Schenck and Henry D. Dixon.
E. D. (Edward D.) Dixon was a captain in the 55th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States Army.
Harry St. John Dixon (1843-1898) was a native of Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia, 1860-1861, served as a Confederate officer with the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Virginia, and, after the war, he was a lawyer and rancher in California.
The collection includes correspondence, writings, photographs, and other materials of the married couple John Wesley Dixon, Jr., (1919-2004), a white faculty member of the Religion Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose chiief scholarly interest was the interdisciplinary field of religion and art, and Vivian Slagle Dixon (1919-2007), a white author with research interestes in eldercare, grief, and museum education. John Wesley Dixon's correspondence concerns academic and scholarly matters, such as the publication of various works, presentations he made, teaching, and his work with graduate students. There also are letters and other items related to his efforts to organize faculty opposition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the war in Vietnam, his efforts to improve race relations on campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and his ideas about religious faith and higher education. His writings are chiefly published and unpublished essays concerning various dimensions of religion and art and issues in higher education. Materials relating to Vivian Slagle Dixon document her early life and education at Blackstone College for Girls, family, friendships, settling of the Slagle estate, and her research and writing. Materials include correspondence, school publications, travel diaries, journals, and writings. There are also photographs, including travel snapshots and portraits.
Marian Homes Dixon was born in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va. The collection is a mimeographed copy of a short history of the town of Boydton in Mecklenburg County, Va., and reminiscences of life there circa 1900, written by Dixon.
Richard Dillard Dixon of Edenton, N.C., alumnus of the University of North Carolina, lawyer and businessman, clerk of court and superior court judge, went to Germany in 1946 for the Nuremberg war crime trials and in May 1947 was appointed to serve as an alternate to any of the Tribunals. He participated in four of the twelve war crimes trials held in Nuremberg under authority of the Allied Control Council Law No. 10, specifically cases no. 1, no. 2, no. 5, and no. 9. Files concerning case no. 5, the Flick trial, and case no. 9, the Einsatzgruppen trial, of the twelve trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Allied Control Council Law No. 10. The files consist almost entirely of mimeographed transcripts of daily proceedings and of related documents; they contain some materials not included in the officially published proceedings.
James C. Dobbin (1814-1857) of Fayetteville, N.C., was a lawyer, state legislator, and secretary of the United States Navy under President Pierce.
Dobson family members included William Polk Dobson (1783-1846), lawyer, farmer, and merchant of Rockford, Surry County, N.C., who served in the N.C. Senate between 1818 and 1842 and was a member of the state's constitutional convention in 1835. William Polk Dobson married Mary Hughes, with whom he had twelve children, including John Hughes Dobson (b. 1807), who served as clerk of court and married Elizabeth Martin, with whom he had three children, including Bettie and Mary. Dobson (1856-1922), was a lawyer who also served as solicitor and represented Surry County in the state legislature. John Hughes Dobson's brother, Joseph Dobson (1822-1885), was a lawyer and solicitor of the N.C. Superior Court, who served in the N.C. House of Representatives, 1852- 1860, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1875. Joseph married Sallie Jane Hamlin, and the couple had eleven children. Their son, John Hamlin Dobson (1856-1922), was a lawyer who also served as solicitor and represented Surry County in the state legislature.
The site known as Dockery Farms (also Dockery Plantation), located on Highway 8 between Cleveland and Ruleville, Sunflower County, Miss., is the historic center of a large family enterprise that included: cotton and rice farming and other agricultural interests; oil and gas exploration and production; fishing; shipping; and other businesses. The Dockery family's land holdings have included properties in Arkansas, Louisiana, and possibly other southern states. The main farm was founded in 1895 by William Alfred Dockery (1865-1936), who operated the farm until his death. Afterwards his son, Joe Rice Dockery (1906-1982), took over the farm and related businesses, managing them until his death. Dockery Farms is an important historical site for the study of Delta blues music and culture. One-time residents (working as tenant or itinerant farmers) at Dockery include blues musicians Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Pops Staples, and others. Currently, the property is an historic site and tourist destination for scholars and music enthusiasts. The Dockery Farms property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Today the site operates in partnership with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Delta State University, and other academic and cultural institutions.
William Edward Dodd (1869-1940) was a historian and United States ambassador to Germany. The collection is copies of letters to Dodd, two from Theodore Roosevelt, 1911 and 1912, and two from Woodrow Wilson, 1912 and 1923, about Dodd's publications and his speeches in support of Wilson in 1912.
James Philander Dodge lived in Marion, N.C.
Elizabeth R. Doggett (fl. 1848) resided in Glen Burnie, near Halifax, N.C.
J. Taylor Doggett is a businessman and writer who has extensively researched, among various other interests, the 1950s R&B group the 5 Royales, swing bandleaders, and musicians associated with the University of North Carolina. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.
Dogwood Festival, Incorporated, of Chapel Hill, N.C., was established to promote the preservation and culture of native dogwood trees through annual festivals.
Margaret Baggett Dolan of North Carolina was a public health nurse; president of the North Carolina State Nurses Association, president of the American Nurses Association, 1962-1964; president of the National Health Council, 1969-1970; president of the American Public Health Association, 1973; and professor and head of the Department of Public Health Nursing in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1959-1974.
Samuel T. Dolen, born 9 January 1831, in Nicholsville, Ohio, was a private in the 89th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company F, during the Civil War. Dolen began and ended his time in the service at Camp Dennison, Ohio. He worked as a carpenter and on the Brigade Ambulance Train and saw action in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina.
Jacob Doll was born in Martinsville, Va. (now W.Va.), in 1812, and died 27 April 1878. Doll was installed at Bethesda Church in Caswell County, N.C., 1 November 1866, and organized the First Presbyterian Church in Reidsville in 1875.
Members of the Donnell family include John Robert Donnell (1789-1864), a lawyer of New Bern, N.C.; his brothers, Ezekial J. Donnell of New York and William J. Donnell of New Orleans, La.; his children, Mary Spaight Donnell Shepard (1817-1883), Miss Ann M. Donnell, and R. S. (Richard Spaight) Donnell (1820-1867).
Materials collected during Allen Thurman Donnell's efforts to reconstruct the history of the Donnell family and its connections scattered over Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and other states. Correspondence with members of the Donnell family and other families connected with the Donnells and copies of clippings make up the collection. Other families represented include Balentine, Baly, Brawley, Burwell, Caldwell, Callicoat, Carroth, Denny, Harper, Helms, Latham, McGauphey, Parrott, Pitt, Powell, Straton, Walker, and Wammack. The collection is arranged by family.
Loula Hendon Donnell was the daughter of Margaret Johnston Hendon and John Albert Hendon. She spent most of her life in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she married George Emsley Donnell in 1898.
Uncirculated postcards featuring photographs of coastal North Carolina scenes by white photographer Peter Doran. Images depict subjects and locations in North Carolina, including Southport, Wilmington, Holden Beach, Bald Head Island, Currituck Beach, Outer Banks, Beaufort, Fort Fisher, Ocracoke Island, Bodie Island, Surf City, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Manteo, Sunset Beach, Bird Island, Calabash, Nags Head, and Corolla.
The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, and other papers relating to the Dorman family of Mobile and Claiborne, Ala., and their friends. Letters, 1847-1854 and undated, give news of family and neighborhood activities. Those from 1862 are to Thomas T. Dorman from family and friends while he served with the 21st Alabama Regiment at Corinth, Miss. Letters, 1867-1868, include two from Thomas W. Dorman to his son, Thomas T., when the elder was vacationing at Healing Springs, Va. Beginning in 1871, there are a few routine business letters relating to various family members. Financial materials consist of scattered bills and receipts. Also included are a handwritten transcription of the 1853 commencement speech from Centenary Institute, a women's school in Sommerfield, Ala., and eight undated school exercises, including compositions and French translation by various female family members.
Ward Allison Dorrance (1904-) was a writer and teacher of Jefferson City, Mo., and Washington, D.C. He taught at the University of Missouri, 1926-1953, and Georgetown University, 1958-1974.
Wilbur Dorsett attended high school in Spencer, N.C., then studied at the University of North Carolina (B.A. English 1934; M.A. 1936). While at UNC, he worked with the Carolina Playmakers, mostly on the technical staff. He went on to teach dramatic arts and work as a technical supervisor at other schools.
William Theophilus Dortch (1824-1889), Confederate States of America senator of Goldsboro, N.C. Papers, 1859-1866, of Wm. T. Dortch, including a bill of sale, 1859, for a slave from Wayne, Duplin, and New Hanover counties, N.C., and a presidential pardon, 1866.
The collection of J.S. Dorton, the white manager of the North Carolina State Fair, consists of papers related to Dorton's proposed exhibit of wartime products manufactured and processed in North Carolina during the Second World War. Papers include the proposal, official endorsements of the proposal, information about related local exhibits, and Dorton's correspondence with state officials, including North Carolina Governor Gregg Cherry and Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, and with contributing individuals and corporations from across the state. Also included are portraits of many of the politicians involved with the project.
The collection is a signed, typed copy of Satire as a Way of Seeing (13 pages) by John Dos Passos. The essay was used as an introduction to Interregnum, a portfolio of drawings by George Grosz.
The Doub family included Ida V. Doub of Tobaccoville, N.C., and John Doub, a Methodist minister who was born in Germany in 1743 and settled in North Carolina.
Robert Lee Doughton of Laurel Springs, Alleghany County, N.C., was a farmer, businessman, state legislator, and United States representative from North Carolina's Ninth District, 1911-1952. The following counties were in Doughton's district for at least part of his tenure in Congress: Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Caldwell, Alexander, Watauga, Iredell, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly, Ashe, and Alleghany. Doughton was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means from 1933 almost continually until 1952. Doughton's congressional office files, including requests from constituents for appointments and services, correspondence with district and state leaders, and letters regarding public questions and pending legislation, especially concerning finance and taxation. Other topics addressed extensively include Democratic Party politics and the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are a few scattered personal, financial and business, and legal items, and copies of speeches. The bulk of the papers date between 1928 and 1952.
Malcolm Douglas was a clergyman of Ohio.
The collection is a letter, 1880, from Albion Winegar Tourgee to Douglas, of Greensboro, N.C., concerning the real life model for John Burleson in Tourgee's A Fool's Errand, and a letter, 1897, from Benjamin Wyche, about autographs.
Native of Connecticut, Episcopal minister in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and educator.
John Emory Douthit was a doctor and surgeon with the 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was born in Clemmonsville, N.C., and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1858. In 1860, while stationed at Wilson, N.C., Douthit met Medora (Dora) Crenshaw, and the two wed in 1863. After the war, Douthit opened a general goods store in Statesville, N.C. Douthit later moved to Kingsville, Mo.
Report made by Douty as part of a study done under the auspices of the Fund for the Republic, 1955-1956, concerning the Communist influence in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) in the 1930s and 1940s; and five letters written in 1971 pertaining to the report, including a detailed letter from William T. Couch, an active participant in the SCHW.
William Watlington Dow (1945-2012) was a white medical doctor, organic farmer, and community organizer. Dow was a co-organizer of a number of projects including Student Health Coalitions throughout the southeast, the Center for Health Services at Vanderbilt University, the Agricultural Marketing Project, the Carrboro Farmers' Market, and the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project. He was also a member of the Chatham County Planning Board. Files chiefly document Dow's professional career and consist chiefly of research files, administrative files, grant and project proposals, correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, and a few other writings created or collected by Dow. Major topics include community organizing, community-institutional relations, public health accessibility and promotion, nutrition, organic farming, pediatrics, rural health, farmers' markets, environmental issues, sustainability, solar buildings and greenhouses, education, Ayrshire Farm, and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. There are some personal materials that document Dow's youth and marriages.
William Carey Dowd of Tarboro, N.C., was a University of North Carolina student and tutor.
Richard Dozier (1822-1901) was a Georgetown, S.C., attorney, and South Carolina state legislator. The collection includes professional papers, especially 1870-1900, including briefs, summaries, correspondence, and other papers relating to cases handled by Dozier and his law partner, Benjamin H. Wilson. Slight personal correspondence is interspersed discussing family and plantation affairs, rice cultivation, social and economic conditions during Reconstruction, the migration of some family members to California and conditions there, and the involvement of African Americans in local politics.
Field recordings on open-reel audio tape compiled by anthropologists H. Max Drake and Ann M. Drake contain traditional music performed chiefly by North Carolina musicians between 1952 and 1980 and interviews with civil rights workers in Chapel Hill, N.C., conducted during the early 1960s. Musical artists on the recordings include Bill Hicks, Tommy Jarrell, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Obray Ramsey, Byard Ray, and John Snipes. In the interviews, civil rights workers, including Mark Chaisson, Patrick Cusick, LaVert Taylor, Hope Van Riper, and Peter Van Riper, discuss protests in Chapel Hill against racial segregation in public accommodations. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Brent Skinner Drane was the son of the Reverend Robert Brent Drane (1851-1939), rector of St. Paul's Church (Episcopal) in Edenton, N.C., 1876-1932.
Robert Brent Drane was rector, 1876-1932, of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Edenton, N.C.
Bills and receipts, 1945-1946 and 1952, and farm journals and ledgers, 1936-1983, of E. B. Draughon relating to livestock, peanut and other commodity growing, and miscellaneous farming operations at The Elms, Whitakers, Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also ledgers and other books of account from stores in Whitakers, 1919-1947. Bills and receipts include materials relating to the purchase of farm equipment and other items and to the use of a community grain elevator. There are also copies of hail adjustment proof of loss forms. Whitakers farm volumes include two journals, 1936-1937 and 1938- 1940, with brief entries documenting farm activities, and 12 ledgers listing incomes and expenses, 1940-1983. Store volumes relate to establishments in Whitakers and include two cash books, 1919-1927, of the dry-goods firm of G. W. Harrison; two account books, 1924-1941 and 1943, of J. White & Son, dry-goods; and five miscellaneous account, ledger, and inventory books, 1919-1947.
James M. (James Marcus) Drennan (1834-1904) was a federal soldier from Worcester, Mass.
Edward Dromgoole was an Irish immigrant who settled in Maryland, ca. 1770; became a Methodist minister, ca. 1772; and, after 1777, was a minister, merchant, and planter in Brunswick County, Va. Also represented are his sons Edward Dromgoole, Jr. (1788-1840), Methodist minister, physician, and planter of Brunswick County and Northampton County, N.C., and George Coke Dromgoole (1797-1847), lawyer, Virginia legislator, militia general, and Democratic U.S. representative.
Robert Loudon Drummond, a lawyer of Auburn, N.Y., was a member of the 111th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Drummond was imprisoned at Salisbury, N.C. in 1864-1865.
Microfilm of family correspondence of Samuel DuBose, his wife Martha, their daughter, Louisa DuBose Gaillard (wife of David Gaillard), and others, about neighborhood news, health, crops, births, marriages, etc., in Charleston, Whiteville, and Youngsville, S.C.
Samuel DuBose lived in Pineville, S.C. His brother William was a student at a school in Newport, R.I., and at Yale University in Connecticut.
Schoolteacher, lawyer, and Union Army soldier J. Smith DuShane was born in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pa. DuShane enlisted on 31 August 1861 as a sergeant in Company K of the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Most of his war career, 1861-1862, was spent in coastal South Carolina and Virginia. After being wounded in the shoulder at Second Manassas (Bull Run), 29 August 1862, DuShane was discharged from the army. He then returned to New Castle and married schoolteacher Adela McMillan (b. 1841). In September 1864, DuShane was admitted to the bar in Lawrence County, where he eventually served one term as district attorney. He had been a schoolteacher before the war and was again listed as such in the 1880 census.
William Porcher Dubose served as a Confederate soldier and chaplain in Virginia and was captured and imprisoned at Fort Delaware. During Reconstruction he was an Episcopal minister in Abbeville and Winnsboro, S.C., and became a theologian at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1871.
Unbound prints from John James Audubon's Birds of America and publications, including books, magazines, journals, and newsletters related to ornithology and ornitholgical societies, collected by white textile mill executive Annette O. Duchein (1907-1996) in the mid-twentieth century. Subjects of the Audubon illustrations are the yellow-billed cuckoo, white throated sparrow, snow bird, Carolina parrot, worm eating warbler, crested titmouse, passenger pigeon, white-crowned sparrow, wood pewee, red-eyed vireo, Carolina titmouse, pine finch, Swainson's warbler, yellow shank, and red-cockaded woodpecker. Publications include runs of the serials Audubon Magazine, Audubon Field Notes, The Cardinal, The Osprey, The Ibis, and The Wilson Bulletin and newsletters for the Nova Scotia Bird Society, the Texas Ornithological Society, and other organizations and bird clubs. Books are chiefly late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century English language imprints. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
The Duck Kee Studio Collection consists of multi-track and mixdown studio master tapes of indie rock musicians recorded at Duck Kee Studio in North Carolina. White musician and recording engineer, Jerry Kee, founded and manages the studio, which has been located in Mebane, N.C. since 1995. Notable artists featured on the audio recordings include Tift Merritt and the Carbines, Dish, Jennyanykind, Picasso Trigger, Portastatic, Queen Sarah Saturday, Regina Hexaphone, and Superchunk. The collection also contains related documentation found with select recordings, including track sheets, memos, lyric sheets, and other materials.
The collection is a typed copy of reminiscences of Bennettsville, S.C., by C. W. Dudley under the pen name Banquo, consisting of recollections about places, individuals, families, and events in Marlborough District, S.C. The piece was written in nineteen parts and serialized in the Marlborough Planter newspaper.
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (1879-1964), a native of Virginia, became Viscountess through her marriage to Waldorf Astor (1879-1952), 2nd Viscount Astor.
Marion Dudley (b. 1895) of Wilmington, N.C., lived in China, 1927-1931, 1938-1942, and 1943-1947, while working for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Hong Kong and Canton.
The collection is letters patent for land sold by the Hoak-te Charte-Kay tribe of Creek Indians to Philip Ware, Rufus D. Peeples, and Peter Dudley in the Coosa Land District, Alabama, with the approval of John Tyler, president of the United States.
Mary Gordon Duffee (1843 or 4-1920) of Blount Springs, Ala., was an author and writer on early Spanish history in the United States. The collection consists of handwritten and typed transcriptions of letters from Duffee concerning the De Soto Fort, a structure supposedly built by the Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, in DeKalb County, Ala..
Edward Duffel was a doctor in Donaldsonville, La.
Henry L. Duffel was a lawyer of Ascension Parish, La.
Timothy Duffy, a white folklorist and musician, produced field recordings of the American roots tradition as an undergraduate at Warren Wilson College and while working on a folklore master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A few years after graduating in 1991, he co-founded the Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF), a non-profit organization near Hillsborough, N.C., that helps southern roots tradition musicians meet their financial needs and gain recognition for their work. The collection chiefly relates to MMRF and includes artist files, CD liner proofs, correspondence, photographs, posters, audiovisual materials, and other papers, including Duffy's student papers and projects. Audiovisual materials include sound recordings related to Duffy's folklore thesis fieldwork in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, as well as sound recordings and moving images of blues, gospel, and R& B artists, such as Walt Davis, Ray Greene, Jeeter Riddle, James Guitar Slim Stephens, Etta Baker, Willa Mae Buckner, Guitar Gabriel, Cool John Ferguson, Cootie Stark, Cora Mae Bryant, Sammy Mayfield, Neal Pattman, Beverly Guitar Watkins, Jerry McCain, Essie Mae Brooks, Precious Bryant, Preston Fulp, Macavine Hayes, Algia Mae Hinton, John Dee Holeman, Captain Luke Mayer Luther, Taj Mahal, and the Greene Acres Picking Party.
Basil Wilson Duke was a Confederate cavalry brigadier general.
Sugar Dulin was born in Onslow County, N.C. He moved to Mecklenburg County, N.C., in 1791, where he bought a large tract of land east of Charlotte and lived until his death in 1845. Dulin fought as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
William Dunbar was a planter at Baton Rouge and Natchez and a friend of Alexander Ross, Scottish merchant and planter on the southwestern frontier during the American Revolution.
Duncan and Johnson was a firm of cotton factors and commission merchants in Savannah, Ga.
MICROFILM ONLY. Minutes and register, 1844-1891 and 1894-1956, of Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church in Laurens County, S.C.
Family history and Civil War reminiscences of William O. Dundas, Confederate veteran and native of Washington, D.C. Included are brief biographies of Dundas's Scottish ancestors, Robert Dundas (1685-1753), 3rd Lord Arniston, and Robert Dundas (born 1713), 4th Lord Arniston. Also included are reminiscences (21 pages) of Dundas's own experiences as a blockade runner, ordnance officer, and prisoner at Old Capitol Prison in Washington and Camp Norton near Indianapolis, Ind.
Audio interviews, field recordings, and supporting documentation on the congregation and music of the True Light Church located in Rocky River, Cabarrus County, N.C. Miriam Dunham, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, created the recordings in February and March of 1972 as part of a term paper for an English 187 course taught by Daniel W. Patterson. Audio recordings include an interview with H. Flake Braswell, of Rocky River, N.C., a white preacher and former leader of the True Light Church, and Russell McLeod, of Rocky River, N.C., a white preacher of the True Light Church, about the True Light Church, its doctrines, and the process of hymn selection. Also includes a field recording of a True Light Church service devoted to addressing conflicts within the congregation, as well as an audio interview with Jeanette Long Scherich, a white resident of Rocky River, N.C., who was raised in the church but is no longer a member. The collection also contains supporting documentation, or tape logs, prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Little is known about Miriam Dunham and their relation to the subjects in the recordings. Dunham's English 187 term paper, "The True Light Church and its music", can be found in the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library.
Miscellaneous papers including fifteen letters, 1852-1903, of various people, all relating to New Bern, N.C. Many of the letters were written to or by David W. Bell and W. B. Bell, the latter a Confederate soldier serving in Virginia. Subjects discussed include the sale of slaves, Confederate military activities, and events and traditions in New Bern's history. Three letters from W. B. Bell, 1862, tell of battles, his poor health, and his hopes for a transfer. Other Confederate items include two letters to Lt. Col. William G. Robinson of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry (a.k.a. the 19th North Carolina Regiment). Also present are historical sketches, including one about Ramseur's charge at Chancellorsville, and 18th-century business and legal papers (56 items) for the sale of land and slaves and other matters, mainly from Carteret and Craven counties, N.C.
Ruth Dixon Dunn was born in 1888 in Colquitt, Miller County, Ga., where she lived until her death in 1911. She had several siblings, including Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla. Dunn married local banker William Pearl Dunn in 1907, and they had a child, William Pearl Dunn Jr., in 1908. Ruth Dixon Dunn died in July 1911 of unknown causes.
William V. Dunn, native of Maine, was an itinerant Methodist preacher who preached in Charlotte and the North Carolina piedmont, and in Charleston, S.C., and the South Carolina sea islands.
John B. Dunne (1943-1982) was a civil rights activist in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Birmingham, Ala., 1961-1964; student at the Choate School, 1958-1961, the University of North Carolina, 1961-1963, Harvard University, and Yale Law School; and a lawyer in Boston, Mass., 1972-1975, and Norwich, Vt., 1975-1982. The collection includes correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia of John B. Dunne. The bulk of the collection centers around Dunne's activism in the South during the civil rights movement, 1963-1965. Most items are letters from Dunne to his parents, some from prisons in North Carolina and Alabama. Other items include letters to Dunne's parents about their son from John Ehle, Walter Spearman, and others; clippings about Dunne's acts of civil disobedience in Chapel Hill, N.C., and elsewhere; a few papers and articles written by Dunne; and items relating to the Dunne's memorial services.
The collection of white author, editor, musical artist representative, and social justice activist, Josh Dunson, contains papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials related to folk music and protest songs of the civil rights movement. Papers consist of music industry publications, printed items, writings, and correspondence, most of which relate to Dunson's role as a musical artist representative. The collection also contains photographs depicting folk musicians, as well as audio and video recordings compiled by Dunson. Audio recordings consist of audio interviews conducted with folk musicians, folklorists, and social justice activists, including interviews conducted for Dunson's 1965 book Freedom In The Air: Song Movements Of The Sixties, while video recordings consist of live performances, lectures, and documentaries. Notable subjects featured on the audio and video recordings include Guy Carawan, Sis Cunningham, Si Kahn, Peggy Seeger, and Rosalie Sorrels.
Papers of the Dunstan family of North Carolina contain genealogical information, letters, and scattered poems, certificates, and clippings of members of the Dunstan and related families, including William Edward Dunstan I and William Edward Dunstan II.
Microfilm of letters in 1862 are between Lucius J. Dupre, Laurent Dupre's father, a Louisiana legislator, who wrote to Jefferson Davis suggesting that the depleted Louisiana regiments be sent home from Virginia to defend their native state and from Jefferson Davis to Lucius J. Dupre about why his suggestion could not be followed. Letters, 1865-1866, are chiefly from family members to Laurent Dupre while he was a student at Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy near Alexandria, La. Letters contain information about routine family matters and advice to Laurent about his studies and other affairs.
Frank T. Dupree, Jr., was born in Angier, N.C. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina with a law degree in 1936. He practiced law in Angier and in Raleigh, N.C., before he was appointed U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina by President Nixon on 12 December 1970.
The collection contains the operational, administrative, and financial records of the Durham Co-Op Grocery, a cooperative natural foods grocery store for local consumers and a community center in Durham, N.C. The records are chiefly from the 1980s to the early 2000s and include articles of incorporation, budgets, payrolls, personnel records, tax permits, reports, grant files and other fundraising materials, vendor files, police reports for vandalism and robberies, food stamp program permits, inventories, minutes of board and membership meetings, membership and staff policy documents, facility files, newsletters and other printed materials, correspondence with Co-op members, membership surveys, and marketing files. Materials reflect the Co-op's interests in alternative approaches to food production and distribution and include information about agricultural laborers, genetic engineering, local organic growers, recycling, and the impact of hurricanes on food production.
The Durham Fact-Finding Conference, a congress of African American leaders in business, education, and religion, was held three times--7-9 December 1927, 17-19 April 1929, and 16-18 April 1930--at the North Carolina College for Negroes (later North Carolina Central University) in Durham, N.C.
The collection consists of an estimated 1.6 million photographic negatives and prints made by over 40 staff photographers at the Durham Morning Herald (1945-1991), Durham Sun (1945-1991), and The Herald-Sun (1991-2002). The collection includes images taken by staff photographers between 1945 and 2002 chiefly in the city of Durham, Durham County, Orange County, Wake County, and surrounding areas of North Carolina. Included are images of local, state, and national politicians and political events; news events; local businesses; civic groups and other organizations; Durham County, Orange County, and Wake County schools; sporting events; and other images that document daily life in North Carolina. Collection includes both published and unpublished photographs.
The Durham Kennel Club, Inc., in Durham, N.C., was organized in 1928 by "... owners and lovers of dogs, ... with the one idea of stimulating interest in better dogs." The Club has held dog shows and obedience trials since 1928. Records of the Durham Kennel Club, Inc., include the Archives (The First 50 Years), compiled by Pat Lawrence and Joyce McHenry in 1988, which consists of clippings, letters, meeting minutes, and other materials that were collected and mounted on pages in a three-ring binder to document the Club's history. There are also catalogs for some of the Club's dog shows, a few pictures, and a few other items.
Carl Thomas Durham (1892-1974) was a Democratic United States congressman, 1939-1960, representing the Sixth North Carolina District (Orange county, Durham county, Guilford county, and Alamance county). The collection includes office files of Durham's terms in Congress, where he was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and was particularly interested in the development and regulation of atomic energy and government stockpiling of strategic materials. He was also involved in the reform of the Army court martial system and government regulations concerning non-narcotic drugs. The files include papers from his committee work as well as correspondence with constituents and papers on other subjects. Volumes are compilations of mimeographed materials produced for committee members as information files. There are also a few photographs, mostly of Carl Thomas Durham, one with Dwight D. Eisenhower and others.
D. H. Duryea was a solider in the 1st Minnesota Regiment and served with General William T. Sherman's army during the march through Georgia and the Carolinas.
James Lawrence Dusenbery (b. 1821) of Lexington, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina. Upon leaving UNC, Dusenbery studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. Sometime after the Civil War, he returned to Lexington, where he died a bachelor.
Charles William Dustan (1834-1892) was a a federal officer in the 71st New York Militia Regiment, the 53rd New York Regiment, and other units. The collection includes Civil War letters from Dustan to his mother and sister on Staten Island, N.Y., written from Virginia and Mississippi, 1861-1863, and from Memphis, Tenn., 1863-1865, where he was captain in the United States Army and brigadier general of enrolled militia. The letters discuss camp life, troop movements, morale, and discipline problems, including a mutiny in the 53rd Regiment, conditions and events in Memphis, and family matters.
Dutchman's Creek Church of Jesus Christ, later known as Eaton's Baptist Church, was a Baptist congregation originally in Rowan County and later in Davie County, N.C. The collection contains minutes of meetings, 1772-1787, of Dutchman's Creek Church.
E. Walker Duvall (born circa 1876) of Cheraw, Chesterfield County, S.C., was a hardware merchant and state legislator, 1908-1909.
Vance Peacock Dykers of Jacksonville, Fla., was an amateur genealogist interested in the Peacock family of North Carolina and Georgia and related lines.
Dynamic Legacies: Charlie Poole and the Evolution and Transmission of the Southern String Band Tradition was a symposium held on 8 April 2005 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Munroe Demere d'Antignac Collection of Papers consist of several records documenting the trafficking of enslaved people: a valuation and division of estate, 1837(?) of James E. Long; a letter, 1840, requesting the extension of a hiring out contract for Matilda, an enslaved girl who worked as a house servant and was trafficked by her enslaver John Wood of Hertford; and a list of enslaved people, 1865, who were hired out from the estate of John Francis in Hertford-Edenton area. Other materials include a bond, three notes, a Revolutionary pension claim, and three estate papers, 1772-1837; two unrelated letters concerning an estate and a legal case, 1838; a tax notice, 1859, an estate inventory, 1864; and other records of individual court attendance and charges for Chatham County Superior Court, 1861-1867.

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Julia Goode Eagan (1888-1963) of Salisbury, N.C., was a writer and editor.
Eugene Earle was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1926. In addition to amassing a large collection of country and western, blues, and jazz sound recordings, he also became a discographer and a founder and president of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation (JEMF). Earle is also responsible for rediscovering and recording a number of country musicians, including Doc Watson, Jimmie Tarlton, and the Carolina Tarheels.
The Earlie E. Thorpe Oral History Collection includes audiocassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews collected by students in Social Science courses taught by Alice Eley Jones at North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C., 1990-1992. Interviewees are African Americans in North Carolina and other states. Interviews cover general life experiences and include discussions about race relations, civil rights, education, economics, social life, family life, and other topics.
John Early (1786-1873) was a Methodist minister and bishop, and president of the Board of Trustees of Randolph-Macon College for 40 years.
Jo Anne Earp is a medical sociologist and faculty member in the Department of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She joined the faculty in 1974 and served as chair for over 13 years.
The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities and archival collecting initiative directed by Karida Brown, an African American sociologist, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an historically white institution. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi-generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. Appalachia was a destination for thousands of African Americans, who left the rural deep South in the early twentieth century during the Great Migration. A company town, Lynch was established in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The collection contains oral history interviews, photographs, copies of documents and artifacts related to coal miners in the mid-twentieth century, and community histories of Lynch, Ky. Karida Brown conducted the oral history interviews with African Americans whose families migrated from the coal camps of the Appalachian South to cities and suburbs across the country. Photographs from circa 1948 depict street scenes, residential areas, and coal mining facilities in Lynch, Ky., and also African American residents of Lynch, both adults and children. Copied documents include floor plans for company housing and a discharge report for a fired coal miner. Artifacts include a hard hat, goggles, and other work tools and safety accessories. Community histories describe the founding of the coal camp, the buildings and businesses in the company town of Lynch, schools, entertainment venues, and leisure activities.
The Eastern Kentucky Social Club, a heritage organization, was founded in 1969 by a small group of African Americans who had migrated from the Kentucky mountains to Cleveland, Ohio. By 2012 fifteen chapters in cities across the country had joined the founding Cleveland Chapter, and in 2014 the Club held its 45th annual reunion, bringing together African Americans with ties to the mid twentieth-century coal mining camps in Harlan County, Ky.
Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake was an English essayist and translator, who published Five Great Painters (1883) and other works. Her husband was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), director of the National Gallery, 1855-1865.
Charles Edward Eaton (1916-2006), poet and professor, was born in Winston-Salem, N.C. Eaton received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936, studied at Princeton, and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost, who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Eaton served as Vice Consul in Brazil, 1942-1946, and as professor of creative writing at UNC, 1946-1952. In 1950, he married Isabel Patterson of Pittsburgh. Eaton is a widely published and highly regarded writer, who has won numerous poetry prizes and other honors. The collection includes poems, short stories, and other writings; correspondence; scrapbooks; and other material of Charles Edward Eaton. Items chiefly relate to Eaton's writing and teaching careers, but some family materials are present. Individuals significant in the collection include Witter Bynner, Alfred Dorn, Emily Katherine Harris, Robert Hillyer, Judy Hogan, Will Inman, John T. Irwin, Karl Knaths, Dave Smith, R. W. Stallman, Charles Tomlinson, Frederick Turner, Louis Untermeyer, Peter Viereck, William Carlos Williams, Harold Witt, Stark Young, and Morton Zabel.
Charles Edward Eaton, poet and professor, was born in Winston-Salem, N.C.; received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936; studied at Princeton; and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost, who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Eaton served as United States Vice Consul in Brazil, 1942- 1946, and as professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina, 1946-1952. In 1950, he married Isabel Patterson of Pittsburgh. Eaton was a widely published and highly regarded writer, who has won numerous poetry prizes and other honors.
Clement Eaton, born in Winston-Salem, N.C., 23 Febraury 1898, was educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Eaton was chair of the History Department at Lafayette College, 1931-1942, when he became a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. Eaton was the prolific author of books and articles about the history of the American South.
Four diary volumes and a record of military hospital supplies of Harriet Eaton of Portland, Me. One diary volume covers the period 5 December 1853-27 May 1854; in it Eaton describes her sea voyage from Portland to Mobile, Ala., experiences in Mobile and environs, including a church service for slaves, and her return trip overland. The other diary volumes, 1862-1864, constitute a detailed record of Eaton's observations and feelings as a U.S. Army nurse visiting camps in Virginia, leaving supplies, and aiding the sick and wounded. The final volume is an undated record of hospital supplies distributed to many different Maine regiments.
John Rust Eaton was a planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder.
The collection documents African American community organizers and civil rights activists Rosanell Eaton and Armenta Eaton. Included are papers, photographs, notes, programs, posters and other print ephemera, newspaper clippings, t-shirts, and pin-back buttons relating to the Eatons' work with the North Carolina NAACP, the Democratic Party at the county and state levels, Concerned Women for Justice, America's Journey for Justice, Rev. William J. Barber II and Moral Mondays, and other local, state, and national politicians and political and social justice organizing campaigns. Other materials include a Franklin County Democratic Party poll observer training manual; original handwritten notes and speeches given by Rosanell Eaton; legal papers relating to the voting rights lawsuit North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al vs. McCrory; a copy of a letter written to Rosanell Eaton by President Barack Obama and a copy of a photograph of the Eatons with President Obama at the White House; a family scrapbook album documenting a housewarming, travel, family, and activism; other photographs depicting holiday and family gatherings; and funeral programs for homegoing services for family and friends.
MICROFILM. Civil War diary of Eaton, 57th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, relating to his movements and activities on the march and in battle in northern Virginia and at Gettysburg, April-August, 1863; and two letters, 1862 and 1863, from J. C. Eaton, S. W. Eaton's brother, member of the 63rd North Carolina Cavalry, to his parents.
William Eaton was a planter of Halifax and Warren counties, N.C.
White linguist Connie Clare Eble joined the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971, retiring from the department in 2018. Eble is best known for her work on the slang of college students, based on data collected as part of her classes at UNC-Chapel Hill. From 1972 to 2018, students in one of her courses were asked to contribute, on index cards, slang terms in current use. Student submissions were compiled into yearly lists of current campus slang. Eble's lists are cited in the Oxford English Dictionary as the first known uses of several slang terms and phrases. Papers include index cards submitted by students, campus slang lists, and related materials.
Edward Jones (1762-1841) of Wilmington and Fayetteville, N.C., native of Ireland, was a merchant, lawyer, and solicitor-general of North Carolina. His son-in-law, John Dick Eccles (died 1856), was also of Fayetteville.
Contains papers created or collected by Wells Eddleman (1949-2022), a white teacher and energy consultant who served as an Intervenor in the hearings of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in opposition to the licensing of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant built by Carolina Power and Light Company in New Hill (Wake County), N.C., in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Papers primarily pertain to the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Intervention process. Materials include originals and copies of official filings, correspondence among attorneys working with Eddleman, notes, and papers on anti-nuclear organizing in North Carolina. Much of this material was presented before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, including intervenors' testimony, petitions, scientific reports, and NRC responses to challenges and interrogatories. The collection also includes a 1986 map of the Shearon Harris Plume Exposure Pathway Emergency Planning Zone.
The collection includes miscellaneous papers, chiefly bills, receipts, deeds, court proceedings, wills, estate settlements (including the division of slaves), and other legal and business papers of Edenton and Chowan County, N.C., citizens, mainly before 1820. There are few letters. Several items concern the awarding of prizes by the Admiralty Court during the Revolution. Persons represented in the collection include: Nathaniel Allen, William Badham, John Barefield, Thomas Barker, Nehemiah Bateman, John Beasley, Thomas Benbury, William Blair, Charles Blount, Joseph Blount, William Branch, Stephen Cabarrus, William Cathcart, Josiah Collins, James Craven, Samuel Dickinson, Charles Eden, Henry Eelbeck, Montfort Eelbeck, William Eelbeck, William Hill, John Hodgson, Samuel Hodgson, Thomas Holland, Arthur Johnston, Samuel Johnston, Peter Malbone, Jeremiah Michener, Elisha Norfleet, Samuel Pagett, John Palin, Thomas Parris, and Thomas Pollock.
The collection is a record book, Collectors office, District of Edenton, containing accounts of customs duties received on tonnage and merchandise, and accounts of bonds, cash, and commissions. Thomas Benbury (1736-1793) was federal collector of customs for the Port of Edenton, 1789-1793.
MICROFILM ONLY. Volume with three parts: a merchandise ledger, 1804-1806; church records, 1815-1853 and 1863; and commonplace entries, undated. The bulk of the volume consists of the records of Edenton Methodist Episcopal Church, including minutes of quarterly, steward, and other meetings; records of membership, births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; lists of ministers and other officials; and a running history of the church, whose membership apparently included whites and both slaves and free blacks. Church officials mentioned included Enoch Jones and Bernard Overton.
George Mathews Edgar of Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Confederate lieutenant colonel, president of schools in Kentucky and Mississippi and of the University of Arkansas, and a professor at the universities of Alabama and Florida.
Charles E. Edge (1922-2005) of Rocky Mount, N.C., served in the United States Army during World War II. He later taught English literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. N.C.
Edgemont Community Clinic, a community-based health care facility in the low-income Edgemont section of Durham, N.C., functioned from 1968 to 1978. It was staffed by volunteers, chiefly members of the Student Health Action Committee and other health sciences students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Correspondence, reports, notes, and other items in office files retained by Linda Woodard, who was active in the Edgemont Community Clinic as an organizer and medical technologist. While correspondence and financial records are not extensive, it is possible to derive a rough understanding of the Clinic's history from these papers. Of particular interest is a file of reports detailing some of the Clinic's operations and placing the Edgemont Community Clinic in the context of the national movement of the 1960s and 1970s for community-sponsored free health care.
Clyde Edgerton is a writer and educator of Durham County, N.C.
"The Editor and the Dragon" Collection consists of the unedited copies of the interviews conducted for this documentary, which chronicles Horace Carter's reporting on the Ku Klux Klan in the Tabor City Tribune (N.C.). Transcripts are available. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection consists of photocopies of writings by Washington Irving, correspondence and other items pertaining to the editing and publishing of The Complete Works, and related Irvingianna. The project to publish The Complete Works began in 1959, and the thirty volumes were published by the University of Wisconsin Press and Twayne Publishers between 1969 and 1989. Managing editors were Henry Pochman, Herbert L. Kleinfield, and Richard D. Rust.
Rufus Edmisten was born in 1941 in Boone, N.C. He graduated from Appalachian High School in 1959, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963, and George Washington University School of Law in 1966. Edmisten spent the first twelve years of his political career as an aide to Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. In 1974, he returned to North Carolina to run for attorney general, an office he held until 1983. He was the 1984 Democratic candidate for governor, but did not win the election. In 1988, he returned to political life and ran successfully for North Carolina secretary of state. Edmisten retired from public office in 1996.
The Edmiston, Flowers, and Kelley families, primarily of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, are related through the marriages of William Kelley (1844-1897) to Mary Seraphina Flowers Kelley (1844-1937), and their daughter, Olive Kelley Edmiston (1887-1979), to Paul C. Edmiston Sr. (1881-1927). William Kelley was a physician in Tallulah, La., in the 1880s and 1890s.
The collection of papers, recordings, and photographs reflects the historical interests, passion for New Orleans jazz music, and bohemian lifestyles of Edmiston family members, Barbara Reid Edmiston, Kelley Todd Edmiston, and William Kelley Todd Edmiston, who lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans, La., during the second half of the twentieth century. Papers include letters, printed items and publications, clippings, subject files principally about jazz music, jazz musicians, and the music venue Preservation Hall, which Barbara Reid Edmiston helped found, biographical files chiefly about New Orleans jazz musicians and artists, and writings, particularly about New Orleans voodoo. Other collection materials document Kelley Todd Edmiston's career in theater, and a few items pertain to William "Bill" Edmiston's career as a pharmacist and his support as a white southerner of racial integration. Audio recordings are chiefly of live jazz music and radio interviews and shows pertaining to jazz. Video recordings include a televised documentary about jazz musicians, a copy of a documentary about photographer Johnny Donnels, and live footage shot at the music venue Tipitina's and the pub Cosimo's. Photographs depict the Edmiston family, New Orleans Society for the Preservation of Traditional Jazz, Preservation Hall, mid-twentieth-century French Quarter street scenes, theatrical productions, and the 1964 demolition of the St. John Berchmans Orphanage, which was the Sisters of the Holy Family convent in New Orleans.
Edmond family members of Richmond and Millboro (Bath County), Va., were involved in various business ventures, including Edmond & Davenport, a wholesale groceries business; James River Pack Company, which ran a line of canal boats between Richmond and Lynchburg and was involved in importing and exporting with South America; farming; a general store; and the Big Springs Water Company. Family members include Robert Edmond (1808-1875), Walter S. Edmond (1843-1908), Hector D. Edmond (1874-1950), and Courtney Edmond van Fossen (1919-2011).
Historian and civic leader Helen Grey Edmonds was born in Lawrenceville, Va., on 3 December 1911 to John and Ann Edmonds. From 1941 until her retirement in 1977, she held faculty and administrative positions at the North Carolina College for Negroes (later, North Carolina College at Durham, and then, North Carolina Central University) including dean of the graduate school and chair of the History Department. Edmonds was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. at Ohio State University and the first African American woman to become a graduate school dean in the United States.
Civil War diary of Miss Edmondson of Shelby County, Tenn., recording news from the front, local skirmishes and rumors, troop movements, the running of contraband through federal lines, activities of family and slaves, and a trip to Mississippi, including stops in Tupelo, Pontotoc, and Columbus, where she visited generals Forrest and Chalmers. According to family legend, which appears to be supported by the diary accounts, Miss Edmondson was a Confederate spy.
Scattered plantation memoranda, probably from Prince Edward County, Va., chiefly after 1865 and chiefly relating to accounts for provisions and accounts with laborers, domestic and agricultural, white and black.
William B. Edmundson, was a husband and father apparently living in Wilmington, N.C., apart from his family in 1866.
The Edna Mill was a textile mill incorporated in 1889 in Reidsville, N.C. The mill was owned by Willis Benton Pipkin. It became part of the Cone Mills organization in 1946. Records of the Edna Mill include documents reporting finances and wages, financial history, and audits. There is also a 1942 report by owner Willis Benton Pipkin discussing a possible 10-cent-per-hour increase in wages for workers; correspondence between representatives of the Edna Mill and the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA); agreements made between the union and Edna Mill; minutes of TWUA-Edna Mill meetings and the Edna Mill Grievance Committee meetings; lists of Edna Mill union members; flyers promoting the union; and booklets outlining TWUA policies and methods of collective bargaining. Also included are news clippings about union activities at Edna Mill, an anti-union speech delivered by Pipkin, and an anti-union flyer distributed by Edna Mill. There are also corporate minutes, 1931-1944; a 1937 scrapbook with clippings about labor relations; and a short history of Edna Mills that was written by Pipkin in 1959.
MICROFILM ONLY. A History of West Edwards and His Descendants (28 pages), written in 1889 by Charles Henry Edwards (born 1834), describing, from oral tradition, the move of his grandfather, father, and uncles from North Carolina to Tennessee, circa 1815, and other aspects of his family's life in antebellum Sumner County, Tenn.; and three deeds, 1800, 1819, and 1820, from Greene County, N.C.
The collection of African American photographer Colvin M. Edwards contains approximately 48000 images from the portrait studio he owned and operated in Charlotte, N.C. A majority of the photographs depict community members of two of Charlotte's oldest historically African American neighborhoods, Beatties Ford and Biddleville, and date from the early 1940s through the late 1960s. Also included are images depicting members of local businesses, churches, groups, and schools.
John Frank Edwards (1921-1976), better known as "Johnny" and "Junior," was a white musician known for his expertise as a jazz drummer in New Orleans, La., playing with bands that included the original Dukes of Dixieland. The collection documents his musical career and Edwards family history and consists of audiovisual materials, scrapbooks, letters, original and copy print photographs, legal and financial records, ephemera, and other papers. Included are letters written from Jefferson County, Miss., Meridian, Miss., and Delta, La.; letters written during the Great Depression; letters from Edwards to family in New Orleans, La., while he served as a musician with the band of the 67th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division in the U.S. Army during World War II; an 1896 sharecropper agreement with Littleton Henry; account statements from Cohn Bros. in Lorman, Miss.; clippings about Harold Cooper, who played jazz clarinet with the Dukes of Dixieland; family history materials; detailed notes from family members that provide collection context; annotated LP covers; family and publicity photographs; and a scrapbook, 1930s-1940s, of photographs and letters of Libby Edwards. The collection also contains audiovisual materials, including audio recordings of music by Johnny "Junior" Edwards, Harold Cooper, and others, as well as video recordings documenting a reunion of descendants of the Jersey Settlers of Adams County, Miss.
John Edwards (1932-1960) of Sydney, Australia, was one of the first collectors of early American country music and a pioneering discographer of this music. Edwards's collection of about 2,500 rare records and tapes is now housed in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The collection contains legal opinions, 1783, by Samuel Johnston and James Iredell of North Carolina on a lawsuit concerning the settlement of Mador Edwards's estate.
The collection of North Carolina bluegrass musical artist Tommy Edwards (1945-2021) contains audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, posters, flyers, calendars, clippings from publications, project files, song folios, unpublished and incomplete song lyrics written by hand, set lists for performances, and other papers. Most collection materials are dated between 1960 and 2021, reflecting Edwards's career as a traditional bluegrass musician, songwriter, performer, and recording artist. Formats of recordings made by Edwards include VHS, compact disc, open-reel audio tape, ADAT multitrack tape, and LPs. Formats of unpublished recordings made by others and collected by Edwards include instantaneous acetate discs and a 16-inch radio transcription disc. Of note in the printed materials is a rare song folio from the 1930s that Edwards collected. The folio highlights bluegrass and early country music artists including Wade Mainer, Zeke Mainer, and the Delmore Brothers, who played live on the Raleigh, N.C., radio station with the call letters WPTF. Photographs and other printed materials, including posters and flyers, document performances of the Tommy Edwards Bluegrass Experience at music venues in Chapel Hill, N.C., especially the Cat's Cradle, in the 1970s. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (1788-1868) of Northampton County, N.C., was a planter; member of Congress, 1815-1827; North Carolina state senator, 1833-1834 and 1850-1852; and active secessionist.
The collection of James P. Egerton of Mills Springs, N.C., is an undated recording (circa 1965) on open-reel audiotape of the 75th Christian Harmony Singing at the Morning Star Methodist Church in Canton, N.C. is a shape note hymn book originally published in the mid-nineteenth century. Singers in the congregation of the Morning Star Methodist Church sing from the hymnal every year on Old Folks Day, the second Sunday in September. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Roach and Eggleston families lived in Woodville, Wilkinson County, and Vicksburg, Miss. Prominent family members included Elizabeth Gildart Eggleston (d. 1895), a member of the Confederate Cemetary Association of Vicksburg; her daughter, Mahala P. H. Roach (1825-1905); and Mahala's husband, James P. Roach (d. 1860), a banker in the firm of Wirt Adams & Co. The 49-volume diary of Mahala P. H. Roach, 1853-1860, 1862, and 1866-1905, comprises the bulk of this collection. Mahala wrote about household chores; her family, including disciplining her children and conflicts with her mother; and neighbors and friends, especially focusing on social activities in Vicksburg. Mahala also described nursing she did during epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and other sicknesses in Vicksburg. A three-volume diary of James P. Roach, 1858-1860, is also included. Roach, a banker, wrote about banking, civic, and political affairs in Vicksburg. James and Mahala both noted visits from Jefferson and Joseph Emory Davis. Also included are correspondence, financial and legal items, scrapbooks and commonplace books, and miscellaneous diaries of other members of the Roach, Gildart, and Eggleston families. One of these diaries discusses the 1864 banishment from Vicksburg of Elizabeth Gildart Eggleston, who appears to have been running a hospital in the city.
John Marsden Ehle Jr., white author of novels and works of non-fiction, was born in Asheville, N.C., and has lived most of his adult life in Winston-Salem. He served as special assistant to North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, 1963-1964, and has been instrumental in establishing and furthering many significant educational, desegregation, and anti-poverty projects. He is married to British actress Rosemary Harris.
Businessman Joseph Ehrlich married Rebecca Smolensky in 1897. Ehrlich owned dry goods businesses in Milledgeville and Manassas, Ga. Rebecca's parents remained in Bialystok, Poland, but corresponded with Rebecca, her sister Minnie, and her brother-in-law Louis, who owned a dry goods businesses in Swainsboro and Savannah, Ga. Frances Ehrlich, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca, married Morris Rabhan (b. 1896) of Savannah, Ga.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born physicist.
In 1948, Alfonso Elder became the second president of the North Carolina College for Negroes (renamed the North Carolina College at Durham in 1947 and North Carolina Central University in 1969). He served in that position until his retirement in 1963.
The collection is a small notebook containing lists, by North Carolina county, of delegates and alternates. The lists appear to pertain to a convention of the North Carolina Democratic Party, circa 1912.
Jane G. Eliason of Statesville, N.C., was an art teacher and painter. In the late 1940s, she studied at the Art Students League in New York City, N.Y. Eliason began teaching in Ridgewood, N.J., and taking weekend art classes at the Art Students League. During the summer of 1951, Eliason traveled to France in order to study at the Ecoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainbleau. In 1961, Eliason took a cruise to the Caribbean and a long tour from Portugal to Afghanistan in 1963.
Henry Ware Eliot Jr. was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T.S. Eliot, and the collector of the nucleus of the Eliot Collection at Harvard University.
Miscellaneous items of Jonathan Eliot and others, including a slave bill of sale, 1799; a diploma from the University of North Carolina, 1817, issued to John Eliot; a tax receipt, 1876, for J. G. Elliott; and a large tintype of Jonathan Ghost Eliot (d. 1881), master of Smith's Chapel Academy, near Mount Olive, N.C.
The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society was formed on 20 September 1883 under the leadership of Francis P. Venable and University of North Carolina President Kemp P. Battle. Composed of faculty, staff, and alumni of the university's science and mathematics departments, the society was organized to commemorate the name and contributions of Elisha Mitchell by fostering scientific research and disseminating scientific knowledge. The primary means of reaching these ends was the publication of the annual Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. In 1983, publication of the journal passed to the North Carolina Academy of Science and the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society dissolved. Records of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society include administrative files and files of the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. The administrative files contain material on the routine activities and operation of the society. Included are correspondence of the officers, treasurers' records, minutes of the society's meetings, membership rolls, and other items. The records of the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society contain material on the organization, content, and finances of the journal, including correspondence with contributors.
Elizabeth City Buggy Company of Elizabeth City, N.C., apparently started in 1899 and acted as an agent for Hackney and Chase City Wagons and American Field and Hog Fencing and also manufactured buggies and phaetons.
Elizafield Plantation on the Altamaha River in Glynn County, Ga., was owned by the white Grant family, coming into possession of Hugh Fraser Grant (1811-1873) in 1833. The collection is Grant's 287-page plantation journal, with entries 1838 dating from to 1861 (chiefly 1838-1858). Lists of names of enslaved people who worked on the plantation are included, including births and those infected by measles in 1852. Journal entries include other records relating to enslaved people, information about planting and farming, accounts with factors, tax return information, miscellaneous crop records, and a few notes on family activities.
MICROFILM ONLY. The Primitive Baptist church at Elk Creek is located near Sparta, Alleghany County, N.C. The church dates at least from 1839, the date of the earliest entry in these records. The church remained active as of 1983. One volume of minutes of monthly church meetings and lists of members and their status in the church, 1839-1890. The minutes include records of the business of church meetings and the names of preachers and other church officials. The volume also includes a lengthy obituary and the text of a hymn, circa 1874, concerning the Reverend Enoch Reeves, one of the first preachers of the Elk Creek Church. Three petitions, 1873 and 1877, from other congregations to the Elk Creek Church were inserted in the volume.
The collection includes business papers of the Ellett family of Hanover County, Va., chiefly of Robert Ellett, merchant during the mid-19th century. Papers, chiefly 1840-1867, are mostly bills, receipts, and promissory notes, but include some orders and notes concerning timber, meal, loans, and debts.
Alexander Elliot, lumberman of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., who also served as a colonel in the militia, was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons, 1824-1825, and the North Carolina Senate, 1826.
Charles Darwin Elliot was born in Foxboro, Mass., in 1837. He studied civil engineering and served as assistant topographical engineer with the 19th Army Corps, Department of the Gulf, 1862-1864. Prior to his Civil War service, he worked as a civil engineer in the greater Boston area. He and his wife, Emily Jane (Hyer) Elliot, lived in Massachusetts after the war, probably settling in Somerville.
Jane Evans Elliot was a diarist in Fayetteville, N.C., during the 19th century. Her husband was Alexander Elliot, a lumberman who served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1824-1825, and the North Carolina Senate, 1826. He was a colonel in the militia and active in the Civil War.
John Elliot was a resident of Harnett County, N.C. Other members of his famiy included his wife Isabella, daughter Anne Eliza, and son William H. Elliot.
The collection documents the Eliot and Gonzalez families, who were white plantation-owning families in Beaufort and Colleton districts, South Carolina, and on the Ogeechee River in Georgia, as well as people who were enslaved by them. Family plantations included Balls in St. Bartholomew Parish; Social Hall, the Bluff, and Middle Place near the Ashepoo River and Chehaw Creek; Pon Pon, later called Oak Lawn on the Edisto River; Myrtle Bank plantation on Hilton Head Island; Bee Hive and Hope tracts on the Edisto River; Ellis, Shell Point, The Grove, and Bay Point plantations in Beaufort District; Farniente, a mountain house in Flat Rock, North Carolina; and houses in Beaufort and Adams Run. Enslaved people are represented in bills of sale and lists of enslaved people. There are also a few letters written by enslaved people and several more about them, especially their labor and acts of resistance to slavery, from the perspective of white family members. Other correspondence of white family members before the American Civil War discusses South Carolina politics; sectional differences; travels to Saratoga Springs and other health resorts, the northern states, and Europe; plantation management; rice and cotton crops; the education of children; and summer at Flat Rock, N.C.; and various family matters. Their correspondence during the war years discusses the lives of civilians and soldiers in South Carolina and in western North Carolina. Their post-war correspondence reveals the Elliott's financial difficulties and efforts to rebuild their plantations when they could no longer exploit forced labor; their struggles to educate the Gonzáles children; time spent in Havana, Cuba; and work as telegraphers and journalists. It also documents the early years of The State, a newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina, that was started by two family members. Materials include correspondence of adults and children, financial and legal papers, account books, maps and plats, a few writings of William Elliott and others, and a small amount of other material.
The Gregorie family, rice and cotton planters of Beaufort County, S.C., descended from James Gregorie (1740-1807) who came to America in 1750 and married Ann Ross. Their son, Alexander Frazier Gregorie (d. 1849), married Esther Hutson in 1798 and then Sarah McCarthy in 1813. James Gregorie (1798-1874), a son of Alexander Frazier Gregorie, married Martha McPherson in 1823. Their daughter Elizabeth (b. 1829) married William Waight Elliott (1831-1884) of Port Royal, S.C., in 1854. The collection consists of business and personal papers, 1742-1918, of the Gregorie and Elliott families in Beaufort County, S.C. Included are the papers of Alexander Frazier Gregorie, mainly concerning estate settlements and South Carolina and Georgia land, and extensive business correspondence relating to rice and cotton sales, 1844-1874, of James Gregorie, especially with his cousin John Colcock, a factor in Charleston, S.C. There are a few slave records, including bills of sale of slaves from the 1850s and 1860s, and a letter reporting on the condition of Gregorie's slaves and plantation affairs in Mississippi and South Carolina. Papers from the Civil War period concern business. Postwar correspondence with businessmen in Charleston and with northern mortgage-holders reflects the economic uncertainties and political turbulence of the times. There is some personal correspondence throughout, and many business letters include personal information. Also included are business and genealogical papers of Elizabeth Gregorie Elliott and William Waight Elliott. Family history materials relate chiefly to the Gregorie, McPherson, Woodward, De Treville, and Elliott families.
Chiefly letters from John Barnwell Elliott (1841-1921) while a Confederate soldier on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, in Charleston, in Paris after the Civil War, and as a professor and physician at the University of the South, 1870-1885, written to his brother, Habersham, his father, Bishop Stephen Elliott of Georgia, and other relatives (21 original items, 3 typed transcriptions). Also included are papers (on microfilm) of J. B. Elliott's mother-in-law, Mary Esther (Huger) Huger (b. 1820), daughter of Francis Kinloch Huger, including her reminiscences, written 1890-1892, of her early life at Pendleton and Charleston, S.C.; a plantation record book, 1858-1863; and her essays on slavery and the causes of the Civil War; and a memoir of the Prioleau family of Charleston, S.C. Scattered other family correspondence and letters to J. B. Elliott from prominent persons is included.
Lucy Ann Hill Elliott (1840-1924) of Brooklyn, N.Y., was born near Scotland Neck, N.C., to Whitmel J. and Lavinia Barnes Hill. She had five siblings, one of whom was Thomas Norfleet Hill (1838-1904).
Percy T. Elliott was an electrician and electrical contractor of Norfolk, Va., and Durham, N.C.
Sarah Barnwell Elliott, daughter of Charlotte Bull Barnwell and Stephen Elliott, was a novelist, playwright, and suffragist of Sewanee, Tenn.
Stephen Elliott was an Episcopal bishop of Georgia (1840; and provisional bishop of Florida (1844). He died at Savannah, Ga., 1866.
Mrs. A. J. Ellis (Kezia Katherine Clements Ellis) was a member of the Johnston Pettigrew chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Raleigh, N.C.
John Willis Ellis of Salisbury, N.C., was a white lawyer, Democratic Party leader, and governor of North Carolina, 1858-1861. The collection consists of personal, professional, and official correspondence; a brief personal diary, October 1860-February 1861; and other papers, including notes and speeches on internal improvements, and volumes, 1844-1861, containing manuscript notes and clippings of materials used in campaigns for the North Carolina state legislature and for governor. Also of note are a series of letters, 1853-1858, from Philo White, United States minister in Ecuador, discussing social life in Ecuador and diplomatic relations with the United States; correspondence pertaining to Secession and the beginning of the American Civil War; and letters relating to the reburial of Francis Nash. Materials related to Ellis's extended family include bills of sale for people enslaved by Josephine Hyer Knowles and Peter Knowles, the in-laws of his daughter Mary Ellis Knowles, and the 20th-century papers of his grandson, John Ellis Knowles of Connecticut, concerning a biography of Ellis. A small part of the collection consists of microfilm, photoprints, and manuscript copies of manuscripts in other repositories, gathered by Noble J. Tolbert for The Papers of John Willis Ellis (Raleigh, 1964).
Zaccheus Ellis (died 19 March 1865) of Wilmington, N.C., was a lieutenant with Company B, 1st Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery, stationed at the entrance of the Cape Fear River. He was killed in action at Bentonville, N.C.
The Henry Alderson Ellison Papers document people enslaved by Ellison, a white farmer in Baldwin County, Ala. A notebook contains lists of enslaved people in 1848 and 1858-1860 and records of their labor being hired out. Also included is an 1864 letter from Abram M. Allen, who had been enslaved by Ellison but manumitted before the American Civil War. Allen wrote from Washington, N.C., to Eliza Tripp Ellison, the widow of Henry Alderson Ellison, at Wilson, N.C., where she had taken refuge during the war, in which he informed her of his whereabouts and offered hope for the future. Other papers include an 1867 letter to Eliza, now living near Mobile, Ala., from Edward Stanly (1810-1872), a California politician who had been U.S. representative from North Carolina, describing conditions in California and evaluating prospects there for southerners; and five invitations to social functions in Beaufort County, N.C., 1877-1880 and undated, sent to Ellison and Bonner family member.
Collection contains black and white photographic prints given to white historian, Elmer D. Johnson by a student leaving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to serve in World War II. Johnson was a student at the University of North Carolina at different times between 1936 and 1951. The images were compiled in a small leather album and depict the UNC campus between 1940and 1942. Included are images depicting interior and exterior views of the Louis Round Wilson Library; the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower; South Building; Emerson Playing Field; and student, Paul Hayes, in a dorm room of Pettigrew Hall.
Roswell Elmer was the editor of the North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser, a weekly newspaper published in Rutherfordton, N.C., 1830-1835 or 1836. He moved to Rutherforton from Virginia in 1829.
F. H. Elmore, of Walterboro, Columbia, and Charleston, S.C., was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1836-1839; president of the State Bank of South Carolina, 1839-1850; and U.S. Senator, appointed to succeed John C. Calhoun, from 11 April 1850 until his death on 29 May 1850. He married Harriet Chesnut Taylor (fl. 1819-1865) in 1827.
The collection includes an intermittent diary of Miss Elmore of Columbia, S.C., containing primarily personal and introspective entries except for a detailed account of life and events in the city, September 1864-January 1865, during Union army occupation. Also, small notebooks containing drafts of a novel and other literary materials.
The collection is accounts of receipts and expenditures, 1819-1857 and scattered later dates, of the German Reformed and Lutheran congregations of Emanuels Church, Lincolnton, N.C.
Paul E. Embler (1877-1953) was a member of the Marine Guard that served aboard the U.S.S. Alabama, which began the voyage of the Great White Fleet in 1907, but after sailing around South America, had to remain in San Francisco for repairs. Diary entries, 27 August 1907-5 June 1908, with one entry dated 1913, outline daily ship routines, changes of command, leaves and furloughs, desertion and other offenses, deaths and burials at sea, Embler's health and dreams, ports visited in North and South America, and a race between the Alabama and the Maine.
Isaac Edward Emerson was born in Chatham County, N.C., in 1859. His family moved to Chapel Hill in 1868. Emerson was graduated from the University of North Carolina as a chemist in 1879. He worked out and patented the formula for Bromo-Seltzer, a headache remedy, upon which Emerson's immense wealth was based. Emerson organized the Emerson Drug Company; built the Emerson Hotel; was president of the Citro Chemical Works of America, Maywood N.J.; chair of the American Bromine Company; and controlling owner of the Maryland Glass Corporation. During the Spanish-American War, he led his own naval force, earning the rank of captain. His daughter was Margaret Emerson McKim Vanderbilt Baker Amory, the Vanderbilt being Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who went down with the Lusitania in 1915. Margaret's daughter Gloria Baker was one of the nation's most popular and richest women when she made her 1938 society debut.
Burton Emmett was an advertising copywriter and executive in New York City. He collected woodcuts, prints, engravings, and literary manuscripts, and was president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in the 1920s.
Endor Iron Works and Lockville Mining and Manufacturing Company were located in Chatham County, N.C.
Gertrude Dixon Enfield (died 1969) of Laguna Beach, Calif., was a faculty member of the University of Southern California interested in the Houston family of North Carolina.
The collection contains seven field recordings on open-reel audio tape of old time music performed by Tommy Jarrell of Surry County, N.C., and Albert Hash of Whitetop, Va. According to field notes written by folklorist Dan Patterson, Marilyn Engle and Lex Varela made the recordings in 1974. Engle was a student in Patterson’s folklore class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Mary Claire Engstrom was born in 1906 in Kansas City, Mo., and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to attend the University of North Carolina, earning her Ph.D. in English literature in 1939. After she and her husband, Alfred G. Engstrom, who taught French at the university, purchased the historic Nash-Hooper house in Hillsborough, N.C., she began to focus on the historical documentation of Hillsborough and its environs. She was instrumental in founding the Hillsborough Historical Society in 1963 and served as chair of the Historic Hillsborough Commission, 1964-1966 and 1976-1983. She undertook a project documenting 122 old structures and historic sites in and around Hillsborough and Orange County for the Historic American Buildings Survey, 1963-1965. Her research and documentation helped many of these buildings qualify for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, including the Nash-Hooper House as a National Historic Landmark. She was also involved in a survey of cemeteries and graves in Orange County. Engstrom lived in Hillsborough and continued her historical research until her death in 1997.
Mary Claire Engstrom served as chair of the Historic Hillsborough Commission, Hillsborough, N.C., from 1964 to 1966 and 1976 to 1983.
Abraham Enloe was involved in land transactions, 1792-1812, in Rutherford County, N.C.
Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet are authors who worked with Edward Riley "Eddie" Boyd to write his autobiography, "A Natural Man." Boyd is a noted African American blues pianist. The collection consists mostly of audiocassette interviews conducted with Eddie Boyd in creating his autobiography, transcriptions of these interviews, and correspondence with Boyd and others in regard to the publication of the autobiography. The collection also includes lyrics and discography prepared by Eddie Boyd, audiocassette recordings of Boyd performing songs, and photocopies of the unpublished autobiography, "A Natural Man," including a 1975 copy edited by Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet and a re-edited copy by Leila Hirvonen, wife of Eddie Boyd.
Author David A. Ensminger's collection contains writings, punk rock and alternative culture zines, scattered correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and posters, handbills, and flyers for punk rock, oi, and hardcore music shows in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection also contains audio recordings of interviews that Ensminger conducted with folk and independent rock musicians.
The collection contains a volume containing a handwritten transcription of the constitution and by-laws of the Episcopal Convocation of Edenton, N.C., 1878. Also included, on microfilm, are two more volumes containing intermittent minutes, reports, and other records of district organizations within the Episcopal church in northeastern North Carolina, 1850-1871 (180 pages), and 1880-1900 (294 pages).
In 1974, the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., combined with the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia (PDS) to form the Episcopal Divinity School, located in Cambridge, Mass.
Ralph Deward Epperson,a white radio engineer, founded radio station WPAQ (740 AM) in Mount Airy, N.C. The station began broadcasting in February 1948 and was the first radio station in Surry County, N.C. On the station, Epperson promoted local musicians and the region's traditional bluegrass, old-time, and gospel music. He has been widely credited with contributing to the preservation of the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and Virginia.
Susan Bradford Eppes was an author of Tallahassee, Fla.
Commodore D. Epps enlisted as a private in Company F, 6th Georgia Cavalry Regiment, on 20 June 1862. He saw action at the Battle of Perryville, Ky., 8 October 1862, and at the Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., 18-20 September 1863. Epps died on 15 December 1863 of wounds he received at Chickamauga.
The Wayne Erbsen Collection consists of audiovisual materials and related documentation compiled by white North Carolina based folk musician, Wayne Erbsen. Audiovisual materials consist of audio and video recordings by Erbsen, as well as audio recordings of old-time and bluegrass music collected by Erbsen. The Wayne Erbsen recordings include his album projects, practice tapes, live performances, and air checks of his Country Roots radio show, while Erbsen's collected recordings consist mostly of published or self-published releases by various old-time and bluegrass artists.
John Witherspoon Ervin (1823-1902), a teacher and writer, his wife, Laura Catherine Nelson Ervin, and their six sons and three daughters, lived in Morganton, N.C. Their fifth son, Samuel James Ervin (1855-1944) married Laura Theresa Powe (1865-1956); he became a prominent lawyer in western North Carolina.
Samuel James Ervin, Jr., was a Burke County, N.C., attorney, North Carolina legislator, judge, United States senator, and long-time champion of civil liberties. Ervin was first appointed to the North Carolina General Assembly in 1923, where he also served in 1925 and 1931. After the death of his brother Joseph W. Ervin (1901-1945), Ervin was appointed to the House of Representatives. In 1954, Ervin was appointed to the United States Senate, where he served on the Judiciary Committee, the Rackets Committee (Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor Management), and the Watergate Committee (Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. The Senate Records Subgroup covers Ervin's 20-year career in the United States Senate. Significant series include: Series I, Correspondence, consisting chiefly of letters exchanged by Ervin and his constituents, colleagues, dignitaries, and various federal officials. Recurring subjects include agriculture, the state and federal budgets, civil rights, commerce, education, foreign affairs, foreign aid, labor, railroads, social security, veterans, the Vietnam conflict, and the Watergate controversy; Series 2, Subject Files, containing printed materials, correspondence, and miscellaneous items on topics such as agriculture, crime, defense, education, energy, foreign relations, labor, the national economy, the North Carolina economy, taxes, textiles, and Watergate; and Series 4, Political Campaign Files, including correspondence, names of potential supporters, and financial records documenting Ervin's successful senatorial campaigns. Other significant groups include: Series 8, audio discs and partial transcripts of Ervin's weekly radio program; Series 13, Military Files, consisting primarily of correspondence regarding assistance with military matters, including letters from servicemen and their families concerning discharges, transfers of assignment, combat duty, and medical treatment of veterans; Series 14, Prisoners Files, consisting of correspondence with prisoners in North Carolina prisons and prisoners with North Carolina connections serving time in federal prisons, concerning parole, transfers, medical treatment, appeals, and prison conditions; and Series 15, containing Audiovisual materials including films and video tapes of interviews conducted in conjunction with the PBS documentary, Senator Sam.
Samuel James Ervin, Jr., was a Burke County, N.C., attorney, North Carolina legislator, judge, United States senator, and long-time champion of civil liberties. Ervin was first appointed to the North Carolina General Assembly in 1923, where he also served in 1925 and 1931. After the death of his brother Joseph W. Ervin (1901-1945), Ervin was appointed to the House of Representatives. In 1954, Ervin was appointed to the United States Senate, where he served on the Judiciary Committee, the Rackets Committee (Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor Management), and the Watergate Committee (Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. The Private Papers Subgroup contains letters, subject files, financial material, and writings chiefly of Ervin and his wife Margaret. The bulk of the material is dated after his Senate appointment in 1954. Earlier items include letters from Ervin while he was stationed in France during World War I, 1917-1919; collegiate material from the University of North Carolina, 1913-1917, and Harvard University Law School, 1919-1922; and letters relating to Ervin's judicial appointments, 1930s-1954. Post-1954 items include letters from colleagues, family members, and others; subject files documenting his chief interests, including constitutional law, Watergate, the Equal Rights Amendment, and school desegregation; and speeches, articles, and books by and about Ervin. Also included are Ervin family history materials; biographical materials; items relating to the estates of Ervin family members; photographs of Ervin; films, videos, and audio tapes he recorded; and items relating to trips the Ervins made and to organizations in which they were active, especially the North Carolina Society of Washington, D.C.
Lawyer, banker, newspaper editor, and industrialist William Carson Ervin (1860?-1943) attended the University of North Carolina, 1879-1880, where he studied law. He was a practicing attorney in the firm of Avery and Ervin in Morganton, N.C., and was a director and trust officer of the First National Bank of Morganton. Ervin served as mayor of Lenoir, N.C., 1888-1889, and as editor of the Lenoir Topic and the Morganton Mountaineer-Herald, 1890-1896. He helped found the Waldensian colony in the 1890s, organized Catawba Valley Light Company, and was attorney for or director of many businesses and industrial enterprises in Burke County and western North Carolina. Ervin was also an active Democrat.
William Ethelbert Ervin was a cotton planter of Lowndes County, Miss.
Erwin Cotton Mills Number 2 began operation in 1904 on a site on the Cape Fear River in Harnett County, N.C. The mill was owned by the Erwin Cotton Mill Company of Durham, N.C. The town that grew up around the mill was originally named Duke after the Duke family members who were prominent stakeholders in the Erwin Cotton Mill Company. In 1926, the town's name was changed to Erwin. Burlington Industries purchased Erwin Cotton Mills in 1962. In 1987, Burlington Industries was purchased by Swift Textiles, Inc., of Columbus, Ga. Erwin Cotton Mills in Erwin, N.C., closed in 2000.
George Phifer Erwin, son of Edward Jones (1806-1871) and Elizabeth Ann Phifer Erwin (1814-1890) of Morganton, N.C., was a Confederate officer, accountant, and bank president of Burke County, N.C. Family letters; promissory notes; bills and receipts; deeds for land and slaves; wills; and business, legal, and estate papers of George Phifer Erwin and other members of the Erwin and Avery families of Burke County. Family correspondence consists of several letters to Erwin's father-in-law William Waightstill Avery (1816-1864), including a few from Isaac Thomas Avery, William's father, concerning the use of slave labor in North Carolina and California gold mines, 1852. There are also letters in the 1850s to Erwin while a student at Davidson College from his parents and other relatives and friends with family, local, and political news, 1857-1861. There are also Civil War letters of Erwin describing his experiences as a Confederate staff officer in Virginia and North Carolina, 1861-1863, and in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, 1863-1865, particularly at the battles of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Later items include records of relatives' estates, including that of Erwin's mother.
The collection is a scrapbook consisting of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, 1846-1849, pasted in an account book, with entries from 1835. The book is inscribed Rev. A. R. Erwin, Clarksville, Tenn. and Joseph Erwin, Nashville, Tenn.
MICROFILM ONLY. Accounts of Erwin, general merchant at Morganton, N.C., with individual customers, showing items purchased and prices.
Joseph Espey (fl. 1861-1867) was a resident of Texas Valley, Floyd County, Ga. His wife was Jane Espey. The collection includes letters between Joseph and Jane Espey and their children, and from relatives in Cherokee County, Ala., and Van Buren County, Ark. Letters from sons in the Confederate Army include those of James H. Espey (died 1862), stationed near Savannah, Ga., and Joseph S. Espey, a member of Company D, 65th Georgia Volunteers stationed mainly in Tennessee and Georgia, who was frequently ill and wrote of the medical care he received. Also included are letters from Lieutenant F. T. Griffin, a family friend who served with Joseph Junior Letters written from Floyd County concern agriculture, health, and the welfare of family and friends, and the presence of federal troops in Cherokee County, Ala., and northern Georgia in 1864.
George Hyndman Esser Jr. was born in Norton, Va., in 1922. Esser was a life-long civil rights advocate and crusader against poverty who led the North Carolina Fund under Governor Terry Sanford in the 1960s. He was also a professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1948-1963; executive director of the North Carolina Fund, 1963-1969; program officer for the South for the Ford Foundation; 1969-1972; and executive director of the Southern Regional Council, 1972-1976. He died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2006.
Audio recordings created and compiled by Steven William Esthimer, a white teacher and musician, when he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel. Materials consist of an audio recording, 1972, of children performing children's rhymes and songs that they used regularly at their school, Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C.; an audio recording, 1972, of songs composed and performed by Rev. Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013), a white Baptist minister and civil rights activist from Mississippi, at the Carolina Symposium at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a recording, undated, of Steven William Esthimer's grandfather performing tunes and ballads from Virginia. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including collection cover sheets prepared by former library staff and a handwritten note about the collector and songs.
The congressional papers of Bob Etheridge, a white politician from Sampson and Harnett counties, N.C., comprise the bulk of the collection. Etheridge served seven terms in the United States House of Representatives for North Carolina's second congressional district from 1997 through 2010. Other collection materials pertain chiefly to Etheridge's two terms as the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction and include education files for each North Carolina county. Congressional papers include correspondence; printed items such as House resolutions and congressional reports; newspaper clippings; policy papers; transcripts of congressional hearings; talking points for public speaking engagements; and materials related to House committees on which Etheridge served. The breadth of topics in the congressional papers is extensive, covering both foreign and domestic policy and reflecting the political climate of post Cold War America during the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barak Obama. The collection does not contain much, if any, campaign or election materials.
Mark F. Ethridge was a journalist of Louisville, Ky.
Willie Snow Ethridge (1900-1982) was a columnist, author of volumes of humorous reminiscences and other works, recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Kentucky and Mercer University, resident of Chatham County, N.C., in the 1960s and 1970s, and wife of Mark Foster Ethridge, editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1942-1962.
The collection includes a letter, 1874, from Charles Jones Jenkins (1805-1883), governor of Georgia, 1865-1868, to Henry Eubank (fl. 1874) concerning the importance of collecting documentation of the Civil War and his hopes for reconciliation between the North and the South, and a letter about Henry Eubank.
Augustus Coutanche Evans was a physician sent to Europe by the Confederacy to procure drugs and medicines during the Civil War.
Chesley D. Evans served as a member of the secession convention in Charleston, S.C.
DeLancey Evans (1858-1934) of Warrenton, Va., was a statistician for the United States Department of Agriculture.
Writer Eli N. Evans was born and raised in Durham, N.C., the son of E.J. Evans, mayor of Durham, 1950-1962, and Sarah Nachamson Evans. Eli Evans served as senior program director of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a national educational foundation, 1967-1977. In 1977, Evans joined the Charles H. Revson Foundation as president and retired in 2003. The Revson Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of organizations, including those involved in urban affairs, education, and Jewish philanthropy.
Elizabeth Evans was born in 1935 and grew up in Statesville, N.C. She received her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970 and subsequently taught literature at Georgia Institute of Technology. She authored books on various writers, including Eudora Welty (1981), May Sarton (1989), Anne Tyler (1993), and Doris Betts (1997). The papers of Elizabeth Evans are letters and other materials relating to prominent women writers, including Doris Betts, Josephine Jacobsen, Maxine Kumin, Sally Fitzgerald, May Sarton, Anne Tyler, and Cecil Dawkins. There are also letters from Anne Tyler's mother, Phyllis Mahon Tyler. Letters from Doris Betts cover a wide variety of subjects. They include critical comment and advice on Evans's literary efforts, as well as discussion about day-to-day obligations of professional writers and news of mutual friends. Also included are drafts of articles about Betts, draft material from Evans's book about Betts, and correspondence with others about Betts; interviews Evans conducted with Betts; and correspondence of Betts with others, including Penelope Presley, a high school student to whom Betts wrote about creative writing. Letters from Josephine Jacobsen and her husband, Eric Jacobsen, relate mostly to personal matters. Letters from Anne Tyler discuss both personal matters and topics relating to Evans's book about Tyler's work. Also included are Anne Tyler's baby book and childhood diary (photocopies). Letters from Phyllis Mahon Tyler also primarily relate to Evans's Tyler book. Letters from Maxine Kumin, Sally Fitzgerald, and Cecil Dawkins deal mostly with aspects of each author's career and professional development, but there is also information about their everyday activities. May Sarton letters relate primarily to Evans's book on Sarton's work. Also included are manuscripts, clippings, and photographs relating to Evans's correspondents.
James Evans was a farmer, merchant, and county commissioner of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C. Evans married Martha Henriette Knight of Hamburg, S.C., in 1839.
Joshua Evans was a Quaker minister from New Jersey.
Richard Everard was the last governor of North Carolina under proprietary rule, serving 1725-1731.
Edward Everett (1794-1865) of Massachusetts was a Unitarian minister; professor of Greek at Harvard University; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1825-1835; governor of Massachusetts, 1836-1840; United States minister to Great Britain, 1841-1845; president of Harvard, 1846-1849; United States secretary of state, 1852-1853; and United States senator, 1853-1854. The collection includes letters from Everett to various persons concerning speaking engagements, articles, and other matters and two photographs of Everett.
Kathrine R. Everett (1893-1992) and R. O. Everett (1879-1971), were husband and wife lawyers who shared a practice in Durham, N.C. Kathrine R. Everett, who served on the Durham City Council, 1951-1971, received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina Law School in 1920 and was the first woman to win a case before the N.C. Supreme Court. In 1926, she married R. O. Everett, attorney, state legislator, and civic and cultural leader, who was a law student in the first class at Trinity College and became the first Durham city attorney. He served five terms in the state House of Representatives, 1921-1933. Their son, Robinson O. Everett (1928- ), Duke University law professor and judge in the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, joined them in the firm of Everett, Everett and Everett, 1956-1968. In 1954, the three were the first father, mother, and son to be admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ancram W. Ezzell (b. 1837) was a dry-goods merchant of Duplin County, N.C., and captain in the Confederate Army. Ezzell enlisted in the North Carolina State Troops in July 1861, and helped recruit the Lenoir Braves, an independent artillery group that was captured at Fort Hatteras in August 1861 and, while imprisoned, was assigned as Company K to the 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment. When paroled for exchange in February 1862, the company reorganized as Company A, 40th North Carolina Artillery Regiment. Ezzell became captain in October 1862. After the Civil War, he returned to Duplin County to operate a dry goods business. The collection is comprised of 40 enlistment forms, July-August 1861, and a volume, 1861-1865, 1873, 1876-1879, documenting the enlistment, service, daily operations, and command of Ezzell's company and his postwar business activities. Enlistment forms provide biographical information and a physical description of each soldier; volume entries record soldiers' pay, furloughs, transfers, absences, desertions, casualties, and deaths. The volume also contains more than 50 orders, October 1864-January 1865, relating to the company's command while stationed at Fort Fisher, N.C., just prior to the fort's capture by Union forces, and ordnance reports for Fort Campbell, Fort Lee, Fort Davis, and Fort Meares. Postwar accounts are for groceries and dry goods. There are also medical receipts, a sharecropping agreement, and an undated speech by Ezzell to the voters of Duplin County.

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The Planning Library at the University of North Carolina was established to serve the research needs of students and faculty in the Department of City and Regional Planning, which was founded in 1946. It was administered as a departmental library, with part of its support coming from the department and part from the University Library. The Planning Library was later named in honor of F. Stuart Chapin, Jr., who was a member of the faculty of the Department of City and Regional Planning, 1949-1978. As of 12 July 2010, the F. Stuart Chapin, Jr. Planning Library closed, and its staff and collections were moved to the Walter Royal Davis Library.
Contains records and published materials from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's FPG Child Development Institute. Materials pertain to institute administration and outputs from research projects, including strategic reviews, annual reports and highlights, grant files, and anniversary materials. Topics include early childhood education, public health research, university history, university research centers, and education policy in North Carolina. Some materials in this collection represent the institute's research and resources related to inclusion and equity for children with special needs, as well as some resources on diversity in early childhood care settings.
The collection of Italian linguist, Ernesto G. Fabbri (1874-1943), consists of a photographic album dated 1906 and a letter from Fabbri to a friend. The photographic album contains black-and-white prints that depict the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., including the Biltmore house and gardens, Biltmore Farm, and Antler Hill Village. Also depicted are unidentified white individuals believed to be members of the Vanderbilt family who owned the estate.
Audio interviews conducted by Geneviève Fabre with French-speaking individuals living in North America. The interviews were conducted in French by Fabre, who made the recordings in Louisiana and the Maritime Provinces from 1980-1983.
Billy Faier of Woodstock, N.Y., taught himself to play the five-string banjo and was later involved in the folk music revival as a performer, songwriter, observer, writer, and radio disc jockey. Faier was a prominent member of New York City's Washington Square folk scene in the late 1940s and of the folk music scene on both coasts during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection documents the personal and professional activities of Billy Faier. There are also more general materials collected and generated by Faier about the folk music revival, the counter-culture movement, and other interests. Included are correspondence, writings, artwork, and other materials relating to Faier's work with Pete Seeger; song writing and theatrical performances; music; Woodstock, N.Y.; juggling; games; bicycling; hitchhiking; and alternative lifestyles in general. Audio recordings include live and studio performances of Faier and other musicians; interviews with Aunt Molly Jackson and Frank and Ann Warner; recordings of Faier's radio shows; documentation of social and political events; and dubs from old records.
Fairley, McIver, and Roberson family members included Presbyterian minister David Fairley (1831-1912) and his wife Janie Euphemia McIver Fairley (1839-1927). The couple was married in 1861 and lived in Manchester, Cumberland County, N.C. Janie McIver Fairley was born in Duplin County, N.C., and was the daughter of Rev. Alexander McIver (1801- 1839) and Catherine Wright McIver, who, after Alexander's death, married Duncan Murchison. Catherine was the daughter of Isaac and Jane Gillespie Wright. David and Janie Fairley's children included Rev. Watson M. Fairley (1873-1955) and Janie McIver Fairley (1877-1961) of Tarboro, N.C., who married Edward Leon Roberson (1876-1910), merchant of Tarboro. Their children were David Fairley Roberson (1906-1910) and Edward Leon Roberson (1909-1987), surgeon, who married Mary Agnes Marks (1916-1990) in 1947. Edward and Mary were the parents of Isabel, Edward Leon III, and Katherine.
Henry W. (Henry William) Faison (1823-1885) was a physician and cotton farmer of Duplin County, N.C. The collection contains chiefly cotton accounts of Faison with merchants in Wilmington, N.C., and bills, receipts and other business items, as well as estate papers, of Faison and his Faison, Williams, Hicks, and other relatives in Duplin and Sampson counties, N.C. There are a few items relating to slaves and a few concerning Faison's medical practice. Also included are Faison family letters and personal correspondence of members of the Faison family, especially of Winifred Faison, 1892-1937. Many of the family letters concern school and college experiences in the 1870s and 1880s at the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Va., and other schools. In addition, there is a series of papers, 1809-1884, relating to Buckner Lanier Hill (1800-1860) of Duplin County and his relatives; the connection of Hill to the Faisons is not clear. These papers consist chiefly of financial and legal items, especially estate papers; some relate to illegitimacy.
Samson Lane Faison (1860-1940) was an officer in the United States Army. The collection includes military communications, 1918-1919, from Faison while a brigadier general in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, other World War I items relating to Faison, and a personal letter, 20 August 1937, from General John Joseph Pershing.
MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters of Faison of Sampson County, N.C., an officer in 61st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, including letters from him about fighting and other military activities, and to him in 1864 from members of his regiment while he was recovering from a wound; and letters of Betty Peden Faison and other members of the Peden and Faison families. One letter, 1868, describes difficult economic and social conditions in Texas. Also included are a few papers 1883 and 1888 of the Sampson County, N.C., militia.
Chiefly Civil War correspondence of Fales, a federal soldier with the 42nd Massachusetts Infantry. Most items are letters received by Fales from his relatives in Massachusetts, discussing attitudes toward the war and slavery, and business conditions in Massachusetts. Also included are letters from Fales, written near New Orleans, La., with comments on blacks, local conditions, and army life.
Fall Creek Baptist Church, in extreme southwest Chatham County, N.C., was established in 1799. It was a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association.
Henry Eustace McCulloh was a royal official and large landholder in North Carolina; Edmund Fanning was a lawyer and colonial official in Hillsborough, N.C. Henry Eustace McCulloh served as his father's agent and as attorney for G. A. Selwyn, both owners of large tracts of land in North Carolina.
The collection is an album of photographs by J. W. Farley of people and places in Hinton, W. Va.
The collection includes a volume of farm records from Terrell County, Ga., 1889-1905, with short entries on farm activities; and an unrelated volume from Princess Anne County, Va., 1821, recording farm work, inventories of household furnishings, tools, livestock, purchases, and other memoranda.
A. P. (Alexander Pericles) Farnsley (1832-1896) of Fernlea, Jefferson County, Ky., was married to Mary E. E. Thurman of Louisville, Ky. The collection includes copies of eleven letters and notes of courtship from Farnsley to Mary E. E. Thurman before their marriage.
The collection is a letter from Edgar Howard Farrar, a New Orleans, La., lawyer, asking the governor to commute the death sentence of the murderer of his son.
The collection of white photographer and businessman, Charles Anderson Farrell (1894-1977), consists of black-and-white negatives, black-and-white photographic prints, and slight manuscript material. The images relate to Farrell’s photography work with three books published by the University of North Carolina Press: Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), about a young African American boy and his family; Bernice Kelly Harris's Dramatis Personae: Photographic Studies: Eastern Carolina Folk Plays (1940); and Aubrey Lee Brook's Walter Clark: Fighting Judge (1944), about the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1903-1924. Also included are images of the first public performance of the Lost Colony outdoor drama in Manteo, N.C. on 4 July 1937, some of which include offensive scenes of white actors portraying Indigenous people of the Croatan tribe.
Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, North Carolina, and in 1923 moved to Greensboro where he became the first professional photographer of the Greensboro Daily News. In the 1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro. Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1977.
Thomas Faucett (fl. 1841-1859) was a blacksmith of Hillsborough, N.C.
The collection contains four audio cassettes with interviews of six women over the age of sixty living in or near Fayetteville, N.C. Carolyn Caine Faulk, an educator and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumna from Fayetteville, conducted these interviews in the spring of 1976 for a folklore class at UNC. Interviewees are Alda Belle Melvin, Lucy Rice, Lila Sessions, Erma Caine, Mrs. B.A. Miller, and Ethel Dunn. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Rhoda K. Faust owned and operated Maple Street Bookshop and Faust Publishing, both of New Orleans, La. Around 1979, Faust befriended Thelma Toole, mother of author John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969). They, with help from author Walker Percy, succeeded in convincing the Louisiana State University Press to publish John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces in 1980. Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel in 1981, eleven years after he had committed suicide. Toole's first novel was was The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16. According to Rhoda K. Faust, Thelma Toole loaned Faust the manuscript of this earlier work and granted her permission to publish it. Sometime around 1980, Thelma Toole demanded the return of the manuscript and denied having given Faust permission to publish it. Faust filed suit claiming that Toole had entered into a verbal contract with her. Courts in Louisiana failed to recognize the validity of the verbal contract.
The collection consists of unrelated records from Fayetteville, N.C., including a library record, 1844-1877, of Cross Creek Lodge, Odd Fellows; two 19th-century daybooks for general merchandise; an 18th-century general account book; a physician's ledger, chiefly 1863-1867; a ledger of Thomas H. Sutton, attorney, 1879-1903; and a 1953 pen-and-ink drawing of the State House in Fayetteville made from an 1814 wood engraving.
The collection contains records of the Fayetteville Gas Light Company, Fayetteville, N.C., including minutes of stockholders' meetings, subscribers to stock, and miscellaneous accounts.
The collection includes minutes, 1899-1915, of the local board of insurance agents of Fayetteville, N.C., and miscellaneous completed policies, 1859-1883.
The colleciton includes records of mail routes and subscribers in various places in North Carolina to the Observer, a Fayetteville, N.C., newspaper.
The Fayetteville and Florence Railroad Company was apparently chartered in 1862 to operate in North Carolina and South Carolina.
MICROFILM ONLY. Minutes of monthly meetings, resolutions, by-laws, and financial records of the Board of Directors of a stock company organized to build and operate a farm-to-market road north of Fayetteville, N.C., and to operate the Clarendon bridge on a toll basis.
Callender Irving Fayssoux of Louisiana was an officer in the Texas Republic navy.
The collection includes merchants' records of members of the Fearing family of Elizabeth City, N.C., including ledgers, 1824-1827 and 1856-1861, and a daybook, 1878, for general merchandise; and a lettercopy book, 1847-1850, of A. C. Toms, commission merchant and forwarding agent dealing in domestic and foreign grain and produce in Norfolk, Va.
In 1780, John Andrew Fearrington (1733-1827) purchased 1,690 acres worth of land grants from the North Carolina governor. After that original purchase, the Fearrington family holdings grew, peaking at between 8 and 10 thousand acres. The collection chiefly contains deeds of sale and other documents related to the land the Fearrington family owned and operated. The included deeds of sale are primarily land purchased by Edward Mebane Fearrington (1856-1940) and Elijah Cole (1820-1915) in the late 1800s. Edward married Elijah's daughter, Adelaide (1855-1938), in 1875, and the couple took over Eureka Farm, a 640 acre farm that the Cole family had operated since 1786, growing cotton, tobacco, and corn. Edward and Adelaide's son, John Bunyon Fearrington (1889-1975), and his wife, Anna Jessica Owen Fearrington (1891-1955) converted the land to a dairy farm in the 1930s. Papers concerning the farm also include tax forms from 1926 to 1941, ledgers for the farm stores from the late 1930s to early 1940s, correspondence, and additional legal and financial documents, including electrification papers. The collection also contains World War II ration books and a notebook owned by Mary Burnett, an African American woman who worked for the Fearringtons.
The collection contains genealogical charts and biographical data, 1953, relating to the Febiger family of New Orleans, La.; the Whitmore family of Natchez, Miss.; the Perkins family of Alabama; and Joseph Carson and the St. Clair family of Philadelphia, Pa.
Brief Civil War diary, 1-20 January and 6 February-28 March 1862, of an unknown federal soldier, probably from Kentucky or Indiana, with entries made while the writer was serving in Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries discuss drilling, marching, reconnaisance, and other activities. A final entry in another hand indicates that the diarist was killed on 6 April 1862.
Chiefly Civil War letters from Federal soldiers throughout the South, in camps, hospitals, and prisons, to family and friends in the North. This collection is made up of unrelated single items or small groups of items.
W. T. Couch (1901), a white publisher and editor, was also a part-time official of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, as assistant and associate director for North Carolina, 1936-1937, and as director for the southern region, 1938-1939. These papers include his correspondence relating to the project and narratives (called "life histories") of about 1,200 individuals, written by about 60 members of the project after one or more oral history interviews with the subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. There is a partial index to the many occupations of those interviewed. Also included, on microfilm, are ghost stories, local legends, etc., gathered in the project.
In 1928, George H. Fehr organized the 49ers, an old-time, cowboy, and western music group, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Other groups with which Fehr was associated included the Old Country Store, the 79ers, and the Utah Buckaroos, all of which achieved success on radio throughout the west and with live audiences across the state of Utah. Fehr sang and played a number of instruments, including the mandolin, guitar, banjo, harmonica, and Jew's harp.
The Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, organized in 1934, was an interdenominational, interracial group of southern church people (clergy and laity) interested in race relations, anti-Semitism, rural dependency, labor conditions, and other social problems.
Joseph Felmet received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942. He was arrested on numerous occasions for his pacificism during World War II and social activism later.
Personal and professional papers of James A. Felton, African American author, teacher, counselor, and civic leader in Hertford County, N.C., and his wife, Annie Vaughan Felton, African American educator, church worker, and community leader, who were instrumental in the restoration and establishment of the C. S. Brown Regional Cultural Arts Center and Museum which opened in Winton, N.C., in 1986. The collection contains correspondence; programs for meetings and events held by educational, religious, and civic organizations; sermons; reports; and newspaper clippings describing James A. Felton's civic contributions in Hertford County, N.C. Best documented are activities related to the C. S. Brown Regional Cultural Arts Center and Museum in Winton, N.C., the People's Program on Poverty, the North Carolina Family Life Council, and the Montford Point Marines. Also included are a short biography of Annie Vaughan Felton and some materials that she collected after her husband's death. Photographs show James A. Felton throughout his adult life with his family, his colleagues, and his students at the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Training Center.
Manuscript draft of a speech or treatise on the aims, policies, activities, and effects of the American Colonization Society. The paper is unsigned but is attributed to Fendall, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and author.
Charles E. Fenner was a Louisiana Supreme Court justice and an officer in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department. The collection includes scattered papers of Fenner, including military papers and five Reconstruction-era political speeches. Papers before 1838 are about property and family affairs of Henry Douglass Downs of Mississippi Territory; papers between 1844 and 1864 are primarily Payne family materials.
Folklorist and performer Joan Fenton earned a Masters degree in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is the owner of several stores in Charlottesville, Va., that feature traditional and contemporary handicrafts. The collection consists of sound recordings and related documentation. Sound recordings include interviews, songs, and tall tales by artists in the southern roots traditions from North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Louisiana. Fenton's folklore thesis fieldwork about Howard Cotten, an African American tall tale teller in North Carolina, is represented by his songs, anecdotes, and tales about fishing and hunting that were recorded between 1976 and 1978. Also included are recordings from the 1978 John Henry Folk Festival where Hazel Dickens, Viola Clark, the Badgett Sisters, Walter Phelps, Ethel Phelps, Sparky Rucker, Pigmeat Jarrett, and Sweet Honey in the Rock performed. Interviews and sound recordings relating to Jamie Alston, Wilber Atwater, Willie Brooks, Dona Gum, Maggie Hammons, Sherman Hammons, Guy B. Johnson, Everett Lilly, Mitchell Bea Lilly, Varise Conner, Phillippe Bruneau, Carl Rutherford, and the Balfa Brothers are included. Also included are interviews with and songs of Charles Williams, a washboard player from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and Nat Reese, a guitarist and blues singer from Princeton, W.Va. Fenton is the primary interviewer on these recordings, some of which were made in performers' homes where she accompanied them on guitar, but there are also a few field tapes done by others, including some with the Reverend Gary Davis in Jamaica, N.Y., 1971-1972 and others done by John Cohen in New York in the 1950s. Documentation of field recordings includes transcription notes from interviews conducted by Fenton and notes compiled from the audio material.
Family members included Francis Roger Gregory, merchant in Petersburg, Va.; medical student at the University of Pennsylvania; physician and planter in Mecklenburg County, Va., and Granville County, N.C. In the 1830s, he married Nancy Alexander, and they had at least three children: William H.; Francis Roger, Jr., who a surgeon with the 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and Martha, who married Nelson McPherson Ferebee of Oxford, N.C., a physician in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the U.S.S. Indiana and the U.S. Flagship New York during the Spanish-American War.
Ernie Warlick, a tight end from from North Carolina Central University, played for the Buffalo Bills, 1962-1965, and was the first African American sportscaster on Buffalo television. Charley Ferguson attended Tennessee State University before playing for the Buffalo Bills as a wide receiver, 1963-1969.
Harley Bascom Ferguson, of Waynesville, N.C., graduated from West Point in 1897 and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, retiring in 1939 as a major general. The collection includes papers pertaining to Ferguson's domestic and foreign military assignments, particularly to service in the China Relief Expedition, 1901; the raising of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor, Cuba, 1910-1911; and flood control on the Mississippi River, 1932-1939. There also is information on his World War I service as a general of engineers in France and commander of the Newport News (Va.) port of embarkation, and his work with industrial mobilization in the office of Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, 1921-1927.
Robert D. Ferguson (fl. 1862-1865) was an officer in the 53rd Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes a ledger, 1851 (12 pages, no location noted), for general merchandise and day labor; and records, including lists of deserters, muster rolls, and discharge papers of a company of the 53rd Virginia Regiment.
Joseph Fernald (b. 1830) served in the United States Navy during the Civil War. In August 1863, he was appointed second assistant engineer on the U.S.S. Britannia.
General commission merchant of Halifax, N.C., and Norfolk, Va., during the mid-19th century.
Primarily narratives compiled from oral history interviews (called life histories), folkways, legends, and other items written and collected by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of North Carolina, 1938-1941, with accompanying administrative material, including instructions to writers. Most of the life histories are variants of items in the Federal Writers' Project Papers (#3709) in the Southern Historical Collection, but there are 10 that do not appear in that collection. The folkways and legends are chiefly stories concerning North Carolina in the colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War periods. A number of essays relate to Raleigh, N.C. T. S. Ferree collected this material in the course of his work as a research editor with the Federal Writers' Project in Raleigh, N.C.
The collection is composed chiefly of genealogical information related to the Ferris family of Mississippi and copies and transcriptions of the family's historical documents, especially correspondence from the mid nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Also included are reminiscences, memoirs, and other narratives, many written by Eugene Beverly Ferris (1873-1954), an agricultural scientist. Ferris wrote a historical sketch of Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Stations where he worked, and in personal narratives he wrote about life in rural Mississippi. In one, he describes the public execution of an African American man, who was tried for murder in Starkville, Miss., discusses African American agricultural laborers, and alludes to the great migration of African Americans to northern cities such as Chicago, Ill., at the turn of the twentieth century. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Marcie Cohen Ferris is a white retired professor of American Studies and associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the CCJS and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research. Additions to the collection consist of personal and professional papers that document her youth and family, her academic training, and her career researching, teaching, and publishing about foodways and the Jewish experience in the South.
The collection of white folklorist, author, professor, and filmmaker William R. Ferris (1942- ) of Vicksburg, Miss., contains professional and personal papers, photographs, sound recordings, film, video recordings, artifacts, and other items documenting his life and work from the early 1940s through the 2010s. Professional papers include materials related to his university teaching career and his administrative career, especially in university centers for study and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Personal papers largely pertain to his student years and family. Photographs, films, papers, printed items, sound and video recordings, digital files, and other materials reflect his scholarly research interests and documentary production. Topics include Mississippi and the Mississippi Delta; African American life and culture; black churches; folk, blues, gospel, fife and drum corps, and other genres of music; blues musicians; southern writers; folk and music festivals; folk arts, culture, and humor; auctioneers and mule trading; the Ku Klux Klan; and prisons, especially Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
This collection contains materials created and collected by Nellie Ferry and Colleen Chapman, two white women from Oregon, who ran country and western music fan clubs in the early 1950s. Materials consist of photographic prints and negatives, unpublished acetate audio discs, and printed materials related to country and western musicians, principally the Sons of the Pioneers but also Ernest Tubb, Chet Atkins, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Merle Travis, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and others.
FestivaLink, based in Boulder, Colo., captured and made available festival recordings from 2006 to 2015. Festival binders include licensing agreements, festival programs and schedules, and correspondence with agents of artists for Merlefest and other music festivals across the United States.
Manual Fetter was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
John Rose Ficklen, a native of Virginia, was a professor of history at Tulane University.
Contains original unedited footage and edited production masters for Fiddler Magazine’s series on Appalachian and Cape Breton fiddle traditions. The Appalachian tapes include footage of fiddlers Ralph Blizard, Bruce Greene, Brad Leftwich, Charlie Acuff, John Hartford, Dan Gellert, Red Wilson, and Kirk Sutphin, along with their accompanists. The Cape Breton tapes include fiddlers Buddy MacMaster, Jerry Holland, and several others. The footage captures many of the foremost musicians playing in these traditions in the mid-1990s. The musicians documented in the footage are primarily white men from small rural communities in Appalachia and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Founded in 1994, Fiddler Magazine is a resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and listeners.
Fiddler's Grove, an old-time-music and family-oriented campground, which hosts traditional music and dance events throughout the year is owned and operated by Harper and Wanona Van Hoy in Union Grove, N.C. The Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival, a fiddling competition, has been held annually in the spring since Fiddler's Grove's founding in 1970, and the Square-Up, a clogging competition was held in the fall until 1982. The fiddling festival, however, traces its history in Union Grove to 1924 when Harper Van Hoy's father, H. P. Van Hoy, founded the Old Time Fiddlers Convention as a school fundraiser. The collection provides an overview of the history and operation of Fiddler's Grove, and its main entertainment events, the Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival and the Square-Up. The work of Harper Van Hoy and Wanona Van Hoy in building the reputation of Fiddler's Grove as a gathering place for old-time music and family entertainment is documented throughout the collection. Also documented is the split between Harper Van Hoy and his brother, J. Pierce Van Hoy, which resulted in two competing Van Hoy-operated spring fiddling events in Union Grove, 1970-1979. General correspondence, newspaper clippings, promotional material, and other items go back to the founding of the Old Time Fiddlers Convention. Festival materials include participation registration information, lists of winners, judges' notes, and correspondence, and other items. Also included are open-reel tapes, an eight-track tape, compact discs, and a videotape, all of which relate to the Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival.
The collection consists of 45 open reel audiotape recordings of bluegrass, old time, and folk music concerts recorded live by Sanford "Sandy" Fidell (1945-2023) between 1963 and 1967. Musical artists recorded by Fidell were Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jim Kweskin, Bill Monroe, Mark Spoelstra, Ed Trickett, Penelope K. Trickett, and Doc Watson. Musical groups were Brown County Jamboree, New Lost City Ramblers, and Stanley Brothers. Fidell recorded at music venues in Ann Arbor, Mich., Beanblossum, Ind., Bloomington, Ind., Harrodsburg, Ind., West Lafayette, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio. Also included is a recording of Bill Monroe and Doc Watson performing at Ash Grove in Los Angeles, Calif. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Field notes and related items produced between 1945 and 1957 by researchers in a project sponsored by the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina. The notes were made during anthropological field work among residents of Avery County, N.C.; Brewton, Selma, and Camden, Ala.; and York County, S.C. Areas explored included technology, housing, food, labor, religion, community structure, and folklore.
Leslie A. Field (1926-2012), a white author, wrote five books and numerous articles and reviews about Thomas Wolfe and his writings. The Leslie A. Field Collection consists of manuscript drafts, editorials, research files, correspondence, clippings, speeches, and other materials related to his study of Thomas Wolfe and to the Thomas Wolfe Society.
Jeff Fields (1938- ), Georgia-born novelist, television producer and host, and 1964 graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Fields worked in radio and television, chiefly for WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., while writing his novel, A Cry of Angels (1974). The collection contains materials documenting Fields's work as a writer and in television. Included are drafts, proofs, screenplays, and other materials relating to A Cry of Angels. Also included are letters, chiefly between Fields and agents and magazine editors regarding an unpublished second book and short stories submitted for publication, and other writings by Fields, mostly class assignments from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, short stories submitted for publication, and commentaries written for WJXT-TV. There are also photographs and slides, audiotapes, films, and videotapes relating to Fields's literary work and to his work as producer and host at WJXT-TV.
Leonard Earl Fields was born in 1897 in Kinston, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina for his undergraduate degree, 1917-1921, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. He married Sarah Beckton Stanley in 1924. Fields became a practicing physician in 1930 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He served as an examining physician for the Selective Service System in Orange County, N.C., during World War II. Fields died in September 1984.
Correspondence, circulars, and advertisements documenting the career of William Pell Fife of Thomasville, N.C., as a stock salesman for western oil and mining companies. Many items are lengthy printed Personal Letters from Fife to prospective purchasers of stock, extolling the bargains he had available. Companies Fife represented included the Sunset Gold and Mining Company, Denver, Colo. and the Great Western Gold Company, Ingot, Calif., and St. Louis, Mo.
Peter Filene, a white history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taught and wrote primarily on twentieth-century American history with a focus on gender, popular culture, and pedagogy. The papers consist of course materials from various courses taught at Lincoln University and UNC including syllabi, class notes, slide transparencies, and articles. Also included are research materials on the men’s movement of the 1960s, slavery, and the Great Depression, and materials related to Filene’s time as a professor at Lincoln University. The collection also includes documents related to a historical re-creation project with the Preservation Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Contains one printed and manuscript notebook, Special Tests for Poisons, perhaps created by C. D. Fillebrown, whose name appears in pencil on the cover, while he was a student at Harvard Medical School. The notebook includes 41 pages of pencil notes, 11 printed slips from an unidentified publication pasted-in, and four pages from Dragendorff's Scheme for the Detection of Organic Poisons in Animal Fluids and Tissues laid-in. Most of the pages are blank.
John W. Finch served with the Union Army during the Civil War. He was enlisted at age 35 in Company C, 22nd Michigan Infantry on 14 March 1865, in his hometown of Burchville, Mich. On 7 April 1865, he joined his regiment in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was transferred to Company C, 29th Michigan Infantry, 26 June 1865. He was honorably discharged 25 August 1865.
Leon Fink was a white professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1985 to 2000. The Leon Fink Collection consists of papers written by students enrolled in his Occupational Folklore courses, 1993-1996.
Contains publications and audiovisual materials pertaining to HIV/AIDS and other global health issues, including reproductive health and violence against women and children. Materials are written in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Papiamento, and Thai. Acquired as part of the Health Sciences History Collection, Rare Book Collection.
Primarily Civil War letters from Robert Stuart Finley to his fiancee, Mary A. Cabeen, and miscellaneous military and other papers. Finley was a member of the 30th Illinois Infantry, serving in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia. The letters give full descriptions of his activities and surroundings. Places mentioned include Fort Donelson and Jackson, Tenn.; Camp Logan, La.; Vicksburg, Miss., Athens, Atlanta, Big Shanty, and East Point, Ga.; Huntsville, Ala.; and Pocotaligo and Beaufort, S.C. Finley participated in the Atlanta Campaign and in Sherman's March through the Carolinas. Also included are two letters concerning Richard H. Cabeen (d. 1864), one telling of military actions near Dalton, Ga., and the other informing his father of his death. Postwar items include papers relating to Finley's military service, his marriage license, and biographical information about him.
Samuel Angus Firebaugh lived in Rockbridge County, Va., but worked at Mount Clinton in Rockingham County. He served with the 10th Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America, in the Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia, and Gettysburg campaigns.
The First Presbyterian Church of Fort Gibson, Okla., sponsored the Ladies Missionary Society, Ladies Aid Society, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The collection contains two sound recordings of the Durham Rangers Old Time String Band. Banjo player Michael Fishback is the founding member and leader of the musical group from Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. The recordings of traditional Appalachian and Cajun music are titled Twenty Years: Durham Rangers Old Time String Band and Public Domain: Durham Rangers Old Time String Band. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection contains a letter (10 pages, typed transcription), from C. D. Fishburne to P. B. Barringer at the University of Virginia, containing Fishburne's recollections of Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, beginning in 1851 when Jackson came to Lexington, Va., and including an account of Jackson's marriage to Mary Anna Morrison. The letter includes copies of two personal notes from Jackson to Fishburne, 1857. Also included is a recollection (168 pages) available on microfilm only. Location of originals is unknown.
Members of the Fisher and Beard families of Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., included Lewis Beard (1754-1820), plantation owner, merchant and county and state official; his son-in-law Charles Fisher (1789-1849), representative to the United States Congress and the North Carolina House of Commons and plantation and gold mine owner; and Charles's son Charles F. Fisher (1816-1861) (Charles Frederick), who was, among other things, president and contractor for the North Carolina Railroad, for whom Fort Fisher, N.C. was named. Charles F. Fisher's daughter Frances married J. M. Tiernan, who was involved in the mining business. She wrote novels under the pen name of Christian Reid.
Ameel Joseph Fisher was born around 1909 and was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1931. In the 1930s and 1940s, he lived and worked in New York City, writing and adapting stories for radio dramatization. During the 1950s and 1960s, he moved on to television, serving as a reporter and a news director of United Press Movietonenews. By 1951, United Press Movietonenews was the world's largest news film gathering and distributing organization, providing basic film coverage to networks and stations.
Julia Johnson Fisher (1814-1885), native of Massachusetts, lived for a time with her husband, William Fisher (1788-1878), and her children in an isolated area in Camden County, Ga., near the Florida border. The collection includes a typed transcription of Fisher's diary, January-August 1864. The diary contains comments on conditions and incidents of daily life in Camden County, Ga., family and neighborhood news, personal thoughts, and reports of military activity in the region.
The collection contains genealogical papers, 1906-1944, of Mary Patterson Fisher, about the Alexander family of Knox County, Tenn.; the Finley family of Maryland; the Newland family of Pennsylvania; the Smith family of Tennessee; the Vogler family of North Carolina; and the Patterson family of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Susan Fisher lived in Augusta, Me., but had family members living in Augusta, Ga.
Elizabeth Nowell was the literary agent and the first biographer of Thomas Wolfe. She also collected and published The Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956). Vardis Fisher was an American author born in Idaho in 1895. He was the director of the Idaho Guide Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, during the Great Depression. His writings include the twelve-volume series The Testament of Man.
Microfilm copy of a FitzRandolph family history written by Nathaniel FitzRandolph of New Jersey for his nephew Benjamin FitzRandolph of Philadelphia, Pa., chiefly discussing 17th- and 18th-century family history.
The collection is FitzRoys of Oak Royal, a holograph manuscript of an historical novel, author unknown.
The collection includes diaries, 1864 and 1867-1871, and a sketchbook of Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919); copies of his pension record and marriage certificate and of the manumission certificate of Thomas Fitzgerald (father of Robert G.); two letters; and articles about members of the Fitzgerald family, including Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Pauli Murray. Fitzgerald's diary, 1864, describes his trip from Boston to Virginia; life in the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment; war news, especially the activities of other black regiments; and his feelings about the war and the future of blacks. His later diary describes his work in freedmen's schools in Amelia County, Va., and in Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.; church affairs and social life; and his political activities, including a description, 31 July-2 August 1867, of the Virginia state Republican convention, to which he was a delegate. Some entries in 1867 describe Fitzgerald's studies at Lincoln University (originally Ashmun Institute), life at the college, and church and social life. Entries, 1868-1871, describe in detail Fizgerald's school in North Carolina; the Ku-Klux Klan; Republican politics; the Union League; Fitzgerald's tanning business; a brick kiln established with his brother; building his house; and his farm and family life, including his new wife, Cornelia Smith. Fitzgerald's undated sketchbook includes portraits of soldiers, a sketch of Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University), and other scenes.
Correspondence by and relating to Philip Aylett Fitzhugh (1824-1908), physician of Northampton County, Va.; his wife, author Georgiana Tankard Fitzhugh (1827-1899); and his siblings. Included are six letters, 1844-1845, pertaining to his education and training as a doctor at the Virginia Military Institute and society in Lexington, Va.; and letters, 1850-1853, 1866, 1890-1891, from his brother, John H. Fitzhugh, who emigrated to Kentucky and Austin, Tex. Two letters, 1845 and 1866, discuss the emancipation of slaves. Also included are two letters on legal issues: one, 1876, from Judge John Critchen (1820-1901) and one, 1879, from University of Virginia law professor John B. Minor (1813-1895).
The collection is chiefly papers of Benjamin Fitzpatrick, along with some papers of his son, Benjamin Jr. (1854-1892). Papers of the elder Fitzpatrick consist of documents relating to his legal practice; plantation records, including receipts and bills of sale for slaves; material from his political career as governor of Alabama, 1841-1844, as U.S. senator and representative from Alabama, 1848-1860, as nominee for the Democratic vice-presidential candidacy in 1860, and attendance at the convention held in Baltimore, Md., that same year; and personal correspondence, including letters from political allies, such as Dixon Hall Lewis, and from Fitzpatrick, Sr., to his wife and son. There are also letters from other members of the Fitzpatrick family, including one describing West Texas in the 1840s. The papers of Benjamin Fitzpatrick Jr., 1854-1892, consist of school compositions and essays he wrote while a student at the Greene Springs School, run by Henry Tutwiler, in Hale County, Ala.; letters to and from his mother, Aurelia Blassingame Fitzpatrick, and other family members; and financial and legal documents relating to his law career.
The 1976 interviews recorded on audio cassette tape are with Wade Hadley of Siler City, N.C., and Herbert Dowd, Jr., and Mrs. Herbert Dowd of Bear Creek, N.C. Stephen Karl Flad, a German student then studying abroad at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted the interviews for a folklore course. The interviewees discuss the "Devil's Tramping Ground," a circular and barren area in the pine woods of Chatham County, N.C., that is according to local legend haunted by the devil. No additional information about Flad or the interviewees was provided with the recordings. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection contains records of tobacco credited to various persons, tobacco sold, and tobacco shipped by Shepherd and Co., Flag Warehouse, and other warehouses of South Boston, Va.
The Flat River Primitive Baptist Church was founded in Person County, N.C., in or around 1750. Lewis Daniel (1782-1847) served as the church's clerk.
Joshua C. Fleetwood was a Democrat and Baptist of Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C.
Eleonore Eulalie Cay Fleming, was the daughter of white plantation owner Raymond Cay (1805-1880), who operated Salter's Creek Plantation in Liberty County, Ga. Includes records containing descriptions and recollections of some of the enslaved people who comprised the workforce at the plantation. The collection chiefly consists of business correspondence, 1851-1855, of Raymond Cay, personal and family correspondence, 1865-1920, of Eleonore Eulalie Cay Fleming of Liberty and Harris counties, Ga.; as well as family records of Raymond and Eliza Ann Stetson Cay and their descendants. In addition to correspondence, the collection includes records copied from a Cay family Bible; Civil War reminiscences of Raymond Cay, who served with the 5th Georgia Regiment in Georgia and Tennessee. MICROFILM ONLY.
Francis P. Fleming (1841-1908), native of Florida, was a Confederate Army lieutenant, lawyer, and governor of Florida, 1889-1893. The collection includes a letter from Samuel Gibbs French (1818-1910), United States army officer and later Confederate major general, to Fleming, disagreeing with Raphael Semmes's Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War, his memoirs of the Mexican War.
Papers collected by Sam M. Fleming include scattered land grants from North Carolina and Tennessee; indentures; deeds for lands and slaves, 1787-1813; letters and papers of the McEwen family of Tennessee from 1814 through the 1860s, some pertaining to the formation of the Tennessee militia; and a 12-page journal of school teacher Sallie Florence McEwen, 18 May 1861 to 9 May 1862, with brief entries describing hearing news of battles of 1st Manassas, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh. Also included are passes, orders, circulars, receipts, and other Confederate miscellany, as well as several letters of soldiers, both official army communications and personal letters. The collection also includes certificates of Tennessee election returns, 1870-1890s; certificates from land offices; justice of the peace commissions after 1900; and collected autographs and brief notes from United States presidents, governors, etc. For the most part, the quality of reproductions on the microfilm is poor.
William O. Fleming was born in Liberty County, Ga., the son of William Bennett Flemming and his wife, Eliza Ann (Maxwell) Fleming. He married Georgia W. Williams in 1860 and became a planter near Bainbridge, Decatur County, Ga. At the start of the Civil War he was a lieutenant in Captain John W. Evans' company, the Bainbridge Independents, 1st Georgia Regiment; and in 1862-1865 he became an officer in the 50th Georgia Regiment, rising from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel. After the war he returned to his family at Bainbridge, was appointed solicitor general of the Albany circuit in 1876, and in early 1881 was elected a judge by the state legislature.
Dom Flemons is a folk musician from Phoenix, Ariz., and a founding member, with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The Carolina Chocolate Drops recreate and reinterpret the sound of African American string bands from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas in the 1920s and 1930s. They released their first record through Music Maker Relief Foundation in 2006. In 2010, the Carolina Chocolate Drops album Genuine Negro Jig won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.
W. Miles (William Miles) Fletcher is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose scholarship focuses on modern Japanese history. He joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1975 after receiving a Ph.D. in History from Yale University. He also holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale and a B.A. in History from Amherst College. Fletcher's papers include syllabi and other records documenting classes he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and records related to committees on which he has served at the University.
Lawrence Flinn was a businessman and lecturer at the University of North Carolina and the University of Freiburg.
Archival records and original film footage of Florentine Films and Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and cinematographer. On some projects, Burns worked with Amy Stechler Burns, Stephen Ives, and others. Projects documented include: Brooklyn Bridge (1981), The Shakers (1984), Huey Long (1985), The Statue of Liberty (1985), Thomas Hart Benton (1988), The Congress (1988), The Civil War (1990), Empire of the Air (1991), Baseball (1994), Thomas Jefferson (1996), The West (1996), and Lewis & Clark (1997).
The C.S.S. Florida was a Confederate steamer stationed near Mobile, Ala. The collection contains the ship's log from February to July 1862, kept by Thomas Longworth Moore (died 1922) of North Carolina, one of the ship's officers. The volume records weather, supplies, and important incidents. Also included are extensive notes on seamanship and lists of the ship's officers in 1862 and January 1863. This ship, also known as the Selma, is not to be confused with the more famous Confederate cruiser Florida.
Memoranda book with lists of dates, tools, and food furnished by various slaveowners, perhaps for a public construction project, near Fernandina or White Spring, Fla., in 1864. Included are names of persons who were to serve as overseers and notations relating to slave deaths and occasions when slaves ran away or were permitted to return home. The context for entries is obscure.
Flowe's Store, located in Cabarrus County, N.C., was named for Daniel W. Flowe, who opened the store in 1881. Though it closed in 1925, as of 2007, the store's building was still standing.
Collection of Martha Flowers (1926-2022), a singer, performer, and the first Black faculty member in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was known for her role as Bess in the production of Porgy and Bess which toured internationally in the 1950s and whose cast also included Maya Angelou, with whom Flowers developed a lifelong friendship. The Martha Flowers Papers consist primarily of programs, clippings, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting the career and personal life of Martha Flowers (1926-2022). Many of these items highlight her performances in Porgy and Bess in the 1950s. Also included are two scrapbooks, a small number of letters and telegrams received, and printed material.
Letitia Preston Floyd was the daughter of Colonel William Preston Floyd and wife of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, 1830-1834.
Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd (1946-), a white blues journalist and photographer for Nighthawk Productions: All the "BLUES" All the Time, has lived in various places, including Garden Grove, Calif., San Diego, Calif., and Roxboro, N.C. The Mike Floyd Collection consists of photographs of blues performers, blues festival posters, small blues publications and printed ephemera, and correspondence. There is also a 1959 yearbook for Izaak Walton Junior High School in Garden Grove, Calif.
Arthur G. Foard, Jr., was an insurance agent of Lenoir, N.C. He began basic training for the U.S. Army at Camp Wheeler, Ga., in November 1943 and received a temporary office assignment at Fort Bragg, N.C., in January 1945. Foard's wife Bunny ran the insurance agency in her husband's absence.
Richard Harter Fogle (1911-1995), born in Canton, Ohio, received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in 1933, his masters from Columbia University in 1936, and his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1944. A specialist in nineteenth-century English and American Romanticism, he joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty as University Distinguished Professor of English in 1966.
Eli Fogleman was born in 1836, presumably near Greensboro, N.C. He married Lucy B. Staley in 1861, and on 15 August 1862 enlisted in Company K, 5th Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A., in Guilford County, N.C. On 4 May 1863, Fogleman was taken prisoner in Carteret County, N.C., taken to Virginia, and confined at Fort Monroe until he was paroled by exchange at City Point, Va., on 28 May 1863. He remained in the Confederate army until his final parol at Greensboro, N.C., on 5 May 1865. Eli and Lucy Fogleman had at least one daughter, Anna Fogleman.
Folk Alliance International is a nonprofit membership organization that supports folk music and folk arts communities through advocacy, education, professional development, and consumer and audience development. The collection contains audiovisual materials compiled by the organization and files maintained by white writer and concert promoter Art Menius, who served as the first president of the board of directors of what was then the North American Folk Music Association and was manager of the Alliance from 1991 to 1996. Files represent a broad swath of folk organizations, festivals, musicians, bands, artists, record companies and distributors, music venues and presenters, agents, and print and broadcast media outlets, especially radio stations. Materials include organizational newsletters, publications, and annual reports; correspondence; promotional packets for artists and bands; publicity photographs; tour schedules; catalogs and directories; brochures and programs; press releases; flyers; and applications for the Folk Alliance Showcase. Files pertain chiefly to bluegrass, folk, old time, and country music. Other arts represented include jazz, storytelling, and clogging. Audiovisual materials consist of audio and video recordings related to the organization's meetings, conferences, and lifetime achievement award ceremonies.
The undated audio recording on open-reel tape contains folk songs performed by a fiddler and singer. Neither is identified in the accompanying song list. Included on the recording are "Sweet Cider," "Black Eyed Susie," "There's No Place Like Home," "Turkey in the Straw," and "You Are My Sunshine." This material was originally called the "Wright Collection," but no information about Wright was available when this summary was written. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
George Nathaniel Folk (1839-1896) was a lawyer, law teacher, Confederate officer, and state senator of Lenoir, Caldwell County, N.C.
FolkScene is a syndicated music program established in 1970 featuring recorded music and in studio live performances and interviews from notable folk musicians. Based in Los Angeles, Calif., the radio program is broadcast by public radio station KPFK-FM and hosted by Roz Larman, who also hosted the show with her husband, Howard Larman, until his death in 2007. The FolkScene Collection consists primarily of audio recordings, 1970-1997, of the FolkScene radio program. Notable guests featured on the recordings include Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, David Bromberg, Guy Carawan, Rose Maddox, Don McLean, Randy Newman, Odetta, Jean Ritchie, John Sebastian, Merle Travis, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, and Peter Yarrow, among others. Other FolkScene materials found in the collection include recorded music used on the program, select outtakes and excerpts of the program, and related documentation created by FolkScene staff. The collection also contains other audio recordings, 1960-1986, not directly affiliated with the FolkScene radio program. These materials include live performances, dubs of other radio programs, and related documentation presumably created by FolkScene staff.
Folklore Productions is an artist management and publishing company that was founded in 1957 by Manuel "Manny" Greenhill in Boston, Mass. The company, which is now known as FLi Artists, has represented folk, traditional, and roots musicians for over 60 years. The company now operates out of California and New York, where it is managed by Manuel Greenhill's son, Mitch Greenhill.
The Folkstreams.net Collection consists of materials affiliated with Folkstreams.net, an online resource designed to disseminate documentary films about American folk culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and importance of the traditions and the films. Folkstreams.net was started in 2000 by independent filmmaker and distributor Tom Davenport in collaboration with his wife Miriam Davenport; folklorist Daniel Patterson; and a committee of filmmakers, scholars, and computer specialists. The collection consists primarily of moving image materials created and transferred for preservation purposes and for streaming on Folkstreams.net. The collection also includes scattered papers and born-digital materials related to Folkstreams.net and the moving image materials found in the collection.
Career naval officer; aide to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 1918-1921; commander of the U.S.S. Arkansas, 1931-1933; senior inspector of shipyards in four states during World War II. Foote is best known for his heroic command of the U.S.S. President Lincoln, which was torpedoed in 1918.
Shelby Foote, novelist and historian, who was born in Greenville, Miss., in 1916; attended the University of North Carolina, 1935-1937; served in the Mississippi National Guard and then as field artillery captain in Northern Ireland, 1940-1944; and worked for the Associated Press, 1944-1945. In 1949, Tournament, his first novel, was published. Foote moved to Memphis in 1954. Chiefly correspondence and writings of Foote. Writings include drafts of the three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-1974) and of his published novels (Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh!, Jordan County, and September September), and drafts and published versions of short stories and other writings. Correspondence consists primarily of letters from Foote to his friend, novelist Walker Percy (1916- ), and a few letters from others.
Ina Bell Forbus (d. 1994) was an award-winning Scottish-born author of children's books who lived in Durham, N.C., beginning in 1935. Her books include The Magic Pin (1956), The Secret Circle (1958), Dogs Are My Patients (with Louis L. Vine, 1961), Melissa (1962), and Tawney's Trick (1965). Forbus also wrote numerous short stories and poems, many of which were inspired by the rural North Carolina farm she shared with her husband, diplomat and hospital administrator Sample B. Forbus. The collection includes correspondence; files relating to her literary career and other interests; manuscripts of books, poems, short stories, and other writings; inscribed copies of books; clippings of reviews of Forbus's work and stories about her; photographs; and other items relating to Ina B. Forbus.
The collection includes papers acquired by Peter Force, collector and historical editor of Washington, D.C., and his son, William Q. Force, concerning the dispute over the authenticity of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., declaration of independence of 1775, including correspondence of the Forces and other persons, copies of pertinent materials, and a scrapbook of clippings.
Horace K. Ford was an enlisted Union soldier from New Hampshire, stationed from 19 October 1862 to 15 April 1863 at New Bern, N.C. By 17 June 1863, Ford was at Hammond Hospital in Beaufort, N.C., where he was a patient and served as a nurse. Ford's wife and daughter Celia lived at Strafford Corner or Rye, N.H., during the war. Though he complained of bad health, Horace K. Ford survived the Civil War into old age.
James Ford (fl. 1810) was a native of South Carolina and a pioneer in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Christopher C. Fordham III, a white medical doctor by training, served as the sixth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Christopher C. Fordham III Papers consist of correspondence, reports, speeches, writings by and about Fordham, scrapbooks, photographs, videotapes, and other materials. Topics include Fordham's retirement; his activities, including commencements and other celebratory events as dean of The Medical College of Augusta, Ga., and as chancellor and chancellor emeritus of UNC Chapel Hill; a trust he established to promote diversity in health professions; increasing diversity in medical school enrollment; Fordham's response to an external review of UNC Chapel Hill; and reports to the Board of Trustees covering a CIA protest, 1980s highlights, public funding for medical education, and campus land use.
William Henry Forney of Alabama was a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America.
C. D. Forrer (fl. 1889) entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in August 1899. He resigned a few months later to avoid being dismissed for failure in his studies. The collection includes letters from Forrer while he was a cadet at the United States Military Academy to his father, Samuel Forrer, in Augusta County, Va., describing daily life as a new cadet and mentioning many classmates. The letters date from his arrival to his resignation.
MICROFILM AND PAPER: Papers of French Forrest (1796-1866), of Maryland, U.S. naval officer during the Mexican War and later an officer in the Confederate Navy; and of his son, Douglas F. Forrest (1837-1902), Confederate naval officer, lawyer in Baltimore, and Episcopal minister. There are a few loose papers in the collection. The bulk of the material is composed of account books from Clermont, the home of French Forrest at Alexandria, Va., and his order and letter books at Richmond and at the Confederate navy yard at Norfolk, Va. Also included are Douglas F. Forrest's diaries while serving in the Confederate Navy and in the West Indies, England, and France, 1863-1865, as an agent for the Confederate governsent, and a short diary and memoir, June 1865, of his start as an emigrant, via Texas, to Mexico. There are also four volumes of a diary he kept on a trip to Europe and the Holy Land, 1871, shortly after leaving the Virginia Theological Seminary, where he received his training for the Episcopal ministry.
Three land grants and indentures, 1741-1744, for land in Edgecombe County, N.C.; one land grant, 1783, to James Huckabey of Franklin County, N.C.; and a bill of sale for slaves belonging to Thomas Hill, 1766, in Halifax County, N.C.
Microfilm of diary of John Forsyth of Aledo, Mercer County, Ill., kept on a wagon journey from Denver, Colo., to his home, 23 July-30 August 1861. Forsyth described the flora, fauna, farms, and towns he observed on the trip, following a route along the Platte River into Nebraska across the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, Neb., into southern Iowa, across the Mississippi River at New Boston, Ill., and then to Aledo, Ill.
MICROFILM ONLY. Political and family correspondence of Tomlinson Fort (1787-1859) of Milledgeville, banker, physician, and Democratic United States representative, and his family. The collection consists chiefly of political correspondence of the 1820s and 1830s and papers of Fort's wife, Martha, after his death, including letters from her sons serving in the 1st and 9th Georgia regiments in the Confederate army in Virginia. Also included are a few papers dealing with Georgia volunteers in Florida during the War of 1812.
Fort Defiance, Inc., of Lenoir, N.C., was organized in the interest of restoring Fort Defiance, the home of Revolutionary general and planter-entrepreneur William Lenoir (1751-1839) in Caldwell County, N.C.
The papers of Wylie Becton Fort, white landowner and slaveholder of Wayne County, N.C., are chiefly financial and legal documents reflecting Fort's business interests in agriculture and railroads. Collection materials date from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and include correspondence, ephemera primarily advertisements for goods and services, printed items such as broadsides and circulars, military orders from the War of 1812, deeds and indentures for land sales, bills, receipts, accounts, court summons, warrants, and wills and estate papers. In addition to Fort, James W. Cox, Fred Parker, and Gabriel Sherard are represented in the collection. Enslavement is documented in several items including a will, a receipt for hiring enslaved labor, and an undated petition to the North Carolina General Assembly requesting a bill to prevent slaves from trading with each other. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection is a letter, 1946, from Jesse G. Whitfield of Alabama to William N. Fortescue of North Carolina, giving notes and genealogical information for the Fortescue family, and enclosing an extract from Thomas (Fortescue) Lord Clermont's Account of the Family of Fortescue, 1880.
Lieutenant Louis R. Fortescue of Pennsylvania was a signal officer in the United States Army, stationed in Virginia, captured near Gettysburg, Pa., and imprisoned at Richmond, Va., Macon, Ga., and Charleston, S.C.
Porter Lee Fortune (1920-1989) was born near Old Fort, N.C. During World War II he served in the United States Navy in the South Pacific, including the Solomon Islands. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina in 1949. Fortune went on to be dean of Mississippi Southern College, 1956-1961; executive secretary of the National Exchange Club, 1961-1969; and the chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 1969-1984.
William Stump Forwood was a physician of Darlington, Harford County, Md. Forwood, who attempted to justify slavery on medical grounds, served as president of various local medical societies and was a local historian of his home town.
Foscue family members include Simon Foscue (d. circa 1814), planter of Trent Bridge, later Pollocksville, Jones County, N.C.; his son, Simon Foscue (1780-1830), who served as executor of his father's estate and guardian of his brothers and sisters; his grandson, John Edward Foscue (1809-1849), executor of his father's estate; and John's wife, Caroline Foy Foscue, who handled the family's finances after John's death. Correspondence, financial and legal materials, and other items. Materials 1753-1815 are chiefly indentures, plats, and other property- related documents, many documenting disputes of Foscue family members among themselves or with neighbors and others detailing the handling of estates. Other materials relate to plantation finances and the hiring out of slaves. Scattered throughout are family letters, including one in 1814 from Lewis Foscue giving some details of the Battle of New Orleans. Materials 1815-1830 are chiefly financial and legal documents relating to son Simon Foscue's handling of his father's estate; materials 1831-1853 chiefly relate to Simon's son John's handling of his father's estate and John's own finances, which included the buying, selling, and hiring out of slaves. In 1841 and 1842, there are several receipts for jail and apprehension fees paid to Sheriff John Dawson for the capture of runaway Foscue slaves. Beginning around 1853, materials document the activities of John's wife Caroline Foy Foscue as head of the plantation. During the Civil War, Caroline apparently left with her slaves for the interior where letters reached her from friends and relatives on the home front and from her son, serving with Confederate forces in Virginia, who wrote about military life. Several letters relate to finding a substitute for this son, who appears to have been too weak to serve. Also included is a fragment of an account, dated 1866, of the murder of most members of the Reaves Foscue family by black robbers.
MICROFILM ONLY. Native of Orono, Me., Foster attended Bowdoin College and in 1857 moved to Norfolk, Va., where he worked as a newspaper editor. In 1859 he moved to Murfreesboro, N.C., where he owned and operated a newspaper for a short period. During the Civil War he tried unsuccessfully to be elected to the United States Congress as a union representative from North Carolina. In 1863 he was commissioned as a captain in the Union Army and succeeded in raising a regiment of North Carolina troops which saw limited action along the coast. His commission was taken from him in the spring of 1864 and he thereafter divided his time between a law practice at Plymouth, N.C., and trips to Maine and Boston, Mass. Foster returned to Murfreesboro as hostilities were drawing to a close in April 1865 and lived there until 1878, operating a small mercantile establishment, practicing law, and serving as a reporter to northern papers. In 1878 he moved to Philadelphia where he became a leading editorialist for the Record. Miscellaneous papers, including diary/notebooks, 1847-1849 (9 volumes) written at Orono, Me., and Bowdoin College by Charles H. Foster as a young man, containing brief memoirs, essays, comments, descriptions of books read, and notes of events; diary, 1865, documenting his move from Boston to federally-occupied Murfreesboro, N.C., where he was a merchant, mentioning social and economic conditions in the area; diaries, 1875, 1878, and 1881, reflecting life in Murfreesboro, the family's move to Philadelphia in 1878, and Foster's work as a freelance writer; diary and memoranda book, 1868-1876, of Foster's wife and daughter recording household activities and community life at Murfreesboro; and miscellaneous papers, including items relating to Foster's recruiting activities for the 2nd North Carolina Regiment of Union Volunteers, U.S.A. Also includes one photograph of Charles Henry Foster.
Legal brief prepared in 1946 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) by Harold M. Foster and John S. Stillman, law students at Columbia University. The brief opposes an attempt in South Carolina to bar otherwise qualified African Americans from voting in Democratic primaries because of their race.
Robert C. Foster (1818-1871) was a captain in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, United States Army, during the Mexican War. After the war, Foster was a recorder's judge and lawyer in Nashville, Tenn. The collection includes personal, military, and legal papers of Foster. Included are muster rolls, discharge papers, land warrants for soldiers' services, and personal letters, chiefly 1846-1849, to and from Foster. Many of the letters concern claims, but two include accounts of military actions in Mexico. There also is correspondence with a friend, W.R. Douglas of Bacon College (later incorporated into Transylvania University), Georgetown, Ky., about a love affair of Douglas's in the 1830s. Papers of 1867 are exclusively legal in nature.
The collection contains a petition, undated, to General Braxton Bragg from the citizens of Floyd County, Ga., protesting impressment of supplies by the Confederate Army and asking for relief, signed by a group of soldiers and their families headed by Simpson Fouche (4 pages); and a letter, 24 March 1866, from Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Ga., to Simpson Fouche, who was opening a school in Thomasville, Ga.
L. H. (Lawrence H.) Fountain (1913-2002) of Edgecombe County, N.C., served as a United States representative from 1953-1982 in North Carolina's Second District.
Personal and family correspondence of the Foust family, an African-American family living in rural Alamance County, N.C., concerning their daily lives, efforts to make a living, and education, including Edna Lee Foust's training as a nurse. Also included are students' notebooks, test papers, essays, and other educational material.
Daniel P. Foust (fl. 1873-1894) was a justice of the peace in Guilford and Alamance counties, N.C.
The collection of 103 audio discs was assembled by Amos and Ruth Fowler of Chapel Hill, N.C., who were collectors of antique music players such as gramophones. The Berliner and shellac 78 rpm discs represent some of the earliest formats of sound recordings that were mass produced for commercial distribution. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Henderson Monroe Fowler was employed by the Alamance Cotton Mill founded by Edwin Michael Holt in Alamance County, N.C.
Joseph Smith Fowler (1820-1902) was a Republican senator from Tennessee, 1866-1867, and Washington, D.C., lawyer thereafter. The collection includes political and personal correspondence. Letters are primarily from the Reconstruction period and include Fowler's continuous correspondence, 1864-1874, with his friend, Alvan Cullem Gillem (1830-1875), of Tennessee, federal general and commander of the 4th Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas) during Reconstruction; letters from Fowler's constitutents expressing their political ideas and concerns; and letters concerning the impeachment of President Johnson, 1868. Correspondents include Henry Adams, George Barber, S. M. Clark, James A. Doughty, James D. Davis, James H. Embry, William R. Fleming, A. J. Fletcher, Henry Fowler, Andrew Johnson, Minor Meriwether, John Scott, and W. B. Stokes. Included are scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.
The Fox family of Cohasset and Springfield, Mass., and the Simon family of New York City, N.Y., were joined by the marriage of Edward Whiting Fox (1911-1996) and Elizabeth Simon in 1935. Edward, the only son of Agnes Whiting Fox and Philip Fox, was a prominent European history scholar. Elizabeth was the oldest daughter of real estate mogul Robert E. Simon (d. 1935) and Elsa Weil Simon (d. 1964). Edward and Elizabeth had three children: Elizabeth Ann Fox, Edward W. Fox, and Rebecca Fox.
John Fox (1863-1919) was a novelist and short story writer of Kentucky. The collection is chiefly typed copies of letters from Fox to friend and Harvard classmate, Micajah Fible, Louisville, Ky., lawyer. Written from New York, N.Y., and Paris, Ky., these letters discuss Fox's literary activities and his work as a newspaperman in New York and in the family mining business in the Kentucky mountains. Also included are three letters to Fible from Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914), Kentucky poet.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was a white feminist, author, and professor of women's studies and history who was known for her evolution from Marxist-leaning secularist to Roman Catholic and vocal presence in the conservative women's movement. While her early writings focused on French history and translations, Fox-Genovese later wrote extensively on southern women, slavery, and feminism. Fox-Genovese taught at University of Rochester (N.Y.), the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., where she founded the Institute for Women's Studies. She was married to Eugene D. Genovese, a white southern historian and author. The collection contains correspondence, writings, legal papers and other items documenting the professional and private life of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Correspondence is chiefly personal. Writings include drafts of articles, books, and translations. Professional activities reflected in the collection include involvement with professional associations and societies, talks and lectures, conference attendance, participation in conservative causes, and editorship of professional journals. Legal materials document the discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Virginia Gould against Emory University and Fox-Genovese, as well as Fox-Genovese's testimony for the defense in the court battles to integrate the Citadel and Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Photographs, early diaries, medical records, and financial papers are largely personal. Also included are early writings, correspondence, and other materials related to her husband, Eugene D. Genovese.
Mary Lindsay Hargrave Foxhall (1840-1911) of Tarboro, N.C., and her children John Hargrave (d. 1901), who fought in the Spanish American War and died in Manila; Francis Dancy (1868-1924), general and tobacco merchant of Wharton County, Tex., and Greenville, N.C.; Florida, who taught school, and around the turn of the century, married Dr. E. M. McCoy of Bristow, N.C.; Edwin Dancy (1872-1958), cotton and general merchant of Greenville; William Lindsay (1879-1939), engineer for the Southern Railway in Virginia; Robert Drane (1880-1927), who fought in the Spanish American War; Susie Baker (1882-1967); and Haywood Parker (1885-1956), who fought in France during World War I.
Erik Donald France traveled to England, France, East Germany, West Germany, and the Netherlands in 1981 with Professor James R. Leutze's undergraduate European history class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection is a typescript (2005) of Erik Donald France's 1981 journal kept during his trip. Entries describe Leutze's lectures, visiting World War II sites, and other activities during the month-long trip. Also included are letters relating to a European summer class.
Maria Miller Hill Franck (fl. 1859-1871), a Quaker from Jones County, N.C., was first married to Samuel Hill (died 1859) of Randolph County, N.C., then to John Martin Franck (died 1868) of Onslow County, N.C.
The Frank family of North Carolina counted among its members Theophilus Frank; his wife, Elizabeth Frank; his brother, John M. Frank; John's wife, Lovina Hedrick Frank [sic] [Headrick]; Lovina's brother, Jefferson Hedrick [sic] [Headrick] (b. ca. 1843); and John's nephew, Jessie M. Frank (b. ca. 1843).
Novelist, screenwriter, and producer, Ernest Frankel was a regular contributor to the Perry Mason television series and wrote the novels Tongue of Fire (1955) and Band of Brothers (1958).
James Gwyn Franklin was a Confederate soldier serving with Company B, 17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
The collection contains a contemporary copy of the journal, 4-20 September 1816, of the proceedings of three United States commissioners appointed to settle boundaries among the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Creek Indians in the Tennessee River region. The journal is a daily record of testimony by representatives of the tribes. Also included are copies of other relevant documents. The commissioners were Jesse Franklin of North Carolina, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, and David Meriwether of Kentucky.
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, and other items relating to roads in and around Franklinton, Franklin County, N.C. Topics include design and construction of roads, bridges, and other structures; financing of road projects, chiefly through bond sales; and membership and duties of groups responsible for construction projects and maintenance contracts for local roads, especially the Board of Road Trustees of Franklinton Township.
Jane Fraser (b. 1786), native of Charleston, S.C., helped run a girls' school in Bordentown, N.J., and then lived in France.
Thomas Augustus Fraser Jr. (1915-1989) was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1941 and served the ministry until 1982 when he retired as bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of North Carolina. The collection contains papers of Thomas Augustus Fraser Jr. chiefly generated during the years of his ministry. Included are letters and other materials concerning his election and consecration as bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of North Carolina; his later activities as bishop of the Diocese; personal and family matters; a 1975 controversy involving the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte, N.C.; and other topics. Also included are materials, 1969-1974, relating to a grant from the General Convention Special Program to Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham, N.C.
Correspondence, legal papers, clippings, printed materials, and photographs, 1955-1980, almost all relating to the admission to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1955 of brothers LeRoy Benjamin Frasier, Jr., and Ralph Frasier and John Lewis Brandon, the first African-American undergraduates at the University. The Frasiers were sons of LeRoy Benjamin Fraser of Durham, N.C.
The Fraternity of Delta Psi, commonly known as Saint Anthony Hall, established its Xi Chapter at the University of North Carolina in November 1854, making it the second Greek-letter society at the university. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, two-thirds of the 90 Xi Chapter members entered the Confederate army, effectively making the chapter inactive. By 1867, the chapter had ceased to exist. It was not until 1926 that the Fraternity of Delta Psi was officially re-established at the University of North Carolina, aided by the lobbying efforts of University of Pennsylvania Delta Chapter member Grahame Wood.
Letters by and about John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907) Confederate brigadier general and United States senator from Alabama, 1877-1907, collected by University of North Carolina Professor Keener C. Frazer in the course of research on Morgan that apparently never resulted in publication. Most items concern Morgan's Senate career.
The collection includes account books from Hanover and York counties, Va., 1727-1775, and from Frederick's Hall Plantation in Louisa County, Va., 1849-1862. The relationship, if any, between the former and the latter is unclear. There is also a letter copybook, 1757-1775, of Major John Snelson, probably a descendant of Elizabeth Snelson (fl. 1727-1728). Snelson wrote chiefly to Edward Harford, Jr., of England about tobacco shipments and imported merchandise. The relationship between this volume and the others is also unclear. Colonial-era merchants represented in ledgers include Colonel John Chisolm (d. 1766), A. Gordon (fl. 1750-1751), and William Montgomery (fl. 1751), all of Hanover County. Activities documented in these ledgers include tobacco sales and mining and mineral export, the daily work of merchants, and importing operations. Activities documented in the antebellum ledgers from Frederick's Hall include lumber production, manufacture and sale of shoes, tobacco production and trade, and merchandizing. There is also some information on wages for slaves and free laborers. Sheet music for an 1854 polka is also included.
The collection contains business records from the Fredericksburg area and also from Gloucester County, Va. Volumes include a merchandise daybook, 1821-1823; an undated merchandise inventory; accounts for shipping along the coasts of Virginia and Maryland, 1845-1849; shoemaking accounts, 1850-1851; and accounts, 1855-1857, with both customers and employees relating to ironwork and some repairs on carriages and buggies.
Lizzie Weaver Blackwood Freeland and her husband, Alexander Freeland, lived on a farm in the New Hope Community of Chapel Hill, N.C. They rented out two apartments in their home, mostly to University of North Carolina students and their wives, 1946-1965.
James N. "Buck" Freeman (1902-1981) served as one of the defense lawyers in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948. The collection includes his copies of court filings and other materials, including photographs, documenting the war crimes trials held in Tokyo. Other materials, including letters and legal papers, concern trade, freedom of the press, and perceptions of the tribunal and day-to-day life in postwar Japan.
Katharine Parker Freeman, a native of Goldsboro, N.C., received B.A. degrees from Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., and Simmons College in Boston, Mass.; taught at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., the University of Puerto Rico, and Meredith; married L. E. M. Freeman, pastor and professor of religion at Meredith; raised five sons; was an active member of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church; and worked to improve race relations. The memoir of Katharine Parker Freeman was written mostly in 1975, with some additions in the early 1980s. In it, Freeman recounted memories of her family; education; religious life; teaching career, including planning a home economics department at Meredith College; and daily life, chiefly in Raleigh, N.C., but also in Hillsborough, N.C., Boston, and Puerto Rico. In addition to family life, recurring themes include churches, ministers, Freeman's religious questioning, her study of music, and playing piano and organ for various churches and Sunday schools. She also discussed the interracial group that met at the Freeman's house and joined in other social occasions, ca. 1943-1960, and the Freemans' participation in activities sponsored by the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. In addition to Freeman's children, people important in the memoir are her father Thomas Bradley Parker, L. E. M. Freeman, Delia Dixon-Carroll, Charles Maddry, McNeill Poteat, and Robert Seymour. Also included are photocopies of pictures of Katharine Parker Freeman and members of her family.
Collection contains images made by Black photographer, author, and documentarian Roland L. Freeman (1936-2023) during his career from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Freeman was based in Washington, D.C. for most of that time and contents of the collection consist chiefly of assignment and project documentary work. Freeman started his career documenting the civil rights movement and related events in Washington, D.C., including photographing the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He then spent over four decades documenting Black communities, folk traditions, and rituals throughout the South. Collection contains photographic prints, film, correspondence, documentation, and some audiovisual materials related to his work. In addition to Freeman's working files, orginal negatives, and transparencies, the collection also includes selections of exhibit prints curated by Freeman, as well as digital files describing and cataloging his materials.
Microfilm of minutes, by-laws, membership lists, and other records of the Bethel Lodge (Masonic), #107, at Burkettsville 1849-1851, and at Palmer's Spring, Attala County, Miss., 1851-1870.
Eagle Lodge No. 19 (Hillsborough, N.C.), Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, chartered in 1791, is one of the first Masonic lodges chartered under the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. In 1793, members helped lay the cornerstone of Old East building at the University of North Carolina in a ceremony marking the birth of public higher education in the United States.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina is the oldest and largest fraternal organization in North Carolina. The Grand Lodge has been in continuous operation since it was established by a convention of Masonic lodges in Tarboro, N.C., December 1787. Previous to that, Masonic lodges had met in North Carolina since 1755 under the authority of several other grand lodges.
Financial records and minutes of lodge meetings or "Communications" dating from 1821 to 1959 comprise the collection of the Freemasons, Greensboro Lodge, no.76.
William Leon Wiley (1903-1993), author of books on theater in France, was professor of romance languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with breaks for a doctorate and World War II, from 1925 to the end of his career in 1969.
Classical banjo sheet music of James Leslie French, a musician who began playing in the Michigan Banjo, Mandolin, and Guitar Club in 1899. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection contains a typed copy, 1946, of genealogical note by Sarah Thornton French of Woodville, Miss., giving her ancestral line including Thornton, Randolph, and Washington connections.
MICROFILM ONLY. History, 1847-1850, of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross's combined monastery, divinity school, training school for boys, and mountain mission at Valle Crucis, Watauga County, N.C., written by its first Superior. Included are copies of letters and diary entries, 1833-1858, added by French's son, H. Glenney (Horatio Glenney) French, circa 1911.
Jerome Friar was born in South Carolina and moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., as a child. After relocating to Durham, N.C., in the mid-1970s, Friar took his first step towards what would eventually become a career in free-lance photojournalism with his coverage of a mass meeting of neo-Nazis in western North Carolina in 1980. The images he took at this event were among his first professional works to be published (and remain among some of his most requested images). Shortly after this event, Friar took his camera down to Nicaragua to cover the situation that was unfolding as the Contra War began in the early 1980s. After covering events in Nicaragua, Friar moved to Washington, D.C., so that he could cover events related to socio-economic issues that were being debated at that time. He remained a free-lance photographer, and his works were regularly used in a variety of publications. In 2008, Friar returned to North Carolina, and he currently lives on Topsail Island. He continues to take photographs of people, places, and events on the North Carolina coast and other locations around the state.
William Clyde Friday was born in 1920 in Raphine, Va., and grew up in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina in 1948, after which he served as assistant dean of students and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. Friday was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (North Carolina State College (Raleigh), the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and Woman's College (Greensboro)) in 1956, and became president later in the year. In 1971, the General Assembly restructured higher education in North Carolina, and the Consolidated University became the University of North Carolina System. On 1 July 1972, Friday became president of the new system. He served in that capacity for 30 years, during which time the University System grew to 16 campuses. Friday retired in 1986, after which he became president of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, guiding the philanthropy's support of educational endeavors.
William C. Friday served as president of the University of North Carolina System, 1957-1986. Following his resignation, Friday accepted a position as president of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, guiding the philanthropy's support of educational endeavors. In 1999, Friday retired from public service. The collection includes correspondence, meeting materials, reports, clippings, speeches, honors, administrative records, photographs, and other papers related to William C. Friday's career following his retirement as president of the University of North Carolina System. These records, bulk 1985-1999, document Friday's professional and personal endeavors, including work with the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; the Center for Creative Leadership; the Rural Economic Development Center; the Center for Public Television; TIAA-CREF; and the University of North Carolina System and its individual campuses, especially UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and East Carolina University. Topics addressed include education, philanthropy, ethics, intercollegiate athletics, poverty, economic development, leadership, North Carolina concerns, academic affairs, public service, healthcare, politics, finance, social policy, and prominent individuals.
The collection contains papers of sociologist and labor folklorist William H. Friedland (1923-2018) that were shared with author Sean Burns for Burns's biography, Archie Green: The Making of Working Class Hero. Papers include correspondence, articles, lyric sheets for labor and protests songs, scripts for labor skits, and etymologies of labor terms and slang such as "scissorbill." Subjects addressed in the papers include folklorist and labor historian Archie Green (1917-2009), Green's nonprofit organization Fund for Labor Culture and History, labor unions and union comradery, the Socialist Songbook, and folk musician Joe Glazer (1918-2006) known as "Labor's Troubadour." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
MICROFILM ONLY. Plantation records kept by Charles Friend, owner of White Hill plantation, Prince George County, Va., including records of work done, household accounts, inventories, bills, and legal items; and recollections by Jane Minge Friend Stephenson, daughter of Charles Friend, of her childhood at White Hill during antebellum and Civil War years.
The collection contains organizational records of the historic preservation advocacy group Friends of Old Carrboro, Inc., founded in 1981 in Carrboro, Orange County, N.C. Records created and collected by the organization's president Jay Bryan include files about preservation of historic Carrboro mill town architecture, historical surveys, renovation of Carr Mill, development of downtown Carrboro, construction of Weaver Street Market, preventing a Franklin Street extension road and related demolishment of homes, and other efforts to influence town planning and zoning policies. Also documented are the organization's efforts to establish height limits on buildings, traffic calming solutions, historic district designations, neighborhood protection zones, and vernacular architectural standards. Audiovisual materials include 200 color slides made for an architectural study done by Claudia Roberts Brown, a VHS tape with content about local photographer Mack Watts, and interviews conducted in the 1980s with long-time residents and recorded on eight audiocassette tapes. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Friends of University Network Television (FOUNT) was incorporated on 2 March 1975 as a nonprofit corporation to improve communication between the University of North Carolina Television Network and the citizens of North Carolina. The goal was to increase popular awareness of and support for public television. FOUNT's funding came from membership dues, contributions, and grants from North Carolina charitable foundations. Its activities focused on creation of local chapters, distribution of program preference ballots, publication of program listings and newsletters, and production of telethons. FOUNT was dissolved in 1981, two years after the establishment of the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, which had gradually assumed the functions of FOUNT. Records of the Friends of University Network Television include minutes and correspondence of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, correspondence of the president and other officials, financial records, photographs of FOUNT staff and functions, and other items.
The Fries, Shaffner, and related families lived primarily around Salem (now Winston-Salem), N.C. Francis Lavin Fries (1812-1863), with his brother, Henry William Fries (1825-1905), owned and operated woolen and cotton mills and a general store in Salem. Fries was active in the Moravian church and in local government and politics, and served in the North Carolina legislature, 1858-1859. He married Lisetta Marie Vogler (1820-1903), also of Salem, and with her had seven children, including Caroline Louisa Fries (1839-1922), who married John Francis Shaffner (1838-1908); and Mary Elizabeth Fries (1844-1927), who married Rufus Lenoir Patterson (1830-1879). Shaffner studied medicine in Philadelphia and Salem, where in 1861 he joined the Confederate medical service and was named assistant surgeon of the 33rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was captured and briefly held by federal forces, May-June 1862. In 1863, he joined the 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Caroline Fries and John Francis Shaffner were married in 1865 and together had five children. Mary Elizabeth Fries Patterson and her husband lived during the early years of their marriage at Palmyra, the Patterson family home in Caldwell County, N.C.
Francis Henry Fries (1855-1931) of Winston-Salem, N.C., produced a genealogical history of his family beginning in 810.
Architect, pioneer cotton manufacturer, state legislator, of North Carolina.
The collection documents John Edwin Fripp, a white owner of cotton plantations on St. Helena Island and Chechessee Bluff, Beaufort County, S.C.; his wife, Isabelle Jenkins Fripp (1833-1883); their eleven children; and the people enslaved by the Fripps. There is also documentation of people enslaved by Jane Hay Barnwell and by Joseph Hazel. Manuscript volumes and papers relate chiefly to the cotton plantation and family life. Of note are lists of enslaved people and descriptions of their activities, illnesses, and religious services from the perspective of their white enslaver. Other topics include Fripp's holdings in The Village on St. Helena Island and in Grahamville, S.C.; his accounts with various factors in Charleston, S.C.; his post American Civil War retirement of his debts and the small farming in which he engaged; and starting in the late 1880s, his position as overseer for the Chelsea Plantation Club, Beaufort County, S.C., where he managed the hunt and rounded up poachers.
Levi J. Fritz served in the 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was granted a medical leave of absence in December 1864 for haimoptysis (hemoptysis). He wrote the regiment's song, My 53rd.
John Moran Frohock attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1925 to 1929. He graduated in 1929.
MICROFILM ONLY. Account of the early life of Frontis, later a Presbyterian minister in North Carolina, who grew up in France and Geneva, where his parents had fled from Santo Domingo. Frontis migrated to Philadelphia in 1810, worked there as a cabinet maker unitl 1817, was converted from Catholicism, and was a teacher in Oxford and Raleigh, N.C., while educating himself to enter Princeton Theological Seminary in 1820.
Piety Parker (1798-1879) and Frederick Fulghum (1799-1879), a white Quaker couple, were married 11 October 1818, at the Contentney Meeting House, Wayne County, N.C. Their marriage certificate includes signatures of 26 members of the Contentney Monthly Meeting of Friends.
The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) is a faith-based organization created by Demos Shakarian in 1951 in an effort to merge faith in God with business practices. It is a fellowship of business people that operates in over 100 countries; there are many regional chapters throughout the United States. Materials include original audiocassette tape recordings, the majority of which were made at FGBMFI chapter meetings, conventions, and outreach efforts in North Carolina. These tapes contain sermons, music sessions, and testimonies from different people associated with the FGBMFI. Recordings of two speakers are featured. The first set is of Solomon Ono, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, containing audiocassette tapes from his sermons and testimonies, October 1974-October 1977. The second set is of the Reverend Dr. C. Paul Willis of the Cathedral of His Glory in Greensboro, N.C., containing audiocassette tapes from his sermons and testimonies, February 1979-January 1992, with the bulk of the tapes recorded before 1984. There are also a small number of commercial recordings, including recorded radio programs and a series of tapes of evangelist Pat Robertson. Also included is a list of speakers, 1969-1996; showing who spoke or testified at various North Carolina FGBMFI chapter meetings, chiefly at the Durham-Chapel Hill chapter; and video recordings, 1997-2006, of monthly FGBMFI speakers, the majority of whom are from North Carolina.
Alson Fuller (1832?-1906?) was a physician and surgeon at Hannersville and Jones Mine near Thomasville in Davidson County, N.C.
Bartholomew Fuller (1829-1882) of Fayetteville, and later Durham, N.C., was a lawyer; editor of the Fayetteville Presbyterian; employee of the federal government in Washington, D.C.; and, during the Civil War, employee of the Confederate Post Office Department in Richmond, Va.
Edwin Wiley Fuller (1847-1875) was an author and poet of Louisburg, N.C., who attended the University of North Carolina, 1864-1865, and the University of Virginia, 1867-1868. He wrote Sea-Gift when he was 18 and revised and rewrote it for publication in 1873. Other notable works include The Angel in the Cloud (1907).
Elijah Fuller of Fayetteville, N.C., was active in the mercantile firm of Hart & Fuller, circa 1834 until his death in 1853. In addition to his activities as a merchant, Fuller was a Revolutionary War pension agent and an assignee in bankruptcy court for Cumberland County, N.C. Elijah Fuller married Mary Ann McKay, daughter of Edward and Ann McKay, in 1846. They had two children, Edward P. and Sallie.
The photograph album labeled "Speaking of Ducks with Judge F. L. Fuller, Ocracoke, N.C., January 1928" contains 52 uncaptioned, vernacular photographs captured in 1928 on Ocracoke Island in Hyde County, N.C. Images depict Ocracoke Island's scenery, wildlife, landmarks, waterways, docks, dirt roads, public and residential structures, and fishing boats. Images also show white men hunting, clamming, fishing, and oystering. Included are photographs of Ocracoke Lighthouse, Silver Lake harbor, duck decoy sets, a wild horse, sea oats, a post office, an automobile, and hunters posed with their shotguns and dead prey. Acquired as part of the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.
Joseph Pryor Fuller was a member of the 20th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.
Thomas C. Fuller, of Fayetteville and Raleigh, N.C., was a merchant, Confederate congressman, and justice of the United States Court of Private Land Claims dealing with territory acquired from Mexico, 1891-1901. The collection includes family letters from Fuller; a manuscript copy of a speech by him, 1859; and clippings of articles he wrote about Mexico.
An instantaneous disc recording of the Zion Trio, an all women gospel trio of Rockingham, N.C., singing "Gonna Make My Heaven My Home" and "I'm Just A Stranger Here." Ray Funk, a white music collector and scholar of African American gospel music and the music of Trinidad and Tobago, donated the recording to the Southern Folklife Collection. Little is known about the Zion Trio at this time.
Correspondence of David Funsten, his wife, Susan Meade Funsten (1824-1872), and their relatives, chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Included are correspondence, 1811, between Susan Meade in Virginia and her brother, David Meade, in college at Princeton; letters from David Funsten in Europe in 1858; Civil War letters from David Funsten while he was serving as a colonel with the 11th Virginia Regiment; letters, 1864, from Virginia Military Institute cadet George William Ward to his mother, Julia Ann Funsten Ward; a postwar letter from a former slave; and other Meade, Funsten, and Washington family letters.
Ernest B. Furgurson is an author and reporter. He is the former chief of the Baltimore Sun 's Washington Bureau. He has written books on the Civil War, including Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (1996), Chancellorsville, 1863: the Souls of the Brave (1992), and two biographies: Westmoreland: The Inevitable General (1968) and Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms (1986). This collection consists of materials assembled by Ernest B. Furgurson while researching Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. There are many notes, transcripts of interviews with people who knew Jesse Helms, and materials relating to conservative political organizations like the Congressional Club. There are also materials from the 1950 North Carolina United States Senate election campaign that pitted Democrat Willis Smith, for whom Helms worked, against Frank Porter Graham, and from Helms's own Senate races as a Republican beginning in 1972. Furgurson also collected articles about Helms, transcripts of Helms's WRAL editorials, articles and speeches written by Helms, and other material.
Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) of South Carolina, was a geologist, chemist, author, and professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This collection chiefly contains family letters, 1869-1897, of LeConte to his daughter Emma LeConte (1847-1932), wife of Farish Carter Furman, a Milledgeville, Ga., agriculturalist. Letters relate to scientific work, teaching, university life, family life, and travels to Yosemite and other California and mountain areas. Also included are correspondence, 1870-1894, of Furman regarding his agricultural experiments with cotton and soil fertilization, and histories (photocopies) of the LeConte family and Stevens family by Walter LeConte Stevens, 1880-1910.

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Michael Gaffney (1775-1854) of Ireland came to America in 1797, and spent a short while in upstate New York in 1799, and Charleston, S.C., in 1800, before moving to Union County, S.C., eventually settling at the present site of Gaffney, S.C., in 1802, as a merchant. The collection includes a typed transcription of the diary of Michael Gaffney, copied and edited with additional information supplied by his son, Henry G. Gaffney, in 1894. In addition to his diary, the volume contains the names of Gaffney's children, the names of some of the men in his militia company, and other biographical data.
James McKibbin Gage (1813-1855) was a physician and horsebreeder of Union, S.C. He studied medicine in Paris and Charleston, S.C., from 1835 to 1837 before settling permanently in Union.
This collection contains seven photographic prints of performances and portraits of musicians taken by white New York City-based photographer David Gahr and one photographic print taken by his daughter Carla Gahr. Photographs include: Eastern Kentucky singer and songwriter Sarah Ogan Gunning performing at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival; Eastern Kentucky miner, singer, songwriter, and folk song collector Jim Garland (Sarah Ogan Gunning's brother) performing at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; Creole musicians Canray Fontenot and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin performing at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival; folk song collector, singer and musician Frank Warner performing at the 1960 Newport Folk Festival; portrait of banjo player Billy Faier, 1964; portrait of musician and music director of the Highlander Research and Education Center Guy Carawan, New York City, 1960; portrait of Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center, New York City, 1962; group photograph of performers on stage at a 1987 memorial event for Folkways Records founder Moses Asch (the group includes Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Malvina Reynolds, Izzy Young, and Hazel Dickens); and a photographic print of folksinger David Massengill (circa 1980s) by Carla Adrian Gahr.
Franklin Gaillard (died 1864) was a Confederate officer with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, Kershaw's Brigade. The collection includes photocopies of typed transcriptions of letters from Gaillard while serving with the Confederate army in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and east Tennessee. Most of the letters were written to his sister-in-law, Maria Porcher, who was caring for Gaillard's two children, whose mother had died. The letters contain detailed accounts of battles and other events, Gaillard's evaluations and speculations, description of his surroundings, social life in the areas he passed through, and news of friends and relatives.
Frye Gaillard of Charlotte, N.C., author and journalist, chiefly with The Charlotte Observer.
MICROFILM ONLY. Daily plantation journal, 1803-1825, and slave lists, crop records, accounts, and varied other records, 1799-1851, of The Rocks plantation in Orangeburg District, S.C.
Thomas William Gaither (1840-1863) and J. Burgess Gaither (d. 1864) were Confederate soldiers with the 4th, and probably the 18th and 19th, North Carolina Infantry regiments in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. They were the sons of John J. Gaither of Houstonville, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY. Galax Primitive Baptist Church is located in Galax, Carroll County, Va. The church was established in 1913, and was still active as of 1983, with a membership of about 40 persons. Mountain View Primitive Baptist Church (presumably in the vicinity of Galax, Va.) was constituted in July 1898. Church minutes made available for microfilming extend to 1901. The connection between the Mountain View and Galax churches is unclear. Five volumes consisting of minutes of congregational meetings, membership rolls, the constitution, and other material of the Primitive Baptist Church at Mountain View, presumably located in the vicinity of Galax, Va., and of the Galax Primitive Baptist Church at Galax, Va. Miscellaneous items include articles of faith, three essays or sermons, circa 1900, and programs for funeral services.
Gale and Polk families of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
The collection consists of papers of and about Joseph Gales (1761-1841), his wife Winifred Marshall Gales (1761-1839), and their descendants. Included are manuscript reminiscences of the Gales' experiences as printers, publishers of several newsPapers, booksellers in Sheffield, England, refugees from political repression in Germany, and continuing their career in Philadelphia, Pa., Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C.; a biographical sketch of Joseph and Winifred and their descendants; and other family data, including a tribute to Major Seaton Gales. The reminiscences are extremely detailed concerning the political situation that forced them to leave England, descriptions of their various printing shops and of processes and procedures; and social life in Germany, Philadelphia, and Raleigh.
Charles K. Gallagher (1833-1893) was a druggist who during the Civil War served as captain of a Beaufort County company in the 4th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes Civil War papers, mainly military, of Gallagher while serving in Virginia. Items include enlistment papers, papers relating to Gallagher's exchange as a prisoner of war in 1862, commissions, passes, orders, the roster of the regiment, and items relating to Gallagher's release from service because of deafness in 1864. Also included is a pocket diary kept by Gallagher on a trip to France in 1859, with notes on dining, wines, and wine-making, and a letter on wines written from Reims.
Papers of the Gallaway and Mackie family of Georgia and North Carolina, including correspondence, 1893-1931; writings; legal and financial materials; photographs; and lecture notes of William Francis Gallaway and his wife Vallie of Savannah, Ga. Also included is correspondence, 1924-1966, of their daughter Romagna and her husband, Ernest Lloyd Mackie, a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina.
Economic historian Robert E. Gallman (1926-1998) joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962. He was named a Kenan Professor in 1980 and served as chair of the Economics Department, 1990-1995. He specialized in 19th-century economic growth and antebellum Southern economic history.
Members of the Galloway family of Scotland, Rockingham County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn., were chiefly merchants and land speculators.
The Galyean and Munchus families of Surry County, N.C., including James Munchus (d. circa 1850), and James C. Galyean (d. circa 1890). There are also a few items relating to James's wife Elizabeth; to Samuel Galyean, who appears to have been James's father, 1840s; and to Ephriam Galyean, who may have been James and Elizabeth's son, 1880s.
Members of the Garber family lived in Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Va. J.S. Garber worked on a labor gang and for the United States Corps of Engineers at sites in Fort Stevens, Or.; Fort Assiniboine, Mont.; and Fort Columbia, Wash. J.W. Garber, brother of J.S. Garber, lived with his wife and children on a farm in Mount Jackson, where they planted and harvested grain, fruits, and vegetables, and raised and sold livestock. He also served as a Republican town supervisor and often traveled to Richmond, Va., to solicit funds for his school district. J.W. Garber had at least two sons, W. Hoyle Garber and Robert Lee Garber, and a daughter, Eve Garber. J.S. Garber and J.W. Garber had a brother, Isaac N. Garber, who attended Bridgewater College in Virginia, and possibly one sister, who married Harry Strickler in 1935 and lived in Luray, Va.
The collection includes legal, business, and personal papers, chiefly 1820-1855, of members of the Gardiner family, of Pittsfield, Mass., consisting primarily of correspondence with William Gardiner, merchant of Pittsfield, and Thomas G. Gardiner, lawyer of Manlius, N.Y. The correspondence discusses banking, religious affairs, settlements of estates, a cholera epidemic, emigration to California, and farming, especially raising cotton. Included are a few papers of Judge Addison Gardiner (1797-1883), of Rochester, N.Y. The Gardiner family apparently had extensive business contacts in the South.
The collection contains family letters, chiefly written during the 1920s and 1930s by Mrs. George E. Gardner to her son Matt Ransom Gardner, a white minister in Wilmore, Ky., Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Selma, N.C. Many letters have religious overtones or content. Other letter recipients are Matt Ransom Gardner's wife and their daughter Martha Gardner. Other papers include a 1946 land deed, a few photographs, a high school report card for 1922, a 1913 letter to Santa Claus written by a child, and V-mail received during the Second World War. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
United States Representative of Rocky Mount, N.C.; later lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Congressional office files of Gardner of Rocky Mount, N.C., United States Representative from the 4th District (Nash, Wake, Orange, Chatham, Randolph, Montgomery, and Moore counties) in the 90th Congress, 1967-1968, and Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1968. The bulk of the collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, much of which deals with military service and benefits. Legislative materials, speeches, reports, press releases, and items related to Gardner's bid for the governorship are also included.
Oliver Max Gardner (1882-1947), lawyer of Shelby, N.C., and Washington, D.C.; state senator, 1910-1915, lieutenant governor, 1916-1920, and governor, 1929-1933, of North Carolina. He married Fay Webb (1885-1969), who was active in the Democratic Party and in women's organizations. The collection includes corrrespondence, legal documents, financial records, speeches, press releases, political campaign materials, photographs, college notebooks, and scrapbooks of O. Max Gardner, 1892-1947; of Gardner family members, 1905-1966; of Shelby lawyer, businessman, and politician Odus M. Mull, 1930-1942; and of Shelby educator Isaac C. Griffin, 1917-1918. Included are items relating to Fay Webb Gardner and other family members. Legal papers give insight into adoption, child custody cases, land sales, and estate and debt settlements in Cleveland County, N.C.; into corporate litigation, 1920s-1930s; into the establishment of the Ackland Art Museum; and into legal affairs of the textile, soft drink, and aviation industries. Political papers describe the state State Democratic Executive Committee's organizing efforts, 1908-1915, 1930-1936; state and national political campaigns, 1900s-1950s; and the offices of North Carolina lieutenant governor, 1916-1921, and governor, 1929-1933. Letters comment the New Deal; Democratic Party patronage; the Supreme Court packing controversy of 1937; and economic policy, taxation, and industrial policy. Business papers document Shelby Public Schools during World War I and the operation of family businesses. Personal correspondence, photographs, notebooks, and scrapbooks document the Gardners' courtship; family activities during World War II; the endowment of Gardner-Webb College; administration of North Carolina State College and the University of North Carolina; the role of the political wife; and the activities of women's organizations. Significant correspondents include Graham Anthony, Josiah W. Bailey, William T. Bost, J. Melville Broughton, Cale K. Burgess, Josephus Daniels, Victor Emanuel, William C. Friday, Edwin M. Gill, Ben Gossett, Frank P. Graham, John W. Hanes, Robert M. Hanes, Clyde R. Hoey, H. Wiseman Kendall, Russell Leonard, A. J. Maxwell, Angus McLean, Holt McPherson, Julian S. Miller, Cameron Morrison, Fred W. Morrison, Odus M. Mull, John Parker, D. Hiden Ramsey, Harry Riemer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Rogers, W. Kerr Scott, Robert Stevens, Vernon Taylor, Bess Truman, Harry S Truman, William B. Umstead, Lindsay Warren, Lee Weathers, Edwin Y. Webb, James E. Webb, J. Wallace Winborne, and Robert Woodruff. Additions include deeds and other documents relating to real estate transactions in and around Shelby, N.C.; items relating to the death of O. Max Gardner; and family correspondence, particularly of Gardner's sisters, one of whom lived in Alberta, Canada, and his niece, who lived in rural Washington state.
William Montgomery Gardner (1824-1901) was a United States army officer and Confederate brigadier general. The collection includes chiefly letters from Gardner to his mother, Elizabeth Gardner, of Augusta, Ga., his sister, and his brother, from Mexico, 1847-1848, and California, 1849-1854, discussing military and social affairs. Also included are letters from P. G. T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens; copies of galley proofs of Gardner's memoirs, edited by Elizabeth McKinne Gardner; scrapbooks of clippings of Mrs. James Gardner; and a roster from the Mexican War.
Albert P. Garland was born in Opelousas, La. He practiced law in Opelousas and Shreveport, La., and was assistant attorney for the Standard Oil Company. He was married to Millicent Story Garland. Microfilm of letters from Garland to family members in Opelousas while he served with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. Letters relate primarily to military life and family matters.
William Harris Garland (born circa 1811) was an itinerant mechanic for railroad shops, sawmills, and steamboats in towns from North Carolina to Florida. The collection includes personal correspondence, from 1836, of Garland. Letters are to and from members of his family and friends, written in Beaufort, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Laurinburg, N.C., and Wilmington, N.C., Fernandina, Fla., and many other towns, and are largely concerned with the uncertainties of earning a livelihood without capital. Also included is correspondence before and after 1836 of the Garland family at Beaufort with their relatives in England.
MICROFILM ONLY. Garnett family of Virginia and Washington, D.C., and Wise family of Virginia. Prominent individuals represented include Henry A. Wise and his son-in-law, Dr. Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett. Early items include a muster roll, dated 1624 (copy) of Thomas Garnett, listing persons residing in Elizabeth City, Va., their ages, and the year and ship in which they arrived in Virginia. Eighteenth-century materials include a letter from a soldier serving in the Continental Army in Philadelphia discussing army life and troop movements. Nineteenth- century materials include family letters, 1833-1854, of the Wise, Jennings, and Garnett families. Letters of 1855 from Henry A. Wise to James P. Hambleton and others concern Wise's election campaign and state and national political history during the 1830s and 1840s. Letters of 1863 concern a personal quarrel involving Henry A. Wise, Alexander Garnett, and Jefferson Davis (Garnett was Davis's personal physician). Postwar letters include several written by Wise to his grandchildren containing advice.
Anna Maria Deans Garretson (fl. 1807-1829) was a resident of Gloucester county and Mathews county, Va. The collection is chiefly scattered personal letters to and from Anna Maria Deans Garretson exchanged with her friends and relatives. The letters concern health, housekeeping, visits and other activities. Those from Garretson to her husband, Isaac Garretson, who worked for the United States Navy in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., concern farm affairs in Gloucester County. The collection also includes one unrelated letter, 2 May 1893, addressed to the Reverend D. Watson Winn, of Brunswick, Ga., written by Aug. Soderholm, describing Alexandria, Egypt.
Albert Earle Garrett, Jr. (1909-1998), a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, practiced law in Danville, Va. In his student days, he met Swain Wu, a Chinese citizen (then called Swain Wool) pursuing an education at the College of William and Mary and at Columbia University. After his return to China, Wu became an educator, businessman, and government official. In 1957, Wu left mainland China and moved to Hong Kong; in 1963, he immigrated to the United States.
Family letters dated 1856 to 1866 from Franklin Garrett (1840-1896) of Monroe, La., comprise the bulk of the collection. In his letters home from Centenary College in Jackson, La., and later from the University of North Carolina, Garrett describe student life. A few Civil War letters reflect Garrett's experience serving in the Confederate States of America Army. Other letters dated 1859 to 1862 are to Franklin Garrett from his father Isaiah Garrett (1812-1875), a lawyer and plantation owner in Ouachita Parish, La. In these letters from father to son, Isaiah discusses family members and life in Monroe, La., and he offers advice on academic pursuits. Other items include a certificate exempting Franklin Garrett from military service in the Confederate army, receipts, an 1868 membership certificate for the Ouachita Central Democratic Club, receipts, election results in Lincoln, Jackson, and Bienville Parishes, La., for the 1876 presidential election, and a photograph of Garrett's law offices in Monroe, La., circa 1870s. The mounted albumen print depicts seven white men outside the office and one African American man with a bicycle at the side of the building.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters to Mrs. Maryette Wetmore, Madison County, N.Y., from J. P. Garrett, 52-year-old fifer in the band of the 97th N.Y. Volunteers, encamped in northern Virginia and near Washington, D.C. The first two letters were written by Garrett as amanuensis to Oliver Moyes, a relative of Mrs. Wetmore. During the war, Garrett lost track of Moyes but continued independently his letters to Mrs. Wetmore. Garrett's letters describe army life and war news, and discuss Moyes's business and death.
Thomas Miles Garrett of Hertford and Bertie counties, N.C., was a member of the University of North Carolina class of 1851; lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; and colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War.
Legal complaint of Eleazar Cumming, the administrator of the estate of William Garrett, a Wilkinson County, Ga., planter who died intestate. Attached exhibits include an inventory and an appraisal of the estate.
The undated recordings of folk singer and woodcarver Marshall Garris of Rocky Mount, N.C., were mastered for preservation by the Southern Folklife Collection in the late 1990s. The original instantaneous discs, likely recorded in the late 1940s and 1950s, were returned to the family member who loaned them. In the late 1940s, Garris performed on the radio program "Young Tar Heel Artists" broadcast on WPTF radio from Raleigh, N.C. Also included in the collection is a 1997 interview with Garris's daughter Ross Raphael conducted by folklorist and former head of the Southern Folklife Collection, Michael Taft. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Audio recording of the 4th Annual Georgia State Sacred Harp Convention, 27 March 1965, in Georgia (exact location unknown). Recorded by John F. Garst, a white American folk songs and ballads researcher and professor at the University of Georgia, in 1965. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a track listing and a collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff.
D. (Daniel) Garver (1830-1865) was a federal soldier who served with the 9th Iowa Regiment during the Civil War. The collection includes letters to his family from Garver, while with the 9th Iowa Regiment in Missouri and Arkansas, 1861-1862, as a patient in Lawson Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., 1863, and in Alabama, 1864-1865. The letters concern camp life, troop movements, battles, Garver's health, and other matters.
Marshall J. Gasquet (fl. 1849-1899) and F. J. Gasquet (fl. 1867-1894) were merchants in New Orleans, La., and New York, N.Y. The collection contains a general business letter book, 1889-1894; records of tobacco shipped, 1849; balance sheets and ledger, 1867-1870; and records of callers in New York, N.Y., 1895-1903.
James McFadden Gaston (1824-1903), Confederate surgeon and physician from South Carolina, left the United States immediately after the Civil War and settled his family in Brazil where he practiced medicine in the city of Campinas. After almost two decades, Gaston returned with some family members to Atlanta, Ga., and re-entered American medical life, teaching at Southern Medical College, publishing articles, and conducting research. Gaston's son, James McFadden Gaston (1868-1946), was also a physician and surgeon. From 1908 until 1936, the younger Gaston and his wife, Annie Bunn Gay Gaston, worked as a medical missionaries in Laichowfu, China, under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1936, they returned to the United States and retired in Deland, Fla., where Gaston was involved in local church activities, especially the No Liquor League. Materials relating to James McFadden Gaston (1824-1903) date from 1852 to the 1890s and include letters to his wife, Susan Greening Brumby, detailing his experiences in the Civil War and in Brazil; a journal kept during his initial visit to Brazil; several manuscripts of novels about the antebellum American South; and other papers, including Brazilian Masonic certificates, lecture notes, broadsides advertising the Southern Medical College, and newspaper clippings. Materials relating to James McFadden Gaston (1868-1946) include letters about his work in China, his business affairs, and Gaston family history; an unpublished biography of his father; a series of journals documenting his boyhood in Brazil through retirement in Florida; and other papers, including religious pamphlets. Also included are a few photographs of Gaston family members and their friends.
William Gaston (1778-1844) of New Bern, N.C., was a lawyer, state legislator, United States representative, and North Carolina Supreme Court judge.
The Gastonia (N.C.) Gazette was a newspaper owned and run by four generations of men in the Atkins family, including Benjamin E. Atkins (1848-1909) and his sons James William Atkins (1880-1965) and Emmet D. Atkins. The collection contains communications addressed to the editor of the Gazette, April-July 1929, concerning the drive to organize North Carolina textile workers, the strike at Manville-Jenckes mill, and murder charges against Fred Erwin Beal and others following the shooting of Police Chief D. A. Aderholt on June 7, 1929. Also included are: communication from Beal and Will Truitt, strike organizers; two letters from anonymous individuals; and two news releases from the International Labor Defense. Also included is a copy, 1939, of a printed petition addressed to Governor Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina, asking pardon for Beal, with space for signatures.
R. C. (Richard Caswell) Gatlin, native of North Carolina, was an officer of the United States Army, 1828-1861, and then Confederate brigadier general.
Secretary-treasurer of the Miles Planting and Manufacturing Company, which controlled 13 large sugar plantations; developer of a subdivision of New Orleans; and business representative of William Porcher Miles.
Charles de Gaulle was a French general, statesman, and veteran of World War I and World War II. He led the Free French Forces during World War II and later served as France's president, 1944-1945; prime minister, 1958-1959; and minister of defense, 1958-1959, before founding the French Fifth Republic and serving as its first president, 1959-1969. De Gaulle died in 1970. Jacques Hardre (1915-1983) was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1945-1977, serving as both professor of French and chair of the Department of Romance Languages. Hardre was born in Dinan, France, but spent much of his childhood in Greensboro, N.C. He served in the 129th Infantry Regiment of the French Army at the outbreak of World War II before joining the First Armored Division of de Gaulle's Free French Forces in London, England, for the remainder of the war. Hardre wrote numerous books and articles concerning French culture, history, and literature, and received many honors, including the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. He died in 1983 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Charles Beers Gault (1911-1998), a native of Lake Waccamaw, N.C., son of Francis Beers Gault and Susie Bell LaMotte Gault, attended Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Va., and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; worked for Jefferson Pilot Life Insurance Company; and served in the United States Army, 1941-1960, retiring as colonel. The papers include correspondence; postcards; military, college, and other papers; and family and military photographs. Correspondence, 1880-1960, is chiefly with family and friends discussing daily activities and family matters. Business letters of Francis Beers Gault, who owned the North Carolina Lumber Company, include one about building Flemington Hall, the family home in Lake Waccamaw, N.C. Early Charles B. Gault letters document his time at the University of North Carolina, 1931, and his work at Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, 1934-1939. Letters 1941-1945 were written during Gault's World War II service in the 25th Evacuation Hospital in Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and with the Detachment Medical Department of La Garde General Hospital in New Orleans, La. Postcards, 1911-1960, chiefly relate to activities of Gault family members. Military papers, 1941-1960, document Gault's military service in the United States Army and include histories of military hospitals and other units; college papers, 1929-1933, document Gault's education at University of North Carolina and at King's Business College in Raleigh, N.C. Photographs, 1906-1950s, are chiefly of Charles B. Gault, Gault family members, and military subjects.
Lynn Gault (d. 1998), a native of Ohio, was technical director for Carolina Playmakers, 1946-1951, and for outdoor historical dramas; theater instructor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, and Hiram College; and potter in Brasstown, N.C. This collection primarily documents Gault's work in theater, especially with the Carolina Playmakers, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It contains scripts of his plays, poetry, and other writings; and articles, posters, playbills, and other material relating to Gault, to the Carolina Playmakers, and to the Virginia Players. Films may relate to Carolina Playmakers productions and to productions of Paul Green's The Lost Colony in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Thomas N. Gautier was the commander of the United States naval forces at Wilmington, N.C., 1808-1813.
David Gavin was a white lawyer and owner of a plantation that used enslaved labor near St. George, S.C., which was probably in Dorchester County. Gavin's diary includes entries, 1855-1871; personal accounts, 1856-1874; and 150 brief entries giving vital dates and other information about white family members, friends, and acquaintances. Gavin wrote about the daily tasks of enslaved people, their illnesses and the remedies used to treat them, problems with a self-emancipated enslaved person named Team, free Blacks in Colletin District, and his work as an appraiser of enslaved people in the disposition of estates. Other entries discuss family members and neighbors, Gavin's political views (he apparently was a member of the American Party), election results for Colleton District, S.C., Gavin's legal work, his work as a surveyor, life on his plantation, and other matters. Social and legal experiences of women are also occasionally noted.
Sarah Susan Gay (1850-1918) of Northampton County, N.C., was married to Israel Putnam Parker (1851-1904).
Mary Malvina Southard was attending Greenville Female College (later Greenville Woman's College) in 1907, when she met Solomon Haddon Geer, a sophomore at Furman University. Their relationship continued through Geer's years at Furman and his attendance at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., 1909-1913. They were married in June 1913. Solomon Haddon Geer subsequently served on various naval vessels and participated in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, by United States troops in 1914. He was then transferred to duty in the Pacific, serving on a survey ship in the Philippines after the outbreak of World War I. He returned to the United States in 1918 and seems to have died between 1918 and 1924. The collection contains a large number of letters, 1906-1936 and undated, from Solomon Haddon Geer to Mary Malvina Southard during their courtship and after their marriage in 1913. There are also letters from other members of the Southard and Geer families to Mary Malvina Southard Geer. The letters from Solomon Haddon Geer discuss his social life while a student at Furman University, his academic and social experiences while at the United States Naval Academy, details of his training and duties while serving in the United States Navy on various warships, and his experiences during the 1914 occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, and on survey duty in the Philippines during World War I. Also included are typed transcripts of most of the letters; photographs of Mary Malvina Southard Geer; and photographs taken during the Russian Revolution, that appear to depict the aftermath of the coup attempt led by Czech general Rudolf Gajda, in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1919. The addition of August 2022 includes Geer family postcards; transcripts of two interviews with Mary Malvina Southard Geer's son, former UNC-Chapel Hill history professor William Monroe Geer about his upbringing in Jonesville, S.C.; and William Monroe Geer's handwritten transcription of a journal kept by 19th century South Carolina politician Benjamin Franklin Perry. Journal entries date from Entries from 1832 to 1863.
William Geer was a history professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Oliver Max Gardner was a lawyer of Shelby, N.C., and Washington, D.C., and state senator, 1910-1915, lieutenant governor, 1916-1920, and governor, 1929-1933, of North Carolina. Upon O. Max Gardner's death in 1947, Geer became interested in writing a biography of him. For some time, Geer held in trust the personal papers of O. Max Gardner, which were donated to the Southern Historical Collection in 1962. While he did much research on the subject, the biography was never finished.
George Gegner (fl. 1864-1865) was a federal soldier who served with Company H, 130th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. The collection includes letters from Gegner, while a federal soldier during the Civil War to Lizzie Wayman, at home in Alexandria, Ind. The letters were written while Gegner's unit was advancing on Atlanta, Ga., from Tennessee and then returning; they describe marches, engagements, foraging expeditions, reactions to Lincoln's death, conversations with paroled Confederate officers, and other matters.
The Jack Geiger Collection is an assemblage of documents and audio recordings that were used in the research for and writing of Thomas J. Ward, Jr.'s Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2016). The collection chronicles the administrative history of the Delta Health Center in the historically black township of Mound Bayou, Miss., its initiatives especially the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative and improved sanitation, and conflicts with Mississippi's medical community and white political power structure. Collection materials offer insight on the community health center movement, community organizing, community health councils, public and environmental health, and the impact of systemic racism on public health. Other topics include malnutrition, food insecurity, infant mortality, elder care, sharecropping, Mississippi's plantation-based agriculture, housing in rural Mississippi, recruitment and retention of medical staff for the rural community health center, mental health, segregated healthcare, civil rights, leadership in the African American community, and African American fraternal orders. Also included are documents and audio recordings pertaining to a second community health center, now named the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center, that was founded in the same time period and located in the predominantly low income neighborhood of Columbia Point in Boston, Mass. The Addition of April 2018 contains a short documentary film on the Delta Health Center made by student filmmaker, Judy Schader Rogers, in the fall of 1969 and winter of 1970.
Audio interviews with historians, folklorists, and storytellers on historical feuds of southern Appalachia and the Middle East. Robin L. Geller, a folklore student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted the interviews as part of her master's thesis, titled "Feuding in Southern Appalachia and the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis." The collection also includes supporting documentation, such as tape logs, memos, and select interview transcripts, created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff and presumably Robin L. Geller. Audio recordings of particular note include an interview with, and performances of stories by John E. ("Frail") Joines, a white storyteller of Wilkes County, N.C., who recounts stories and legends of his family's involvement in Wilkes County feuds, as well as an interview with Dr. Cratis D. Williams, a white folklorist, ballad collector, and professor at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., who discusses feuding in Morehead, Rowan County, Ky., and the various circumstances which have contributed to the propensity of feuding in Kentucky.
A 191-page typed manuscript called Tales of One Time I'shman Told by Southern Negroes, collected by Lawrence Gellert and apparently prepared for publication by the Hours Press, New York. The manuscript contains about seventy folk-tales told by African-Americans in the South about Irish immigrants to the area. Included are thirty-six pen and ink illustrations by Gellert.
The collection contains genealogical notes on the Robinson, Strong, Terry, Garrett, Mims, Bostwick, Brimsmeade, Browning, DeJarnette, Hampton, Havens, Hickson, Horton, Leake, May, Owens, Peebles, Pickett, Raiford, and Spencer families.
The collection contains a deed, land grant, and survey belonging to Nathaniel Jones and Tignall Jones of Middle District, N.C.; a hand-drawn street map, 1797, of Raleigh, N.C.; and a photograph of a depiction of the Revolutionary War battle of Franklin, Tenn.
Contemporary copy, headed No. 2, of an indenture between King George II and the Carolina proprietors, in which the proprietors sold back to the Crown seven-eighths of the grant of 1663.
The field recording was made by anthropologist Kenneth M. George for his 1989 doctoral dissertation titled . The recording contains Pitu Ulunna Salu music from the Sulawesi Selatan province of Indonesia. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Ken George and Jay Orr Collection consists of audio recordings, 1977, of Fred Cockerham performing old-time string band music in concert with Mike Fishback and Nowell Creadick. Cockerham, an old-time fiddle and banjo player from Low Gap, Surry County, N.C., primarily plays fiddle, while Fishback primarily plays banjo and Creadick is on guitar. The live performance was recorded by anthropologist, Ken George, and country music historian, Jay Orr, at the Ranch House restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C. The recordings include musicians talking between songs and audience responses and applause.
The Jeff Titon and Ken George Collection consists of audio recordings, 1971-1990, of Baptist testimonies, sermons, and hymns recorded by ethnomusicologist, Jeff Titon, and anthropologist, Ken George. The majority of the recordings, 1971-1978, relate to Titon and George's scholarship on Reverend John Claymon Sherfey of Falls Church, Va. and his "folk preaching." Sherfey, who was born in Boone, N.C., began his ministry as an evangelist, preaching in revivals and on a half-hour radio program on WKIN (Kingsport, Tenn.). Sherfey later became pastor of the Fellowship Independent Baptist Church in Stanley, Va. and host of the half-hour radio ministry on WRAA (Luray, Va.). In the late 1970s both Titon and George spent time with Sherfey and his congregations, recording services, radio broadcasts, and interviews. The collection includes these recordings of worship services, prayer meetings, and Reverend Sherfey's radio broadcasts on WRAA, in Luray, Va., with hymn singing, gospel quartets, duets, songs, testimonials, sermon chanting, and Sherfey singing duets with his wife, Pauline. There are also extensive interviews with Sherfey and seventeen church members, including Reverend Belvin Hurt and an earlier recording of Reverend G. A. Cave, and recordings of several revival services led by Sherfey in Sparta, N.C. The collection also includes an audio recording, 1990, by Titon that features Baptist worship services held in the Kentucky counties of Letcher and Knott.
Wesley Critz George was professor of histology and embryology and chair of the Anatomy Department, University of North Carolina Medical School, and an internationally recognized researcher on the genetics of race.
The collection contains two Georgia land grants, including one granting 1000 acres of land to John Harrington, signed by George Mathews, governor; and a facsimile of a Georgia land certificate dated 1783.
John Peter Geortuer (1797-1829) was an Evangelical Lutheran minister from Johnstown, N.Y. The collection includes Geortuer's diary, 17 May-16 June 1828, containing a detailed and literary account of a sojourn in Paris, France, including descriptions of sight-seeing, visits with General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette and other prominent figures, French reactions to political events in America, the Lutheran Church in Paris, accommodations, and general activities; and a photograph of a painted portrait of Geortuer.
William Alexander Gerhardie was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, and educated there and at Oxford. He served in World War I, became military attache to the British Embassy at Petrograd, and went with the British Military Mission to Siberia, 1918-1920. His novels include Futility: a Novel on Russian Themes (1922); The Polyglots (1925); and Resurrection (1934), an autobiographical novel that argues for the immortality fo the soul. His critical writings include Anton Chekhov (1923); Memoirs of a Polyglot (1931); and The Romanoffs (1940), substantially a history of Russia.
The collection of folklorist and traditional music performer Alice Gerrard contains more than 700 audio recordings and supporting documentation of live music performances and interviews with traditional and country music artists, spanning the late 1950s through the 1990s. Of particular interest are the live concert recordings of notable musicians and songwriters performing at large and small venues, including conventions, festivals, and musicians' homes. Additional recordings, both audio and video, include fiddle lessons, raw tracks and master tapes for several Gerrard albums, documentaries featuring Gerrard, and a 1989 meeting of the Old Time Music Group, a nonprofit organization and publisher of Old-Time Herald. Photographs depict music festivals and other gatherings, musicians, musical instruments, and the Gerrard family. Also included are correspondence with family and friends, posters, contracts, artists files, and other materials relating to MerleFest in Wilkesboro, N.C.; the Old Time Music Group; the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project; and the Newport Folk Foundation.
David R. Gessner was the assistant manager at Club 47, a folk music club in Cambridge, Mass. He runs a small independent record label, ESCA records, and lives in Sommerville, Mass.
The collection consists of two letters to a Mr. Gessner concerning the hiring of a teacher for a Clarksville, Va., boy's school, and one letter to him concerning food that had been sent to him as a Confederate soldier.
The collection contains The Old Place, by Augusta Moore Gibble, a description, circa 1950, of an old plantation on the North Carolina coast near Wilmington, the home of the Howe and Moore families from colonial days, including memories of her childhood there.
Jacob Lyon Gibble (1834-1927) was a general merchant in Carteret County, N.C.
The collection is composed of a recording on audio cassette tape, a digital photographic print, and a typescript titled "Daughters in Search of Their Father" about Shirley Lewey-Payne Gibbs's research on her father Fred Jackson Lewey (1884-1935), the lyricist of the popular American railroad ballad "Wreck of the Old 97." The cassette, a dub of cylinders held by the Library of Congress, has four tracks of Lewey singing "Wreck" and three other songs. The digital print is an image of Lewey in circa 1930. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Gibson and Humphreys families of Live Oak Plantation and Oak Forest Plantation near Tigerville in Terrebonne Parish, La., and Sumner's Forest Plantation near Versailles, Ky. Prominent family members included Louisiana plantation owner Tobias Gibson (d. ca. 1870); his son, Randall Lee Gibson (1832-1892), lawyer and U.S. representative and senator, 1875- 1892; Tobias's daughter, Sarah Gibson Humphreys (fl. 1846-1885), fiction writer; and her son, Joseph A. Humphreys, Jr. (fl. 1870-1898).
J. (Joseph) Gibson was a resident of Guilford County, N.C.
The collection of white journalist and founder of The Triangle Pointer, Roland Giduz (1925-2009) contains black-and-white negatives including 120 roll film and sheet film relating to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1970. Images depict individuals including African Americans; President John F. Kennedy, Frank Porter Graham, and William Kenan; sporting events including tennis, swimming, and basketball; and scenes from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and other locations in North Carolina. The negatives are grouped by locality, subject, and personal name.
Roland Giduz (1925- ) of Chapel Hill, N.C., journalist and long-time associate director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Association and editor of several of its serial publications. Giduz is also active in civic and service organizations in the community and served for twelve years on the Chapel Hill Town Council. From 1953 through 1982, he contributed a regular local feature and opinion column called Newsman's Notepad to the Chapel Hill Newspaper and other local newspapers.
James Gifford, United States Navy paymaster steward, served on the United States Bark Release during the Civil War. Gifford's parents lived in New Bedford, Mass. The collection includes letters, 7 December 1863-29 January 1865, from James Gifford on the United States Bark Release, anchored near Beaufort, N.C., to his parents in New Bedford, Mass. The letters discuss ship and troop movements, the capture of blockade runners, and yellow fever on and off the coast of eastern North Carolina; Gifford's shipboard duties; and his financial problems relating to fluctuating food prices and the scarcity of clothing items.
George Washington Gift (b. 1833) of Tennessee was a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. In April 1864, he married Ellen Augusta Shackelford of Early County, Ga.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers, 1831-1867 and circa 1910, of the Gignilliat family, including bills and receipts for household goods and provisions, and other business items of Norman Page Gignilliat (born 1809) of Brooks County and Marietta, Ga.; reminiscences of N. P. Gignilliat's wife, Charlotte Trezevant Gignilliat (1819-1910), written circa 1910, concerning her childhood in Charleston, S.C., and Darien, Ga., married life, and family history (140 pages); and Gignilliat family genealogical and biographical data.
Federico Guillermo Gil, Kenan Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department, and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The collection is a typescript copy made in 1947 of records in a family Bible. The records dated 1669 to 1798 identify the descendants of Thomas and Mary Pierce and the Pierce, Gilbert, and Morris families, who were Quaker settlers in the Albermarle section of North Carolina.
Marie Rogers Gilbert was born in 1924 in Florence, S.C. In 1946, she married Richard A. Gilbert, a finance officer for the Air Force. In 1952, as an Air Force reservist, Richard A. Gilbert was called up for duty in the Korean War and served in an account-auditor in Seoul, Korea. The Gilberts had two children, R. Austin Gilbert Jr. and Laurence (Laurie) Gilbert. Marie Gilbert published several collections of poetry. Gilbert was active in the North Carolina Poetry Society, serving as president, 1990-1992. She received numerous awards for her work, including the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Awards in 1994 and the Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Award in 2003, and she served as writer-in-residence at Saint Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., from fall 2000 to spring 2001. Marie Gilbert died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2007.
J. J. Gilchrist (fl. 1854-1884) was a general merchant of Fayetteville, N.C.
Peter Spence Gilchrist was an English immigrant and pioneer in chemical engineering of Charlotte, N.C.
The scattered papers of the white Giles family of Wilmington, N.C., include an 1882 letter written by Henry L. Giles (Active 1830-1882), a Black bricklayer of Savannah, Ga. He addressed the letter to his former enslaver William B. Giles (1812-1883), a white lumber merchant with businesses in North Carolina and Georgia. Letters written during the American Civil War are chiefly between members of the white Giles and Wright families who remained in Wilmington, N.C., or Savannah, Ga., and those who were fighting for the Confederacy in the 1st, 10th, 24th, and 37th North Carolina regiments and the 1st and 63rd Georgia regiments. Authors mention pro-Union sentiments in Wilmington, N.C., the construction of an ironclad gunboat for the defense of Wilmington and the Cape Fear River, army camp life, Union war ships off the coast of Elba Island near the port of Savannah, and Union General William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia. Also included are contemporary manuscript copies of military orders related to the “suspension of hostilities” and issued on 27 April 1865 by Sherman and by Confederate general J.E. Johnston. Family correspondence between 1800 and 1860 pertains chiefly to personal and social news; everyday life in Madison County, Tenn.; and travel and recreation in New Orleans, La., Natchitoches, La., Texas, Hagerstown, Md., and Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Eighteenth-century documents of the related Wright, Reston, Jocelyn, Grainger, and DuBois families include deeds, plats, indentures, and letters containing marital advice, reports home from students away at school, and other personal, family, and local news. Undated materials include a brief speech rationalizing the institution of slavery with Biblical, economic, and racist arguments..
The Carl Gilfillan Collection consists of field recordings, 1971, created and compiled by filmmaker and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alum, Carl Gilfillan. The recordings in the collection were used as part of the soundtrack for Gilfillan's 1971 documentary film, The Struggle, which was the result of a five-year study of Cedar Branch, a socially and geographically isolated village in South Carolina's swampland. All of the field recordings in the collection feature African American congregational spirituals recorded at St. Joseph Mission Baptist Church in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. The spirituals are sung in the traditional call-and-response style. Heard between songs are testimonials from the congregation and ecstatic religious experiences.
Edwin Maurice Gill was born in Laurinburg, N.C., 20 July 1899. He served in the General Assembly in 1929 and 1931 and was private secretary to Governor O. Max Gardner, 1931-1933. He was Commissioner of Paroles, 1933-1942; Commissioner of Revenue, 1942-1949; and Collector of Internal Revenue, 1950-1953. He was elected State Treasurer in 1953, an office he held until his retirement in 1977. The collection includes personal files maintained by Gill, circa 1933-1977, consisting of correspondence and speeches, book reviews, other writings by him, photographs, and audio recordings. Subjects documented include O. Max Gardner, tax structure and state finances in North Carolina, parole, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the North Carolina Art Society, and education, economic development, roads and the Democratic Party in North Carolina.
Thomas Gill was a merchant in Bertie County, N.C., in the early 19th century, selling primarily turpentine, tar, and bees wax. Gill had a business partner, William Copeland, until 1804, when he appears to have become sole proprietor of his business. In 1808, Gill moved with his family to a farm adjacent to Bean Station, Tenn., in Grainger County. The collection consists of Thomas Gill's Accounts Ledger B, 1803-1813. Most of the transactions are from 1803-1804 and deal with turpentine, tar, and bees wax. Accounts are recorded in pounds, shillings, and pence. An alphabetical list of customers (h, i, j, and k pages are missing) precedes the account listings. The family names of Askew, Freeman, Newsom, and Outlaw are recorded frequently. Transactions relating to the partnership of Gill and William Copeland fill the first 140 pages of the ledger. In 1804, after the partnership appears to have ended, Gill continued to enter accounts from his individual business operations for another 56 pages. The ledger also contains occasional references to an earlier partnership between Gill and John Harrell. The final two pages of the ledger appear to record loan payments and interest charges paid by Gill and William Copeland from 1808 to 1813; these seem to be the only pages written after Gill's relocation to Grainger County, Tenn.
Members of the Gillespie and Wright family, included James Gillespie (1747?-1805), planter, North Carolina state legislator, 1779-1786, and U.S. congressman, 1793-1799 and 1803-1805. Gillespie was married to Dorcas Mumford Gillespie (1750-1801). Their daughter, Jane (1785-1858), married planter Isaac Wright (1780-1865). The Gillespie and Wright families owned thousands of acres of land and significant numbers of slaves in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, especially in Duplin County.
David Gillespie was born in Duplin County, N.C., on 5 April 1774. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1795, after which he accepted the position of assistant surveyor with Andrew Ellicott, secretary of the commission to mark the western boundary of the United States. This work was done primarily in the Natchez, Miss., region. Gillespie was a major during the War of 1812 and also served in the North Carolina legislature. Gillespie died in 1829 in Bladen County, N.C.
The 1989 field recordings made at the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina contain Cherokee music. The Qualla Boundary is land held in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Also included in the collection is a letter from the collection donor John D. Gillespie to Dan Patterson, English and Folklore professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The interview with ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax on audio cassette was conducted by radio producer Lex Gillespie over the telephone for New York National Public Radio in 1994. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Members and ancestors of the Pugh and Gilliam families resided in the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina.
MICROFILM ONLY. Genealogical materials about the Wooding, Gilliam, and related families of Virginia. Included are The Woodings of Virginia (1935) about the descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Hill Wooding of Halifax and Pittsylvania counties, including their Taylor, Williams, Carter, Booth, Crews, Neal, Grasty, and Schoolfield connections; Landover (1947) about the descendants of Glover Davenport Gilliam (1800-1852) and Eliza Bolling Jones Gilliam, whose daughter Olivia Ford Gilliam (1844-1907) married Thomas H. Wooding; and a short genealogy of the Jones, West, Gilliam, and Wooding families.
The collection of Lawrence Stanley Gilliam (1946-) of Kannapolis, N.C., contains five recordings on open-reel audiotape and the accompanying field notes with song lists and some narrative description. Recordings include dubs Gilliam made of 78 rpm records with religious and secular songs, especially hillbilly music and blues. The 1979 recording features Gilliam singing folk songs taught to him by his grandmother Cora Mae Reynolds Collins Roseman (1888-), a textile worker originally from Georgia. Song titles include "Cleveland's elected," "Miss McKinley sent for the doctor," and "I got my Sunday shoes on, I got my hair slicked down." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The William Gilliam Papers, 1850s-1890s, consist chiefly of loan and tax receipts and other financial and legal documents, some of which relate to Gilliam’s administration of the estates of a few of his neighbors. Of primary interest are the papers concerning the administration of the estate of Jonas Elias Pope, a free person of color, who was Gilliam’s neighbor in Potecasi, N.C. There is also a small group of papers from James Henry Johnson, who was a neighbor and the son-in-law of Gilliam.
Marcellin Gillis emigrated from France in 1843 and became a cotton factor in New Orleans, La., and a landowner in Catahoula Parish, La. He married Carolina Emily Griffin, of Wilkinson County, Miss., in 1854.
David J. Gilmer was an A.M.E. Zion minister and director in the 1930s and 1940s of Trinity Mission, Greensboro, N.C., a shelter for the homeless.
Jeremy Francis Gilmer (1818-1883) was a United States Army Engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers.
Miscellaneous papers of Joseph W. Gilmer, a white farmer in Guilford County, N.C., and his brothers Robert Shaw Gilmer and John F. Gilmer, including deeds, indentures, a pardon for participation in the Confederate rebellion, and a family letter that mentions the trafficking of Kiz(?) and her child, a family enslaved by the Gilmers, through hiring out of their labor, skills, and knowledge.
Represented are members of the Branner, Atkins, and Gilmer families, including merchant and educator Joseph A. Branner of western North Carolina and Tennessee; his wife, Mary Josephine Mollie Love Branner; their daughters, Love Branner Gilmer and Ella Branner Atkins; Love's husband, Robert D. Gilmer (1859-1925), lawyer and legislator of Waynesville, N.C.; opera singer Josephine Gilmer, daughter of Love Branner Gilmer and Robert D. Gilmer; and Ella's husband, James Atkins, Jr. (1850-1923), president of the Asheville (N.C.) Female College and later of Emory and Henry College in Virginia.
The posters are hand-pulled prints made, numbered, and signed by Skillet Gilmore, an artist, musician, and owner of Crawlspace Press in Raleigh, N.C. Most posters are advertisements for music shows at clubs in Raleigh and Durham, N.C., including Kings, Pour House, and Motorco. Musicians and music groups featured in the posters include Kenny Roby, Caitlin Cary, Thad Cockrell, Chip Robinson, and Hank Sinatra. Other posters advertise the Hopscotch and Troika music festivals. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Gilpin family of Virginia and Maryland, particularly Baltimore wholesale druggist Bernard Gilpin (1826-1897); his son Henry Brooke Gilpin (born 1853) and his wife Hattie Newcomer Gilpin; their son Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin (1890-1947), who bred horses and cattle in Clarke County, Va., and served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1916-1920, and his wife, Isabella Tyson Gilpin (1895- ) of Knoxville, Tenn., daughter of U.S. Brigadier General Lawrence Davis Tyson (1861-1929) and philanthropist Bettie McGhee Tyson (1865-1933); and their children McGhee Tyson Gilpin (1919- ), Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin Junior (1923- ), and Bettie Brooke Gilpin (1935- ).
Mary Barnett Gilson was an economist at the University of Chicago, 1931-1942, and a specialist in industrial relations with various private companies and government agencies. She retired to Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1940s.
The collection contains indentures, deeds, and land warrants, 1859-1900, involving Owen F. Ginn, Burwell Shadding, G. Lane, Henry Robinson, Lemuel Shadding, J. F. Hill, and Freeman Thompson, all of Wayne County, N.C.
The collection contains autograph letters, collected by Mrs. James G. Glass, with slight content, chiefly late 19th and early 20th century, from many Episcopal bishops, and collected pictures of them (mostly clipped from publications).
Henry Haywood Glassie (1871-1938) was a native of Tennessee, but spent most of his adult life in Washington D.C. as a lawyer. In 1914 he was appointed special assistant to the United States attorney general, and was also a member of the United States Tariff Commission. Chiefly papers concerning the practice of law, including Glassie's service in the United States attorney general's office and with the United States Tariff Commission, but also including papers about personal and cultural matters, politics, and domestic and tactical matters during World War I. Among Glassie's correspondents were politicians of both parties, particularly in the 1914-1917 period, including his father-in-law, Donelson Caffery (1835-1906), United States senator from Louisiana. Also included are legal lettercopy books, 1873-1874 and 1912-1913, from Glassie's law practice in Washington, D.C.; notebooks; memoranda concerning his trip to Europe for the Tariff Commission, 1925; and lettercopy books, 1884-1886, of the Manoa Company of New York, concerning shipping business in Latin America.
Glen Raven Mills Inc. was owned by John Quentin Gant (ca. 1847-1930), who established John Q. Gant Mfg. Co. in Burlington, N.C., in 1900 and began using the name Glen Raven in 1902. Gant had entered the retail dry goods business in Company Shops, N.C. (renamed Burlington in 1893) in 1872, with Lawrence and Banks Holt as inactive partners. He had been employed since 1867 by Edwin M. Holt in the E. M. Holt & Sons Mill, the first in the South to manufacture colored cotton goods. The collection contains family correspondence and other family papers, as well as business records relating to Glen Raven Mills Inc. and other mills. Most of the family letters, 1879-1890, are from Corinna Morehead Erwin Gant to her husband, John Q. Gant, when he was at Company Shops and she was visiting at the Erwin family farm near Morganton, N.C. Family letters, 1903-1930 and later, are about relationships among family members and family history. Also included are copies of 18th- and 19th-century wills of ancestors of John Q. Gant and genealogy materials relating to the Gant and Erwin families. Business correspondence, 1900, includes letters to John Q. Gant about day-to-day mill operations in Mt. Airy, N.C., and about the possible sale of the mill there. Business letters, 1914, discuss attracting South American clients; letters from the 1930s are about awning and cloth prices. There are also Glen Raven Mills record books detailing some of the production, sales, and delivery of mill textiles, 1904-1962.
The collection consists of records of Glencoe Mills, a cotton mill established in 1880, the Glencoe Mills store, Lakeside Mills, Windsor Mills, and Carolina Mills, all owned and operated by the white Holt and Green families of Alamance County, North Carolina. The earliest letters are between Robert Holt in North Carolina and his brother Samuel Holt in Texas. Early mill records consist mainly of correspondence, inventory books, day books, ledgers, time records, meeting minutes, letter books, and other records. The collection also includes the papers of Walter Guerry Green (1868-1946) that document his law practice, his political activities in the Republican Party and the American Independent Party, his community activities, and his financial affairs.
The Glenn family resided in Halifax County, Va., and Scotland.
The Elizabeth Lumpkin Glenn Papers, 1880s-1960s, document the experiences and perspectives of a white woman who lived in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, and who was a daughter, sister, wife, and mother in a family actively engaged in preservation of the "Lost Cause" mythology about the American Civil War. Elizabeth Lumpkin Glenn was a lifelong participant in Confederate memory organizations and activities; she also wrote fiction and non-fiction. Materials include personal and family correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, printed materials, newspaper clippings, and other materials.
Wilson (sometimes Willson), Glenn, and Torrence families lived in Crowders Creek, Gaston County, N.C. (previously Tryon County and Lincoln County) and York County, S.C. The Wilson family of Cumberland County, Pa., included John Wilson (1742-1799) of North Carolina; Samuel Wilson (1754-1799), Presbyterian minister of Cumberland County, Pa.; John's sons Robert G. Wilson (b. 1768), Presbyterian minister of Abbeville, S.C., who moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, because of his opposition to slavery, Samuel Blain Wilson, a Presbyterian minister at Fredericksburg, Va., and later a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward County, Va., and William Joseph Wilson (1777-1854), of Lincoln and Gaston counties, N.C., and his son Lawson Wilson (1809-1876); and other relatives in Ohio. The Glenn family included William Davis Glenn (b. 1833) of Gaston County; his brother Robert N. Glenn (d. 1864), a Confederate soldier; their father John F. Glenn of Gaston County and York County, S.C.; and William's son L. C. (Leonidas Chalmers) Glenn, author and geology professor at Vanderbilt University. The Torrence family included Edwin B. Torrence of Rutherford (later Cleveland) County, N.C., his children, Mary Ellen Torrence, Luther B. Torrence, and Thomas O. Torrence (d. 1862), a Confederate soldier, and brother-in-law Nathan Mendenhall of Gaston County, N.C.; William Wilson Torrence (1808-1875) and his son Leonidas Torrence (d. 1863), a Confederate soldier who died at Gettysburg; and other relatives in Arkansas.
The collection is a record book of a Caldwell County, N.C., Baptist church, including articles of faith and rules of decorum for the early years and general records of activities.
John Gluyas, a Welsh mining engineer, immigrated to the United States and in 1835 settled in Mecklenburg County, N.C., where he worked on various mining projects, ran a gristmill on the Catawba River, and became a large landowner. The collection includes business correspondence, chiefly before 1851, concerning mining and milling in Wales and North Carolina, especially the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company and the McCulloch Mine, which Gluyas operated in partnership with William Treloar. Also included are a handwritten book of mathematical tables; a record of work on mining machinery, 1818-1822; memoranda concerning property titles, 1789-1825; a history (4 pages) of the Gluyas family, 1834-1909, written in 1911; and a few letters to Gluyas's wife Mary and to their sons.
Allen Howard Godbey (1864-1948) of Missouri, was a Methodist minister, Methodist historian, and teacher, writer, and scholar in the field of the Old Testament, Hebrew history, archeology, and Semitics, and professor at Duke University, 1926-1932. The collection includes general and family correspondence, mainly 1900-1948, and writings of Godbey. Volumes include writings, notebooks, scrapbooks; also financial records of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo., 1900-1909. Materials earlier than 1900 (7 volumes and a few papers of scattered dates) pertain to the Reverend William Clinton Godbey, other Methodist preachers, and Methodism in 19th-century Missouri, including a preacher's diary and record, 1871-1872, on the St. Louis circuit.
The collection of white city planner and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor emeritus David R. Godschalk contains correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, bulletins, drafts of economic development models, notes, reports, printed items, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Godschalk's work with the Warren Regional Planning Corporation on the development of Soul City, a planned community and model city in Warren County, N.C. Many documents pertain to African American attorney and civil rights leader Floyd B. McKissick of Durham, N.C., who proposed and led the effort to develop Soul City. Also included are materials for Godschalk's course titled "Planning Management and Design" (PL 22) at UNC Chapel Hill. Students in this 1969 course participated in the Soul City planning efforts.
Documentary audio recordings of the first and fourth annual National Hollerin' Contest held in Spivey's Corner, N.C., including supper calls, yodelling hollers, distress calls, hollers of tunes, and other types of hollers and calls. Ermon H. Godwin, a white deacon and bank official who co-founded the National Hollerin' Contest, compiled the recordings in June 1969 and June 1972. The collection also contains supporting documentation, or detailed tape logs, prepared by former UNC library staff that include participant names and a description of their hollers. As noted on the tape logs, the three open reel recordings found in the collection have been left largely unedited in order "to capture the total context of the event."
Gail Godwin, a white author, was born in Birmingham, Ala.; grew up in Asheville, N.C.; was graduated in 1959 from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in journalism; and studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, earning an M.A. in creative writing and Ph.D. in English literature. She has published widely in fiction and non-fiction and taught in various colleges and universities. Godwin lives in Woodstock, N.Y. The Gail Godwin Papers consist of literary material related to her published and unpublished books, book reviews, essays, excerpts, libretti, novellas, and short stories. There are also publicity materials that document appearances, speaking engagements, honors, awards, interviews, book reviews, and articles about Godwin and her work. Personal materials include correspondence with family members, friends, fans, and other literary figures. Family correspondence and related materials pertain to members of the Cole, Godwin, Krahenbuhl, Rogers, and Zeigler families, but the bulk documents Godwin's relationships with her mother, Kathleen Cole, and with her grandmother, Edna Rogers Krahenbuhl. Other materials include Godwin's writings on writing and teaching, photographs, scholarly writing about Godwin, drawings, materials related to St. Hilda's Press, writings by others, dream diaries, and journals.
The collection contains a report card issued by the University of North Carolina to John Otey Leftwich Goggin of Bedford County, Va., for the month of September 1835, showing his relative standing in class. Also included is the Goggin family genealogy.
Records of one or more Rowan County, N.C., mining firms, including the Gold Hill Mining Company, the Gold Hill Consolidated Company, A. H. Almay and Company, and the Rowan Mining Corporation. The relationships between the firms is unknown. The volumes contain information on general mining operations, transactions of the Gold Hill Mining Company store, costs of operations, and wages.
The collection of white advertising executive Gordon K. Gold (1926-) contains ten framed cels with artwork produced by Gold Premium International Co., for premiums used in marketing the snack food Cracker Jack. The premiums were novelty storybooks for inclusion inside boxes of Cracker Jack. Titles of storybooks depicted in the artwork include The Gingerbread Man, Henny Penny, and Aquanauts Under the Sea. Other items are copies of each of the storybooks represented in the artwork. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
Pleasant Daniel Gold was a colporteur and hospital nurse during the Civil War, elder of the Primitive Baptist Church, and editor of Zion's Landmark, a Primitive Baptist publication published in Wilson, N.C.; from Cleveland County, N.C.
The Goldband Recording Corporation of Lake Charles, La., has played a key role in documenting and shaping musical traditions, tastes, and trends, both regionally and on an international level since 1944, when white owner Eddie Shuler made his first recording to promote his band, the Reveliers. The music of the Reveliers and other early Goldband recordings reflect Shuler's preference for the country and western music of the 1930s and 1940s. In the mid-1940s, accordion player Iry LeJune, a Cajun man of Lacassine, La., made his first recording on the Goldband label, and Cajun and zydeco styles became a permanent part of Goldband's catalog. Many other musical styles were recorded at the Goldband studios, including blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, and sacred music. The early recordings were intended for a regional market, but later Goldband recordings were released nationally and internationally. Materials document the operations of the Goldband Recording Company of Lake Charles, La., and other activities of Goldband's owner and manager, Eddie Shuler, such as TEK Publishing and other business ventures. Included are business records, correspondence, publicity materials for Goldband and for individual recording artists, studio recordings and released recordings in a variety of formats, sheet music and song lyrics, photographs, scattered video recordings, and other items. Photographs include candid snapshots and publicity photographs of Eddie Shuler, musicians, and others, including many snapshots inside the Goldband Recording Studio. Business materials include Goldband and TEK manufacturing and accounting records. Correspondence documents all phases of the companies' operations; major correspondents include Don Pierce and Mike Leadbitter. Of special interest are letters and accounting items that document the popularity of Cajun music in Europe and other parts of the world. Publicity and promotional materials include photographs of Goldband recording artists, promotional copy, mailings to radio stations, lists of customers, catalogs of Goldband recordings, and reviews of Goldband releases. There are also many newspaper and magazine articles relating to Goldband, to Shuler, to recording artists who worked for Goldband, and to other Louisiana musicians. Sound recordings include acetates, 78s, studio recordings, and released recordings in a variety of formats. Song lyrics and music include song folios from the 1940s.
Joseph Goldberger was a physician, medical researcher, and epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service, 1899-1929.
Golden Key is an international honors society that recognizes academic achievement in all college and university students in all disciplines. The society offers its members post-graduate assistance with career planning and networking, graduate program application, and resume building, as well as scholarships and community-service opportunities. Records consist of flyers, induction programs, a member list, and other materials.
Audiovisual materials and papers compiled by journalist and musician, Thomas Goldsmith. Audiovisual materials consist mostly of audio interviews conducted by Goldsmith with prominent bluegrass, folk, and country musicians, including Chet Atkins, Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, Tammy Wynette, and Trisha Yearwood. Papers consist of artist and subject files, clippings, ephemera, printed materials featuring articles by Goldsmith and others, and working files for The Bluegrass Reader, for which Goldsmith served as editor.
Bob Goldstein is the James L. Peacock, III Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology. He has been a faculty member in the Biology Department and the Curriculum in Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1999. Since 2004, Goldstein has designed and produced "gig posters for scientists" advertising upcoming lectures sponsored by the Department of Biology. This collection includes posters designed by Goldstein for biology lectures from 2004 to 2017. All posters from 2004 to April 2013 were designed by Goldstein and screen printed by The Merch, a screen printing and design studio in Carrboro, N.C. Posters from October 2013 to November 2017 were designed and screen printed by Goldstein, unless otherwise noted. The majority of the prints from the addition of October 2021 (RT 20211021.1) are related to the COVID-19 pandemic and were displayed publicly on telephone poles and elsewhere in Chapel Hill and Carrboro in 2020 and 2021. The materials also include prints created by Goldstein during the 2020 Presidential campaign, including "Vote" signs. Prints of Ida B. Wells and Barack Obama were created for a local NAACP fundraiser. A "Cottenboro" print showing Elizabeth Cotten was created for display in Carrboro in 2020.
Buck Goldstein (1948-) is a white economics professor and entrepreneur in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Collection materials are chiefly subject files and writings pertaining to his collegiate career and activities at UNC Chapel Hill in the late 1960s and his work and graduate education in the 1970s. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera such as flyers, and printed items comprise the subject files. These files document his application for classification as a conscientious objector to war on the basis of his Jewish faith; the 1969 "Moratorium" or boycott of classes in protest of the Vietnam War; the Experimental College hosted by Student Government; University of the Streets in Miami, Fla., which offered experiential learning opportunities, including "Black History" and "Dialogue on Race Relations," to under-served youth; Yale University's Urban Internship Program; and Switchboard, a youth service center Goldstein and his wife, Kay Goldstein, ran in Chapel Hill, N.C. Switchboard in part served as a crisis center for drug addicted youths, particularly heroin addicts and those who had suffered a bad "trip" from hallucinogens. Most writings are his student papers from graduate school, but also included are drafts of creative pieces he wrote. Also included are letters from Bill Friday and Dean Smith and a few pictures depicting Buck and Kay Goldstein in the 1970s.
Lawyer Elliott Goldstein worked for over 50 years at the Atlanta, Ga., law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy.
W. H. Gomer was a general merchant at Corapeake, Gates County, N.C.
Daniel R. Goodloe was an abolitionist, journalist, and Republican politician from North Carolina.
Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss (born 1822) of Amherst County, Va., was a physician and partner in Coons and Morriss, a tanning business, 1863-1865, which supplied the Confederate army. John W. Goodwin (fl. 1875-1896), of Lynchburg, Va., was an agent with the Norfolk and Western and other railroads. The collection chiefly contains papers and family correspondence of Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss, relating to the Coons and Morriss tanning business, and the settling of family property in Virginia and West Virginia. Business papers include bills, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Also included are scattered papers, 1875-1897, of John W. Goodwin consisting of business papers related to the Norfolk and Western railroad and some family letters. The volume contains the names of popular nineteenth century novelists and lists of their novels.
Field recordings, 1984, made by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, Toni Goodyear, that relate to Goodyear's folklore class term paper, "The Lumbee Preacher and His Song." The audio recordings consist of an interview with Rev. Grady Cummings and a "performance of lining out hymns in a Lumbee church" led by Cummings at the Zion Hill Baptist Church in Robeson County, N.C. Lining out is a type of hymn singing in which a leader provides each line to be sung often by chanting. Toni Goodyear, then an undergraduate student at UNC, conducted the interview and recorded the performance for a Folklore 147 class taught by Daniel W. Patterson.
The Goose Wing Club was a New York-based nonprofit membership corporation organized for the purpose of purchasing 1440 acres on Bodie Island, Dare County, N.C., from W. Jule Day. The property was to be developed as a recreation center for hunting, fishing, golf, and other activities.
The Gordon family of Savannah, Ga., included W. W. Gordon (William Washington) (1834-1912), lawyer, Confederate Army officer, cotton merchant, state legislator, and brigadier general during the Spanish-American War of 1898; his wife, Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (Nelly) (1835-1917); her mother, Juliette Magill Kinzie (Mrs. John) of Chicago, author; and the children of W. W. and Nelly, especially G. Arthur Gordon (Arthur) (1872-1941), cotton merchant and civic leader of Savannah; Juliette Gordon Low (Daisy) (1860-1927), founder of the Girl Scouts; and Mabel Gordon Leigh, who lived in England and was honored for her relief work during World War I. The collection includes correspondence, account books, and other materials, 1810-1941, documenting more than a century of personal, business, political, military, and civic activity of the Gordon family. Many items relate to W. W. Gordon's family life, Confederate Army service, cotton trade and activities with various cotton regulatory agencies, and military and diplomatic service during the Spanish American War. Besides extensive and detailed business correspondence relating to the buying and selling of South Carolina cotton, there is a large run of account books documenting transactions of W. W. Gordon & Company and its predecessor cotton factor and commission merchant firms. Family materials include much correspondence between Nelly Gordon and her mother in Chicago. During the Civil War, these letters show the anxiety and fear engendered in family members separated because of the struggle. Also included are several letters documenting the great Chicago fire of 1871 and its aftermath. There are also letters relating to the death of daughter Alice while she and Nelly were alone in New York, and others relating to Nelly's difficult relationship with Daisy, who struggled with deafness as a child. Papers relating to G. Arthur Gordon reflect his cotton merchant activities; interests in local and national politics, including correspondence with brother-in-law, Richard Wayne Parker, lawyer and long-time New Jersey congressman; Gordon's involvement in civic clubs and in the Georgia State Troops; and his position as chief confidant of his parents and sisters in family struggles. While there are some Juliette Gordon Low papers relating to the Girl Scouts, among them correspondence with Robert Baden-Powell, most items relating to Daisy document her life in England, her unhappy marriage to William Mackay Low (Willie), and the economic consequences of his death as the couple tottered on the brink of a divorce spurred by Willie's infidelity. Mabel Gordon Leigh's papers relate chiefly to family affairs and to her World War I relief activities. The letters written by Margaret Gordon Seiler (Peggy), daughter of George Arthur Gordon, and her husband, the Reverend Robert S. Seiler, relate to their five-year posting to Manila, Philippines, with Church World Service, 1963-1968.
Two Wilkes County, N.C., families were united through Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and his wife, Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. Robert Franklin Hackett was an 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and practiced medicine in Wilksboro, N.C. Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett was connected to the Brown, Gwyn, Lenoir, and Stokes families of North Carolina; her brother was Confederate Brigadier General James Byron Gordon (1822-1864).
Audio recording of blues and gospel music recorded by David A. Gordon in April 1963 in Lowndes County, Miss. The recording features an unidentified Black man performing blues, followed by an unaccompanied Black gospel quartet and additional unidentified gospel groups, made up of both men and women, singing spirituals and gospel songs. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation consists of tape logs, which include scattered information on the collector and performers, as well as a brief description of contents. Little is known about David A. Gordon or the performers featured on the recording. Supporting documentation found in the collection lists the unidentified Black blues musician as "Jabo" and also mentions that David A. Gordon was affiliated with the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Miss., but no other information is available.
Emily Gordon is a social work professional and activist. In the 1950s and 1960s she was involved in activism for civil rights and racial equality, against nuclear weapons, and other causes. In the late 1980s, while she was working as a social worker at Covenant House in New York City, N.Y., she became aware of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), and became involved with the organization. Around the same time, she began working at the New York City Health Department. She moved to Carrboro, N.C., in 2001, ending her involvement with ACT UP. ACT UP is an advocacy group formed in 1987 to fight for policies and research benefiting people with AIDS and combat the AIDS pandemic. This collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and ephemera documenting the activities of ACT UP from 1988 to 1997. These materials were collected and compiled by ACT UP activist Emily Gordon, and document protests at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia; the 1988 Democratic Convention, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Vincent's Hospital, and the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, and other locations. Also included are materials related to political funerals in Washington, D.C.; World AIDS Day events; the AIDS Quilt; and the Lesbian and Gay Freedom Ride.
George Loyall Gordon (1829-1862) was a lawyer and planter of Alexandria, Va., and Louisa County, Va., who served with the Confederate Army, 15th North Carolina Regiment.
Audio recordings, 1985-1986, of country music performed by white singer and guitar player, Loy Gordon, in Graham, N.C. and at his home in Burlington, N.C. Gordon was recorded on Atlantic Records in the late 1940s with two groups he then fronted, Loy Gordon and His Pleasant Valley Boys and Loy Gordon and His Buckeye Buddies. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection of white singer and club owner Patti Gordon (d. 2016) of Houston Tex., contains letters from the 1950s and 1960s received by Gordon from author Robert Chester Ruark (1915-1965) with whom she had an intimate relationship. Also included are newspaper clippings related to both Gordon and Ruark and candid photographs of the couple together, some taken in Africa where Ruark hunted big game. Images depict animals killed by Ruark.
Bills, receipts, deeds, legal agreements, promissory notes, and some other papers of William M. Gordon, James M. Wiggins, and Robert L. Hunt, of Granville County, N.C., as administrators, guardians, and business agents, chiefly 1840s, 1850s, and 1870s. Also included are receipts for the Oxford Colored Baptist Church and a series of letters from Wiggins describing life at Rusk, Tex., 1855-1858.
Notes on the Gordon family of Spotsylvania County, Va., compiled by Frances Beal Smith Hodges, giving details of family history.
Josiah Gorgas was a United States and later Confederate ordnance officer.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary, April 1850-April 1851, giving daily account of a trip across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo., to California, a short stay in California, and a return trip across Panama to New York, with a party from Ohio.
Arthur P. Gorman was United States senator from Maryland, 1880-1899 and 1903-1906, and president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. The collection includes a political letterpress copybook, 1880-1882; scrapbooks, 1872-1916, of newspaper clippings and other clippings, 1892-1905, relating to Gorman's career in Maryland politics and to his connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; pamphlets; notes; and a few letters, 1885-1916, mostly related to Gorman's political activities.
Greensboro, N.C., lawyer, businessman, and Whig state legislator.
Carl W. Gottschalk (1922-1997), a white professor of medicine and physiology at the University of North Carolina, 1952-1995, studied butterflies as a young man, but was most known for his work in frostbite, general renal/kidney function, and chronic renal disease. He was also an avid collector of rare books, especially on physiology and nephrology. The collection includes writings and illustrations, research materials, biographical materials, offprints, and correspondence and related materials chiefly documenting Gottschalk's medical research and teaching career. Materials also relate to his university administration functions and to his other interests, especially collecting rare books on physiology and nephrology. Topics of his writings include studies on extreme cold, renal function, transplantation, hemodialysis, chronic renal disease, and the history of the medical profession. Research materials consists of class notes, research notes, write-ups of experiment results, and other material in major areas of Gottschalk's professional interest, chiefly frostbite, general renal/kidney function, transplantation, and chronic renal disease. Correspondence and related materials consists primarily of items pertaining to Gottschalk's professional activities. Materials relate to his general research interests--frostbite and hypothermia, renal/kidney function, transplantation, and chronic renal disease--and to his activities with professional organizations, including the National Kidney Foundation, the American Society of Nephrology, and the International Society of Nephrology; his interest in entomology, especially studying butterflies and the development of his butterfly collection; his education and military service; his work as chair of the Committee on Chronic Kidney Disease; and his collecting of rare books.
The 1953 recording made by Robert Gould on open-reel audiotape contains live performances of Wilkes County, N.C., residents, B.L. Lunsford and Paul Joynes, singing old-time folk songs and ballads. Field notes accompanying the recording list the songs, including "John Henry," "Old Jimmy Sutton," and "One-eyed Sam." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
William Proctor Gould of Hill of Howth, Boligee, Greene County, Ala., was secretary to and heir of Colonel John McKee, pioneer citizen and federal agent to the Chickasaw Indians. Gould was appointed postmaster and register of the Land Office at Tuscaloosa in 1822, and, in 1828, he became a member of a commission to settle the affairs of the Alabama State Bank. The collection is a microfilm copy of the personal and farm diary of William Gould contains almost daily entries during the years from 1828 to 1840 and from 1852 to 1856. The most consistent and precise information in the diary pertains to the weather. Also, Gould's daily activities, especially relating to his farm, visitors, family news, and occasional opinions regarding politics and religion, are described in the diary.
Daniel Chevilette Govan was a Mississippi and Arkansas planter, Confederate general, and United States Indian agent.
The collection is a manuscript record of testimony in a Randolph County, N.C., murder case.
Founded in 1989, Graduate Students United was an organization of students across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate school which advocated for better pay and benefits for graduate students. Records include agendas, posters, flyers, correspondence, and administrative records of the Graduate Students United.
The Grady family of Duplin County, N.C. and other locations within the United States included Theodosia Grady and H. A. Grady.
Augustus Graeber was a farmer who grew cotton and raised livestock in Rowan County, N.C. He and his wife Maria lived in Rowan County until 1884 when they moved to Alamance County. N.C.
The Graggs are an African American family from Black Mountain, N.C. Family photographs comprise the bulk of their collection, and the vast majority of photographs pertain to Butch and Kathryn Gragg's children, Harold Jr., Mavis, and Monica, when they were growing up and entering adulthood from the 1970s through the 1990s. Events depicted include ceremonies and activities for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts; school-related functions; sports; graduations; vacations; and the Gragg family home life. Earlier images depict Butch Gragg and Kathryn Whitson (Gragg) in their adolescence and their parents. The papers are chiefly records, such as death certificates, wills, deeds, life insurance policies, personal identification, selective service registration cards and discharges from military service of individual members of the Gragg and related families. Surnames of related families are Whitson, Moorehead, Morehead, Lynch, Logan, and Creasman. Other materials include funeral programs, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, engagement calendars and childhood diaries of Kathryn Whitson Gragg, scattered family correspondence, and spoken word sound recordings. The addition consists of letters, 1953-1971, to Frances Whitson, the mother of Kathryn Whitson Gragg, that document her relationships with Kathryn's father, Bruce Morehead, and his mother and wife. Also included are letters from Joseph Lowery, a cousin serving in the military and writing from Hawaii and South Vietnam; school materials from Asheville, Swannanoa, and Black Mountain, N.C.; and Bruce Morehead's snapshots of family and military barracks.
Papers, 1880s-1960s, of the Hillsborough, N.C., based Graham family and the related Pinner family of Suffolk, Va. Papers include legal, financial and business records, chiefly late 1880s to early 1900s, of John Washington Graham. Correspondence of white lawyer Alexander H. Graham ("Sandy"), 1915-1929, concerns his law work and successful campaign for Speaker of the House in the North Carolina House of Representatives. There are also letters, 1928-1933, from his constituents; notes and speeches, 1920s-1940s, kept by Alexander H. Graham; and photographs related to him. There is correspondence of Alexander H. Graham's wife, Kathleen Long Graham, circa 1911-1920. The collection also contains correspondence and genealogical material related to Pinner family members including John F. Pinner and Laura E. Pinner.
Augustus Washington Graham (1849-1936) was born in Hillsborough, N.C., the son of Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816-1890) and William Alexander Graham (1804-1875), a United States senator, 1841-1844, and governor of North Carolina, 1845-1849. A.W. Graham was an attorney for most of his professional life, but also held numerous elected offices in North Carolina. He was married to Lucy Ann Horner and with her had five children.
Alexander H. Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., began his public career in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1921, becoming speaker in 1929. He chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of the University of North Carolina in 1930. He was lieutenant governor, 1933-1937, and head of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, 1945-1949 and 1953-1957. The collection includes correspondence and related papers, 1920-1939, of Alexander H. Graham and ledgers, 1879-1912, of his father, John Washington Graham. Correspondence, 1920-1939, is chiefly between Alexander H. Graham and relatives in Raleigh, N.C., focusing on taxes, property, and finances. Graham's interest in roads can be seen in his efforts to develop the streets around property held by his sister-in-law. Correspondence, February 1930-May 1930, relates to Graham's activities as chair of the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of University of North Carolina in 1930. Correspondence, 1928-1930, concerns North Carolina political campaigns. There are also constituent letters from Graham's tenure in the North Carolina House of Representatives and a signed affidavit from Graham's swearing in as executive counsel. One ledger contains two accounts for which Graham's father, John Washington Graham, was trustee: the Sinking Fund of the North Carolina Railroad Company, 1879-1889; and an account relating to John Washington Graham's first wife, Rebecca Beneham Cameron Anderson Graham, and to the estate of her father, Paul C. Cameron, 1891-1910. The other ledger contains financial information for two accounts of John Washington Graham as guardian for his children, 1895-1912.
Edward Kidder Graham was an author, professor, and president of the University of North Carolina, 1914-1918. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. His son Edward Kidder Graham Jr. served as an administrator at Washington University, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Boston University, and Denver University before his death in 1976.
Frank Porter Graham was president of the University of North Carolina, a U.S. senator, and a United Nations official.
James Augustus Graham was a resident of Hillsborough, N.C., and an officer in Company G (Orange Guards), 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
The collection consists of land grants, deeds, indentures, etc., pertaining to lands in the Catawba River Valley of Iredell and Anson counties, N.C., and York County, S.C., once owned by Robert Leeper and later by A. J. Worke, and acquired by James Graham in 1828.
John Washington Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., was the son of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) and Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816-1890). He served as captain and major in the 56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. After the war, he was Orange County, N.C., solicitor, 1866-1868; delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868; five-time state senator, 1868-1872, 1876, 1907-1908, 1911; railroad trustee; and lawyer.
Joseph Graham fought with American troops in North Carolina in the Revolutionary War; was a North Carolina state senator, 1788-1793; fought against the Creek Indians in 1814; and became wealthy producing iron.
William Alexander Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., was a lawyer, legislator, United States senator, Secretary of the Navy, Whig vice-presidential candidate in 1852, Confederate senator, trustee of the Peabody Fund, and member of the board of arbitration for the Maryland and Virginia boundary dispute.
William P. Graham (died circa 1844) was a physician and planter of Clarke County and Newton County, Ga. The collection consists mainly of orders and accounts with wholesale druggists, cotton buyers, and general merchants; business correspondence with creditors and debtors; accounts with patients; and miscellaneous financial and legal documents. Also included are family letters from Cahaba, Ala., and St. Mary Parish, La.; correspondence about medical questions; correspondence about selecting a school for Graham's daughter Margaret; letters written by Margaret Graham at Georgia Female College at Macon, Ga., 1842-1843; and business ledgers for medical services and blacksmithing, 1827-1841.
Jane Grahame, presumably of Glasgow, Scotland, was the daughter of Jean Bryson Robertson Grahame and the sister of the Scottish poet James Grahame (1765-1811).
The United Order of True Reformers was an African American fraternal organization founded in Richmond, Va. in 1881 by William Washington Browne, a formerly enslaved person, Union army veteran, teacher, and Methodist minister. The collection consists of a minute book of the United Order of True Reformers Fountain #2817, Palagen Fountain. It contains membership rosters and meeting minutes, 1907-1910, and minutes detail dues paid, disbursements, and other business of the Fountain, which was located in Oxford, N.C.
Notebook that belonged to Pearl McLean containing the minutes of both the Mount Zion Lodge 4662 Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, an African American fraternal lodge, and the Mount Zion African Methodist Church Pulpit Aid Society, which were located in Belmont, N.C. The handwritten minutes in this volume were taken over the period of 1901 to 1919. The first half of the book, documenting the Pulpit Aid Society, includes topics like fundraising and plans to purchase items the church needed. The second half of the book, documenting the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, includes notes about the collection of dues reserved for providing aid to members, the by-laws that governed that practice, and minutes recording member attendance and information about the lodge’s finances.
The Richland Valley Lodge, branch number 3945 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America, was an African American fraternal organization in Waynesville, N.C.
Daniel Lindsey Grant was the first alumni secretary at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., and was the compiler of the Alumni History of the University of North Carolina (1924).
Chiefly letters, 1861-1865, to Mary E. Grattan at Mount Crawford, Rockingham County, Va., written from Confederate army camps in Virginia and South Carolina by her brothers George G., Robert, Peter M., and Charles. Letters mostly discuss camp life, but one letter describes the 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, and a few others describe life in the surrounding countryside. There are also two undated letters from Mary's mother, one to Mary on a visit to Charlottesville, Va., and the other to Peter, discussing his mother's anxiety about his going off to war without seeing her first. There is also an undated, unascribed poem about Lee's surrender.
Peachy R. Grattan (1801-1881) was married to Jane Elvira Grattan, of Goochland County, Va. The collection includes a letter, 27 September 1837, from Peachy R. Grattan to Jane Elvira Grattan, describing a visit to Philadelphia, Pa., and a letter, 4 August 1849, from him, in Lewisburg, Va. (now W. Va.), with news from the springs located there.
Papers relating to John Azariah Graves (1822-1864) of Caswell County, N.C., including a letter to him from Calvin H. Wiley, 1855; a letter from him at Camp Vance, Va., 1863?; letters about his death at Johnson's Island and his funeral, 1864; a letter from Lieutenant Colonel George A. Graves (died 1907) from Johnson's Island Prison, Ohio, about a revival there and other matters; correspondence in the 1870s of Kate Mebane Graves, of Mebaneville, N.C.; newspaper clippings; and a few other items.
Members of the Graves family of New York and Georgia included Sarah Dutton Graves (fl. 1830-1883), educator and plantation owner, who grew up in Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y., and moved to Covington, Ga., to teach in 1832. She married local planter Iverson Lea Graves (1800-1864) in 1834. After Iverson's death, she became active in the management of the family's plantations in Newton County, Ga. One of her sons, Henry Lea Graves (1842- 1892), was a Confederate soldier and marine, cotton planter, school board member, Georgia state legislator, and member of the Georgia Farmers' Alliance. Other family members include Sarah's father, Nathaniel Dutton (d. 1852), her brother, Henry Dutton (fl. 1830-1857), her son, Iverson Dutton Graves (fl. 1859-1888), her sister, Eunice Dutton (fl. 1830-1839), and her daughter, Cornelia Graves (fl. 1860-1890).
Charles Iverson Graves of Newton and Floyd counties, Ga., and Caswell County, N.C., attended the U.S. Naval Academy; served as a U.S. and Confederate naval officer; taught school and operated a farm near Rome, Ga.; spent 1875-1878 in Egypt as an officer in the Egyptian army; and worked as a civil engineer on construction of the Georgia Pacific and Memphis & Vicksburg railroads, 1881-1884. Charles and his wife, Margaret (Lea) Graves (fl. 1860-1898), had five children: Charles Iverson, Jr., William Lea, Mary Hinton, Robert William, and Anne Parke. The collection is chiefly correspondence of Charles Iverson and Margaret (Lea) Graves, especially documenting his military career in the U.S. and Confederate navies and his civil engineering career, particularly his service in Egypt, but also his work on the Georgia Pacific and Memphis & Vicksburg railroads. The pair exchanged several hundred letters from 1875 to 1878 detailing his experiences in Egypt and her life at Locust Hill, Caswell County, N.C., where she tried to raise five children with limited economic resources. There is also correspondence relating to Charles's time at the U.S. Naval Academy; to the couple's courtship; to the couples' independent struggles--he on active duty and she on the the homefront at various places, including Mobile, Ala.--during the Civil War; and to the operation of the family farm in Rome, Ga. Other letters contain information about the experiences of other family members, particularly members of the Lea family, who moved to Alabama and Mississippi before the Civil War, and those of a relative in California after the war. Also included are genealogical materials about the Graves, Lea, and related families, reminiscences by Margaret (Lea) Graves, and Charles Iverson Graves's writings on Egyptian culture. There are also other writings, notes, and pictures, including materials relating to a book on Civil War veterans in Egypt by William Best Hesseltine.
Louis Graves (1883-1965) was a white writer, journalist, and founder of the Chapel Hill (N.C.) Weekly, and married his wife, Mildred Moses Graves (1892-1976), in 1921.
MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence, 1920, of Mebane Morrow Graves of Hempstead and Houston, Tex., about family history and genealogical information relating to the Graves family of North Carolina and Texas and to their Stanford, Mebane, and Morrow connections.
Gray family members include George Gray, merchant of Windsor, Bertie County, N.C.; John Gray, William Gray, Stevens Gray, and William Lee Gray, lawyers and merchants in eastern North Carolina; and John McKenzie, son of Janet (Gray) McKenzie.
Albums and scrapbooks collected by Bowman Gray, Jr., of Winston-Salem, N.C., provide documentation of the First World War (1914-1918) through images created by photographers likely working for the French government or French Armée, through press coverage in clippings from the New York Times, and through printed items and ephemera reflecting the war effort on the American home front. Photograph albums contain more than 3000 captioned images taken in Europe and North Africa. Many images depict the destruction wrought by modern warfare and artillery on the villages and communes across France. The primary subject is the French Armée soldiers and officers on the front line in camps, cantonments, shelters, tunnels, and trenches before and after battles. Camp life is particularly well documented. Also pictured are colonial troops and cavalry including Spahis, Zouaves, Algerians, Moroccans, and Senegalese; troops from the countries comprising the Allies; German, Bulgarian, and Turk prisoners of war; nurses and doctors; refugees; civilians in towns, cities, schools, factories, and internment camps; wounded soldiers in the field and in hospitals; and veterans who were disabled and described as "crippled" or "blinded" in the war. Loose images in the collection are photomechanical reproductions depicting French Armée officers and soldiers and colonial troops and cavalry.
The collection assembled by white tobacco industry executive Bowman Gray, Jr. (1907-1969) contains correspondence, newspaper clipping files, leaflets, circulars, pamphlets, ephemera, propaganda, and government publications and documents related to the First and Second World Wars and interwar period. Letters received by white businessman Frank M. Gregg (1864-1937) of Cleveland, Ohio, and printed items and ephemera Gregg contemporaneously amassed comprise the bulk of materials related to the First World War. Materials pertain to the American Red Cross, National Security League, war relief societies, liberty loans and bonds, war refugees, conscription, military training, anti-war, peace, and "America First" campaigns, and government regulations on industry. Clipping files pertain chiefly to the Second World War and the interwar period particularly the 1930s and include editorials and opinion columns, political cartoons, and news articles the collector arranged in groupings by type, chronology, and subject. Subjects are wide ranging and include United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, and other individuals, public opinion, civilian efforts and the home front, European Jews, censorship, Allied Forces, Axis Powers, military engagements and campaigns, North Africa, China, and post war planning.
Charles Carroll Gray of New York was a United States Army medical officer in the first Battle of Manassas. During the Civil War, he was confined in Confederate prisons.
Gordon Gray (1909-1982) was a white lawyer, politician, public servant, newspaper publisher, radio and television station owner, and president of the University of North Carolina, 1950-1955. The collection consists of personal papers, office files, organizational records, photographs, and other material of Gordon Gray. Included is correspondence concerning Gray's newspaper, radio, and television interests in Winston-Salem, N.C.; his work with Wake Forest College, Bowman Gray Medical School, and the University of North Carolina system; his connections to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration; the trial between Piedmont Publishing Company and Charles (Buddy) Rogers and his wife, Mary Pickford; and family, civic, and other business matters. The collection is especially rich concerning Gray's interest in historic preservation. His work with the Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina, the Commission on the Financing of Hospital Care, and his terms in the North Carolina state senate are also represented. There are also genealogical materials Gray's Jewish ancestry. Volumes include scrapbooks, letters of appreciation, and appointment books.
James Alexander Gray (1920-2003) was a white graduate of the University of North Carolina whose working life focused on business and historic preservation. The collection consists of a scrapbook documenting his time at the University of North Carolina, 1937-1941, including the visit of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Chapel Hill in 1938; loose scrapbook pages with photographs of and clippings about Gray family members, 1952 and 1978; "One thing led to another: an autobiography," 1995; and a brochure about the James A. Gray and James A. Gray Jr. Football Manager's Scholarship.
James Alexander Gray (1889-1952), was a white businessman and philanthropist of Winston-Salem, N.C. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1908, he served in various capacities with the Wachovia National Bank and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, eventually becoming a high-level executive. He was also a member of the North Carolina Senate for two terms, 1917-1920. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, speeches, scrapbooks, family history writings, and printed items relating to James Alexander Gray. Many items concern the endowment fund Gray established for the benefit of eleven North Carolina colleges and universities, but there are also materials relating to Gray's professional and legislative activities and to the Gray family, including some about R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company president and chair Bowman Gray.
The collection contains recollections of Gray for the period 1862-1865, during which he was a Confederate soldier serving with the 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment, Army of Tennessee, and a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. Included are his opinions on the causes of the Civil War and short sketches of some Confederate generals under whom he served, including Braxton Bragg, William B. Bates, W. J. Hardee, John B. Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, James E. Rains, and E. Kirby Smith.
The collection is a student report on Samuel Wiley Gray (1842-1863) from the University of North Carolina, on which is printed A provision regarding the control of spiritous liquors at the University of North Carolina.
Nell S. Graydon, native of Pineville, N.C., was a writer and author. The collection includes correspondence, 1959, of Graydon concerning the historical background of her novel, Another Jezebel: A Yankee Spy in South Carolina (1958), especially regarding Amelia Sees Harned Burton Boozer Feaster, model for the protagonist; and transcriptions of items relating to Feaster's daughter, Marie Boozer, who married Count de Pourtales-Gorgier.
Floretta E. Greeley of Milwaukee, Wis., was a student at Radcliffe College.
Microfilm only. Chiefly correspondence of Thomas Wright, Episcopal minister in several North Carolina towns and in La Grange, Tenn., and his wife, Mary Green Wright, with their children, relatives, and church associates. Topics addressed include Episcopal church affairs; spiritual life; the California gold rush, 1851-1854; family news; and the Civil War. Correspondents include Episcopal bishops James Hervey Otey, John Stark Ravenscroft, and William Mercer Green.
The Green family of Rolesville, Wake County, N.C., including Marcus Green, student at Wake Forest College and later a farmer in Rome, Ga., and his parents Brian and Martha Green; and the Jones family of Morrisville, Wake County, N.C., including Kimbrough and Mary G. Jones and their children.
Microfilm of a record book from Green Valley Plantation, said to have been in Mississippi on the Mississippi River, near Memphis. The book consists of Plantation Rules, regarding overseers duties and the treatment of slaves, and daily statistics for 1840 for farming equipment, animals, and activities of slaves. Information from descendants indicates that Green Valley Plantation was owned by members of the Flinn family who had emigrated from North Carolina.
Ambrose George Green was born in Halifax County, N.C., and served with the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was captured in Virginia at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on 12 May 1864 and was held in Union prison camps at Point Lookout, Md., and later at Elmira, N.Y., in 1864-1865.
Archie Green (1917-2009), a white folklorist, labor historian, and public sector advocate, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939 and then worked in San Francisco shipyards, served in the United States Navy in World War II, and was active in several labor organizations. He earned an M.L.S. degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Green joined the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960, where he was librarian and later served also as an instructor in the English Department until 1972. In 1973, Green took on a creative role at the Labor Studies Center in Washington, D.C., in part assisting with the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife and labor participation in the Bicentennial celebrations. At the same time, he produced sound recordings, conducted fieldwork, and wrote extensively. He was active in the John Edwards Memorial Foundation and in the movement to establish the Center for American Folklife (1976). Green retired from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s to San Francisco, Calif., where he continued to work collaboratively with many individuals and institutions dedicated to the study of folklore and the preservation of folklife. Archie Green died in March 2009. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, research materials, writings, photographs, audio recordings, moving images, and other materials pertaining chiefly to Green's professional activities, circa 1955-2008. Materials reflect Green's interests in the study of folklore; occupational folklore, with special emphasis on songs relating to textile workers, railroad workers, coal miners, and cowboys; labor history, especially the 1919 riot in Centralia, Wash.; early country (hillbilly) music; sound recording archives; folk musicians; and production and collection of sound recordings. There are also materials relating to Green's research and teaching activities and participation in professional associations, music and folklore festivals, and the faculty labor union at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The additions to the papers of Archie Green build on and expand the topical content of the original deposit. Beyond the subjects already described, notable topics represented in these additions include Green's lobbying efforts on behalf of the Citizens' Committee for an American Folklife Foundation (CCAFF) to establish the American Folklife Center; songs relating to oil field, longshore, and cannery workers, and to the Homestead Strike; songs and history of wobblies and the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.); the 1913 Wheatland, Calif., riot; folk art, labor art, and artists, and artists; unions and working culture of shipwrights, pile drivers, millwrights and carpenters, loggers, and maritime, steel, sheetmetal, and timber workers; labor landmarks throughout the United States, but especially in the San Francisco Bay area; the history of federal government support for folk life; the role of public sector/applied folklore in the preservation of folklore and cultural conservation; the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project; and graphic art representations of folklore and labor themes, including depictions of folk hero John Henry. In these projects, he worked with many folklorists, musicologists, and others. Green collected a wide variety of materials on folk and labor themes, including art and music; newsletters; pamphlets, bibliographies; work songs; work tales; and posters, clippings, and other ephemera. His papers also include the extensive collections of labor lyrics and musical scores and pamphlets on socialism and labor topics from John Neuhaus. Other materials in the additions document Green's teaching career at the University of Texas; his participation in organizations dedicated to the study of labor history and culture, such as the Fund for Labor Culture & History and the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center; collaboration with John Neuhaus on the Big Red Songbook and Peter Tamony on etymology of labor slang terms; and a long relationship with the University of North Carolina, where he gave lectures, organized conferences, and led fundraising for the John Edwards Memorial Foundation Fund and an occupational folklore fellowship. There is some documentation of Green's personal finances, especially his budget for books, records, and journals, and some biographical materials. Audio, video, and film recordings from the original deposit and the additions are filed together in Series 10. Audio recordings include field recordings, lectures, live performances, interviews and commercial recordings relating to Archie Green's research on hillbilly music and labor songs, while the video recordings consist of published and unpublished documentary materials relating to laborlore and American vernacular music as well as video from memorial events for Archie Green in 2009. Some of the individuals, organizations, and events represented in this collection appear as access points in the online catalog terms section of this finding aid but researchers are advised to keyword search throughout the finding aid for additional name, place and subject terms.
Benjamin G. Green was an attorney of Warren County, N.C. The collection includes personal bills and accounts, indentures, deeds, papers relating to legal cases, and letters of condolence upon the death of Green. Papers concerning legal cases in which Green was attorney for the Seaboard Airline Railway and other railroads are also included.
C. Sylvester Green was a Baptist clergyman, newspaper editor, and educator, of Hartsville, S.C., and Durham, N.C.
Charles S. Green lived in Jimes and Lexington, Thomasville Township, Davidson County, N.C. He was probably a farmer, but his papers indicate that he also had some business interests, invented a device called Green's Horse Detachers, and formally represented several former Civil War soldiers to the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions.
Duff Green was a journalist, politician, and industrial promoter.
Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) was a white member of the faculty of the History Department at the University of North Carolina, 1936-1960. Green directed the graduate studies of more than 200 students, held a Kenan professorship, and served as department chair.
H. H. Green apparently worked as a representative of a firm that sold road machinery.
James E. Green was a farmer and physician who during the Civil War served as a Confederate soldier with the 53rd North Carolina Regiment.
John J. Green (fl. 1846-1850) was a soldier in the United States Army. The collection includes letters from Green while in the army to members of his family in Halifax County, N.C. Green was at Fort Moultrie, S.C., in 1846; in Mexico, 1847-1848; at Fort Adams, Newport, R.I., 1848-1849; and in east Florida, 1850. The letters, which include colloquial spelling, relate to living conditions, military engagements in Mexico, and other matters.
Nathaniel T. Green (fl. 1822-1823) of Danville, Va., was the son of Berryman Green (fl. 1822-1823) of Halifax, Va. The collection includes two letters, 15 December 1822 and 2 February 1823, from Berryman Green to Dr. Nathaniel T. Green, then attending medical lectures in Philadelphia, Pa., concerning family news.
Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a white author, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and humanitarian. This collection contains material documenting many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended family. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (circa 34,400 items); by extensive files on his symphonic dramas, including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, essays, and novels by Green. Also included are yearly diaries (1917-1980), photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weil, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright, among many others. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, financial records, and audio and video recordings of interviews, tributes, and events related to Green.
The collection of archivist Stephen B. Green contains old-time music song books from the 1920s and 1930s, photomechanical reproductions with images of hillbilly and country music artists, and newsletters, flyers, handbills, event calendars, brochures, ticket stubs from concerts and festivals, and other ephemeral items related to folk and country music. The ephemeral items related to folk music are chiefly from the 1960s and 1970s and include issues of "The Folk Letter" published by the Folksong Society of Greater Boston (Mass.) and event calendars for the Chelsea House Folklore Center in Brattleboro, Vt., and Club 47 Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Thomas J. Green was a native of Warren County, N.C., and served as a brigadier general during the Texas Revolution and as a representative in the legislatures of four states. The collection includes correspondence and other material, including papers relating to Green's efforts to raise money, ammunition, and men during the Texas Revolution and his interest in politics in Texas, California, and North Carolina; and correspondence of his son, Wharton Jackson Green (1831-1910), Confederate officer, with other Confederate officers, and including letters home while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island; muster rolls (1836) from Texas; and muster rolls (1862-1864) of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion, Confederate States of America. Correspondents include Dr. Branch Tanner Archer, Bernard Bee, Sr., Edward Burleson, David Gouverneur Burnet, James Hamilton, George Washington Custis Lee, Stephen Dill Lee, William R. Smith, Zachary Taylor, and William H. Wharton.
William Mercer Green was born in Wilmington, N.C.; graduated from the University of North Carolina; and in 1837 became Episcopal chaplain and professor of belles-lettres at his alma mater. He became the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi in 1849. He was also instrumental in the founding of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and became its chancellor in 1867.
Bernard G. Greenberg, professor of biostatistics, founder and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, dean of the School of Public Health, and organizer of the Division of Community Health Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Greenberg's chief research interests were in survey and analysis techniques relating to health and disease.
The Bruce Greene and Hilary Dirlam Collection consists of audio recordings, documentation, and photographs of Anglo-American old-time musicians from western North Carolina. The materials were created and compiled by musicians, Bruce Greene and Hilary Dirlam, as part of a 1992 North Carolina Arts Council folklife documentary grant. The audio recordings primarily consist of field recordings and interviews by musicians from Avery County, Buncombe County, Mitchell County, and Yancey County, including Steve Ledford, Luke Smathers String Band, and Red Wilson.
Nathanael Greene was a Revolutionary War major general in the Continental Army.
Personal and professional papers, 1880s-2000s, of white journalist and philanthropist Sarah Laschinger Greene of Gilmer, Upshur County, Tex. Greene was a third-generation newspaperwoman and was the publisher of the Gilmer Mirror. Professional papers consist of correspondence, subject files, administrative files, minutes, press releases, and letters to the editor, covering topics that include Texas political campaigns, arts, humanities, folklife, and press organizations. Personal papers include correspondence with family members and friends, school materials, writings, and other family papers. Photographic materials chiefly depict Greene and her extended family dating back to the 1880s. Also included are images that appear to have been taken for the Gilmer Mirror and images depicting historic views of Gilmer, Tex., also dating back to the 1880s, as well as audiovisual materials compiled by Greene, including recordings related to Lyndon B. Johnson, Wanda Hicks Kerr, and William A. Owens.
The Lowell M. Greenlaw Papers include correspondence, research notes, and a manuscript draft that document the research and writing of a biography of Edwin Greenlaw, the older brother of Lowell M. Greenlaw and a former professor of English literature and dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.
James Hervey Greenlee was a planter and Presbyterian evangelical of Burke and McDowell counties, N.C. From 1845 to 1886, Greenlee served as an elder at the Marion Presbyterian Church. Greenlee was a delegate to the North Carolina state convention in May 1861 when it voted to secede from the Union.
On 3 November 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party attacked Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators as they gathered for a public march in Greensboro, N.C. Five CWP members were killed and eleven others were injured. The Greensboro Civil Rights Fund (GCRF) was organized by the families and friends of the deceased CWP members and raised about $700,000 to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, the Greensboro Police Department, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF). The collection includes material of the Greensboro Civil Rights Fund/Greensboro Justice Fund (GJF) relating to three court cases stemming from the casualties of the 3 November 1979 riot in Greensboro. There are subject files, beginning in 1979, including records of trial defendants, plaintiffs, and witnesses, as well as publications, propaganda, memoranda, reports, and notes from organizations related to the GCRF and the GJF; copies of investigative files, including correspondence, witness interviews, autopsy reports, and lab test reports; copies of official court records, including deposition transcripts, pleading books, transcripts of trial testimony, and discovery material; court exhibit files contain scene evidence collected by the police at the murder scene and copies of investigation reports from the FBI, the BATF, and the Greensboro Police Department; office and organizational files, including correspondence, address lists, memoranda, newsletters, position papers, press releases, research materials, and financial records; pictures mostly related to the 3 November 1979 march and subsequent court proceedings; audiocassettes including interviews with surviving Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators and copies of cassette tapes from the civil trial depositions; copies of videotapes of the actual Klan-Nazi attack and three documentary television shows; clippings related to the 1979 incident; material related to the Workers Viewpoint Organization/Communist Workers Party; writings and reports related to the 1979 incident and race relations in Greensboro, N.C.; and museum items related to the 3 November 1979, anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration, including a bullhorn, banners, and a hanging effigy of a Ku Klux Klan member.
The papers of Eugene Gressman, white attorney, law professor, and law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy from 1943 to 1948 chiefly document Gressman's association with the Supreme Court and Gressman's legal scholarship and teaching. Materials generated during Gressman's law clerkship for Justice Murphy include handwritten and annotated typescript drafts of Murphy's opinions; printed court opinions; newspaper clippings; memorandums circulated among the justices; and notes and letters exchanged between Gressman and Murphy and between Murphy and other justices especially Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. Approximately forty of the hundreds of cases heard before the United States Supreme Court between 1943 and 1948 are documented to varying extents in the loose papers, including Korematsu v. United States; Lee v. Mississippi; Screws v. United States; and Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railway Co. Legal and other topics include equal protection and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment; the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Second World War; racial discrimination; religious freedom; and New Deal legislation and agencies, especially the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Other materials are Gressman's professional papers as an attorney, legal scholar, and law professor; subject files; and materials by and about Frank Murphy including speeches, correspondence, and articles. Subject files pertain to the Supreme Court; the role of law clerks; Korematsu v. United States; Christoffel v. United States; and Gressman's representation of John N. Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, defendants in cases related to Richard Nixon's presidency and the Watergate political scandal.
The collection contains a letter from W. C. Hicks to his father Charles Hicks at Wadesboro, N.C., on family matters; and a school schedule with names of pupils and parents and tuition per quarter.
Ken Griffis, best known for his work on documenting the Sons of the Pioneers, an early country music group, also researched and documented an earlier group known as the Beverly Hillbillies, a music group created by Glen Rice and the first hillbilly music group to achieve widespread acclaim, beginning in 1930 on radio station KMPC Los Angeles. In its most popular configuration, the group consisted of Jimmy Baker (Elton Britt), Marjorie Bauersfield (Mirandy), Harry Blaeholder (Hank Skillet), Ashley Dees (Jad Scroggins), Aleth Hansen (Lem Giles), Leo Mannes (Zeke Manners, Zeke Craddock), Cyprian Paulette (Ezra Longnecker), and Charles Quirk (Charlie Slater, Charlie Skillet).
Andy Griffith was a stage, television, and film actor, who was born in Mount Airy, N.C. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1949.
The collection includes letters to Thomas Griffith, art dealer and collector of Norwood, England, from artists, collectors, and other social and intellectual leaders; a letter, 1854, from Griffith to F. H. Fawkes; a letter, 1854, from John Ruskin (1819-1900) to Fawkes; and eight letters, 1868-1869, from Ruskin to Griffith's daughter about his friendship with Griffith. The letters to Griffith include twelve, 1841-1868 and undated, from John Ruskin concerning English art and artists, especially J. M. W. Turner, Ruskin's writings, Ruskin's marital affairs, and other matters. There are also three from the English painter William Evans (1798-1877), including a pen-and-ink and a watercolor illustration. Subjects discussed in other letters include the estate of J. M. W. Turner, Ruskin's marital affairs, various paintings, and arrangements for visits.
The Wayne Griffith Collection consists of audio recordings of live performances at McCabe's Guitar Shop, a musical instrument store and live folk music venue located in Santa Monica, Calif. Wayne Griffith, a white sound engineer, made the recordings when he worked for McCabe's recording live performances. Notable artists featured on the recordings include T-Bone Burnett, Dick Gregory, John Hammond, Tish Hinojosa, Bill Monroe, Utah Phillips, Linda Ronstadt, Ralph Stanley, Richard Thompson, Dave Van Ronk, Townes Van Zandt, Doc Watson, and Gillian Welch, among others.
MICROFILM ONLY. Journal, July 1767-April 1768, of an Englishman who came to America to secure white clay for Josiah Wedgewood (1730-1795). The volume covers the voyage from London to Charleston, S.C., the trip by horseback to the present Macon County, N.C. [at that time part of the Cherokee Nation], and the return with the clay. Also included are expense accounts.
James Mathews Griggs (1861-1910) was a teacher, lawyer, state circuit judge, political leader, and United States representative (1896-1910), from Dawson, Ga. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Much of the correspondence is with constituents, Georgia political leaders, and members of the judiciary and the press, and relates to public issues and activities in Congress during Griggs's term of office, 1896-1910, as United States representative from Georgia. Among the subjects discussed are elections and candidates, rural mail service, railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests, farming, Prohibition, the Panama Canal, and appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army. Also included is correspondence with overseers of Griggs's farm at Shellman, Ga.
The Grigsby family of North Carolina and South Carolina; New Haven, Conn.; Detroit, Mich.; and Phoenix, Ariz., descend from Fred Grigsby (1867-1957), the son of a former enslaved person. The collection contains correspondence and invitations, funeral and school materials, newspaper clippings and other printed biographical material, photographs, and other family history materials documenting five generations of Grigsby family members, especially publicist, civil rights activist, and editor Snow F. Grigsby, artist and art educator J. Eugene Grigsby Jr., school principal J. E. Grigsby, school teacher Purry Leone Dixon Grigsby, and the family of teacher Miriam Grigsby Bates. Education is a central theme of the collection, in evidence in transcripts, diplomas, school-related ephemera and printed material, and photographs of family members receiving degrees and celebrating graduations. Other education-related materials include a letter from one Grigsby generation to the next providing personal insights on Langston Hughes for a research paper; a 1938 photograph of Purry Leone Dixon Grigsby teaching in a Biddleville (Charlotte, N.C.) elementary school classroom; materials relating to an investigation of problems of public schools in New Haven, Conn., and a mission statement of a group of Black educators co-chaired by Miriam Grigsby Bates; and material relating to the School Workers Federal Credit Union, which was founded in 1941 in Charlotte, N.C., by J. E. Grigsby, for African American teachers and employees of the public school system. Also of note are printed materials from art exhibits of J. Eugene Grigsby Jr.; a 1942 living letter recorded at a USO Club; a 1980 letter that included a then-confidential list of the Detroit chapter of Tuskegee Airmen; a copy of a 1980 letter from Snow F. Grigsby to fellow Republican Strom Thurmond on racism, politics, and the economy; a CORE sit-in songs (Congress of Racial Equality) booklet; the 1942 program for the women's West End Book Club of Charlotte, N.C.; and individual and group portraits and candid images of members of the Grigsby family, primarily the children of Fred Grigsby and their immediate families, depicting family life and related events.
Members of the McLean-Stinson-Grigsby family, an African-American family of Wake County, N.C., included Harriet Ragland McLean of Holly Springs, N.C.; her daughter Alberta McLean Stinson of Holly Springs and New York City, who was active in the Baptist Church; and Alberta's daughter Gladys Natal Stinson Grigsby of Lawrenceville, Va., and Holly Springs, who was graduated from the Durham State Normal School in 1924 and Shaw University in 1928, after which she taught in North Carolina and Virginia public schools and worked for the Baptist Church. In 1938, she married George Talmadge Grigsby, professor and administrator at Saint Paul's School, Lawrenceville, Va. The collection includes correspondence, 1870-1952, that relates chiefly to Harriet Ragland McLean, Alberta McLean Stinson, and Gladys Natal Stinson Grigsby. Included are many courtship letters to each of these women. There are several letters from George Talmadge Grigsby to Gladys and her family before and after their marriage. While most of the letters document activities of family and friends, there are a few relating to Alberta's Baptist Church work. Other materials include Gladys's bridal book; her Durham State Normal School commencement book, 1924, with handwritten narrative of school activities, autographs of classmates, and photographs; and Shaw University materials, circa 1928, including class notebooks, an autograph book, commencement programs, and other materials. There are also materials, including many handwritten obituaries, relating to Alberta and Gladys's Baptist Church work, especially at the Holly Springs First Baptist Church and the Wake County Baptist Sunday School Convention. Also included are 37 photographs, 1905-1939 and undated, of various family members and friends.
Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Jr., African American artist and art educator, was born in Greensboro, N.C., on 17 October 1918. Grigsby attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., then Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., graduating with a degree in art in 1938. During this time, he studied under the painter Hale Woodruff. From 1938 to 1939, he studied at the American Artists School in New York, where he met prominent African American artists including Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. In 1940, Grigsby received a master's degree from Ohio State University, and in 1963, he received a doctorate in art education from New York University. From 1946 to 1966, Grigsby served as head of the art department at Phoenix Union High School in Phoenix, Ariz., and from 1966 to 1988, he was professor of art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. In 1943, Grigsby married Rosalyn Thomasena Marshall, with whom he had two sons. In 1958, he was one of six artists selected to represent the United States at the Brussels Universal and International Exposition, and in 1988, he was designated National Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.
Grimball family members were owners of Pinebury and Grove plantations near Charleston, S.C. Prominent family members include John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892), Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball (1810-1881), and their children.
John Berkeley Grimball was a rice planter of Charleston and the Colleton District, S.C. Married Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris.
The collection is the manuscript diary, 1860-1866 (bulk 1861-1862), of Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball, a white woman who was married to John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892), the white owner of a rice plantation that used enslaved labor, in Saint Paul's Parish in the Colleton District of South Carolina. Grimball wrote about the management of enslaved people; plantation life; the progress of the American Civil War and its effects on the lives of those close to Mrs. Grimball, including the activities of her sons in the Confederate army and navy, and civilian relief efforts; sickness among the civilian and military population; the family's flight in May 1862 from anticipated Union attacks on the South Carolina coast to the relative safety of Spartanburg, where they rented quarters at St. John's College; her husband's conversion from Presbyterianism to Episcopalianism; her daughters' teaching careers; and other family and community matters. Grimball wrote from the Grove Plantation (Colleton District, S.C.), primary Grimball residence until after the war; from Charleston, where the family spent the summer months; and from Spartanburg, S.C. The Grimballs were connected to the Manigault and Lowndes families of South Carolina and to the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y.
The collection documents the Grimes family, who were white plantation owners in Pitt County, N.C., and the community of people enslaved by them and other related familes. There are a few letters written by formerly enslaved people after the American Civil War; otherwise, records related to enslaved people were created from the perspective of white enslavers and include lists, bills of sale, wills, deeds, and receipts. Freedmen are also documented in sharecropping contracts and other employment records relating to labor they provided on land owned by the Grimes and at medical facilities run by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land in Wilmington, N.C. Other materials centered on the Grimes family, and the related Hanraham, Kennedy, and Singeltary families, and their friends and associates, include correspondence, financial and legal items, military papers, estate papers, account books, genealogical material, and other items. In addition to slavery, other topics documented are daily routines of white family members; the American Civil War both in the military arena and on the home front, including the 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; education at the University of North Carolina and other institutions, plantation management, livestock breeding, and cotton growing. Locations include Avon Plantation, Grimesland, Yankee Hall, Oregon Farm, Rose Bay, Pungo, Jericho, and other locations in Pitt County, Beaufort County, Hyde County, and Raleigh (including information about the Exchange Hotel and the Yarborough House, both owned by family members), all in North Carolina, and Charleston, S.C.
The collection contains late 18th- and 19th-century financial and legal papers of the Grimes and Montgomery families of Orange County, N.C. Financial documents are primarily accounts and receipts for cash, taxes, debts, goods, and livestock. Legal documents are land indentures, grants, and deeds (some containing land surveys); court summonses and bench warrants for unpaid debts; and wills and estate papers. Also included are two family letters about financial concerns written in 1857 from Santa Fe, Tenn.; paper money from North Carolina's late colonial period; and an 1857 certificate signed by Andrew Johnson, then governor of Tennessee.
Bryan Grimes (1828-1880) was a cotton planter of Pitt County, N.C., and a Confederate Army officer.
J. Bryan (John Bryan) Grimes (1868-1923) of Pitt County, N.C., was a conservative leader of the Farmers' Alliance, the Grange, and other agricultural organizations; managed the family farms in Pitt County and Beaufort County; and was North Carolina secretary of state, 1900-1923.
Collection of David Grisman, a white mandolinist and founder of Acoustic Disc Records. The collection contains studio master recordings by Grisman and others for Acoustic Disc Records; Grisman’s personal tape collection; and a 35mm film documentary relating to French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. The collection includes several projects by Grisman and Andy Statman of sacred and secular Jewish music, as well as original compositions in bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz.
The collection is one volume containing accounts of flour, meal, and bran sold to individuals by an unidentified grist mill, apparently in North Carolina.
Richard Grist (fl. 1827-1830) presumably owned and operated a large business, probably in general merchandising, provisions, the shipping of cotton and lumber, ginning and bagging, bridge tolls, and credit and note collecting, in Beaufort County, Pitt County, and Craven County, N.C.
Audiovisual materials and supporting documentation created and compiled by Stefan Grossman, a white acoustic fingerstyle guitarist, music producer, educator, and co-founder of the American independent record label, Kicking Mule Records. Grossman produced and hosted the instructional video series, Guitar Workshop, and founded Vestapol Productions, which released and reissued videos of concert footage of prominent blues and folk musicians. Stefan Grossman was also a student of African American blues and gospel musician, Reverend Gary Davis, and collected extensive documentation of Davis' life and career. Collection materials consist mostly of video and audio recordings, including video masters, production elements, and research materials for Guitar Workshop and Vestapol Productions; audio masters, outtakes, and other materials related to Kicking Mule Records releases, a record label Grossman co-founded with Eugene "ED" Denson in the early 1970s; and audio recordings of guitar lessons and instructions by Stefan Grossman. Notable blues, bluegrass, folk, and old-time guitarists featured on the video and audio recordings include Big Bill Broonzy, Elizabeth Cotten, Reverend Gary Davis, John Fahey, Son House, Skip James, Dave Van Ronk, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Doc Watson, Bukka White, and Howlin' Wolf, among others. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including Grossman's files on Guitar Workshop; manuscript materials, sheet music, and guitar transcriptions related to Mel Bay, a musician and publisher of Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords; concert reviews of Kicking Mule artists and Stefan Grossman; materials related to English guitarist and songwriter, John Renbourn; Kicking Mule Records files, such as artist contracts and production materials; Vestapol files, including production logs of video and DVD releases; and photographic materials compiled by Stefan Grossman.
William Barry Grove was a North Carolina Federalist leader and member of United States House of Representatives, 1791-1803.
Harry E. Groves (1921- ), Colorado-born African-American lawyer and professor of law, with special interests in constitutional law, particularly of newly formed nations. He served as law school dean at Texas Southern University, 1956-1960, the University of Malaya, 1962-1964, and North Carolina Central University, 1976-1981; president of Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, 1965-1968; and Brandis Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981-1986. The collection includes correspondence and other items, 1951-1999, relating to Groves's work with Texas Southern University, the University of Malaya, the Asia Foundation, Central State University, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; to his interest in constitutional law, particularly relating to Malaysia; and to his law practice. Writings, 1942-1999, include articles, speeches, and lectures on affirmative action, domestic law, constitutional law, African-Americans in education, and the future of African-American institutions; unpublished book-length manuscripts, one of which is a Groves family history; and day journals containing travel descriptions, including one from 1984 with Groves's impressions of South Africa. Personal papers include items relating to Groves's school career and activities of family and friends, 1929-1998; military service, 1944-1946; real estate holdings in Ohio, North Carolina, and Houston, Tex.; Groves family history; and other items. There are also a few photographs of Groves engaged in various activities and of the institutions in which he served.
Felix Grundy (1777-1840) of Nashville, Tenn., was a lawyer; member of the Tennessee legislature, 1819-1825; United States senator, 1829-1833 and 1839-1840; and United States attorney general, 1838-1839.
Felix Grundy (1777-1840) was a lawyer, judge, United States senator, 1829-1833 and 1839-1840, and United States attorney general, 1838-1839, from Nashville, Tenn.
Interviews conducted by author and historian, Pamela Grundy, for her research project on the Crazy Water Crystals Company, who from 1933 to 1937 sponsored radio programs featuring many North Carolina and South Carolina musicians. The sponsored radio programs primarily featured hillbilly and country music and were broadcast on stations throughout the region, including WBT-Charlotte, WWNC-Asheville, and WSB-Atlanta. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Zeke Morris, a musician who played for the J.E. Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers and later Wade Mainer's Sons of the Mountaineers, and his brother Wiley Morris, who performed with Zeke on the radio for many years. Also included is an interview with Homer Pappy Sherril, who was born in Hickory, N.C. and is best known for his long collaboration with banjoist Snuffy Jenkins on WIS in Columbia, S.C. The collection also contains corresponding transcripts for the 3 interviews.
The Grudger family and Love family were early settlers of western North Carolina with relations to the Smith and Baird families.
Edward O. (Edward Owings) Guerrant (1838-1916) was a Confederate Army officer, physician at Mt. Sterling, Ky., Presbyterian missionary, and editor of The Soul Winner.
Four routine letters, twelve full or partial sermons, and an account book of Peter D. Guerrant, Methodist preacher of Leaksville (now Eden), Rockingham County, N.C. Guerrant seems to have been related to the Guerrant family of Virginia and possibly to the Guerrant family of Kentucky.
The collection contains records of the Guilford County, N.C., First Regiment (later Fifty-seventh Regiment) North Carolina Militia, consisting chiefly of court martial judgements.
Audiovisual materials containing North Carolina state and national political content, 1989-2000, collected by Ferrel Guillory, former reporter, editor, and columnist, and founder of the Program on Public Life (formerly the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life) and an adjunct faculty member in the University of North Carolina Department of Public Policy. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Guion family lived near Natchez, Miss.
Benjamin Simmons Guion (d. 1893) was an official with the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railway who during the Civil War was involved in the transport of strategic materials.
Haywood W. Guion was a lawyer of Lincolnton, N.C.
Private Ben P. Gulledge served in Company I of the 118th Infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
The collection contains the diary, 1849, of John Gundry of Corwall, describing his travels across the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence, across the Great Lakes and the northern plains, ending shortly after his arrival at the California gold fields.
MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters, 1865-1866, from C. G. Gunter describing Rio de Janeiro, the country of Brazil and its government, and his plans to settle there, and letters to Gunter from his children. Also included are an 1853 letter from Charles A. Poellnitz to his wife about his trip from Niagara to Montreal, Canada, on a lake steamer, describing the scenery along the way and the city of Montreal; and an 1881 letter, written from Paris, to William A. Gunter about the education of his daughter.
John Doctor Gunter (1853-1926) was a miller and ginner who worked in Jonesboro and Sanford, N.C. The zoology and physiology notebook of Gunter contains notes on lectures given at the University of North Carolina in 1878 and 1879. The lectures are accompanied by color drawings and diagrams. The zoology lectures cover biology and the Linnean classification system, and the physiology lectures dicuss the organs and structure of the human body.
The Philip F. Gura Collection consists of audio recordings, pictures, and printed materials compiled by white musician and cultural historian, Philip F. Gura. The audio recordings, 1975-2005, consist primarily of live recordings of old-time music festivals and conventions in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Other recordings include live recordings of workshops, dubbed field recordings, private releases, and interviews conducted by Philip F. Gura, including interviews with members of the New Lost City Ramblers and an interview with musician and folklorist, Alan Jabbour. The collection also includes facsimiles of pictures and illustrations used by Philip F. Gura for his publications on musical instruments, as well as printed materials compiled by Gura, including songbooks, music catalogues, and music instruction and study books related to old-time, sacred music, jazz, and classical music.
The Peter Guralnick Collection contains materials related to the writings of Peter Guralnick (1943-), a white author of fiction, screenplays, music criticism, biographies, and nonfiction anthologies about American roots and popular music, particularly music of the American South, including country, blues, gospel, soul, and rock 'n roll, from the 1950s and 1960s. Materials include published and unpublished drafts and production, promotion, and research materials, as well as audiovisual materials, including audio interviews and other documentary recordings created or compiled by Guralnick as part of his research on Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Sam Phillips, and others. Also includes materials relating to the history of Camp Alton (1937-1992), a summer camp for boys located on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Jane Gurley (Active 1830-1841), a white woman living in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C., received letters from Matilda Gurley (later Matilda Turner), an enslaved person formerly of Windsor but living at that time in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., and from Nancy C. Walton in La Grange, Tenn., and Rebecca Haywood in Louisburg, N.C., both of whom were white cousins of Gurley. The letters of Matilda Gurley (later Matilda Turner) contain news of and seek information about her community of enslaved family and friends both in Brownsville and Windsor. Letters from Walton, Haywood, and others concern family and friends, church, and community affairs.
William Henry Gurney, son of carpenter Ephraim and Eliza Drew Raymond Gurney, lived in South Abington, Mass. He married Jane Woods Bourne (d. 1912) in 1848. Their children were Catherine Jane (b. 1849); Darleina Frances, who died in infancy; Ada Frances (b. 1853); and Frank William (b. 1870). Gurney worked as a stamper and guilder at the time of his enrollment in the 7th Massachusetts Volunteers.
Norman Gustaveson was secretary of the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1964-1976. He also served as faculty advisor to the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the Speaker Ban controversy, 1965-1966. He served as Orange County (N.C.) commissioner, 1974-1982, where he was particularly active in social activism, environmentalism, land conservation, and energy consumption. He was a charter board member of the Triangle Land Conservancy in 1983 and was also active in the Eno River Association.
In Civil War era letters to his father, brother, and stepmother, Edward Francis Gustine, a federal soldier with the 5th Massachusetts Battery, U.S. Volunteers, writes about camp life, officers, soldiers' pay, drills and other preparations for battle, why he fights, the skirmishes and battles in which he fought, his impressions of Confederate soldiers, and supplies including food rations, tents, blankets, clothing, and ammunition chests. Materials dated after Edward's death include letters written by his father and stepmother, expressing grief and their interest in learning the particulars of Edwards' death and in resolving the bounty and pension the family would receive from the government.
Eliza Guthrie lived in New Orleans, La.
James Guthrie (1792-1869) of Louisville, Ky., was president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; secretary of the United States Treasury, 1853-1857; member of the Peace Convention of 1861; and United States senator from Kentucky, 1865-1868. The collection includes letters from Guthrie to Paul G. Washington, who had been assistant secretary of the treasury, concerning local and national politics during the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns, the election of 1860, the secession crisis, and the early part of the Civil War.
Paul Newman Guthrie served as vice-chair of Region IV of the National War Labor Board during World War II, was a member of numerous presidential emergency boards in railroad and airline labor disputes in the 1950s and 1960s, served as an arbitrator in labor-management disputes in many industries, and served on the faculty of the School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1946-1974.
William Robert Gwaltney (1835-1907) was born near Taylorsville, N.C. During the Civil War, Gwaltney served as colporteur and chaplain with the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment in Virginia. In 1863, he was ordained a Baptist minister. Gwaltney married Amelia Ellen Staley in 1866, and the following year he received his diploma from Wake Forest College. For the next four decades, Gwaltney lived, preached, and built churches in various counties around the state, including Orange, Wake, Guilford, Forsyth and Catawba counties.
James F. Gwinner (born 1876) was a dentist from Yazoo City, Miss., who moved to Memphis, Tenn., and started a practice with Richard E. Bullington. The collection includes the daily diary of Gwinner, describing in some detail starting practice in Memphis, Tenn., his work, leisure activities, reading, and local events. There are 365 full-page entries, and a few clippings and other items are pasted in the back of the volume. He mentioned theater, baseball, a Buffalo Bill show, and a yellow fever epidemic among many other topics.
James Gwyn I (1768-1850) married Amelia Lenoir (1765-1848). Their son James Gwyn II (1812-1888) was a planter, clerk of court, and merchant of Wilkes County, N.C. He married Mary Anne Lenoir (1819-1899) in 1839, and, in 1852, they moved to Green Hill Plantation near Ronda, in Wilkes County. Amelia Gwyn, daughter of James Gwyn I, married Major Lytle Hickerson (1793-1884), a Wilkes County merchant, and lived at Roundabout. Hickerson and his brother-in-law James Gwyn II were business partners until about 1848, when Gwyn left the business to take charge of the plantation at Green Hill and look after his aging parents.

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Clippings, programs, posters, and ephemera, 1973-1975, related to productions of "Diamond Studs: the life of Jesse James," directed by John L. Haber. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection includes scattered letters of the Habersham family of Savannah, Ga., including one written by Alexander Wylly from Harvard College, 1790, mentioning the ascent of a hot-air balloon, and two from Joseph Clay Habersham, M.D., one of which discusses yellow fever in Savannah in 1854.
Josephine Clay Habersham Habersham (1821-1893) lived for a time at Avon near Savannah, in Chatham County, Ga. The collection includes the diary of Habersham while living at Avon, concerning family and social life, war hardships, and hospital work.
MICROFILM. Diary of Habersham of Chatham County, Ga., while he was at Harvard, where he presumably was a student, and in Georgia, and Saratoga and Brooklyn, N.Y. Many entries deal with romantic feelings and include love poems. Others describe daily activities, travels, and impressions of places visited.
Joseph I. Hackett, an African American, was born in Kentucky in approximately 1912. He lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., then moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1963, where he worked as a teacher.
Hackney Brothers, Inc., began manufacturing buggies in Wilson, N.C., in 1854. After the automobile became popular, the company expanded its product line to include ambulances, house trailers, hearses, portable storage rooms, temporary bleachers, car-top sleepers, and school buses. The company patented the first carbon dioxide-based refrigeration system in 1931 and began a profitable specialization in refrigerated cars and carts. Milk trucks became its most important product. After success in the milk-truck industry up until the mid-1980s, the demand for the product sharply declined. TTI, a private company owned mostly by the H.I.G. Investment Group, bought Hackney Brothers, Inc. In 1996, TTI closed the company and moved production to Hackney and Sons Company in Washington, N.C., which was founded by a relative of the Wilson Hackneys. The collection contains financial records, 1974-1996, of Hackney Brothers, Inc., including shareholders reports, 1993-1996, and balance sheets, 1974-1993.
Contains the legislative papers of Joe Hackney, a white beef cattle farmer farmer, attorney, and politician originally from Chatham County, N.C. Hackney served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 1981 until 2012. He was Speaker of the House from 2007 until 2011, and also served as Majority Leader, Speaker Pro Tem, and Minority Leader during his tenure. Papers include legislative, subject, and administrative files as well as correspondence and photographs.
Peter Hagner (1772-1850), native of Pennsylvania, known as the watchdog of the Treasury, was a clerk in the accounting office of the United States War Department, 1793-1817, and third auditor of the United States Treasury, 1817-1849. The collection includes correspondence, chiefly from 1815, related to Hagner's personal life in Washington, D.C., and to his official positions. Official items include correspondence about government accounts, contracts, claims, and appointments. Other papers relate somewhat to personal business and social life but are chiefly family correspondence, including letters concerning the education of a daughter at the school of James Mercer Garnett (1770-1843) of Essex County, Va.; letters from members of the related Nicholson family and Randall family of Annapolis, Md.; and letters from Hagner's children. Papers after 1850 are correspondence of the children, including a United States Army officer and residents of Washington, Annapolis, and Calvert County, Md., among other places. Also included, arranged separately, are the papers of Hagner's granddaughter, Isabella Louisa Hagner (fl. 1901-1940), consisting chiefly of personal letters from the family of president Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to her marriage, Isabella was social secretary to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt while she was in the White House.
The collection contains genealogical sketches, 1933-1944, of the Lartigue and Tobin families of South Carolina by General Johnson Hagood.
The collection includes the diary of William H. Haigh (1823-1870) of Fayetteville, N.C., while a student at the University of North Carolina, 1841-1842, in Chapel Hill, and studying law under George Edmund Badger in Raleigh, N.C., 1843-1844. Entries include comments on people and events in Haigh's life, including Raleigh and Chapel Hill social activities, the Methodist church and Episcopal church, and activities of the Badger family, and local, state, and national politics. Also included are two long letters, 1865, written by Haigh as a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md., describing prison conditions and routine.
Henry Stevens Haines was a railroad engineer and executive.
Family correspondence and financial and legal materials dating from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth century comprise the bulk of the collection, which documents several branches of the white Hairston, Wilson, and their extended families of Virginia and Mississippi. Financial and legal documents include bills, receipts, accounts, tax assessments, wills, deeds, indentures, agreements, contracts, ledgers, and slight, scattered business correspondence. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century financial and legal materials document the Hairston family's enslavement of hundreds of human beings, agricultural and other business interests, and extensive land holdings in Virginia and Mississippi, including Beaver Creek Plantation in Henry County, Va. Numerous documents, including bills of sale, lists of enslaved people and tax assessments, and extracts from wills, reflect the antebellum plantation economy in the American South and illustrate the families' use of and reliance on enslaved labor from the colonial period until emancipation. Post emancipation documents include tenant agreements with African American farmers. Other materials include documents related to schools and churches which family members attended, lodges and clubs, Virginia militias in the fist decades of the nineteenth century, and the Beaver Creek Plantation household in the early twentieth century. A small number of photographs depict extended family members including Rorer James Sr., a Virginia state senator. However, most individuals who are pictured are not identified. Genealogical information, family charts, family histories, and transcriptions of nineteenth-century documents were compiled in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries by members of the white Hairston family and related families.
Elizabeth Seawell Hairston Hairston was a Virginia genealogist.
George Hairston was a captain in the American Revolution and an acting brigadier general during the War of 1812.
The collection documents George Hairston and Anne Elizabeth Lash Hairston George (1834-1925), white tobacco farmers of Pittsylvania County, Va., other family members, and people enslaved by them at family plantations in North Carolina, Virginia, and Mississippi. Known plantations include Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, N.C.; Shoe Buckle, Home House, and Old Town in Stokes county, N.C.; Oak Hill, Berry Hill, and Misher Place in Pittsylvania county, Va.; Morgan, Horse Pasture, Leatherwood, and Shawnee in Henry County, Va.; and Columbus in Lowndes County, Miss. Topics include conditions for enslaved people; free Blacks in Philadelphia; plantation management; estate settlements, including Robert Hairston's estate in Mississippi, which he tried to leave to his daughter by an enslaved woman; family and neighborhood life; Virginia politics; civilian and military experiences during the Civil War, including the service of African American soldiers in the Union Army, the North Carolina 9th Brigade, and Hairston Watkins with the 24th Virginia Cavalry Regiment and as a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md.; the farming labor of freed Black people in Henry County and Pittsylvania County, Va., and their social life in Stokes County, N.C.; and postwar finances. Materials include correspondence, deeds and land surveys, accounts, receipts, wills, land rental agreements, clippings, advertising circulars, programs, poems, school grade reports, calling cards, and line drawings.
Microfilm of a letter to, a letter from, and a letter concerning John Tyler Hairston, relating to family affairs, especially Hairston's journey from Virginia to Florida and his death in Florida; and Hairston family data.
Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886) was a tobacco planter of southwestern Virginia and north central North Carolina, Confederate soldier, and commission merchant. Other prominent family members include Peter Wilson Hairston's great-grandfather, Major Peter Hairston (1752-1832); his grandmother, Ruth Stovall Hairston (1784-1869); his step-grandfather, Robert Hairston (1782-1852); and his second wife, Frances McCoy Caldwell Hairston (1835-1907). Through his first wife, Columbia Stuart Hairston (d. ca. 1858), Hairston was also related to Jeb Stuart (1833-1864), under whom he served in the Civil War. Peter Wilson Hairston had four children, including Peter W. Hairston (1871-1943), who married Margaret George (1884-1963). They had two sons, Peter W. Hairston Jr. (born 1913) and Nelson G. Hairston (born 1917).
The collection includes miscellaneous items, including a letter, 1799, from Patrick Henry about a land transaction; a letter, 1812, from Samuel Hairston about political affairs in Washington, D.C.; and a letter, 1862, from Confederate soldier, C. H. Jones, describing a recent engagement near Fredericksburg, Va. Also included are a Wilson family genealogy and an article about Samuel Hairston.
Samuel Hairston was a dairy farmer, real estate broker, railroad director, and Virginia agricultural official, of Oak Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va.
Halbert family of Lincoln County, Tenn., including John Halbert (fl. 1820s-1860s) and his brother James (b. 1771?), planters of Lincoln County. The Halbert family was linked to the Satterfield family, also of Lincoln County, through the marriage of Laura Satterfield, daughter of physician Benjamin M. Satterfield (b. 1834), to Isaac Buchanan Halbert.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers, 1770-1786, including deeds for lands in Surry and Rowan Counties, N.C., and items relating to John Halbert as executor of the estate of Benjamin Paniel.
The Joe Halby Collection on Thomas Burt consists of photographs and live recordings of African American blues musician, Thomas Burt (1900-1987), performing at Halby's Delicatessen in Durham, N.C. from 1986 to 1987. Joe Halby, a white independent business owner who helped run his family's restaurant, compiled the materials, which include color photographic prints, audiocassette recordings, and documentation related to the recordings.
The collection is a daybook for general merchandise sold by Charles W. L. Hale at Liberty, De Kalb County, Tenn.
Edward Joseph Hale was editor of the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer; Confederate officer; United States consul in Manchester, England, 1885-1889; and United States envoy to Costa Rica, 1913-1916.
Eben Thomas Hale (1842-1868) was a federal soldier in the 45th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment who served in New Bern, N.C., and surrounding areas. The collection includes correspondence, chiefly 1862-1863, between Hale and his family in Boston, Mass., and Vermont, containing detailed descriptions of military training, battles, the routine of camp life, and war activities at home.
The Cheyney Hales Collection consists of 16mm film production elements for the documentary film, Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician (1975) by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students Cheyney Hales, Cecelia Conway, and Tommy Thompson. The film documents the life and music of James "Dink" Roberts (1894–1989), an African American old-time banjo player of Haw River, Alamance County, N.C., who made his living growing tobacco as a tenant farmer. Dink Roberts grew up in the Little Texas community of Alamance County, N.C., where he was raised by his uncle George Roberts. Early in his life he learned the clawhammer banjo style from George Roberts' older children and from other Black banjo players in the community. He gained local popularity playing the banjo for dances of both Blacks and whites in their communities and continued to enjoy playing and singing banjo songs all his life. Dink Roberts also learned to play the guitar, but his repertory remained rooted in the banjo music of the Black banjo tradition, a style of playing that predated the blues. The film shows Dink Roberts in his family setting in Alamance County performing old-time banjo, early country blues performed on guitar, and singing dance songs. Dink Roberts was filmed for this documentary in 1974-1975 by three UNC students, Cheyney Hales, a white filmmaker who shot, edited, and co-produced the film; Cecelia Conway, a white folklorist who was a co-filmmaker and producer on the film; and Tommy Thompson, a white philosophy graduate student who worked as music consultant and narrator on the film. The collection includes both 16mm picture and sound elements, including A & B rolls, optical soundtrack, and magnetic soundtrack, all of which were used to create a final 16mm composite print of the film, as well as cue sheets and other notes found with the A & B rolls. A digitized access copy and transcription of the complete 16mm motion picture film, Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician, is available on Folkstreams.net.
The collection includes ledgers of merchants in Enfield, N.C.: a ledger (136 pages), 1845-1861, of Thomas C. Hunter and William Hunter, for provisions sold, cotton received and sold, and dry goods bought wholesale and sold; a ledger (259 pages), 1859-1865, of Beavans, Vick, and Co., containing accounts for merchandise sold and an index of purchasers; and a daybook (590 pages), also of Beavans, Vick, and Co., 1860-1862.
Anne Troy Hall (died 1873) resided in North Carolina.
Bob Hall (1944-) is a white activist in progressive politics in North Carolina since the early 1970s. The collection documents his investigative research and grassroots organizing work for the Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit research and media center dedicated to economic and social justice issues in the South. Topics include North Carolina politics; environmental and economic justice; social change; voting rights; campaign finance and election reform; landfills and hazardous waste dumps in Warren County, N.C.; pollution; brown lung disease; farmworker safety, hog farming, poultry farming, and the Hamlet poultry plant fire in 1991; the 1988 labor strike at the Schlage Lock plant in Rocky Mount; the 1974 coalminers strike in Harlan County, Ky.; utility rates; military bases in the South; labor unions, labor strikes, and union-busting; workplace health and safety; government accountability; and several major projects and organizations initiated by the Institute, including the North Carolina Alliance for Democracy (NCAD), Democracy South, the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE), North Carolina Brown Lung Association, and Southerners for Economic Justice. There are also ephemeral print materials related to student organizing and social change in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Materials include subject files, administrative records, editorial and research files for Southern Exposure, a publication of the Institute, and audio and moving images compiled by Bob Hall. The collection formerly was titled Institute for Southern Studies Records.
Chiefly correspondence between Hall of Quebec, educational historian, primarily while at Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn., and his colleagues, including former graduate students, his friend and collaborator, Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953), educational historian at the University of North Carolina, and his friend J. Isaac Copeland. Letters concern books, articles, and ideas in education; joint editorial work; and Hall's graduate study at the University of North Carolina and his professional plans.
David McKee Hall (1918-1960) of Sylva, Jackson County, N.C., was a United States Representative, Democrat, lawyer, and leader in regional business and civic affairs.
Letters to white employee of Duke University Hospital, Edith Glenn Hall, 1942-1954, from various friends and family members.
Eli West Hall (1827-1865?) was a lawyer and North Carolina state senator.
Eliza V. Hall lived in Wilmington, N.C.
Harold S. Hall studied law at the University of North Carolina, 1897-1898 and served in the United States military during the occupation of Cuba. The collection includes miscellaneous papers, including United States naval orders of James Such, 1861-1863; and Spanish-American war items, including a Spanish order, a list of American sentinels at Cabanas Fortress, and three photographs taken by Hall.
Jack Hall seems to have been a slaveholder in Salisbury, N.C., at the time of the Civil War.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is the founder of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a prominent historian, especially in the area of women's history. Her papers reflect her professional work as well as the operations of the SOHP. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
James Iredell Hall was an officer in the 9th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army of Tennessee; and a resident of Tipton County, Tenn.
James King Hall (1875-1948) of Iredell County, N.C., was a psychiatrist who specialized in mental illness and co-founder and director of the Westbrook Sanitorium in Richmond, Va., 1911-1948.
A diary documenting Laura Katherine Hall's journey with her family from Iredell County, N.C., to Marengo County, Ala., in 1843. A few additional entries recount daily activities, 1844-1846, of Hall and her family while they lived near Demopolis, Ala.
Lizzie Chambers Hall was the wife of W. T. Hall, pastor of Baptist churches in Danville, Va., 1897-1907, and Roxborough, Pa., 1913- 1928. The Halls were African-Americans.
The 1962 recording on open-reel tape of live music is titled "Blues Accompaniments." Related field notes indicate that music student Mike Hall made the tape for a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
William Bonnell Hall (1866-1940?) of Alabama was a teacher, physician, and vice chancellor of the University of the South. This collection contains extensive genealogical correspondence and studies on the following families: Anderson, Bland, Bolling, Bonnell, Briscoe, Childs, Cobb, Cocke, Elam, Eldridge, Elerbe, Hill, Munford, Pegues, Poythress, Stokes, and Withers.
The collection includes papers of the Hallett (or Hallet) family and Howes family, two seafaring families of Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. The bulk are papers of several generations of the Howes family, including correspondence, children's compositions, bills, receipts, business letters, a household account book, 1866, and a diary kept by Laban Howes on a voyage on a cargo ship from Boston, Mass., 1869. Also included are bills, receipts, correspondence, a ship inventory, and hand-marked sea charts of Captain Augustus Hallet, 1860-1869.
John Wesley Halliburton was born in Woodville, Tenn., in 1840. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1861. Although he opposed secession from the Union, Halliburton enlisted in the Haywood County (Tennessee) Grays, soon after he left Chapel Hill and joined an Arkansas regiment after the fall of Memphis in 1862. At one point, he was captured and imprisoned. Eventually, Halliburton and married his second cousin, Juliet Halliburton, of Little Rock, Ark.; they had two sons, Wesley and John Holloway Halliburton.
Thomas Hallyburton (1763-1841), probably of Rutherfordton, N.C., was a shoemaker and gold miner.
Edwin L. Halsey was a Confederate officer from South Carolina and a member of Hart's South Carolina Horse Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia.
MICROFILM ONLY. Log kept by the master of the ship Angelique, carrying provisions, rice, and cotton between New York and Charleston, S.C., and on one voyage from New York to London, April-August 1835.
Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen was a school teacher at Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C., from September 1860 to June 1861, at which time she returned to her native New York.
Sound recordings, moving images, and related paper materials compiled by the country western and gospel singer-songwriter and radio-movie personality, Stuart Hamblen. The collection contains sound recordings of Cowboy Church of the Air, a nationally syndicated Christian radio program produced and hosted by Stuart Hamblen; sound recordings and moving image materials related to Stuart Hamblen's television program, Birth of a Song; and additional sound recordings featuring Stuart Hamblen and others, including Rex Allen, Pat Boone, Red Foley, Andy Griffith, Helen Landsverk, Jim Reeves, Darol Rice, Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers, Wesley Tuttle, Dell Wood, and Stuart Hamblen's wife, Suzy Hamblen. The collection also contains additional moving image materials, including home movies of Hamblen's family, as well as paper materials found with the recordings, such as tape logs, sound reports, notes, and letters.
Ruffin, Roulac, and Hamilton family members resided chiefly in eastern and central North Carolina, but also in Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama. Prominent among them were Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870), Anne M. Kirkland Ruffin (b. 1794), Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac (1795-1856), Catherine Ruffin Roulhac (b. 1810), and Daniel Heyward Hamilton, Jr. (b. 1838).
Joseph D. Hamilton (fl. 1775-1857) was a resident of Logan County, Ky. The collection includes correspondence, orders, receipts, bills, land plats, and deeds, and estate accounts of Hamilton; of his wife Sally D. Morgan; and of her father, Colonel Abraham Morgan of Russellville, Ky., and Shepherdstown, Va. The Hamilton family papers extend from 1775 to 1857, the Morgan family papers from 1801 to 1825. Several letters discuss the War of 1812, including one from Henry Clay to General James Taylor, dated 10 April 1813.
Charles Horace Hamilton was a rural sociologist with particular interests in rural life, the rural church, the rural family, rural health issues, the land tenure system, farm labor, internal migration, methods of population analysis, and social statistics. After teaching at many institutions, including at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Tex., the University of North Carolina, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hamilton was appointed professor of rural sociology at North Carolina State University and consulted widely in his field.
MICROFILM ONLY. Eli Spinks Hamilton of New Hope Academy, Randolph County, N.C. Letters to Eli Spinks Hamilton from his sons, Oliver Clark Hamilton, with the 38th North Carolina Regiment (Pender's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division), and Calier G. Hamilton, with the 12th and 38th N.C. regiments. Thirteen letters from Oliver Hamilton, tell of his position in northern Virginia during 1862-1863, fighting, camp life, health, prices of food and daily necessities, news of friends, marches and travel, and his opinion of the morale and fighting spirit of the troops and officers. Two letters, dated April and May 1864, tell of being transferred to the Navy for service on the ironclad "Fredericksburg" in the James River between Richmond and the Federal fleet. Calier Hamilton's twenty-four letters were written from his training camp near Raleigh, N.C., in July 1861, and then from the Potomac River and Fredericksburg area, where he was with Company L, 12th N.C. Volunteer Regiment. These letters describe weather conditions, the health of his company, drilling, goods received from home, camp life, his bout with rheumatism and fever, and his transfer to the 38th North Carolina Regiment in the winter of 1862-1863. Later letters mention some fighting, his company's casualties, and the death of Stonewall Jackson.
The collection contains audio and video recordings, film, press materials, posters, clippings, and photographs pertaining to the life and career of white country music recording artist George Hamilton IV (1937-2014) of Winston-Salem, N.C. Other country music performers are also featured.
James Robert Hamilton was District Court judge of Travis and Williamson counties, Tex.; Democratic Party executive committee chair; and congressional candidate in 1926.
James Hamilton was a nullification governor of South Carolina and a diplomat of the Texas Republic.
Governor of South Carolina, planter, diplomat of the Republic of Texas. Microfilm of letters between James Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Heyward and sons, James Randolph, Thomas Lynch, Henry, and D. H. (Daniel Heyward) Hamilton. Microfilm. Letters describe business trips, plantation operation, and financial arangements for the sale of slaves. Letters, 1861-1862, from D. H. Hamilton discuss the need for local troops to protect towns and homes, describe his regiment's part in several battles, and discuss what to do with slaves during the war. Letters from Elizabeth's cousins discuss family news, abolition, blockades, and the intervention of England and France in the Civil War. Also included are several letters from a Southern sympathizer in New York (State).
The papers of white historian and founding director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina J.G. (Joseph Grégoire) de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) document his education including graduate work at Columbia University under William A. Dunning (1857-1922); service in the United States Army during and after the First World War; career as a teacher, historian, and archivist; publishing; travel and curatorial work related to the Southern Historical Collection; social life and civic engagement in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, N.C.; North Carolina politics including his advocacy for a state constitutional convention in the 1910s and participation in the state's Democratic Party; and historical research especially as related to Confederate generals, Reconstruction, northern "carpet-baggers," white Democratic "Redeemers," and nineteenth-century white supremacist and domestic terror groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The collection contains correspondence; diaries; scrapbooks; published and unpublished writings; speeches; photographs; and research materials. Correspondents include historians R.D.W. Connor and Dunning; University of North Carolina faculty and administrators; state and national politicians; business leaders; individuals and families who donated their papers to the Southern Historical Collection; and members of his family. The papers reflect Hamilton's historical, political, and social perspectives that were brought to bear on his collecting manuscript materials documenting affluent white families of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century American South.
The Nancy Hamilton Collection on Mollie Sequoyah contains an audio interview conducted by Nancy Hamilton with Mollie Sequoyah, a craftsperson, cook, and healer of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Subjects discussed in the oral history interview include family history and daily activities, as well as Cherokee language, songs, recipes, and her experiences with herbal medicine, particularly where to find the herbs and how to use them for specific ailments. Treatments for many ills, including colds, colic, rheumatism, and whooping cough are discussed. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of tape logs created by former SFC staff. Little is known about Nancy Hamilton and her connection to the recordings found in the collection.
Oliver Clark Hamilton was born in 1839 in Randolph County, N.C. He was studying medicine when the Civil War broke out. He left school to enlist in the Confederate Army in November 1861, mustering in as a private to the 38th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. In April 1862, he was promoted to sergeant and then transferred to the Confederate Navy in April 1864, where he remained until he was discharged. After the war, Hamilton returned to North Carolina and taught at New Hope Academy in Randolph County. He died in 1918.
W.S. Hamilton (b. 1789) studied at Princeton College, served as a United States Army officer, 1808-1817, and was a planter and legislator in Louisiana. His father, John Hamilton, studied law in Scotland before moving to the United States to be a lawyer, state legislator, and active Baptist in Edenton and Elizabeth City, N.C. John Hamilton later moved to Louisiana. W.S. Hamilton and his stepmother became involved in a controversy over property due to him from his mother's estate after John Hamilton's death.
Theodore P. Hamlin (died 1867) of Davidson County, Tenn., was a Confederate soldier with the 18th Tennessee Regiment. The collection includes letters, 1864-1867, from Theodore P. Hamlin to members of his family in Edgefield, Davidson County, Tenn.; a few personal and family letters, 1850s, to Mary B. Worley of Tennessee; a few personal items, 1850s, of John S. Russworm of Williamson County, Tenn.; and itemized bills, 1881-1885, of Newt J. Dodson, Nashville, Tenn. The letters from Hamlin include nine written in 1864-1865, while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio, especially concerning procedures for gaining his release, and letters in 1865 about starting a cotton farm outside Nashville, Tenn.
Philip Gibbon Hammer (1914- ), urban economist and city planner of Atlanta, Ga., Washington, D.C., and Palm Harbor, Fla.
James Henry Hammond was a lawyer and newspaper editor of Columbia, S.C. In 1831 Hammond married Catherine E. FitzSimons, daughter of a wealthy Charleston merchant, and acquired the Silver Bluff cotton plantation on the Savannah River in the marriage settlement. He was elected U.S. senator in 1834 and governor of South Carolina in 1842. He returned to the U.S. Senate in 1857 but resigned his seat when Lincoln was elected.
The collection contains microfilm versions of antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons: Wade Hampton I (1754-1835), army officer and United States representative from Virginia; Wade Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army officer and governor and United States senator of South Carolina. The bulk of the papers are those of Wade Hampton I and concern his Houmas sugar plantation in Ascension Parish, La., and his South Carolina rice and cotton plantations, including the purchase of plantation supplies and the marketing of his crops, chiefly 1829-1835. Personal papers of Wade Hampton II and Wade Hampton III include letters to Mary Fisher Hampton, daughter and sister, respectively, concerning family, social, and plantation news from Walnut Ridge and Wild Woods, Miss., and letters from Wade Hampton III to his first wife, Margaret (Preston) Hampton (b. 1851), from England and Scotland, 1846 (typed transcript copies); and to his second wife in the late 1850s and during the Civil War. Later items concern family history and do not relate to Wade Hampton III's political or military careers.
Wade Hampton (1818-1902) was a planter, Confederate officer, governor of South Carolina, and United States senator. Scattered items including a set of typed transcriptions of letters, 1846, from Hampton, traveling in England and Scotland, to his wife; a Confederate Army order signed by Hampton, 1864; and a letter from Hampton declining an invitation to speak, 1891.
The radio show dubbed on audio cassette tape and titled "Music of Industrial Workers" was part of the Working Lives Oral History Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1984. Peggy Hamrick, an oral historian, and Greg Bass of Birmingham, Ala., co-produced the radio show. No additional information about the program, its broadcast, or Hamrick and Bass was provided with the recording. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Charlotte Folk Music Society Collection consists of audio recordings, 1982-1986, created and compiled by historian and radio host, Tom Hanchett, at Charlotte's WFAE public radio station. The collection includes programs from three radio series: The Blues Show, An American Almanac, and An American Almanac: Live in the Studio. The Blues Show was a thematic one-hour program that introduced viewers to blues music through such subjects and figures as Piedmont blues, jump blues, Blind Boy Fuller, and Rev. Gary Davis, among others. An American Almanac was a thematic program featuring artists who recorded in Charlotte, N.C. between the years 1927-1945. Subjects of the show included the Blue Sky Boys, the Delmore Brothers, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, the Mainer family, the Carter Family, the Morris Brothers, and Jimmie Davis. An American Almanac featured recordings from reissues available on LP, recordings of covers by modern performers, and new recordings by featured artists, with commentary by Hanchett. An American Almanac: Live in the Studio consisted of edited performances and interviews with folk musicians, including nationally-known artists, Charlotte natives, and living room pickers. Artists featured in this program included David Holt, Si Kahn, Cathy Fink, Rory Block, Claude Caset, Don White, Whitey and Hogan, Nappy Brown, Dot and Chester Lorenz, The Down Home Folks, and the Slop Jar Serenaders.
The marriage in 1878 of Sallie Booe (1857-1927) and Philip Hanes (1851-1903) united the Booe and Hanes families of Davie County, N.C., and Forsyth County, N.C. Philip Hanes's brothers started the knitting and hosiery companies that became the Hanes Corporation. The collection consists of scattered letters, genealogical notes, and a will pertaining to the Hanes and Booe families. Material from 1871 to 1877 includes letters from A. M. Booe of Mocksville, N.C., to his daughters; notes sent between Sallie Booe and Philip Hanes prior to their marriage; and a letter, 1874, to Sallie Booe from a friend detailing social events in Davie County, N.C. Two typed family trees trace Hanes family history from its early 18th century German roots to the mid-20th century. A typed copy of the will, 1790, of Reinhart Bott of York County, Pa., provides some information about the family of Jesse Clement, Philip Hanes's son-in-law.
Catherine E. Hanes of Davie County, N.C., was the daughter of Alexander Martin Hanes and Jane M. Hanes. The collection includes personal letters to Catherine E. Hanes from her brother, Jacob H. Hanes, with the 4th North Carolina Regiment, 1861-1864, and a cousin, Ben Chaffin, with Confederate troops in Georgia and South Carolina, 1861, about mutual friends and military activities; a letter about the execution of a deserter, 1863; letters, 1863-1872, from her sister, Mary Hanes Davis, in Davie County, N.C., concerning family and community affairs, especially clothes being made and purchased and the effect of General W. T. Sherman's troops on the area; family letters, 1860s-1870s, from Lizzie March, a cousin in Lincoln County, Tenn.; and letters, 1869-1870, from Catherine's brother, John Wesley Hanes, about life at Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C., where he was a student.
James Gordon Hanes (1916-1995) was a Winston-Salem manufacturer and North Carolina state senator.
Lewis Clark Hanes (born 1827) was a merchant of Fulton, Davie County, N.C., and quartermaster in Salisbury, N.C., for the 48th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate army.
Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a white North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader. The original deposit for this collection consists chiefly of letters from Robert March Hanes to his wife, Mildred Borden Hanes, before and after their marriage in 1917. In letters written between 1917 and 1919 during his service as a United States Army officer, Robert March Hanes describes military life during World War I. In early letters, he discusses his relationships with other officers and his orderly and remarks on conditions in the trenches and the quality of army food. In later letters, he describes fighting conditions along the French front and mopping-up activities as the American army advanced and the German army fell back. The original deposit also contains numerous letters written between 1908 and 1914, to Mildred Borden Hanes from friends and relatives, some of whom describe student life at the University of North Carolina between 1908 and 1909 and at Yale University between 1913 and 1914. Additions made to the collection in 1992 are a short diary documenting Hanes's activities at the front, a Verdun commemorative coin, Hanes's travel diary documenting a 1912 European trip, and a World War I era field wallet. Later additions to the collection include numerous letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from family and friends including Robert March Hanes before and after their marriage, letters written between 1970 and 1971 by Frank Borden Hanes, Jr., from Saigon, Vietnam where he served in the United States Army, photographs of Hanes family members, scrapbooks, and diaries from when Hanes worked for the Economic Cooperations Administration in Brussels.
Jesse C. Haney (1828-1901) of New York, N.Y., was publisher of The Comic Monthly and several other small periodicals. The collection includes scattered papers and personal and business letters to Haney, including letters from Thomas Butler Gunn, an English journalist in Charleston, S.C., 1861-1862, discussing war sentiment and activities of Union forces; two letters, October 1861, from John D. Hardin, a Union soldier at Camp Stoneman, Washington, D.C., about his daily routine and other matters; a pencil drawing titled Shooting of Chicamauga; and a letter, poem, and essay by Thomas Dunn English, New Jersey playwright.
Roger Durham Hannay (1930-2006) was a composer, performer, and professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966-1995.
Autograph album kept by Lt. Oroon Alston Hanner of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, Company E, while incarcerated at the Federal Prison on Johnson Island, Ohio, September 1863 to March 1865. The album contains the signatures, addresses, and military units of approximately 155 Confederate soldiers. In addition to the autographs are several poems by various inmates describing prison life. Also present are Hanner's commission in the North Carolina militia (1866) and a photograph of Hanner in Confederate uniform.
Lawyer and judge of Georgia. Microfilm of reminiscences of Hansell's youth in Milledgeville, Ga., his judicial experiences in Thomasville, Ga., Indian wars, silkworm raising experiments, and the Georgia secession convention.
Lonnie Lee Hansley (1948-2019) was a white journalist and art gallery owner. He opened Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, N.C., in 1993. The Lee Hansley Art Gallery Records document the intersection of art and commerce and the business of being a professional artist. Materials include artist files, idea files, and exhibition publicity and marketing materials; mock-ups of artist Margaret Crawford's children's books; a masters thesis by Lamar Lynes about artist Howard Thomas; photographs of artwork and exhibitions; and collected documentation about artist Maude Gatewood. Audiovisual materials document an award show and the Lilo Kemper exhibition. Other materials include a print of Roanoke Rapids High School, recordings of its chorus, 1966-1969, and images from a high school reunion; Kiwannis minstrel recordings, 1954-1956; and recordings of hymns sung at Mary Ruth Hansley's 2016 memorial service.
Fragments of the diary of Francis Hanson, minister at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Prairieville, Ala., at Demopolis, and at other places in Alabama. Daily entries focus on ministerial services for both blacks and whites. The volume also includes a short history of John H. Linebaugh and tells of Civil War efforts by civilians.
Military letters and papers of Hanvey of Coweta County, Ga., concerning antebellum militia and the 12th Georgia Artillery Battalion, Confederate States of America Hanvey was stationed in Macon and Newnan, Ga., and at a navy yard in Florida. The letters concern troop movements, provisions, praise from an officer, and Hanvey's discharge from Johnson Island Prison (Ohio). The pre-war material includes a letter from Hanvey promising to put his corps, the Newnan Guards, at the service of the governor of South Carolina should they be needed.
Detailed diary, 5 June-27 December 1838, kept by Christopher Happoldt of Charleston, S.C., during a trip to Europe as an assistant to John Bachman, Lutheran pastor and naturalist; and a copy of Contributions from the Charleston Museum, Volume XII (1960), containing an edited version of Happoldt's diary and biographies of Happoldt and Bachman. Diary entries describe meetings with European scientists and give an American teenager's perspective on people he met and places he visited.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, documents, and genealogical data relating to the descendants of Leighton Wood of Virginia, including William Basil Wood (1820-1891) of Florence, Ala., compiled by Elizabeth Wood Haralson. Included are letters, 1779-1821, from members of the Wood family in Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama, discussing family matters; items relating to property, social life, and other matters in Florence, Ala.; and items relating to the Nichols family. Materials are bound as 1 volume, 118 pages.
Herndon Haralson was a native of North Carolina, Revolutionary War soldier, North Carolina legislator, merchant at Petersburg, Va., and settler in Tennessee. The collection contains a diary (122 pages) kept by Haralson, 1837-1847, while he was a planter in Haywood County, Tenn., and Tennessee state bank agent; a four-page autobiography; and a letter, August 1843, from son John to Haralson, discussing local news in Jackson [Tenn.?] and family affairs. The diary deals with weather, health, church and community events, elections, political rallies, and other matters, and is accompanied by a name index (on microfilm).
William Thomas Harbison (1844-1896) of Morganton, N.C., joined Company B, 11th Regiment of the Confederate army in 1861. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Gaines Mill on 2 June 1864, resulting in the amputation of his right leg below the knee. He served as Register of Deeds of Burke County, N.C., for ten years, having been elected to five consecutive terms. His son, William Alexander Harbison, established one of Burke County's oldest insurance firms, Morganton Insurance and Realty Company.
T. G. (Thomas Grant) Harbison (1862-1936) was a field botanist who came to Highlands, N.C., in 1866.
MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.
This collection includes account books, grants and deeds, letter books, shipping records, and other business papers, chiefly 1830-1886, of James W. Zacharie and Company, a New Orleans firm of commission merchants also engaged in general merchandising, finance, insurance, and in the real estate business, particularly in Louisiana and at Brownsville, Tex. Also included is a record book of Francis C. Zacharie, colonel, 25th Louisiana Regiment, Confederate States of America; a few military papers of Confederate General William Joseph Hardee, including a brief correspondence with Jefferson Davis (1808-1889); and a letterpress copybook of James S. Zacharie (fl. 1898-1899) as Chilean consul at New Orleans, 1898-1899.
Charles S. H. Hardee was the city treasurer of Savannah, Ga.
Members of the Hardeman family lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Elle Goode Hardeman of was regent of the Liberty Hall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Charlotte, N.C., during World War I. The DAR was sponsor of the 5th Company, Coast Artillery of the North Carolina National Guard and later machine gun and anti-aircraft units. It also sponsored a Camp Greene base hospital ward and a ward at Oteen Hospital, Buncombe County, N.C. In the early 1920s, Hardeman was chair of the Committee on Friendly Cooperation with Ex-Servicemen for the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. During World War II, she lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection consists of scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, letters, and programs relating to World War I activities at Camp Greene and other Charlotte, N.C., locations and to the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina and other activities in Chapel Hill, N.C., during World War II. The scrapbooks contain a wide and colorful variety of materials--clippings, photographs, letters, event programs, publications by and about servicemen, cartoons and cartoon books, and other items. Many soldiers' signatures appear throughout. World Word I sheet music and miscellaneous clippings are also included.
Correspondence, genealogical material, receipts, programs, cookbooks, recipes, clippings, speeches, writings, blueprints, photographs, and a scrapbook of the Hardens of Alamance County, N.C. The bulk of the material documents the public career of Junius Hill Harden (1859-1944), an industrialist, pertaining especially to Harden's efforts to locate a rayon mill in Alamance County in the 1920s and to his involvement with the Congregational-Christian church. There is some material pertaining to Junius Hill Harden's sons, Boyd Harden (b. 1899) and Graham Harden (b. 1892), and to his father, Peter Ray Harden (fl. 1865), including items relating to the latter's involvement in the Big Falls Manufacturing Company in Alamance County in the late nineteenth century. Photographs include pictures of early gas stations in Alamance County.
Edward Jenkins Harden (1813-1873) was a lawyer and judge, of Savannah, Ga. The collection includes tissue-press copies of letters written by Harden in connection with his law practice and personal business, and in connection with his duties as a Confederate district judge and a Presbyterian clerk of sessions. Also included are letters of his son, William Harden (1844-1936), and of their law partner, Samuel Yates Levy (1827-1888).
John William Harden (1903-1985) of Greensboro, N.C., was a journalist, newspaper editor, author, advisor to North Carolina governors and textile executives, and founder of the state's first full-service public relations company.
MICROFILM AND PAPER. Memories of a Childhood Spent in Brazil (13 pages) by Lucita Hardie Wait, describing the author's experience after the Civil War as the daughter of Confederate emigres; and genealogies of the Hardie and Mallory families of Talladega County, Ala.
John Harding (1777-1865) established the plantation Belle Meade near Nashville, Tenn. His son, William Giles Harding (1806-1886), was a Tennessee militia general, planter, and horse breeder. Brothers William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903) and Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895), were sons-in-law of W. G. Harding. W. H. Jackson, a Confederate general, managed Belle Meade in association with J. H. Harding and later as a partner of H. E. Jackson, who was a lawyer, Democratic legislator, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Circuit and Supreme Court judge.
Osborne Bennett Hardison (1892-1959), native of Wadesboro, N.C., was a career United States naval officer, retiring as vice-admiral.
The collection of white artist Charles Russell Hardman contains original artwork, sketchbooks, notes, and slight, scattered correspondence. Some of the loose sketches and paintings in the collection served as Hardman's studies for two murals commissioned during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project for post office buildings in Miami, Fla. and Guntersville, Ala. Also included are photographs of WPA-commissioned public art.
MICROFILM ONLY. Reminiscences of the adventures of a Georgia cavalryman serving as a scout under General Wheeler with the Confederate Army of Tennessee in Georgia and near Raleigh and Chapel Hill, N.C., in the last days of the war.
The Hargrave family were white immigrants from England who moved first to Virginia in 1635 and eventually settled in Guilford County and Davidson County, N.C. The collection includes bills, receipts, and a list, 1824-1866, that document people enslaved by the Hargraves and freedmen who became tenant farmers; financial materials, 1787-1921, including deeds for plantation land near Lexington, Davidson County, N.C., and routine bills and receipts; and letters, 1839-1918, some from family friends, one of whom moved to Texas; another who had witnessed Zachary Taylor's 1850 funeral in Washington, D.C., and wrote about the political climate in the capital; and another who was serving with American forces in France during World War I. Also included is an 1899 catalog from the Premo Camera Company and several photographs of the 1899 harvest at the Hargrave farm.
This collection includes a plantation record book, 1799-1870s, of William Hargrove, a white plantation owner in areas of Granville County, N.C., now part of Vance County, N.C., documenting his family, enslaved persons, stud records, taxes, and business and personal expenses. This documentation might refer, at least in part, to Hibernia Plantation, where many members of the Hargrove family are buried. The account book contains birth records of enslaved people, including the person’s name, birth date, and in some cases, the mother’s name. Birth dates range in date from approximately 1785 to approximately 1863. Enslaved people are also named in the tax records. The 1793 will of William Hargrove’s father, John Hargrove, includes the names of eleven enslaved people: Cato, Suck, Lisebel, Ginney, Sue, Phill, Agey, Jese, Dick, James, and Jacob. There is also scattered correspondence, chiefly from Hargrove and Sturdivant relatives in the Missouri River Valley.There are typed transcriptions of all items in the collection.
The collection of poet Bess Hines Harkins (1912-1986) of Highlands, N.C., contains approximately 330 poems, including multiple drafts and copies of individual poems; 50 essays, including multiple drafts and copies of individual essays; some family correspondence and photographs; and other miscellaneous items. Also included are letters from magazines and book publishers, and clippings of acceptances in newspapers.
Harkrader family of North Carolina, Indiana, and Virginia and the related Lloyd family of Virginia. Principal family members were Mrs. L. V. Harkrader (fl. 1904-1928), a hotel keeper in Dobson, N.C.; her daughters Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1902-1905), a teacher in Moser, N.C., and Lillian Harkrader (fl. 1904-1931), who taught school in Mt. Airy, N.C., before becoming Surry County clerk; and her daughter-in-law Lela Harkrader (fl. 1920-1934), who lived in New Castle, Ind., and later moved to Richmond, Va. Lela's children were W. Trent Harkrader (fl. 1925-1929), a school principal and Surry County accountant; Vena Harkrader (fl. 1920-1925), who taught school in Elkin, N.C.; and Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1930-1934). The bulk of the papers are letters, 1902-1934, received or written by Harkrader family women. There are also a few letters received by W. Trent Harkrader and William Fletcher Lloyd. The letters are love letters, family letters, and letters from friends, documenting family life, young teachers' experiences in various North Carolina locations, and the lives of students attending the North Carolina College for Women, including advice from relatives on how to conduct themselves. Other letters document the difficulties of financing an education at the University of North Carolina; spiritualism; local politics in Dobson, N.C.; and Lloyd family history. Scattered financial and legal papers, 1911-1929, are mostly receipts and other items, some pertaining to the purchase of land in Yadkin County, N.C.
The Harry Lee Harllee Films consist of 41 reels of silent, black and white, color and tinted 16mm motion picture films, including both home movies and commercially released films. The home movies were shot, edited, and titled by Harry Lee Harllee, a white naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist, and founder of the Harllee Museum of Natural History and the Harllee Construction Company, both in Florence, S.C. Film subjects include people formerly enslaved by the Harllee, Rogers and Brockington families; members of the Harllee, Quattlebaum, Blackwell, and Dargan families; friends; hunting and fishing scenes in North Carolina and South Carolina; Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, S.C.; members of the Woodstone Hunting Club; and trips to Washington, D.C., the Florida Keys, and Elon College, N.C., in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Many of the films are extensively edited and contain numerous intertitles identifying people and places. Some also have identifying information written on paper inserts or on their boxes. The commercially released films are primarily short nature documentaries.
William Curry Harllee (1877-1944) was a United States Marine Corps officer from South Carolina.
The collection consists of a genealogy compiled by Francis Stuart Harmon entitled A Good Inheritance with charts, facsimiles of letters and documents, family pictures, and biographical data on the descendants of John Harmon of Scarboro, Maine. Included are Firmadge, King, Lurton, Stuart, Gayle, Calvet, Cope, Howe, Chesebrough, Lee, Palmer, Ray, and Jameson connections in New England, New York, Washington, France, Great Britain, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia.
William Harmon, poet and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, writings, and other materials of William Harmon. Included are letters to Harmon from various English and American writings, primarily poets and critics. Also included are letters, writings, a family history, and other materials from Theresa Garrett Eliot, wife of Henry Ware Eliot, T. S. Eliot's brother. Harmon's writings include drafts of The Classic Hundred, A Handbook to Literature, The Top 500 Poems, and other works. There are also manuscript and printed essays and poems. Unintegrated additions contain considerable material relating to Laura (Riding) Jackson, as well as correspondence and writings similar to those in the original collection. Please note that additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check additions to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
The Harmony Old Singers' Association, sometimes called in later years Old Folks Christian Harmony or Old Folks Singing, of Harmony, N.C., first assembled in 1912 and formed its permanent organization in 1914.
Professional papers of Dr. Thelma Harms, professor emerita in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and curriculum director of the Frank Porter Graham Childcare Institute. The papers, 1972-2014, deal primarily with Dr. Harms' research and publications, including several ratings scales for childcare environments. These include the Early Childhood Environment Ratings Scale (ECERS) and the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS). Also included is correspondence between Dr. Harms and colleagues around the world related to the use of the scales and the development of related instruments. Acquired as part of the University Archives.
The collection includes papers of the Turner and McNeill families of Cumberland and Harnett counties, N.C., chiefly deeds, plats, promissory notes, bills, accounts, and receipts. Family letters, chiefly 1843-1879, are those of Henry Marshall Turner (1800-1871), Alabama physician who moved to Cumberland County, N.C., and his wife Caroline McNeill Turner. These include letters from Martha and Julia Turner while they were enrolled in Floral College, near Fayetteville; letters from friends and relatives in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas; and a few Civil War letters from members of the family in the Confederate Army in Tennessee and Virginia. Also included are physicians' accounts and records, 1822-1829 and 1848-1858, of Daniel McPhaul and, 1854-1858, of H. Turner; and merchants' daybooks, 1854-1860.
Cornelius Harnett (1723-1781) of Wilmington, N.C., was a leader of revolutionary activity in North Carolina and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
Waugh and Harper was a general merchandise business operated at Lenoir, Caldwell County, N.C., by James Clarence Harper, George Washington Finley Harper, and a number of partners. The collection includes extensive daybook and ledger accounts and other records of scattered dates relating to this business, including invoices, inventories, shipping and hauling accounts, produce orders, barter accounts for such items as wild herbs, roots, bark, and sheepskins, and letterpress copies of business letters; and a cash book of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, 1874-1882.
Francis Harper, native of Massachusetts, was a zoologist and author affiliated with many universities. He was the author of Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp Region of Georgia (1927). He retired in Chapel Hill, N.C. An Exchange of Letters, 1913-1915, with Will Henry Thompson, typescript, 16 pages, including transcriptions of four letters and Harper's extensive notes on Thompson, Thompson's brother, Maurice, and Okefenokee Swamp, Ga. Also included is an original letter, 1913, from W. H. Thompson to Harper, drafts of four letters from Harper to Thompson, a typed draft of Deep in the Okefinokee Swamp, by W. H. Thompson, a photograph relating to Thompson, and other correspondence of Harper.
George Washington Finley Harper (1834-1921) of Lenoir, N.C., was a merchant, Confederate officer, railroad builder, banker, and entrepreneur. The collection includes personal and business papers and diaries of G. W. F. Harper. Correspondence, much of it to and from his wife, Ella A. Rankin Harper, concerns politics, varied business and agricultural interests, and his Civil War career as an officer in the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., serving in the Army of Tennessee. The collection also includes Harper's diaries from many of the years between 1846 and 1921; diaries of his sister-in-law, Emma L. Rankin, 1906-1908; and records of a Lenoir, N.C., literary society, 1873-1879.
James Clarence Harper was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Patterson, Caldwell County, N.C., in 1840, where he engaged in farming, merchandising, the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, stock raising, and teaching. He served as civil engineer, surveyor, and justice of the peace. He was a colonel in the state militia; member of the North Carolina legislature, 1865-1866; and U.S. representative, 1871-1873; and sat on the North Carolina Commission of Claims. He was active in road building projects and the Methodist Church and served on the building committee of Davenport Female College, Lenoir, N.C., and as president and building commission member for the Western North Carolina Insane Asylum in Morganton. Harper married Louisa C. McDowell in 1843; the couple had two children: John W. (1847-1865), a Confederate officer who was killed at Kinston, and Emma Sophia (1844-1922), who married Clinton A. Cilley, lawyer and judge of Lenoir and Hickory, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY. Captain of volunteers in the Mexican War; United States agent to the Chickasaws at Fort Washita, Indian Territory, 1851-1862; official in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.; colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America; from Augusta County, Va. Letters from Harper to his family describing military activities and his impressions of Mexico during the Mexican War; correspondence about Harper's activities as United States agent to the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Washita, Okla.; correspondence about the Department of the Interior, including letters from Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Secretary of the Interior; Confederate Army papers, including receipts, orders, and correspondence, some relating to deserters; papers of his grandson relating to Harper's Confederate career; and a map of Berkeley County, Va., 1847.
Chiefly correspondence and other material documenting the professional and community service activities of Margaret Taylor Harper, journalist and businesswoman of Southport, N.C. In 1968, Harper became the first woman in North Carolina to seek the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. She ran a strong second in that race, amassing 148,613 votes (22%) and carrying five counties. Included are materials relating to her service on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to her work with the North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations.
Joseph B. Harrell (born 1826) of Southampton County, Va., was a soldier in the Confederate Army. The collection includes a typed transcription of the diary, 5-24 April 1862, of Harrell while camped with Southampton County militia near Norfolk, Va. The diary consists primarily of religious meditations and morose reflections on illness and death in camp and the upheaval of war.
Rena C. Harrell (fl. 1962-1966) resided in Greensboro, N.C., and was apparently interested in historical matters relating to the Burwell family of Hillsborough, N.C.
Harriet & Henderson Cotton Mills, founded by brothers John Cooper and David Cooper, in Henderson, N.C., was a single company composed of two separate mill complexes. Henderson Cotton Mills, established 1895, produced textiles. Harriet Cotton Mills, established 1901, produced coarse yarns. The consolidated mills operated since 1995 as Harriet & Henderson Yarns. Workers in the mills organized under the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) in 1943, starting with Harriet (Local 578) and followed several months later by Henderson (Local 584). Unionized workers began a strike against the consolidated mills in 1958. In 1961, the strike ended and both TWUA locals were dissolved. In 2003, Harriet & Henderson Yarns filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors amidst several other textile factory closings across the state.
Harriet Jacobs was an enslaved person who self-emancipated by running away and later an abolitionist who wrote about her experiences in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Jean Fagan Yellin is the head of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers Project and author of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008), a two-volume collection of primary source material related to Jacobs and her family. The collection consists chiefly of materials collected by Jean Fagan Yellin in her work as the head of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers Project. Included are several original letters by or about members of the Jacobs family; Yellin's administrative files; email print-outs and correspondence with archives and research centers; photocopied primary source materials, including letters, newspaper clippings, and other documents; indexes of collected and consulted items; and background subject files compiled to supplement the research effort. Topics include the Jacobs family and the related Knox family; slavery and enslaved people who self-emancipated by running away; abolition; Harriet Jacobs's life in North Carolina, New York (with the Willis family), and Boston; her antislavery work during the Civil War; and other topics.
Henry William Harrington (1748-1809) was a brigadier general in the American Revolution, a legislator in both North Carolina and South Carolina, and a planter. His son, Henry William Harrington Jr. (1793-1868) was a successful planter, businessman, and landowner of Richmond County, N.C., who served in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 and as a representative in the North Carolina House of Commons and to Constitutional Convention.
John McLean Harrington (1839-1887) was a teacher, surveyor, clerk, and onetime sheriff of Harnett County, N.C.
Karl Pomeroy Harrington was professor of Latin and director of the glee club at the University of North Carolina, 1891-1899.
Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington and his father, James Harrington (d. 1866), were cotton planters in Franklin County, Miss.
The Harris family includes William Harris Senior, an Irish immigrant to North Carolina, and his son, Joshua Harris.
Members of the Harris and Foust families lived in Orange, Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, and Randolph counties, N.C. Thomas West Harris was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1859. During the Civil War, he served in the 5th North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, after which he studied medicine in Paris and New York and then opened medical practices, first in eastern North Carolina, then in Chatham County, and later in Chapel Hill. He also served as the first dean and professor of anatomy, 1879-1885, of the University of North Carolina's medical school. He married Sallie Maria Foust in 1865, and with her had five children, including Elizabeth who married Thomas R. Foust, superintendent of Guilford County schools, 1904-1941.
Letters relating to members of the Harris and Kennedy families of Mooresboro, Cleveland County, N.C., which were apparently joined by marriage sometime after 1915. Letters dated 1890-1910 are chiefly to Octia Harris, wife of Thomas Harris. Most letters are from her son C. B. Harris (Bin), who worked in road and other heavy construction in Columbia, S.C., Richmond, Va., and Rocky Mount, N.C., and mainly describe his social activities in those places. There are also a few letters to Octia from her son Herbert R. and daughter Esther, both of whom seem to have spent time in Mars Hill and Asheville, N.C., where Herbert worked for a time in a barber shop. Beginning in 1911, letters are chiefly to Maud Kennedy of Mooresboro. These letters are mostly from suitors, particularly Matthew Stroup of Cherryville, N.C., who wrote to Maud from Chapel Hill about his activities as a student at the University of North Carolina, 1911-1914, and, in 1915, as a disappointed suitor, from his law office in Cherryville.
Bernice Kelly Harris (1891-1973) was an author and playwright, largely on southern topics, and leader in civic, cultural, and religious organizations of Seaboard, N.C. She participated in the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project, collecting life histories of ordinary people in the South.
Brantley Harris lived in Montgomery County, N.C.
Business letters from James Elnathan Smith, New York City capitalist, to Charles T. Harris, superintendent of the Talcott gold mines in Edgefield District, S.C., owned by Smith and other investors, and a few related items. The letters deal with the acquisition of possible gold- bearing property as well as the construction and operation of mines.
Charles Wilson Harris (1771-1804), orginally from Concord, N.C., was a lawyer and educator of Halifax and Warren counties, N.C., and one of the first professors at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Corra Harris (1869-1935), of Georgia, was an author. The collection includes letters from Harris to Arthur Turner Vance, editor of Pictorial Review, concerning prices to be paid for works by her and other literary and personal matters.
Farm journals of David Golightly Harris of Spartanburg County, S.C., with detailed accounts of daily farm work, including the management of slaves, and discussion of the Civil War and Reconstruction. While Harris was away serving in the Confederate Army entries were written by his wife.
George W. Harris was a sailor on the U.S.S. Richmond in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, and New Orleans, La.
Correspondence, sermons, memoirs, financial records, and other papers of the Henry T. and Mary Ann Harris family of Urbanna, Va., documenting the lives of a southern African-American family at the turn of the century. The majority of the material is correspondence and sermons of Henry T. and Mary Ann Harris, both actively involved in the Baptist Church. Henry Harris's correspondence concerns his work as a Baptist minister and book dealer; his wife's correspondence reflects her work with women's missionary groups and a home for elderly blacks. Of particular significance is a set of sermons by Mary Ann Harris (fl. 1889-1929). The sermons deal with missionary work, the role of women, and the importance of raising children properly.
Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) was a state legislator and governor of Tennessee. The collection includes a letter from Harris at Richmond, Va., to Colonel R. Ould, asking for the exchange of Captain Frank Battle, a prisoner of war held by the Union army at Nashville, Tenn.
Iverson Louis Harris (1805-1876) of Milledgeville, Ga., was a justice of the Georgia superior court, 1859-1865, and of the Georgia supreme court, 1865-1876.
The collection is a diary, 1 January through 31 December, 1859, of John Gideon Harris, lawyer of Greensboro, Ala., chronicling his life in Greensboro, Havana, Eutaw, and Tuscaloosa, Ala. Harris wrote in his diary almost daily, but most of the entries are rather brief. Sometimes only the weather is noted, but on other days Harris wrote short descriptions of his activities, which seem to have revolved around attendance at church and at various social functions. There are occasional references to his work as a lawyer, including court appearances, to the activities of family and friends, and to general community activities, such as elections. There are also references to his visits to various educational institutions in Alabama, and to the buying, selling, and hiring of slaves.
The collection is a petition by Josiah Harris to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (county unnamed) on building a road in the Dismal Swamp.
Julius Shakespeare Harris (1845-1936) was a member of the 5th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War and an active member of the United Confederate Veterans.
Public opinion pollster Louis Harris was born in 1921 in New Haven, Conn. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1942, he served in the United States Navy Reserves, 1942-1946, then worked for pollster Elmo Roper. In 1956, Harris founded Louis Harris and Associates in New York, N.Y., where he developed what came to be known as the Harris Poll.
Nathaniel Harrison Harris (1834-1900) was born in Natchez, Miss. Harris was captain of Company C of the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. He became Brigadier General in 1864.
Robert L. Harris, Jr. (1924-2014) joined the United States Public Health Service in 1949. After earning a master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Harvard University and a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he joined the faculty at UNC-CH's Gillings School of Public Health in 1973. There, he managed the Occupational Health Studies Group and managed a number of significant public health research projects focused on worker health and air quality and the environment. He also served as a member of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission. Papers include correspondence, presentations, research, teaching files, and documentation of Harris's work on various boards, committees, and projects related to occupational health and the environment.
Literary scholar and critic and African American intellectual Trudier Harris is best known for her scholarship on major African American literary figures including Toni Morrison and James Baldwin and for her studies of southern African American identity and experience. Annotated drafts of her major published works including From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1993), Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (2001), Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South (2003), and The Scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American writers and the South (2009), comprise the bulk of the collection. Other materials are editorial files for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series on Black authors, committee files for the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus and the Black Cultural Center planning group, email correspondence with her "Dreamers" cohort of students, and other correspondence, clippings, printed items, notes, lectures, photographs, and event posters pertaining to her publications, her work as distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and scholarly and literary conferences, particularly "Rescuing the Past...Securing the Future: Black Scholars and Scholarship" and the George Moses Horton Society.
Railroad executive and editor of the Charlotte Observer, 1892-1935.
The Harrisons and Smiths were white families of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. The collection documents Aristides Spyker Smith (1809-1892), a white Presbyterian and Episcopal minister and principal of women's schools in Virginia and Mississippi; his sons Jonathan Reynolds (Johnnie) Smith (1836-1862) and Leonidas Wilkinson Smith (1835-1864), who both served in the Confederate Army; his daughter Ellen Alice Smith Harrison (b. 1840) and her husband George Harrison (active 1852-1875), who was a farmer, and Bartlett, who was enslaved by him; their daughter Sarah Walton Harrison (1868?-1891) and her husband Paul Garrett (1863-1940), a wine salesman; and their son Aristides Smith Harrison (b. 1864) and his wife Katie Wilson Curtis, and her father, George B. Curtis (1834-1920). William, who was enslaved by Sally C. Heartwell, is also documented but his relationship to the families is unknown. Smith family materials consist of letters, diaries, sermons, land surveys, photographs, a cipher book, notebooks with astronomy lessons and word problems; autobiographical materials; and a scrapbook with news items, jokes, and recipes. Of note are letters marking events like death from a yellow fever epidemic and on the battlefield at Malvern Hill in Virginia, and discussing spiritual concerns, fighting in April 1864 near DeSoto Parish, La., and observations on the inhabitants and customs of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Harrison family materials consist of letters about health, domestic matters, leisure activities, social encounters, grief, and the wine business; receipts, including for the impressment of Bartlett into Confederate service in Brunswick County, Va., and the trafficking through hiring out of William in Petersburg, Va.; agreements on the housing and care of unserviceable Confederate Army horses; diaries with brief notations on visitors, commerce, and farming records; an 1889 wedding photograph; papers from University School in Petersburg, Va.; a minutes book of Enfield Graded School District (Enfield, N.C.) documenting the financial activities of the district, 1901-1909; land surveys; and obituaries. Also included is a 16mm film shot circa 1946, with footage of an African American baptism and scenes of Black men and women posing in front of homes and businesses in Halifax County and footage of Black men, women, and children at a train station. Curtis family materials consist of letters, notably about time spent in Colorado panning for gold. There is also a set of engraved metal plates with scenes of both actual and planned Washington, D.C., landmarks, based on Albert Boschke's 1857 "Map of the City of Washington--Seat of Federal Government," and a few museum items.
Plantation owner James Harrison of Craven and Jones counties, N.C., died circa 1846. He was apparently survived by his ward Cassandra Harrison, his wife, and several other family members.
James T. Harrison, of Columbus, Miss., was a lawyer and member of the Confederate Congress. Other Harrison family members represented include his father, Thomas Harrison (Fl. 1834-1838), officer in the Bank of South Carolina and land owner; his wife, Regina Blewett Harrison (fl. 1845-1868); his father-in-law, Thomas G. Blewett (fl. 1819-1869), plantation owner; his daughter, Regina (Harrison) Lee (fl. 1860-1878); and his son-in-law, Stephen Dill Lee (1833-1908), Confederate general.
Mary Garrett Harrison of Halifax County, N.C., was the daughter of Charles W. Garrett (fl. 1850-1879), a vineyard owner and proprietor of the Ringwood Wine Company of Enfield, N.C.
Matthew Harrison may have lived in Brunswick County, Va.
Major R. Harrison fought in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Locke Harrison was a student at the United States Naval Academy, class of 1860 and served in the United States Navy and in the Confederate States of American Navy. Microfilm of photograph album consisting chiefly of pictures of Harrison's classmates in the United States Naval Academy class of 1860, and a few naval orders involving Harrison before and after his service in the Confederate Navy.
Thomas Perrin Harrison served as dean and professor of English at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C.
Walter Harrison was inspector general of Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, 1863-1864.
Henry Harrisse, native of France, bibliographer, historian, and author of books, pamphlets, and articles mostly relating to early American history and exploration, came to America in the 1840s, taught in South Carolina and at the University of North Carolina, practiced law in Chicago, Ill., and New York until 1870, and then returned to France.
Members of the Shelby family and the Hart family resided in Kentucky. Prominent family members include Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), a Revolutionary officer and the first governor of Kentucky, 1792-1796 and 1812-1816, and Nathaniel Hart (1734-1782), Revolutionary officer and pioneer. The collection includes biographical sketches, reminiscences, letters, and business papers involving Evan Shelby, Isaac Shelby, Nathaniel Hart, and their kin and associates, and clippings, 1899-1900. Many items concern lands claims and titles of members of the Hart family in Kentucky. Also included is a ten-page manuscript description by Isaac Shelby of the Battle of King's Mountain and other events of the Revolution in the South after 1780, and two related letters to him.
Three letters from Joel T. Hart, a Kentucky sculptor, to his brother, John Hart of Clark County, Ky., and an 1843 slave bill of sale. One letter, 1829 (as published in a newspaper in 1881), from Nicholas County, Kan., describes Hart's studies; one, 1884, from Florence, Italy, recounts his travels and inquires about exhibiting his statues; and an undated fragment discusses a niece-in-law who is trading on Joel Hart's reputation by using his surname.
Hand-made, graphic posters, numbered and signed by the artist, comprise the collection of Matt Hart, a poster artist, home brewer, and cheese monger residing in Chapel Hill, N.C. The majority of posters are for music shows at clubs and other venues in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., and Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Personal and professional correspondence; essays by Hartley on William Cowper, Samuel Johnson, Lawrence Stone, Katherine Ann Porter, and other literary topics; three unpublished novels and other unpublished works by Hartley; diaries by Hartley, chiefly from his years in high school and as a student at Furman University in the 1920s; photographs; and other material. Most of the correspondence is with academic colleagues about scholarly and academic matters. There also are twelve letters, 1941-1977, from Eudora Welty; five, 1938-1971, from Allen Tate; and three from Katherine Ann Porter, along with other material concerning her; and correspondence with friends and family members, including correspondence, 1928-1945, between Hartley and his mother, Nannie Kneece Hartley, about personal and family matters.
The Peter Hartman Collection consists of audio recordings, 1963-1974, collected by folklorist, banjo player and businessman, Peter (Pete) Hartman, while he was an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The recordings primarily feature performances of Anglo-American Primitive Baptist hymns, interviews, and field recordings from the Blue Ridge Mountains region of Virginia. Topics discussed in these recordings include stories about the origins and functions of particular hymns, as well as anecdotes on Primitive Baptist preachers and singing schools. The collection also contains field recordings, 1974, of both Anglo-American and African American Primitive Baptist worship services that feature lined-out hymns, preaching, and prayers. Interviewees and subjects from the recordings include Guy Phillips and Oscar Harris, Anglo-American Primitive Baptists; the Anglo-American congregation of the Old Republican Primitive Baptist Church; A. C. Holloway (male) and Ollie Shively (female), Anglo-American Primitive Baptists from Sparta, N.C.; Elder William Holland, Anglo-American Primitive Baptist from Rocky Mount, Va., and the African American congregation of the Rockfield Primitive Baptist Church in Franklin County, Va. The collection also includes dubbed field recordings, 1963-1973, made at Primitive Baptist meeting houses in North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Maryland, and Louisiana. These dubbed recordings were originally collected by Frank Simpkins of Roanoke, Va.
Emma E. Ross was the daughter of Dr. Francis Madison Ross and Dorcas N. Gilmer Ross of Charlotte, N.C. In 1861 she married James Harty of Charlotte.
The undated audio recording contains informal performances and jamming by Steve Harvell, a white blues harmonica player of Raleigh, N.C. Songs performed include "Boogie Woogie Harmonica", "Appalachian Coal Train", and "Had the Blues So Long". Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Lewis Edwin Harvie (1843-1918) was a physician of Danville, Va. The collection includes typed copies of short, undated reminiscences by Harvie of the Civil War, during which he was a student at Virginia Military Institute, soldier in various units, and federal prisoner. Also included is an 1860 letter describing a visit to the Harvie home in Powhatan County, Va., and a biographical sketch of Harvie, 1935, by his daughter.
MICROFILM ONLY. Notebook containing typewritten genealogical data, memoirs, pictures, photographs, epitaphs, newspaper clippings, house plans, transcriptions of letters, and other material of the Haskell and Porcher families of South Carolina. Prominently mentioned are the Porcher, Cordes, DuBose, Couturier, Haskell, Thomson, and Bachman families. Included are typed transcriptions of excerpts from a diary, 1853-1854, of Henry Francis Porcher, Goshen Plantation, St. John's Parish, S.C., and from a diary, 1866-1869, of John Couturier Porcher, Ophir Plantation, St. John's Parish, concerning social and plantation events and travel to Washington, D.C., New York City, and elsewhere in the Northeast.
Alexander Cheves Haskell (1839-1910) was a Confederate Army officer, lawyer, and jurist of South Carolina. The collection includes letters, chiefly 1861-1865, from Haskell, colonel and assistant adjutant general of General Maxcy Gregg's brigade, while he was stationed in camps in South Carolina and Virginia, to his parents in Abbeville, S.C., describing army life, battles, comments on officers, and family news; together with a few post-Civil War items, primarily pertaining to the war.
John Cheves Haskell was a Confederate officer and lawyer of South Carolina.
Hassell family members include Eva Hassell Hackney Bonner (d. 1975), who was born in Washington, N.C., but lived in Washington, D.C. Her husband, Herbert Covington Bonner (1891-1965), was secretary to Representative Lindsay C. Warren (D., N.C.) and was elected to fill Warren's seat in the United States Congress after Warren resigned in 1940. Other family members were Eva Hackney Hargrave (1909-1941), Eva Bonner's daughter from a previous marriage, who married C. Hamilton Hargrave (1908-1984), general manager of the Carolina Panel Company in Lexington, N.C., and Eva Bonner's sister, Mary Clyde Hassell, who lived for a time in California, but later moved to Washington, D.C. Papers of the Hassell family include letters discussing family affairs to, from, and among Eva Hassell Hackney Bonner, her daughter Eva Hackney Hargrave, and Eva Bonner's sister, Mary Clyde Hassell. Also included are letters from an American Foreign Legion Pilgrimage to Europe made by Herbert and Eva Bonner in 1937 and a diary Eva Bonner kept during a 1934 trip to Europe. Diary entries chiefly record visits to museums and other tourist attractions, but there are also a few entries about visiting Berlin and observing Nazi activities. Also included are a few picture postcards and photographs.
Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880) was a merchant and Primitive Baptist clergyman of Williamston, N.C.
Sylvester Hassell, son of Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880) and Mary Davis Hassell, was born in 1842 in Williamston, N.C. His father was a Baptist preacher and merchant in Williamston, Halifax, and Plymouth, N.C. Sylvester taught school at several academies; he was also a Primitive Baptist preacher. In 1895, he bought the Gospel Messenger, a monthly religious publication, and served as its editor until his death in 1928.
The collection includes a transcription of an autobiographical letter, 1813, by Thomas Hatch (1761-1868?) of Orange County, N.C.; other family data; and information about and photographs of old houses in Orange County and Chatham County, N.C., owned by Hatch and his connections.
John W. Hatch began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health in 1971 and retired from UNC-CH as Kenan Professor of Health Education in 1995.
Lewis M. Hatch was a Confederate officer who served with the 23rd South Carolina Regiment. The collection includes items relating to Colonel Lewis M. Hatch, 1861-1862; and two letters, 1886, about the Charleston, S.C., earthquake.
The collection contains a grant for land, 1736, in Bertie County, N.C., from Lord Carteret to Jacob Pope and three deeds to the Hatcher family for land in Edgecombe County, N.C.
Leeland Hathaway (b. 1834) was a Confederate Army officer. Hathaway was born near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Ky., and grew up on a plantation called Deer Park.
Hatrick family of North Carolina and Georgia, including Samuel Hatrick, native of Guilford County, N.C., who had two sons, Robert A. L. and Pinckney W. Hatrick. Robert A. L. Hatrick (circa 1833-1862) moved from North Carolina to Columbia County, Ga., around 1854. He served in the 10th Georgia Regiment in the Civil War and died in Richmond, Va., of wounds received at the Battle of Savage's Station. Pinckney W. Hatrick (circa 1838- 1863) graduated from Davidson College, Mecklenburg County, N.C., in 1860. He was a lieutenant in the 53rd North Carolina Regiment when he was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Haughton family of Chatham County, N.C., included planter John Haughton and his son, John Hooker Haughton (1810-1876), lawyer in Chatham County and New Bern, N.C. John Haughton's grandson, Thomas Hill Haughton (d. 1915), graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1861 and served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army. John Laurence Haughton (1841-1862), probably another grandson of John Haughton's, also graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1861, but died while in service of the Confederate army. Legal, military, and other papers and an autograph book relating to three generations of the Haughton family. Legal papers of John Haughton include an 1837 deed of land and an 1842 will. Legal papers of his son, John Hooker Haughton, include an 1834 admission as attorney to the North Carolina Superior Court of Law and Equity, a printed copy of an 1854 speech delivered in the North Carolina Senate concerning a state constitutional convention, and an 1858 deed of land. The military papers relate to orders for John Haughton's grandson, Thomas Hill Haughton, to report to duty and his appointment as drill master in the Confederate army. The autograph book was compiled by James Laurence Haughton while he was a student at the University of North Carolina.
Correspondence of Annie Laura Schmidt with members of the Hauser family of Hope, Ind., Bethania and Winston-Salem, N.C., and other locations, chiefly concerning genealogy; genealogical data; a photocopy of a typed volume titled A Chronicle of Three Families (Dow, Harris, and Coleman) by Annie Laura Hauser Schmidt; and documents pertaining to the service of Rev. William Hauser as chaplain of the 48th Georgia Regiment, C.S.A.
Members of the Bonner and Havens families, mainly of Washington, N.C., included Mary E. Bonner Havens (fl. 1837-1857); her husband B. F. (Benjamin F.) Havens (fl. 1839-1857); Mary's mother Elisabeth Bonner (fl. 1845-1875), father Richard Bonner (fl. 1827), sister Deborah (Debby) Bonner (fl. 1845-1875), brothers George Bonner (1822-1868) and Macon Bonner (fl. 1851-1857), and cousin Mary Shaw (fl. 1837-1839); and B. F. Havens's sisters Fanny M. (F. M.) Havens Bryan (fl. 1838-1851) and Sallie Havens (fl. 1846-1848). The bulk of the collection is correspondence, mostly written to or by Mary Bonner Havens. Topics include health concerns; 1843 rumors of an upcoming duel; social encounters; romantic entanglements; political sympathies; travel experiences; daily life in Washington, N.C., and Portsmouth, N.C., where Mary Havens and her children often stayed for health reasons; and George Bonner's studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Writings consist of essays apparently written by Mary Bonner Havens on topics such as female education and the dangers of gambling. Other materials include an 1839 account of expenses from a trip to Massachusetts; newspaper clippings; a photocopy of a Macon, Ga., slave auction notice; and what appears to be a draft of a marriage proposal.
John Robert Hawes (1823-1900) of New Hanover County, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina, and a farmer, legislator, and captain and surgeon in the Confederate Army.
The collection contains reminiscences of Maria Southgate Hawes, wife of Confederate General James Morrison Hawes, of her early life in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kentucky; marriage in 1857; Civil War years in Bowling Green, Ky., Fort Donelson, Tenn., Shreveport, La., Arkansas, and Texas; and life in Covington, Ky., after the war. Hawes dictated these recollections to her daughter in 1914.
The Hawkins Family Papers chiefly document white male family members, including Philemon Hawkins (1752-1833), John Davis Hawkins (1781-1858), and William J. Hawkins (1819-1894), and others of Warren, Franklin, and Wake counties, N.C., who owned and managed plantations; enslaved people; served as state and federal officials, including as an agent to the Creek people and superintendent of all tribes of Indigenous peoples south of the Ohio River; and worked as railroad executives, bankers, commission merchants, machinery and phosphate manufacturers, and operators of other enterprises in North Carolina and several adjacent states. Enslaved people are documented in letters exchanged between white family members, in deeds and bills of sale, and in account books. The collection includes extensive business and personal correspondence, 1738-1893, of several generations of the Hawkins family. Also included are papers of other nearby socially and politically influential related families and correspondence with relatives who lived in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and other states. Volumes up to 1865 relate primarily to agriculture and railroads; the remainder of the volumes are account books, letter books, inventories, order and shipping records, and other records. Among companies important in the papers are Hawkins, Williamson & Company, cotton brokerage and commission merchants of Baltimore, and its successor Hawkins & Company; C. M. Hawkins & Company, which continued Hawkins & Company; the Pioneer Manufacturing Company of Raleigh, N.C., distributor of agricultural supplies; and the North Carolina Phosphate Company, incorporated in 1885, with its main offices at Raleigh and works at Castle Hayne, N.C.
The collection of white student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Colin M. Hawkins (1847-1914), consists of “Carte de Visite” photographs, a thin photograph mounted on a thick backer. The images depict the UNC campus, students, and other individuals in the 1860s. The individuals include Colin M. Hawkins, Alonzo Phillips, Thomas Henderson Pritchard, and Edmund Jones.
Henry Hawkins (d. 1815) was a Philadelphia merchant.
Hermon Hawkins (1859-1949) was a physician of Jackson, Tenn. The collection includes typescript writings by Hawkins, including recollections of Christmas in Jackson in 1865; an autobiography (46 pages) written in 1946, describing his boyhood, education, and career in architecture, pediatrics, and public health; a historical sketch of Madison County, Tenn.; and a description of old properties and landmarks in Jackson.
William Nassau Hawks (died 1865) was an Episcopal clergyman in Columbus, Ga. His son, Cicero Hawks (died 1865), lived for a time in Alabama. The collection is chiefly letters of condolence, 1865, to William Nassau Hawks on the death of his son in Alabama, and to Hawks's wife later in the year, on his death; and three volumes of accounts, 1824-1863, for miscellaneous activities, chiefly in Muscogee County, Ga., concerning crop sales, hogs killed, leather, real estate, legal work, and medical treatment.
Francis L. Hawks was a clergyman, educator, and historian, of New York City and North Carolina.
Francis T. Hawks was born in New Bern, N.C. In 1858, he was hired as an engineer to work on the construction and landscaping of Central Park in New York City. In 1862, he joined the Confederate Army and served in the Adjutant General's Department. In 1863, he became a lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment, Engineer Troops (Corps of Engineers), which was formed in Wilmington, N.C. He served under General W. H. C. Whiting in the preparation of the coastal defenses at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The papers are primarily letters received by Francis T. Hawks during his service in the Confederate Army. Among these are letters to him from General W. H. C. Whiting relating to the Cape Fear defenses at Fort Anderson, hand-drawn maps of some of the defensive positions at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, a copy of a letter from General Joseph E. Johnston announcing his surrender to General William T. Sherman, and a field order from General Sherman ordering disbursement of non-essential supplies to the local populace. Also included are two stock certificates and a certificate from the City of New York acknowledging Hawks's work on the construction of Central Park.
John Hawks (1731-1790) of North Carolina was an accountant and architect, best known as the designer of Tryon Palace, New Bern, N.C. The collection contains scattered drawings, correspondence, and other papers relating to buildings in Edenton, N.C., including a subscription list, 1767, for the building of a courthouse and prison; drawing of the cupola for a church, 1769; drawings for a prison, 1773; and a letter, 1857, from Robert Treat Paine concerning the transfer of these papers to the North Carolina Historical Society. Also included are architectural sketches, undated, of a church in Hillsborough, N.C., thought to be the work of John Hawks.
Amos Henry Hawley (1910- ), demographer and teacher at the University of Michigan for thirty years. In 1966, he moved to the Sociology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from which he retired in 1976 as Kenan Professor of Sociology with specialization in demography. Professional papers, 1938-1991, of Amos Henry Hawley, including correspondence, writings, and other papers.
Jacob S. Hayden was a native of western Virginia.
Julian Mixon Hayes, a native of Aurora, N.C., graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and worked for the American Tobacco Company in Durham, N.C., before serving as an officer in the United States Army during World War II.
Charles C. Haynes Jr. was born in Durham, N.C., in 1921. He attended Duke University, where he played in the 1942 Rose Bowl held in Durham. Haynes left Duke to serve as a lieutenant with the 88th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for his service in North Africa and Italy. After the war, Haynes opened the Saddle Club Inc., later known as the Saddle and Fox Restaurant, in Durham. He was a certified executive chef and president of Whitt-Haynes Construction, later the Charles C. Haynes Jr. Construction Company. He died in Durham in 1994.
Elizabeth Moseley Land Haynes (1737-1796), daughter of Francis and Margaret Moseley, was married first to Francis Thorowgood Land (1729-1760) and second to William Haynes (1723-1769). The collection includes birth, death, and marriage records (6 pages) from a family Bible, chiefly made by Elizabeth Moseley Land Haynes. Families represented include Moseley, McClanhan, Thorowgood, and White. Also included are a sheet of handwritten music for the tune Portugal, and the handwritten proceedings of the Virginia Portsmouth [Baptist?] Association at Tucker's Swamp Meeting House, Southampton County, 29 October 1836, including a list of the delegates present and the resolutions passed.
MICROFILM ONLY. About fifty letters, 1849-1856, to Haynes in Giles County, Tenn., from his son, Peril Columbus Haynes (1826-1910), a farmer in Davis County, Iowa, concerning opportunities in the area, crops, livestock, weather, health, political opinions, and family affairs; letters, 1836-1845, from another son, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, Pa., Greenville, S.C., and other places, concerning community and personal affairs, and letters from that son's creditors in Pittsburgh; and four letters from Mexican War soldiers, including three, February-April 1847, from Peril C. Haynes at Tampico and near Vera Cruz, largely concerning military affairs.
Field recordings of Sacred Harp shape-note singing from the "Original Sacred Harp" by unidentified white residents of Buies Creek, N.C., and Cullman, Ala. One tape documents two small group sessions set up by Dr. Julietta Haynes, a white historian and collector, at her home in Buies Creek, Harnett County, N.C., in 1969 and 1970, and includes 54 selections. The other tapes record a singing at Cullman Courthouse in Alabama in July 1971 featuring many more singers and more than 100 selections. The collection also includes supporting documentation created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation contains technical information on the recordings, as well as additional information on the content of the recordings, such as selection titles and the number of singers present per selection.
The collection is a letter, 25 October 1810, from Martin L. Haynie in St. Francisville, La., to John Ballinger, who was in command at a fort on the present site of Baton Rouge. Haynie discussed his role in stirring up sentiment for revolt against the Spanish among the American inhabitants in the region; a contemplated expedition against the Spanish at Pensacola, Fla.; and his thoughts about a new republic, which might replace Spanish rule. Haynie also indicated that he would soon travel to Baltimore, his birthplace.
The collection is a typed transcription of a letter from Haynsworth to her mother, describing activities of federal troops in Camden, S.C.
The collection contains business account books, scrapbooks, notebooks, and other volumes kept by white residents of Granville County and Vance County, N.C., and the surrounding area. The account books of Samuel Duty (fl. 1803-1865) include carpenter, blacksmith, and general merchandise transactions. The scrapbooks and legal notebook of lawyer John Willis Hays (1834-1901), chiefly consist of material dated circa 1887-1900 on notable individuals, including American and English jurists. The school notebooks and papers of physician and public health officer Benjamin K. Hays (fl. 1887-1918) include material related to education, health, history, science, religion, and the status of African Americans in the South. Other account books dating from 1835 to 1883 document transactions for general merchandise, a shoe shop, tobacco sales, estate settlements, blacksmith work, an academy, and other businesses in Oxford and Henderson, N.C. The collection also includes an arithmetic book of William B. Brandon and a family history and genealogical journal with reminiscences by John Willis Hays II, John Willis Hays III, and F.B. Hays. In his narrative writing, John Willis Hays III discusses Reconstruction in Oxford, N.C., including the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the hiring of African American laborers.
Egbert Lynch Haywood was born in Durham, N.C., in 1911. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1931, received a law degree from Harvard in 1934, and then returned to Durham to practice. Haywood served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve and was called into regular service during World War II, 1942-1945, shipping out to the Philippines in 1944. He returned from duty in November 1945. He later served as assistant city attorney for Durham, a post that he held until 1956 when he went back into private practice. Haywood retired in 1984 and died in Durham in 1988. Papers consist primarily of correspondence between Egbert Lynch Haywood and his wife Margaret. Most letters date from Egbert Haywood's tour of active service, 1944-1945, with the United States Navy during World War II. The letters discuss military life both in California, where he did some of his basic training, and in the Philippine Islands, where he was eventually stationed. There are also letters to both Egbert and Margaret Haywood from various acquaintances, as well as several letters from Egbert Haywood to their son, Egbert Haywood, Jr. Also included are several graded assignments from Egbert Haywood's naval training in Charleston, S.C., and other documents relating to his military service; restaurant menus and hotel bills; and an account of Egbert and Margaret Haywood's experiences during and just after the war, apparently composed by Margaret Haywood some years later.
The Haywood family was a politically and socially influential white family in Raleigh, N.C., with plantations dependent on enslaved labor in Edgecombe County, N.C., and in Greene County and Marengo County, Alabama. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, associates, and people enslaved by them. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood (1755-1827) as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s-1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s-1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), who was a member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800-1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the Alababam plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) and his cousin Alfred Williams (fl. 1825-1860). A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared, by James Reid, 1769. plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. undated materials?
John Haywood (1765-1826) was treasurer of North Carolina, 1787-1827, and member of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789-1827. Other persons represented in the collection include his son, George Washington Haywood (1802-1890), lawyer of Raleigh, N.C.; George's nephew, Joseph A. Haywood (born 1843), of Raleigh, N.C.; and Joseph's daughter, Martha A. Haywood.
Live audio recordings of Joe Heaney, an Irish singer and storyteller, performing on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in October 1981. The recordings feature Joe Heaney performing songs from the sean-nós tradition and telling Irish stories and legends in Irish and English, both in a concert and classroom setting. Recorded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Curriculum in Folklore and Department of English, who sponsored Heaney's appearances to UNC. The collection also contains supporting documentation, consisting of a tape log prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Tape logs include contextual information on the recordings as well as titles of songs performed by Heaney when known.
Stephen D. Heard, lawyer, commission merchant, and native of Wilkes County, Ga., practiced law in Talbotton, Ga., from about 1835 until about 1847. In 1836, he married Mary Anne Willis of Wilkes County, whose father, Colonel Richard Jefferson Willis, later signed the Ordinance of Secession. About 1847, Heard moved to Augusta, Ga., where he worked for the remainder of his life as a commission merchant in the successive firms of Dye & Heard, Heard & Simpson, S. D. Heard, and S. D. Heard & Son. Heard was an active Mason, a member of the Augusta Board of Health (1858), a wartime city alderman, a member of the board of directors of the Milledgeville Railroad Company (1862) and of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company (1874), and president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad Company (1866). His son and partner Richard Willis Heard (d. 1880) married Anna Platt of Augusta, Ga., in 1868.
W. B. W. Heartsill was born in 1841 near Louisville, Tenn., southwest of Knoxville, Tenn. He served in the Army of the Confederate States of America in many positions, including captain and Chief of Police for East Tennessee. He later served as a spy and a scout with Osborne's Scouts, an independent company of Tennessee scouts. After the war ended, Heartsill moved to Arkansas.
The Heartt family and Wilson family of North Carolina were united by the marriage of Edwin A. Heartt and Alice E. Wilson, daughter of Alexander Wilson (1799-1867). Alexander Wilson emigrated from Ireland in 1818 and settled in Raleigh, N.C. He was a Presbyterian minister and a teacher and principal at several boys' schools, including the Caldwell Institute (first located in Greensboro, N.C., 1836-1845, and then in Hillsborough, N.C., 1845-1850) and at an academy named for him at Melville in Alamance County, N.C.
The collection of white journalist and photographer, Charles Heatherly, consists of 128 35mm color slides depicting exterior views of courthouses across North Carolina. Images appear in his 1988 publication The Courthouses of North Carolina and Tales that Whisper in the Stone.
The Cherrill P. Heaton Collection consists mostly of personal copies of bluegrass music compiled by banjo player and retired University of North Florida professor, Cherrill P. Heaton. The audio recordings, circa 1950-1977, feature radio shows and live performances by bluegrass musicians, including live recordings made at the New River Ranch in Rising Sun, Md. and Sunset Park in West Grove, Pa. Notable artists featured on these recordings include Red Allen, Foggy Mountain Boys, Bill Monroe, Reno & Smiley, and the Stanley Brothers, among others. The collection also contains digital media relating to Earl Scruggs funeral service and tributes held in 2012, including audio recordings of the service and tribute performances and digital scans of photographs and programs.
Louis Hebert (1820-1901) was a planter, Louisiana state legislator and state engineer, West Point graduate, Confederate brigadier general, and school teacher of Louisiana.
The collection is a volume containing three apparently unrelated sets of records: (1) lettercopy book, December 1859-February 1861, of the United States army engineers' office, New Orleans, La., under P. G. T. Beauregard and Walter McFarland, concerning regular business and the contest, upon secession, between the state of Louisiana and the United States Army over federal property; (2) lettercopy book, April-August 1861, of Colonel (later General) Paul Octave Hebert, Confederate States of America, New Orleans, concerning artillery, supplies, ammunition, personnel, and organization; and (3) records, 1896-1902, of the Franklin Literary Society at Howard College, East Lake, Ala. (predecessor of Samford University).
Contains correspondence, reports, promotional materials, and other items pertaining to Irvington House, a medical research and patient treatment center located in New York. These materials were created and collected by Robert L. Heckel, a white anthropologist who conducted an administrative study of Irvington House in the 1950s.
William Hedge was a lieutenant in the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment operating during the Civil War in eastern North Carolina during 1862-1863.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters about daily life in Confederate army camps, written by Private William M. Hedgecock when he was serving with the 2nd North Carolina Artillery Battalion in eastern North Carolina and at Drewry's Bluff, Danville, and Fredericksburg, Va., to his parents in Davidson County and at High Point, N.C.
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was born near Salisbury, Davidson County, N.C. After graduation from UNC in 1851, he worked for the Nautical Almanac in Cambridge, Mass., 1851-1853. In 1854, he became professor of analytical and agricultural chemistry at UNC. On 11 October 1856, he was dismissed from the faculty for having expressed his antislavery views. Beginning in 1861, he worked as examiner in the Chemical Department of the U.S. Patent Office, remaining with that agency until his death in 1886. Hedrick married Mary Ellen Thompson of Orange County, N.C., in 1852. They had eight children.
William Augustus Heermance (fl. 1846-1847) of New York was supercargo on the Montgomery, an American cargo ship that traded along the coast of West Africa. The Montgomery, commanded by a Captain Hooper, carried goods assigned to George R. Sheldon. The African travel journal (original, 44 p.; transcription 34 p.), 21 August 1846-11 April 1847, kept by William Augustus Heermance while supercargo on the Montgomery, best documents the Montgomery's sea voyage from New York to Liberia and its trading activities along the coasts of Liberia, Ghana, and Gabon, and on the islands of Principe and Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. Only one entry pertains to the return sea voyage. Journal entries vary from daily to weekly. They are brief, but detailed, and offer considerable information on locations visited, including descriptions of local buildings and internal improvements; means of transport by land and sea; local merchants, trade officials, tribal leaders, missionaries, and colonists; and inhabitants' social customs, religious practices, and modes of dress and adornment. There is limited information on the ship's crew (African American sailors and temporary workers hired along the coast); Captain Hooper and occasional passengers; the diet aboard ship; and the sale and purchase of cargo.
Joseph Heft was from Coshocton County, Ohio. He was drafted for service in the Union Army on 21 September 1864.
Moravian Constantine Alexander Hege (1843-1914) served in the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He later owned an iron mill in Salem, N.C.
Samuel Gordon Heiskell (1858-1923) was a criminal lawyer, judge, mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., and author of Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History. The bulk of the collection concerns Heiskell's book, and includes about 175 photographs; an annotated copy of his manuscript; copies of historical manuscripts; correspondence concerning book sales and other matters; and picture plates. Also included is a scrapbook covering Heiskell's political and legal careers, his book, and Tenessee historical articles and activities.
The 1966 recording on open-reel audio tape contains murder and lynching ballads dubbed from 78 rpms and performed live for John Douglass Helms, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for a folklore class. Accompanying field notes provide information about the songs, including discography for the dubbed recordings, and about the performers and locations of the field recordings. Musical artists recorded in the field are Kate Helms Huggins of Marshville, N.C., Lois Helms Huggins of Charlotte, N.C., Mildred Curlee Carpenter of Oakboro, N.C., Henry Griffin, and Mrs. Millard Carpenter of Peachland, N.C. Song titles performed include "In the Baggage Coach Ahead," "Alec Whitley," "Song About J. V. Johnson," and "Two Little Orphans." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Solomon Hilary Helsabeck was a Methodist minister of Stokes County, N.C.
While working on her M.A. in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jill Hemming received a Documentation Project Grant from the Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council to document and photograph quilts crafted by women of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe of North Carolina. Hemming conducted the survey of Waccamaw Siouan quilts in Columbus and Bladen counties, N.C., 1994-1995. Each quilt is documented on a form with corresponding visual representation on color slides. As far as possible, each quilt is identified by quilt owner; the quilt maker; the quilt maker's spouse, children, and parents; the quilter (if different than the quilt maker); and the materials, dimensions, and pattern of the quilt. The quilts of Elizabeth Graham Jacobs (Lee) are particularly well represented. The oldest quilt documented was made circa 1919. The rest range from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Papers include scattered letters between various individuals of the Hemphill, Nixon, and Adair families of South Carolina and Texas, regarding family news and history, marriages and deaths in the family, and an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans; an 1815 devotional poem written for the Battle of New Orleans; a letter from George F. Moore regarding his quotation of Hon. John Hemphill's opinion in the Dred Scott case and an obituary for Hemphill's death; receipts; a biographical sketch of Hon. John Hemphill and Robert Nixon Hemphill (1816-1891); a memorandum on James Clark Brawley and his family; remarks on the descendants of Reverend John Hemphill, D.D.; and pamphlets including biographical works and eulogies on members of the Adair and Hemphill families and other short works of local history pertaining to the Hemphill family.
Samuel H. Hempstead (1814-1862), native of Connecticut, moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1836 and was clerk of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1836-1838; adjutant general of militia under Governor Yell; prosecuting attorney, 1842; United States district attorney, 1856; solicitor general of Arkansas, 1858; and sometime special judge of the state supreme court. The collection includes six long letters, 1836-1837, from Samuel H. Hempstead in Little Rock, Ark., to his uncle, William Hempstead, a St. Louis merchant, describing his situation and prospects as a beginning lawyer, and the atmosphere and politics of the new state of Arkansas.
Published works of Irish playwright, theater critic, and polemicist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and Shaviana collected by white professor of mathematics and Shaw biographer Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) in the early twentieth century. Published items include first and other editions of Shaw's novels, plays, and writings on art, music, and literature, some of which Shaw signed with inscriptions to Henderson; political pamphlets; tracts disseminated by the Fabian Society, a British socialist organization founded by Shaw; and journals and serials of Shaw literary societies. A set of 86 scrapbooks contain newspaper and magazine clippings of Shaw's articles, reviews, and letters to editors in addition to contemporary criticism of Shaw's works and reviews of modern productions of his plays. Other materials are photographs of Shaw, his family members, and friends; photographs of theatrical productions of his plays and photograph albums with camera performances of Candida and other plays; pictorial works including cartoons, caricatures, engravings, woodcuts, and pastel portraits; theatrical playbills and programs; posters; ephemera; biographical materials; commercial LP records including soundtracks for productions of My Fair Lady, a musical adaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion; a film by Peak Film Productions labeled "Bernard Shaw's Village," which may be A Village Wooing; and five open-reel audiotapes of Heartbreak House recorded in Ohio in 1961. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
Archibald Henderson was an author and University of North Carolina professor of mathematics.
John Steele Henderson, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, United States congressman, lawyer, and a founder of rural free delivery of the mail, was born 6 January 1846 in Salisbury, N.C., the son of Archibald II and Mary Ferrand Henderson, a descendant of General John Steele, comptroller of the United States Treasury. In October 1874, Henderson married Elizabeth Brownrigg Cain (1850-1929). They were the parents of Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson, who married United States Navy Captain Lyman A. Cotten; Archibald Henderson, professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, who married Barbara Curtis Bynum; John Steele Henderson Jr., electrical engineer for Westinghouse, who married Ruth King; and Mary Ferrand Henderson, who was active in the Democratic Party and in the Episcopal Church in North Carolina.
Mary Ferrand Henderson, daughter of Elizabeth Brownrigg Cain and John Steele Henderson of Salisbury, N.C., lived much of her adult life in Chapel Hill, N.C., with her sister, Elizabeth Brownrigg Cotten. Henderson served as vice-chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, 1922-1930. She also was a member of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill and active in affairs of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and in a number of lineage societies. In the mid-1930s, she served as editor of the Social Register of North Carolina, which was published in 1936.
Maud Truxton Henderson was an Episcopal deaconess from Lexington, Va., who served as a missionary in China, 1903-1946.
Moses Young Henderson (fl. 1887-1898) was a resident of Savannah, Ga. The collection is a pocket diary with brief but nearly daily entries of Henderson recording everyday activities, particularly social life and recreation, personal expenditures, and family activities.
Philo Henderson (1823-1852) was an editor and lawyer in Charlotte, N.C.
Letters to William F. Henderson, physician of Williamsboro, N.C., from friends, a patient, and business associates. Two letters are from physicians asking that Henderson practice medicine with them; two others concern leasing slaves from Henderson.
Charles Henning Hendricks (1917-2010) was a practioner and professor of obstetrics and gynecology. Hendricks practiced and taught at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) beginning in 1957, served as a Macy Fellow in the Seccion Fisiologica Obstetrica at the University of Uruguay in Montevideo, and came to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. During his time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hendricks served as a professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Hendricks retired as a Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology emeritus in December 1988.
The Leon Hendrickson Letters, 1942-1953, consist of letters he wrote home while stationed with the 1103rd Engineer C Group of the U.S. Army at different bases in the United States and in France and England during World War II. His letters to his mother in Norfolk, Va., discuss the war and family news. There are also a few postwar letters from when he attended college in Louisville, Ky.
Field recordings of Irish singers performing traditional Irish songs and prayers in Irish and English, with interviews about community life and the song tradition. Songs include children's songs, love songs, migration songs, and ballads. Julie Henigan, a white musician and folklorist from Springfield, Mo., made the recordings in Ireland as part of a Youthgrant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The recordings were later used as source material for Henigan's documentary on Irish song called As I Rode Out, which was first broadcast on NPR in 1981. The collection also contains related documentation and additional audio recordings made by Julie Henigan in the mid 1980s, including field recordings and interviews with Irish folk singers living in the United States, as well as a cassette copy of Julie Henigan's release, American Stranger. Documentation found in the collection consists of tape logs prepared by former staff of the SFC and interview transcripts presumably created by Julie Henigan.
P. C. (Polycarp Cyprian) Henkel (1820-1889), was a Lutheran minister of Lincoln County, N.C.
Catherine Henley (1922-1999) received her A.B. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1943, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947, and Ph.D. in zoology from the University of North Carolina in 1949. She was research assistant or co-investigator with Donald P. Costello of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Zoology Department, 1947-1976. The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between Catherine Henley and Donald P. Costello. Also present is correspondence with other researchers in developmental cytology, cell biology, and electron microscopy, as well as letters to and from several family members, including Catherine Henley's father, John Ralph Henley, a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps; her mother, Regina Knowles Durant Henley; and her sister, Mary V. Henley. Also included are a research notebook from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., dated May 1974; several offprints of articles by Catherine Henley; and 36 illustrations, mostly photographs made using a scanning electron microscope.
George LeRoy Henry was a lawyer, a registrar of the United States Land Office, and a member of the 1st Alabama Cavalry.
Gustavus A. Henry (1804-1880) of Clarksville, Tenn., was a Whig politician, lawyer, and owner of plantations in Hinds County, Miss., and Desha County, Ark. Henry's family included his wife Marion McClure Henry (fl. 1828-1871); their children Susan (fl. 1846-1862), John (d. 1862), and Gustavus, Jr. (fl. 1849-1865); and Gustavus's brother Patrick Henry (fl. 1833-1850), plantation owner in Mississippi and Arkansas. The collection is chiefly family correspondence of the Henrys, particularly of Gustavus and Marion and their children. Included is correspondence between Gustavus and Marion while he was away on court business and campaigning in Tennessee for the Whigs and Henry Clay. Also included is their correspondence while he was on trips to visit his plantations in Mississippi and Arkansas. Gustavus wrote about the crops and people he enslaved on his plantations. Marion wrote about friends and family in Clarksville and her work with the Mount Vernon Association. Letters from the children were written chiefly while they were away at school, particularly from Susan at the Columbia Female Institute in Tennessee, from John at the University of Virginia, and from Gustavus, Jr., at the Military Academy at West Point. They also corresponded while on trips with their father to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas; and Susan wrote while travelling in Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia in 1853. Several of the Henry sons joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and Gustavus, Jr., served on the staff of General G. J. Pillow. In addition to family correspondence there are a few letters from political associates of Gustavus, including letters on the activities of John Bell. The earliest papers relate to Marion McClure Henry and her family before her marriage.
The John C. Henry Jr. Scrapbook, 1939-1947, was created by his mother, Ola Young Henry, to document her son's experience serving with the 265th drum-filling platoon stateside and in the Philippines during and immediately after World War II. The scrapbook consists of letters home to Greenville, S.C., and a few letters from the family to him; black-and-white photographic prints of soldiers in uniform and of the Filipino people, the army base, and the landscape; newspaper clippings; annotations by Ola Young Henry; and a message recorded for his family by Henry on 5 February 1944. Also included are typed transcriptions of letters, 1943-1946.
Matthew George Henry (1839-1920) was a Presbyterian minister in Nova Scotia, Canada, as well as several churches in western New York. He also lived in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1919-1920, with his son, George Kenneth Grant Henry, professor at the University of North Carolina.
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was a short-story writer.
Robert Henry (1765-1863) resided in Ashville, N.C., and corresponded with United States representative Israel Pickens (1780-1827).
The Hentz Family Papers document four generations of white family members from France, Alabama, and Florida, chiefly after they removed from France to the United States in 1815. There are also many Black people who are identified briefly by family members, especially Charles A. Hentz (1827-1894). Materials include personal, medical, financial, and legal papers, diaries and autobiographies, and photographs. Correspondence and diaries describe activities of family and friends in Alabama and Florida, teaching at a female academy in Alabama, medical and dental practices, citrus-farming, a Confederate soldier's camp life and experiences as a prisoner of war, and travel of a Confederate ex-patriate family in Rio de Janeiro. Of note is the autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, who expanded on his diaries with more extensive description of inhabitants of and life in Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio, New Orleans, La., Mobile and Tuskegee, Ala., and Jackson and Gadsden counties, Fla.; travels in the southern United States; the Mexican War; his medical education and practice; alcoholism, recreational drug use, and drug addicts in the community; the flora and fauna of the Panhandle region of Florida; treatment of the wounded at the battles of Marianna and Natural Bridge, Fla.; the execution of Confederate deserters; and his citrus and vegetable farms in City Point, Brevard County, Fla. Hentz wrote chiefly about white people's lived experiences, but he also identified and provided contextual information about many Black people with whom he interacted. He also described more broadly attitudes toward enslaved people and racial violence, including lynchings. His medical notebooks document his most interesting cases, as well as more routine obstetrical care, for both white and Black patients. Hentz recorded case descriptions, geographic locations, and names of patients, and in many cases their enslavers. Other items include military records of an officer in the French Imperial Army; notes and writings on yellow fever and grave-robbing for dissection purposes, descriptions of fish and plants, and drafts of plays and stories; drawings and pictures of human, botanical, and animal subjects; biographical and genealogical sketches; a phrenological character analysis; photographic portraits; and a Hentz Family Bible.
Hepburn of Carlisle, Pa., was a professor at the University of North Carolina, 1860-1871, and president of Davidson College and Miami University. Two letters, 1848, from Hepburn describing his activities as a student at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pa., and one letter to Hepburn from Alexander Taggart McGill (born 1807), 1850, urging him to return to Jefferson and graduate.
Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897.
William Heriot of Charleston, S.C., was the son of Catherine Heriot of Eatonton, Ga.
The collection contains field and studio recordings of gospel music in the shout band tradition of the United House of Prayer For All People. Lew Herman, a white music writer and librarian, made the recordings between 1989 and 1991 in Charlotte, N.C. Hymns and worship songs performed in the studio by members of the musical group The Tigers include "Get in Ma Jesus" and "Since Jesus Came Into My Life." Field recordings feature the Revival Band performing "Lord Fix Me," "Lead Me Jesus," and other songs. The collection also contains supporting documentation created by former library staff. Documentation lists the tracks and performers and providea contextual background informationon the music and musicians. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
La Santa y Real Hermandad del Refugio y Piedad (Hermandad del Rufugio) was the major charitable organization of Spain for 200 years beginning in the seventeenth century. Most members were noblemen. The work of the brotherhood was divided among La Vista, which distributed funds to the poor and the sick; Las Sillas, an ambulance service; and La Ronda, a night patrol which attempted to find and take in the destitute to prevent illness or death from exposure.
Hermitage Plantation in St. Charles Parish, La., belonged to Pierre Adolphe Rost (1797-1868), French immigrant, Louisiana judge, and Confederate diplomat. During the Civil War occupation of the area, the plantation was operated by Captain Horace B. Fitch, a United States army officer.
Microfilm of a scrapbook, probably compiled 1883-1884, containing clippings relating to Thomas Hord Herndon, Alabama lawyer and legislator, member of the Secession Convention, and Confederate colonel. Also included are some telegrams and letters, chiefly of condolence on Herndon's death, and some earlier materials relating to Herndon, chiefly from 1855.
The Herring family of Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., included John Robert Herring, his wife, and their children.
The Wright family and Herring family were joined by the marriage of Bettie Herring, a school teacher of Mount Olive, N.C., to John C. Wright in 1867.
Harriet Herring was a research associate at the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor in the Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jo. Georg Herrmann was a theological candidate.
Bill Herron (1943-) was a North Carolina-based author of poems, plays, and fiction.
Hertford County is located in the northeastern region of North Carolina, bounded on the north by the Virginia state line. The County of Hertford was formed by an act of the state legislature in 1759.
Joe Herzenberg (Joseph Alexander Herzenberg II) was born in 1941 in Franklin, N.J. He moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1969. Herzenberg was a politician; historian; advocate for social, environmental, and economic justice; and the first openly gay elected official in North Carolina. He died in October 2007 in Chapel Hill.
James Fountain Heustis (died 1891) of Cahaba, Ala., was a surgeon in the United States navy. The collection includes books kept by Heustis as surgeon on the John Adams, including notes on weather, work, the ship's position, prescriptions, quarterly reports of cases of illness on board, medical notes, poems, and notes on church history. The logbooks were kept while Heustis's ship was stationed near Norfolk, Va., at sea, and cruising off the west coast of Africa.
Rachel Lyons of Columbia, S.C., later married James Fountain Heustis.
Joseph Hewes (1730-1779) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina and member of the Continental Congress.
Charles L. Hewitt enlisted in the Union Army on 27 August 1861, was mustered on 7 September 1861 into Company E, Connecticut 7th Infantry Regiment, and was mustered out on 12 September 1864.
John Hewitt (ca. 1848-1920) was a clergyman who spent his childhood in western North Carolina near Nantahala Mountain.
Mary B. Heyer was a historian of the Cape Fear Camp of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Heyward and Ferguson family members included Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851) of South Carolina, whose estate included 45,000 acres of Low Country plantations and over 2,000 slaves; his sons, Nathaniel J. and William H. Heyward; his grandson, James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886); Confederate brigadier general Samuel Wragg Ferguson (1834-1917); and others.
James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886) was a planter of Colleton County, S.C. His son was Robert Barnwell Heyward (1848-1906). The collecion includes contracts, 1879-1883, of James Barnwell Heyward with tenants; bills and receipts of Robert Barnwell Heyward, 1886-1893; and plantation currency (3 paper tickets and 2 coins), presumably used by Heyward tenants.
Addison Hibbard (1887-1945) was an English professor, 1918-1930, and dean, 1926-1930, at the University of North Carolina.
Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson was a professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an expert in highway design. The collection includes professional and technical correspondence related to Hickerson's work as professor at the University of North Carolina; papers, photographs, and genealogical and other data connected with the writing of his two books about the history and families of the Happy Valley area in Wilkes county and Caldwell county, N.C.; and about fifty items concerning the slaying of William C. Falkner (great-grandfather of the novelist William Faulkner) at Ripley, Miss., in 1889.
Three generations of the Spears and Hicks families of Virginia and North Carolina, including Sallie Gray Spears Lewis (b. 1833), her daughter Sallie Moore Spears Hicks (b. 1860), and her grandson Charles Spears Hicks (b. 1886), a North Carolina banker.
The collection of Henderson, N.C., attorney T.T. Hicks (1857-1927) and his daughter Belle Hicks Purvis (1890-1974) of Salisbury, N.C., contains diaries and letters, a household account book, printed material, and other items. Topics in the diaries and letters include North Carolina politics; populism; African Americans' political activities; disfranchisement of African Americans; family and community; family members' political disagreements; Prohibition; alcoholism; rape; lynching; leisure activities and travel; and events with international and national significance. Hicks also wrote of his law practice; his youth immediately before, during, and after the Civil War; and of his early political career as a justice of the peace and mayor of Henderson, N.C.
The collection of white student Charles W. Higgins contains images depicting student social life on campus at the University of North Carolina and in Chapel Hill, N.C. Subjects include students playing football, student groups, campus buildings, and some images of women on campus.
Joseph C. Higgins (fl. 1844-1848) was a sailor aboard the the brig Caroline and Mary, 1844-1848, and the ship Shawmut, 1856-1860. The collection includes the nautical records kept by Higgins on successive voyages on two different merchant ships from Boston, Mass., to various southern ports, the West Indies, Latin America, Europe, and India. Logs record weather, position, soundings, other ships encountered, and chronometer rates, with poems, jokes, and essays by Joseph C. Higgins, many pertaining to relations between men and women, interspersed.
Live audio recordings of Joe Carden, (ca. 1896-1984), a white fiddler and carpenter of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., playing old-time tunes, waltzes, polkas, and a few modern songs on the fiddle, accompanied by one of the collectors on guitar. Also included is a brief interview with Carden about learning to play. Recorded by Michael and Sarah Higgins in Hillsborough, N.C., in April 1974. Little is known about Michael and Sarah Higgins and their connection to the recordings. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a collection cover sheet and track listings prepared by former library staff.
Reverend Rose Highland-Sharpe, a black ordained minister, has been an active participant and volunteer videographer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Black Alumni Reunion, which was established in 1980. This collection contains Rose Highland-Sharpe's videos of events sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Black Alumni Reunion (BAR), the oldest affinity reunion in UNC's General Alumni Association. Videos range in date from 2009 to 2019. Events include: the 2009 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2010 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2011 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2012 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2014 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2015 UNC BAR Black Pioneers Brunch; the 2015 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2016 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service and Sunday Brunch; the 2017 UNC Black Alumni Inspirational Service, 2017 Black Pioneers Brunch, and snippets of the 2017 Pioneers Project; the 2018 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2019 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Light on the Hill Society Awards Gala; the 2019 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; and the 2019 UNC Black Alumni Reunion Light on The Hill Program and 2019 Black Pioneers Interviews. The addition of July 2023 consists of six video files, which include footage of the 2020 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2011 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Black & Blue Tour; the 2021 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service; the 2021 UNC Black Pioneers Memorial Program; the 2022 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Pioneers Dinner/Discussion; and the 2022 UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Inspirational Service.
Audiovisual materials created and compiled by the Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, a social justice leadership training school and cultural center located outside of Knoxville, Tenn. Highlander was founded in 1932 by white activists and educators, Myles Horton, Don West, Jim Dombrowski, and others as an adult education center based on the principle of empowerment. In the 1930s, Myles Horton and other Highlander members worked towards mobilizing labor unions across the southern United States, and later in the 1950s worked closely with civil rights leaders to host workshops and training sessions, laying the groundwork for many of the movement's initiatives, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the Citizenship Schools, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The collection contains archival audio recordings, motion picture films, and video recordings created by Highlander members and staff, as well as their library's audiovisual reference collection of materials created by outside sources. Both series of audiovisual materials mirror the educational work and mission of Highlander, whose members and staff were interested in using media and teaching media production to document and support social justice initiatives across communities. Materials found in the collection document Highlander's Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement, their work with labor struggles in the 1970s, and later their work with immigration, globalization, and environmental causes from the 1980s to 2000s. The collection also contains materials documenting Highlander's work with international communities in Latin America and India in the 1980s and 1990s, including video recordings related to the Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster of 1984. The majority of the materials were produced or compiled by Highlander educational and library staff after the center relocated to its current location in New Market, Tenn. in 1972, but the collection also includes audio recordings and motion picture films related to the early years of the Highlander Folk School. Recordings of folk music, protest songs, labor songs, and African American religious songs were a large part of the civil rights movement and appear within the collection. Of particular note are audio recordings on acetate disc and transcription disc of radio programs, recorded songs, and voices of leaders from the civil rights movement, including Esau Jenkins, Septima Clark, Rosa Parks, Zilphia Horton, and Highlander co-founder, Myles Horton. Other notable materials found in the collection include video recordings created by Highlander Research and Education Center staff, which consist of interviews with educators and activists; footage of rallies, protests, and hearings related to Highlander initiatives; footage of Highlander events, such as meetings, anniversary events, conferences, concerts, and workshops; and video elements and copies of documentary productions produced by Highlander, including video productions on immigration, coal miners, traditional music and ballad collecting, occupational health and safety, and participant observation, among other topics. Additionally, the collection contains scattered supporting documentation found with select audiovisual materials, including transcripts, tape logs, clippings, correspondence, photographic materials, and other printed materials. The Addition of December 2020 consists of audiovisual materials donated by John Gaventa, who from 1976 until 1993 worked as the director and co-director of the Highlander Research and Education Center. These materials primarily document a strike involving the Tennessee Nuclear Services workers, as well as Highlander's international work in Nicaragua and India.
Scattered personal correspondence of the Hill and Kean families of Caroline County, Va., and the Prescott and Moore families of Louisiana. Topics include the War of 1812, economic conditions in the 1840s, and planting in Louisiana; slavery in Virginia; and Reconstruction in both states. Included are scattered papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean (1822- 1898) of Virginia, but no papers relating to his service in the Confederate government, and of John Moore (1788-1867), U.S. representative from Louisiana.
The Hill and Grosvenor families of Memphis, Tenn., were joined by the marriage of Olivia Polk Hill (1861-1934) and Charles Niles Grosvenor (1850-1931) in 1885. The couple had three children: Phoebe Olivia (1886-1963), Charles Niles, Jr. (1890-1930), and Napoleon Hill (1888-1968). The Grosvenors resided in Memphis, El Paso, Tex., and Pass Christian, Miss. The collection primarily documents their extended family, friends, and social life in Memphis and El Paso. Topics of note include courtship and love letters, student life at the University of the South, Georgia Tech, and Washington and Lee University. Other papers include portraits; financial and legal materials; poems and other writings; diaries; material relating to Army Air Force training during World War II; and maps of mines in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Manuscripts of winners for three years of a prize for the best essay on North Carolina history by a University of North Carolina student. Essays are North Carolina Manumission Society (1895) by Charles F. Tomlinson; The Ku-Klux Klan in North Carolina (1899) by R. D. W. Connor; and Judicial System of Proprietary and Royal Governments in North Carolina to 1776 (1903) by Robert W. Herring.
Chiefly items relating to the Confederate army service of Charles Phillips Hill, including a letter of farewell to Lieutenant Charles Phillips Hill of Virginia and Maryland from the officers of 1st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, September 1861; and a printed copy of General Orders No. 64, Confederate States of America, Roll of honor for recent battles, August 1864, pages 1-8, 13. Also included are the parole of Captain Hill, prisoner of war, May 1865; a letter, February 1873, to Major Hill from General G. T. Beauregard, commenting on an article Hill had written on the battle of Manassas; a letter, January 1878, from A. B. Miller of New York introducing Charles Hill to George Jones, Esq., as an authority in merchant marine matters, and asking that the columns of The Times aid Mr. Hill in presenting the facts to the public; and an application, 1881?, for membership in the Army of Northern Virginia, which contains a statement about Hill's Confederate career.
Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C. A United States army officer by way of West Point, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to begin an academic career in mathematics that would last until the outbreak of the Civil War. He joined the Confederate Army and saw action in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, while rising in rank from colonel to lieutenant general. After the war, Hill published a periodical and weekly paper and resumed a career in academia.
Daniel Harvey Hill was a United States army officer (later a Confederate general), who participated in the major battles of the Mexican War.
Daniel Shine Hill of Franklin County, N.C., was born 14 December 1812. Hill was a planter, businessman, and major in the Confederate Army. In 1835, Hill married Susan Irwin Toole (1815-1878). He was active in business and the temperance movement until his death on 18 August 1873. Papers of Daniel Shine Hill consist chiefly of business correspondence, letters concerning the Sons of the Temperance Society, receipts, and price lists. Hill dealt primarily in dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, and textiles, chiefly with merchants from Petersburg, Va., as well as local businessmen and other merchants along the eastern seaboard. He was a very active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society and items concerning this organization appear frequently throughout this collection. There is also some correspondence relating to Louisburg Female College and to the sale of cotton and the status of the cotton market and a few brief items concerning the hiring of freed slaves. The addition of November 2003 includes an account book, 1852-1864, containing details of Hill's financial arrangements with overseers, recipes for a number of folk remedies, and other information.
Frederick Jones Hill (1790-1861) of Brunswick County, N.C., and Wilmington, N.C., was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, N.Y.
Audio tape recordings of interviews, some with typed transcripts, scattered correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous materials about Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949, and U.S. senator, 1949-1950, collected by G. Maurice Hill, businessman of Morganton, N.C., as he prepared to write a book about Graham. Interviewees include Archie Daniels, Mark Ethridge, Miguel Elias, Robert B. House, William C. Friday, Collier Cobb, and Lucy Morgan. In addition to Graham, topics discussed in interviews include other aspects of the University of North Carolina, North Carolina and national politics, and education in North Carolina.
George Watts Hill (1901-1993) of Durham, N.C., was the son of John Sprunt Hill (b. 1869) and father of George Watts Hill Jr. (1926-2002). He worked in hospital administration, banking, insurance, and other industries. A University of North Carolina alumnus, he served on the University of North Carolina System Board of Trustees and later the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors, and was involved, with other Hill family members, in much financial support for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
George Watts Hill Jr. (1926-2002), a white North Carolina businessman, state legislator, and advocate of higher education, was the son of George Watts Hill Sr. (1901-1993) and the grandson of John Sprunt Hill, both politically influential bankers and business people in Durham, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, and other materials related to George Watts Hill Jr.'s interests in education, desegregation, his service in the North Carolina General Assembly, and other topics. Speeches, 1958-1974, include the typed versions of Hill's speeches, mainly about education. Political materials, 1952-1969, are subject files from Hill's years in the state legislature; his service on the Durham Interim Committee and the Durham Committee on Community Relations, both of which focused on desegregation; and a report on public housing in Durham. Higher education materials, chiefly 1962-1985, document the North Carolina Speaker Ban controversy and the integration-focused Consent Decree conflict with the United States Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and include reports from the North Carolina Board of Higher Education and ICF Consulting studies. University of North Carolina service materials, chiefly 1985-1999, relate to the Hill family's philanthropic contributions to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as to George Watts Hill Jr.'s service to several of the universities in the University of North Carolina System. Consulting materials, 1973-1995, include reports and other items related to Hill's educational consulting career. Personal and family materials, 1943-1998, relate to the administration of the estate of John Sprunt Hill II (1932-1991) and include a few personal items of George Watts Hill Jr., architectural plans for Hill's Chapel Hill residence, and other items. The Addition of November 2008 includes speeches, letters, pamphlets, clippings, and other materials related to George Watts Hill Jr.'s position on the North Carolina State Board of Higher Education, 1968-1971, during which time the University of North Carolina considered merging state colleges into a single, consolidated University of North Carolina System. There are also letters, pamphlets, and other materials related to his tenure representing Durham in the North Carolina State General Assembly, 1957-1961, with related professional materials, circa 1950-1971.
Green Hill (1741-1826) was a North Carolina statesman and patriot, planter, soldier, and Methodist minister, who settled in Tennessee in 1799.
Joel F. Hill was of Germanton, N.C.
John Burt Hill, a native of Louisburg, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in 1914, joined the North Carolina National Guard and served on the Mexican border until 1917, then entered military training in Texas and was sent to France in August 1918. Hill served as a wagoner until the end of the war, then remained in France as a student at the Universite de Poitiers. After Hill returned to the United States in 1919, he began a fifty-year career with the New York Life Insurance Company.
The collection includes descriptions of events, places, families, legends, and plantations of the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina from that area's first settlement by Europeans until about 1875. Among the families and plantations described are the Strudwick family at Stag Park, the Ashe family at The Neck and Green Hill, the Moseley family at Moseley Hall, the Moore family at The Vats, the Lane family at Springfield, the Williams family at Mount Gallant, the Swann family at The Oak, the Jones family at Spring Garden, and the John Henry King Burgwin at The Hermitage.
Banker, lawyer, and legislator John Sprunt Hill (1869-1961) founded the Durham Loan & Trust with his father-in-law, George Washington Watts. A University of North Carolina alumnus, Hill was a major figure in Durham, N.C., business, politics, and philanthropy for almost 60 years. In addition to his business career, he served in the North Carolina Senate, 1933-1938. Much of his philanthropy was directed at the city of Durham and the University of North Carolina, including the donation of the Carolina Inn to UNC.
John Hill operated a plantation, apparently in the Edgefield District, in South Carolina. He commanded the Springfield Beat Company of the South Carolina militia in the Edgefield District.
Lucius D. Hill Jr. was born in Sparta, Tenn., in 1889. His father, Lucius D. Hill Sr., was a speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and his grandfather, William Jasper Hill, was a lawyer and Confederate Army officer. After briefly attending the medical college at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1906, and graduating from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1914, Hill was a medical resident at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1916, he served as an Army physician during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico with General John J. Pershing. From 1918 to 1920, he served in the 113th Machine Gun Battalion of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, also as a physician. After returning to Bellevue Hospital and completing his residency, Hill moved to San Antonio, Tex., to practice medicine and was a founding member of the Texas Pediatric Society. He continued his medical practice until 1969 when he retired at age 80. He died on 4 June 1984 at age 95. Hill's first wife was Charlotte Mohr Hill, and together they had four children. His second wife was Dorothy Duerler Hill, and together they had one child.
Rebecca Hill of Hillsborough, N.C., was the daughter of Thomas B. Hill, Jr.
Genealogical correspondence, 1921-1936, of Stuart Hall Hill, University of North Carolina alumnus, of Halifax County, N.C., and Brooklyn, N.Y., and his collection of original papers, 1726-1916, relating to members of the Gooch, Hall, Hill, Long, Williams, and related families of Bertie, Martin, and Halifax counties, N.C. Included are deeds, wills, contracts, letters, and miscellaneous other papers. In the early period there are colonial deeds and the will (manuscript copy, 1820) of Thomas Pollock (1654-1722), early leader of the Albemarle Colony; and a few property papers of Whitmel Hill (1743-1797), member of the Continental Congress. Also included is the political and legal correspondence of Judge Thomas Norfleet Hill (1838-1904) of Halifax County.
Theophilus Hunter Hill, poet and librarian of Raleigh, N.C., who edited The Spirit of the Age, a Raleigh newspaper, and The Century of South Carolina. In 1861, Hill's first volume of poetry, Hesper and Other Poems, was published in Raleigh, the first book issued under the copyright laws of the Confederate States of America. He also published Poems (1869) and Passion Flower (1883).
Whitmel Hill (1743-1797) of Bertie County, N.C., was a planter, merchant, state legislator, and perhaps a member of the Continental Congress.
William Geddy Hill was a physician of Pittsboro, N.C.
William P. Hill was an itinerant Baptist preacher in South Carolina. The American Baptist Register for 1852 indicates that W. P. Hill was a resident of Greenwood, S.C., in 1851, and also that he was serving the Horeb Church in Abbeville (Edgefield Association).
Hillbilly Sources and Symbols: Country Music, Cultural Brokerage, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? was a conference held on 4-5 April 2003 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference, sponsored by the Southern Folklife Collection, the Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS), and Music in Context, was a response to the surge in popularity of traditional music inspired by the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and a celebration of the publication of Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Country Music by Guthrie T. Meade Jr. with Douglas S. Meade and Richard K. Spottswood (Southern Folklife Collection, 2002).
The Hilliard family owned land and property in Warren County, N.C., as of the 1850's and apparently farmed tobacco. The Hilliard Family Papers consist chiefly of family letters written during the 1860s to Eugenia Hilliard by her husband, Thomas D. Hilliard; his brother, John Hilliard; and several female cousins. Letters document family and neighborhood news, especially health, social visits, and marriages, and the Hilliard brothers' war time experiences, especially camp life, morale, and the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Other materials include receipts and genealogical research.
The collection contains accounts, 1859-1864, of individuals for notes; general accounts; and a daybook, 1860-1861, of the Hillsboro Savings Association (Hillsborough, N.C.).
Record of newspapers received by various individuals and accounts of the post office of Hillsborough, N.C., 1866-1874.
MICROFILM ONLY. John Wilson Hines, a native of Virginia, moved to Ohio and served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, Hines travelled briefly to east Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Va., settling eventually in Minnesota. Papers include a certificate of medical leave and a personal letter from Hines to George Wells in Tennessee, 1862-1863; nineteen items, 1862-1863, including letters and official military papers addressed to Hines from friends, family members in both North and South, and commanding officers, regarding the death of Hine's Confederate brother, news from his family in Virginia, and military correspondence concerning his duty assignments; twenty-six items from 1865, including letters to Hines from his Ohio cousins, from female friends, and from soldiers in other camps, about military orders and news of friends and family; ten items from 1866, including scattered personal correspondence from family and friends indicating their desire to resettle, move west, and begin new jobs, and Hines's love letters to Alice McEwen; verses, dated 1892, in memory of Elliott Lacy; obituary clippings; and undated correspondence from Hines' sister and other members of his family in Virginia and Ohio.
The collection is a commonplace book of Hines of Asylum, N.C., containing poems, chiefly on religious themes, by Hines and others.
Samuel H. Hines (died 1870) was a Confederate captain from North Carolina, and a federal prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Ga. The collection includes chiefly correspondence, 1864-1865, between Hines, while he was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski, Ga., and Rutson Maury, a New York merchant, who was trying to send clothing and other supplies to Hines; and items concerning Hines's character written after his death in 1870.
David Hinkle was a Lutheran minister of Lincoln County, N.C.
The collection is Civil War reminiscences, written in 1911 in McKenzie, Tenn., by J.A. Hinkle of Robertson County, Tenn., about his experiences serving in the 30th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, including his capture at Fort Donelson, imprisonment in Illinois, and escape with the aid of southern sympathizers. The original document was addressed to Anderson Chenault Quisenberry. The microfilm copy is of the original manuscript; there is also a typed transcription of the original.
The collection contains an account book (20 pages), 1842-1844, of a tailor and shoemaker, possibly Forsyth County, N.C.; account book, 1844-1845, concerning the estate of Elizabeth Kerby (location undetermined); and a bill, 24 October 1851, from a New York bookseller to H. Miller at Winston, N.C.
Glenn Hinson, a white professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has focused his research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American communities. The collection contains posters advertising gospel music performances in the Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill); field recordings and audio interviews by Glenn Hinson with North Carolina based African American musicians and performers; as well as papers and audiovisual materials related to projects or fieldwork by students of Glenn Hinson at UNC. Students mostly conducted their fieldwork in the state of North Carolina, with the majority of projects relating to southern folklife topics and subjects, including documentation of traditional creative practices, music and dance performances, church services, and community spaces and events, more broadly.
The collection is a sketch, 1930s, of the Hinton and Lane families of North Carolina.
The collection contains records of sales of former Cherokee lands in Macon County, N.C., made by Samuel Finley Patterson and Charles L. Hinton, state commissioners. Records include amount of land sold, price, name of surveyor, purchaser, and other data.
Laurens Hinton was a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C., who lived at Broomfield, a plantation three miles south of Raleigh. The collection includes correspondence, business items, and legal papers of Hinton; letters from Hinton's father in Wake County, N.C.; letters from Willis L. Miller at Union Theological Seminary; letters to Jane Constance (Miller) Hinton, wife of Hinton and daughter of Henry Miller and Isabella Miller, when she was a student at the Hillsboro Female Academy, in Hillsborough, N.C., and while visiting relatives in Virginia; and letters, 1825-1833, from Thomas P. Hunt. Letters deal chiefly with family matters, but touch on cotton prices, the slave trade, Wake County politics, and Broomfield plantation affairs during Reconstruction. The addition of 1974 is a commonplace book by Jane Constance Hinton. The addition of 2003 is Jane Constance Hinton's account of her wartime experience, The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron. The account describes her life and duties at Broomfield prior to Laurens Hinton's death in 1864; service rendered by individual slaves and freedmen; and aid given to Sherman's bummers by other slaves and freedmen, particularly with respect to the 13 April 1865 raids on the plantation.
Member of patriotic and historical organizations and editor, 1901-1926, of the North Carolina Booklet, a quarterly of historical articles; resident of Raleigh, N.C.
William Emsley Hipp III graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1974 with degrees in drama and sculpture. During his brief career, he was awarded a number of prestigious commissions to create sculptures of some of North Carolina's most distinguished citizens.
The Historical Society of North Carolina was founded in 1945. The collection contains records of the Society, especially those of the secretary; papers presented at Society meetings; papers submitted in award competitions sponsored by the Society; and other materials related to the Society's activities relating to the study of North Carolina history.
Roswell D. Hitchcock was a theologian of New York.
Isaac Fontaine Hite was from Middletown, Frederick County, Va. He attended the University of Virginia beginning in 1827 and later became a farmer.
Collection contains family and personal letters, articles, and volumes, chiefly dating from 1870, concerning the political and religious activities, travels, and careers of members of the white Mendenhall family and the white Hobbs family of Guilford County, N.C. The papers reflect the Quaker view of life and relate to several reform movements, including anti-slavery, women's health and education, and pacifism. Topics include the Mendenhall's aid to enslaved people attempting to self-emancipate from North Carolina to a free state in 1864; use of labor of imprisoned people by Western North Carolina Railroad in the 1870s; construction of an asylum in Morganton, N.C., for people with mental health problems in the 1870s; state appropriations for schools for Black students in North Carolina in 1891; a treatise on pregnancy and childbirth; travel in England, 1890-1891; service with a Quaker relief organization in France during World War I; student educational experience at Haverford College, 1870s; teaching at New Garden College, 1876-1884; and the college presidency at Guilford College, 1888-1915. Materials include correspondence, accounts books, scrapbooks, diaries, religious notebooks, and other notes.
Samuel Huntington Hobbs, Sr. (1870-1965), farmer and politician of Sampson County, N.C.
Samuel Huntington Hobbs (1895-1969), rural sociologist, was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina, 1916-1968. He was chair of the University's Department of Rural Social Economics from 1933 until it merged with the Department of Sociology in 1939. Hobbs was the author of North Carolina: Economic and Social (1930), North Carolina: An Economic and Social Profile (1958), and other studies.
Hamilton H. Hobgood (1911-1995), of Louisburg, N.C., was a white lawyer, state senator, and judge. The collection includes trial materials, committee materials, speeches, prisoners' letters, personal correspondence, and other files of Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood. There are records, notes, and other materials for the 1975 Joan Little murder trial in Raleigh, N.C., and thousands of other trials over which he presided. Committee materials document work with the Conference of Superior Court Judges; the North Carolina Bar Association Penal System Study Committee; the Commission on Sentencing, Criminal Punishment and Rehabilitation; the Commission on Correctional Programs; and the Governor's Crime Commission.
Fred Hobson is an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Southern literary history. This collection primarly contains correspondence with various writers, researchers, and scholarly journals. Also included are materials related to Hobson's publications.
North Carolina literary critic Linda Whitney Hobson received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Alabama. Hobson wrote Understanding Walker Percy for the Understanding Contemporary American Literature series and Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography, both published in 1988.
Emma Louise Hodge was born in 1849 and married physician Charles Stuart Sheldon in 1868. The couple had five children: William Hodge Sheldon (1869-1874); Sidney Roby Sheldon (1873-1959), who was a professor of engineering; surgeons Walter Hodge Sheldon (b. 1874) and Stuart Sheldon (b. 1876); and Helen Miriam Sheldon Lyman (b. 1884), whose daughter Sydney married Dr. David Welton and lived in Charlotte, N.C.
Journalist Betty Ann Arnold Hodges (1926- ) was born in Waynesboro, Va., where she apprenticed as a linotype operator during World War II when shortages forced employers to hire women for jobs traditionally held by men. She received an A.B. degree in English from the University of North Carolina in 1950. Moving to Durham, N.C., in 1954, Hodges worked at the Durham Morning Herald, where she served in several capacities, including style editor and, for 43 years, book columnist. Hodges married newspaperman Ed Hodges in 1954; they had two children. The collection includes three audio cassettes of interviews Hodges conducted with writers, 1995-1996, and a scrapbook of Hodges's Durham Morning Herald articles that were entered in the 1987 competition for the Lulu Award for fashion journalism.
Luther Hartwell Hodges began his career as an executive for Marshall Field & Comapny, 1919-1950. He was later consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1950-1951; lieutenant governor, 1953- 1954, and governor, 1956-1960, of North Carolina; United Sates Secretary of Commerce, 1961-1965; head of the Research Triangle Foundation, 1966-1972; and president of Rotary International, 1967-1968.
Randy Hodges, a civil engineer educated at Vanderbilt University, served as a consultant on the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project (SGEP), a non-profit initiative which sought to address rising food and heating costs and unemployment in rural communities in the South during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Fred Hoeptner Collection consists of an audio recording compiled by Fred Hoeptner, an environmental engineer, ragtime composer, and founding member of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation. The recording includes an interview that Hoeptner conducted with Mrs. Hila E. Weathers, sister of American folk singer, Goebel Reeves (1899-1959). Known as "the Texas Drifter," Reeves was an Anglo-American performer of cowboy, hobo, and western songs. In the recording Weathers discusses her brother's musical career as well as their upbringing in Sherman, Tex., among other topics. The recording also includes an interview with Anglo-American steel guitarist, Leon McAuliffe, being interviewed by his manager, G. Don Thompson. In the interview McAuliffe and Thompson discuss McAuliffe's career and influences, the history of the steel guitar, and other steel guitarists, including James Robert "Bob" Wills (1905-1975), an Anglo-American western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader from Texas.
Copies of S. Wallace Hoffman's invitation for a botanizing trip on Rocky Face Mountain in Alexander County, N.C., and William Chambers Coker's response.
William Norwood (fl. 1815-1841) and his Scottish wife Robina Hogg Norwood, of Hillsborough, N.C., had extended family members located in the various parts of the United States and Scotland.
James Hogg was a Scottish emigrant to Orange County, N.C., circa 1774. The collection consists primarily of legal documents, 1772-1773, of James Hogg in Scotland, connected with his efforts to identify and procure conviction of the persons who burned his home; papers, 1773-1774, relating to his efforts to emigrate to North Carolina, his negotiations for a ship to carry his family and other emigrants, the wreck of the ship off the Shetland Islands, the emigrants' controversy with Hogg, and his controversy in Scottish courts with the ship owners; and scattered papers, 1778-1824, of Hogg and his family after their settlement in Orange County, N.C., where Hogg became a prominent resident of Hillsborough. Undated papers include genealogical material.
John Hogg (1765-1826) was a merchant of Hillsborough and Wilmington, N.C.
Robert Hogg was a merchant of Charleston, S.C., and Wilmington, N.C.
Thomas Devereaux Hogg was a businessman of Raleigh, N.C.
Audio recording of gospel songs performed by the Silvermine Quartet, a white country gospel group, of Bryson City, N.C. N. Charlene Hogue, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, recorded the quartet as part of a 1989 term paper for an English 187 course taught by Daniel Patterson. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of a letter from N. Charlene Hogue to Daniel Patterson, as well as a copy of Hogue's term paper, titled "The Silvermine Quartet: A descriptive Paper of a Western North Carolina Gospel Group."
Robert Frederick Hoke (1837-1912) of Lincolnton, N.C., served in the Confederate Army, attaining a rank of major general. After the war, Hoke was engaged in various business enterprises, including gold and iron mining, insurance, and railroads. He served as director of the North Carolina Railroad Company for many years.
The collection includes letters, financial and legal papers, genealogical papers, and other materials pertaining to William Alexander Hoke, a white lawyer, legislator, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, of Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N.C.; members of the related Alexander, Henderson, McBee, and Wilson families; and people enslaved by these families. Topics include the buying and selling of enslaved people; human trafficking, then called hiring out; abolitionism; reminiscences about Julia, a nurse formerly enslaved by the family; Reconstruction era terrorism, including references to activities of the Ku Klux Klan; and Black membership at St. Luke's Church in Lincolnton, N.C. Other topics include 19th-century North Carolina politics; an antebellum gold mining operation; John Franklin Hoke's involvement in the Mexican-American War; the American Civil War, including the homefront and service of family members and others in the Confederate army and navy and the North Carolina State Troops, Company B, 1st Regiment Artillery; the legal career of William Alexander Hoke; the brief theatrical career of Laura Alexander in the 1870s; and Sallie Badger Hoke's travels to Europe and Egypt in the 1880s. Also included are recipes and cures, North Carolina land records dating back to the 1750s, and legal documents and financial items relating to family members. Correspondents include North Carolina Governor David L. Swain; Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan, the novelist who wrote as Christian Reid; Zebulon Vance; and Josephus Daniels.
William J. Hoke was a colonel in the 38th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
William Henry Holcombe was a white homeopathic physician in Natchez, Miss. The collection contains Holcombe's autobiography and diary. The autobiography, written in 1892, covers Holcombe's ancestry and his childhood in Lynchburg, Va., to 1836. Besides family incidents, topics include slavery, abolition, and religion, particularly Methodism. The diary, 1855, covers daily family life in Natchez, Miss., including thoughts about homeopathic medicine and its practice, incidents concerning enslaved people and freed people, and Swedenborgianism. The diary volume also contains essays on various subjects, including slavery, women, cotton, and sectional antagonism. Also available, on microfilm, are notes on the Holcombe family by Mrs. Ada H. Aiken, William H. Holcombe's daughter, and three professional pamphlets by Holcombe, one about the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1867.
W. W. Holden served as provisional governor of North Carolina in 1868 and as governor from 1868 to 1870.
Martha Holland and other members of her family resided in McDowell County, N.C. The collection includes letters, 1862-1866, received by Martha Holland and other members of the Holland family from relatives and friends who described their lives and local social and economic conditions before, during, and after the Civil War in Iredell County, N.C., and Panola County, Tex., and during the war in Clinton, Tenn.
The collection contains the professional files of Edward G. Holley (1927-2010), a white dean of the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972-1985, and president of the American Library Association, 1974-1975. Also included are Holley's files relating to the Church of Christ in Chapel Hill, N.C.; research for a planned history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 20th century; and audio interviews with Edward G. Holley conducted in 2000.
Moriah G. Holliday was the wife of John Holliday and the daughter of Jesse Speight (1795-1847), a North Carolina state legislator and United States representative, later a United States senator from Mississippi. Mary E. Pendleton (fl. 1849-1854), of Aberdeen, Miss., was the wife of Joseph E. Pendleton and a cousin to members of the Holliday family. The collection includes papers of the Pendleton family of Aberdeen, Miss., particularly letters, 1849-1854, to Mary E. Pendleton from Dixon relatives traveling to California and living in Marysville, Sacramento, and other places in north central California; a letter, 1886, to Moriah G. Holliday, about her father, Jesse Speight; scattered Holliday and Pendleton family legal and business papers; and other items.
Joseph W. Hollingsworth was a merchant of Fayetteville, N.C.
C. Carroll Hollis, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose research interests include 19th- century American literature, particularly the work of Walt Whitman.
Members of the Holloway and Sorrell family were from of Leesville, Wake County, N.C.
The collection is a typed copy of a letter, 11 April 1863, from James Cathcart Johnston to C. W. Hollowell of Bayside, Pasquotank County, N.C., concerning Johnston's will, which was later bitterly contested.
C. Hugh Holman (1914-1981), literary scholar specializing in Southern literature, member of the faculty of the English Department of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1949 until retirement in the 1970s, and administrator at the University of North Carolina in various capacities, 1963-1978. The collection includes articles, reviews, speeches, chiefly by Holman, concerning various aspects of Southern literature, including the work of Thomas Wolfe, William Gilmore Simms, and Ellen Glasgow; novels, radio plays, and other works by Holman; teaching and administrative files concerning Holman's work at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the National Humanities Center, the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Incorporated, and other organizations; correspondence files concerning Holman's literary and administrative activities; and recordings and photographs.
MICROFILM. Notebook with genealogical data, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material relating chiefly to the family of Gabriel Holmes, who served as North Carolina governor, 1821-1824, and his son Theophilus Hunter Holmes of North Carolina. Information on the Hunter and Beatty families is also included.
Emilie Rose Smedes resided in Washington, D.C., prior to her marriage to John Simcox Holmes (born 1868), a forester (later state forester), in 1909.
George Frederick Holmes (1820-1897) was an author and educator. The collection includes a letter from Holmes to Alexander Brown, Nelson County, Va., discussing the Native American ancestry of the Davis family of Virginia and its Floyd, Venable, Powell, Robertson, Marye, and Brown relations.
J. A. Holmes was professor of geology and natural history at the University of North Carolina, 1881-1903; state geologist, first head of the North Carolina Geological Survey, 1891-1905; director of the department of mines and metallurgy, Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.), 1903-1904; chief of the technological branch, United States Geological Survey, 1905-1910; chief, United States Bureau of Mines, 1910-1915. The collection includes correspondence and memorandum books of Holmes, clippings about Holmes, and other items. Included are about 100 letters, 1891-1915, from Holmes to his wife, Jane Sprunt Holmes of Wilmington, N.C., describing his work during job-related travels, discussing personal and family matters, and expressing his affection for her. Holmes's letters to his wife describe his life and work in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., his visits to other locations in North Carolina, and his travels and work in St. Louis, Mo., Washington, D.C., and other locations throughout the United States, especially in the West, and in Europe. Fourteen memorandum books, 1899- 1915, contain Holmes's notes, accounts, and brief descriptions of daily activities, especially while travelling and at professional meetings. The correspondence and the memorandum books document Holmes's particular interests in mine safety and in conservation of natural resources as well as other aspects of his work. Also included are correspondence and other materials relating to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines; clippings concerning Holmes, especially after his death; and other items.
Correspondence, notes, and writings, 1930s-1950s, of John Albert Holmes relating to his genealogical studies chiefly of North Carolina families, including the Foust, Holmes, Mebane, and Thompson families. Also included are correspodnence, notes, and other papers, 1920s-1980s, of genealogist Marcia Elizabeth Foust about many of the same families investigated by Holmes, but concentrating on families of Alamance County, N.C.
The 1972 field recording on open-reel audiotape contains an interview with horse trader identified as "Mr. Brown" from the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Page Day Holmes, then a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted the interview. Mr. Brown discusses his background and shares memories and narratives about horse trading. Field notes accompanying the recording list the stories such as "Two well behaved saddle horses sire a mean colt, which is finally broken" and "Women catching horses that men can't lay a hand on." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Theophilus Hunter Holmes of Sampson County, N.C., was the son of Gabriel H. Holmes, a congressman and governor of North Carolina (1821-1824). He served in the United States Army in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and in the West before taking command of army recruiting in 1859. He resigned his commission during the siege of Fort Sumter and later achieved the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army while serving in Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina. He died Cumberland County, N.C.
Family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1854, and other papers of Henry McCall Holmes (1790-1854), a physician of Charleston and Greenville districts, S.C.; of his wife, Eliza Ford (Gibbes) Holmes; of their daughter, Emma Edwards Holmes (1838-1910); and of their sons, Wilmot Stuart Holmes and Henry M. Holmes. Included are Mrs. Holmes's business papers, 1854-1876, and estate book, 1854-1857, as executrix of her husband's estate, and correspondence with her father W. S. Gibbes, with her King and DeSaussure family relatives, and with Daniel Heyward; correspondence, chiefly 1864-1875, between brothers Wilmot, a commission merchant in Charleston, S.C., and Henry, a physician in Silver Springs, Fla., and Limestone Springs, S.C.; pocket account books, 1861-1874; journal, 1850, of a trip from Charleston to Wilmington, N.C., Washington, D.C., and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia; notebook, 1876, and diary, 1861-1866, of Emma Holmes while she was in Charleston (microfilm); and recollections of the Gibbes family of Charleston during the Revolution, and of the Garden family during the early Republic. Earliest papers consist of deeds, indentures, bills, and receipts. Later material consists of scattered Holmes and Pasteur family items. Also included is a letter, 1912, on the phonetics of the Cherokee language.
Jim Holshouser (1934-2013), of Boone and Pinehurst, N.C., was a lawyer, politician, and in 1972 became the first Republican governor elected in North Carolina since 1896. He served as a member of the North Carolina State House of Representatives in 1963, from 1965 to 1966, and in 1969 and 1971; House Minority Leader and Chair of the Republican State Executive Committee from 1966 to 1972; and governor of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977.
A. Glenn Holt, a native of Alamance County, N.C., and son of Kirk Holt and Maud G. Holt, inherited control of the Kirk Holt Hardware company and partnership in Burlington Mills from his father, Kirk Holt.
White multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner David Holt was born in Gatesville, Tex., in 1946. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Holt began collecting Appalachian music and stories in the southeastern mountains. A historian of Appalachian music and culture, Holt began performing his collected music and stories in the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, Holt founded the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C. In the early 1980s, Holt resigned from Warren Wilson and began touring fulltime, performing his music and stories at festivals around the world and on various TNN, the Nashville Network, and North Carolina PBS television shows. In the late 1990s, Holt and Doc Watson began working together to create Legacy, an album that features them in conversation and in song. The collection contains materials relating to the career of musician and storyteller David Holt. Included is correspondence, printed materials, clippings, and photographs that Holt referred to as Career Memorabilia and organized by decade. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters from children and thank you notes. Printed materials are chiefly advertisement for musical and storytelling events and festivals. Clippings are chiefly reviews of Holt's performances and albums. Photographs include both publicity and performance photographs. There is also material relating to the television and radio shows Holt hosted, including Fire on the Mountain, Celebration Station, Folkways, and Riverwalk, and to Holt's work with Doc Watson and their album Legacy. Also included are publicity materials, information about Holt's work with the Warren Wilson College Appalachian Music Program, his international tours, and his Grammy Awards. There are also audiovisual materials of performances and recordings by Holt, both alone and with other artists such as Doc and Merle Watson. The collection contains video recordings of television programs, including Riverwalk, Fire on the Mountain, and Folkways, as well as instructional videos on how to play various instruments, among other recordings. The audio recordings found in the collection include materials affiliated with various commercial releases by Holt, recordings of other artists (primarily the Jim Cullum Jazz Band), interviews, and other recordings.
Edwin Michael Holt was a pioneer textile manufacturer of Alamance County, N.C.
Textile executive, of Burlington, N.C.
The Jefferson Holt Collection consists of materials compiled by Jefferson Holt, a white band manager and founder of Dog Gone Records label. Holt is the former band manager for R.E.M. and Pylon. The collection documents these bands and the alternative rock music scenes in Chapel Hill, N.C. and Athens, Ga. There are audiovisual recordings; publicity materials, including press clippings, flyers, posters, and photographs; Pylon fan mail; t-shirts; and concert ephemera. Other bands documented in the collection are the Flat Duo Jets, The Squalls, Snatches of Pink, Die Monster Die, Vibrating Egg, Calling Sounds, The Dangtrippers, The Remanz, The Kamikazees, Chris Stamey, and Yo La Tengo. Audio and video recordings found in the collection consist of demos, pre-releases, test pressings, interviews, live performances, and music videos of R.E.M., Pylon, and others.
Theater and opera ephemera collected by publisher, theater critic, and lecturer on drama Roland Holt. The collection includes playbills, cabinet cards, opera librettos, scrapbooks, ticket stubs, reviews, illustrations in various formats, photographic prints, and newspaper clippings. Clippings include performance openings and closings; news about theater venues, and performers' obituaries. Many of the playbills include Holt's annotations. A small amount of scattered correspondence pertains chiefly to Holt's lectures and creative projects. The collection was formerly known as the Roland Holt Collection of the Carolina Playmakers. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers.
Roland Holt (1867-1931) of New York, N.Y., was vice-president of Henry Holt & Company, publishers, 1903-1924, theater critic, and lecturer on drama, and his wife, Constance D'Arcy Mackay (1887?-1966), was an author of plays, pageants, books, and articles for and about non-professional theater.
William A. Holt (fl. 1862-1865) of North Carolina was a Confederate surgeon who served with the army in Virginia and at hospitals in Raleigh, Asheville, and Goldsboro, N.C.
William White Holt (1788-1863) was a lawyer, mayor of Augusta, Ga., legislator, judge of the Superior Court, and presidential elector.
The collection contains film elements compiled during the making of Gandy Dancers, a 1994 documentary directed and produced by Maggie Holtzberg and Barry Dornfeld. "Gandy dancer" is a slang term for a railroad section worker who lays and repairs track. Holtzeberg and Dornfeld's film features eight retired African American rail workers or gandy dancers. The retirees share stories of working in the mid-twentieth-century, segregated South, discuss organized labor and the safety standards and hazards of rail work, and demonstrate their occupation's musical and folklore traditions, especially rail calls (cadence chants) and work songs. These rail calls and work songs often had sexually explicit lyrics, while others had religious faith and social protest as themes. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection consists of posters, recordings, and a schedule related to the 2003 James E. Johnston Center Thursdays on the Terrace Series of musical performances. Artists featured on the audio and video recordings include Pura Fé, Willie French Lowry, Kwabena Osei Appiagyei, David Evans, Branchettes, Bobby Rush, and Cool John Ferguson.
John Henry Honour (1802-1885) of Charleston, S.C., was a Protestant minister who was also prominent in insurance and banking, civic, and philanthropic affairs.
Hooe, Hamilton, and Henderson family of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, including James H. and Robert Hooe of Alexandria, Va., who represented Charles, Earl Tankerville's interests after the American Revolution and traded with France and England in the early 19th century; Jacob Hamilton, who lived in Bristol, Va., and wrote to his daughter Olivia, who lived with other family members during the Civil War; W. F. Henderson, overseer of roads in Saltville, N.C.; and Helen and Dorothy Henderson of Bristol, Tenn.
Richard James Hooker (born 1912) of Chicago, Ill., was a professor and collector of historical documents.
The Hooper family of Alabama included Caroline Alice Hooper, Charles Mallett Hooper, John DeBerniere Hooper, and their cousin Fanny DeBerniere Hooper Whitaker of North Carolina. The collection contains correspondence, genealogical research materials, biographical materials, pictures, and other papers relating to various members of the Hooper family. Correspondence between various members of the Hooper family documenting family happenings, financial affairs, and business transactions dates from 1829 through 1941, with the bulk dating from the 1890s through 1941. Numerous letters are addressed to John DeBerniere Hooper and Caroline Alice Hooper from family and acquaintances, including members of the Hooper, Waddell, Hough, and Collier families. Also included is correspondence between Charles Mallett Hooper and his cousin Fannie DeBerniere Hooper Whitaker concerning his service in the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Genealogical and biographical materials concern the Hooper, Mallett, Waddell, DeBerniere, Maclaine, and Nash families. Pictures include individual and group portraits of family members.
Family correspondence of Hooper, including letters from her father, Charles Peter Mallett, of Fayetteville, N.C.; from her fiance and husband, George DeBerniere Hooper, lawyer, of Lafayette, Ala.; and from other relatives. The letters deal largely with family and personal matters, but include references to the Creek War in letters from Lafayette in 1836 and a discussion by Charles P. Mallett in 1853 of his slaves and their religious faith.
George Hooper was a Loyalist exile and merchant of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes letters of Archibald Maclaine (1728-1790), lawyer and legislator of Wilmington, N.C., to his son-in-law, George Hooper, about family, political, and business affairs and the problems of Loyalists.
MICROFILM ONLY. John Hooper was the son of Benjamin and Pamela Hooper of Buckingham County, Virginia. He served as major in the Commissary Department, Walthall's Brigade, during the period of his correspondence, June 1863-April 1865, with Irene Hicks, who became his wife in 1864. Mainly letters from John Hooper to his friend, Irene Hicks of Holly Springs, Miss., who in the course of the correspondence became his fiancee and wife. The letters reveal the manner of their courtship and Hooper's proposal. The letters are also a very rich source of information on the life and thoughts of a Southern officer, containing Hooper's observations and reflections during Sherman's drive through Georgia.
John DeBerniere Hooper was a student, tutor, and professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a teacher in schools in several other North Carolina locations, including Raleigh, Littleton, Fayetteville, and Wilson. His daughter was Frances DeBerniere Hooper Whitaker, wife of Spier Whitaker.
Correspondence of Walter McGehee Hooper (1931- ) and colleagues, friends, acquaintances, and admirers of C. S. Lewis. Included are a few letters from Lewis and his brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, to Hooper. Some of the correspondence contains anecdotal material about Lewis, but most letters relate to Hooper's role as a trustee of the Lewis estate, biographer of C. S. Lewis, and editor of posthumous editions of Lewis's work. Also included are letters to Hooper about Hooper's own career and his assignments as chaplain to Jesus and Wadham colleges. Unincorporated additions to the collection consist chiefly of correspondence with family and various states of C. S. Lewis editions that Hooper edited.
William Hooper of North Carolina was a leader in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Papers of Daisy Haywood Moseley, Roman Catholic author of books and articles on religious topics, of Glen Ridge, N.J., and Chapel Hill, N.C., consisting chiefly of correspondence, 1955-1962, with editors, other authors, and friends; autobiographical notes, April 1915-January 1949; a diary of meditations; travel descriptions of Rome, 1949, the Holy Land, 1928, and southern Europe, 1928; and miscellaneous other writings.
Aristide Hopkins (1839-1925) was an officer in the New Orleans Light Horse Battalion and on the staff of Confederate generals Leonidas Polk and Alexander P. Stewart. The collection is a Civil War diary, 22 October-19 November 1864, of Hopkins, including details of camp life, the countryside, and fighting in northern Georgia and Alabama.
Jacob D. Hoppe was a German settler in California.
Charles Milton Hopper (fl. 1862-1865) was a soldier in the 70th Ohio Regiment, United States Army, during the Civil War. The collection includes the Civil War diary in two volumes, February-December 1864 and January-August 1865, of Hopper, while serving in Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arkansas. The diary discusses troop movements, camp life, skirmishing, guard duty, drinking and troops, friends, and other matters. Also included are sixteen letters, February-June 1862 and March 1865, from Hopper to members of his family; a photograph of him; and eight other items, mostly photocopies of documents relating to Hopper's widow's pension claims. Letters discuss topics similar to those in the diary.
The Horace Williams Philosophical Society was organized in June 1943 by professors Francis Bradshaw and C. P. Russell, University of North Carolina Controller Claude Teague, and Dr. Otho B. Ross of Charlotte, N.C. The objectives of the society were to commemorate and publicize the life and work of Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940), noted University of North Carolina professor of philosophy, 1890-1940. The society published works on Williams's life and philosophy of teaching and invited noted philosophers to address its members at annual meetings held during the University of North Carolina commencement week. Records of the Horace Williams Philosophical Society include correspondence, membership lists, minutes of meetings, and financial records.
MICROFILM ONLY. Typescript of an unpublished novel, Nick Hardeman, by Benjamin McCulloch Hord of Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn., partly set at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1859-1860, where the protagonist is a student. Hord was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1860-1862.
The Horlbeck family, white South Carolina real estate and business owners in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and throughout Charleston District, owned more than two hundred enslaved people on Boone Hall Plantation. The collection is one volume used chiefly as an inventory of enslaved people and real estate holdings in Charleston District, S.C., 1853-1854. Some of the pages in this volume were used as a child's scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings, circa 1920.
Daniel Alexander Horn of South Carolina was an adventurer and planter. He sought his fortune in California in the early 1850s, but later returned to Cheraw, S.C. About 1860, he moved to Thomas County, Ga., where he purchased a large plantation about five miles north of Boston, Ga., and raised grain and cattle until 1875. He then sold the plantation and moved into Boston, where he erected and ran a cotton warehouse, planing mill, and cotton gin, until his death in 1891.
The William Franklin Horn Documentary Video Collection contains two mini digital video tapes and a digital video disc (DVR) together comprising the footage for and final cut of the 2004 student documentary titled 161 E. Franklin St.: Our Experiences at Strong’s Coffee Shop. The two producers and directors William Franklin Horn and Aislinn Pentecost-Farren were anthropology students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) when they made the documentary, which is an ethnographic case study of the Chapel Hill coffee shop and its patrons. Horn and Pentecost-Farren collected B-roll footage and approximately 30 hours of interviews with baristas and customers, many of whom were UNC students, faculty, and staff, to study Strong’s as a community space for work and leisure. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Julia E. Horner of Oxford, N.C., was a student at the Misses Nash and Kollock's School in Hillsborough, N.C.
The Mike Hortig and Heinz Kratochwill Collection consists of field recordings and photographs of American blues musicians from 1981. Austrian boogie-woogie and blues pianist, Mike Hortig, compiled the materials with his friend, Heinz Kratochwill, during a four-week-long trip to the American South. The audio recordings and photographs capture blues pianists and guitarists, including Trenton Cooper, James "Son" Thomas, Boogie Bill Webb, Mott Willis, Sam Chatmon, and others. Also included in the collection is a handwritten track listing found with one of the field recordings.
Alexander Hamilton Horton was a farmer and general merchant of Wilkes County, N.C.
An original poem entitled Departing Love by George Moses Horton, a Chatham County, N.C., slave. The poem was commissioned by the Reverend Henry A. Dixon of Chapel Hill, N.C., for his bride to be, Martha Sugg. A contemporary transcription, dated 1 August 1856, by the recipient, Martha Sugg Dixon, is also included.
Field recordings made by Laurel Horton, a white folklorist, circa 1975 that contain an oral history interview and a radio music program called "Tar Heel Voices," likely broadcast from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student-run radio station WCAR. The interview is with an unnamed elderly white woman who discusses midwifery and folk remedies and sings the ballad "Lady Margaret." No other information, such as the name of the interviewee or location of the interview, is available. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Field Recording of Sarah White, an African American musician of the Shiloh Community in Asheville, N.C., singing and performing African American spirituals in her home. On the recording, Sarah White also provides commentary on the composition, style of performance, and context of the songs, and performs a rendition of one of the songs, "Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior", on the organ. Laurel Horton, a white folklorist, and Diane Sasson, a white author, recorded Sarah White on 9 June 1976, presumably as part of their course work while they were graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The recording ends with a separate interview with Alice Weatherman and her mother, identified as Mrs. Brooks, both white, harmonizing in a rendition of "The Stone Song" and discussing the song's kinetic accompaniment. In addition to the recording, the collection contains supporting documentation consisting of tape logs prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. These tape logs include a brief description of the recording, as well as a contents listing of songs performed by Sarah White.
The collection includes personal and family correspondence of George W. House chiefly written from Nashville, Tenn., Russellville, Ky., and Madison Co, Ala., and other miscellaneous papers.
Robert Burton House was a white executive secretary, 1926-1934, dean of administration, 1934-1945, and chancellor, 1945-1957, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus; lecturer in the UNC English Department, 1957-1962; author; and public speaker. The collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials chiefly relating to House's administrative career at UNC. Much of the correspondence centers around administrative problems, especially budgetary issues. There are also letters in which House expressed his views on race relations, Communism in the 1950s, and other topics. Among the correspondents are Josephus Daniels, Harry Chase, William Umstead, singer Kate Smith, Francis O. Clarkson, R. D. W. Connor, Frank Porter Graham, Gordon Gray, Jonathan Daniels, Carl T. Durham, O. Max Gardner, Terry Sanford, Hardin Craig, and Louis R. Wilson. Also included are some family correspondence with House's Thelma, Halifax County, N.C., relatives, and letters and other materials relating to House's activities with the University United Methodist Church and to his harmonica playing at speeches and on television. Writings include numerous speeches, reviews, and radio addresses relating to UNC, to North Carolina history, and to House's historical sketch of Sallie Drake Twitty. Pictures are chiefly photographs of House at official UNC functions.
Laurence Housman (1865-1959) was an author, playwright, and brother of poet A. E. Housman.
The Houston family included a Mrs. Houston who corresponded with Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis's widow, during the 1880s and 1900s from Meridian, Miss. Mrs. Houston may have made Varina Davis's acquaintance when Jefferson and Varina Davis lived at Beauvoir Station, Miss. Varina Davis was born on 7 May 1826 and became Jefferson Davis's second wife on 26 February 1845. After Jefferson Davis's death in 1889, Varina Davis wrote Jefferson Davis: A Memoir by His Wife and moved to New York City where she supported herself by writing for newspapers and magazines. She died on 16 October 1906. The collection is chiefly correspondence and other items related to the Houston family and to Varina Davis. Included are letters, 1899-1904, from Varina Davis to Mrs. Houston describing Davis's health, family travels, Jefferson Davis, books, and the South following the Civil War. Also included is a letter, 27 September 1887, that Jefferson Davis wrote to Mrs. Houston about southern women. There are also genealogical papers relating to the Houston family, a newspaper image of Mary Sue Houston, and pictures of portraits of Jefferson and Varina Davis.
Alice Lee Larkins Houston lived in Hanover County, N.C., in the 1860s. Sometime prior to 1865, she married Robert Houston, a lawyer with connections to Washington, D.C. Robert Houston died at the beginning of 1870. In October of that year, Alice Lee Larkins Houston's father and her son Percy succumbed to an illness that seems to have afflicted all members of the household. After her recovery, Alice Lee Larkins Houston moved to Wilmington, N.C., where she opened a boardinghouse. The papers of Alice Lee Larkins Houston consist of an autograph book, a journal, and two loose poems. The autograph book contains greetings, 1859-1877, addressed to Alice Lee Larkins Houston by her husband, friends, and acquaintances. The journal contains periodic entries, 1870-1871, about Alice Lee Larkins Houston's life after the death of her husband in 1870. In the journal, she described everyday life, illnesses that afflicted the Larkins and Houston families, and social activities during her early days as a boardinghouse operator in Wilmington, N.C. The two undated poems appear to have been written by Alice Lee Larkins Houston.
The collection of Gloria Houston, children's book author and educator, contains drafts, drawings, pictures, and books published by Houston, as well as papers documenting her work at Appalachian State University and audiovisual materials, 1960s-2000s. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection is a letter, 24 September 1820, from James K. Polk, Columbia, Tenn., to Samuel Houston, Nashville, Tenn., concerning complications with transcript from the Superior Court in Martin County, N.C.
Civil War letters received by the Howard family of Texas from sons serving with a Texas brigade in Virginia; letters, 1911-1917, received by the Priestly family of Louisiana from Graham Priestly of New Orleans, a former slave; and miscellaneous other items.
The collection is a typed copy, 1938, of genealogical records, 1779-1920, of the Howard family of Louisiana from a family Bible in the possession of George W. Pigman of New Orleans, La.
Reminiscences, written about 1910, of the children of Charles Howard of Springfield, Mass., and edited by Elizabeth H. Andrews in 1956. Represented are Thomas Dwight Howard (1826-1910), who wrote of his youth and education in Masschusetts and attendance at Harvard University Divinity School; service as a Unitarian minister at Perry, Me.; experiences as a teacher and minister among Sea Island blacks in South Carolina, 1860-1864, and with black U.S. Army troops in Louisiana, 1864-1866, and in Wisconsin, 1866-1869; preaching in Petersham, Mass, 1870-1874; work as secretary to the Commissioner of Prisons in Masachusetts, 1874-1879; ministry at Charleston, N.H., 1880-1891; and of making a return visit to Hilton Head, S.C., twenty-five years after his Civil War experiences. Also included are the reminiscences of his sisters, Sophia Worthington Howard (1836-1920), of her childhood and education in Massachusetts, and work as a teacher at Fort Laramie, Wyo., in the 1860s; and Sarah (Sally) Bancroft Howard Haywood (1838-1922) of her childhood. In addition, the volume contains genealogical information relating to the Howard, Worthington, Haywood, and Andrews families.
The collection contains two scrapbooks, 1820-1840 and 1861-1862, the compilation of which is ascribed to a D. Ridgely Howard. The earlier scrapbook is a volume of newspaper clippings of poetry, humorous stories, and epitaphs. The later volume contains clippings on battles of the Civil War and messages and proclamations of presidents Lincoln and Davis.
Fishing record and register of the charter steam yacht Judy, owned by Frank T. Howard of New Orleans, La. The book is inscribed, Compliments of Yours Truly, Geo. H. Dunbar, July 1890. Entries, which cover about 30 pages of the volume, document cruises between June and October 1890, showing destination, what was caught and by whom, tides and winds, and bait used. Some entries include miscellaneous remarks on passengers and weather conditions. Also included is a summary of catches from the 16 cruises undertaken during the summer of 1890. In the back of the volume, there are also lists of passengers on a few pleasure cruises from New Orleans to various locations in 1890 and 1891.
The collection includes typescripts of five plays and one novel by George Henry Howard of Washington, D.C. The plays are Rufus, 1899; A lord and two ladies, circa 1901, with handwritten annotations; Jane Haggerstone, 1903; A tragedy of hearts, 1906, with handwritten annotations; and On old Cape Ann, circa 1907. The novel is Mary and I, circa 1885.
William H. Howard of Noise, Moore County, N.C., owned and operated a general merchandise store and tanning business along with John Howard.
Prominent members of the Howe family of Marengo County, Ala.; Okolona, Miss.; and Memphis, Tenn., included Chiliab Smith Howe (1809-1875), soldier, planter, and merchant; his wife, Julia Pickens Howe (1815-1898), daughter of U.S. congressman and Alabama governor Israel Pickens (1780- 1827); their daughters, Ellen (1839-1921), who married John Richardson (d. 1862), editor of the Prairie News and Confederate soldier; Laura (1841- 1927), who married J. Byrd Williams (d. 1864), merchant and Confederate soldier; and Joanna (fl. 1851-1899).
George Howe was a Latin professor and classical scholar; A. B., Princeton, 1897; Ph.D., University of Halle, 1905; studied at the American Classical School at Rome, 1912-1913.
Robert Howe (1732-1786) was a major-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The collection includes papers of and about Howe, some of which are handwritten transcriptions and photostatic copies, including three letters from him concerning military affairs; papers pertaining to his court martial for evacuating Savannah, Ga.; and materials compiled about Howe and writings about him by Archibald Maclaine Hooper (1775-1853).
Subject files documenting the life of Almonte Charles Howell (1895-1986), professor of English, specializing in 17th-century English literature, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Howell taught at UNC from 1920 to 1968 and also served as the first secretary of the faculty, 1925-1945. Included is a speech written by Howell relating to Frank Porter Graham's 1950 campaign for the U.S. Senate.
E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell (1872-1931) was the founder of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy and its dean for 33 years.
Memoirs of Howell of Goldsboro, N.C., relating to his education at Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C. (later Duke University), and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Class of 1860); his service in the 27th Regiment, North Carolina Troops (Goldsboro Rifles), C.S.A., in Virginia and North Carolina; his attempts to make a living after the war; Reconstruction in North Carolina and Mississippi, including Klan activities in Mississippi and Nathan Bedford Forrest's involvement; his social life; and other experiences. Persons mentioned include Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, L. C. Benbury, Col. John R. Cooke, Braxton Craven, Col. Joel R. Griffin, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Woods Holden, and Thomas Kennedy.
The Howerton family of Halifax County, Va., included Philip Howerton (1793-1879), tobacco planter and sheriff; his son-in-law Rufus H. Owen (fl. 1870-1890), tobacco planter and merchant of South Boston, Va.; and Howerton's children, Susannah Catharine (1824-1870); William Matthew (1826-1874); Judith Anne Purkins (1828-1874); Eliza Jane Owen (1830-1917); and Louisa Dresser (1833-1882). The collection includes business and family correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other materials relating to the Howerton family. Business correspondence, 1822-1901, includes letters relating to Philip Howerton's position as sheriff of Halifax County, Va.; slaves; accounts, many having to do with the tobacco industry; and other topics. Family correspondence includes letters relating to education, travel, and news of the Howerton, Purkins, Owen, Cabaniss, and other related families. There are also letters, 1844-1851, that Sally J. Brodnax in North Carolina wrote to Eliza J. Howerton. Financial and legal materials are both loose papers and volumes. Loose papers, 1817-1869, pertain chiefly to Philip Howerton and document his sheriff activities. Many items relate to slaves. Loose papers, 1870-1896, relate primarily to family members and to tobacco merchants in South Boston, Va. Volumes, 1819-1881, are account, cash, and other books, many relating to tobacco. Among the other papers are writings by family members, including an 1859 diary; an 1859 songbook; a notebook dated 1882-1884; recipes; printed circulars and advertisements; and clippings.
Samuel Musgrove Howes was chauffeur to Sir Winston Churchill from 1928 to 1936.
The undated field recordings (circa 1980s) on open-reel audio tape contain West Virginina folk songs performed by musician D.R. Petry. Phyllis Young Howren, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded Petry's performances in Braxton County, W.V. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
W. J. Hoxie was an ornithologist of Beaufort, S.C., and St. Petersburg, Fla. The collection contains records of Hoxie, including a diary, 1888, of a bird observation and hunting expedition in the Titusville-Canaveral area of Florida, with notes on the Seminole language; two albums of photographs of wildlife, people, and scenes; notes about birds, 1869-1885; a scrapbook of nature articles by Hoxie; and a biographical sketch of Hoxie.
L. J. Hoyle (Lemuel J. Hoyle) was a merchant and farmer of Belwood, Cleveland County, N.C. During the Civil War, he served as captain with the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment mainly in North Carolina and Virginia. Hoyle first married Emma R. Higgins (1849-1874) and then Mary Ella Round, with whom he had several children. He served in the North Carolina General Assembly, 1879-1880.
John K. Hoyt was a viticulturist and vintner at Engadine Vineyards in West Asheville, N.C.
Pamphlets printed and published in France before the French Revolution and collected by white attorney of New York, N.Y., William Henry Hoyt (1884-1957) in the early twentieth century. Most pamphlets are tracts printed for the royal French government and include arrêts, déclarations, décisions, décrèts, and édits.
Lawyer, of New York, N.Y., and amateur historian. Hoyt's papers include correspondence and notes, pictures, and copies of documents from repositories in France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States, all related to his research into the legend of Peter Stewart Ney, a 19th-century North Carolina schoolmaster alleged to be Michel Ney (1765-1815), marshal of France; and concerning the declaration of independence signed in Mecklenburg County, N.C., 20 May 1775. In 1907, Hoyt published a book on the Mecklenburg declaration.
The collection includes business and personal papers that concern several generations of the white Hubard family, their extended families, and the people they enslaved at various plantations and smaller farms in Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida, during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Materials created and collected by the white family members include correspondence, diaries, lists of enslaved people, account books, plantation accounts, contracts with freedmen, notebooks, and physicians' daybooks. Papers document the labor of enslaved people, the cultivation of tobacco, cotton, and wheat, as well as other aspects of plantation life; the legal, political, and medical professions; slavery, emancipation, banking, and taxation as political issues; railroads; colleges, home schools, and teachers; churches; welfare organizations; agricultural societies; a woman writer and journalist; and political and social life in North Carolina and Virginia. Other topics include the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and offices and affairs of the Virginia militia. Families mentioned in the papers include Bolling, Eppes, Jefferson, Jones (Willie), Littlejohn, Mosely, Page, Randolph, Thurston, Thweatt, Wilcox, and Williamson. Plantations mentioned include Saratoga, Quitzni, Buffaloe, Rosny (Rosney), Chellow (Chellowe), Grove Farm, Wyche Farm, and Mill Brook (Millbrook).
Robert Lee Hubbard was born at Moravian Falls, Wilkes County, N.C., on 9 December 1862. Hubbard and his brother-in-law John Roth operated a hardware store in Elkin N.C.; published the Elkin Times; and ran a commercial printing shop. Hubbard also was president of the Elkin Veneer and Manufacturing Company and manager of the Elkin Furniture Company. The collection includes financial records, 1887-1934, documenting businesses operated in Elkin, N.C., by Robert Lee Hubbard and John Roth. Included are business letters, invoices, receipts, credit statements, and other financial records. Two account ledgers for the Hubbard & Roth Hardware store contain customer transactions, 1890-1893, and an inventory of a store called Odds & Ends. Business records, 1893-1900, of the Elkin Times include letters to the editor, freight and postage statements for the paper's distribution, subscription information, and correspondence with the American Press Association and Southern Newspapers Union. An account book, 1896-1897, documents customer transactions, including payments for advertisements in the newspaper and printing orders.
John T. Huddle was a lawyer, a clawhammer banjo player, and old-time music aficionado of Lancaster, Ohio.
Arthur Palmer Hudson (1892-1978) was a white professor of English, 1930-1953, and executive secretary of the Curriculum in Folklore, 1950-1963, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes correspondence, editorial papers from The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, field recordings made or collected by Arthur Palmer Hudson, and other material of Hudson, . Correspondence and other papers relating to Hudson's editorship of the Brown Collection form the bulk of this collection. There is also significant correspondence and field recordings relating to folklife in North Carolina and to many aspects of the discipline of folklore. Among the letters are one, 1933, from Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938); one, 1933, from Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941); and one, 1945, from William Faulkner (1897-1962). Field recordings consist of folk songs, ballads, spirituals, hymns, children's songs, work songs, tales, and oral histories from the American South, as well as recordings of folklore lectures and events recorded in North Carolina and elsewhere. Of particular note are recordings related to Alton Chester Morris' 1941 dissertation, "Folksongs of Florida and Their Cultural Background," which Morris submitted to the Department of English at UNC under the guidance of Arthur Palmer Hudson.
Professional papers of Charles Hudson (1932-2013), noted white anthropologist and scholar. The collection includes an extensive set of professional correspondence, 1965-2013. Correspondents are principally scholars of Native American history and culture, historians, fellow educators, publishing contacts, museum and art curators, archaeologists, anthropologists, former students and other acquaintances and colleagues. The collection also contains a large set of files relating to "Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun," Hudson's groundbreaking work on Hernando de Soto, and other books and articles. There are also materials for many of the courses that Professor Hudson taught throughout his career as a member of the anthropology faculty at the University of Georgia.
Franklin A. Hudson was the owner in the 1850s of Blythewood Plantation on Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, La.
James Giles Hudson, Sr., was a member of Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge No. 576 of Salisbury, N.C., and served as Grand Master of North Carolina, 1936-1937. The collection consists of Hudson's Masonic Record, which includes members, notes, correspondence, initiation allowances and announcements, newspaper clippings and memorials of past masters; and 5 black and white photographs of officers of Andrew Jackson Lodge No. 576. Also included is a photograph of the human American eagle formation photograph by Mole and Thomas of 12,500 officers, nurses, and men at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., in 1918 in which Hudson and his later-wife appear.
Journals kept by William Leverreth Hudson, commander of the Peacock and second in command of the South Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition, recording nautical information and shore activities along the west coast of North America, on Pacific islands, and in Singapore.
Ed Huey is a retired music educator who was twice honored by the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts as an Outstanding Music Educator. A Lyndhurst Foundation Grant Recipient, Huey gathered field recordings of Mississippi Bluesmen, Jack Owens, Bud Spires, Jimmy Duck Holmes, Jacob Stuckey, and A. B. Granderson. Huey performs and teaches American Roots Music, specializing in early Blues guitar and harmonica styles. His highly interactive sets include Work Songs, Field Hollers, Hambone, Piedmont Blues, Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Jug Band, Hokum, and railroad songs. Huey plays guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washboard, spoons, and jug. Huey also teaches harmonica at the Folk School of Chattanooga.
Robert Obediah Huffman (1890-1978) was a furniture and hosiery manufacturer, business and civic leader, and philanthropist of Morganton, Burke County, N.C.
Rosa Huggins (fl. 1853-1855) was a resident of Appleton, Tenn. The collection includes typed selections from the diary of Rosa Huggins describing trips to New Orleans, La., 1853, by boat and to Charleston, S.C., 1855, by train. Entries relate chiefly to incidents of travel and sightseeing with friends and relatives.
Principal member of the Hughes family of Edgefield, S.C., are Dr. John Hughes (d. 1835) and his son, John H. Hughes (d. 1871), who were both cotton planters; John Hughes's sister, Sophia Hughes Hunt (fl. 1825- 1864); his daughter, Jennie H. Hughes (fl. 1858-1879); his father-in-law, James Bones (fl. 1819-1836); his cousin, Lucy T. Butler Moore (d. 1857); his son-in-law, Cicero Adams (d. 1868); and wagon maker John Christie (fl. 1851).
The Smith, Wheeler, and Taylor families were from Ashley County, Ark.; Bradley County, Ark.; and Coffeeville, Miss. Ransom Smith, a planter, served in the Arkansas 1st Battalion, Company B, during the Civil War. Smith seems to have been a moderately successful planter both before and after the war. John Taylor also served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. George Brown of Bradley County, Ark., was a teacher before and after the Civil War.
Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945) was a dramatist from North Carolina who wrote folk and other plays and taught English and drama at Columbia University beginning in 1909. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1924. The collection includes correspondence; writings, mostly plays and other materials relating to Hughes's career as a dramatist; and other papers, including genealogical and biographical materials relating to the Hughes family. Letters, 1917-1924 and undated, are chiefly from Hughes to his mother in North Carolina just prior to, during, and just after World War I. Letters from 1917 to June 1919 describe preparations for war at Fort Lee, Va., and his experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in France beginning in summer 1918. Later letters include reports of Hughes's activities at Columbia University, his health, and other items of day-to-day interest. Writings include copies of plays; reviews of Hughes's plays, 1924-1925 and 1930s; and a few photographs of the French productions from Hell-Bent for Heaven. There is also a copy of an undated speech that Hughes gave in North Carolina about the state of drama. Other papers, 1914-1982, include genealogical and biographical materials, photographs of Hughes, and a few other items.
John Hughes was a Patrick County, Va., planter.
Leander Hughes of Patrick County, Va., attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1823-1824.
N. Collin Hughes (1856-1947) was an Episcopal clergyman and educator of North Carolina.
Penelope Swann Haigh Hughes lived in Henderson, N.C.
Records of the English colony, launched in 1880, at Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn., under the auspices of the Board of Aid to Land Ownership, an organization that promoted settlement and development of unoccupied land. Most items relate to Board founder Thomas Hughes (1823-1896); his brother W. Hastings Hughes, who managed Rugby, 1880-1881; and Robert Walton, who managed the town beginning in 1882. Papers include letters of inquiry and encouragement, practical business correspondence, and a large number of invitations and requests for speeches during Thomas Hughes's 1880 visit.
Audio recording of Mr. Goforth, song leader of the Baptist church in Harmony, N.C., shape-note singing. Recorded 30 May 1976 by Donald Hughston, a white graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of a field collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff.
Items on microfilm are correspondence and other papers, 1827- 1866, of the Huguenin, Johnston, and related families of Early and Sumter counties, Ga. The Huguenin material relates to family news, plantation affairs, the cotton business, and hiring free labor after the Civil War. A plantation journal, 1836-1862, from the Huguenin plantation in Early County includes slave lists and detailed instructions to overseers. Johnston family material, 1862-1865, focuses on Civil War events. Most of the letters are to and from J. M. Johnston, stationed in Tennessee. Troop provisions, Johnston's appointments as commissary officer and to the rank of captain, and his parole after being taken prisoner-of-war are the main topics included. Other correspondence describes a battle in Macon, Ga. The second series consists of nine letters, 1868-1877 and undated, chiefly between Joseph Marshall Johnston (1837-1905) and his wife, Martha Mattie Fannin Huguenin Johnston (1848-1934). The couple resided in Athens, Ga. The letters chiefly discuss family life, but also include several poems and an item, 1868, signed Grand Cyclops, K.K.K. Also included is an album containing photographs and prints of Confederate leaders.
The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, a voluntary organization founded in 1947, promoted eugenic sterilization and sought to educate the public about the causes and prevention of mental illnesses and handicaps. In its later years, the organization shifted its focus to family planning and genetic counseling, changing its name to the Human Genetics League of North Carolina in 1984. The organization was dissolved at the end of 1988.
Fannie Page Hume (1838-1865) of Selma, near Orange, Orange County, Va., was the daughter of David and Fannie (Dade) Hume. She spent her life in Orange County and Washington, D.C., marrying Colonel Carter M. Braxton in February 1865.
Thomas Hume (1836-1912) was a Baptist clergyman of various locations in Virginia, and professor of English at the University of North Carolina, 1885-1912. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, class lecture materials, financial and legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, and other papers of Thomas Hume. Correspondence mainly consists of recommendations for Thomas Hume's appointment as professor of English language and literature at the University of North Carolina and expressions of sympathy to the family on his death. Other letters concern family, business, and church-related matters. Also included are volumes containing sketches of sermons, class lecture materials, and accounts of travel in Europe. Some financial accounts date from the late 18th century. Biographical material relates to Thomas Hume and his father, Thomas Hume (1812-1875). Genealogical material contains data on the Crocker, Gregory, Godwin, Borland, Baynham, and Hodges families.
William Thomas Humphrey was born in Bainbridge, N.Y. He studied medicine at the Albany Medical College and practiced in Addison, N.Y., until 1849, when he moved to Elkland, Pa. He remained in Elkland until 1857, when he began practice in Osceola, Pa., where he remained, with the exception of three years and seven months as an Army surgeon during the Civil War, until 1897. The collection is chiefly letters, 1861-1864, of William Thomas Humphrey with the Union Army in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to his wife Mary on their farm in Osceola, Pa. Besides offering Mary advice on how to manage their land and finances, William provided fairly detailed descriptions of camp life, the battles he witnessed, and his work as a surgeon. William appears to have alternated between serving with regiments in the field, most notably with the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and staffing various hospitals, particularly a Washington, D.C., hospital where he spent most of 1863. Letters record troop movements, the establishment and abandonment of hospital facilities, deaths of friends and relations, and comments on the progress of the war. A letter, dated 3 May 1864, includes a colored cartoon of an army surgeon. A letter of 11 January 1848 from Humphrey in Addison, N.Y., to his wife, gives news of his medical practice.
Joshua Humphreys (1813-1873) was the grandson of Joshua Humphreys (1751-1838), the architect of the first line of warships commissioned by the United States Navy, and was the son of Samuel Humphreys (1778-1846), chief constructor of the United States Navy, 1826-1846. The younger Joshua Humphreys was a naval officer for the United States Navy and the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. After the war, he settled in Fredericksburg, Va., where he pursued various business interests. He was married to Mary Ann Humphreys. Their children included Mary Chandler Humphreys (1844-1918), Margaret R. (Meta) Humphreys (1849-1892), Charles Humphreys (b. 1853), and Laurence Murray Humphreys (b. 1863). Joshua's siblings included Jane Murray McCrabb (1813-1897); Mary Yonge (1823-1866); William Humphreys (1828-1897); and Andrew Atkinson Humphreys (1810-1883), an engineer and United States Army general during the Civil War.
A. A. (Andrew Atkinson) Humphreys (1810-1883) of Pennsylvania was chief of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1866-1879. The collection includes Humphreys's papers which consist primarily of letters of introduction but include two letters, 1872, from Jefferson Davis concerning their work together on the surveys for the transcontinental Northern Pacific Railroad when Davis was United States Secretary of War. Other correspondents include Joseph E. Johnston, James Buchanan, and James Longstreet.
Members of the Hundley family apparently were farmers in Stokes County, N.C. John H. Hundley enlisted in Company C, 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (North Carolina Troops) on 4 August 1862. During most of his enlistment, Hundley was incapacitated by an unspecified, but apparently preexisting, condition. He died in August 1863 while on furlough. The collection consists of letters and a few financial documents, 1849-1899 and undated, of the Hundley family of Stokes County, N.C., and related families. Most of the letters are from John H. Hundley to his wife, Sally W. Hundley, during his service in the 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (North Carolina Troops), 1862-1863. All but one of the Civil War letters were written from Virginia, many of them from hospitals. Most letters discuss Hundley's health, but some describe military life, including troop movements. Materials, 1864-1865, include letters of condolence to Sally Hundley and letters lamenting the deaths of family members and difficulties on the homefront, particularly the absence of men in their communities. Letters of 1867 and 1868 give family news and report post-war hard times. Also included are a few pre-war financial papers related to the family's farming and post-war correspondence from individuals who relocated to Missouri and Colorado.
Photocopies. Daniel Robinson Alexander Campbell Hundley was born in Alabama, received a law degree from Harvard in 1853, and lived in Chicago in the 1850s. He was the author of "Social Relations in our Southern States" (1860). He returned to Alabama in 1861 and served as colonel of the 31st Alabama Regiment. Diaries for 1861 and January-May 1864, and scattered items by, about, or collected by Hundley. The earlier diary discusses contemporary political occurrences and personal and family matters, including Hundley's own role in growing sectional hostilities. The later diary vividly portrays Confederate army life and includes references to troop movements, blockade runners, the effects of the war on civilians, and women soldiers.
Elisha E. Hundley (died 1879), father to Charles A. Hundley (died 1863) and grandfather to Edwin Hundley (fl. 1870), resided in Charlotte County, Va.
Mary T. Hunley was a resident of Gwynn Island, Mathews County, Va.
The white Hunt family and the people enslaved by them resided in Granville County, North Carolina. The Hunt family account book was kept first by John Penn Hunt (1789-1849), circa 1845-1849. It appears his son George Washington Hunt (1816-1876) then used the volume, circa 1850-1875. The account book is otherwise a routine record of transactions, but is notable for its documentation of the names and birth dates of people enslaved by the Hunt family; the hiring out of enslaved people; payment to a midwife relating to an enslaved woman named Martha; tenant farmers working on Hunt family lands in the 1870s; and the births, marriages, and deaths of members of the white Hunt family.
Andrew Lucas Hunt (1843-1905) of Chicago, Ill., was an officer with the 134th Illinois Regiment, United States Army, during the Civil War. The collection includes family correspondence, chiefly June-October 1864, of Hunt, while he was a lieutenant of the 134th Illinois Regiment. Hunt's letters, from various Kentucky camps, give detailed accounts of army life. His regiment was manning fortifications, picketing surrounding territory, and attending the headquarters of Brigadier General Eleazer A. Paine. Letters from his family in Chicago concern the hardware business of his father, Edwin Hunt, civilian war activities, and family news. Postwar letters from Chicago contain business news about the hardware trade, building and expansion in the city, and rising prices and speculation in hardware.
The collection is a letter from William Gaston (1788-1844), New Bern, N.C., to J. W. Hunt and Jechorias Pigot, Beaufort, N.C., concerning an injustice done to a Mr. Gibbs.
Jabez B. Hunt served as a sergeant in the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Company F, during the Civil War. He enlisted 17 June 1861 in Guilford County, N.C., and died of febris typhoid at a hospital in Richmond, Va., 13 July 1863. Hunt spent time at Camp Johnson, Va., and Gordonsville, Va., before falling ill in the spring of 1863 and spending his last days at Hanover Academy Hospital near Richmond, Va., and Camp Winder Hospital in Richmond, Va.
William Lanier Hunt was born in 1906 in Pomona, N.C. He studied botany under W.C. Coker at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1931, after which he traveled throughout the southeast United States giving garden lectures and short courses, consulting with various cities on parks, and writing for newspapers and magazines. During World War II, Hunt helped design camouflage for a base in Elizabeth City, N.C. After the war, he became southern region editor for House Beautiful and wrote weekly columns for the Durham Morning Herald newspaper in Durham, N.C., and the Shreveport Times newspaper in Shreveport, La. In the 1960s, Hunt began the process of creating the North Carolina Botanical Garden, for which W.C. Coker had begun advocating in the late 1920s. Hunt added more acreage to a gift of land from the W.C. Coker estate, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden opened in 1966 with Hunt as the garden designer and the first president of the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, which was created to receive funds and hold land for the Botanical Garden. Hunt died in 1996.
John M. (Mc.) Hunter was born in 1803 in Chester, S.C., and died in 1854. His son, James L. Hunter, was born in 1828 and died in 1908. They were planters of some means. In 1862, James L. Hunter enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army's 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment and was honorably discharged a few months later due to a heart condition. He enlisted again in 1864 in the 17th South Carolina Infantry Regiment and was, again, honorably discharged a few months later.
The collection contains A History of St. John's Episcopal Church, Williamsboro, N.C., 1749-1870, by Claudia Watkins Hunter of Henderson, N.C., read at the unveiling of a tablet there by the Colonial Dames, October 1935, and a letter, 25 November 1935, from Claudia Watkins Hunter to Mr. London.
Ellie Hunter of Rose Hill, N.C., was born on 30 May 1838. The collection consists of a journal, 1853-1858, of Ellie Hunter describing daily life, chores, church activities, school work, social relations, and family health. Much of the journal is concerned with her relationship with unnamed beaux and her move to boarding school for the year of 1854.
Kermit Houston Hunter (1910-2001) was the author of 42 outdoor historical dramas. The collection includes typescripts, handwritten versions, and mimeograph copies of scripts with Hunter's handwritten annotations of Thy Kingdom Come, The Golden Land, and other plays.
Engineering drawings of Richard Benjamin Hunter, made while he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the Department of Engineering, 1888-1892.
Henry A. Huntington, sutler of St. Louis, Mo., followed Union armies through the South selling clothing, including uniforms; camp furniture; and other goods to soldiers and officers. Huntington apparently did not have a sutler's license, and so relied on influential friends to assist him in plying his trade.
The collection contains video copies of film footage taken of protests in Chapel Hill, N.C., and on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The footage was created by Charles Huntley, a UNC student in the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures. Also included is a video copy of Huntley's 1971 senior project titled "Notes on a Progression, a session with Mike Cross & Larry Reynolds." Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Scattered materials documenting the Civil Rights movement in the American South, chiefly 1966-1969, collected by Wayne Hurder, a white man of Raleigh, N.C., then a student at the University of North Carolina who worked as the Selma, Ala. bureau chief for a weekly newspaper in the summer of 1966 and was involved in providing support to the Civil Rights movement on campus when he returned to school. Papers are chiefly printed materials, including pamphlets, newsletters, fliers, and clippings, and document the tenth annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1966, and student organizations such as the Southern Student Organizing Committee, among other Civil Rights organizations, as well as the Black Student Movement and food workers' strike at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, labor issues at the Cone Mills textile manufacturing plant, and anti-Vietnam War efforts. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Benjamin Robinson Huske and family lived chiefly in Fayetteville, N.C. The collection includes scattered papers of relatives and ancestors of Huske, including the following: late 18th- and early 19th-century papers of the Huske, Attmore, and Strange families, including correspondence; a travel diary and lettercopy books, 1783-1799, of William Attmore, merchant of Philadelphia, Pa., and New Bern, N.C.; and a long patriotic poem written during the War of 1812 by Robert Strange (1796-1854) of Fayetteville, N.C. Also included are family and church correspondence, sermons, and other ministerial records of Joseph Caldwell Huske (1822-1897), rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C., chiefly 1840s and 1870s-1890s, and military reports and returns of B.R. Huske (son of J.C. Huske) as major of in the North Carolina volunteers in the Spanish-American War.
The collection of white newspaper publisher and North Carolina state legislator J.P. (Joseph Patterson) Huskins contains correspondence; documents related to Huskins's military service during the Second World War; speeches delivered by Huskins to various social and civic organizations in Iredell County, N.C.; campaign materials; and subject files and other materials related to his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly and his public service activities. Letters to the editor of the Statesville Record & Landmark newspaper, which Huskins published, comprise the bulk of the correspondence from the 1940s through the 1960s and pertain to contemporary local and national matters including the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and school integration. Of note is a brief 1960 telegram received from then United States Senator John F. Kennedy. Later correspondence, including letters from legislative constituents, and subject files document Huskins's career in the General Assembly and memberships on state and local boards, including the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges. Major topics of the materials from the 1970s through the 1990s include profits made at ABC stores (state-owned liquor distribution), bonds for hospitals, community colleges, and the establishment of a medical school at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
Allison Hussey is a white journalist who has written about music and culture since 2010. The Allison Hussey Collection consists mostly of materials related to the local independent rock and traditional music scene, including concert posters; collected magazines, newspapers and other publications; a personal planner (2013-2014); promotional ephemera; notebooks with concert set lists; and video recordings created by Hussey. Events covered in the collection include Merlefest and the opening of Earl Scruggs Center, as well as many more cultural events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Asheville, including IBMA World of Bluegrass, the North Carolina State Fair, Chatham County Fair, Hopscotch, and Moogfest. Of particular note are the promotional and concert posters made by local artists Dan Barbour, Matt Hart, Ron Liberti, Steve Oliva, and Chris Williams found in the collection. The posters feature touring musicians and bands from the region, such as Mount Moriah, Bombadil, Chatham County Line, Alice Gerrard, Hiss Golden Messenger, Mandolin Orange, and Mac McCaughan, as well as touring bands from across the United States and Canada, including Arcade Fire, Future Islands, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Sharon Van Etten, and Gillian Welch, among others.
Neal Gregory Hutcheson, a North Carolina State University graduate, is a filmmaker in Durham, N.C. He has worked with the North Carolina State University Humanities Extension/Publications Program, the outreach section of the NCSU College of Humanities and Social Science. One of the Program's publications is the Talk About Writing: Portraits of North Carolina Writers series of educational videos about the lives and work of prominent writers. Poet Jonathan Williams was born on 8 March 1929 in Asheville, N.C. In 1951, he founded the non-profit Jargon Society, which publishes poetry of lesser-known or forgotten artists. The collection includes videotapes and other materials from Neal Hutcheson's Talk About Writing: Jonathan Williams and Jonathan Williams Selected Readings, funded by Jim Clark and the North Carolina State University Humanities Extension/Publications Program. The recordings feature Williams reading his poems, but there is also a conversation about H. B. Kitty, the Jargon Society mascot and footage and a script from the NCSU Humanities Extension/Publications Program series, Talk About Writing: Portraits of North Carolina Writers in which Williams discusses writing, poetry, and his work.
Ann Hutchins was the widow of James Hutchins, a private in the Continental Army.
James A. Hutchins Jr., an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C. He came to Chapel Hill on a scholarship to play tennis, but wound up playing football instead, becoming a star fullback for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. In 1939, he accepted his first job with the United States Department of Agriculture. Hutchins served in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he returned to the Department of Agriculture. At the Department of Agriculture, Hutchins worked against rural and urban hunger and helped create one of the nation's first school lunch programs. He also served as the chief of the Department of Agriculture's Direct Distribution Branch, where he coordinated programs in 84 countries, and as the head of the federal government's Commodity Credit Corporation, where he helped stabilize and protect domestic prices and farm income. Hutchins married Marguerite Hutchins in 1940; the couple had three children: Julia, Alex, and Glenn.
David S. Hutchinson and William Hutchinson both resided in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Letters, 1854, 1858, 1859, to and from Hutchison regarding legal ownership of certain slaves and their hire, Loudoun and Fairfax counties, Va.
Susan D. Nye of Amenia, N.Y., came to Raleigh, N.C., in 1815 to teach in the Female Department of Raleigh Academy. In 1825 she married Adam Hutchison of Augusta, Ga., a widower with children. After her husband's death, circa 1833, Susan D. (Nye) Hutchison and her children and stepchildren moved to Amenia for a year, then to Raleigh and Salisbury, N.C. Mrs. Hutchinson taught during her three years in Salisbury and when the family moved to Charlotte, N.C., in 1839, Mrs. Hutchison opened a school of her own.
Charles Woodward Hutson (23 September 1840-27 May 1936) grew up on plantations in Beaufort District, S.C.; attended South Carolina College; served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; was a teacher and professor in several southern states, including fifteen years in Texas; and settled finally in New Orleans, La., as an artist and writer. He married Mary Jane Lockett in 1871 and with her had ten children.
Evelyn McIntosh Hyatt was historian of the Haywood (N.C.) Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Anne Bachman Hyde (1868?-1959) was a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn. The collection contains correspondence, notes, writings, clippings, and other material collected by Hyde about historical incidents, particularly of the Civil War, including an account of Sherman's men in Sumter, S.C., 1865, and writings and correspondence concerning the actions of United States General Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882) at the battle of Five Forks in Dinwiddie County, Va., and the subsequent court of inquiry.
Three letters recommending Republican F. D. Schlachter to be appointed as Superintendent of the National Cemetery in New Bern, N.C., replacing an unnamed Democrat. Two letters, dated 25 April 1876, are addressed to North Carolina’s first African American U.S. congressman, John Adams Hyman, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd district. One of the letters is signed by Thomas Power, chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, and a dozen other local officials from Craven County, N.C. Another letter appears to be signed by John S. Manix, an active member of the Craven County Republican Party. In the third letter, dated 8 May 1876, Hyman writes that "Mr. Shlachter is strongly recommended by all the leading Republicans of New Berne for the position." The letters are written on the same sheet of congressional stationery.

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and newsclippings relating to Thomas Wolfe and the Thomas Wolfe Society. Materials chiefly relate John L. Idol, Jr.'s work on Thomas Wolfe Society matters, including correspondence with Aldo P. Magi and Terry Roberts, past editors of The Thomas Wolfe Review. Idol was a white scholar of American literature and professor emeritus at Clemson University, a past president of the Thomas Wolfe Society, and editor of many Thomas Wolfe Society publications. Materials range in date from 1967-2010.
The Order of Good Templars was founded in New York in 1851. In 1852, the name was changed to Independent Order of Good Templars, and, in 1903, to the International Order of Good Templars (IOGT). This fraternal organization accepted both men and women as members and was devoted to temperance. Thomasville Lodge No.11 was founded in 1872 in Thomasville, N.C. Worthy Chief Templars, or leaders of the lodge, included the Reverend C. M. Pepper and John D. Paylor.
The Independent Weekly is a free, alternative, weekly newspaper serving the Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and surrounding communities in central North Carolina. It was founded in 1983 in Durham by Steve Schewel, David Birkhead, and Katherine Fulton. The Independent Weekly is perhaps best known for its coverage of local music, film, visual arts, theater, dance, and pop culture, as well as for its strong focus on progressive politics and social activism.
Sanders Meredith Ingram was a farmer, lawyer, and state legislator from Richmond County, N.C. He was also a part of the inaugural class at Wake Forest College, 1834-1835. Ingram served in the Mexican War in the lst Tennessee Calvary Regiment and in the Civil War as first lieutenant in the 38th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He left the army in 1862 to serve as Richmond County representative in the North Carolina state legislature. Ingram's first wife was Jane Mourning Shepherd, with whom he had five children; his second wife was Sarah Francis Moore Hogan, with whom he had at least three children. Ingram died in 1905 and was buried in Montgomery County, N.C.
Myra Inman (1845-1914) was born in Cleveland, Tenn., and lived in eastern Tennessee. She married John G. Carter in 1876.
In 1958, a group of workers at the General Electric Company plant in Hickory, N.C., proposed forming a labor union to improve working conditions and rates of pay. Although met by strong opposition, the workers won an election to organize. In 1961, the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE), CIO, chartered Local 182, an affiliate of IUE District 1, to serve the plant. In 1997, General Electric determined that the Hickory factory was no longer profitable, shut it down, and moved the work to Monterrey, Mexico. Records, 1961-1997, of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Local 182 (Hickory, N.C.), document the labor union's political, business, and social services to electric industry workers at the Hickory, N.C., General Electric Company plant. Records are sorted into rough series: organization; business; minutes; plans, projects, and programs; reports; correspondence; bulletins and newsletters; elections; membership; and photographs with the bulk of the materials in correspondence, bulletins and newsletters, and minutes.
John Williams emigrated from Scotland in 1810 and became a merchant in Wilmington, N.C.; after his death in 1857 his business was carried on by his son, William Augustus Williams (born 1810).
The collection inlcudes a volume of records, 1800, of land and building valuations of Iredell County, N.C., prepared for assessment of a special direct tax for national defense authorized by Congress in 1798. The book shows the names of property owners, number of acres owned, value of land in dollars, number of buildings, and total valuation. This volume has been analyzed by Hugh Hill Wooten in The North Carolina Historical Review (October, 1952).
Cadwallader Jones Iredell was a captain in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Helen Blair Iredell was the daughter of North Carolina Governor James Iredell.
James Iredell was a lawyer, colonial customs collector, state official, and United States Supreme Court justice, of Edenton, N.C.
James Iredell (1788-1853) was a lawyer, North Carolina governor, and United States senator.
Jacob D. Irish was born circa 1835 in Westerlo, Albany County, N.Y., and died in April 1902. He enlisted for service at the age of 30 with the 19th Independent Battery of the New York Artillery during the last stages of the Civil War in September 1864. He served in various places throughout the western part of Virginia, including Petersburg, City Point, Poplar Grove, and Alexandria, as well as being present at the offensive assault by the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on Fort Stedman. He eventually mustered out in Elmira, N.Y., sometime in mid-June and returned home.
Photocopies and microfilm of sales correspondence, bills, and receipts, 1863-1865, of High Shoals Manufacturing Company; business letters, 1866-1878, received by Lawrence S. Camp, including letters from his brother in Centre, Ala., describing farm economic conditions and relations with Black tenant farmers; and other papers relating to the economic development of Iron Station in Lincoln County, N.C.
Joseph Logan Irvin was professor in the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1978, and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry in the medical school, 1957-1978.
Members of the McDonald family and Irving family resided in various locations in the United States and Scotland.
The Ken Irwin Collection consists of audio recordings, 1974-1975, of interviews with folk, country, and bluegrass musicians. Ken Irwin, a white co-founder of the record label, Rounder Records, compiled the recordings, which feature such notable artists as Hazel Dickens, Buzz Busby, and Whitey and Hogan, among others. There are also audio interviews, 1995-1996, with Ken Irwin. Other materials document the Rounder Record business and the artists signed to the label and the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and Folk Alliance governing boards. Materials include correspondence, photographs, business records, catalogs, newspaper clippings, t-shirts, promotional posters and press packs, and other ephemera, as well as additional audiovisual materials related to Rounder Record artists.
Teacher and writer Pollock Irwin was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1926. He lived in Iran, 1931-1934, where he taught at the American School in Tabriz, which was operated by the Presbyterian Church USA. These experiences formed the basis of his book, A Tar Heel in Iran (1958). Irwin later taught in Burlington and Wilmington, N.C., schools, where he was active in student theater productions. He authored The Passion of Our Lord, an Easter play that was presented for many years in Presbyterian churches in cities where he taught.
William Isom II, an African American documentarian, conducted these oral histories for a short documentary to be shown at the 50th anniversary meeting of Eastern Kentucky Social Club, which was founded in 1969. The interviews document the lives of black Appalachians originally from Lynch, Ky., and 3rd and 4th wave migrations of African Americans out of the South. Topics include families, community, education, coal miners, and migration.
The Israel House was a hotel in Louisville, Ky. The collection includes the travelers' register of the Israel House, showing names, residence, and destination of guests, 1852-1854 (33 pages); and accounts of the settlement of the estate of Mary A. Israel, 1871-1872, including an inventory of personal and other property.
Field recordings of ballads, children's games, hymns, spirituals, recollections, and other spoken and sung material collected by McKellar Israel, a white music instructor of Southern Pines, N.C., and his students at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, N.C. The collection contains dubs of field recordings created by McKellar Israel as part of his 1972 fieldwork project on "The Folk Songs of Dawes B. Graybeal and Marinda Dunnigan McPherson", as well as dubs of field recordings and oral histories created by McKellar Israel's students in eastern and central North Carolina, including the counties of Ashe County; Chatham County; Harnett County; Hoke County; Iredell County; Lee County; Moore County; and Sampson County. Of particular note is McKellar Israel's recordings of Marinda Dunnigan McPherson, an African American educator and singer from Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., and her husband David McPherson, of Chatham County, N.C. In these recordings, Marinda Dunnigan McPherson, who taught in Orange County for more than forty years, recollects and sings children's games, play party songs, spirituals, and other traditional songs that she learned from family members. The collection also contains supporting documentation, such as tape logs, transcriptions, and scattered correspondence, that relate to the field recordings found in the collection.
Microfilm of diary, 22 September 1812-25 September 1813, of an unnamed physician from Chesterfield, N.H., who traveled in the South to seek relief for his consumption. The volume contains an account of his journey through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, ending in Columbia County, Ga., near Augusta. There are detailed entries relating to practicing medicine and preparing drugs and remedies while looking for a healthy place to settle, as well as his accounts, a list of places where he stopped, descriptions of the country and people he observed, including comparison of Georgia and New Hampshire. The diary was left by the traveler at the home of Judge Thomas Cobb in Columbia County, Ga., in 1813.

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Contains a handwritten account of the experiences of J. H. Collett while fighting in the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the American Civil War, including the Battle of Franklin (1864). The account was not written by Collett. It might have been written by Mrs. N. H. Fulsner.
The collection includes a daybook of J. H. Saunders and Company, a general merchandise business owned by J. H. Saunders, J. N. Nelson, and John King, in Guilford County, N.C.
J. L. King and Company was a tobacco manufacturer in Greensboro, N.C. The company partners appear to have been J. L. King, G. H. McKinney, and J. G. Brodnax, Jr.
Letters to J. Williams and Co., a merchandizing firm dealing in agricultural and other products in Fayetteville, N.C., from J. Rowland and Co., wholesale distributor, of Wilmington, N.C. The letters pertain to business transactions between the two companies and include references to shipping on the Cape Fear River. Apparently, J. Rowland and Co. was the principal supplier of J. Williams and Co. Some of the letters also serve as invoices.
J. and M. Schultz was a store, blacksmith shop, and mill in Afton, Va., about 20 miles west of Charlottesville. Customers lived in western Albemarle County and northern Nelson County, Va. After the Civil War, the store was owned by Chesterfield Critzer. Critzer descendants ran the business from the late 19th century until the late 1940s. The building still stands on Critzer's Shop Road in Afton.
The collection is a daybook, 1855-1857, of J. A. Womack & Co., general merchants of Pittsboro, Chatham County, N.C.
J. C. Spach Wagon Works, Inc., of Winston-Salem, N.C., was operated largely by members of the Spach family, possibly descendants of Adam Spach (1720-1801), an early Moravian settler in the area. Billed as Manufacturers of the celebrated J. C. Spach Wagons, the Wagon Works were closely related to Unique Furniture Makers, a furniture manufacturing company also run by the Spach family.
The collection is a general merchandise daybook of a Williamsboro (then Granville County, now Vance County), N.C., merchant.
J.M. Dent & Sons, book publishers of London, England, was founded in 1888 by Joseph Malaby Dent (1859-1926). The company achieved success by selling cheap editions of the classics to the working class. Dent's first major production, the Temple Shakespeare series, was established in 1894, followed in 1906 by Everyman's Library, a series of 1000 volumes. Eventually, Dent's publishing activities expanded to include textbooks, children's books, educational books, self-help books, and travel guides. Dent remained in the forefront of the publishing field by expanding sales to foreign markets, including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States.
J.M. Dent & Sons, book publishers of London, England, was founded in 1888 by Joseph Malaby Dent (1859-1926). The company achieved success by selling cheap editions of the classics to the working class. Dent's first major production, the Temple Shakespeare series, was established in 1894, followed in 1906 by Everyman's Library, a series of 1000 volumes. Eventually, Dent's publishing activities expanded to include textbooks, children's books, educational books, self-help books, and travel guides. Dent remained in the forefront of the publishing field by expanding sales to foreign markets, including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. The collection consists of woodblocks, along with a small number of metal plates, used in the production of select Dent publications.
John Milton Odell, a cotton manufacturer from Concord, N.C., bought a cotton spinning mill in Bynum, N.C., in 1886. As part of the J. M. Odell Company, the Bynum mill sold much of its yarn to Odell weaving plants in Concord. The collection includes three record books of J. M. Odell Manufacturing Company of Chatham County, N.C. The earliest volume, 1887-1916, contains a copy of the act of incorporation, the by-laws, and the minutes of stockholders' meetings, including the reports of the secretary and treasurer and statements of the company's financial condition. The second continues with minutes, 1917-1933, of stockholders' and directors' meetings. The third volume contains accounts, 1899-1901, of the Bynum mill and company store, including accounts with suppliers, local farmers, mill workers and their families, and with Concord National Bank, and J. M. Odell Company in Concord, N.C.
The papers of Jackson, Prince, and Cobb families of Athens, Macon, and other locations in Georgia, and the the Rootes family of Fredericksburg, Va., document the lives of white plantation owning families and the people enslaved by them on Halscot Plantation outside Athens, Ga.; Cookshay Plantation in Chambers County, Ala.; and other plantations in Bibb and Baker counties, Ga. The collection consists of lists of enslaved people, bills of sale for enslaved people, accounts, deeds, indentures, daybooks, and other records about plantation operations; personal and business correspondence; diaries; scientific notes; genealogical materials; and photographs. Topics include enslavement; management of a plantation by a widow; social and religious life of antebellum wealthy white women, including an interracial camp meeting and missionary activities; Democratic Party journalism and political life in antebellum Georgia; wars with North American Indians in Georgia; an 1803 treaty with the Creek Indians; the Mexican War; the annexation of Texas; conscription work in the American Civil War; early American foreign affairs; diplomatic service in France, Austria, and Mexico; Franklin College (later the University of Georgia); and children's writings.
The Mackay and Stiles families were merchants of Savannah, Ga. Prominent family members include Robert Mackay (1772-1816); his wife, Eliza McQueen Mackay (1778-1862); their children, William Mein Mackay (1804-1865), John Mackay (1805-1849), Mary Anne Mackay (1803-1865), and Elizabeth Anne Mackay (1809-1867); Mary Anne Mackay's husband, Benjamin Edward Stiles (fl. 1819-1852); and Elizabeth Anne Mackay's husband, William Henry Stiles (1810-1867).
Correspondence, commonplace books, and other papers, circa 1914-1983, relating to the family of Isabel Morgan Jackson (1913- ) of Georgia and North Carolina, especially to her father Samuel Lewis Morgan (1871-1972), Baptist minister, writer, and commentator of North Carolina, and her husband Judson Jackson, also a Baptist minister.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters received by the McKinne family of Augusta, Ga., including two, 1841-1842, from Thomas Addison Richards (1820-1900), professor of art in New York; and papers of John King Jackson (1828-1866) of Augusta, including his brigade order book (March 1862-January 1863), as a general in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Letters to McKinne family members are from relatives and friends concerning family and personal matters. Richards's letters to Anne McKinne are affectionate and discuss his family life.
Roberta H. Jackson (1920-1999), African American professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was married to Blyden Jackson (1910-2000), African American professor of English and dean of the Graduate School at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Blyden Jackson wrote novels and works on African American and southern literature. He also served from 1973 to 1981 as the Assistant Dean/Special Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, charged with promoting the recruitment and retention of minority graduate students and working with the University's Student Aid Office to secure scholarships and fellowships for graduate students.
Garrie Jackson of Moore County, N.C., was a private in the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. His brother-in-law, William S. Caveness, also served with the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry. Jackson died in 1865. The collection consists of letters, 1863-1865, chiefly to Garrie Jackson from family and friends, most of whom wrote from Moore County, N.C. Letters describe life on the home front during the Civil War, including some discussion of local news, reactions to reports of battles, and reflections on Jackson's military activities. Some letters are also directed to William S. Caveness, Jackson's brother-in-law, serving with Jackson in the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment.
Henry Melville Jackson (1849-1900) was an Episcopal clergyman and rector of Grace Church, Richmond, Va., 1876-1891, who became bishop coadjutor of Alabama in 1891. The collection includes sermons Jackson wrote when he was rector of Grace Church (Episcopal) in Richmond, Va.
The collection is a letter from Jonathan Worth to J. J. Jackson concerning Worth's campaign for the governorship of North Carolina and W. W. Holden's contention that President Johnson wished the people of the state to vote for Holden.
Contains papers of Jerma A. Jackson, a Black associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials include research files and transcripts, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and audiocassettes used for Jackson's book, Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (UNC Press, 2004). Interviews are with African American gospel singers as well as others involved in the church and music business. The materials also include paper transcripts of the interviews and materials related to the Church of God in Christ, the Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that include biographical information on women singers.
Laura (Riding) Jackson, poet and critic, and member of "The Fugitives," a group of Southern poets that flourished in the 1930s. Jackson, who also worked closely with Robert Graves on several publishing ventures, was concerned, among other things, with issues of linguistic integrity. The collection consists chiefly of letters, 1982-1990, to William R. Harmon of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Laura (Riding) Jackson. The letters are substantive, containing Jackson's comments on her life and work and including explications of specific poems and discussions about Robert Graves and other prominent authors with whom she worked. Many letters show Jackson in her struggle against critics and editors who, she believed, had misjudged the meaning and significance of her work. Also included are a few letters to Harmon from others and a small number of writings of Jackson and others, most of whom are not identified.
Jackosn, Riddle, and Company was a firm of commission merchants of Philadelphia and Liverpool. The firm, which later became Jackson, Todd, and Company, dealt in the sale of cotton, sugar, tobacco, sheet iron, nails, and coal. Washington Jackson was principal owner, and his son, Bolton Jackson, oversaw operations in Liverpool. The company, which received some of its financing from the Bank of the United States, carried on business with clients and associates in the northeastern and southern United States, England, and France.
Robert A. Jackson of Aspen Grove, Mecklenburg County, Va., taught in Yazoo County, Miss., 1852-1857, and served as a lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Virginia Artillery in 1862. The collection includes letters, chiefly 1852-1862, and chiefly to and from Jackson, his wife Rosa Oreton Hatchet Jackson, and her relatives in Mecklenburg County, Va., while he was a teacher in Yazoo County, Miss., and a lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Virginia Artillery. Letters, 1852-1862, give news of family members and friends and neighborhood events in Mecklenburg County and of affairs in Yazoo County. Letters, January-June 1862, are from Robert Jackson describing camp life and military engagements and giving advice to his wife. Also included are typed transcriptions of letters (location of originals unknown), 1822 and 1825, from William Osborne Gregory (b. 1804), giving his sister Martha (later Mrs. Waddy Jackson, mother of Robert A. Jackson) advice about social matters and dealing with other topics.
Samuel Spencer Jackson was a lawyer of Asheboro, N.C.
Samuel C. Jackson was a Congregational minister of Andover, Mass.
Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general. The collection includes typed transcriptions of chiefly military correspondence, 1861-1862, with a few prewar items and postwar letters received by Jackson's second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson. The earliest items are letters, 1842, about Jackson's appointment to West Point. Military correspondence includes letters to J. P. Benjamin, 1861; from Robert E. Lee, 1862; and from Richard Stoddert Ewell, 1862, about troop movements in Virginia. Also included are a letter, 1861, from William Nelson Pendleton defending himself against charges of cowardice and letters about Jackson's charge of neglect of duty against A. P. Hill in 1862.
The Jacocks family, chiefly of Bertie County, N.C., was related to the Bryan and the Slater (Slatter) families. Some family members lived in Tennessee or Florida.
Eighteenth-century Sinhalese olas, palm leaf manuscripts, collected by white American physician William Picard Jacocks (1877-1965) when he served as a public health specialist in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) between 1914 and 1942. The texts are chiefly Buddhist sermons and discourse. Also included are the Yogaratnākara treatise on the Āyurveda system of medicine, the Vattorupota collection of medicinal recipes, and a treatise on astrology.
William Picard Jacocks, native of Bertie County, N.C., was a physician. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina (BA), the University of Pennsylvania (MD), and Johns Hopkins University (Doctor of Public Health). After 1914, Jacocks was associated with the Rockefeller Foundation and spent much of his career in Asia, including India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), working on eradicating hookworm infections and other health issues. He retired in 1942 and moved back to Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was active in alumni affairs and family genealogy research.
William Picard Jacocks (1877-1965), native of Bertie County, N.C., was a physician. The collection contains correspondence, reports, articles, and other papers of Jacocks. Included are correspondence and other materials relating to his work as a public health specialist in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1914-1942, where a lot of his work focused on hookworm infections. Also included is correspondence from the years following his retirement in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1942, dealing with family matters, genealogy, and University of North Carolina alumni affairs; his diaries, 1939-1965; papers he wrote on public health issues; clippings; photographs and drawings; and museum items.
James A. Berry and Company was a Wilmington, N.C., general merchant.
James Franklin Cooley was an educator, minister, police officer, World War II veteran, judge, civil rights activist, and college administrator in Little Rock, Ark. The collection contains James Franklin Cooley's resume; scattered printed materials relating to his candidacy in statewide and local elections; proclamations honoring Cooley chiefly from Pulaski County and Little Rock, Ark.; certificates and awards; pages from biographical dictionaries containing James Franklin Cooley's entry; and clippings about him. Materials are primarily photocopies. There are also programs from three beauty pageants, 1971-1974, held in Little Rock, Ark., for African-American contestants sponsored by Cooley's Athletic and Teenage Club, Inc.
James Jordan's wife was a member of the Weatherman family, and her ancestors appear to have been plantation owners in North Carolina (location unknown). The collection includes six audiocassettes, ca. 1970s, of James Jordan and his wife singing ballads, folk songs, children's songs, and spirituals, individually and in duet. Some of the songs were passed down through their families; others the two learned as children. According to Jordan, the spirituals were originally learned from slaves on the Weatherman family plantation in North Carolina. After each song, the family of origin is identified.
Charles F. James (1844-1902) was a Confederate soldier, and a clergyman and president of Roanoke Female College in Danville, Va. The collection includes typed transcriptions of four Civil War letters, February 1865, from James, near Richmond, Va., with the 8th Virginia Regiment, to his sister describing current conditions and war events. Also included are two speeches by James about the Civil War, 1901; and a typescript (3 pages) titled Some of our Hardships.
German-educated physician, medical editor, and Confederate scientist. Scattered papers of Frank Lowber James, including his diary, 1877-1878, discussing social customs, religious beliefs, race relations, economic conditions, prominent citizens, and other matters relating to Osceola, Ark.; details of his medical practice; his interest in Indian archeology; trips to Memphis; and other matters. Also included are letters, 1886 and 1894, describing his life in St. Louis, Mo., and clippings.
John C. James (fl. 1851-1860) was a tobacconist of Pittsylvania County, Va. The collection includes business papers, including bills, receipts, notes, bonds, and letters, and a few family items of James, chiefly concerning selling tobacco to dealers in Mississippi and other places in the lower South, and related insurance and banking matters.
William L. James, of North Carolina, was a clarinetist in a band of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
J. Franklin Jameson was a prominent American historian in the early 20th century.
The Jamestowne Society, First North Carolina Company, was organized in December 1986. Members are descendants of early English ancestors who helped found the Jamestowne settlement in Virgina in 1607.
The Phil Jamison Collection consists of video recordings, audio recordings, and printed materials created by Phil Jamison for the North Carolina Arts Council Folklife Program-funded documentary project Western North Carolina: Buckdancers, Flatfoot Dancers and Charleston Dancers. The project documented the lives and dancing of buckdancers, flatfoot dancers, and Charleston dancers from several counties in western North Carolina, including Buncombe County, Henderson County, Swain County, Yancey County, Clay County, Jackson County, Burke County, Haywood County, Watauga County, and Madison County. Jamison collected the materials during 1992 and 1993; the project was completed in 1993. The video recordings are on Hi8 and VHS and consist of shots of dancers demonstrating dances to live music, descriptions of steps, and interviews with the dancers. Dances documented include the Hambone, the Turkey Trot, the Two-Step, the Charleston, and the Chicken. The video log documents the dancer's name, the dance style, the accompanying music, and the date of the performance recorded. The audio recordings are on audiocassette and consist of oral history interviews with twelve dancers. Of particular interest are the performances of L. C. King and John Reeves, who were featured in Mike Seeger's 1987 documentary film Talking Feet.
Otho B. Ross was a 1905 graduate of the University of North Carolina; a physician in Charlotte, N.C.; and a lifelong student of philosophy, especially that of Professor Horace Williams. His daughter, Jane Ross Hammer, received an M.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina in 1937.
Eugene Janin (died 1862) was a Confederate officer who served with the 10th Louisiana Infantry Regiment in Virginia. He was the son of Louis Janin, a French immigrant and engineer of New Orleans, La., and Juliet Covington Janin. The collection is chiefly letters, in part photocopies, to Louis Janin in New Orleans, La., and California, from Eugene Janin, primarily while Eugene serving in the Confederate army in Virginia, 1861-1862, about personal needs and activities and illness among the troops. Also included are photocopies of a brief diary of Eugene, 1854, concerning a girl in whom he was interested.
The Janitors' Association was established in 1930 through the efforts of several janitors at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Soon after its establishment, the university required all janitors to join the association. Most of the members were African Americans. The association's stated purpose was to promote cooperation between the janitors and the university administration and to advance the moral standards and ideals of the janitors. Meetings were devoted to the discussion of job-related issues, such as salaries and uniforms, and the planning of social events.
The Jarman family of Seven Springs, Wayne County, N.C., included Thomas Forrest Jarman (1868-1934); his wife Lula Wooten Jarman (1872-1937); their sons, Forrest Ruel Jarman (1902-1992) and Lawrence Wooten Jarman; and Forrest Ruel Jarman's wife, Georgia Bizzell Jarman (1911- ). Ruel Jarman was interested in local history and served several terms as mayor of Seven Springs. Lawrence Wooten Jarman received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1920.
Sally Long Jarman (b. 1887) was a genealogist of Halifax County, N.C.
Spencer Jarnagin (1792-1853) of Tennessee was a lawyer, state legislator, United States Senator, 1843-1847, and member of the Whig Party. The collection includes letters from Jarnagin, written chiefly from Washington, D.C., 1844-1846, to his wife concerning politics and personal news.
The collection documents enslaved people in Alabama and Yadkin County, N.C.; Isaac Jarratt (active 1812-1875), a white merchant and landholder in Montgomery, Ala., and Huntsville, N.C., who trafficked enslaved people; and his son, Isaac Augustus Jarratt (1841-1890), a white merchant and distiller who owned plantations in Huntsville, Conrads, and Fayetteville, N.C., that were dependent on enslaved labor. The collection includes photocopies of birth and death records of enslaved people recorded in a Jarratt family bible and financial records for the purchase of enslaved people by Jarratt family members. There are also family and business letters, 1832-1929, and financial, legal, and military documents pertaining to the Isaac Jarratt family of Surry (now Yadkin) County, N.C., and Montgomery, Ala. Early items primarily concern personal news of family and friends and a variety of business transactions, including purchases of land, debt settlements, and a carriage in New York City. Two 1835 letters to the elder Jarratt from cousins discuss one's resettlement in McNairy County, Tenn., and the other's travels through the Choctaw and Cherokee nations. Civil War era material consists of two 1864 military enrollment orders for Captain Isaac A. Jarratt of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company C. Other items include an 1875 exchange of letters between the elder Jarratt and the federal pension office concerning his application for a pension as a veteran of the War of 1812; photocopies of family records and a history pertaining to the Clingman, Puryear, and Jarratt families; a photocopy of a 1978 class paper about the White House of Yadkin County, N.C.; a small account book belonging to Isaac Jarratt listing transactions for goods bought, clothing and cloth, taxes, and traveling expenses; a small book, The Death of Abel, inscribed to Hal Jarrett; a recipe for a "white mixture" cure; and a flier with populist and racially divisive language, that calls for a slate of new officials in Yadkin County to address chronic lack of road improvements, public education, and support for industries.
Michael Jarrett is professor of English at Penn State University, York. He is the author of Drifting on a Read: Jazz as a Model for Writing, Sound Tracks: A Musical ABC, and Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings.
Nancy Avaline Jarrett (1808-1880), the daughter of Hannah Brandon McKee (later Lowry) and James L. McKee, grew up in western North Carolina. She married Colonel Nimrod Simpson Jarrett (1799-1871) of Buncombe County, N.C., in December 1826. Jarrett acquired vast amounts of land in western North Carolina and was murdered in September 1871.
The collection contains letters to Sarah A. Jarrett of Habersham County, Ga., from relatives, especially her cousin Leonidas Fidelis Siler (1830-1870), who wrote from Franklin, Macon County, N.C., and, 1849-1851, from the University of North Carolina, where he was a student. Letters deal chiefly with family affairs and news of romances among friends and relatives.
The professional papers of white public health educator Sally Lucas Jean include correspondence, speeches, writings, and reports on public health and health education that were prepared by Jean as a consultant in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Extensive materials, including photographs, document her work in New Mexico at the Santa Fe Indian School and with people from the Navajo Nation. Also documented is her consultancy in Arizona at the Poston concentration camp where American citizens and residents with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated and denied civil rights during the Second World War.
Robert M. Jefferies (fl. 1863) was an officer in the 115th Pennsylvania Volunteers, United States Army, who served in Virginia during the Civil War. The collection includes letters, 26 August 1863 and 16 November 1863, from Lieutenant Jefferies, written from army camps in Virginia, mentioning participation in battles at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 2nd Bull Run, and Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock, and describing the condition of Confederate prisoners.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), president of the United States, 1801-1809; governor of Virginia, 1779-1781; U.S. minister to France, 1785-1789; U.S. secretary of state, 1790-1793; vice-president of the United States, 1797-1801; after retirement from presidency, lived at plantation Monticello near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; instrumental in founding University of Virginia, 1819. Miscellaneous reproductions of Thomas Jefferson letters include the following. Handwritten transcription of letter, 25 June 1823, from Thomas Jefferson declining an invitation to participate in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of the nation's birth. Photostats, chiefly letters, 1790, 1797, 1804, 1807, 1814, and 1824, from Jefferson to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, to Elizabeth H. Trist, to Nicholas Philip Trist, and to Thomas Mann Randolph, concerning family matters, political turmoil, his desire to return to Monticello, and the University of Virginia. Several short social notes written by Jefferson in Paris, 1784-1789, are also included. Handwritten copy and typed copy of letter, 24 April 1791, from Jefferson at Philadelphia to his daughter at Monticello about gardening and clothing. Photostat of letter from Monticello, 9 May 1817, in which Jefferson described plans for the building and grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Typed copy of a letter, 6 December 1813, from Jefferson to Baron Friederich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt thanking him for astronomical observations and atlases relating to Latin American countries and discussing the future of those countries and mentioning other issues.
Charles Osborne Jeffress, journalist and publisher or Greensboro, N.C.
Edwin Bedford Jeffress, owner of the Greensboro Daily News; mayor of Greensboro, N.C., from 1925 to 1929; and member of the North Carolina General Assembly from Guilford County in 1931. In May 1931, he was appointed chair of the State Highway Commission by Governor O. Max Gardner. When the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission was formed in 1933, Jeffress was named chair by Governor John C. B. Ehringhaus. His tenure was cut short, however, by an illness that rendered him a semi-invalid for the rest of his life, much of which he spent at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, writing a history of North Carolina.
E. T. Jeffress was a merchant in Nottoway County, Va.
The collection of John Hayles Blackfeather Jeffries contains photographic prints, photographic albums, printed items, clippings, articles and essays, transcriptions of interviews, a petition for acknowledgment of tribal status for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina, sound recordings, video recordings, and other items pertaining to the Occaneechi. Jeffries, who identifies as tri-racial (American Indian, African American, and white) is a member of the Tribal Council and a crafter of traditional costumes, weapons, and tools. Collection materials reflect the leading roles he played in the Occaneechi's gaining recognition in the state of North Carolina and construction of the Occaneechi Village in Hillsborough, N.C., and document his efforts to preserve Occaneechi history and traditions. Photographic images depict Occaneechi powwows in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the reconstruction of the eighteenth-century Occaneechi Village, and Occaneechi costumes, weapons, and tools crafted by Jeffries. Also included are images of Jeffries, his wife Lynette Coles Jeffries, the Jeffries family, related families, family friends, the Jeffries residence, and Jeffries’ workshop, which he calls “The Shed." The collection also contains sound and video recordings compiled by Jeffries, including recordings of Occaneechi, Saponi, and Tutelo songs and powwows.
Two proclamations to slaves, granting them a share of plantation earnings under specified conditions, made by Robert and William Jemison of Alabama. Robert's proclamation is dated 1865 and William's 1827.
Charles Jones Jenkins was the governor of Reconstruction-era Georgia, 1865-1868. D. McRae was a resident of Telfair County, Ga., in 1865.
MICROFILM ONLY. Originals returned to private owner in 1951. Intermittent diaries, 1862 and 1864-1865, and a few related papers of a Confederate officer from Louisiana. The diaries relate Jenkins's experiences up to the battle of Shiloh in which he was wounded and captured, his sojourn at the federal hospital in Louisville, a trip to Richmond to regain his commission, and campaigning in Georgia late in the war.
James Lineberry Jenkins, Jr., was born in Robeson County, N.C., in 1919. A graduate of Wake Forest College, Jay Jenkins became a prize-winning political reporter, an editorial writer, and a columnist for several North Carolina newspapers, including The News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, and the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. In 1969, he was named a special assistant to William Friday, president of the University of North Carolina. He retired from this position in 1982, and, in early 1983, began writing a weekly column featured in the Chapel Hill Newspaper and the Southern Pines Pilot.
Joseph John Jenkins (b. 1861) of Siler City, N.C., was a teacher, banker, sheriff, and treasurer of Chatham County, N.C.
William Sumner Jenkins (1902-1978) served as director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research at the University of North Carolina. The collection contains correspondence, notes, printed material, and other material, 1930-1960s, of William Sumner Jenkins. Most of the material relates to Jenkins' work on state records and records held in libraries and archives in other nations. Correspondence includes letters from Arthur Krock (born 1886) of the New York Times.
Norman Ethre Jennett was a cartoonist for various publications including the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, 1895-1898; the New York Herald, 1901-1917; and Flying and its successor, Aerial Age Weekly, 1917-1923. He was also the art editor for McFadden Publications, 1923-1939.
The collection consists of images taken by Dudley L. Jennings (1913-2005), an amateur photographer from Lumberton, N.C., chiefly from the late 1930s through the late 1980s. Included in the collection are images of Colonial Williamsburg, Va., Charleston, S.C., Yosemite National Park, Calif., and locations throughout North Carolina, along with other miscellaneous subjects. The collection consists largely of black-and-white 120 and 35mm roll film, with some black-and-white sheet film and 35mm color slides. Also included are black-and-white photographic prints mounted for exhibition.
Talbot L. Jennings received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Yale University in 1930 and attended the Yale School of Drama that year. A play by him entitled No More Frontiers was published by Samuel French in 1931 (Yale Plays, ed. by G. P. Baker). The 1956 Directory (Yale) gives his address as Glacier Park, Mont.
Thomas J. Jennings (fl. 1862-1863) of Fall River, Mass., was a federal soldier serving in a regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers at Hampton, Va., April 1862 and at New Bern, N.C., February-June 1863.
Richard Hampton Jenrette (1929- ), native of Raleigh, N.C.; graduate, active alumnus, and trustee of the University of North Carolina; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; president, director, and co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., a brokerage firm in New York, N.Y.; trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; director of the New York Landmarks Conservancy; member, Dutchess County Landmarks Conservancy and New York City Commission for Cultural Affairs.
Richard Jente was head of the Department of German, University of North Carolina, 1937-1953.
Clare Jervey was a writer of Charleston, S.C. The collection contains letters, 1913-1914, to Jervey from Peter Newell (1862-1924), a New Jersey illustrator, concerning the illustration of a story, Oliver.
Live audio recording of Aleta Garrison Jessup, a white singer of Little Rock, Ark., performing songs handed down to her by her parents. The 1958 recording was presumably made by Jessup, who notes that these songs were popular during her parents' childhood in the southern United States during the Civil War, originating primarily in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. Song types on the recording include lullabies, play party songs, and church songs, as well as a cowboy song that Jessup learned from a cowboy in West Texas, where Jessup spent her childhood. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation consists of tape logs, which include a track listing and information about the history of the songs, including that Jessup's parents learned the church songs from a granddaughter of a formerly enslaved person.
General M.T. Jessup was quartermaster general of the United States Army.
Papers of Henry R. Lobe are primarily letters, March 1944-September 1945 from Lobe to his wife, Sylvia Shellenbenger, while he served in the United States Army and was stationed in China, India, and other locations. The collection also contains photographs, photograph albums, postcards, and a self-published memoir. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The John C. Campbell Folk School, founded in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler, was organized on the model of folk and craft schools common in Scandinavia. The original purpose of the School was to preserve the indigenous culture of the southern highlands and to transmit these traditions to young people. Records of the John C. Campbell Folk School relate to maintenance and administration of the School as well as to the activities and programs conducted there. Included is correspondence and other items about day-to-day activities, with a large number of letters describing individual programs and events, including an internship program that brought college students to live and work at the School while working on social, cultural, and environmental issues; proposals for workshops and courses from craftspeople; materials relating to maintenance of the School grounds, construction of new buildings, personnel, food preparation, and other operational topics; reports from meetings of the Board of Directors about general School policies; items relating to the School's relations with outside agencies, including state agencies and colleges and universities in the area; solicitation lists and other fundraising materials; grant proposal materials; general planning materials; and financial records, including auditors' reports, ledgers, and accounting sheets.
The John Edwards Memorial Foundation, which operated 1962-1983, was located at the University of Calif. at Los Angeles. The foundation's goal was to promote the study of twentieth-century American folk music. In 1983, the Foundation was dissolved, and a successor organization, the John Edwards Memorial Forum, was established.
John M. Owen and Company was a general store in Black Walnut (presently Cluster Springs), Halifax County, Va. The collection includes bills, receipts, and business letters received by John M. Owen and Company from dealers and manufacturers in Richmond, Va.; Baltimore, Md.; New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and Haw River, N.C.
John Morrow's Sons was a general merchandise store, flour mill, and cotton gin, of Oaks, Orange County, N.C.
The Botany Library and the Zoology Library were established at the University of North Carolina in the 1930s to support the curricula of the Department of Botany and the Department of Zoology. In 1982, the two departments merged to form the Department of Biology. On 1 July 1988, the John N. Couch Library (botany) and the Zoology Library merged to form the John N. Couch Biology Library, which, in 2010, was absorbed into the Kenan Science Library.
Letters, 1913-1916; an account book, 1912-1917; and bills and receipts, 1916-1917; all relating to the John Markham Drug Company of Carrboro, N.C., and to Sallie Thelma Markham Hemphill and Clyde Hoke Hemphill, the daughter and son-in-law of the drugstore owner, John W. Markham. The letters discuss the unhappiness of Hemphill, a physician, and his wife. The account book and bills and receipts show purchases and expenditures of the drugstore and its clientele.
Kensey Johns (1759-1848) was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware and chancellor of the state. The collection includes scattered and miscellaneous papers of Johns including eight letters, 1839-1841, from his son, Henry Van Dyck Johns, pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio, dealing with the death of his mother and general family news; legal papers; and Statement of the Strength and Condition of the Fifth Regiment of the Delaware Militia, 1819.
Photographs of United States Army Colonel Jasper R. Johnson and his family while they were stationed in Gifu City, Japan, 1949-1952. Images depict scenes on the U.S. Army base in Gifu City including the Johnson family living quarters, scenes in and around the city, and images of Tokyo, Japan. Also included are letters from two Japanese citizens who worked in the Johnson household while they lived in Gifu City and a memorial card from funeral service for Jasper R. Johnson in 2006.
The Johnson Family of Charleston, S.C., included William and his son Joseph, a physician.
Kenneth M. Johnson (1928-) of Randolph County, N.C., along with his father Jesse (Pa), mother Lydia (Ma), sister Betty, and twin brothers Bob and Jim, formed the gospel and popular music singing group the Johnson Family Singers. The collection includes radio scripts, sound recordings, and video recordings documenting the musical careers of the Johnson Family Singers and Betty Johnson. Radio scripts include 158 scripts from WBT radio shows in Charlotte, N.C., 1943-1965, in which the Johnson Family Singers performed. Sound recordings include non-commercial recordings on acetate and transcription discs, as well as commercial 45s, 78s, LPs, and compact discs. Transcription discs record the Johnsons' appearances on WBT and Larry Walker's performances on the Margaret Ann Show. 45 rpm records, 78 rpm records, and LP records contain original commercial releases by the Johnson Family Singers, Betty Johnson, and the Stumphole Trio. Compact discs include a release of radio performances by the Johnsons that accompanied Kenneth Johnson's The Johnson Family Singers: We Sang For Our Supper (1997). Video recordings document several of Betty Johnson's appearances on Eddy Arnold Time and the Johnson Family Singers' Ed Sullivan Show performances.
Johnson Island, located in Sandusky, Ohio, operated as a federal prisoner of war depot, housing Confederate officers and other enlisted men captured in battle, from April 1862 to September 1865. The collection includes an album, apparently of John A. Fite, of Carthage, Tenn., colonel, 7th Tennessee Regiment, containing autographs and personal data written by, and relating to, Confederate officers imprisoned at Johnson Island during the Civil War; and an album of Dan M. McClenehan, Fort Deposit, Md., containing similar entries, as well as autographs of friends from Maryland, 1860-1861, and from Baltimore and elsewhere, 1872, 1879, and 1880. The second volume also includes undated photographs of a granite quarry, of individuals, some of whom are identified, and of other subjects; a brief essay on Friendship, Love, and Truth, 1860; and other items.
Betty Johnson was born on 16 March 1929 in Guilford County, N.C. As a child, Johnson traveled throughout the South as a member of the Johnson Family Singers, a gospel and popular music group. Betty Johnson's solo career as a pop-standard and cabaret singer took off in 1954 when she joined the Csida-Grean management company. Throughout the 1950s, Johnson recorded songs, appeared on Don McNeill's Breakfast Club radio show, and performed on various television shows. From 1957 to 1962 she was a cast member of Jack Parr's Tonight Show in New York, N.Y. Betty Johnson stopped performing in 1964 when she married New York City investment banker Arthur Gray Jr. and moved to New Hampshire. In 1993, Johnson re-entered show business with a cabaret act at The Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel in New York. In the mid-1990s, she launched her own record label, Bliss Tavern Records, based in Haverhill, N.H., which distributes new and re-released records by Betty Johnson, her daughters Lydia and Elizabeth Gray, and the Johnson Family Singers.
Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903) was a lawyer, politician, Confederate general, of Maryland. The collection includes a speech, handwritten, by Johnson, about Tench Tilghman (1744-1786) of Maryland, aide-de-camp to General George Washington.
Cecil Slaton Johnson (1900-1976), professor of history who was born in Jackson, Ga.; lived in Clinton, Miss.; and taught history in North Carolina and Mississippi. Personal and professional papers of Cecil S. Johnson and his wife, Lucia Porcher Johnson. Letters, 1924-1967, to Cecil S. Johnson are from professors and professional acquaintances, including Charles M. Andrews, W. W. Pierson, and R. D. W. Connor. Letters, circa 1920-1930, to Lucia Porcher Johnson are from her parents in Charleston, S.C. Included are papers pertaining to property in Chapel Hill, N.C., and photographs of John Lipscomb Johnson, John L. Moody, and Cecil S. Johnson. Volumes include household account books, 1932-1965, scrapbooks, and personal diaries, circa 1923-1925.
Clyde Johnson was a union organizer, carpenter, and writer. The collection documents his involvement with various unions, most affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and his research into several industries that have an impact on organized labor, especially housing, construction, timber, and logging. Of note are materials related to organizing campaigns and strikes conducted by Johnson for the Sharecroppers' Union (SCU) in Alabama and Louisiana, 1935-1937; the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) in Colorado and Texas, 1937-1941; the Oil Workers' International Union in Texas, especially in Baytown, 1941-1943; United Electrical Local 610, 1947; University of California at Berkeley, 1967-1968; and Johnson's term as the business agent for United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 550, Oakland, Calif., 1961-1966. There are also personal letters to Johnson and his wife Anne Agron Johnson.
Mid-twentieth-century sermons and addresses delivered in North Carolina Lutheran churches and other venues, including radio, comprise the majority of white minister David Frontis Johnson's papers. Other collection materials include Johnson's curriculum vita, obituaries, writings, clippings, a card index of biblical passages for use in sermons, slight correspondence, and a small number of printed items pertaining to the Lutheran Church or specific churches where Johnson served in Kannapolis, N.C., and Kure Beach, N.C. Among the writings is an essay written in the mid 1950s and titled "Judgement Begins" in which Johnson discusses race relations between African Americans and whites in the American South and describes a lifetime of conditioning from white privilege and supremacy.
Fanny Johnson was an English poet and playwright, late 19th-early 20th centuries.
Papers of F. Johnson, Stewart's Creek township, Surry County, N.C., consisting of Kimbro Thompson's letter of transfer, 1848, from Mt. Airy Baptist Church, signed by Johnson as clerk, and two warrants for slaves sentenced to be whipped for stealing, 1862, sentence executed and recorded by Johnson as constable.
The collection of white photographer and studio owner, Francis Lavergne Johnson (1901-1971), contains black-and-white photographic prints, black-and-white negatives including sheet film, and color photographic prints. The images depict mid-twentieth-century residents of Chapel Hill, N.C., and individuals affiliated with the University of North Carolina. Individuals include William B. Aycock; Katherine Kennedy Carmichael; William D. Carmichael Jr.; Albert McKinnley Coats; Robert A. Fetzer; William C. Friday; Roland Giduz; Gordon Gray; Paul Elliot Green; Robert B. House; Charlie Justice; Josephina Niggli; Jerrold Orne; Paul F. Sharp; J. Carlyle Sitterson; and Louis Round Wilson. A few images show Chapel Hill High School and the Chapel Hill Post Office.
Farm journal, 1853-1866, kept by George Wesley Johnson, a white merchant, postmaster, farmer, landowner, and enslaver in Davie County, North Carolina. The journal primarily documents daily farm operations, including what he planted, the methods he used, and the crops he yielded, as well as observations he made about the weather. Johnson also described his family life, business relationships, and his community. Other topics include the purchase of an enslaved person in 1857; the recovery of a lost enslaved boy who had nearly frozen to death; the start of the Civil War and the impact of inflation and other wartime conditions; building a house; and travel to Philadelphia, Pa.
The collection of white folklorist Geraldine Niva Johnson contains photographic materials and research files related to her field work conducted chiefly in Maryland during the 1970s and early 1980s for her dissertation and book, Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women’s Craft in Western Maryland.
Guion Griffis Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a professor, author, scholar, journalist, women's advocate, and general civic leader. Johnson held a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina. She published three books: A Social History of the Sea Islands (1930), Antebellum North Carolina (1937), and Volunteers in Community Service (1967). Her husband was Guy Johnson, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1920s and 1930s, Johnson and her husband worked together at the Institute for Research in Social Science at University of North Carolina. Correspondence, writings, subject files, and other materials relating to Johnson's professional and family life. Topics of primary interest include civil rights, race relations, volunteerism, women's equality, education, school desegregation, poverty, international cooperation, and general public welfare, including population policy, youth, and aging. The bulk of the materials relate to Johnson's work with numerous women's, church, fraternal, and public service organizations at both the local and national levels. Among Johnson's many organizational affiliations were the American Association of University Women, Chi Omega Fraternity for Women, the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, the North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations, the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the North Carolina Council for World Affairs, the Methodist Church, and United Church Women (Church Women United). There is also a large collection of Johnson's writings, including material from her books and copies of speeches from her many speaking engagements. Also included are a small number of items relating to her student and teaching careers at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere; family correspondence; and a few family documents, including photographs and genealogical materials relating to the Johnson and the Griffis families, chiefly relating to North Carolina and Texas.
The papers of white social science researcher and member of the University of North Carolina faculty, Guy Benton Johnson (1901-1991), contains correspondence, research project files, subject files, writings, speeches, pedagogical materials, organizational files, printed items, photographs of family and colleagues, and images and sound recordings related to his field research. Johnson corresponded professionally with sociologists, historians, intellectuals, civil rights advocates, civic leaders, labor leaders, and writers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, H.L. Menken, H.L. Mitchell, Gunnar Myrdal, Howard Washington Odum, Arthur Franklin Raper, C.C. Spaulding, Carl Van Vechten, and Marion A. Wright. Project files document Johnson’s sociological research on the Ku Klux Klan, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, musical abilities of African Americans, African American folk songs and folklore, legend of John Henry, desegregation in higher education, and Gullah Geechee people, culture, and language on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina. Also included are research files related to Johnson’s work on Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 study of race relations in the United States, An American Dilemma. Subject files cover various topics including West Africa, Chapel Hill (N.C.) Riot in 1937; racism (segregation, anti-integration, eugenics), and Black Power. Organizational files document Johnson’s affiliations with the Southern Regional Council, North Carolina Council on Human Relations, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Howard University Board of Trustees, Institute for Research in Social Sciences, Southern Sociological Society, and other professional associations. Sound recordings on disc, tape, wax cylinder, and wire are chiefly of music and folk tales related to field work he conducted on Saint Helena Island, S.C.
Letters, 14 July 1865 and 9 September 1865, from Johnson, a federal soldier from Maine serving with U.S. Army forces occupying South Carolina, to a friend, recounting activities of the occupying forces around Charleston, S.C., and describing disordered conditions in the area.
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (1894-1966) was a United States foreign service officer whose career, 1921-1953, included posts in Europe, Latin America, and with the United Nations.
John A. Johnson was a Confederate soldier who served in Company C, 19th Georgia Infantry Regiment with his brothers William H. Johnson and Richard A. Johnson. The collection includes typed transcriptions of letters home from John A., William H., and Richard A. Johnson while serving in the Confederate army in Virginia, telling of hardships and morale of the soldiers.
John Monroe Johnson was born in Marion, S.C., in 1878 and attended the University of South Carolina and Furman University. He served in the Spanish-American War and was the chief engineer of the Rainbow (42nd) Division during World War I. In 1940, Johnson was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission, a position he held until 1956. During World War II, he served as director of the Office of Defense Transportation and was awarded the Medal of Merit for his service by President Truman in 1946. Johnson died in Marion, S.C., in 1964.
The collection of white Baptist minister and educator, John Lipscomb Johnson (1835-1915), contains correspondence and other papers of John Lipscomb Johnson, including correspondence of his son John Lipscomb Johnson, Jr., (1869-1932) and the latter's children, Cecil Johnson (b. 1900) and Rachel Johnson (b. 1903). Many letters discuss family matters, social events, and daily activities in Mississippi and Tennessee. Correspondence and other items document Johnson's service at the University of Mississippi and Mary Sharpe College; his compilation of biographies of University of Virginia graduates killed in the Civil War; involvements of members of the Johnson family with Southern Baptist churches; social and academic activities of students at Mississippi Woman's College, 1910s-1930s; Cecil Johnson's career teaching history, primarily at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; Rachel Johnson's career with the Associated Press in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1930s and with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in Italy and North Africa in 1943 and 1945; and other, largely family, matters.
The collection is a mid-nineteenth-century account book for shoemaker and cobbler John R. Johnson of Warrenton, N.C.
Audio recording of Dick Tillett, a white singer of Wanchese, Dare County, N.C., singing five ballads and songs. Linc Johnson recorded Dick Tillett on 15 February 1981. Little is known about Linc Johnson and their connection to the recording. The collection also contains a North Carolina Folk Music Archives cover sheet prepared by former library staff, which includes minimal information on the recording, such as collector and informant names, song titles, and technical data on the recording.
Robert L. Johnson (Robert L. Johnson Jr.) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1952. In 1954, he was ordained in the United Methodist Church. The following year, Johnson received a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological School in New York City, N.Y. He also received a master of theology degree from the Harvard Divinity School in 1968. In 1957, Johnson was hired as the director of the Wesley Foundation in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he served for 18 years.
Ruth Johnson, whose family lived in Cardenas and other communities in southern Wake County, N.C., attended Elon College, 1910- 1916; taught school in Cardenas; attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago in 1923; was a church worker at the Riverdale Christian Church (Congregational-Christian) in Dayton, Ohio, 1926-1928; and operated the State Book Store in Raleigh in the 1940s and 1950s.
Sarah A. Johnson was the daughter of Lucius Johnson, major in the Conferderate army.
W. Johnson of 73 Hudson St., New York City, was a dry goods merchant.
The collection includes business and family letters, chiefly 1783-1849, of the family of William Johnson, a Franklin County, N.C., planter, including correspondence concerning such matters as the Philanthropic Society at the University of North Carolina, 1812, the hiring out of slaves, conditions in Alabama in 1838, and life on the home front during the Civil War; financial and legal papers, chiefly 1840-1854, of John H. Hawkins and various members of the Johnson family; and an undated manuscript by Simon Blank of the 6th New York Cavalry Regiment, Anecdotes of a Soldier who Fought in the War of Rebellion under Generals Grant and Sheridan. Correspondents include William Johnson's brother, George W. Johnson, merchant of Milton, N.C.; sisters Elizabeth (Betsy), Sally Adams, Rebecca (d. 1838), and Emily C. C. Johnson; and Robert A. Jones.
Members of the Johnston and McFaddin families lived in Alabama. Most items refer to Thomas M. Johnson, cotton planter of Greensboro, Ala., with land in Greene, Hale, and Marengo counties, Ala., and Noxubee, Winston, and Kemper counties, Miss. In 1860, Johnston became administrator of the Marengo County plantation of his son-in-law, Robert H. McFaddin, and guardian of the children of Robert and Mary A. McFaddin.
The Hayes Collection documents three generations of the white Johnston family and two generations of the white Wood family who owned and managed Hayes in Chowan County, Caledonia in Halifax County, and Poplar Plains, Body, and Salem in Pasquotank County, as well as the people who were enslaved by these families and supplied the labor, knowledge, and skill at their plantations. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, financial materials (bills of sale for enslaved people and other receipts, contracts for the hiring out of enslaved people, lists of enslaved people, account books, bonds), legal materials (wills, agreements, indentures, deeds of property and land, petitions, judgments, and suits), and photographs. Topics include politics, particularly of the colonial era, the American Revolution, and the early United States; the development and management of several plantations, as well as several fisheries, of which Greenfield in Chowan County was most prominent; the enslaved labor system, including the trafficking of enslaved people through purchase and hiring out of their labor, and enslaved people working as foremen and overseers; self-emancipation by running away, work slow-downs, and other acts of resistance by enslaved people; merchants and mercantilism; banking and finance; trade and shipping; the homefront during the Civil War; the fishing industry during the Civil War; Reconstruction and the transition to a tenant labor and sharecropping system; contemporary family life and social customs; men's education, including higher education at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina; women's education; health, mental illness, and medical treatments of white and enslaved people; travel; the economy; and the law, particularly estate administration. Pictures include photographs of portraits of Johnston and Wood family members and others, and images of the Hayes plantation house.
The Johnston/Johnstone family included Lancelot Johnston of Caswell County, N.C.; William Johnston of Madison, Ga.; and Golbert Johnstone (1725-1794) of South Carolina.
Oral histories of local gardeners conducted by staff and students at Johnston Community College in Smithfield, North Carolina. The collection includes interview transcripts, recordings, and photographs of gardens. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Barlett Shipp Johnston (born 1845) of Baltimore, Md., was a Confederate navy midshipman. The collection includes personal letters received by Johnston chiefly concerning Confederate veterans' activities and Civil War reminiscences; and recollections written in 1908 (6 pages), by his brother, Brigadier General Robert Daniel Johnston (1837-1919) of North Carolina, concerning cavalry fighting in Virginia in the latter part of the Civil War; and newspaper clippings, chiefly concerning the Civil War and members of the Johnston family.
Farmer and railroad entrepreneur of Orange County, N.C.
(William) Denis Johnston (18 June 1901-8 August 1984) was an Irish writer. Born in Dublin, he wrote mostly plays, but also produced literary criticism and other works.
The collection of white photojournalist and artist, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), consists of black-and-white photographic prints relating to historic structures of architectural interest throughout North Carolina. Images were taken from 1935 to 1938.
Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752) was the second royal governor of North Carolina.
Papers relating to the Civil War activities of U.S. Army Capt. George H. Johnston. The majority of the material dates from January-July 1863 and deals with the occupation forces centered at New Bern, N.C., and St. Helena Island, S.C.; the relief expedition by Union forces to Washington, N.C.; and the planned, but aborted, expedition against Charleston, S.C., in the spring of 1863. Included are personal letters between Johnston and his wife Amanda in which he discussed black soldiers and the command attitude toward their use; official letters to and from Brigadier Gen. Henry M. Naglee; other correspondence; bound volumes of general orders, special orders, and correspondence initiated by Naglee, which includes a letter book documenting Naglee's position during a command dispute with Major Gen. J. G. Foster and Major Gen. David Hunter; and newspaper articles, most of which are about George H. Johnston or Henry M. Naglee.
George Johnston (known as Max) was a private in the United States military who traveled with a military band during World War II. Johnston married Evelyn Carde Smith in 1943.
Live audio recordings of Hugh Buckner Johnston, a white professor, historian, genealogist, and singer from Wilson, N.C., performing songs and telling stories he learned as a boy from his father and grandfather who both lived in Edgecombe County, N.C. Included are hunting songs and legends about the supernatural, including "Beetsy Long-Tooth", "The Three Jolly Huntsman", "The Miller's Wife", and "Josiah and Kerchuga". Recorded in January, February, and March 1971. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a field collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff, as well as lyrics sheets prepared by Hugh Buckner Johnston.
James A. Johnston was a resident of Iredell County, N.C.
Microfilm of reminiscences (17 pages) of John Johnston of Madison County, Tenn.; a diary, 1862, of Johnston's sister, Sarah Johnston Estes; and a few other items. Johnston wrote the reminiscences in 1900 and the transcription was prepared about 1930. He wrote about growing up in Madison County and about his military experiences in the 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. A transcription of Johnston's diary, February-May 1865 is included. Sarah Estes's diary (36 pages) describes community life in Madison County, Tenn., and in Amite, La., and a trip from Tennessee to New Orleans, La.
Rufus Z. Johnston (1874-1959) was a United States naval officer. The collection includes official correspondence, papers, orders, clippings, and personal letters of Johnston while he served on the U.S.S. Oregon and U.S.S. Philadelphia; made a cruise around South America; participated in the battle of Santiago de Cuba in the Philippines during the insurrection; and served in the Navy in the Boxer Rebellion and in World War I. Included are a letter book, 1895-1927; records and orders; a narrative by Frederick C. Hicks of a South American voyage, 1924-1925, which included a diplomatic visit to Peru; and correspondence between Congressman Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (1883-1950) and Johnston's sister about her accepting a foreign decoration for her brother.
T. D. (Thomas Dillard) Johnston (1840-1902) was a lawyer and businessman of Asheville, N.C. Johnston held various political offices, including mayor of Asheville, 1868; state representative, 1870-1874; state senator, 1876; and United States representative, 1885-1889.
Thomas W. Johnston of Orange County, N.C., was a member of the University of North Carolina class of 1857, and earned his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
William Hall Johnston was the son of Dorcas Hall Knox and Robert Johnston of Mount Vernon, Rowan County, N.C.
William A. Johnston was captain of the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Miscellaneous papers of Joiner, editor and publisher of the Talladega (Ala.) Democratic Watchtower. Joiner was also an active Baptist and Grand High Priest of the Alabama Masonic Grand Lodge. Personal and business papers include bills and receipts of a publishing company; slave purchase records; a list, 1860, of contributors to the Democratic Party in Talladega County, Ala.; Civil War records of the Talladega Home Salt Company; a letter, 24 November 1864, about William T. Sherman's movements in Georgia; material on Masons, including a manuscript of rituals; materials on the Baptist Church in Talladega; and personal correspondence.
The Joines Family Collection consists of live audio recordings featuring John E. Frail Joines (1914- ), an Anglo-American traditional storyteller from Moravian Falls, Wilkes County, N.C. Joines' son, Jerry Dale Joines, and daughter, Joyce Joines Newman, compiled these oral history recordings, 1971-1979, which feature their father sharing tall tales, stories from World War II, hunting tales, religious narratives, local anecdotes, ballads, and songs. Jim Jennings (1928- ), an Anglo-American storyteller who has learned from Joines, is included in a few of the recordings performing tales he learned from Joines. John E. Joines was featured in the 1981 documentary film, Being A Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains, by Tom Davenport, Allen Tullos, Joyce Joines Newman, and Daniel Patterson.
Charles Andrew Jonas of Lincoln County, N.C., attorney, state senator and representative, U.S. congressman, and Republican Party official.
Charles Raper Jonas of Lincolnton, N.C., was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing North Carolina's tenth district, 1953-1962, its eighth district, 1963-1968, and its ninth district, 1969-1972.
The Jones family of Oak Grove near Bethania, Stokes County (now Forsyth County), N.C., included Beverly Jones, a physician and planter; his wife Julia Amelia Conrad Jones; and their ten children: Abraham G. (Abram), James B. (1846-1911), Alexander C., Robert H., Erastus B., Virginia, Ella, Julia, Kate, and Lucien.
Patterson family members were merchants, manufacturers, and public officials. Family members included General Edmund Jones (1771-1844) of Wilkes and Caldwell counties, N.C.; Samuel Finley Patterson (1799-1874) of Salem, N.C., banker, merchant, railroad president, state official, and son-in-law of Jones; Rufus Lenoir Patterson (1830-1879), merchant manufacturer, state official, and son of S. F. Patterson; Samuel Legerwood Patterson (1850-1918), another son of S. F. Patterson, farmer and North Carolina commissioner of agriculture; and Lindsay Patterson (b. 1858), lawyer and son of R. L. Patterson, and of his wife Lucy (Patterson) Patterson, clubwoman, writer, lecturer, and Republican National Committeewoman for North Carolina.
Allen Jones (born 1887) and his wife, Helen Iredell (Williams) Jones, were both from prominent North and South Carolina families.
Albert H. Jones was a Union soldier in the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry (Hawkins Zouaves) during the Civil War. Letters, 1861-1862, from Jones to his Aunt M. R. (Mattie) Jones, describe conditions and events in the war, including time stationed near Fredericksburg, Newport News, Forts Hatteras and Clark, and the Battle of Roanoke Island. Accompanying transcriptions were created by the family.
Alice Eley Jones is a writer and historian specializing in North Carolina and African American history. She taught history at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., 1987-1992. In 1992, she began a history consulting business called Historically Speaking and, in 2002, began a publishing company, Minnie Troy Publishers. In 2002, Jones wrote a book called Hertford County, North Carolina for Arcadia Publishing's Black America Series. The book is about the history of Hertford County, its Native American Meherrin tribe roots and African American heritage. The collection includes materials collected by Alice Eley Jones for Hertford County, North Carolina. They chiefly concern Ahoskie, Winton, and Murfreesboro, N.C. Articles, souvenir church programs, and other materials provide information on prominent Hertford County African Americans, including Calvin S. Brown, Dr. Dudley E. Flood, Howard Hunter, Jr., the Reverend George T. Rouson, artist Wilbur Homer Rouson, and members of the Jones family.
Allen Jones was brigadier general of the North Carolina Militia.
Allen Jones lived in Hendersonville, N.C.
Anne Catherine Boykin Jones was the wife of J. R. Jones of Columbus, Ga.
Bartlett Jones was a physician in Lancaster, S.C.
Cadwallader Jones (born 1843) was a Confederate captain who served with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The collection contains correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, pictures, and other materials of white physician and plantation owner Calvin Jones (1775-1846) of Bolivar, Tenn., and other Jones family members. Correspondence includes letters relating to land sales, medicine, and military business around the War of 1812. The establishment of the University of North Carolina is discussed in 1801 letters. Correspondents include N.C. governor Benjamin Williams; Joseph Caldwell, president of UNC; Davy Crockett; Benjamin Rush; and James Madison. There is also a one-page address, 1798, by John Adams; Jones's travel diaries from trips to Washington, D.C., 1815; the old southwest, 1818; and Europe, 1844; and a farm journal in which he described agricultural experiments. Papers, 1847-1879, chiefly relate to Montezuma Jones and include financial documents about the Tennessee cotton trade, particularly land sales and dealings with cotton factors. Also included are letters, 1841-1843, from Montezuma Jones, as a student at UNC; a diary, 1869-1871, of teenager Frances Irene Jones; letters and political papers of Calvin Jones's daughter, Octavia Rowena Jones, and her husband, politician Edwin Polk; and correspondence and other items of Calvin Jones's wife, Temperance B. Jones. After 1880, there are scattered family letters and some business and professional letters to James W. Jones. Several items document slavery in Tennessee, including a few relating to runaway slaves. There is little Civil War material. Later additions to the collection include family history information and transcriptions of letters and other documents.
MICROFILM ONLY. Catesby Ap Roger Jones, scion of a prominent Virginia family, served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1836 to 1861, then accepted a commission in the Confederate Navy until 1865. He was commanding officer of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimac) and afterward served as an ordnance officer at Columbus, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., and Selma, Ala., where he married Gertrude T. Tartt and settled after the war. Although commencing on 18 December 1843, Jones's narrative begins retrospectively with his introduction to the Navy in June 1836. Jones made frequent use of ship's logs and recorded information regarding destinations, dates, distances, time travelled, days in port, weather, including a particularly fine description of a gale in which he believed his ship was sinking, and the names of his fellow officers. Jones's oral examination for commissioned grade and his activities at sea and during lengthy furloughs with his family in Virginia are also described in the journal.
Charles Miles Jones, Christian minister and social justice activist, spent the majority of his ecclesiastical career in Chapel Hill, N.C., at the head of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church and then as the first minister of the Community Church.
Edmund Walter Jones (1811-1876) was a planter at Clover Hill in Happy Valley in Caldwell County, N.C. Early items in the collection are chiefly business and surveying papers of Edmund Walter Jones's father-in-law, William Davenport. The bulk of the papers is business and family correspondence of Jones, including letters from Lenoir, Jones, Patterson, and Avery relatives commenting on personal and public affairs; papers related to E. W. Jones's speculation in military bounty lands in the Midwest; wartime letters from his sons, William Davenport (b. 1839), John Thomas (1842-1864) and Walter L. (d. 1863), both of whom served in the 26th North Carolina Regiment, and Edmund (1848-1920), written from various locations in North Carolina and Virginia; and a few letters from sons John Thomas and Edmund while students at the University of North Carolina. The postwar papers pertain to Edmund (1848-1920), planter in Happy Valley, lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and state legislator. Volumes include land, surveying, and financial records of William Davenport, including a field survey book (typed transcript only), 1821, of the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee; a memorandum book kept by Edmund Jones (1771-1844), father of Edmund Walter Jones, on a trip to Alabama in 1816; miscellaneous accounts and memoranda of E. W. Jones, including accounts of the building of Clover Hill; and a clothing records for Company I, 26th North Carolina Regiment.
Edward Jones, son of William Green Jones and Mary Christmas Johnston Jones, was born circa 1833 in Warren County, N.C. Jones enlisted as a private in Company F, 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, on 18 April 1861. He died 16 August 1862.
George Washington Jones, a native of Tennessee, was Democratic state representative, 1835-1839, and state senator, 1839-1841; clerk of the Lincoln County Court, 1840-1843; United States representative, 1843-1859; Confederate congressman, 1862-1864; and member of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870.
Hamilton Chamberlain Jones (1884-1957) was a lawyer from Charlotte, N.C., who represented North Carolina's Tenth Congressional District (Mitchell, Avery, Burke, Catawba, Lincoln, and Mecklenburg counties) in the United States House of Representatives, 1947-1953.
Born in 1841, Henry Francis Jones of Thomasville, Ga., was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1860. He was a lieutenant with the Confederate States of America and was killed in service.
J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones (1810-1866) was an editor, author, and Confederate War Department clerk.
James K. (Kimbrough) Jones (1839-1908) was a United States Senator from Arkansas, 1885-1903; and Washington, D.C., attorney for oil developers in Oklahoma. James Kimbrough Jones Junior (1867-1922) was a partner in his father's law practice. The collection includes legal, political, and business correspondence (including 21 letterpress copybooks) of James K. Jones; and of his son, James Kimbrough Jones Junior, lawyer for oil pipeline companies. The collection covers only the last years of the elder Jones's political career but includes letters from prominent national and Arkansas Democrats. The bulk of the papers concerns the oil industry in Oklahoma and other states. The Joneses represented developers seeking to lease government and Indian lands and appeared before Congress, executive agencies, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and federal courts for oil pipeline firms, most of which were connected with the Standard Oil Company. Also included are papers relating to other business interests: oil in Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, and Texas; Nevada gold mines; railroads in Arkansas and other western states; real estate in Arkansas, Texas, and South Dakota; oil and mining in Mexico; and Civil War claims of Arkansas citizens against the federal government. Correspondence includes letters from many prominent early oil entrepreneurs and gives a picture of society in Oklahoma in the early 20th century.
Joseph Seawell Jones (1811?-1855) was a historian of North Carolina. The collection includes a letter to Jones from an executor of Hugh Williamson (1735-1819), member of Congress and of the Constitutional Convention and historian of North Carolina, describing the disposition of Williamson's papers; and five letters from William A. Graham (1804-1875) to Jones concerning political issues, social events, and Jones's work on a history of North Carolina.
John Richter Jones (1803-1863) was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1821 and joined the Pennsylvania Bar in 1827. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1836, retiring from practice when his term of office ended in 1847. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Jones was appointed colonel in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He participated in the capture of Norfolk, Va., in May 1862. In January 1863, he was transferred to the Department of North Carolina under Major General John G. Foster, where he operated in the Batchelor's Creek Station area near New Bern, N.C., until he was shot dead by a Confederate sniper on 23 May 1863. The papers are primarily letters Jones wrote to his wife and daughter before and during the Civil War. The letters discuss various aspects of civilian life in Pennsylvania, as well as some details of the military activities in which Jones was engaged. Events referred to include the first confrontation between the Merrimac and the Monitor; Magruder's burning of Hampton, Va.; the occupation of Norfolk, Va.; and Union operations on the James River peninsula. The collection also contains handwritten military communications between Jones and Major General John G. Foster; a hand-drawn map of the Core Creek area in Carteret County, N.C.; a printed announcement of Jones's death; a handwritten report of a court martial proceeding against an officer from Jones's regiment; a handwritten tribute to Jones from the Pennsylvania State Bar; and newspaper clippings relating to Jones's death.
Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Jones of Chapel Hill, N.C., writer, journalist, associate editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, and husband, 1943-1951, of author Betty Smith (1896-1972). Letters relate to his service in the U.S. Army, 1944-1945, to his work as a writer and journalist, and to his personal life. Included is a five-page autobiographical sketch of his boyhood in Berryville, Va. Also included are miscellaneous rough drafts and other versions of various short stories. Letters to Jones from Betty Smith are in the Betty Smith Papers.
Kate Harben Jones (born 1866), native of Georgia, was a poet, teacher of music, and one of the founders of the Academy of American Poets. The collection includes about 45 manuscript poems, published and unpublished, with notes by the author, Kate Harben Jones, and slight correspondence relating to the poems.
Kenneth Rayner Jones was born in Jones County, N.C., in February 1842. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1859 to 1861, and joined the Confederate Army while a student. Jones was a captain of the 27th North Carolina Regiment, Cooke's Brigade.
Leonidas Campbell Jones of Jonesboro, N.C., was superintendent of the Western Railroad in Fayetteville, N.C., and ultimately superintendent of the North Carolina Central Railroad headquartered in Wilmington, N.C.
M. H. Jones was a lumber merchant of New Bern, N.C. His wife Eula's father J. J. Bagwell owned a tobacco farm in Garner, Wake County, N.C. Children of M. H. and Eula included Dorothy and Whitmel; Eula's sister Flossie married Needham L. Broughton.
The collection consists of miscellaneous papers of the Hathaway and Jones families of Edenton, N.C., including 17th- and 18th-century legal papers and bills, and a merchandise ledger, 1838-1839. There are also photocopies from microfilm of Jones and Reed family Bible records from Edenton and from Chowan and Bertie counties, N.C.
Paul Jones, a white poet and information technologist, was born in Hickory, N.C., on 5 February 1950. He received his M.F.A in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1993. Since high school, Jones has followed a dual career path in computers and poetry. From 1977 to 1996, Jones worked for the Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1992, he was instrumental in creating SunSITE, a major Internet server and digital library. One of Jones's special interests has been establishing the Internet Poetry Archive. In 1996, Jones moved to the University of Virginia. Jones was director of the Poets Exchange at the ArtSchool in Carrboro, N.C.; on the founding board for the North Carolina Writers' Network; and, in 1990, Jones won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook competition award from the North Carolina Writers' Network for his chapbook What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common. The collection contains correspondence and related materials, ca. 1980-1994, including letters to and from poets and other literary figures. Some of the letters include copies of correspondents' writings. Writings by Jones are chiefly poems, including several drafts of What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common. Also included are a few essays, some written for graduate school classes at Warren Wilson College. There are also letters and writings of others who were Jones's classmates at Warren Wilson. ArtSchool materials relate to Jones's position as director of the Poetry Exchange. These include newspaper articles, publicity posters, and correspondence from poets who participated in ArtSchool readings over the course of Jones's tenure and audio tapes of poetry readings. North Carolina Writers' Network materials deal with the founding of the Network and Jones's tenure as president. SunSITE materials include items relating to the introduction of SunSITE and to the Internet Poetry Archive. Also included are poems by members of a poetry group and materials relating to writers' conferences Jones attended. The addition of 2020 consists of digital facsimiles and transcriptions of published fiction by white British author Charles Dickens; digital copies of NASA educational programs, White House Photo Office images, and miscellaneous audio and other content.
Memoirs of the Reconstruction era in the area around Port Hudson, Clinton, and Jackson, La., with particular attention to efforts to re- establish white supremacy.
Richard M. Jones was Clerk of Court at Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.
Robert A. Jones (Active 1817-1829) was a white owner and manager of cotton plantations and an enslaver in Halifax, Bertie, and Wake Counties, N.C. His account book, 1817-1829, documents his personal, business, and plantation accounts, especially at Occaneeche, the Grove, Indian Woods, and New Hope plantations. Enslaved people and free people of color are documented throughout the account book as tradespeople receiving payments or gifts, and as people claimed as property in account records and inventories. Indigenous people are mentioned at least once as recipients of gifts. The volume also includes records of Jones's account management for his ward, Willie W. Jones, of Bertie County; for the estates of Mary Montfort Jones and James Johnston of Halifax; and for the Wardens of the Poor for Halifax County, for which Jones served as treasurer.
Simmons Jones was born in Charlotte, N.C., in 1920, the son of Morehead Jones and Cornelia Dowd Jones. He served in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and afterward attended the University of North Carolina and Pembroke College at Oxford University. He later lived in New York City, working in the production end of the Broadway Theater and as a fashion photographer. He returned to Charlotte in 1974 where he completed his novel, Show Me the Way to Go Home, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1992. He died in May 2006.
T. L. Jones lived with his wife and family on Pear Point Farm in southern Albemarle County, Va., where he grew wheat, oats, corn, fodder, apples, and tobacco, and raised hogs and sheep. The Joneses had at least six children, among them Huckstress, Knox, George, William, Biddie, and Millie (d. 1863). Huckstress and Knox served briefly in the Confederate Army in late 1864 and early 1865.
Thomas Williamson Jones was raised in Brunswick County, Va., graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1810, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine in Brunswick County.
One letter, 12 December 1849, from Charles Huyett of Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), to his father Abraham Huyett, concerning family news and finances and mentioning Thomas Jones; and one letter, 28 August 1857, from Jones's uncle, Jacob Williamson, in Salene County, Mo., to Jones and others concerning western lands and conditions.
William Cole Jones was a journalist with the Atlanta Journal for 45 years. He began his career as a reporter in April 1906. By 1910, his editorials were published regularly, covering topics ranging from social and cultural issues to local, national, and world politics and events. He had risen to chief editorial writer by 1927, and he was appointed associate editor of the Atlanta Journal in 1934. He retired in August 1951. Jones was a member of the Symposium, one of the oldest literary and social clubs in Atlanta. He married Edith Sewell on 10 January 1907, and they had one daughter, Emily, who died in an accident at age nine.
William Davis Jones II (1894-1977) was born in Belton, Mo. After World War I, he worked with various agricultural organizations, chiefly in North Carolina. He was a warehouse examiner for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1936-1950. In 1951, he became director of the Storage and Distribution Division, United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, from which he retired in 1961.
William Davis Jones III worked for The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., from 1949 to 1991, first as an advertising salesman and later as retail advertising manager, general manager, and associate publisher.
The collection is a War of 1812 officer's order book containing contemporary handwritten copies of military orders, chiefly concerning activities in what is now Alabama of units of Georgia militia in federal service. These copies were made for Lieutenant Colonel William Jones.
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) was president of Stanford University from 1891 to 1913.
Travis Tuck Jordan was the author of poems, essays, and articles, and head of the Federal Writers Project in Durham County, N.C.
Joy & Metcalf was a shipping and commission merchant firm of Baltimore, Md. Records include correspondence and other materials relating to the purchase and shipping of lumber and other goods from various southern ports, especially Wilmington, N.C., where Joy & Metcalf worked with Jas. H. Chadbourn & Company. Items show evidence of having been removed from a ledger or account book.
Correspondence and financial and legal papers, chiefly 1850-1865, documenting the daily lives and plantation and business interests of members of the Joyner family of Franklin County, N.C. Included are Civil War letters from soldiers serving in the 7th, 15th, 32nd, and 47th North Carolina regiments in eastern North Carolina and Virginia, referring to experiences in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862; the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the Wilderness Campaign; and the siege of Petersburg; and letters from a soldier in prison at Johnson's Island in Ohio. Also included are account books, deeds, wills, records of hiring and selling slaves, and other family business records, including records from the Civil War years, when Julia Joyner managed the plantation.
Correspondence, subject files, speeches, and photographs of William Thomas Joyner, attorney of Raleigh, N.C., covering family matters; Joyner's law practice, including his work as attorney for the Southern Railway Company; his interest in public education, military affairs, and politics in North Carolina and the nation; and his many civic activities. Included are letters, 1970, about school busing for desegregation from Jesse Helms (1921-2008), later U.S. senator; materials concerning an inspection of U.S. Army bases in the Far East, 1949; and a case involving the estate of Sarah Graham Kenan (1817-1871), 1964. The nineteenth- century materials are a few letters of Joyner family members.
John Judge was an owner of a paper mill, Wilmington, N.C.; an operator of a yarn and sock factory in Columbia, S.C.; and a commission merchant. Judge also had other business interests.
The collection contains a volume, about 25 pages, called Allied Families, Progenators, and Descendants of Reverend George Junkin, D.D., L.L.D., compiled by Junkin's great-grandson, George Junkin, in 1936. Records document family members beginning in 1790 and continuing into the 1930s. Reverend Junkin was based in Pennsylvania; family members were scattered chiefly around the United States, but also in other countries.
Alexander Justice was a lawyer of in New Bern, N.C.
John Justice was postmaster of Littleton, Halifax County, N.C.

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Field recordings and documentation related to a National Endowment for the Arts and North Carolina Arts Council-funded project on traditional arts and maritime trades of North Carolina's coastal region. Alison Joanne Kahn, a white independent writer, editor, and folklorist, conducted the fieldwork in Beaufort and Hyde counties in the summer of 1990. The majority of the field recordings consist of live recordings of church choirs in Beaufort and Hyde counties, including recordings made at African Methodist Episcopal, Mennonite, and Baptist churches. Other recordings include interviews with self-taught artists, storytellers, composers, and performers of folk, old-time, and blues music. Documentation consists mostly of grant project materials created and compiled by Kahn, including tape logs, time logs, reports, and release forms, as well as clippings, maps, flyers, programs, and ephemera related to North Carolina's coastal region and the grant project's interview subjects.
Ed Kahn (1938-2004), a Jewish scholar and folklorist, spent much of his life devoted to the study of American folk songs and early country music, conducting extensive field research and writing at length about both Merle Travis and the Carter Family. Kahn was was involved in the creation of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation (JEMF), along with Archie Green, D. K. Wilgus, Fred Hoeptner, and Eugene Earle. He was initially appointed Executive Secretary of the JEMF and was instrumental in starting the JEMF Quarterly newsletter.
Si Kahn (1944- ) is a white folk singer and songwriter, community and labor organizer, civil rights and social justice activist, and the founder and retired executive director of Grassroots Leadership. The collection contains songbooks and song sheets with original lyrics; organizational records; printed items and publications; name and subject files; newspaper clippings; t-shirts, pin back buttons, and posters; and audio and video recordings. Organizations represented in the collection include Grassroots Leadership, Citizen Action Inc., Jewish Fund for Justice, Youth Project, Forest Service, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, United Mine Workers of America, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and AFL-CIO. Materials reflect Kahn's musical career and his work and interests in student activism, unionism, community organizing, voting rights, health and safety of textile workers and coal miners, and environmental justice. Union materials document his work on the 1970s campaign to organize in J.P. Stevens textile plants across the South and the 1974 Brookside coal miners' strike in Harlan County, Ky. Audio and video recordings consist of interviews, musical performances, recorded folk music, lectures, and other events recorded or collected by Si Kahn, as well as demos, masters, work tapes, and live recordings of Si Kahn.
The collection contains photographic prints, a poster, and panels with text for an exhibit by artist Jesse Kalisher (1962-2017) of Chapel Hill, N.C. The 2009 exhibit at Kalisher's Chapel Hill gallery featured images of farmers in the North Carolina community of White Cross who opposed the construction of a proposed airport for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Text panels include quotations drawn from interviews with the farmers. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Nancy Kalow Collection consists of video and audio recordings documenting various aspects of North Carolina folklife. The videotapes, which were recorded by folklorist, Nancy Kalow, between 1986 and 1991, primarily document traditional musicians from North Carolina. Videotapes include recordings of traditional North Carolina fiddlers and banjo players that Kalow made in collaboration with folklorist and traditional music performer, Alice Gerrard, as well as interviews and demonstrations by traditional musician, Walter Raleigh Babson, which are moderated by traditional music collector, educator, and practitioner, Andy Cahan. Other videotapes in the collection include performances by African American string band musicians Joe and Odell Thompson; Piedmont blues musicians, George Higgs and James Bud Powell; traditional musician, John Rector; and storyteller, Steven Henegar. The collection also contains a videotape documenting the 1988 Uncle Eli's Quilting Bee in Alamance County, as well as audio recordings featuring a 1994 performance by the band, Los Tramperos.
The collection contains audio recordings of events at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., where bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs received an honorary doctorate degree on 13 September 1986. White folklorists Nancy Kalow and Anne Kimzey recorded events during "Earl Scruggs Day" on open reel tape. Events recorded include performances, panel discussions, a seminar on Scruggs, and a banquet honoring him that featured music by John Hartford, Ron Huskey, and Mark Howa. The collection also contains related documentation, including an Earl Scruggs Day program and tape logs created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff.
The Wayne Martin and Nancy Kalow Collection consists of video recordings and related paper materials, 1987, made by North Carolina folklorist, fiddler, and arts administrator, Wayne Martin, in collaboration with folklorist and videographer, Nancy Kalow. Martin and Kalow received a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council in 1987 to document traditional fiddlers from North Carolina. The grant, titled, Hand Down the Fiddle and Bow: Documentation of Traditional North Carolina Fiddling, allowed Martin and Kalow to preserve and identify traditional fiddle music through a statewide videotaping project. Martin acted as the project director, interviewer, and occasional backup accompaniment, while Kalow acted as the videographer and editor. The goal of the project was to capture the subject's stylistic techniques, including bowing, fingering, and positioning on the instrument, while also capturing oral histories regarding the subject's biography, family, and community traditions. The collection includes the edited videos that were created as part of the project, as well as the original grant application, tape logs, and related paper materials. Fiddlers documented on videotape by Martin and Kalow for the project include Jess Albertson of Beulaville, Duplin County, N.C.; Lonnie Austin (1905-) of North Carolina; Clennie Davis of Jacksonville, Onslow County, N.C.; Earnest East of Mt. Airy, Surry County, N.C.; Harvey Ellington of Berea, Granville County, N.C.; Benton Flippen of Mt. Airy, N.C.; Tommy Hunter (1919-1993) of Mars Hill, Madison County, N.C.; Ben King of Sneads Ferry, Onslow County, N.C.; Smith McInnis of Raeford, Hoke County, N.C.; Walt Propst of Buffalo Creek, N.C.; C.L. Scott of Morehead City, Carteret County, N.C.; Lauchlin Nordan (L.N.) Shaw (1912-2000) of Anderson Creek Township, Harnett County, N.C.; Homer Lee Pappy Sherrill of Sherrills Ford, Catawba County, N.C.; Melvin Slaydon of Zephyr, Surry County, N.C.; Luke Smathers of Canton, Haywood County, N.C.; Joe Thompson (1918-2012) and Odell Thompson (1911-1994) of Mebane, Alamance County, N.C.; Doug Wallin (1919-2000) of Madison County, N.C.; and Otho Willard of Williamston, Martin County, N.C.
The Alan Kanter Collection contains audio recordings of live performances and interviews from notable folk musicians. Compiled by the California based sound engineer, Alan Kanter, the recordings consist of episodes and segments of the radio program, FolkScene, live performances at McCabe's Guitar Shop, and other recordings collected by Kanter. Notable artists featured on the recordings include David Bromberg, Guy Carawan, Martin Carthy, Elizabeth Cotten, Kinky Friedman, Bert Jansch, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Mary McCaslin, Patsy Montana, Randy Newman, Tom Paxton, Utah Phillips, Suzzy and Maggie Roche, Linda Ronstadt, Mike Seeger, Sons of the Pioneers, Rosalie Sorrels, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes, Doc and Merle Watson, and George Winston, among others.
Folklorist Ann Kaplan was born in 1972 in Washington D.C. She earned an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. She has worked with the Southern Oral History Program, as an independent folklorist with diverse communities in North Carolina, and as director of the Orange County Arts Commission in Hillsborough, N.C. The Herring Run Folklife Project, funded by a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, documents farming and fishing in Bertie County, N.C., through oral history interviews with residents and photographic slides. Audiocassettes consist of oral history interviews conducted by Ann Kaplan with residents in Bertie County, N.C., in which interviewees describe their lives farming and fishing. The interviews are accompanied by a description of the Herring Run Folklife Project and abstracts of the interviews. Slides contain images of Bertie County, N.C., including farmland; roadsides; boardwalks; fishermen at work; fishing nets; bait shops; interior shots of workers pickling, canning, and packaging fish at the Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation; fish markets; cafes; exterior shots of the Indian Woods Baptist Church; and an Indian Woods congregation fish fry.
The Delta Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta was active at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1966 to 1992. Founded in 1870 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., Kappa Alpha Theta was the first women's fraternity founded with Greek letters.
Kappa Sigma Fraternity originated at the University of Bologna in Italy in 1400. The first chapter in the United States was founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. The Alpha Mu Chapter was established at the University of North Carolina in 1893. Its founding members were George Roscoe Little, Gerard Samuel Wittson, James Spenser Lewis, Thomas Pleasant Braswell, Jr., and Thomas Menan Hooker. The fraternity stressed fellowship, leadership, scholarship, and service.
The John Kasarda Papers, 1980s-2017, consist of reports, proposals, presentations, speeches, course materials, and correspondence in paper, digital, and audiovisual formats that document the research interests of the professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include global economic development initiatives, especially the aerotropolis city planning model in North America, South America, Southeast Asia, Russia, and other locations; business demographics, including the economic impact of African American and Hispanic populations on North Carolina; transportation and trade; and urban poverty.
Joy S. Kasson is a professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She chaired the Department of American Studies from 2001 to 2011. Her research focuses on the cultural history of art and literature.
The Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten in Savannah, Ga., was started in 1899 by George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927) and his sisters as a memorial to their mother. The project was continued by his children, George Hull Baldwin and Dorothea Irwin, and grew into a city-wide system of kindergartens and a training school for kindergarten teachers. The collection includes papers relating to the organization, administration, and financing of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten. Papers include minutes of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten Association and correspondence of George Hull Baldwin and other members of the Baldwin family with Hortense M. Orcutt (died 1936) and other officials of the association and supervisors of the kindergarten.
Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin (1897-1988) was YWCA national student secretary, southern region, 1920-1925; research director at the Council of Industrial Studies, Smith College, 1932-1939, and at the Institute of Labor Studies, Northampton, Mass., 1940-1953; professor of sociology at Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., 1957-1967; and an author.
The Law Library at the University of North Carolina was established around 1902. Since its founding, it has served the legal information needs of the students and faculty of the University's School of Law and of the state's legal community and citizens. The library has had a dedicated librarian/director since 1923 and has been administratively independent of the University Library system since 1955. In 1993, the Law Library was named for Kathrine R. Everett (LL.B. 1920), one of the first women to graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Everett died in 1992, leaving a portion of her estate to the school.
Clara Teplit Katz was born on 4 February 1916 in Memphis, Tenn. When she was six months old, Katz and her family moved to Lambert, Miss. The Teplits were one of a very small number of Jewish families in Lambert. Katz attended Delta State University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama, where she met her husband, Nat Katz. After marrying, they opened a store just outside of Lambert. The Katzs had one daughter, Mariette, who also attended the University of Alabama. Clara Teplit Katz died on 14 August 1998.
Joseph Franklin Kauffman was a soldier of the 10th Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Correspondence, diaries, and other documents Julia Irene Kauffman created and received primarily while serving as a nurse at an American Expeditionary Force hospital in France during World War I.
Rebun Kayo is a researcher at Hiroshima University, in Hiroshima, Japan, and has served as a volunteer worker for several natural disaster relief programs in Japan. On 20 August 2014, a massive rainstorm hit Hiroshima City, Japan, and triggered a series of landslides that hit residential areas and resulted in the death of 74 people. In fall of 2014, Kayo served as an assistant to Makoto Yokofujita, a visiting scholar of the Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Lutie Kealhofer (1841-1876) resided in Hagerstown, Md.
The collection of white United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agent, Jack (John) J. Kearins consists of black-and-white photographic prints relating to Kearins career as an ATF agent. The images depict John Kearins; illegal liquor stills in North Carolina and their destruction by ATF agents; and a copy of Yankee Revenooer, Kearins’ 1969 book.
The collection is an essay dealing with the Vernon neighborhood of Madison County, Miss., before, during, and after the Civil War.
The undated field recordings on open-reel audiotape made by Margaret Keenan contain summer camp songs and traditions. The recordings were likely made between the 1960s and 1970s. No other information about this recording, such as the locations where Keenan recorded, is available. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Keister family of Greensboro, N.C., included Dr. Albert S. Keister, an economics professor beginning at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, which later became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; his wife; and his six daughters, including Alice Virginia Keister, who received a Bachelor's degree in history from the Woman's College in 1948, and Dr. Mary Elizabeth Keister, who apparently worked as a teacher in India and was also involved in research in early childhood education.
Chiefly business letters to Frank Kell, sawmill owner in Northampton County, N.C. The letters chiefly concern equipment for Kell's mill and orders for milled wood.
Books, printed materials, ephemera, memorabilia, and audio recordings related to Clement Clarke Moore's Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" collected by white librarian William Porter Kellam (1905-1993) from the mid to late twentieth century. The collection contains numerous editions and printings of Moore's 1823 poem popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas" including those with illustrations by American artists Thomas Nast, Norman Rockwell, Arthur Rackham, and Grandma Moses; pastiches and parodies including Cajun Night Before Christmas (1974) and Judith Viorst's A Visit from St. Nicholas (To a Liberated Household) (1977); miniature and popular children’s editions; and printings in anthologies. Other printed materials and ephemera include Christmas cards, advertisements, coloring books, children's activity books, sheet music, articles about Moore and the poem, cartoons, posters, magazines, and newspapers. Memorabilia includes matchbooks, puzzles, a children's View-Master toy (stereoscopic viewer) and reels, panoramas, and a department store display. Audio recordings are commercial 12-inch LP records with recitations of the poem included. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
The collection of white folk singer and radio program host Shirley Keller (-2017) of New Jersey contains four audio cassette tapes of folk music, press and publicity materials about Keller and her performances, and a paper index for the radio shows of her program "The Folk People," broadcast on WFDU FM Radio during the 1980s and 1990s. The audio tapes include two Keller albums likely self produced and titled "Shirley, Your Favorites and Mine" from 1985 and "Romping" from 1986 with music by Keller and Diane Wolkstein. The other tapes are memorial tributes to folk singer Lillian Appel and titled "Lil Appel: 'Twas a Pleasure to Know You" and "Lil Appel: 'Twas a Pleasure to Hear Her." Other materials include a black-and-white publicity photograph of Keller from circa 1997. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Angus Kelly (fl. 1794-1836) was the owner of land tracts in Cumberland County and Harnett County, N.C.
Sergeant James H. Kelly, who may have been from New York, served in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1861 to 1866.
Genealogical correspondence and data pertaining to the Bane, Borden, Botts, Burk, Carper, Caviness, Clotworthy, Everitt, Gaines, Howell, Kelly, Kelsey, Lyon, Parsons, Peck, Price, Strother, Snidow, Taylor, Thornton, and Wood families of Virginia, Louisiana, and other states. Other families may be represented. Most correspondence is about genealogical research, but there is substantial original nineteenth century source material as well. Also included are two carte de viste albums of portraits of family and Confederate officeholders and generals.
Papers of John Kelly, his wife, Mary Holden Kelly, and members of their family, of St. Mary's District, Orange County, N.C., consisting of twelve legal papers; six letters, 1824 and 1879-1882, about family matters, from relatives who had moved to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama; bonds and wills; and several hundred receipts for household and farm purchases and other items.
Letter from Kelsall in Nassau, Bahamas, to his sister, Elizabeth L. Amelia Kelsall, at her plantation near Beaufort, S.C., offering to buy slaves from her and giving her financial advice.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, legal documents, sheet music, and recorded music documenting big band leader Hal Kemp of Marion, Ala., and his career as a musician and orchestra leader. Photographs depict Kemp, members of his family, celebrities, and Hal Kemp and His Orchestra. Also included are home movies (8mm, 16mm, and 35mm film) that include shots of Hal Kemp and his family, friends, and home.
Microfilm of letter, 9 January 1815, from James Kempe at Camp Jackson to a friend who published it in the Mississippi Republican. The letter gives news of the Battle of New Orleans.
Kenan family, chiefly of Duplin County, N.C., and Dallas County, Ala., and the related Graham family of Duplin County.
The Kenan Convocation was a gathering of Kenan-endowed professors held every two to three years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1996. It featureed speakers and discussion on a topic determined by its Planning Committee. It was sponsored by the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, which endows professorships at universities throughout the United States. The first Kenan Convocation was held in 1980; subsequent ones have been held in 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1993, and 1996.
Frank Hawkins Kenan (1912-1996), philanthropist, businessman, and civic leader of Durham, N.C. The collection documents Frank H. Kenan's family, social, political, and business networks; various businesses and investment interests; and his extensive civic leadership and philanthropic work with educational, religious, and other non-profit organizations and institutions. Personal correspondence documents relationships with family and friends, many of whom also were associates in business and philanthropy. Financial materials concern Kenan's interests in personal and commercial properties and other investments, often in partnership with W. Clay Hamner. Also included are some materials relating to the Kenan Oil Company, the Kenan Transport Company, and the Flagler System, Inc. Kenan's chief philanthropic work is evidenced in William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust materials, which document the administration of the many funds, programs, and institutions that it supports. These include Kenan professorships and convocations; the National Center for Family Literacy; the William R. Kenan, Jr., Fund; the William R. Kenan, Jr., Center; the Kenan-Flagler Business School; and the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. Many activities of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise are documented, including the Global TransPark, the Kenan Institute Asia, the MBA Enterprise Corps, the Urban Enterprise Corps, and the Durham Scholars Program. Kenan's civic leadership and philanthropic work are documented further in materials relating to the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation, the Kenan Family Foundation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Woodberry Forest School, the Duke Endowment, Durham Academy, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, and other non-profit organizations and institutions. Also included is material relating to some of the awards and honors that Kenan received in recognition for his philanthropy and business and civic leadership.
H. C. (Henry Christopher Binns) Kendrick (died 1863) was a Confederate soldier who served in the 9th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. The collection includes letters from H. C. Kendick to his parents, brothers, and sister while serving in the Civil War. Letters were written from camps at or near the following locations: Daleville, Va.; Winchester, Va.; Manassas, Va.; Centerville, Va.; Camp Sam Jones; Savannah, Ga.; Gordonsville, Va.; Fredericksburg, Va.; Richmond, Va.; and Suffolk, Va. Kendrick's letters contain little discussion of major battles. They give excellent views of camp life, food, sickness among the troops, rapid marches, and other aspects of military life, including troop morale, the importance of mail from home, hatred of Yankees, drills, the superiority of southern soldiers, patriotism, kindness of the local populace (particularly the ladies of Virginia), scenery, northern degeneracy, and homesickness. Some minor skirmishes are described. A final letter is from Kendrick's commanding officer to Kendrick's parents describing Kendrick's death at Gettysburg.
The Ken Kenkel Collection consists of interviews and recorded performances created and compiled by Kenneth (Ken) Russell Kenkel for his 1986 master's thesis in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes an interview with Bobby McMillon, Anglo-American singer and storyteller, of Lenoir, N.C., about his traditional music and storytelling; an interview with Virginia Sykes Perry, Anglo-American of Orange County, N.C., about the folk house (I-house) she grew up in; a recording of Lauchlin Shaw, Anglo-American old-time fiddler, of Harnett County, N.C., playing old-time fiddle with an accompanying string band for the radio broadcast-CCTV Folklife Radio Series; a recording of a live concert of Frank Proffitt, Jr., Anglo-American singer and musician, of Morganton, N.C., playing old- time music on the banjo and dulcimer and singing; and interviews with Proffitt about his musicianship. Copies of Kenkel's thesis, titled, Frank Proffitt, Jr., and Bobby McMillon: traditional artists in the public eye, reside at the Davis Library and within the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.
MICROFILM ONLY. Methodist chaplain and Confederate soldier. Typescript of Diary, 11 January 1863-17 May 1864, of F. M. Kennedy while serving with the 28th North Carolina Regiment in northern Virginia and at the Battle of Gettysburg. He recorded battles, marching, camp life, preaching, furloughs, chaplains' activities, visiting the sick, and his efforts on behalf of prisoners facing execution.
Frank Hunter Kennedy received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1913, served as principal of Lees-McRae Institute in Plumtree, N.C., 1914-1915, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1918. He practiced law in Charlotte, N.C., 1918-1970. Kennedy and his wife, Margaret (Rita) Letzer Kennedy, had three children: Margaret, Mary Hunter, and Philip.
The Mary Hunter Kennedy papers document the white members of the Houston, Young, Dalton, and Kennedy families of Iredell County, N.C., Maury County, Tenn., and Pettis County, Missouri, as well as people who were enslaved by these families and or hired by them as freedmen. Enslaved people are represented in bills of sale and work contracts that evidence human trafficking, and in the contested will of Christopher Houston (1737-1844), the anti-slavery patriarch who upon his death manumitted the people he enslaved. Freedmen are found in work contracts. There are also letters that describe white frontier women's perspective on overseeing the forced labor of enslaved people. Other correspondence, legal and financial papers, and pictures document the large family network as they spread out from Iredell County seeking more profitable lands to the south and west. The letters typically provide vivid pictures of frontier life in Tennessee and Missouri, including reports of weather, health, crops, religion, education, and, especially, the daily lives and work of women. Other topics include Presbyterian faith; property; postmastership in Iredell County, which was held by family members for nearly a century; the North Carolina tobacco trade from the 1840s through the 1880s; and writings by children. There are also American Civil War era letters written by soldiers, who told of military life, and civilians, who wrote about local conditions in various southern states. The extensive genealogical materials were chiefly collected by Mary Cecelia Houston Dalton (1814-1901) and her granddaughter Mary Hunter Kennedy. Volumes include school notebooks and account books relating to the tobacco industry and to general merchandising, as well as to estates and domestic expenses.
Audio recordings of folk music and traditions from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Africa, and the United States, originally released on audiocassette by Folktracks, a commercial record label founded by white English folklorist, Peter Kennedy (1922-2006). Audiocassette recordings consist mostly of field recordings of traditional music and ballads, storytelling, stringed instruments, and children's songs and games, as well as interviews. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of photocopies of tape logs and brochures produced by Folktracks Recordings and the United Kingdom's National Centre for the Oral Tradition. Tape logs include song titles, often accompanied by contextual information on the recordings.
The Philip H. Kennedy Collection consists of field recordings, field notes, and photographs that document the folk music traditions of North Carolina and surrounding states. Folklorist and French professor, Philip H. Kennedy, compiled most of the materials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of his research on the ballad collecting and fieldwork of Cecil J. Sharp and Frank Clyde Brown, who previously travelled the region to compile and record traditional ballads, tunes, and music. The collection also includes other audio recordings created and compiled by Kennedy, including WUNC produced radio programs on folk music; interviews with folklorist, Dr. Amos Abrams; dubbed field recordings of women ballad singers from North Carolina; and a privately issued LP featuring folk songs and ballads by Philip H. Houston and classical piano by Laura Nancy Hasenpflug.
Richard McKinne Kennedy was a farmer in Greene County, Ala. He served with the 11th Alabama Regiment during the Civil War.
Richard S. Kennedy was born in 1920. Kennedy's dissertation (Harvard University, 1953) on novelist Thomas Wolfe, the first to make use of Wolfe manuscripts in Harvard's Houghton Library and to examine Wolfe's literary career in depth, was published by UNC Press in 1962. Kennedy was on the faculty of the University of Rochester, 1950-1957; the University of Witchita, 1957-1964; and Temple University, 1964-1988, emeritus 1988-2002. He continued to work on Wolfe throughout his career, but also wrote extensively on e.e. cummings and Robert Browning. Kennedy died in 2002.
Stetson Kennedy was an editor of folklore materials for the Florida office of the Federal Writers' Project and an author on folklore and on social problems in the South.
William Jesse Kennedy Jr. (1889-1985), businessman, author, and community leader, was born in Andersonville, Ga. He began his affiliation with North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1916 in Savannah, Ga. He later relocated to Durham, N.C., and, in 1952, was elected the fifth president of the company.
Alfred Abraham Kent was a physician and businessman of Lenoir, N.C.
Gary Kenton is a music critic, editor, and teacher of Greensboro, N.C. The collection consists of interviews conducted or collected, 1971-1989, by Kenton with music industry executive and founder of Folkways Records Moses Asch, his family members, and his business associates, many of whom were important figures in folk music and in the folk revival movement. Included in this group are folksingers Elizabeth Cotten, Jean Ritchie, and Pete Seeger, and Harry Smith, compiler of the Anthology of American Folk Music. Interviews are largely focused on Asch's life and work.
The Ker Family of Natchez, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La., and related Baker and other families of Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as people enslaved by these families. Correspondence, financial records, legal papers, photographs, and other materials document members of these white families as plantation owners and enslavers, elected officials, a surgeon, school teacher, a bank clerk, and owner a rare book and antiques store, among other employments in and beyond the home. The people enslaved by these families appear chiefly in lists of plantation laborers; it is possible that more information about their lives, as recorded by their enslavers, may be discoverable in estate papers, bills and receipts, property inventories, wills and indentures, account books, and correspondence. Other topics include family matters; medicine; Louisiana and Mississippi plantation operations; Presbyterian church activities; local, state, and national politics, including the conduct of the 1813-1814 Creek War and the War of 1812 (Note: 1814 Andrew Jackson letter about the defense of Louisiana); men's and women's education, chiefly at the Natchez Institute and Oakland College, Miss.; European travel; bank clerking in Fayette, Miss.; and the Ye Olde Booke Shoppe in Natchez. Plantations mentioned include Linden, Marathon, Elba, Glenwood, Lake Washington, Dunbarton, and Delaronde (De la Ronde). There are also a few diaries, clippings, 19th- and early 20th-century pedagogical materials, and family photographs. Other papers include scattered records of John Ker's work with the American Colonization Society and extensive records of the Natchez branches of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924-1968, and the Colonial Dames of America, 1941-1967, and letters and Mardi Gras invitations.
David Ker (1758-1805) was a professor at the University of North Carolina, 1795-1796. The collection includes a framed oil portrait of David Ker, a framed oil portrait of Mary Boggs Ker (1757-1847), both apparently painted circa 1795; photographs of these two portraits; and information about David Ker and the portraits. The portraits came to the University of North Carolina in January 1967 by bequest of Sarah Duncan Butler.
John Brownson Ker (1860-1916) was an attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. He and his wife, Ellen Burke Ker, were both from Louisiana planter families. They were married in 1892. Their son David (1893-1918) served overseas in World War I. Their daughter Elizabeth Ker Schermerhorn (d. 1960) was a volunteer leader in social welfare and mental health projects in the New York City area; organizer of a community development and aid to children project in Jacmel, Haiti, 1956-1959; and a press correspondent in Haiti. Correspondence and other papers of the family of John Brownson Ker and his wife Ellen Burke Ker. Early letters, 1779-1882, are of John Brownson Ker's parents and other Ker and Brownson relatives, most of whom were planters in Louisiana. Most of the earliest letters concern the lower Mississippi River area while it was under Spanish and British control. Papers, 1834-1882, are mainly correspondence of John Brownson's Ker's father, David Ker (1825-1884). Among the papers of the 1850s are bills of sale for slaves, bills for dry-goods, and bills for physician's fees. Correspondence, 1911-1959, includes a items relating to John Brownson Ker and Ellen Burke Ker and their son David Ker and daughter Elizabeth Ker Schermerhorn. Many of these letters document David Ker's life, military service in France, and death in World War I. Much of Elizabeth Ker Schermerhorn's correspondence concerns her views, 1957-1959, on politics and social conditions in Haiti, and her interest in psychoanalysis. Included are more than 30 items of Carl Alfred Meier, with whom she underwent analysis in Switzerland in the 1930s. There are also psychological and sociological writings of Elizabeth Ker Schermerhorn, including reports on the situation in Haiti, 1957-1959; a few financial papers; six notebooks, 1901-1954, containing poems and thoughts of Ellen Burke Ker; clippings; and family photographs.
Mary Susan Ker of Natchez, Miss., was the daughter of cotton planter and American Colonization Society vice-president, John Ker (1789-1850) and Mary Baker Ker (d. 1862).
The collection is 23 looseleaf notebooks and six boxes of notecards resulting from the research of Charles Kerby-Miller (d. 1971), professor at Wellesley College, on publishing in Great Britain. Included is information on publishing and printing of newspapers and other periodicals and freedom of the press in Great Britain, 1630-1735.
A Civil War scrapbook compiled by Kern, a member of the 13th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A, including descriptions and a few carefully executed drawings (one colored) by him of scenes from prison life at Johnson's Island, Ohio, Camp Chase, Ohio, and Point Lookout, Md., playbills for a play produced by Confederate prisoners, a colored drawing of his home in Romney, Va., and diary entries (transcribed?) by him describing his Civil War experiences; and letters from Kern, 1860-1864, discussing family and military matters.
Members of the McClure and Kerns families resided in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Frankie Edith Parker (1922-1993) was Jack Kerouac's first wife, from 1944 until their separation in 1946 and legal annulment in 1952. Henri Cru (1921-1992) was Kerouac's friend at Horace Mann Preparatory School in New York City. Parker and Cru dated until Cru introduced Parker to Kerouac in 1942. Kerouac kept in touch with both Parker and Cru until his death in 1969.
Alice Spencer Kerr (1858-1879), a teacher, was the daughter of Washington Caruthers Kerr (1827-1885), state geologist and lecturer at the University of North Carolina.
John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958) of Warrenton, N.C., was a United States Congressman who represented the 2nd district (northeastern North Carolina), 1923-1953.
Mary I. Kerr resided in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and New Orleans, La. The collection includes two large scrapbooks of clippings and engravings, belonging to Mary I. Kerr, containing poems and stories; obituaries and biographies; pictures from the Bible; engravings of literary and political figures; and articles on American geography and industry and many other topics.
Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was a general in the Confederate Army. The collection includes papers pertaining to the Kershaw family and the DeSaussure family of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894); and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, Episcopal priest of Charleston, S.C., including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, 1908.
Lawrence D. Kessler, emeritus professor of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered the unrelated papers of George R. Marvell, the North Carolina China Council, Lawrence D. Kessler, and the Newton and Underwood families. George Ralph Marvell was a career United States Navy officer, who retired from active service in 1931 as a rear admiral. His papers, many of which relate to travels and work in China and the Philippines, contain personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other materials relating to him; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell; and their son, George, who served as a submarine officer in the Navy, 1917-1935. The North Carolina China Council, a regional affiliate of the Asia Society, was established in 1977 and remained active until at least 1989.
Ridley R. Kessler, Jr., government documents librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970-2003, was born in Hendersonville, N.C., in 1941. The collection is chiefly papers relating to the professional activities of Ridley R. Kessler, Jr. Kessler, who was very actively involved in the field of government documents librarianship, served as a member and officer of a number of professional associations, including the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), the Government Printing Office's Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (DLC), and the Dupont Circle Group (DCG). Kessler also carried out A Survey of United States Regional Government Depository Libraries, 1987-1989; appeared before a number of congressional subcommittees to testify about services provided by the Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program; and served as liaison from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to the Task Force on Restrictions on Access to Government Information. Materials include correspondence, reports, position papers, reorganization proposals, member surveys, bylaws, membership lists, notes, subject files, and other papers. There are also transcripts of the official public meetings of the DLC. A small number of personal papers are also included.
Howard Anderson Kester was a theologian, educator, and administrator active in Christian movements relating to race relations, pacifism, and economic reform in the South from the 1920s until his retirement in 1970.
Personal and business papers of Ralph W. Ketner, co-founder of the Food Lion grocery store chain. Collection includes personal and family photographs, business correspondence from Ketner's tenure as CEO of the company, personal correspondence related to Ketner's broad civic, political and philanthropic interests, scrapbooks on Ketner's career, and video recordings with Ketner talking about leadership and the history of the company.
David McKendree Key was a lawyer, Confederate officer, United States Senator, United States Postmaster General, and judge of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes (1828-1877) was the daughter of novelist Caroline Lee Hentz and wife of Dr. John W. Keyes of Montgomery, Ala.
The collection of folk singer and songwriter Lionel Kilberg (1930-2008) contains audio recordings, lyric sheets, poems, small paintings, sheet music, writings, 35mm color film slides, printed items, and pin-back buttons for his bluegrass band the Shanty Boys. Kilberg wrote thousands of topical folk songs during the 1960s and 1970s and performed regularly in Greenwich Village as a part of the mid-twentieth-century folk revival music scene in New York, N.Y. The collection chiefly documents his prolific songwriting and his album series from the early 1970s, "Sociologically Speaking." Both commercial and noncommercial audio recordings are on cassette tape and open-reel. Kilberg's writings contain information and stories about his songs and poems. Abstract paintings made by Kilberg are on loose sheets of paper. Printed items include newspaper clippings, newsletters, and scattered issues of folk music fanzines such as "Caravan" and Gardyloo."
The collection contains typed copies, 1952, of two letters, 1859, from Gabriel L. Kilgore of Arkansas to Solomon Strother, who married first Lydia Kilgore and then Mary Payne, concerning family matters. Also, included is a letter, 1952, from Lesba L. Thompson, explaining family relationships.
The collection of white photographer and businessman, Charles "Charlie" Sidney Killebrew, Jr. (1921-2009), consists of black-and-white photographic prints, black-and-white and color negatives including sheet film and 120mm roll film relating to Killebrew's photography interest. The images date, 1948 – 1997, and depict chiefly Nash and Edgecombe counties, in addition to the surrounding areas of North Carolina. Included are images of local, state, and national politicians and political events; news events; Rocky Mount businesses; civic groups and other organizations; Nash County and Edgecombe County schools; sporting events; and other images that document daily life in North Carolina. Of interest are images depicting presidential visits; civil rights protests; natural disasters; and local celebrities, including white musician Kay Kyser and Black basketball star Phil Ford.
Autobiography of Joseph Buckner Killebrew consisting of the personal, social, professional, and political memoirs of his early life and schooling in Montgomery County, Tenn.; education at the University of North Carolina, 1854-1856; antebellum life as a young lawyer and planter at Clarksville, Tenn.; the Civil War, during which he remained at home managing his farms, and Reconstruction; and his public career, 1870s through 1890s, as editor of an agricultural newspaper, state superintendent of public instruction, state commissioner of agriculture, author of a book on the agricultural and industrial resources of Tennessee, and investor in Mexican mines. The autobiography describes in detail Killebrew's activities, opinions, and social milieu. Also included is a history of the Whitfield, Bryan, Ligon, Sims, and Wimberly families.
Includes a brief historical sketch of Columbia County and Magnolia, Ark., written by Nettie Hicks Killgore.
Resident of Killian's Mill, Lincoln County, N.C.
John Kimberly was professor of chemistry and agriculture at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1857-1864 and 1875-1876, and farmer in Buncombe County, N.C., 1866-1874.
Joseph E. Kimmins was a farmer of Bedford County, Tenn. The collection is chiefly letters written before and after the Civil War to Kimmins from relatives in Izard County, Ark. The letters are about personal news and health, family business, property, weather and crops, with occasional comments on politics. Also included are two letters, 1860 and 1861, to Kimmins from E. D. Tarpley, in Lockart, Tex., and travel passes and a pay order for Lieutenant J. E. Kimmins of the 24th Tennessee Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Recordings of interviews, songs, and music of white and African American musicians, most of whom grew up either on Piedmont tobacco farms, or were involved with the tobacco business in eastern North Carolina. Anne Kimzey, a white folklorist, conducted the interviews in July and August of 1987 while an intern at the North Carolina Arts Council, Folklife Section, for an exhibit at the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in Kenly, N.C. The museum had received a grant to hire a folklorist to do fieldwork in Johnston County and Wilson County and to prepare an exhibit on the role of music in the lives of tobacco farmers in eastern North Carolina. The collection includes the audio interviews, songs, and music that Anne Kimzey recorded as part of the project, as well as supporting documentation, such as field notes and select release forms, created and compiled by Anne Kimzey. Interview subjects discuss musical histories, repertoires, and social and community functions of the music, especially in relation to their life on the farm and tobacco farming. Notable recordings include interviews with Grace Corbett (1911-1990), a white pianist of Kenly, N.C.; Josephine Rice Ruffin (1922- ), an African American musician of Wilson, N.C.; Carl Lamm (1927- ), a white radio station owner and disc jockey of Smithfield, N.C.; Roy G. Taylor (1918-1995), a white guitar player and author of Wilson, N.C.; Alice Stevens (1925- ), African American singer of Wilson, N.C.; Betty Lee Woodard (1918-2000), a white shape note singer of Kenly, N.C.; William Joseph “Bill Joe” Austin (1911-1991), a white band leader, saxophone and clarinet player of Smithfield, N.C.; and Paul Byrd (1909-), an early white country musician. There are also dubbed recordings of Paul Byrd singing country and popular songs, both solo and with the Radio Pals, on two tapes recorded between 1941 and 1946.
Andrew Dunn Kincaid was the owner of land and slaves in Burke County, N.C.
The collection of Gorham "Hap" Kindem, professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, contains unedited footage and related materials used in documentary film projects especially "Winning Isn't Everything” (The Untold Story of a Soccer Dynasty), Suzy Whaley: Qualified for Life, and Chuck Davis, Dancing Through West Africa. Related materials include correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, recording logs, photographs, grant applications, and financial records. Many items pertain to marketing and promotion of the films and Kindem’s film-related travel. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Members of the King family of New Orleans, La., included Nina King, Annie Ragan King, and author Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932). The collection contains miscellaneous papers of the King family including letters from Nina King, 1906-1908, while traveling in Europe, to Mrs. Charles Gayarre; a typescript of a story by Annie Ragan King; and a scrapbook of Grace Elizabeth King, containing clippings on New Orleans, the Civil War, and other historical topics, 1836-1930.
Arnold Kimsey King (1901-1992) of Hendersonville, N.C., who taught in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, beginning in 1925. He was later associate dean of the Graduate School before moving, in 1964, to the General Administration of the multicampus University of North Carolina. He was vice president for institutional studies from 1964 to 1971, when he was named special assistant to the president. In the 1960s, King helped persuade the North Carolina General Assembly to add campuses at Wilmington, Charlotte, and Asheville to the UNC system. He was the author of The Multicampus University of North Carolina Comes of Age, 1956-1986 (1987).
Florence King was a teacher in Iredell County, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY. Business, literary, and personal correspondence of Miss Grace King of New Orleans, author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and leader in historical and literary activities. The correspondence contains criticism and analysis of her works by her editors, and discussion of business connected with its publication. Among the correspondents are: editor H. M. Alden, author Therese Bentzon, author Samuel L. Clemens, editor Hamilton W. Mabie, William McLennan of Montreal, William M. Sloane of Princeton, naturalist Reginald Somers-Cocks, and Charles Dudley Warner. Also included are items, 1781-1865, relating to Charles Gayarre of Louisiana (149 items), including letters from George Bancroft, Joseph M. Bossier, J. D. B. DeBow, Benjamin French, Francis Parkman, William Gilmore Simms, and William Tecumseh Sherman, discussing the publication of Gayarre's works and general political issues, 1850s-1860s. There are also 79 items relating to the Miller and King families of New Orleans, La., dated 1833-1922, including letters to a son at college in Baltimore in the 1830s disucssing family news and local events; letters, 1861-1865, from Thomas D. Miller commenting on Confederate military and financial problems in Louisiana and Mississippi; and postwar family letters. Also included in the collection are two notebooks, 1886-1903, with biographical sketches of Charles Gayarre and diary entries, 1866-1904, of Grace King.
J. H. King (fl. 1868-1871) was a sheriff of Lincoln County, N.C. The collection includes a letter, July 1868, to King from Samuel Forkner, state senator from Surry County, N.C., commenting on recent elections and King's inquiry about a job, and items relating to a prisoner, Josiah Henderson, and to Lincoln County taxes collected.
The collection includes a photocopy of a typescript memoir, written circa 1925-1932, by William Henry King (1847-1932) of his own life but chiefly of his father, James Moore King (1792-1877), who moved from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1807; fought in the War of 1812 at New Orleans and in the Seminole War, 1818; and was a planter at Rural Rest near Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and a Whig, strong unionist until the outbreak of war, and later soldier in the Confederate Army. Much of the memoir concerns the Civil War, especially civilian life around Murfreesboro, and army service. Also present are additional notes and writings by W. H. King compiled by Jeanette M. King.
Mitchell King, of Charleston, S.C., and Flat Rock, N.C., was a teacher, lawyer, and judge of the Charleston City Court. He owned property in Charleston, as well as land in Buncombe (later Henderson) County, N.C., and on the Savannah River, presumably in Chatham County, Ga. He was a member of Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and an active member of numerous civic and educational organizations.
Author; scholar; first secretary in the American Legation at Constantinople, 1886-1890; U.S. consul at Aachen, Germany, 1906-1913. Native of Guilford County, N.C.
Roger King attended the University of North Carolina from 1940 to 1943.
Thomas Butler King of Retreat Plantation, Saint Simons Island, Ga., was a Georgia and United States legislator, collector of the port of San Francisco, and Georgia representative to various courts in Europe during the Civil War, with special interests in internal improvements and naval affairs. Papers of King and his wife Anna Matilda Page King, 1835-1840, deal primarily with King's business, managerial, and legislative activities on behalf of the Brunswick and Altamaha Canal Company, the Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company, and the Brunswick Land Company. Papers, 1841-1848, document King's political career as U.S. representative from Georgia's First Congressional District, which included Glynn County and the cities of Brunswick and Savannah. Among these are papers about his activities as member and chair of the U.S. House Naval Affairs Committee and about Whig political activities in Georgia, the South, and the nation. Materials, 1849-1852, deal with King's work in California, first as the personal adviser of President Zachary Taylor and then as the first collector of the port of San Francisco under Millard Fillmore. Between 1853 and 1859, papers deal with family matters and King's investments in and promotion of a transcontinental railroad through Texas. Papers, 1860-1864, relate to his promotion of railroads in south Georgia, his association with the secession crisis, and his activities on behalf of the state of Georgia and the Confederacy in various European capitals during the first years of the Civil War. There also are letters, diaries, and other materials relating to the King sons at various locations during the war and other family letters that reflect the effects of the war. Letters discussing plantation and family matters account for almost half of the collection. Most of these were written between 1850 and 1859 by Anna Matilda Page King, who chiefly discussed agricultural matters, including the treatment of slaves, but also expressed a certain amount of anti-semitism and wrote of her experimentation with the occult.
Walter Winbourne King (1846-1913), was a lawyer and politician of Danbury, Stokes County, N.C.
William R. King (1786-1853) was a United States senator from Alabama, who was later elected vice president of the United States. The collection includes letters from King: one, 1825, is to the secretary of the treasury concerning a pension for a Revolutionary War soldier; the other, 1849, is to John W. Womack, legislator, judge, and planter of Eutaw, Ala., commenting on the most recent session of Congress and on Alabama politics.
Diary, July-September 1864 (180 pages), of William King of Cobb County, Ga., who remained alone on his plantation to protect his property and slaves from depredations by federal forces, and papers, 1879, concerning King's claim against the United States government for damages by federal troops, based on his claim that he was a unionist during the war. Diary entries record difficulties and hardships affecting all classes, his generally good treatment by federal soldiers and discussions of slavery with them, the cancellation of religious services by federal army order after Confederate ministers refused to pray for the United States president, the collapse of Confederate forces around Atlanta, and the return of federal troops from Stoneman's Raid, having suffered greatly.
Sanford Kingsbery was a farmer and businessman of Carrolton, Georgia, active 1846-1850. He was active in other parts of Georgia as well. He was a member of the partnership of Kingsbery and Buchanan, based in Carrolton.
Theodore Bryant Kingsbury (1828-1913) was a Methodist minister and journalist of Oxford and Wilmington, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1848-1849. Bryant was editor of The Leisure Hour: A Literary and Family Journal before becoming a Methodist minister in 1859 and moving to Wilmington. About 1866, he left the Methodist Church to become a Baptist because of his changed views on baptism. In 1869, he left the ministry entirely and became associate editor of the Raleigh Sentinel. In 1876, he left Raleigh to become the editor of the Wilmington Morning Star, where he remained until becoming the editor of the Wilmington Messenger in 1888. After his retirement in 1902, Kingsbury continued to contribute to the newspaper community by writing weekly articles on a variety of subjects for the Raleigh News and Observer.
Ellie Kinnaird (1931-), a white politician in North Carolina, served in the North Carolina Senate from 1997 to 2013 and was mayor of Carrboro, N.C., from 1987 to 1996. The collection contains Ellie Kinnaird's professional and personal papers, chiefly concerning the death penalty, discrimination in capital punishment, and people with mental disabilities and capital punishment. Materials include correspondence; political campaign ephemera; newspaper clippings; files on people executed by the state of North Carolina between 1999 and 2003; speeches and writings on the death penalty by Daniel H. Pollitt; information about the efforts of the children of Elias Syriani to get their father's death sentence commuted to life in prison after he killed their mother; programs and organizational emails, primarily written by Marilyn Ozer about vigils held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; informational papers from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty; other papers; and audiovisual materials related to capital punishment, lobbying reform, voting laws, and other subjects. Other topics include the history of Carrboro, N.C.; Nyle Frank; and N.C. Senate bills on touch screen voting and reforms to the State Health Plan.
Nettie Browning Danforth Kinnison (1864-1947) of Charleston, Mo., was married to Henry Lee Kinnison. This collection chiefly consists of genealogical data relating to the Browning, Danforth, Poor, Ritter, West, Yates, and related families, and correspondence by Kinnison in connection with her genealogical studies and applications to various ancestral societies.
Edmund Kirby-Smith (1824-1893) was a United States Army officer, Confederate Army general, president of the University of Nashville, and professor of mathematics at the University of the South. The collection contains correspondence and other papers, chiefly 1840-1866, of Edmund Kirby-Smith, dealing with his personal affairs, education, military career, and later life as president of the University of Nashville and professor at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Includes notes on the Kentucky campaigns of 1862; letters of the Revolutionary War period written by his grandfather, Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804) and some by Joseph Smith written to his brother, Elnathan Smith; diary and miscellaneous notes, 1849-1868; official letter book, 1863-1865; a notebook, 1865, giving an account of Kirby-Smith's flight to Cuba and Mexico; and a scrapbook of Civil War clippings.
Members of the Kirchoff family include Friedrich Wilhelm Kirchoff (1814-1863), Consul of Lubeck, and his wife, Adelaide Helena Welham Kirchoff (fl. 1850). The collection includes scattered family letters, 1854-1875, and official papers (partly in German) of Friedrich Wilhelm Kirchhoff in New Orleans, La., and his wife, Adelaide Helena Welham, in Pass Christian, Miss., in the 1850s. Letters deal chiefly with family matters and Adelaide Kirchoff's business affairs after her husband's death. An 1852 diary of Adelaide Kirchhoff is included; it describes travels in Italy and visits with family in Bremen.
Genealogical data, 1943, from various sources relating to the descendants of John Kirk (born 1750) of Montgomery County, N.C., including Hamilton, Crump, Ross, and other family connections and branches of the family in Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Florida.
John Kirk was a Harford County, Md., businessman who sold and rented merchandise, real estate, and slave labor. He died in 1831.
The collection of the white Kirkland and Hogan families of Chapel Hill, N.C., contains scattered correspondence chiefly from friends and family in the early twentieth century; photographs, chiefly daguerreotypes from the mid-nineteenth century; school materials including a 1917 Chapel Hill High School yearbook; church materials, many related to Sunday school; and printed items including newspaper clippings, turn-of-the-twentieth-century advertisements for bicycles, and buggies, and items related to farmers' cooperatives and agricultural demonstration work. Correspondents include Laura Kirkland Hogan (1857-1930), Oscar A. Hogan (1856-1924), Lillie Hogan (1881-1947), Mattie Hogan (1884-1966), and William (Willie) Samuel Hogan (1897-1954). Scattered documents pertain to Willie Hogan's 1918 selective service draft during the First World War, his civil service exam, and his 1939 appointment to postmaster. Also included is a 1929 pledge book for the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-immigrant fraternal order.
John U. Kirkland was a merchant of general merchandise and leather in Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.
O. Arthur Kirkman was a white businessman and politician born in 1900 in High Point, N.C. He served in many positions, including executive vice-president, with the High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad, from 1930 to 1965. He also served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1949-1953, and in the North Carolina Senate, 1953-1961. His wife, Katharine Morgan Kirkman, was a city councilwoman in High Point, N.C., from 1951 to 1959, and was on the Guilford County Board of Education from 1963 to 1976.
Roger N. Kirkman, active alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1975, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation; he served as president of the Foundation 1976-1978.
Claude Kitchin (24 March 1869-31 May 1923) was a Democrat from North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1901-1923; chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee; and House majority leader for the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, 1915-1919.
Landowner, lawyer, United States representative, 1897-1909, and governor of North Carolina, 1909-1913. Personal, political, and professional correspondence concerning Kitchin's legal and political careers and his interests in the Kitchin family farms and property in Halifax County, N.C. Chief among the personal correspondence are letters from Kitchin's father, William Hodge Buck Kitchin, and his brothers, Sam, Claude, Arrington, and Paul, that provide detailed accounts of the Kitchin family farming enterprises and the financial arrangements among the brothers. There is correspondence between Kitchin and Musette Satterfield at Greensboro Female College, 1890- 1891, and after their marriage, 1892, and scattered letters from their children. The political correspondence concerns Kitchin's various campaigns for Congress. The correspondence for 1907-1908 is extensive and documents the effort Kitchin put into his 1908 campaign for governor of North Carolina. There is very little correspondence about the senatorial campaign of 1912 in which Kitchin was defeated by Senator Furnifold M. Simmons. Material concerning Kitchin's law practice includes an account book, 1889-1901, and four lettercopy books, 1893-1900. Also included are speeches, miscellaneous genealogical and biographical materials, and photographs. Volumes include account books and lettercopy books, three small diaries containing brief daily entries, February-November 1886, while Kitchin was in Chatfield, Tex.; notebooks containing clippings and notes for speeches; and an indexed volume of excerpts from the Congressional Record.
The Mark Klempner Collection consists of audio recordings, 1974-1989, created by folklorist, historian, and folk musician, Mark Klempner. From 1982 to 1992 Klempner performed under the stage name of Jamie Michaels in Los Angeles, Calif. During this time he recorded with audio engineer, Henry Lewy, and with vocalists, David Lasley, Arnold McCuller, and Rosemary Butler. The collection includes recordings, 1987-1988, from these studio sessions as well as earlier live recordings, 1974-1982, of Klempner performing in concert as Mark Klempner. The collection also contains miscellaneous recordings, 1980-1982, including an interview that Klempner conducted with Scottish musician, Robin Williamson.
Accounts, 1841-1849, between Kline, apparent owner of the Virginia Hotel, Wheeling, Va. (now W. Va.), and cooks, porters, maids, and washerwomen who presumably worked for him; a ledger, 1838-1841 and 1847, kept by Kline for board, wine, and livery service; and one family letter, 4 January 1853, with no apparent connection to Kline.
The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (Knight Commission) was established in 1989 with the purpose of drafting a reform agenda for the administration of intercollegiate sports.
Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was professor of education at Trinity College, 1913-1917, and at the University of North Carolina, 1919-1953.
Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was University of North Carolina Kenan professor of educational history, and author of numerous publications. This collection chiefly contains source material from various repositories collected by Knight in preparation for A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860 (1949-1954). Papers include letters; wills; petitions; trustees' minutes of schools and colleges; personal diaries; and other selected materials concerning education and related cultural and social aspects of the antebellum South. Institutions represented include the University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, Davidson College, South Carolina College, the University of Tennessee, and the Texas Military Institute. Persons and organizations represented include Henry Harrisse, Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Joseph Lancaster, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and Dr. Thomas Bray's Associates.
The Knox family is from Rowan County, N.C., where they have lived since the 1740s. The Knox Family Papers contain business and legal receipts for the Knox family through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also includes account books, indentures, intestate succession documents, slave lists, and receipts for blacksmithing, ministerial services, and other everyday purchases. Items of particular interest include a 1772 letter of recommendation for John Knox, a list of slave birthdates, 1803-1869, and four handwritten slave receipts.
Elizabeth Washington Grist Knox was the wife of Dr. Reuben Knox (1801-1851) of St. Louis, Mo., and mother of Franklin R. Grist (b. 1828), a Yale graduate, painter, and diplomat. Her father was cotton planter John Washington (1768-1837) of Kinston, Lenoir County, N.C. Her brother, James Washington (1803-1847), was a doctor in New York City.
The collection of radio producer Christopher Koch contains scripts for the 1964 twelve-part radio documentary This Little Light; typed transcriptions of audio recordings made for the documentary; and audio recordings of African American intellectual W.E.B. DuBois on open reel tapes, which were collected for a commemorative program on DuBois following his death in 1963. Produced for the noncommercial radio station WBAI in New York City, This Little Light focused on Freedom Summer in Mississippi and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and examined student activism, the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwartz in Philadelphia, Miss., freedom schools, and a high school boycott in Shaw, Miss. The DuBois recordings include addresses by him and his memorial service in Achimota, Ghana. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Professor of dramatic literature at the University of North Dakota and University of North Carolina; founder and director of the Carolina Playmakers.
The collection is an autobiography written by Otto Kochtitsky at the age of 76, describing his life in Missouri and Mississippi, including such topics as the earthquake of 1811 and its effect on the land, early railroads, land reclamation, real estate ventures, living conditions, family and personal affairs, and Siamese twins.
The collection is a hydrographic map (manuscript) of the Florida Railroad from Fernandina on the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico at Cedar Keys, compiled by P. W. Oscar Koerner.
George Jones Kollock (1810-1894) of Savannah, Ossabaw Island, and Clarksville, Ga., was a white lawyer, plantation owner, and enslaver. The enslaved people who provided the labor at Kollock's three Georgia plantations--Retreat, Rosedew, and Ossabaw Island--are documented in plantation journals that include births, deaths, sick days, tools given out, articles received, articles delivered, and records of their daily work. The journals, 1837-1861, contain detailed information about planting and farming using forced labor and overseers, and are mostly devoted to Ossabaw Island. Kollock's cash crop was Sea Island cotton, and he also planted corn.
Burton Alva Konkle (1861-1944) was a historian from Swarthmore, Pa.
Howard Robinson Kornegay was a United States representative from the 6th Congressional District of North Carolina to the 87th through 90th Congresses (January 1961-January 1969) and lawyer of Greensboro, N.C. The collection includes legislative, personal, committee, and general files of Kornegay as Democratic United States representative of the 6th Congressional District of North Carolina to the 87th through 89th Congresses (January 1961-January 1967). Committee files include those Kornegay kept when he was a member of the Veterans' Affairs and Interstate and Foreign Commerce committees. Because the 6th District included Guilford and Alamance counties throughout Kornegay's tenure, much correspondence deals with local affairs and personal concerns from those counties.
Kramer Brothers Company of Elizabeth City, N.C., was a family operated lumber business incorporated in 1917.
The collection includes the records of the related German-American Van Vleck family and Kramsch family. One volume contains accounts, 1832-1834, of Charles Anthony Van Vleck (fl. 1811-1845), later Moravian minister in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, kept when he taught French, painting, and music in Newport, R.I., and other memoranda. The other volumes contain German script memoirs, unattributed, of Van Vleck, Kramsch, and Langgaard ancestors in Germany and colonial America, written circa 1845-1850.
Francis Joseph Kron was a physician and horticulturist of Stanly County, N.C. The collection includes family letters, 1846-1847 and 1860-1876; school notebooks; an account book, 1848-1882; a diary, 1835; botanical drawings, circa 1870; materials realting to the settlement of an estate; family history materials; a genealogy of former Kron slaves; and other items relating to Francis Joseph Kron and members of his family, especially his daughters, Elizabeth (1831-1896) and Adele (1828-1910), who attended St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., 1846-1847.
Primarily published and ephemeral items collected from Ku Klux Klan organizations active in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina, 1960s-1970s. Included are flyers; application forms, meeting guidelines, periodicals, cartoons, and other items from the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Greensboro, N.C.), the Knights of the Green Forest (Tupelo, Miss.), the United Klans of America (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Miss.), and the National States Rights Party (Savannah, Ga.). Among the periodicals is one issue of the Thunderbolt of Birmingham, Ala.
Franz Kunst worked for the Southern Folklife Collection, 1999-2000. He was program director of radio station WXYC at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993-2002.
Charles Bishop Kuralt (1934-1997), a white newspaper, radio, and television journalist and author, was born in Wilmington, N.C. Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1951-1955, where he served as editor of the Daily Tar Heel and worked for WUNC radio. Kuralt then joined the staff of the Charlotte News and, in 1957, became a writer for CBS in New York. As a correspondent for CBS, Kuralt was best known for his long-running television series On the Road and Sunday Morning. He was the author of several best-selling books based on his CBS experiences and the recipient of thirteen Emmy awards and three George Foster Peabody awards. Papers, 1934-1997, include personal and office mail, with extensive fan mail files and many letters in response to his retirement; scripts; speeches; background research materials relating to shows and books; clippings and souvenirs; publicity materials; oral history interviews with Kuralt's friends, family, and colleagues; photographs; calendars and notebooks; and audiotapes, videotapes, films, and other media. Among topics documented are early radio and television news writing and broadcasting, including the work of foreign correspondents in Latin America, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union, 1953-1994; American popular culture and folklore, 1950s-1990s; United States and international politics, especially in the 1960s; Appalachian poverty and culture, 1960s-1970s; the Plaisted Polar Expedition, 1967; fly fishing, 1970s-1990s; Olympics coverage, 1992-1994; and Kuralt family history.
Edwin Israel Kursheedt was a Confederate officer of the Washington (La.) Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia.
MICROFILM ONLY. Record book of Kurtz, Frederick County, as captain, Company K, 5th Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America, with name, age, occupation and description of enlistees and reports of deaths, desertions, and discharges. Also included is an autograph book of Kurtz's fellow prisoners at Fort Delaware, 1864-1865, and a statement regarding his capture.
Playwright and romance languages professor Maurice Kurtz was a United States Army officer in Europe during World War II; worked on the staff of Arts, a Paris weekly; and served as as secretary-general of the International Theater Institute. His Jacques Copeau: Biography of a Theater was published in 1999.
The Pete Kuykendall Collection consists of audio recordings, moving images, and related documentation compiled by musician, discographer, and Bluegrass Unlimited co-founder, Pete Kuykendall. The majority of the collection is made up of audio recordings, 1938-1995, of American bluegrass, blues, old-time, and folk music. Artists featured on the recordings include Pete Kuykendall, Red Allen, Bill Clifton, Country Gentlemen, Hazel Dickens, Dorsey Dixon, Alice Gerrard, Poplin Family, and The Stanley Brothers, among others. The collection also contains a handful of moving image material, 1964-1970, featuring bluegrass and blues artists, including Elizabeth Cotten, Mississippi John Hurt, The Stanley Brothers, and Cousin Emmy. Related documentation consists of tape logs, song indexes, and subject files, which consist mostly of discographies and correspondence.
Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll Kyser were both graduates of the University of North Carolina and long-time residents of Chapel Hill. James Kern Kyser (Kay Kyser) was born in 1905 in Rocky Mount, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina, 1923-1927, where he was the leader of the cheerleading squad. He is best known as a big band leader and as the Ol' Professor on the radio show Kollege of Musical Knowledge. In 1944, Kyser married model, actress, and singer Georgia Carroll of Blooming Grove, Tex., who had joined the radio show in 1943. In 1951, he and his family retired to Chapel Hill, N.C. Through the Kyser Foundation, Kyser gave scholarships to students of music and dramatic art at the University of North Carolina. He was also instrumental in improving health care in North Carolina, starting the state's public television station, and establishing a highway safety program. Kyser was active in the Christian Science Church, directing the church's radio and television broadcasting division at the Boston headquarters in the 1970s, lecturing, and serving as national honorary president in 1983.
James Kern Kyser (Kay Kyser) was born in 1905 in Rocky Mount, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina, 1923-1927, where he was the leader of the cheerleading squad. He is best known as a big band leader and as the Ol' Professor on the radio show Kollege of Musical Knowledge. In 1944, Kyser married model, actress, and singer Georgia Carroll of Blooming Grove, Tex., who had joined the show the year before. In 1951, he and his family retired to Chapel Hill, N.C. Through the Kyser Foundation, he gave scholarships to students of music and dramatic art at the University of North Carolina. He was also instrumental in improving health care in North Carolina, starting the state's public television station, and establishing a highway safety program. He was active in the Christian Science Church, directing the church's radio and television broadcasting division at the Boston headquarters in the 1970s, lecturing, and serving as national honorary president in 1983.

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Edward McCrady L'Engle (1834-1900) of Florida was a railroad president, lawyer, and Confederate army officer.
William Johnson L'Engle was a physician in Key West, Fla., who served in the United States Army in the Department of the Pacific, 1856-1861. He died suddenly in Birmingham, Ala., while awaiting his commission as a Confederate Army surgeon. His wife was Madeleine Saunders L'Engle.
MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters, 1840s-1850s, from Lucy Hatch La Motte, of New Bern, N.C., and Georgetown, S.C., wife of an immigrant from Haiti, to her children. Letters are chiefly to Lucy's son, Joseph Hatch La Motte and his wife. They concern personal, family, and neighborhood activities, including business activities of family members.
Head teacher at the Manual Labor School in Spring Hill, Tenn., and later president of Middlebury College, Vt.
Drury Lacy of Prince Edward County, Va., studied at the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia; was minister at Presbyterian churches in New Bern, N.C., 1834-1837, and Raleigh, N.C., 1837-1855; served as president of Davidson College, 1855-1860; lived in Warrenton, N.C., 1861-1862; and served as chaplain at Confederate military hospitals at Raleigh and Wilson, N.C., 1862-1865. During 1866-1878, he taught at Peace Institute, where his wife was Lady Principal. He married first Williana Wilkinson (1806-1846), and second, in 1849, Mary Ritchie Rice, both of Virginia. Also represented in the collection is Lacy's oldest daughter, Bessie (1832-1900). In 1853, she married Thomas Webber Dewey (1827-1875) and moved to Charlotte, N.C., where he was a banker.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of Savannah, Ga., was formed to help honor living and deceased Confederate veterans. The collection contains correspondence and records concerning a statue memorializing the Confederate soldier, sponsored by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Savannah, Ga.
Charter of the Rose Way chapter, Fayetteville, N.C., of the Lady Knights of King David, an African-American women's organization associated with the Knights of King David.
Audio recordings produced, distributed, or collected by Ladyslipper Inc., a North Carolina non-profit organization for women’s music which was founded by Laurie Fuchs, a white woman, in 1976. Recordings are largely independently produced and in some cases self-released. There is also a small amount of flyers, press kits, promotional materials, and other items dating from the 1980s and 1990s.
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, (1757-1834) was a French aristocrat who served as a general in the American Revolution and later as a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution. The collection includes a letter, 1791, from Lafayette to Jean Sylvain Bailly, mayor of Paris, France, on behalf of a friend; a brief note, undated in the third person from Lafayette to a Mister Rogers; a contemporary handwritten version of remarks by Lafayette in Raleigh, N.C., 1825; and three photoprints of items, two dated 1786, relating to Lafayette and a Mr. MacQueen in Paris.
John B. Lagarde was the son of Ernest Lagarde (1836-1914) of New Orleans, La. The collection includes a scrapbook, containing chiefly newspaper clippings, but also a few other items, circa 1859-1870, relating to the Dimitry family of New Orleans, La., particularly Alexander Dimitry; and another, 1900-1919, relating to the family of Ernest Lagarde of Louisiana, Alabama, and Maryland. Each contains a number of clippings concerning national and international events.
The papers of white jurist I. Beverly Lake Sr. document his career as an assistant attorney general for the State of North Carolina, a two-time candidate for governor of North Carolina who campaigned as a proponent of segregation, an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and a lawyer in private practice after he retired from the court. Materials include correspondence, speeches, Sunday school lectures, legal papers, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Topics of note are the North Carolina gubernatorial campaigns of 1960 and 1964; racial segregation, especially religious justifications and legal strategies and groups who organized around opposition to desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education; Lake's place in Democratic and Republican party politics at local, state, and national levels; alleged voting irregularities surrounding his son I. Beverly Lake Jr.'s election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1992; and Lake's affiliation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
I. Beverly Lake Jr. (1934- ) is a white jurist and public official, active in North Carolina law and politics from 1960 to 2006. Papers document his career beginning with law school and extend beyond his retirement as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Topics of note include campaigns and elections; the sale of University of North Carolina utilities; Republican party politics; administration, standards, programs, and issues of the North Carolina court system; voting concerns, including redistricting and alleged voting irregularities in the 1990 North Carolina Supreme Court election; and the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission. The collection also contains scattered audiovisual materials related to political campaigns, the North Carolina court system, and I. Beverly Lake Sr.'s affiliation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The collection contains color slides of marches and protests for civil rights and social justice in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Washington, D.C., 1963-1964. Included are images from the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Images were taken by sociologist Richard A. Lamanna, who was a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1960s. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
J.S. (James Sanford) Lamar (1829-1908) was a Disciples of Christ minister, editor, and author, who served pastorates at Augusta, Atlanta, Valdosta, and elsewhere in Georgia and in Kentucky.
Kate Hill Lamar of Columbus, Savannah, and Macon, Ga., was the wife of Albert R. Lamar (1831?-1889), journalist and secretary of the Confederate senate. The collection is primarily newspaper clippings pertaining to the family of Kate Hill Lamar. The clippings include references to social events, the deaths of relatives, and Georgia political matters. Also included in the papers are various legal documents and correspondence about legal matters.
L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus) Lamar was a lawyer of Georgia and later Mississippi, United States congressman from Mississippi, member of President Grover Cleveland's cabinet, and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The collection includes typed copies of seven letters, 1868-1874, from Lamar to relatives and friends, chiefly concerning family and personal matters; and two letters, 1864, to him from James Williams, a friend in London, concerning European attitudes toward the Confederacy.
Slave bills of sale, one of which is from Baldwin County, Ga., and the will of Lamar, a Baldwin County, Ga., planter who owned large amounts of land in Georgia and in Alabama.
Members of the Lamb family were residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., Williamston, N.C., and Henderson, N.C.
The Lambeth Family Papers, 1808-1918, consist chiefly of indentures, deeds, and mortgages relating to properties in Guilford County, N.C. There is also a debate notebook, circa 1905.
The Thomas W. Lambeth Papers document the work of a white University of North Carolina alum who made a career in Democratic party political work, from the 1950s to the 2000s, and also as the director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on social justice, environment, community development, and democracy. Lambeth's personal papers and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation records concern education programs and policies; various state and national Democratic campaigns in North Carolina; redistricting in North Carolina; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, School of Social Work, School of Education, and General Alumni Association; the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program; the missing North Carolina copy of the Bill of Rights; First Flight Centennial Commission; the campaign to pass the amendment "allowing governors to succeed themselves"; family philanthropy; a proposed public interest law center; Opportunities for Families Fund; North Carolina Leadership Forum and Conference; the Piedmont Triad project on economic development; the Rural Prosperity Task Force; Ku Klux Klan involvement in the 1964 North Carolina gubernatorial election; health care for the uninsured; and Save Our State, which lobbied for policies that protected North Carolina's physical environment in the context of economic growth, in particular with regard to hog farming. Materials include correspondence, reports, speeches, and printed materials. The collection formerly was titled Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Records.
Physician's account, March-October 1847, of Dr. A. Neeson, Columbia County, Ga., itemizing visits, treatment, and medicines for the family and slaves of Mrs. E. F. Lamkin, the widow of James Lamkin.
Harold Martin Lancaster was born on 24 March 1943 in Patetown Community, N.C.; received the J.D. degree from the University of North Carolina Law School, 1967; served in the U.S. Navy, 1967-1970; and began his Goldsboro, N.C., law practice in 1970. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1978-1986, and represented the Third North Carolina District in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1987-1994.
The Reverend Samuel Lander Sr. was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1792, the son of William Lander. He married Eliza Ann Miller (b. 1793) in 1812; the couple had at least four children. Lander, a Methodist minister and carriage maker, moved to Boston, Mass., in 1818 because of Catholic intolerance of Methodism in Ireland. The family first lived in Newark, N.J., before settling in Salisbury, N.C., where Lander became a United States citizen. He lived in Lincolnton, N.C., from 1828 until his death in 1865.
John R. Lane was a colonel in the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America; and a Chatham County, N.C., businessman.
Levin Lane was a planter probably of Pender and New Hanover counties, N.C.. His father was Ezekiel Lane (1773-1834), and Levin's son was William Walter Lane (1831-1901), physician of Wilmington, N.C.
The collection includes family papers, chiefly 1830-1860, of related Wilmington, N.C., families. The collection includes letters, 1821-1838, from William Belvidere Meares (1787-1841) to his brother-in-law, James Alves of Henderson, Ky., about interests in slaves and a plantation; and letters, 1847-1859, from Paul H. Langdon and Samuel Langdon, U.S. Army officers, and Richard F. Langdon, a U.S. Navy officer, to their mother in Wilmington and to each other, written from Fort Laramie, Wyo., Stockton and Mare Island, Calif., and other places in the West about travels to these places and conditions there. Volumes include a merchant's account book and a diary, 1859-1860, 1862, 1867, of Armand De Rossett Young as a youth on Lyrias Plantation near Wilmington, chiefly concerned with studying and hunting.
Richard F. Langdon (born 1828) was a quartermaster in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Langston family members were active as lawyers and landowners in Wayne County, N.C., and Johnston County, N.C., since at least the 1820s. Uriah Langston owned land in both counties and was a member of the North Carolina State Militia. He may also have been a lawyer. Ira Langston practiced law in Bentonville, N.C., and served on the school commission and as an elections official. He was a member of the Democratic Party and also of a Freemason lodge. Langston family papers, 1823-1956 and undated, primarily consist of receipts from state and county tax payments, as well as receipts for the settling of other unspecified transactions. Also included are several deeds relating to land sales among members of the Langston family in Johnston County, N.C., and Wayne County, N.C.; 1840s materials relating to the North Carolina militia, including a certificate of commission designating Uriah Langston an officer in the militia, two manifests of equipment issued to the 28th Regiment of the North Carolina Militia, and what appears to be a muster role for the unit; and a few letters relating to Ira Langston's activities in the Democratic Party, in a Freemasons lodge, and as an elections official and school commissioner in Johnston County, N.C.
Mary T. Lanier (fl. 1862-1888) of Alabama was the aunt of poet Sidney Lanier (1842-1881). The collection includes personal letters received by Mary T. Lanier, including two from Jefferson Davis, 1874 and 1888, one discussing a woman who, disguised as a man, served in the Confederate Army; two from her nephew Sidney Lanier, 1877 and 1880, concerning family matters and personal news; and a thank-you letter from General John Hunt Morgan, 1862.
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was an American musician and poet. The collection contains a printed copy of Sidney Lanier, Biographical Sketch and Bibliography (Southern History Association, 1899) by George Stockton Wills, professor at Western Maryland College, containing the author's extensive manuscript revisions and additions, with pertinent correspondence, 1899-1904, and clippings pasted in. Also included is a mimeographed monograph, Sidney Lanier's Fame and Memorials, by Oliver Orr, Macon, Ga., 1931 (10 pages).
Charles Lanman was a writer, editor, librarian to various goverment agencies, and original author of Dictionary of the United States Congress.
William A. Lash was president of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, with offices at Greensboro, N.C., and owner of a farm at Walnut Cove, Stokes County, N.C.
B. Laspeyres lived in Wilmington, N.C.
Gatha Horton Lassiter (1910-1988), of Chapel Hill, N.C., worked in practical nursing, was active in the civil rights movement, and volunteered with several local churches and other community groups. The Gatha Horton Lassiter Papers consist of photocopied articles and clippings, photographs, funeral service programs, letters, and other materials that document her community service work, extended family, and prominent African-American residents of Chapel Hill, N.C. There are also two articles from American Nationalist opposing efforts by the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to promote racial integration.
The collection of Luke Eric Lassiter contains a sound recording of Kiowa songs on audio cassette, accompanying field notes for the recording, and a copy of his 1995 dissertation written in fulfillment of a doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation titled is an ethnographic study, which examines the communal context for the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma's Gourd Dance. Kiowa music traditions have a strong relationship to the American Indian tribe's traditional dances. Lassiter's 1994 field recordings include the Kiowa Gourd dance and Kiowa hymns. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Robert Gilliam Lassiter (1881-1936) of Oxford, N.C., was a graduate of the Univeristy of North Carolina, a civil engineer, mining engineer, quarryman, geologist, and contractor.
Thomas James Lassiter (1869-1920) was a teacher of Johnston County, N.C. The collection includes letters to Thomas James Lassiter from four friends from Johnston County who were studying at the University of North Carolina and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Md., giving accounts of student activities and interests.
William Carroll Lassiter of Raleigh, N.C., was an attorney specializing in cases involving libel and the press, and, from 1938 to 1979, served as general counsel and chief lobbyist for the North Carolina Press Association.
George T. Lathrop was the chair of the Town of Chapel Hill (N.C.) Transportation Board, 1974-1982. Afterwards, he became deputy director of the Charlotte (N.C.) Department of Transportation. Lathrop also worked as a consultant for Kimley-Horn Associates and John Hamburg and Associates, 1973-1982. Lathrop earned his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and taught at the University, 1966-1973.
Here and There/Aqui y Alla was an exhibit of Latin American women's textiles in North Carolina presented at the 1996 Festival for the Eno in Durham, N.C. Kelly Feltault, a graduate folklore student, coordinated both the preliminary fieldwork and the presentation of the exhibit with contract assistance provided by Leila Childs, Kate (Kathryn) Hanser, and Ann Kaplan, all graduate students in the Folklore Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Textile work exhibited included crocheted doilies, afghans, table cloths, and baby clothes; embroidered dresses, blouses, and head sashes; cross-stitched tortilla wraps and pillowcases for newlyweds; knitted sweaters; woven skirts from Guatemala; girl's dresses sewn without a pattern; hand hooked bags; and calado. The fieldwork and exhibit material focuses on the work, skills, and life experiences of eight Latin American textile artists: Manuela Avila Morales (Guatemala), Elvira Garcia (Mexico), Nazaria Munoz Joaquin (Mexico), and Ereneida Duarte Ocampo (Mexico) in Siler City, N.C.; Juana Pascual (Guatemala) and Agustina Lopez (Guatemala) in Morganton, N.C.; Octavia Mendoza (Mexico) in Kernersville, N.C.; and Gloria Munoz (Mexico) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Exhibit materials include text for the explanatory panels for the exhibit and copies of the printed publications associated with the exhibit and the Festival for the Eno. Some of this material is in Spanish. Photographs include portraits of artists, examples of their work, and the documentation of the actual exhibit. Audio tapes are fieldwork interviews with the artists conducted in Spanish with the assistance of a translator. Tapelogs are also included.
Comic books and other graphic material produced by United States-born Latino writers and artists. Some publications document Latino experiences and culture, while others cover more generalized topics. Items include mainstream comics, self-published zines, graphic novels, graphic posters, promotional materials, and realia.
Sylvia Louise Arrowood Latshaw was a teacher and also a neighbor and friend of author Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968).
The collection includes chiefly bills and accounts for purchases, mostly 1799-1816, legal papers, and a few business letters of James Latta (1755-1837), farmer and merchant of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and York District, S.C.
The collection of Barbara Lau (1958- ), a white folklorist and program coordinator based in North Carolina, contains materials, 1979-1984, related to Lau's folklife projects on African American shape-note singing in the Midwest, as well as materials, 1993-2008, connected to her fieldwork with Cambodian American communities in North Carolina. Documentation of Lau's work with African American shape-note singing groups in the early 1980s includes her senior thesis, Black Shape-Note Singing: A Beginning, along with surveys on which she based her writing. Also included are photographs, audio recordings, and slides from the 1983 Shape-Note Singing Reunion in Saint Louis, Mo., and the Ohio-Indiana-Michigan Vocal Singing Convention, 1983-1984. Materials documenting Cambodian American communities of North Carolina include color slides and prints by Lau and photographer Cedric Chatterley of the 1995 Cambodian New Year celebration, photographs of New Year celebrations in Lexington, N.C., and Charlotte, N.C., and videotapes by Jim White and photographs by Lau of a 1995 Cambodian wedding in Greensboro, N.C. Lau also interviewed two Cambodian dancers, Chea Khan and Chaa Moly Sam, while they were in residence at the Greensboro Buddhist Center and photographed their classes. The majority of photographs and interviews have extensive logs with commentary and field note summaries by Lau. Additions to the collection include interviews and supporting documentation created by Lau in preparation for a 2003 exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Museum entitled From Cambodia to Greensboro: Tracing the Journeys of New North Carolinians; a children's book with text, 2004, by Barbara Lau and photographs by Cedric Chatterley entitled Sokita Celebrates the New Year; and additional audio and video recordings, photographs, and research materials, 1996-2006, related to Barbara Lau's fieldwork documenting Cambodian American communities of Greensboro, N.C. and Charlotte, N.C.
Photographs, color slides, audio and video recordings, and documentary project files comprise the bulk of the Lau and Chatterley Collection. Barbara A. Lau (1958-), a white documentarian and folklorist, and Cedric Chatterley (1956-), a white photographer, collaborated during the 1990s and early 2000s on exhibits, workshops, and publications about communities of Cambodian and Montagnard Dega refugees and immigrants in Greensboro, N.C. Audio and video recordings contain oral history interviews, Buddhist sermons and chanting, Khmer music and dance, and traditional ceremonies and celebrations including the Cambodian new year. Photographic materials depict members of the Greensboro communities, the Buddhist temples, and events such as the Khmer Traditional Dance and Music Workshop. Projects represented in the collection include "From Cambodia to Greensboro: Tracing the Journeys of New North Carolinians," "The Original Children of Dega: Legends of the Montagnard-Dega People Remembered by the Refugee Communities of North Carolina," and "The Third Boat: Negotiating Cambodian Identity in North Carolina." Project files contain proposals, grant applications, budgets, research materials, field work, and transcriptions of oral history interviews.
Diary containing monthly entries concerning the health, personal activities, and children's development in the family of John B. Laurens, planter near Charleston, S.C., and his wife, Caroline. The Laurens lived first at Mepkin Plantation on the Cooper River and then moved to Cedar Hill. The diary contains references to Charleston social life, members of the Ball family, the Laurens's trip to Europe, and John's death during the return voyage.
Business records of the Laurinburg & Southern Railroad Company, short-line railroad that runs from Raeford, N.C. to Laurinburg, N.C., and its subsidiaries including the Red Springs & Northern Railroad, Robeson County Railroad, Fairmont & Western Railroad, Franklin County Railroad, Nash County Railroad, Yadkin Valley Railroad, and Saltville Railroad (in Virginia). Records include correspondence, board minutes, financial and legal files, reports and photographs of railroad accidents, records of track repair and maintenance, permitting and Authority for Expenditure (AFE) documents, and other administrative and financial papers.
The collection of white photojournalist and educator, Jonathan "Jock" Lauterer (b. 1945), consists of black-and-white photographic prints and black-and-white negatives, including 35mm and 120mm roll film relating to Lauterer’s tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a student, 1964-1968. The images chiefly depict the UNC Men’s Glee Club European Tour of 1966. Also included are images depicting individuals; the UNC campus; town of Chapel Hill, and sporting events. Images of interest depict anti-war protests; marches and speeches of the Civil Rights Movement; and a Ku Klux Klan rally. Individuals include Frank Porter Graham, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Dean Smith. For a complete list of individuals, see Subject Headings.
MICROFILM ONLY. Papers, 1860-1864, collected by Confederate general Evander McIvor Law, consisting of official correspondence of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869) and Milledge Luke Bonham (1813-1890), Confederate governors of South Carolina, with South Carolina government officials, other Confederate governors, Confederate military leaders and government officials, relating to the problems of raising and supplying troops and assuring a stable and solvent government during the disorders of war.
The McDonald family of Georgia and South Carolina included Charles McDonald (born 1744); his wife, Mary Glas McDonald; their son, Charles James McDonald (1793-1860), all of Hancock County, Ga., and others, of other locations in Georgia and South Carolina.
Alfred Stratton Lawrence was rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1921-1943. He was also involved in the founding of the Chapel Hill School of Religion. Lawrence served as examining chaplain, secretary, and registrar for the Diocese of North Carolina.
Joshua Lawrence (1778-1843), of Tarboro, N.C., was an elder in the Primitive Baptist church.
Alexander Robert Lawton of Savannah, Ga., was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier and quartermaster general, president of the American Bar Association, Georgia state legislator, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-1889.
Family and business correspondence, chiefly 1830s, and some financial papers, including slave bills of sale, of Laxton, merchant and postmaster at Collettesville (originally Burke County, later Caldwell County), N.C. Correspondence deals with buying and selling merchandise and with family and community matters, and includes one 1839 letter describing land for sale in Cherokee country.
George William Lay was an Episcopal clergyman and teacher or rector of St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C.; St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.; and academies in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York.
Henry C. Lay was an Episcopal clergyman and bishop. Lay preached to the Army of Tennessee at times during the Civil War.
The collection is a photocopy of genealogical notes, 1954-1955, by Stewart Ward Lay (born 1894) of Geneva, N.Y., on the descendants of Robert Lay (1654-1742) of Saybrook, Conn., and other branches of the Lay family which spread from Connecticut to New York, Illinois, and other parts of the United States.
James Sexton Layton, a writer, was born in Smithfield, N.C., about 1910. In 1961, Layton published The Enchanted Garden: A Poet's Quest (New York: Vantage Press). The collection contains a draft of a novel titled Love and War, journals, diaries, notebooks, and letters of James Sexton Layton. The journals and diaries document Layton's social and intellectual life, including visiting, reading, writing, and similar activities, in Chapel Hill, N.C., and during his military service in World War II and when he lived in Europe following the war. Journals, 1947-1967, were dictated and then typed. Diaries, 1930-1990, are handwritten, except for the war diaries, which are typed. Letters include volumes in which Layton transcribed letters sent and received by him. The addition of 2004 includes journals, diaries, and letters that fill chronological gaps in the original deposit. Also included are college essays, poetry, some fiction and non-fiction writings that reflect on wartime service, autobiographical fiction, and a few miscellaneous items documenting Layton's work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Latvia. Also included are hundreds of horoscopes and palmistry studies, a few unidentified photographs, and a Purple Heart for Military Merit medal.
Robert Lazenby (1786-1828) of Iredell County, N.C., was a school master and farmer.
Claude Le Vert of Alabama was a French immigrant who served in the American Revolution.
Emma Florence LeConte was the daughter of scientist Joseph LeConte.
William Lea (1777?-1873), was a merchant of Leasburg, N.C. He had three sons: Willis M., who became a physician and settled in Mississippi; Lorenzo, Methodist minister and teacher in Tennessee and Mississippi; and Solomon (1807-1897), Methodist minister and schoolmaster at Boydton, Greensboro, and Leasburg. Solomon's six daughters included Adeline, Lilianne, Eugenia, and Wilhelmina (1843-1936).
Calvin Leach was born in 1843 and served as a church clerk in Montgomery County, N.C., before he joined the first North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, in September 1861. He died near Mechanicsville, Va., in June 1864.
Hugh Leach (1814-1887) resided in Moore County, N.C.
James Thomas Leach (1805-1883) was a physician, Whig anti-secessionist, and member of the Confederate Congress, of Johnston County, N.C.
The collection contains records, beginning in 1947, of the League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Materials are chiefly minutes, financial records, voter services files, special project files, pamphlets, and newsletters.
Chiefly financial records of John W. Leak (1816-1876), a white plantation owner and enslaver in Rockingham, N.C., and Cheraw, Chesterfield District, S.C., , and family papers, 1877-1897, of his daughter Fannie Leak Wall and son-in-law Henry Clay Wall (1841-1899). Materials include plantation journals and account books that document the labor, skills, and knowledge of enslaved people, some of whom are identified by name, and occasionally their health and acts of resistance; business correspondence with commission merchants; personal accounts; Henry Clay Wall's autograph book, 1861, kept while he was a student at the University of North Carolina and his diary, 1862, in Virginia while serving in the 23rd North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A., and in 1869; and Fannie Leak Wall's diary, 1869-1870; and scrapbooks. Also included are a record of the Rockingham Sabbath School, 1833-1847, and financial records, 1861-1864, for the Richmond County (N.C.) Relief Committee for the Families of Volunteers.
Francis Terry Leak was a cotton planter and businessman of Tippah (now Benton) County, Miss. The collection includes manuscript volumes containing entries of various types, most of which are presumed to have been written by Francis Terry Leak. With the exception of one volume consisting chiefly of work records of plantation hands, largely slaves, the greater portion of each volume contains Leak's diary/plantation journal. Some entries contain brief references to the number of acres plowed and the weather on a given day, while others are substantive narrative passages about plantation, family, and community life, ranging from trips through the South that were undertaken by family or friends to the progress of the Civil War. Other sections of these volumes are devoted to records of miscellaneous accounts, including those relating to cotton shipped and sold, goods and services purchased from various sources, transactions involving the loaning or collecting of money, and other activities having to do with finances.
John George Leake (1752-1827), of England and New York, founded the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum. He died intestate in New York City, N.Y. This collection contains papers relating to the legal dispute of claims to the land holdings in New York City, New Jersey, Florida, and England of John George Leake. Among the claimants was Sarah Leake Spalding of Georgia. Papers include notes, memorials, interrogatories, genealogies, and other evidence supporting various claims; correspondence of lawyers in Scotland, New York, and New Jersey; and other material relating to the claims pressed by collateral descendants for over 70 years. Also included are about 90 items--business correspondence, bills, and receipts, chiefly 1790s, some relating to slaves--of Sarah Leake Spalding's father, Richard Leake (died 1802) of St. Simons and Darien, Ga., and her husband, Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), cotton planters of Savannah and Sapelo Island, Ga.
Papers include an invitation, 1845, to the funeral of John L. Leary (1818-1845), a white resident of Chowan County, N.C.; a notice of tax assessment, 1865, Chowan County, N.C.; and a commission, 1879, of W. J. Leary, a white medical doctor, as surgeon in the First Battalion, Infantry, North Carolina State Guard.
Lewis Gaston Leary was an English professor and scholar. Leary taught English at the University of Miami, 1935-1941; Duke University, 1941-1951; Columbia University, 1951-1968, serving as department chairman, 1962-1968; and was William Rand Kenan Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-1976.
Papers of Leavenworth, railroad engineer of Petersburg, Va., and Shreveport, La., including family correspondence and personal business papers, chiefly 1873-1907, concerning Leavenworth's personal and real property, credit, and insurance, as well as his real estate and surveying activities; a personal diary, 1911, at Petersburg; and engineering notes, 1874, concerning soundings in the Bayou region of Louisiana. Included is correspondence among members of theLeavenworth family: Frederick Peabody Leavenworth; his father, the Reverend Abner Johnson Leavenworth (1803-1869), Presbyterian clergyman and teacher, and president of Leavenworth Female College in Petersburg; his wife, Eliza Leavenworth; his daughter, Hester Leavenworth; and his aunt, Mary Ann Peabody of Petersburg.
The Matthew Leavitt Photographs consist of images taken by photographer, Matthew Leavitt, depicting scenes from several protests, marches, and rallies on women's rights, gun control, immigration, and science, held in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, N.C., between February 2017 and March 2018. Events depicted in the collection include the "No Ban, No Wall, Rally," "Women's Rally," "Womens March," "March for Science," and "March For Our Lives."
Sturgis Elleno Leavitt (1888-1976) was born in Newhall, Me. In 1914, he bagan his teaching career at the University of North Carolina, advancing through the ranks to Kenan Professor of Spanish and retiring in 1960. He was a widely recognized expert in Spanish literature and wrote and spoke extensively on the teaching of Spanish and on Pan-American international relations.
The Ledbetter family resided mainly in Haywood County, N.C. Members included Richard Ledbetter, Coleman Ledbetter, William Ledbetter, and Laura Ledbetter.
Jesse I. Ledbetter (1922-2015), of Buncombe County, N.C., served as a U.S. Army Air Corps B-24 bomber pilot with the 485th Bomber Group, 831st Bomb Squadron in Venosa, Italy during World War II. The Jesse I. Ledbetter Reminiscence documents a 26 July 1944 bombing mission to Vienna, Austria.
The recordings on open-reel audio tape contain performances by the all-female string band the Coon Creek Girls led by claw hammer banjo player and fiddler Lily May Ledford of Powell County, Ky., solo performances by Ledford, and interviews with Ledford and other musicians. One performance by the Coon Creek Girls was originally recorded at the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1939. Also included are brief notes about each tape made by Ledford's granddaughter, Cari Norris of Hindman, Ky., who donated the tapes. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Audio recordings on open-reel audio tape and 8-track tape contain live performances from the early 1970s of Steve Ledford and Roan Mountain, undated home recordings of A.W. Ledford, and country, old time, and gospel music dubbed from 78 rpm records. Musical artists on the recordings include the Skillet Lickers, The Carter Family, James Gardner, Steve Ledford and the Carolina Ramblers, George Jones, and Roy Acuff. Field notes accompanying the recordings include track lists. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Materials, primarily 1890-1953 and centering around the life and career of white country musician William Ledgerwood, include Ledgerwood family genealogical records and photographs; business correspondence and publicity clippings related to Ledgerwood's Tennessee Fiddlers; and sound recordings, chiefly of country music. Photographs are largely from William Ledgerwood's childhood and youth in Grainger County, Tenn., and Rutledge, Tenn. Also included are photographs of the original Ledgerwood's Tennessee Fiddlers in Warren, Ohio. Band business and publicity materials include correspondence and clippings from newspapers either reviewing or advertising the band's appearances. Sound recordings are primarily home-recorded acetate discs and reel-to-reel tapes, some recorded after the band had stopped performing publicly. The recordings preserve a wide array of traditional country songs performed mainly by members of Ledgerwood's Tennessee Fiddlers. Included are recordings of William Ledgerwood, Gladys Ledgerwood, and Fred Ledgerwood, as well as other musicians who worked with the band, including Mack McGraw. Also included are three cassette recordings of interviews with Leland Ledgerwood.
The Lee family is an African American family with roots in Caswell County, N.C. The collection documents multiple generations of the Lee family, including J. Kenneth Lee (1923- ), and Dr. Winona L. (Lee) Fletcher (1926- ), and their siblings. J. Kenneth Lee is a lawyer in Greensboro, N.C., and was one of the first two African American students to attend the School of Law at the University of North Carolina in 1951. Dr. Winona L. Fletcher is a theater educator and professional and a family historian. The collection includes biographical information about family members, especially research and supplementary materials for the publication of two Lee family books: No Way: Memoirs of J. Kenneth Lee and Offshoots: The H. F. Lee Family Book. Winona L. Fletcher's career in theater, J. Kenneth Lee's career in law, and Olivia Fletcher Baylor's childhood and adolescence are also documented. Materials include correspondence, photographs, oral histories and other recordings of family stories, funeral programs, news clippings, family member profiles, and printed materials.
MICROFILM ONLY. Articles, 1935, on the use of the term Civil War, the burning of Columbia, S.C., and other aspects of the Civil War by Mrs. John Huske Anderson, national historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Mrs. A. Matthews of Asheville, N.C.; biographical sketches and other items concerning Stephen Lee (1801-1879) and Thomas Lee (1769- 1839); and other items.
Lee and Spencer was a Charleston, S.C., cotton brokerage firm. The collection includes records of Lee and Spencer, including a sales book, a day book, a cash book, and a ledger.
MICROFILM ONLY. Miscellaneous letters of the Lee and Marshall families, including letters, 1818-1819, from Charles Carter Lee (1798-1871) at Harvard; letters to and from William L. Marshall of Baltimore, Md., about family and social matters; and letters, 1867-1870, from Mary Custis (Mrs. R. E.) Lee to her niece, Florence Burke, about family matters and the plunder of Arlington during the Civil War.
The collection contains an unascribed account, 1862, of the use of the locomotive engine, General, by Union spies in Georgia and an essay concerning Stoneman's Raid, 1865, by Theodore Buerbaum. Three photostats are also included: a time table for the Western North Carolina Railroad, a newspaper article on George M. Pullman, and a picture of the General.
The collection contains a brief letter, 17 May [1812?], from Henry Lee to his brother Richard Bland Lee, written from Turk's Island, West Indies, presumably following Henry Lee's escape from Baltimore, about his condition and plans, and a sketch, written by Thomas Ruffin of Washington, D.C., in September 1947, on the letter's history and context.
The collection of Howard Lee (1934- ), African American politician, social worker, and public officer in North Carolina from the late 1960s through the early 2000s, is primarily composed of correspondence, written speeches and addresses, newspaper clippings, photographs, campaign materials, and audio recordings of speeches. The collection documents Lee's tenure as the first black mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C.; his campaigns for public office including the Chapel Hill mayoral office, North Carolina statewide offices, and a United States congressional seat; his role and more generally the limited role of African Americans in the North Carolina Democratic Party; and his extensive career as a public speaker on topics of social welfare and reform, African American political and civic leadership, economic conditions and poverty, social work, institutional racism and race relations, public schools and education, and civil rights and social justice. Scattered materials reflect his early social work career as a probation officer for a juvenile court in Savannah, Ga. The collection also contains a few family photographs and a small amount of material related to Lee's songwriting including audio recordings. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection is a letter, dated February 1865 but according to an accompanying note actually written many years after that, from Julia Lee to Mrs. J. Hardy Lee, describing the burning of Columbia, S.C., in February 1865.
J. Kenneth Lee, lawyer of Greensboro, N.C., who became one of the first two African Americans to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lee received his Juris Doctoris degree in 1952 and was subsequently involved in over 1,700 civil rights lawsuits during his 38 years of legal practice. Papers relate primarily to J. Kenneth Lee's lawsuit to attend the University of North at Chapel Hill's School of Law, where, in June 1951, he and Harvey Beech became the first African Americans to enroll after a lengthy lawsuit and appeal against the University. Included are copies of court papers, photographs of Beech and Lee registering and attending class, and copies of newspaper clippings describing the court battle and the University's reaction. Also included are some materials pertaining to the Law School at the North Carolina College at Durham (formerly the North Carolina College for Negroes and currently North Carolina Central University).
Correspondence and clippings of Jackson F. Lee (1920- ) of Fayetteville, N.C., who was chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, 1976-1981. Correspondence is comprised of letters written to Lee, primarily about making contributions to the Republican Party or to thank him for his work for the GOP. Many of the letters are from local Republican Party officials or from national figures, such as Jack Kemp and Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont. Clippings are from various North Carolina papers and are primarily concerned with reporting on Republican Party activities, including state and national campaigns and conventions. Some of the articles are about Lee and some are about national candidates, such as Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan.
Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the Confederate Army and military advisor to Jefferson Davis, 1861-1862; commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865; general in chief of all Confederate armies, 1865; president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1865-1870.
Native of South Carolina and president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1880-1899. Papers of Lieut. Gen. Lee include miscellaneous collected letters, 1784-1860, of prominent American political figures, including John Quincy Adams, Judah B. Benjamin, Henry Clay, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, J. L. Petigru, Franklin M. Pierce, and Martin Van Buren. Civil War materials include letters from Lee to his wife; letters from friends, many of whom were Confederate officials, including Patton Anderson, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan B. Forrest, Roy L. Gibson, William J. Hardee, J. B. Hood, O. O. Howard, and Leonidas Polk; and military correspondence from Braxton Bragg, George William Brent, Abraham Buford, Nathan B. Forrest, Joseph E. Johnston, J. B. Magruder, Alex. P. Stewart, and Richard Taylor. Postwar correspondence includes letters from Jefferson Davis, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, J. E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, R. D. Lilley, James Longstreet, W. N. Pendleton, R. B. Rhett, Jr., and Raphael Semmes. Other items include a diary recording the fall of Fort Sumpter and other events of 1861; personal and professional correspondence, 1909-1929, of Lee's son, Blewett Harrison Lee (b. 1867), lawyer of Chicago and New York; and genealogical data on the Blewett family of Mississippi, the Earle family of South Carolina, the de Graffenried family of Switzerland and North Carolina, the Hampton family of South Carolina, the Harris family of Virginia, the Harrison family of South Carolina and Mississippi, the Lee family of South Carolina and Mississippi, and the family of Samuel Taylor (d. 1798).
Walter H. Lee (fl. 1860-1891) resided in Asheville, N.C.
David McMichen Lees (1807-1872) was the son of William Lees and Jane Lees of Mecklenburg County, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1829.
Sophie Lyon Egleston Lees spent her early life in Mobile and Demopolis, Ala., and later lived in the San Joaquin Valley of California, 1866-1870, and near Redding, Calif., 1875-1877.
John S. Lefevre (d. ca. 1955) was an educator and Presbyterian leader in Burnsville, N.C., who was principal of McCormick School in Burnsville, which was modeled after the Danish folk schools, and later worked with rural churches.
Hugh Talmage Lefler, Kenan Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. Papers, 1800s-1977, primarily notes, writings, copies of articles, and clippings, all pertaining to Lefler and/or the colonial history of North Carolina and other English colonies. Some materials relate to the Southern Historical Association.
Joel Leftwich (1759-1846) was an army officer, state legislator, and justice of the peace, of Bedford County, Va. The collection includes correspondence and other papers of Leftwich, including letters, 1812-1814, from him to his wife Nancy relating to War of 1812 military campaigns and conditions in camps in Virginia and Maryland; letters from members of his family, especially his nephew, Robert Leftwich, 1823-1828; a scrapbook containing a certificate for service in the Revolutionary War and commissions to the ranks of captain, brigadier general, and major general in the Virginia militia; letters from members of the Otey family; and newspaper clippings.
Bills of sale for slaves purchased by Legare of Edisto Island and mortgage of Legare slaves to Eliza A. and Ann B. Peronneau.
John Sidney Algernon Ashe Legare (born 1835) was a native of Charleston, S.C., and a cousin of Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843). The collection is a typed transcription of Memories from the Life a Ne'er do Weal, anecdotes of his childhood in Charleston, S.C., and on a trip to Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y., some of which mention Hugh Swinton Legare.
Thomas Legare was a commission merchant in Charleston, S.C., in the 1760s and 1770s.
Letter from Mejevrouw A. Legerstee in Amsterdam, Holland, to Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, Raleigh, N.C., thanking her for the coal she gave his family, describing the conditions in Holland during and just after World War II, and expressing gratitude from the Dutch to the American people.
Leigh and Winslow family members included planters James Leigh (1781-1854) and his son, Edward Augustus Leigh (1825-1901) of Land's End plantation, Perquimans County, N.C., and Julian Emmitt Winslow (1897-1975), great grandson of James Leigh, an oil jobber and fertilizer manufacturer. Julian Emmitt Winslow was also a flight instructor during World War I and served in the North Carolina Senate in 1949, 1951, 1959, 1961, and 1965.
Benjamin Watkins Leigh was born in 1831 in Richmond, Va. Leigh practiced law until he enlisted as a captain in the Confederate army on 21 May 1861, receiving a commission in the 1st Batallion, Virginia Infantry Regiment. By June 1863, he had been transferred to the 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and promoted to full major. Leigh died in the Battle of Gettysburg on 3 July 1863.
The collection contains lecture notes of a medical student at the hospitals of Guy's and St. Thomas's, London.
Unpublished manuscript with maps entitled The Tribal Hidage or First English Census by Ernest Gustave Lemcke, a study of the so-called Tribal Hidage, printed in Birch, dealing with the geography and demographics of England in the 7th century.
Sallie S. Billmyer Lemen was a Shepherdstown, W.Va., native and attended the Hagerstown Female Seminary in Hagerstown, Md., from approximately 1860 to the early 1870s. She later married W. N. Newt Lemen.
Consists of four letters (three typed, and one handwritten) from Thomas Wolfe, a white author, to Elizabeth Lemmon, a white Virginia socialite. The letters, all written in 1934, relate to Lemmon’s invitation to visit her, as well as the status of his work. Also contains one typed draft, inscribed to Lemmon from white book editor Maxwell Perkins, of the Irish literary critic Mary Colum's 1935 review of Wolfe’s Of Time and the River, published in the magazine The Forum and Century.
Washington A. Lemons of Greene County, Tenn., was born in 1833. He served in the Union Army's Company C, 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 6 October 1863-16 August 1865, in locations throughout western North Carolina, including Deep Gap, Boone, and Asheville.
The Lenoir family settled primarily in North Carolina and Tennessee. This collection consists largely of personal letters addressed to Albert Sobieski Lenoir (1803-1861) and Catharine Frieling Welcker (Lenoir) and to George Lewis Welcker (d. 1848), from their large family connection in North Carolina and Tennessee and from Welcker's friends in the army. There are also papers relating to Albert S. Lenoir's work as Federal issuing agent to the Cherokee Indians, and his business and planting interests, and to Welcker's army engineering work. The later papers are of the next generation. The seventeen volumes are farm records, commonplace books, and albums.
Lenoir family members include William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general and N.C. politician of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C.; Lenoir's friend and father in law of two of Lenoir's sons Waightstill Avery, lawyer, legislator, and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration; and his son in law Israel Pickens, N.C. congressman, 1811-1817, governor of Alabama, 1821-1825, and U.S. senator from Alabama, 1826. Also important are William Lenoir's children, especially William Ballard Lenoir of Roane County, Tenn.; Thomas and his wife Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir of Fort Defiance; and Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Boone County, Mo. Much material relates to Thomas and Selina's children, especially William Avery Lenoir; Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir of Fort Defiance; Walter Waightstill, a lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Isabella Christian Lenoir; Thomas Isaac and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir of the family plantation at East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C.; Rufus Theodore and his wife Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir of Fort Defiance; son in law Joseph Caldwell Norwood, a teacher in Hillsborough, N.C.; and cousin William Bingham of the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C. There is also material relating to the children of Rufus and Sallie, including Thomas Ballard of Fort Defiance; Rufus Theodore, Jr., of Athens, Ga., and his wife Clyde Lyndon Lenoir; and to members of the related Avery, Norwood, and Pickens families.
The Lenoir family and Patterson family of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Andrew Henry Patterson, and others.
The collection contains two volumes Lenoir County, N.C., including a ledger (288 pages), 1868-1888, of James W. Blount, containing physician's accounts and memoranda and a daily record (200 pages), 1870-1872, of cash sales of George W. Camp and his partners, R. L. Wooten and John J. Coleman, in an unidentified business at Kinston, N.C.
George Lensing is a white scholar of modern American poetry known particularly for his work on Wallace Stevens. He joined the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969 and served in that department until his retirement in 2016. During his time at UNC-Chapel Hill, Lensing served in numerous administrative roles, including secretary of the faculty, director of the English honors program, assistant dean of honors in the College of Arts and Sciences, advisory board member for the Campus Y, member of the Morehead and Robertson scholarship committees, and member of the chancellor's award committee. He also served as the faculty adviser to the Order of the Golden Fleece, a campus honor organization. Papers relate primarily to Lensing's service to the university and consist largely of correspondence with chancellors and other university figures, 1970s-2017. Included are photographs of several UNC chancellors as well as United States president Bill Clinton, who spoke at University Day in 1993. Also included is a small series of U.S. national political memorabilia, 1960-1977, collected by Lensing.
John F. Leonard (1843-1924) was a federal soldier in the 125th Illinois Regiment during the Civil War. The collection is chiefly Civil War letters from Leonard written while he was serving in Tennessee and Georgia, to his family and friends in Vermilion County, Ill., with some letters from them and other family members. Leonard's letters discuss camp life, troop movements, discontent among soldiers, conditions in army hospitals where he was a patient, and personal matters. Also included are war items including copies of his United States Army veteran's records.
The collection includes papers created and accumulated by William S. Leonard and his brother, Isam Leonard, sons of Jacob Leonard of South Bridgewater, Mass. William came to North Carolina in 1819 with New England goods to sell, and remained for over a year in Hertford, Perquimans County, as a school teacher. The next year he and his brother opened a store in Hertford which they operated for several years, returning to Massachusetts over the summers. In 1822 they moved their business to Windsor, Bertie County, N.C. In 1825 they both became ill, William died, and Isam moved back to Massachusetts, returning to North Carolina the next year to close the business. The papers consist of letters between the brothers, correspondence with another brother, L. W. (Levi Washburn) Leonard, a Unitarian minister in Dublin, N.H., and with their father; a few letters from North Carolinians, especially Edward Wood and John S. Wood, of Hertford; and letters and other papers from commission merchants in Boston, New Bedford, New York, and elsewhere. The later items deal with efforts to collect money owed to the Leonards, and with later members of the family. There is one letter, 16 May 1862, written by a Union soldier from Massachusetts while in New Bern, N.C.
Joseph W. Lesesne (died 1856), a South Carolina native, was a lawyer and judge in Mobile, Ala. Lesesne supported states' rights and in the 1840s was identified with the Whigs. The collection includes photocopies and typed transcript copies of papers of Joseph W. Lesesne. The papers consist of correspondence from prominent politicians discussing elections and current issues, including six from John C. Calhoun.
Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864), was born in Virginia and lived in Alabama from 1836 to 1854, when he moved to San Francisco, Ca. He was author of Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (1853), Party Leaders (1855), and Flush Times of California (1966), and was a justice on the California Supreme Court.
William Edward Leuchtenburg is a historian whose primary scholarly focus has been the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the continuing influence of Roosevelt's New Deal programs on the United States. Leuchtenburg had long teaching careers at both Columbia University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has held positions in several major historical organizations. Leuchtenburg has written extensively on the American presidency and frequently appears as a political analyst on radio and television and in documentary films.
Contains materials collected by white writer, entrepreneur, and business consultant Lester J. Levine. Materials include concert and festival ephemera, Newport Folk Festival photographs, photographs and newspaper clippings documenting events in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a memorial service program and newspaper documenting the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert and festival ephemera includes three concert ticket stubs: Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I., 26 July 1964; Joan Baez at Wait Chapel in Winston-Salem, N.C., 12 March 1965; and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C., 19 March 1965. Also includes a flyer for Joan Baez and Bob Dylan In Concert, 19 March 1965; an autographed festival program for the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; a reprint of "The Folk Scene" issue of Cavalier, July 1965; a program for the American Folk Festival at the Asheville Auditorium, Asheville, N.C., 25 June 1963; a concert program for "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Celebration of Songwriting and Singing," presented by WHYY-FM and Sing Out!, featuring Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and others, 22 May 1994; and a program for the 1970 Jubilee Music Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as photographs taken at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival workshops. Individuals photographed include musicians Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, and Theodore Bikel. There are also 24 photographs, circa 1966, taken in Chapel Hill, N.C., including images of a "Beat Duke" parade, an art festival, the Jubilee music festival, and the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue. Newspaper clippings document an outdoor fire sale at the Chapel Hill record store Kemp's and a clipping from the Newport Daily News relating to the Newport Folk Festival, 1964. There is also an issue of the Daily Tar Heel about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the headline "KING KILLED," 5 April 1968, as well as a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial service program, 7 April 1968. The memorial service was organized by the Ministerial Alliance for the Chapel Hill Community, 7 April 1968. Materials range in date from 1964 to 1994, with most materials dating from 1964 to 1970.
The collection includes family correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items of the extended family of Exum Lewis (d. circa 1839), a white planter, postmaster, and county court justice in Edgecombe County, N.C. Most of the papers relate to eastern North Carolina, but there are a number of letters from family members in Alabama and Mississippi. Topics discussed include health, births and deaths, clothing, agriculture, and other routine matters. There are a number of letters from family members and friends that discuss 19th-century student life at the University of North Carolina. Political matters are only mentioned occasionally, and Civil War letters dwell chiefly on concerns of the homefront. There are also records relating to land sales, purchases, and ownership; items relating to plantation business, including the condition of slaves; an 1857 travel diary, perhaps belonging to Ivey Foreman Lewis (1833-1884), describing a trip to Europe; and notes for lectures, 1883-1887, on physiology and hygiene by Richard Henry Lewis (1832-1917). There are also photograph albums and scrapbooks relating to Richard Henry Lewis's grandson McDaniel Lewis (1894-1978) and his first wife Lynnwood Cook Lewis (1896-1964), their daughters Margaret (b. 1920) and Mary Lynn (b. 1926), and their grandchildren.
Lewis Dormitory was built in 1924. The collection includes a certificate of appreciation from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and two photos from 1989 showing Lewis Dormitory residents. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Lewis family arrived in Raleigh, N.C., in 1923, when John D. Lewis Sr. took a job as a district manager for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham, N.C. He and his wife, Luella Alice Cox Lewis, and their two children, J.D. Lewis (John D. Lewis Jr.) (1919-2007) and Vera Lewis Embree (1921-2004), lived in southeast Raleigh and were members of First Baptist Church. J.D. Lewis was a Morehouse College graduate, one of the first African American members of the United States Marine Corps, and the first African American radio and television personality, corporate director of personnel, and director of minority affairs for WRAL of the Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC). J.D. Lewis also worked as the special markets representative for the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company; as the project director of GROW, Incorporated, a federally funded program for high school dropouts; and as the coordinator of manpower planning for the state of North Carolina. Lewis was active in many civic and community organizations as well. Vera Lewis Embree (1921-2004) graduated from the Palmer Institute for Young Women and Hampton Institute. She built a successful and celebrated career as a choreographer and professor of dance at the University of Michigan. The collection consists of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials that chiefly relate to J.D. Lewis's working life and the civic and community organizations he supported. Lewis's career is documented by materials from Capitol Broadcasting Company, including editorials he wrote and produced; GROW, Incorporated; Manpower; Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company; National Association of Market Developers; and the National Business League. Lewis's civic leadership is evident in records of the Raleigh Community Relations Committee, which worked to integrate Raleigh public schools; political campaigns; and the Team of Progress, a group interested in political leadership at the city and county levels of government. Community organizations represented in the collection include the Garner Road YMCA; Alpha Kappa Alpha Debutante Ball; the Eastside Neighborhood Task Force; the Citizens Committee on Schools; Omega Psi Phi; and Meadowbrook Country Club, which was founded in 1959 by a small group of African American community leaders. Other materials document the Method Post Office dedication in 1965; the Montford Point Marine Association; and a youth charrette, possibly on integration of Durham schools. There are also clippings and printed materials on such topics as black power, African American history, Morehouse College, and Shaw University. There are several issues of Perfect Home, a home design and decorating magazine published by John W. Winters, a real estate broker, home builder, city councilman, state senator, and civic leader. Family materials are mainly biographical and include newspaper clippings, funeral programs, school materials, awards and certificates, and photographs. There are a few family letters, including one from 1967 with a first-hand account of rioting on Twelfth Street in Detroit and a copy of a 10 January 1967 letter in which the Lewis family opposed the selection of Mark Twain's Mississippi Melody for student performance on the grounds that it perpetuated stereotyped images of African Americans. Photographs include portraits and snapshots of four generations of the Lewis and related Cox families, documenting family life from the 1910s through the 2000s. There are non-family group portraits of Omega Psi Phi members of Durham, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company employees on its 21st anniversary, and of unidentified groups at other civic and community events. There is one folder of J.D. Lewis photographs that depict him in various work contexts. Also included is a portrait of a young Clarence Lightner, who owned a funeral home business and later served as the first African American mayor of Raleigh. Audiovisual materials chiefly relate to J.D. Lewis's work at Capitol Broadcasting Company/WRAL and his interest in African American community and history. Included are audiotapes of his editorials for WRAL; videotape of Harambee, a public affairs program about the concerns of the general public and especially African Americans; audiotape of musical performances, possibly for Teen-Age Frolic, a teenage dance and variety show; audiotape of Adventures in Negro History, an event sponsored by Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Raleigh; and film of unidentified wedding and seashore scenes. Also included are several published educational film strips on African American history with accompanying audio and the professional website of Yvonne Lewis Holley, relating to her work as an elected representative for North Carolina House District 38, 2013-2021, and her candidacy for lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020.
Burwell Boykin Lewis was a Confederate officer from Alabama. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the United States Congress, and as president of the University of Alabama.
E. Percival (Exum Percival) Lewis (1863-1926), native of Edgecombe County, N.C., was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mrs. Earl Lewis of Knightdale, N.C., was a homemaker and community volunteer active with her church and the local parent-teacher association, in the early 1950s. The Lewis family appears to have been involved in tobacco cultivation.
Letters and other items of George W. Lewis of Leaksville, Rockingham County, N.C., and, after about 1854, of Jackson and Brandon, Miss. Lewis was a merchant dealing primarily in dry goods. The papers document family concerns and business dealings, especially the purchase and transportation of merchandise from the North in the years after the Civil War. Some letters refer to the status of African Americans just after the Civil War.
Letters to Mrs. John S. Lewis, Woodville, Miss., from her sons, John, Harry, and Fletcher, with the 16th Mississippi Infantry in northern Virginia. Many of these are vivid, detailed, literate letters from Harry Lewis discussing camp life, abilities of officers including General Carnot Posey, the usefulness of a slave he brought with him, his reasons for fighting, his efforts to live a Christian life in camp, the Chancellorsville Campaign, the battle of Fredericksburg, preparations for the Gettysburg Campaign, and the battle of Gettysburg.
Henry Wilkins Lewis was a faculty member and director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; active layman of the Episcopal Church; and authority on North Carolina family genealogy and the history of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina. Correspondence, diaries, and other papers document Lewis's academic career as a student, faculty member, and administrator; his army career during World War II; travel to Europe, 1953-1983; the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Episcopal Church in North Carolina; other legal, financial, and educational organizations and institutions in North Carolina and Virginia; and family history, chiefly property and business interests, including the Wilkins Texas Corporation, an oil well drilling company in South Texas.
Henry Lewis (1792-1879) was a student at the University of North Carolina in 1810-1811; received the M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1814; and practiced medicine in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va. The collection includes prescriptions and lecture notes written by Lewis while a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Lewis family, of Hale and Marengo counties, Ala., owned several plantations before and after the Civil War.
Autobiography (typed, 78 pages) of naturalist, farmer, and agricultural agent John B. Lewis, including discussion of homesteading in Iowa, 1872-1880; farm life in Pulaski County, Ky., in the 1880s; farming in the Great Dismal Swamp, near Norfolk, Va., circa 1903-1911; farm life in Brunswick County, Va.; and Lewis's work as a county farm agent, 1916-1936. Other materials include articles by and about Lewis.
A lifelong textile executive with Erwin Mills in Durham, N.C., Kemp Plummer Lewis was the son of Richard Henry Lewis and Cornelia Viola Battle. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was later president of the alumni association and a member of the first board of trustees of the consolidated university. He was also active in Durham civic affairs and Episcopal church work.
Kent Lewis (fl. 1861) was a Confederate soldier who was stationed for a time in Randolph County, Va. The collection includes a typed transcription of a letter from Lewis while serving in Randolph County, Va., to his Aunt Nellie, telling of the hardships of camp life and the great amount of sickness among the soldiers.
The personal collection of Laurie Lewis, a white bluegrass singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and record label owner, and Tom Rozum, a white bluegrass musician. Materials document Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum's music career and published recordings, both as solo artists and as collaborators, including Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum and the Grant Street Band. The collection consists of audiovisual materials, photographic materials, computer discs, correspondence, promotional materials, festival files, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics represented include folk music, bluegrass music, country music, women in bluegrass, songwriting, and the American folk music revival.
William Gaston Lewis (1835-1901), was a civil engineer, Confederate brigadier general, surveyor, and resident of Edgecombe County, N.C.
Ron Liberti (1967-) is a white musician and artist originally from Passaic, N.J., but a resident of Orange County, North Carolina since 1991. The collection contains posters and audio recordings that document Ron Liberti's involvement in the Chapel Hill, N.C., independent music scene. Poster art constitutes the bulk of the collection. The posters are primarily announcements of concerts in the Chapel Hill area, many of them commissioned by Cat's Cradle, a local music venue, but there are also posters relating to film festivals, art openings, album releases, and tours. Among the artists and events featured on the posters are the Buzzcocks, Evil Wiener with Billy Sugarfix, Half Japanese, the Hi Mom! Film Festival, Tift Merritt, Portastatic, Sebadoh, Sleazefest, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Zen Frisbee. Audio recordings include rock music recordings by bands in which Liberti played, among them Pipe and the Ghost of Rock. There are also recordings from Liberti and Groves Willer's local alternative music imprint, Hypno-Vista Records, founded in 2002. These include some by Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, Mind Sirens, and Work Clothes.
The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, copies of acquisition forms, and memoranda that document the establishment, growth, and development of the Thomas Wolfe Collection at the North Carolina Collection in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Library. Correspondence is with Charles E. Rush, Olan V. Cook, Mary Lindsay Thornton, Andrew Horn, Jerrold Orne, William S. Powell, H.G. Jones, Agatha Boyd Adams, and other Library staff members. Also included are many letters to and from the members of the Wolfe family relating to the Wolfe family gift; correspondence with Edward C. Aswell pertaining to the death of John Skally Terry and the Terry family gift; and some materials relating to the establishment of the Thomas Wolfe Fund, which was started in 1939 to raise money to buy the Wolfe papers that were later purchased by William B. Wisdom and donated to Harvard University. Correspondence after 1958 deals primarily with additions to the Wolfe Collection, requests for access to the Wolfe papers, questions about the contents of the papers, and other materials relating to the collection. There are also letters and related materials about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter, the Thomas Wolfe Society, and the Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College.
The Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) was organized in 1972 to promote the professional growth and development of its members, effective library service within the academic community, and a spirit of cooperation among members of the library profession. Membership is open to all professional librarians at the university. In addition to regular monthly meetings, September through June, the association holds seminars and workshops on special topics and sponsors two- or three-day conferences. Records of the Librarians' Association include correspondence, minutes of meetings, committee reports, and financial records. Topics of conferences have included library automation, library management, reference, scholarly publishing, serials, preservation, special collections, and roles of librarians. Committees include publicity, program, professional development, and professional welfare. The records of the Committee on Professional Welfare include material on faculty status for librarians and on employment policies for non-tenured professional university staff. Records also include three audiocassette tapes of addresses given at the 1989 Librarians' Association Conference.
Liddell, Pickens, and related Hall, Forgey, and Battle family members lived chiefly in North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The collection includes correspondence of Jane Hyde Hall Liddell Battle and her daughter, Vinton Liddell Pickens, and other papers of members of the related Liddell, Pickens, Battle, and Hall families. Letters are from Vinton Liddell (Jane Hyde Hall Liddell Battle's first husband) to his mother, Anna Amelia Brubaker Liddell, from Europe and Palestine; letters to daughter Vinton Liddell (later Pickens) from schoolmates in Europe during World War I; letters from Madelon Battle Hancock at the front during World War I; and letters from Anna Forbes Liddell about women's suffrage in North Carolina and from Germany in the 1930s. Pickens family correspondence includes letters from journalist Robert Sylvester Pickens (husband of Vinton Liddell Pickens) in China in 1927, letters from Vinton Liddell Pickens in China in the early 1930s, Dorothy Pike's letters about conditions in England and Ireland in the 1940s, and Cornelia Pickens Suhler's letters about diplomatic service in Germany in the 1950s. Also included are Jane Hyde Hall Liddell Battle's recollections of the years 1864-1949. The addition of 2002 includes many letters relating to World War II both of soldiers in the field and on the homefront; it also includes typed transcriptions of many of the items in the collection as well as year-by-year detailed narratives describing family activities through 1952. The addition of 2005 contains Pickens family correspondence from 1911 to 1992, correspondence transcriptions, and family diaries, writings, and clippings.
Walter James Forbes Liddell (died 1889) was the owner and manager of the Liddell Engine Company (later Liddell and Co.), a manufacturing firm of Charlotte, N.C. His son, Walter S. Liddell, managed the firm after his father's death.
The U.S.S. Lieutenant Walter H. Lee was a ship of the Harbor Board Service of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps stationed in the Charleston (S.C.) harbor area. The collection includes the daily log of the U.S.S. Lieutenant Walter H. Lee showing times of departure and arrival, weather, coal and water used, number of officers, enlisted men, and civilians aboard, and maintenance and repairs.
The undated recording on audio cassette tape contains banjo music performed by Andy Light of Falkville, Ala., and an undated letter circa 1997 from Light to folklorist and former head of the Southern Folklife Collection, Michael Taft. In the letter, Light describes himself as a "tee totaler straight edge and vegetarian" and explains his associations with each song on the recording and where and how he learned "frailing" "drop thumb" and "old time 3 finger style." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Lillabulero was a small literary magazine founded and principally edited by Russell Banks and William Matthews in 1964 while both were students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The magazine ran through 14 issues and contained poetry and prose works by lesser known authors, as well as critical pieces discussing developments in modern literature. Issues 1-5 were published in Chapel Hill, N.C.; subsequent numbers were published in Northwood Narrows, N.H. Banks and Matthews also founded a small press under the same name, which issued a series of chapbooks and other compilations of literary work. These undertakings were abandoned in 1974 to allow Banks and Matthews to devote more time to their own creative projects.
John Alexander Lillington (1725-1786) was a Patriot general from North Carolina who served in the Revolutionary War. The collection includes letters to and from General Lillington, 1780-1782, concerning drafting of militia, movements of the enemy, care of the sick, and other Revolutionary War military affairs in North Carolina. Correspondents are M. L. Brown, Governor Samuel Ashe, General Isaac Huger, Major [?] Molton, and Henry Young.
John Alexander Lillington appears to have been the son of George Lillington.
Lilly Valley Lodge No. 252, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was in Gates County, N.C. W. C. Vann of Corapeake, N.C. was treasurer of the Lodge beginning in July 1909.
Caroline Brooks Lilly (1803-1846) was a teacher and homemaker on a farm in Montgomery County, N.C. The collection consists of the diary, 1835-1849, and account book, 1838-1848, of Caroline Brooks Lilly. The diaries document Lilly's life as a teacher in small, rural schools, including her philosophy of teaching, her attempts to balance her teaching career and domestic duties after her marriage in 1839, and her religious life. The account book consists chiefly of records of students' accounts. After Lilly's death in 1846, a few entries were made in both the diary and the account book by her husband, James Marshall Lilly.
Henry Tracy Lilly was born in Alabama in 1897 and attended Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., graduating in 1918. During World War I, he served with Base Hospital #65, which was organized in North Carolina in 1917 and arrived at the Kerhuon Hospital Center near Brest, France, in 1918. Following the war, he returned to Davidson College where he was an English professor, 1926-1966. Lilly died in 1973 and was buried in Davidson.
Practice account books used by James M. Lilly of Montgomery County, N.C., while attending Baltimore Commercial College. The practice account books were used by Lilly when he attended Baltimore Commercial College, 1854-1855. Most of the letters were written by Lilly to his family while he was a Confederate soldier in Virginia. Also included are two letters written prior to the Civil War about Lilly's business dealings, two letters from Lilly's brother Julius, a letter to J. A. Baldwin about battles in Richmond, a letter informing the Lilly family of James Lilly's death near Petersburg, Va., in 1864, and transcripts of all the letters.
The collection contains a cipher book created by Simon Lindley, a white farmer, Predestinarian Baptist minister, and surveyor of Orange County, N.C. and Christian County, Ky., between 1786 and 1795. The book consists of instructions on mathematical principles, including arithmetic, geometry, fractions, square roots, and financial calculations, as well as tables of weights and measures. The instructions are followed by exercises and answers. Another section details methods of surveying. At the back of the book is a ledger for Reedy River, S.C., that lists names and dates for trades and sales that took place from 1787 to 1788. The connection to Lindley is unknown. The last page contains genealogical information for Lindley's family, listing the birth dates and locations for his parents and siblings.
Robert Goodloe Lindsay was a Greensboro, N.C., merchant and insurance agent.
Audio recordings of bluegrass, old-time string band, and early country music from Virginia and North Carolina, particularly folk music in the Galax tradition. Most of the recordings feature B. C. Goad, a white autoharpist who was a member of the string band, Feed Room Five, and James Lindsey, a white musician and the founder, leader, and manager of the bluegrass band, Mountain Ramblers. Dana Lindsey Higgins and Larry Lindsey, white musicians who performed with Mountain Ramblers, compiled the recordings, which consist mostly of musical performances, dubs of 78s and radio programs, interviews, square dances and hoedowns, and live recordings from fiddlers conventions across Virginia and North Carolina, including Fries Fiddlers' Convention, Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention, Independence Fiddlers' Convention, and Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Convention. The collection also includes practice tapes of Otis Burris, a white old-time fiddler who played with Mountain Ramblers from 1962 to 1968; master recordings of the Virginia based string band, Feed Room Five; and scattered supporting documentation, such as track listings and notes, found with the recordings.
Julius A. Lineback of Haw River and Winston-Salem, N.C., was a member of the marching band attached to the 26th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. The collection consists of three volumes relating to Julius A. Lineback. Included are Lineback's wartime diary, about 200 pages; an expanded version of that diary, with photographs and drawings, including sketches made in the field by regimental artist, Alexander C. Meinung, materials relating to reunions and other activities of Confederate veterans, and other scrapbook material added by Lineback, probably after 1900, about 390 pages; and a third volume containing extracts from the expanded diary, which were published in the Winston-Salem Sentinel in 1914. This last volume also contains North Carolina and Confederate currency issued during the Civil War. In the various versions of the diary, Lineback discussed, in some detail, movements of his regiment; camp life; engagements with Federal troops, including the Battle of Gettysburg; care of battle casualties, band members also functioning as medical aids; musical activities of the band; and other related matters.
Amon George Liner, Jr. (1940-1976), North Carolina poet.
The Link family lived many years in Princeton, N.J., but their roots were in West Virginia and North Carolina. Arthur S. Link (1920-1998) was the son of John William Link and Helen Elizabeth Link of Shepherdstown, W.Va., and later Mount Pleasant, N.C. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he met Margaret Douglas Link (1918-1996), the daughter of James Douglas and Anniebelle Douglas of Davidson, N.C. The couple had four children: Stanley Link (1947-), James D. Link (1950-), Margaret Link (Peggy) (1951-), and William A. Link (1954-). Arthur S. Link spent most of his career at Princeton University and was a leading scholar of Woodrow Wilson.
Russell Charles Link was a student in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s. He acted in or directed several productions on campus during his time at the University. His scrapbook documents Carolina Playmakers productions and events sponsored by Graham Memorial Student Union from 1955 to 1959.
Joseph Adolph Linn, of Gold Hill, Rowan County, N.C., was a student at the Lutheran theological seminaries at Lexington, S.C., and Gettysburg, Pa., and a minister of several churches in Rowan County. He also operated a farm and grist mill.
The 1976 interview recorded on audio cassette tape is with a person identified only as Rev. Bangley, who may be Bernard K. Bangley (b. 1935), a Presbyterian minister living in Virginia in the 1970s. Margaret Lippard, then a student at the University of North Carolina, conducted the interview with Rev. Bangley in his workshop near Roanoke, Va. The focus of the interview was Bangley's construction of musical instruments, particularly the Appalachian dulcimer. No additional information about Bangley or Lippard was provided with the recording. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Charles Edward Lippitt (fl. 1862-1863) was a Confederate surgeon who served with the 57th Virginia Regiment. The collection includes a manuscript volume containing medical records and diary entries kept by Lippitt while serving with the Confederate army. The records include lists of men sent to hospitals and lists of casualties at Malvern Hill, Va., July 1862. The diary entries, June-October 1863, include accounts of marches, camping, and work on battlefields in Virginia and in the Gettysburg campaign.
Lipscomb family, planters of South Carolina and Alabama, were chiefly descendants of John (fl. 1791) and Sally Lipscomb (born 1767), among them Smith Lipscomb Junior (born 1804) and his wife Sally Draper Lipscomb (1806- 1875) of Spartanburg District, S.C., and, after 1844, of Benton County, Ala.
Literacy South was an independent non-profit organization based in Durham, N.C., which sought to improve the quality of adult literacy services across the Southeast. Founded in 1987 by Hanna Arlene Fingeret and Page McCullough, Literacy South provided training, technical assistance, research, evaluation, consultation, and advocacy in participatory literacy work. The collection includes correspondence, publications, project records, notebooks, and other materials documenting the activities of Literacy South and its staff, 1982-2000. Records document the organization's operations, literacy education programs, adult education projects across the South, the status of adult literacy in the United States, and efforts of community organizations to reduce adult illiteracy. Represented projects include the North Carolina Network for Participatory Education; North Carolina Education and Law Project; Literacy Network Inc. (LNI); a study of Workforce Development Evaluation at Sara Lee Knit Products in Winston Salem, N.C.; the Practitioner Research Project, funded by the National Institute for Literacy; the Portfolio Assessment Project, funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund; and other efforts to improve adult literacy. Among the topics covered are curriculum development, learner-centered instruction, program development and evaluation, portfolio assessment, workplace literacy, computer assisted instruction, practitioner research methods, creation of administrative structure and staff training, development of community organizations, and student writing. Also included are issues of Vision, the organization's newsletter; a copy of the video Honoring What People Bring: Learner Centered Instruction; and volumes of Not by Myself, which published student writing.
Family correspondence, business Papers, student notebooks, photographs, and other materials of members of the Little family of Richmond County, N.C., especially of children and grandchildren of John Phillips (circa 1827-1899) and Fanny Myers (b. circa 1833) Little. These Papers, chiefly 1884-1956, document at least three generations of Little family members. Papers record such activities as cotton ginning, timber business, education, World War I (including letters from soldiers), daily family life, and many other activities, including William Little's service with the U.S. Consulate in Honduras, 1894-1896. Correspondence includes letters of prominent individual family members, including William Myers Little (b. 1867), Emma Ray Little, Ann Elizabeth Leak Little (b. 1885), Rosa Leak Little (b. 1890), and Calvin Myers Little (1892-1982). Financial and legal papers chiefly document land ownership, estates, and business ventures. Miscellaneous papers include genealogical information, school and military Papers, writings and printed material by or about family members, and other items. Volumes comprise the bulk of the collection. They fall into three catagories--business, school-related, and other volumes. Most of the volumes relate to the Little's cotton ginning and timber operations; the school volumes document the educational pursuits of nearly all of the children of Calvin M. and Alice Leak Little.
The Little River Primitive Baptist Association included Primitive Baptist churches in Johnston, Harnett, Cumberland, and Wake counties in North Carolina. The Association held its annual meetings for three days in late September or early October, and the location rotated among the member churches.
MICROFILM ONLY. The Primitive Baptist Church at Little River is located in Sparta, Alleghany County, N.C. Records of the church date at least to 1797. The church was active as of 1982, with a membership of about fifty. Two volumes consisting of minutes of monthly church meetings and lists of members and their status in the church. The minutes include, in limited detail, records of the business of church meetings and the names of preachers and other church officials.
Benjamin Franklin Little was the white owner of Carlisle plantation, Richmond County, N.C.; a Confederate Army officer with the 52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment; a state legislator, 1864-1865; a dry goods merchant; and a delegate to the 1876 National Democratic Convention in Saint Louis, Mo. In 1856, he and Mary Jane Reid of Iredell County, N.C., were married. More than 75 people were enslaved by the Littles at Carlisle and the Reids at Mount Mourne, Iredell County, N.C., with some returning to work for the families or as tenant farmers after the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal materials, writings, volumes, photographs, and other papers. Enslaved people are documented by name in deeds, lists, and account books. Wiley, who was the personal servant to Benjamin Franklin Little during his service in the Confederate Army, and Henry, who managed the plantation during the Civil War, are mentioned in the correspondence. Letters describe family and plantation news; Civil War experiences at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, N.C., in battles in Virginia and Pennsylvania theaters, and in hospitals and prisons in Maryland and Pennsylvania, including Fort McHenry, after Little's arm was amputated; Little's service in the North Carolina state legislature and as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Saint Louis, Mo.; and horse breeding and racing interests. Financial and legal materials, 1833-1878, of Benjamin Franklin Little and his father, Thomas Little, concern slavery and tenant farming; the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad; and Little's dry goods business. Writings include speeches by Little, chiefly at educational institutions, and notes for poems and other writings. Volumes include a school notebook with a short journal of Thomas Little's 1806 voyage as an immigrant from England to the United States; a Civil War journal with details of the movements of the 52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, April 1862 to July 1863, and Benjamin Franklin Little's personal narrative as a Federal prisoner, 1863; a Carlisle plantation weather log, 1867-1879; household inventories; and Benjamin Franklin Little's estate. Also included are photographs of family and of General James Johnston Pettigrew; Confederate Army muster rolls, 1862, for Company E, 52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment; clippings; recipes for horse remedies; and other items.
Letters and a diary by Charles H. Little, documenting his life as a sergeant in Company K, 9th New Hampshire Volunteers, during the Civil War. The letters deal chiefly with a wound Little received at Antietam and treatment he received for it. The diary also deals with his wound and hospitalization, and, in two brief entries, describes his service in northern Virginia and western Maryland, and his movement with his regiment into Mississippi.
Art and architectural historian M. Ruth Little (1946-) of Raleigh, N.C., was the principal investigator on the NEH-funded North Carolina Cemetery as Cultural Artifact Project, 1981-1982, directed by Terry Zug of the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Project supported Little's 1984 doctoral dissertation, later published as Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers (UNC Press, 1998). The collection includes survey information, photographs, and other materials relating to the Project, which focused on photographic documentation, recording, and cataloging of cemeteries in three North Carolina counties: Cumberland, Davidson, and New Hanover. Other counties were added for comparison. Intended to link demographic and cultural traits with regional practices, one of the Project's primary focus points was to identify gravemarker artisans and carvers throughout the region and to trace their movements within, and influences over, the carving tradition. Included are master cards with cemetery survey information and topographical maps used in the research and identification process. Photographic materials include black and white prints, negatives, and color slides, many of which are of cemeteries or gravemarkers. Also included are research notes; keysort cards; grant materials; audiotapes of an interview with gravestone carver J. Thomas McLean of Lincolnton, N.C.; and other items.
Peter Stuart Ney (died 1846) was a North Carolina school teacher and schoolmaster, who was believed by some to be Marshal Michel Ney (born 1769) of France.
John S. Littler (fl. 1798) was a principal of Broom, Littler, & Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., a firm with business connections in Chatham, N.C.
Littleton College (formerly Central Institute for Young Ladies and Littleton Female College) in Littleton, Warren County, N.C., was privately owned and operated from 1882 until 1919 by Reverend James Manly Rhodes.
Stephen Liu received his AB in chemistry with a double major in economics in May 1998 and his MD in 2002, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his studies, Liu was a photographer for the Yackety Yack, the University's yearbook.
The collection is an indenture agreement, 1744, between Henry and William Livingston and Isaac Guerin of Berkeley County, S.C.
John Alexander Livingstone, lawyer, librarian and marshal of the North Carolina State Supreme Court, and long-time correspondent for the News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C. Correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous other papers of John Alexander Livingstone. Correspondence includes letters on political matters during Livingstone's tenure as the News and Observer's Washington correspondent, 1927-1930. Included are letters from Josephus Daniels, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and George Francis Cochran
Slide show titled "The Strudwicks: A Family of Artists," created between 1973 and 1975 by Evelyn Lloyd a white pharmacist, Historic Hillsborough Commission member, and Hillsborough Board of Commissioners member. Boxes include handwritten identifications for slides, written on printed Kodak slide index cards. Title of slide show taken from one of the identification cards. Subject matter includes color transparencies of the Strudwick family house and studio in Hillsborough, North Carolina; a portrait of Shepperd Strudwick Sr., June 1958; and copy slides of wood carvings made by Shepperd Strudwick Sr., and paintings and pastels made by his sons Edmund Strudwick III and Clement Strudwick III.
Major General Thomas F. Lloyd (1736?-1792) settled in Orange County, N.C., around 1760.
William Penn Lloyd (1837-1911) of Lisbon, Pa., was 1st Lieutenant, A.A.G., First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Calvary during the Civil War. The collection contains the Civil War diary, 1861-1865, of Lloyd, a white staff officer of the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry Regiment, serving in Virginia, and two volumes of daily reports and regimental business, 1863. Lloyd published a regimental history based on these volumes. The diary includes extensive details about battles in which Lloyd and his regiment were engaged, including Second Battle of Bull Run, Dranesville, Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, Aldie, and Upperville; discussions of camp life, troop movements, and various hardships; and his observations at the end and immediately following the war.
Francis Locke (died 1823) was a Superior Court judge and United States senator of Wilkes County, N.C.
Samuel Henry Lockett (1837-1891) was an engineering officer in the United States, Confederate, and Egyptian armies, and a professor at Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He married Cornelia C. Clark in 1859 and with her had six children.
The collection of African American soldier Albert Lockhart consists of a photographic album of black-and-white and color photographic prints. The images created between March and September of 1961 at Fort Bragg, N.C., depict training exercises and the daily life and living conditions of soldiers in the United States Army 82nd Airborne Division and the Parachute Field Artillery Battalion.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters from Harrison Claiborne Lockhart of Stuart County, Tenn., Lieutenant Colonel, 50th Tennessee Infantry to his wife, Catherine E. Lockhart, written chiefly during his imprisonment at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass., 1862, following the fall of Fort Donelson, and in Talladega, Ala., 1863.
David A. Lockmiller (1906-2005) was an author and professor of history and political science.
Lockridge Community is an incorporated cooperative community situated on about 100 acres of land in Orange County, N.C. Built in the early 1970s during the height of the back-to-the-land movement, the community values pooling resources and skills among its residents, and makes decisions through community dialogue to reach a consensus. The collection consists of meeting minutes, financial reports, documents on the history and development of the community, photographs, pamphlets and fliers for events, especially for art events. There are also secondary sources written about the material, and video recordings related to community history, events, and members.
TThe collection of German baker, Manfred and wife, Ann Loeb, consists of black-and-white photographic prints and manuscript materials relating the family’s migration from Germany to the United States in the 1930s in response to the rise of Nazi power. The images depict the settlement of Van Eeden in Pender County, North Carolina; the Heimann and Wolf families; daily responsibilities including house and field work; and children attending school. Manuscript materials include letters relating to the experience and events in Van Eeden and newspaper clippings regarding the Loeb family.
George William Logan (1828-1896) served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army, 1862-1865.
Thomas Muldrup Logan (1840-1914), a native of South Carolina, was a Confederate officer and later a lawyer and railroad executive of Richmond, Va. He married Kate Virginia Cox, daughter of James H. Cox of Chesterfield County, Va., in 1865. The antebellum papers are Cox family letters, including two from Kate Cox while at school. Papers, 1861-1865, consist of correspondence of Kate with young women and soldiers, including one who went to Bermuda by blockade runner, and a few military papers of Logan. Among the postwar papers are scattered correspondence of the Cox and Logan families and letters to Logan from business and former Confederate associates. Letters of the 1890s are from Mrs. Logan in Europe. Later papers are those of Logan's daughter, chiefly about her father's career, with letters and a biographical sketch of his friend, Charles Woodward Hutson, teacher and painter. Volumes include a diary, 1856-1860, of Kate (Cox) Logan and her memoirs of the Civil War years in Virginia, written in 1890 (later published as My Confederate Girlhood). Also included are copies of two letters, 1814, from soldiers camped near New Orleans, La., during the War of 1812.
Lollipop Power was a non-profit corporation formed by a group of women to publish non-sexist children's books. The corporation operated from 1970 to 1986 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, N.C.
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax served as a major general in the military of the Confederate States of America.
Among members of the London family of Wilmington, N.C., are John London (fl. 1873-1921), a lawyer and businessman; his wife, Lucy Hall London; and his brother Alexander T. London. Other London relatives and connections include Edith Ward London and John London (1747-1816).
Materials relating to George Elliot London (1912-1983), president of the London Oil Company, with interests in the history of North Carolina and the South and in family history. Included are papers documenting his activities in various organizations, especially the Carolina Charter Corporation; the North Carolina Art Society, particularly in its efforts to establish the N.C. Museum of Art; and N.C. Society of the Cincinnati.
H. M. (Henry Mauger) London (1879-1939) was a lawyer, North Carolina legislator, trustee of the University of North Carolina, state legislative reference librarian, and secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina State Bar Association.
Henry Adolphus London (1808-1882), of Pittsboro, N.C., was a merchant and secretary-treasurer of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company.
Henry Armand London of Pittsboro, N.C., was a journalist and lawyer who attended the University of North Carolina until 1864 when he joined the Confederate army. After the war, he returned to Pittsboro, where he was involved in many business ventures and in community activities. He served as UNC trustee, 1901-1917.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary kept by London of Wilmington, N.C., while he was traveling through England and Scotland, 3 September-25 October 1776. He discussed various industrial operations he visited and included observations on sights and people. Note that the original volumes of the diary he kept on this same trip in June and July 1776 are in the London family papers (#2442) in the Southern Historical Collection.
Lawrence Foushee London (1908-) is a retired Curator of Rare Books at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an active member of Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and the Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and an avid family historian. London was blinded in a childhood accident.
The Long family of Alamance County, N.C., included John Long and Letitia R. Long and their sons John A. Long, Benjamin N. Long, and Jacob Long. The three sons served in the Confederate army and all were apparently killed in action by the end of 1862.
A. L. Long was a United States Army officer, Confederate brigadier general of artillery, and secretary and biographer of General Robert E. Lee.
A letter, 20 March 1783, from John Huske, of Wilmington, N.C., to Thomas Burke, Tyaquin [Orange County, N.C.?], concerning mortgaged slaves; a letter, 10 November 1882, from J. W. Norwood, of Hillsborough, N.C., to Jane Long, his cousin, at the death of her father, William Long; an unascribed poem, n.d., The Diamond of the Forest; and a letter of condolence, October 1934, from Robert W. Bingham, U.S. Embassy, London, to Alves Long.
Andrew Theodore Long of Iredell County, N.C., was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
The collection contains Long family genealogical data and a copy of a typescript narrative, 2 paragraphs, by Delia White Woodward of Chapel Hill, N.C., at the close of the Civil War.
Benjamin Franklin Long was a lawyer in Statesville, N.C., and judge of the Superior Court of the Tenth Judicial District of North Carolina. His father-in-law was William McKendree Robbins (1825-1905), lawyer and congressman, and his wife was Mary Alice (Mamie) Robbins Long (1857-1947).
Caroline Swain Long married Crawford W. Long (1815-1876) of Athens, Ga., in 1842. She lived in Athens and Danielsville, Ga.
Eva Sloan Long (1937-2004) of Madisonville, Tenn., was a white model and actress in New York, N.Y., in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1965 she married William Redden Long (1914-1990), white founder and owner of Long Manufacturing North Carolina, Inc., which built mechanized farm equipment in Tarboro, N.C. The collection chiefly consists of photographs and newspaper clippings. Other materials include a scrapbook, ephemera and printed items, correspondence, song books, scripts, slides, films, and financial documents both personal and professional. Photographs and newspaper clippings pertain chiefly to Eva Long's modeling career and the Longs' affluent society circles in Tarboro. Numerous items document Eva Long's involvement in the Tarboro Woman's Club. Other images depict the Longs' vacation travel to various destinations including Las Vegas, Nev., the Bahamas, and the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn. Most printed items are brochures or catalogs for Long Mfg. products, and a few items relate to District 13 of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. Also included is an invitation to the presidential inauguration of George H.W. Bush in 1989. Correspondence is scattered and includes a love letter from British actor Peter Sellers to Eva Sloan before her marriage to W.R. Long. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
F. F. Long (fl. 1857-1860) of Washington County, N.C., was a merchant of general goods and provisions.
Recollections by Long of the foundation and activities of the Union League and the Ku Klux Klan of Alamance County, N.C.
Virginia Love Long (Virginia L. Rudder (1941- ), journalist and poet, native of Hurdle Mills, N.C., studied at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., 1958-1961. She then married and began a career in journalism with the Roxboro, N.C., Courier-Times, and in the early 1970s received numerous awards for her work in poetry and journalism. Her first book was After the Ifaluk and Other Poems (1976). She later published The Gallows Lord (1978). She married first Don Ray Bagby of North Carolina and later California, and appears to have married second Harry Rudder of Florida. As of 1978, she had two sons.
William Lunsford Long was a state representative from Halifax County, N.C., 1915; state senator, 1919-1923 and 1927; president pro tem of the North Carolina Senate, 1921-1923 and 1927; officer of Haile Mines, Inc., of New York, and its subsidiaries, Tungsten Mining Corp. and Manganese, Inc.; and officer of the Tungsten Institute. Haile Mines, Inc., owned subsidiaries that mined tungsten, manganese, copper, zinc, cobalt, lead, silver, gold, and sand in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Audio recording of an interview with Capt. Alvin Willis (ca. 1899-1975), a white fisherman from Morehead City, Carteret County, N.C., about his life as a fisherman. Recorded by Walker A. Long, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student and personal acquaintance of Willis, in March 1972 at Willis' home. The collection also contains supporting documentation consisting of a collection cover prepared by former library staff.
MICROFILM ONLY. Papers of ancestors of Willie Jones Long, including letters and papers of various members of the Burton, Joyner, Mason, and Gray families and their connections. The largest part of the collection is the correspondence, 1828-1870, of Sarah Jones Burton Joyner, who married Andrew Joyner of Halifax County, N.C., in 1839. There is little material pertaining to Mrs. Joyner's first husband, North Carolina governor Hutchins Gordon Burton (1774-1836), although letters of Burton's children are intermingled. Notable among these are business papers and letters, 1850s, of Thomas Burke Burton, farming in Halifax County, N.C., and elsewhere, and letters, 1860s, to and from Mary Burke Alston. Also included is correspondence of Mrs. Joyner's sister, Martha Jones Eppes, with her relations, among them members of the Hubard family on their plantation in Buckingham County, Va., 1860-1870. These family lettters concern deaths of friends and relations, crops, labor, post-Civil War poverty, and property matters. Later items are chiefly scattered letters and other personal, legal, and business papers of William Henry Gray and of Thomas Williams Mason (1839-1921), both of Northampton County, N.C.
Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus, a white folklorist, was born in 1923 in Seattle, Wash. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. Long-Wilgus moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993 shortly after the death of her husband, D. K. Wilgus, folklorist and professor of English and Anglo-American Folksong in the Department of Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. In Chapel Hill, she became an active member of the local folklore community and established the D. K. Wilgus Fellowship in Comparative Ballad and Folksong Study in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Long-Wilgus died in May 2005 in Chapel Hill. The collection includes materials relating to Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus's research in British and Irish folklore. Among the materials are some relating to her teaching and lecturing on British and Irish folklore and several drawings and slides of historic sites in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are also a few items relating to a tribute to North Carolina conservationist Margaret Nygard.
James Longstreet (1821-1904) was a Confederate general. The collection includes positive photocopies of selected items from the post-Civil War correspondence of James Longstreet, relating entirely to military incidents about which there was disagreement among subsequent commentators and among the participants themselves. Most of the letters were evidently written in response to Longstreet's request for statements from the participants concerning their recollections of the events. The subjects discussed were events at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Chancellorsville, and related engagements; also Longstreet's book; and his military reputation particularly in connection with his actions at Gettysburg. There is some comment on political and personal matters. Correspondents include Edward Porter Alexander, Archibald Forbes, James M. Goggin, Thomas Goree, Osmun Latrobe, Francis Lawley, A. L. Long, Lafayette McLaws, William Mahone, Charles Marshall, C. Pickett (brother of George Edward Pickett, discussing his brother's career), John B. Richardson, Erasmus Taylor, William Harrison Taylor, Charles S. Venable, Alfred A. Woodhull, and William Youngblood.
Jason Lonon is a graphic artist and musician who grew up near Los Angeles, Calif., before moving with his family to Burlington, N.C., in 1989. After four years and two combat deployments with the United States Marines, Lonon attended the School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, N.C., graduating with a technical degree in 3D modeling and animation. In 2002 he helped form the Greensboro, N.C., based rockabilly band The Tremors. In 2005, Lonon founded Death-Ray Design, a graphic design company through which he publishes posters, clothing, and other promotional printed items.
Antonina Hansell Looker was an author, teacher, and psychiatric worker of Atlanta and Lakemont, Rabun County, Ga., and New York City. Antonina worked as an assistant to various psychiatrists in New York in the late 1930s, and, with her second husband, published a novel, Revolt, in 1967. Her first husband was John Elwood Macdonald of Frogmore, with whom she had a son James Ross Macdonald.
Deeds, estate settlement Papers, and scattered family correspondence, chiefly 1835-1877, of the Lord family of Smithville and Wilmington, N.C., including William C. Lord, his wife, Eliza Hill Lord, their son, Frederick James Lord, and their daughter, Eliza Jane Lord De Rosset.
The collection contains letters from Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) to Philip Q. Loring of Portland, Me. Written mainly from Tarkington's summer home, Seawood, at Kennebunkport, Me., the letters chiefly concern insurance coverage provided by Loring's firm on oil paintings owned by Tarkington, but also include biting criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and the social programs of the New Deal.
The Kip Lornell Collection consists of audio recordings, 1932-1976, created and compiled by Christopher Kip Lornell, a white ethnomusicologist, while he was a graduate student of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The recordings are primarily field tapes featuring performances and interviews with African American blues and pre-blues secular musicians from North Carolina. Performers featured on the field recordings include Jamie Alston, Wilbert Atwater, Pernell Charity, George Letlow, Arthur Lyons, Lesley Riddle, Dink Roberts, John Snipes, Leo Strowd, Joe Thompson (1918- ), Odell Thompson (1911- ), Willy Trice (1910-1976), and Clarence Tross (1884-1977). Music performed includes blues, old-time songs and tunes, boogie-woogie, and gospel songs, played on banjo, guitar, and piano. Also included in the collection is an interview with Guy B. Johnson, a white social science researcher and member of the University of North Carolina faculty who studied African American musical traditions; interviews with the Chapel Hillbillies, an African American string band in the 1920s and 1930s; a lecture on folk medicine by Wilbert C. Jordan, medical doctor and sixth generation voodoo priest; a re-recording of Primitive Baptist singing by Elder Golden Harris and others, ca. 1932; and performances by Virgil Craven (1902-1980), a white fiddler and hammered dulcimer player.
Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was an author, editor, wood-engraver, and popularizer of American history.
John D. Loudermilk started his music career in his native North Carolina under the pseudonym Johnny Dee. After reassuming his birth name and moving to Nashville, Tenn., his commercial success as a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Publications earned him a spot in the Nashville Songwriters Association International's Hall of Fame. In addition to maintaining his songwriting career, Loudermilk also actively supported folk and country music through his participation in folk festivals, his involvement with the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, and his role as producer of a 1980 album by Chet Atkins and Doc Watson.
Louisa Furnace was an ironworks, probably in Montgomery County, Tenn., possibly operated in the 1850s by Gilbert Taylor Abernathy (1820-1888) of Pulaski, Tenn. Abernathy was an army officer, school teacher, civil engineer, iron furnance operator, and large land-owner, most of whose land was sold for taxes after the Civil War.
Chartered in 1868 by the Louisiana General Assembly, the Louisiana State Lottery Company operated in the United States until 1893. After transferring its headquarters to Honduras, the company continued to sell lottery tickets illegally stateside until the United States Department of Justice closed the business down in 1907.
Cornelia Spencer Love was a librarian at the University of North Carolina, 1917-1948; author of When Chapel Hill was a Village, 1976; and granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908).
James Lee Love was an educator and textile company executive of Burlington, N.C.
James Spencer Love of Greensboro, N.C., was founder and chair of the board of Burlington Industries, Inc.
Collection contains letters, notes, photographs, oral histories, and other materials documenting the life of white historian Spencie Love's family history, as well as materials documenting her professional life. Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie") was a former director the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program. Her dissertation and subsequent book, "One Blood," documented the life the death of Charles R. Drew, a Black doctor who pioneered blood storage and plasma research. Throughout her career, she studied the Civil Rights movement.
The collection contains a broadside, 1812, announcing William O'Kelly's candidacy for the state legislature; a broadside, circa 1814, announcing W. C. Love's candidacy for Congress; a contemporary letter by George Rhubottom recounting a wagon trip in 1815 from Chatham County, N.C., to Lick Creek, Ind.; and a pocket map.
A document, Rowan County, N.C., 1829, dividing 73 slaves, whose names are listed, between heirs of William C. and Julius M. Love; and a family letter, 1862, to William C. Love from his sister in Morganton, N.C., discussing the war and family news.
William Storrow Lovell (1829-1900) was a planter with lands in Adams County, Miss., and Warren County, Miss.
Beginning around 1900, the Lowe's Grove School, Durham County, N.C., served the small Lowe's Grove farming community as a one-room schoolhouse, a high school, a farm-life school, and an elementary school. The school was closed in 1989 because the land on which it stood had become valuable commercial property.
Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) was a white political activist, lawyer, teacher, speaker, author, United States congressman from New York, United States representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and founder and leader of several organizations. The collection includes correspondence, organizational records, political campaign records, congressional files, writings, speeches, press clippings, research materials, scheduling files, financial and administrative records, diaries, scrapbooks, family papers, photographs, sound recordings, videocasette tapes, and other items documenting the life and career of Allard K. Lowenstein. Correspondence, 1940s-1970s, covers Lowenstein's service in World War II; years as a student activist at the University of North Carolina; work with the United States National Student Association, Democratic Party, Coalition for a Democratic Alternative, and other organizations; relations with Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Porter Graham, Adlai Stevenson, William F. Buckley Jr., Aaron Henry, Eugene J. McCarthy, Norman C. Thomas, and Hubert H. Humphrey; interests in political and social affairs including civil rights, voter registration, and political reform in the United States and relations with other countries, especially Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Soviet Union; work at Stanford University; anti-Vietnam War activities; the Ditch Johnson campaign; his successful campaign for Congress from the Fifth Congressional District of New York; various unsuccessful political campaigns for United States House and Senate seats from New York; his investigation of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination; his United Nations work; his work on Edward M. Kennedy's 1980 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination; and other matters. Activity files, 1935-1980, document Lowenstein's various United Nations appointments during the Carter Administration; attempts to reopen the investigation of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination; involvement in Americans for Democratic Action; attendance at the University of North Carolina; African travels; and other activities relating to civil rights, international relations, and other topics. Political campaign materials, 1942-1980, relate to campaigns of Lowenstein and others, chiefly Democrats. United States Congress materials, 1969-1970, include personal and constituent correspondence, district files, House committee files, legislation, press files, and administrative files documenting Lowenstein's two-year congressional term. Writings include published and unpublished works by Lowenstein, 1943-1979, on a wide range of topics, and writings about Lowenstein, 1946-1985. Research files, 1940-1980, are on wide-ranging topics and were used by Lowenstein as background materials for writings, speeches, campaign appearances, and interviews. There are also materials relating to public appearances, 1944-1980; personal papers, 1924-1985, including biographical information, family papers, financial materials, diaries and scrapbooks, and other items; pictures, 1929-1980, mostly photographs of Lowenstein with family, friends, and associates; sound recordings, 1950-1982, including speeches by Lowenstein, congressional forums he conducted, interviews by or with Lowenstein, and other recordings; and videotapes and films, 1950-1980. Additions to the collection, 1983-2004, contain materials similar to those in the original deposit, but also include oral history interviews with Lowenstein and with friends and associates after his death; Dump Nixon campaign materials; and materials documenting activities of Lowenstein's assistant, Bancroft Nick Littlefield.
Collection of historian and documentary film producer Malinda Maynor Lowery, a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Malinda Maynor Lowery has focused much of her academic and filmmaking career on questions pertaining to Native culture, identity, and migration. The collection contains papers, ephemera, photographs, and audiovisual materials related to some of Lowery's documentary film projects on these subjects, including work completed while she was a student at Harvard University and Stanford University, as well as the films Real Indian (1996), Sounds of Faith (1997), and In the Light of Reverence (2001). Papers include tape logs, release forms, transcripts, press kits, and other materials related to the production and distribution of select documentary projects by Lowery. Audiovisual materials, which make up the bulk of the collection, consist mostly of production elements of Real Indian (1996), Sounds of Faith (1997), and various student projects by Lowery, including original picture and sound elements, workprints, edited masters, and video viewing copies. The collection also contains photographs and audio recordings related to Malinda Maynor Lowery's husband, Willie French Lowery (1944-2012), a Lumbee musician and activist from Robeson County, N.C.
William Lowndes was a lawyer, planter, and United States representative from South Carolina. The collection is chiefly William Lowndes's correspondence while in Congress, 1811-1821, including letters written from Washington, D.C., to his wife, Elizabeth (Pinckney) Lowndes, discussing his personal and social life; and letters he received from notable politicians, including John Quincy Adams, Joseph Alston, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, William H. Crawford, William Drayton, Hamilton Fish, John Forsyth, James Hamilton, Robert Y. Hayne, Daniel H. Huger, Hugh S. Legare, James Monroe, Thomas Pinckney, Eldred Simkins, and William Wirt. Among other items are letters, 1758-1799, between William Lowndes's father, Rawlins (1721-1800), of Charleston, S.C., and English and West Indian merchants; a fragment of a diary of Charles Lowndes, 1754-1755, chiefly concerning social life in London; detailed reminiscences of William's grandson, Thomas Pinckney Lowndes (1839-1899), concerning antebellum life, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in Charleston; copies of speeches by William Lowndes; and his notebooks on law and congressional matters.
John Robert Lowrey of Forsyth County, N.C., served as a camp guard in Company E, Mallett's Battalion, North Carolina Camp Guards, during the Civil War. He was mostly stationed at Camp Holmes near Raleigh, N.C.
Howard Haines Lowry (1878-1922), Quaker stockbroker of Pennsylvania and California, husband of Margaret Erwin Holt Lowry (d. 1938), and father of Margaret Holt Lowry Butler, who edited the letters from her father to her mother during World War I and published them in Letters to Tweeters: A memorial to Howard Haines Lowry and Margaret Erwin Holt Lowry (1980).
James Addison Lowry served as a private in Company D of the 57th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. In 1862, he was stationed at Salisbury Prison in Salisbury, N.C.
The Peter B. Lowry Collection consists of field recordings, studio recordings, interviews, and related materials compiled by folklorist, record producer, and ethnomusicologist, Peter B. Lowry. The original deposit consists of field recordings, 1972, of a medicine show at the Chatham County Fair in Pittsboro, N.C. on 16 September 1972. These sound recordings feature Peg Leg Sam, born Arthur Jackson, an African American harmonica player, singer, and comedian from Jonesville, S.C., and Chief Thundercloud, born Leo Kahdot, a Native American medicine show pitch man from Oklahoma. The Addition of 2016 consists of field recordings, studio recordings, and interviews that primarily feature Piedmont blues from North Carolina and the southeastern United States. Notable blues musicians featured on the recordings include Pink Anderson, Floyd "Dipper" Council, Honeyboy Edwards, Arthur Jackson, Homesick James, Eddie Kirkland, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Dink Roberts, Guitar Shorty, Richard Trice, and Willie Trice. The Addition of 2016 also contains documentation found with select recordings, including inventories, tape logs, track listings, and memos. The Additions of 2017 consist of sound recordings and documentation related to the British record label, Flyright Records, as well as documentation related to the independent record label, Trix Records, which Lowry founded in 1971.
Samuel Catawba Lowry (died 1864) was a Confederate soldier who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and South Carolina. The collection includes a typed transcription of diary entries and recollections, with poems and brief essays, all by Samuel Catawba Lowry. The diary entries and recollections are vivid and detailed accounts of comrades and camp servants, soldiers' daily activities, hunting and fishing, nearby civilian conditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles. The essays include The Right of the South to Secede from the North and Are we Rebels?
Pauline Staley Loy (1918-2009) was born in Alamance County, N.C., to John Wade and Maude Councilman Staley, and was married to David Loy.
Brothers John H., Robert, George, and Miles Lucas, farmers of Columbus, Burlington County, N.J., and, except for Robert, soldiers in New Jersey regiments during the Civil War, and Mary M. and Edward Wilson, also of Columbus, who were friends or relatives of the Lucases.
James Jonathan Lucas owned the Egypt Plantation in Society Hill, Darlington County, S.C.
The collection is a typescript (4 pages) narrative sketch of Hopsewee Plantation on the Santee River in South Carolina over a period of approximately 200 years. Notes on the original owner, Thomas Lynch, and his family and on Robert Hume, who bought it in 1762, and Hume's heirs are included.
C. Townsend Ludington received a B.A. from Yale University in 1957 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University in 1964 and 1967 respectively. He began teaching English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. Among other work, Ludington wrote biographies of John Dos Passos and Marsden Hartley. The collection contains correspondence of Townsend Ludington, committee reports, and other materials relating to the development of an African-American studies curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-1969, in response to a list of 23 demands of the Black Student Movement (BSM) that were presented to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson on 11 December 1968. Ludington served as a member of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Committee on Afro-American and African Studies in 1969 and acted as chair of the American Studies Curriculum.
Chiefly land and tax records and miscellaneous accounts and receipts of two Cabarrus County, N.C., families. Eight letters, 1830-1834 and 1879, are from relatives who emigrated to Montgomery County, Ill.; these letters report on conditions there and include comments on the Black Hawk War. Prominent family members included Henry Ludewick [sic], Charles Ludwick, Mary Ludwick Ritchey, and William N. Ritchey.
Henry Thomas Jefferson Ludwig was a member of Company H, from Mt. Pleasant, N.C.
The 1951 recording on open-reel audiotape was made by Ben Lumpkin Gray (1901-1982), an English professor at the University of Colorado and a collector of folk songs. The recording contains two ballads, "Mary Hebrew" ("The Wife of Usher's Well") and "Sonny Hugh" ("Sir Hugh or the Jew's Daughter"), sung by Mrs. Pearl Hartzell. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Bascom Lamar Lunsford Family Collection consists of studio and field recordings, 1935-1972, created or compiled by Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), a white North Carolina lawyer, folklorist, performer and festival promoter, and his daughter, Kern Lunsford. The majority of these tapes are part of Bascom Lamar Lunsford's personal memory collection of folks songs, which he made in collaboration with Columbia University in 1935. With the help of George W. Hibbett, a professor in the English Department at Columbia, and recording engineer, Walter C. Garwick, Lunsford recorded more than three hundred mountain songs, folk ballads, folk readings, poetry, spirituals, and folk games that he had personally collected over several decades in the mountains of southern Appalachia. On the recordings Lunsford sings, plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar, recites poetry, tells jokes and stories, reads sermons and speeches, and gives detailed background information for each recorded track. The Bascom Lamar Lunsford Family Collection also includes recordings, circa 1970-1972, compiled by Lunsford's daughter, Kern Lunsford. These recordings include dubs of previous recordings as well as field recordings of North Carolina based gospel singers and country-western singers, including recordings of Reverend W. S. Woody (b. 1885), a white old-time Baptist preacher from Spruce Pine, N.C., singing sacred songs, and recordings of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Boone and Evelyn Boone of Green Mountain, N.C., singing country-western and gospel songs both a cappella and with guitar accompaniment from song sheets.
The Richard B. Lupton Papers, 1838-2022, chiefly document the Luptons, a white family from Hyde County, N.C. Notable topics include family life and relationships, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s; Hyde County history based on personal recollections and discussions with local residents, with some description of African American experiences as understood by Lupton; school work and experiences in Hyde County and in Atlanta, Ga.; business and leisure travel to Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and other Latin American destinations, as well as Europe; the experiences of teenage girls in the early and mid 1960s; study abroad to France in 1965; an Army sergeant's experience, 1969-1972; and library work and other topics at an integrated school during the 1970s. Materials include memoirs and other writings, correspondence, photographs, deeds, scrapbooks, song sheets, and printed materials.
Georges Lurcy was born in 1891 in Paris, France, to Charles and Therese Levy. A French Jew, he was originally named Leon Georges Levy and changed his name to Georges Lurcy. He made his fortune investing in and developing an amphibious plane for World War I. He was also an avid art collector. Alice Lurcy was born in High Point, N.C., in 1906 to Bertha Snow and Frederick George Barbee. She and Georges met in New York, N.Y., and were married in France in 1937. In 1940, they moved to the United States where they continued to collect art. In 1943 Georges Lurcy earned his Masters in Economics from the University of North Carolina. The couple had residences in New York City, Chapel Hill, N.C., and High Point, as well as an estate in France. Georges Lurcy died in 1953, and his estate was auctioned in 1957. Alice Lurcy died in 1980.
Albert Moses Luria (1843-1862) was a lieutenant in the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, and the son of Raphael J. Moses of Columbus, Ga. The collection is a typed transcription of the diary of Albert Moses Luria while he was serving as a lieutenant in the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, 19 August 1861-13 February 1862. The diary includes a description of the battle of Manassas Junction (First Battle of Bull Run) and an account of an engagement near Union Mills, Va.
The Lutterloh family resided in Pittsboro, N.C. and Fayetteville, N.C. Some members include Charles Lutterloh, Henry E. Lutterloh, and Eliza Comerford Lutterloh.
Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a journalist, professor of journalism, and Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1953-1964. Born in London, Ohio, he served in the Navy, 1917-1919, before earning a B.S. in journalism (1923) and M.A. in history (1931) from Ohio State University and Ph.D. in history (1940) from UCLA. Luxon held a variety of editorial posts on several newspapers and taught journalism and served in administrative capacities at Ohio State until 1953, when he was appointed Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. As a member of several national journalism organizations, Luxon wrote and spoke widely on the importance of maintaining high standards in journalism education and of a solid background in the humanities to practicing journalists. Luxon was married to Ermina Munn in 1928, and the couple had one son, Norval Neil Luxon Jr. Luxon died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1989.
Letters, 1943-1978, from Fairfax Mitchell Lyerly to her parents John G. and Fairfax Polk Mitchell in Warrenton, N.C. The letters start with her years at Vassar College and continue through her graduate study in social work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Later letters disucss her family life in Jacksonville, Fla.
John M. Lyle was a physician, businessman, and state legislator of North Carolina. His wife was Laura (Siler) Lyle.
Letterpress book, circa 500 p., with copies of letters dated 26 December 1885 to 23 April 1887. The letters relate to iron ore operations at the Dolly Ann Mine in Covington, Allegheny County, Va. All of the letters are signed by Frank Lyman, who appears to have been manager of a company that operated the Dolly Ann and other mines. While most of the letters are addressed to John S. Ham, who seems to have had direct responsibllity for the Dolly Ann Mine, there are also letters to buyers of ore, especially in Pittsburgh. The letters discuss iron ore productions, maintenance of railroad cars and track to transport the ore, arrangements for processing ore at furnaces, and sales of ore.
John Lyman (1915-1977), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of environmental chemistry and oceanographer, with interests in state and federal planning and support of development programs for marine resources. Correspondence, reports, and minutes relating to the North Carolina Marine Sciences Council, 1968-1970, and reports, petitions, testimony, correspondence, and other materials relating to licensing nuclear power plants in North Carolina and South Carolina by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1971-1976.
Joseph W. Lyman was a sugar planter of Franklin, La.
Theodore Benedict Lyman was rector of St. John's Church, Hagerstown, Md., 1841-1850, and of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850- 1860; he was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, 1881-1893. Correspondence, financial material, printed matter concerning Lyman, and family photographs. Letters, chiefly 1842-1873, between Theodore Lyman and family members, friends, and colleagues, are personal and professional in nature, and cover a range of topics, including parish and family matters, theological questions, Lyman's travels in Europe and the Middle East, and anecdotes about Lyman.
James Lynah (1735?-1809), a native of Dublin, Ireland, was a surgeon during the Revolutionary War and resided in Charleston, S.C. The collection includes correspondence and other papers of Lynah and of his son, James Lynah Jr., dealing largely with personal and business matters, with occasional references to military and naval affairs. Included are letters from several secretaries of the treasury, secretaries of war, and an attorney general, chiefly concerning personal claims; and letters and clippings collected by Lynah's grandson.
The Lynch family of Orange County, N.C., counted among its members John Lynch, Mary Lynch, and Thomas Lynch.
The Lynch Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association incorporated as a non profit organization in the state of Kentucky in 1994. The alumni association draws its membership from individuals who attended Lynch Colored High School, later West Main High School, from its founding until 1963 when the schools in Harlan County, Ky., integrated. Lynch Colored School in Harlan County, Ky., served African American children, kindergarten through twelfth grade, who lived in the neighboring coal camps and company towns of Lynch, Ky., and Benham, Ky. United States Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, established a segregated school system in 1923 to accommodate the children of the company's Black coal miners, many of whom had migrated from Alabama and Georgia. The collection of the Lynch (Ky.) Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association, Inc. was acquired as a part of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP), a public humanities and archival collecting initiative directed by Karida Brown, an African American sociologist, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an historically white institution. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi-generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. The Alumni Association collection contains pictures, yearbooks, and papers related to Lynch Colored School, West Main High School, the communities of Lynch and Benham in Harlan County, Ky., and the alumni association. The pictures are of the faculty, staff, students, classrooms, athletics, and school activities at Lynch Colored School (including the elementary and middle schools) and West Main High School. Other pictures are of the coal camp town of Lynch, Ky., and surrounding communities, community members, and alumni association events. The yearbooks are for Lynch Colored High School, Lynch West Main High School, and Lynch Colored School. Papers are primarily printed items, including newspaper and magazine clippings, booklets with remembrances and local history for alumni, an alumni event program, a copy of receipts and expenditures for 1926, a copy of a 1929 employment application for the United States Coal and Coke Company, a 1959 report card, 1961 Lynch High School diploma, and certificates. Of interest are copies of school census data for 1934 and 1928-1963. Records of the Alumni Association's operations include articles of incorporation, annual reports, and membership lists and directories, and a small amount of correspondence.
George G. Lynch (fl. 1845-1865) was a Confederate Post Office Department special agent at Weldon, N.C.
Operating broadly in the areas of health, education, and the arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation has, beginning in the late 1970s, supported the work of institutions, local groups, and individuals in eastern Tennessee and throughout the South. The Foundation has encouraged education initiatives, centers, and leaders; environmental protection and improvement activities and organizations; community health, development, and minority improvement programs, centers, and leaders; and cultural events, centers, leaders, documentation, and interpretation.
H. M. Lynn (also called Gridley Lynn) was mustered into Company C of the 9th Tennessee Infantry Regiment on 24 May 1861 at Jackson, Tenn. He served as an infantryman for the balance of the war. He is listed on a role of deserters from the Confederate Army in June 1865. He is also listed as having taken the oath of allegiance on 2 June 1865 and paroled in July of that year at Murfreesboro, Tenn. He later moved to Des Arc, Ark., where he apparently became postmaster in 1889. The collection consists of correspondence between Lynn and his wife, Mattie Simpson Lynn, during the Civil War. H. M. Lynn's letters describe various aspects of military life and the progress of the war, although they contain few specifics. The letters from his wife are concerned with news from the home front, the day-to-day lives of Confederate civilians, discussions of emancipation, and ruminations on the causes of the war. Also included is the text of a brief speech, apparently delivered by H. M. Lynn after the war, in which he discussed the Confederate dispositions around Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., before and during the battle there in 1864. There are also photocopies of several pages of Confederate muster rolls on which H. M. Lynn's signature appears; a photocopy of a document showing that Lynn took the oath of allegiance in 1865; several letters of indeterminate origin from the 1870s; two catechisms and a small volume of religious songs that apparently belonged to Mattie Simpson Lynn; an 1858 letter her from her brother; and an undated, handwritten biography of H. M. Lynn.
W. H. Lyon was a lieutenant in Company I, 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
The Clifford and Gladys Lyons Collection of Robert Frost Materials includes correspondence, writings, newspaper and magazine clippings, audio tapes, photographs, and other materials documenting the life and work of Robert Frost, especially as they related to Frost's friendship with Clifford Lyons, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lyons's wife, Gladys.
Jacob Lyons (fl. 1862-1865) was a New York, N.Y., cigar maker and English immigrant who served in the United States army during the Civil War. The collection includes the Civil War diary of Lyons while serving in Virginia with the 71st New York Regiment, 1862-1863, and the 120th New York Regiment, 1864-1865. Entries from 1862 and 1863 are sketchy; those from 1864 and 1865 are more detailed, describing camping, marching, picketing, skirmishes, battles, and casualties. Of the three volumes, two are somewhat differing versions of entries for 1862 and 1863.
James Lyons (1801-1882) of Richmond, Va., was a lawyer and Confederate congressman. The collection is chiefly letters, 1821, from Lyons to Henrietta Watkins, later his wife, discussing their relationship, his reading, mutual friends, and other matters. Also included are photocopies of two letters from Jefferson Davis to Lyons: one, 13 August 1876, justifying the order to remove General J. C. Johnson from the command of the Confederate forces at Atlanta, and the other, 15 May 1879, regarding his determination not to ask the United States government for financial help.
Peter Lyons (fl. 1805-1809) was a jurist of Hanover County, Va. The collection includes typed copies of letters from Lyons to Lucy L. Hopkins (fl. 1805-1809), his granddaughter, giving advice and reporting local news.
William Lytle, of Hillsboro, N.C., was the son of Robert Lytle (1729-1774) and Sarah Mebane Lytle, and served in the Sixth, First, and Fourth regiments of the North Carolina Line during the Revolutionary War. He entered as a lieutenant in 1776, and became a captain in 1779. He moved to Tennessee about 1790.

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The collection contains the records of MDC, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded in 1967 as Manpower Development Corporation, which grew out of North Carolina Fund programs in collaboration with the United States Office of Economic Development. The records reflect the organization's research interests and its community work in the American South, especially in the areas of job training, racial integration of workplaces, economic mobility, and rural development during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The collection contains the organization's administrative files; materials generated by the office of founding president George B. Autry (1937-1999); project and subject files; and reports. Administrative files pertain to the board of directors, advisory board, and the general governance of the organization. Documents include board meeting minutes; meeting summaries; correspondence; memorandums; articles of incorporation; by-laws; financial records; manuals; calendars; public relations materials; press releases; printed materials; speeches; field notes; conference materials; items related to federal legislation; and organizational histories and chronologies. Histories are of MDC, Inc., MDC center in Raleigh N.C., and the North Carolina Fund. Records generated and maintained by Autry's office are chronological files with correspondence, internal communications, grant proposals, notes, and speeches related to MDC, Inc.'s administration, programs, and funding. Many items contain Autry's handwritten notes. His research and writing files include materials for a history of Duke Endowment and a biography of United States Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985). Photographs of Ervin are included. Project and subject files pertain to MDC, Inc.'s research, funding, programs, and Manpower Development Centers in Greensboro, N.C., Asheville, N.C., Johnson County, N.C., and Craven County N.C. Files contain research papers and studies, draft reports, grant applications, proposals, contracts, and audits. Programs documented in the files include Concentrated Employment Program (CEP), Cooperative Area Manpower Planning System (CAMPS), Human Resource Development (HRD), Job Readiness Training (JRT), Management Awareness Programs (MAP), Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI), Women in Electronics (WIE), and Youth Employment Competencies (YEC). Funding agencies for the programs include Ford Foundation, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Reports pertain chiefly to MDC, Inc.'s Mobility Project, funding agencies, research, and federal legislation, especially Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA). Subjects addressed in reports include community colleges, community leadership, computerization and technology, home-to-work transportation in rural areas, in-plant training, rural development, women's employment, and youth literacy. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection is a notebook containing genealogical data on the Mabry family of Virginia and Alabama.
Denis Florence MacCarthy, Irish poet and translator of Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), lived most of his life in Dublin, where he was born and educated. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Mystics, and several political associations. His career started in the 1840's with his contributions to The Nation and the publication of The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland (1846), which he edited. In 1853, he began his translations of Calderon.
Notes by MacGregor, Scottish immigrant to New York and press correspondent during the Civil War, defending the competence of newspaper writers covering the Civil War in reply to an attack on their reliability by General Henry Warner Slocum, of the United States Army. MacGregor's notes are undated, but apparently were written soon after the war.
Ella Noland MacKenzie of Glen Ora, near Leesburg, Loudon County, Virginia was the daughter of Lloyd and Elizabeth Noland. She married physician John Carrerre MacKenzie (died 1866) of Baltimore, Md.
Edwin Robeson MacKethan, a white lawyer and politician, was born in Fayetteville, N.C., on 7 September 1869. He was graduated from University of North Carolina in 1891. During the 1890s, MacKethan spent several years in Savannah, Ga., but later returned to Fayetteville where he lived and practiced law for the remainder of his life. During the campaign of 1900, MacKethan was elected president of the White Supremacy Club of Fayetteville and served as Cumberland County's representative to the state legislature. A Democrat, he served in the state senate, 1925-1929, and was later elected mayor of Fayetteville. The collection includes correspondence, financial material, legal papers, and other items of Edwin R. MacKethan and family of Fayetteville, N.C. Correspondence was exchanged among MacKethan brothers in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and between the MacKethan children at college, in New York City, and aboard United States Navy ships and their parents. There are letters and other papers pertaining to MacKethan's legal practice and other businesses in Fayetteville and to his political career in the North Carolina legislature and as mayor of Fayetteville. Other business papers from the 1840s and 1850s refer to the Clarendon Bridge Company, the Fayetteville and Northern Plank Road Company, and the Dobbin Horse Company. Some materials relate to disfranchisement of African Americans; to students and teachers at the United States Naval Academy and at the University of North Carolina; to the Civil War experiences of a relative stationed near Wilmington, N.C.; and to the stock market crash of 1929. Also included are printed items pertaining to White Supremacy and Prohibition, poems, essays, maps, photographs, and genealogical material. Additions to the collection are bound volumes of family history prepared by Edwin R. MacKethan III.
Loren Carey MacKinney was a professor of medieval history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1930 until his death in 1963. MacKinney was born in Minnesota and received degrees from Lawrence College and the University of Chicago. He taught at eight colleges and universities before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, and was regarded as an authority on the history of medieval medicine. His publications included Early Medieval Medicine, with Special Reference to France and Chartres (1937), The Medieval World (1938), and Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts (1965).
The collection contains miscellaneous papers of the MacLean family and Thomas family of Thomas County, Ga., including land deeds, a will, receipts, tax records, a poem in Gaelic, and several Civil War letters from John MacLean of the Thomas County Rangers in the Georgia State Militia, regarding family news, troop movements, camp life, and battles.
William MacLean (1756-1825) of Lincoln County (later Gaston County), N.C., was a surgeon and physician, Revolutionary soldier, and statesman.
The MacNeill family (sometimes spelled McNeill) owned plantations in Kentucky and Mississippi during the 19th century. Malcolm MacNeill (1796-1875) and his immediate family started their plantation home, Hemphill, in Christian County, Ky. His daughter Martha Rivers McNeill (1827-1887) attended the Nashville Female Academy in the 1840s. His son, Thomas Henry McNeill (1821-1866), bought land in Coahoma County, Miss., to start a second plantation. During the Civil War, Thomas Henry McNeill (1821-1866) served as a second lieutenant in the 18th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry, Company B. He also had at least one son, Malcolm McNeill (1846-1917), who moved to Chicago, Ill., after the death of his first wife. He lived there with his second wife, Willie Gilmore McNeill (1848-1921).
The collection of white photographer, author, and journalist for Wilmington Star-News and the Raleigh News and Observer, Ben Dixon MacNeill (1889-1960), contains black-and-white photographic prints; black-and-white and color negatives; and duplicate negatives. Images depict scenes, events, and people in mid-twentieth-century North Carolina, particularly in Dare County, Mitchell County, and Lee County. Included are images of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; trails in the mountains prior to construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway; 1923 Spruce Pines riot following the conviction of an African American man for the rape of a white woman; 1925 Cumnock coal mine disaster in Lee County; 1927 commemoration of the Battle of Bentonville; 1928 dedication of the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kitty Hawk with Amelia Earhart and Orville Wright in attendance; 1928 inauguration of Governor Max Gardner; and enforcement of prohibition.
Author and journalist of Buxton on Hatteras, N.C. Papers of author and journalist Ben Dixon MacNeill, including correspondence, manuscript articles, clippings of articles by and about MacNeill, reviews of MacNeill's book The Hatterasman, maps of coastal areas of North Carolina, and photographs of MacNeill and his family and of people and animals at Cape Hatteras. Most of the material relates in some way to Cape Hatteras or the Outer Banks. Correspondence includes letters from Alvah H. Ward, Herbert C. Bonner, George Ross, and others about Oregon Inlet; from Lindsay C. Warren and others about the establishment of a National Seashore at the Outer Banks; from Dudley W. Bagley about a book on Joseph Palmer Knapp and other matters; from governors William B. Umstead and Luther Hodges about appointments of MacNeill and others to state boards, including MacNeill's appointment to the North Carolina Cape Hatteras Seashore Commission; and from John F. Blair, publisher, and many others about MacNeill's book, The Hatterasman.
White editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly (1947-2000) was the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the comic strip Shoe. The collection contains approximately 60 oversize ink drawings on paper of political cartoons created by MacNelly between 1970 and 1973 for the Richmond News Leader, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chapel Hill Weekly.
William de Berniere MacNider MacNider received an M. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1903. He was named Kenan Professor of Pharmacology at UNC in 1905 and Kenan Research Professor of Pharmacology in 1920. He served as Dean of the UNC Medical School from 1937 to 1940 and held numerous lecture and research appointments at universities and hospitals in the mid-Atlantic region.
Members of the MacRae family, primarily of North Carolina and Maryland, included Duncan MacRae Sr. (1891-1980), who graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1908; his wife Rebecca Kyle MacRae (1893-1980); their son Duncan MacRae Jr. (1921- ); his wife Edith Krugelis MacRae (1919-1995); and their daughter Amy Frances MacRae (1958- ). Duncan MacRae Sr. was a chemist who spent much of his career at the United States Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Duncan MacRae Jr., Edith MacRae, and Amy MacRae were all university professors, Duncan at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; biologist Edith at the medical schools of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of North Carolina; and Amy, also a biologist, at the University of Missouri in Saint Louis and Saint Louis University.
Actress Elizabeth MacRae appeared in several motion pictures and on many television shows in the course of her acting career. Her film roles include appearances in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, as well as parts in For Love or Money, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Everything's Ducky, and others. On television, for three seasons, she played Gomer Pyle's girlfriend, Lou Ann Poovie, on Gomer Pyle, USMC, and, for another three seasons, she played Festus's girlfriend April on Gunsmoke. She had guest starring or co-starring roles on more than 50 television series, including Barnaby Jones, Kojak, Mannix, The Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, Andy Griffith, I Dream of Jeannie, 77 Sunset Strip, SurfSide 6, and numerous other shows. MacRae studied acting in New York City with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio and at the Art Student's League. MacRae was born in Columbia, S.C., and raised in Fayetteville, N.C. She was educated at the Holton Arms School in Washington, D.C.
The collection documents the business dealings of white supremacist, industrialist, and agriculturalist Hugh MacRae, specifically through the Carolina Trucking Development Company, Hugh MacRae and Company, Oleander Development Company, and the Carolina Real Estate Trust Company. Collection materials include correspondence, ledgers, contracts, maps, and deeds, 1940s-1970s. Also included are items related to the neighborhoods and farming colonies established by MacRae in southeastern North Carolina, including Artesia, Audubon, Castle Hayne, Marathon, New Berlin, Long Bridge Bay, Noble Lands, Oleander, Penderlea, St. Helena, Van Eeden, Winter Park Heights, and Woodburn, and a small amount of material related to the Linville Land, Manufacturing, and Mining Company (later the Linville Improvement Company), Invershiel Farm, and the development of Wrightsville Beach. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
John Burgwyn MacRae of Jackson, Northampton County, N.C., was a white lawyer, owner of a large Roanoke River plantation, and diarist. The collection includes MacRae's nine-volume daily diary, 1883-1916; letterpress copy books, 1886-1896, of MacRae; speeches by MacRae; and miscellaneous volumes and papers. The diary describes day-to-day life and events in Jackson, including including MacRae's sexual relationships with Black women, in particular one with whom he had fathered two children; his consumption of alcohol; his fishing expeditions; and his work as a steward in the State Penitentiary in Raleigh, N.C. Among others discussed in the diary are various members of the Burgwyn family and Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904). Also included are letters, 1869-1870, from Kate MacRae to her father Cameron MacRae describing her travels in Europe; class notes from the University of North Carolina, 1886; a baseball club treasurer's book and constitution, 1883; an account book, 1880-1889, containing accounts for meat, corn, cotton, and other goods; and political speeches and addresses given by MacRae at Confederate reunions and Masonic, Episcopal Church, and other organization meetings. The Addition of March 2008 contains letters and related materials concerning the Scottish heritage of John Burgwyn MacRae as well as his land ownership in Northampton County, N.C. The Addition of September 2013 contains MacRae family genealogy memos and queries from various MacRae kin.
Prominent members of the Macay and McNeely families of Rowan County, N.C., included Spruce Macay (1755-1808), lawyer and judge; and his sons, Alfred (d. 1827) and William Spruce Macay (d. circa 1861). Also represented is Robert W. McNeely, son of William Spruce Macay's widow, Mildred Ann (Hunt) Macay, and her second husband, William G. McNeely.
William Whann Mackall, a West Point graduate, served in the United States Army from his graduation in 1837 until 1861, and in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865, attaining the rank of brigadier general. After the war he lived at Langley, Va. He married Aminta Sorrel of Savannah, Ga., and had a son, W. W. Mackall (b. 1853), who was a lawyer in Savannah.
Archibald Maclaine (1695-1739 or 1740) was a Presbyterian minister in Banbridge, Ireland.
Alexander Macomb was a Major General in the United States Army.
Family Bible, 1795, containing records, 1758-1837, of the family of Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, with Martin and Eaton family connections. There are also records, 1743-1847, of slave births.
The collection contains transcripts and audio recordings of oral history interviews conducted by students in history courses taught by Professor Carol Kingsland Wilcox Melton at Macon State College, now Middle Georgia State University. Interviews conducted between 2004 and 2010 are chiefly with residents of the state of Georgia. Interviewees discuss life in the American South in the mid-twentieth century. Subjects addressed in the interviews include the Vietnam, War, race relations, teen pregnancy, the civil rights movement, education, and family and social life. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) was a United States representative from North Carolina, 1791-1815; speaker of the House of Representatives, 1801-1807; United States senator, 1815-1828; president pro tem of the Senate, 1826-1828; and trustee of the University of North Carolina. The collection includes a letter, 1815, from Macon, while a United States representative from North Carolina, about midshipman applicants; a letter, 1826, from Macon to The Rev'd Doctor Moore about a favor asked of Macon; and a statement, 1835, by Macon about Joseph Seawell Jones's defense of Mr. Hooper.
O. S. Macon owned a general store in Louisburg, N.C., in the 1920s.
William O. Macoughtry was a physician of Jefferson County, W. Va.
Alexander Macwhorter (1734-1807) was a Presbyterian minister of New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina and trustee of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University). The collection includes manuscript copies of extracts (22 pages) from the oration at the funeral of Macwhorter; a pastoral letter, 1766, of Elihu Spencer (1721-1784), moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New York, containing a religious interpretation of the relations of France, England, and the colonies; and minutes, 1764, of the New Jersey synod sending Macwhorter and Spencer on a southern mission.
Cornelius J. Madden (died 1903) of Shelby, Ohio, served in the United States Army. The collection includes correspondence of Madden while he was a federal soldier, including letters written by him from Ohio and Tennessee during the Civil War and from Chattanooga, Tenn., 1865-1866; letters from friends in the army; and letters from his father, James Madden, working in army hospitals in Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee; and letters from other family members. Cornelius Madden's letters, 1862-1866, deal largely with his living arrangements in Columbus, Ohio, and in Chattanooga, camp life, his reactions to war news and controversial issues, his reading, residents of locations where he was stationed, and the family photography business in Shelby.
Thomas H. Maddox (fl. 1827) was involved in a duel with Monfort Wells which lead to the Sand Bar fight near Natchez, Miss., in 1827. The collection includes a typed copy of an account by Maddox of the Sand Bar fight, a conflict involving about a dozen men.
Maddry of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a Baptist minister and executive secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1933-1945.
A. W. Madison was a North Carolina lawyer specializing in tax and fiduciary matters in Raleigh, N.C. Letters, 1950-1952, to A. W. Madison include good wishes from North Carolina writer Hope Summerell Chamberlain of Chapel Hill and from state Attorney General Harry McMullan on the occasion of Madison's opening a new law office. There are also routine business letters to Madison from McMullan and from Leslie Hartwell Campbell, president of Campbell College in Buie's Creek, N.C.
John Newland Maffitt (1819-1886) was a United States Navy officer, Confederate Navy officer, blockade runner, and author. Maffitt was born in Connecticut; grew up in Fayetteville, N.C.; and retired to Wilmington, N.C.
Aldo P. Magi is a white collector of all things Thomas Wolfe. His interest in Wolfe began in 1957 when he read The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. From this he read through Wolfe's fiction and the existing biographical works and began to develop the collection that would become a lifelong interest. Magi pursued his collection largely through a correspondence he maintained with librarians, scholars, and Thomas Wolfe's own friends and family. By the 1970s, Magi was an active participant in Thomas Wolfe scholarship. He was one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Society and was an editor of the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter, which later became the Thomas Wolfe Review. Magi began publishing on Wolfe in 1978, producing a number of limited-edition volumes of previously unpublished Wolfe writings. He often collaborated with his close friends and fellow Wolfe scholars John S. Phillipson and Richard Walser. Magi maintained his growing collection in his house in Sandusky, Ohio, devoting even more time to it after his retirement from the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in 1983. The collection was transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. The Aldo P. Magi Collection on Thomas Wolfe includes a small number of original letters written by Wolfe, original photographs of Wolfe, a small number of letters written by Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins and letters written to Louise Perkins King after Maxwell Perkins's death. Also included is Magi's correspondence with people who were either associated with or interested in Wolfe. Nearly every author who wrote on Wolfe in the last decades of the 20th century is represented, as are surviving members of Wolfe's family, including the author's brother, Fred Wolfe, and nephew, R. Dietz Wolfe. Subject files contain material about Wolfe, his works, Wolfe scholars, and other topics related to Wolfe. There are also letters, drafts, and research material mostly related to articles and other publications by Magi, including Portraits of a Novelist: Douglas Gorsline and Thomas Wolfe, Nine Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1938, and A Real and Lasting Affection: The Wolfe-Reynolds Correspondence; notes, drafts, and other material related to Magi and John Phillipson's Thomas Wolfe: A Secondary Bibliography; and correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and other material related to Magi and Richard Walser's Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929-1938. There are also promotional materials, programs, brochures, photographs, audiocassettes, and other material related to the annual Thomas Wolfe Festival; correspondence, scrapbooks, brochures, photographs, articles, clippings, and other information related to the Thomas Wolfe Home and Memorial in Asheville, N.C., much of which concerns the dedication and rededication of the memorial and a 1998 fire at the home and the subsequent restoration; materials relating to the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter and the Thomas Wolfe Review, both initially published by the University of Akron; promotional materials, brochures, audiocassettes, and correspondence related to annual meetings of the Thomas Wolfe Society; annual reports of the North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; rare book and manuscript dealer catalogs and other catalogs collected by Magi that feature items related to Wolfe; journals and other serials that relate to Wolfe; and miscellaneous materials documenting the persistent use of the phrases look homeward, angel and you can't go home again, either in reference to Wolfe, or in the context of unrelated topics, such as newspapers or advertisements. There are also commercially produced and privately recorded audiocassettes, videotapes, compact dics, audiodiscs, a DVD, reel-to-reel audiotape, and film strips that include presentations and proceedings of the Thomas Wolfe Society and the Thomas Wolfe Festival, interviews, radio broadcasts, performances and readings of Wolfe's works, and books on tape. Also included are recordings of music inspired by, or otherwise related to, Wolfe or his works. Photographs chiefly relate to Thomas Wolfe Society meetings, the Thomas Wolfe Festival, and other Wolfe-related events and places, but there are also some photographs of Wolfe that were taken in 1938. Also included are index cards with descriptive and provenance information that Magi created for items in the collection.
The Magnes and Lowenstein family papers contains correspondence, photgraphic materials, and other papers documenting immediate members of the Magnes and Lowenstein family: Judah Leon Magnes (1877-1948), prominent rabbi and Jewish community leader, Beatrice Lowenstein Magnes (1879-1968), and their sons, David (b. 1910), Jonathan (b. 1912), and Benedict (b. 1914). The Magnes family lived in New York and moved to Palestine in 1922. Correspondence consists primarily of personal letters exchanged among the family members while the children were at schools in Haifa and Jerusalem and Beatrice and Judah traveled frequently. Letters are written mostly in English with Hebrew peppered throughout, and share information about school, travel, and routine matters. There are also many letters (in German and in Hebrew) from Jonathan's wife Hava's parents in Tel Aviv to Hava and Jon in New York. Letters after 1950 are relatively sparse and mostly to Beatrice Magnes in Jerusalem. Other papers consist of professional papers of Judah L. Magnes: scattered letters relating to Hebrew University and the state of Israel; texts of speeches given, largely at the Hebrew University; and many memorials and clippings written at the time of his death; writings by Beatrice Lowenstein Magnes; and extensive clippings and programs documenting Frances Magnes's career as a professional musician. Photographic materials chiefly depict Judah L. Magnes and Beatrice Lowenstein Magnes's family, friends, and travels to Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and other unidentified locations in the Middle East, some of which would become the country of Israel.
Charles Edward Magoon was United States minister to Panama and governor of the Panama Canal Zone, 1905-1906, and provisional governor of the Republic of Cuba, 1906-1909. The collection includes letters of introduction and congratulations to Charles Edward Magoon pertaining to his work for the Division of Insular Affairs (renamed the Bureau of Insular Affairs in 1902) of the United States War Department, 1899-1904, and to his service with the United States State Department as minister to Panama and governor of the Canal Zone, 1905-1906, and provisional governor of the Republic of Cuba, 1906-1909. Also included are a genealogy of the Magoon family, photocopies of newspaper articles about Magoon, of letters to Magoon from William Howard Taft, and of Magoon's will.
A. G. Magrath (1813-1893) was a Confederate governor of South Carolina. The collection contains chiefly correspondence, 1864-1865, during Magrath's tenure as governor of South Carolina, concerning military and economic problems of the South during the Civil War, military movements in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and other related topics. Correspondents include General E. B. C. Cash, General W. R. DeSaussure, General W. W. Harlee, E. W. Marshall, General J. G. Martin, General W. R. Nance, Governor F. W. Pickens, William Henry Prescott, and Governor F. H. Watts.
Audio recordings containing dubs of Irish dance music originally released on 78 rpm records from the 1920s until the 1940s, as well as dubs made in the 1970s of Irish American musicians from Chicago, Ill. Instruments played on the recordings include uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute, piano, recorder, and viola. Tune types represented are jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes, set dances, and airs. John Maguire (1902-1976), an Irish music collector, singer, storyteller, and farmer from Rosslea, County Fermanagh, Ireland, compiled the recordings from his personal collection and donated them to the Southern Folklife Collection. Of particular note is a complete set of the recordings of Michael Coleman (1889-1945), an Irish American fiddler originally from Ballymote, County Sligo, Ireland, and recordings of Eleanor Kane Neary, an Irish American pianist from Chicago, Ill. Other Irish and Irish American musicians who appear on the recordings include Patsy Touhey, Michael Gallagher, Joseph Gallager, John McKenna, Leo Rowsome, James Morrison, Mrs P. Scully, Patsy Cawley, Michael Carney, and Angus Chisolm. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a handwritten letter from John Maguire to Daniel W. Patterson, as well as a field collection cover sheet and tape logs prepared by John Maguire and former library staff.
Andre Mailhet was a part-time archivist and retired Protestant minister of Saillon, department of Drôme, province of Dauphine, France.
Lemuel Main served as a corporal in Company C of the 145th Ohio Infantry Regiment (National Guard) during the Civil War. He was stationed at Fort Albany, Va., and Fort Whipple, Va. His wife, Sallie Ann Grant Main, and daughter, Ava L. Main, lived in Leonardsburg, Delaware County, Ohio. Their nephew, John M. Cole, served with Lemuel in the 145th.
Raymond Bowden Mallard was born in Faison, N.C., in 1908. He was an attorney, state legislator, North Carolina Superior Court judge, and first chief judge of the North Carolina State Court of Appeals. Mallard died in 1979 in Tabor City, N.C.
C. B. (Charles Beatty) Mallett (1816-1872), of Fayetteville, N.C., was a white manufacturer, merchant, and the president of the Western North Carolina Railroad. With James Browne of Charleston, S.C., he formed the partnership Mallett and Browne. The Mallett family is descended from Peter Mallett (1744-1805). The collection consists primarily of business papers and family correspondence of C. B. Mallett. Included are antebellum correspondence, bills, and accounts related to a textile mill; letters, contracts, bills, accounts, and other records pertaining to the operation of coal mines in Chatham County, N.C., during the Civil War by Mallett and Browne and and of the partnership's supplying the Confederate War Department with coal, iron, nails, and other materials; a volume with accounts, 1845-1854, for cotton bales, cotton cloth, cotton sheeting, meal, and miscellaneous merchandise, a daybook of a kerosene oil works, 1864-1865, and a daybook of a river freight firm, 1867-1868; and miscellaneous records of Mallett and Browne, the Union Manufacturing Company, the Western North Carolina Railroad, and Saint John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C. Also included are correspondence and other family papers, chiefly letters from the family of C. B. Mallett's father, Charles Peter Mallett, in North Carolina and in Balstrop, La., in the 1870s. Of particular interest are letters by Charles Peter Mallett in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the town's occupation by Union forces in the spring of 1865. Also of note is a volume of recipes and household tips, 1841.
Peter Mallett was a merchant of Fayetteville, N.C., and New York City; and a Confederate Army officer and head of Confederate conscription in North Carolina.
MICROFILM ONLY. Mainly a farm journal of James Mallory of Talladega County, Ala., who emigrated from Madison County, Va., to Alabama in 1834. The journal includes mention of farm operations, community social, political, and religious affairs, especially concerning the Baptist Church, and, during the Civil War, news and rumors from the battle fronts. There are also observations about Reconstruction.
MICROFILM ONLY. United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. Letters, chiefly 1835-1872, mainly from Stephen R. Mallory to his wife and children while he was a member of the United States Senate, in Richmond as secretary of the Confederate Navy, as a prisoner of the federal government, 1865, and in Pensacola, Fla., during Reconstruction. Topics include social and political events in Washington, D.C., 1858; wartime conditions in Richmond, Va.; conditions during Mallory's imprisonment, 1865; and his efforts to obtain a presidential pardon and re-establish himself in Pensacola, and the condition of the family home there; and letters, 1868-1871, to his son, Atilla, at college, giving him advice on social and study habits.
Stephen R. Mallory of Florida was a United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy. The collection, in part microfilm, includes diaries, 1861-1862 and 1865-1867, of Stephen R. Mallory. The second volume was written while Mallory was in a federal prison at Fort Lafayette in New York harbor and includes his recollections of the collapes of the Confederate government during April 1865 and his autobiography. There are also copies of letters relating to Mallory's application for parole and some general business and financial information; and advice to his son, Stephen R. Mallory Junior, on government, religion, etc., and commenting on Jefferson Davis.
The collection contains letters, 1843-1848 and 1882-1892, legal and financial materials, and miscellaneous items relating to the Malloy (sometimes Maloy) family of Lumber Bridge, Robeson County, N.C. The few letters from the 1840s are to Duncan Malloy from his brother, John Malloy, describing his life and surroundings in Telfair County, Ga. Most letters in the 1880s and 1890s are from family members in Robeson County to Duncan Malloy, probably a younger relative of the earlier Duncan, who moved to Georgia in 1891; they discuss family, farm, and other matters. Legal and financial papers are chiefly tax receipts and receipts for donations to Lumber Bridge Baptist Church in Robeson County. Also included are deeds, indentures, plats, and wills, 1790-1820, of Daniel and John Malloy, and a Maloy family tree prepared in 1983.
Frederick Fagg Malloy was a lieutenant in the cavalry, 32nd Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-1918.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary kept by B. Y. Malone of Caswell County, N.C., private and sergeant in Company H, 6th North Carolina Regiment, when he was fighting in Virginia and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Md.
The Bill C. Malone Collection documents the culture, history, and performers of country music, folk, bluegrass, gospel, and other related music genres and topics. Materials include audio and video recordings compiled by Bill C. Malone, a white historian of country music; newspaper clippings, articles from scholarly, trade, and popular publications, Malone's notes, and photographs. Audio recordings consists of interviews with Bill C. Malone, public and class lectures given by Malone, research materials compiled by Malone, and episodes of Malone's weekly radio program, Back to the Country.
Virginia Stanard Forbes Maner, born in 1921 in Atlanta, Ga., and Charlotte Revercomb Stephenson Oresman, born in 1920 in New York, were 1942 graduates of the University of North Carolina. Both women attended the Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., before transferring to UNC. Upon graduation, Oresman lived in New York City, N.Y., where she died in 1978. Maner wrote and edited for a number of newspapers, including The New York Times. She died in 2000 in Williamsburg, Va.
George Earl Maney (1826-1901) was a Confederate brigadier general and United States minister to various South American countries, 1881-1894. The collection contains a handwritten transcription of a letter from William Joseph Hardee recommending Maney for promotion to major general; certificates of appointment to United States diplomatic positions in various South American countries; and Maney family genealogical information.
Lewis M. Maney (fl. 1862-1867) was a resident of Murfreesboro, Tenn. The collection includes photocopies of letters of appreciation and family news, 1862-1867, from William W. Duffield, a federal soldier from Detroit, Mich., and his family to Lewis M. Maney and his family, who had befriended and cared for Duffield in their home while he was a prisoner of war.
The collection includes correspondence and other papers relating to white members of the Mangum, Dickson, Abbott, Holliday, Overman, and other families in North Carolina and Virginia. Materials relating to Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861), a lawyer, Superior Court judge, Whig Party leader, U.S. representative and senator of Orange County, N.C., include family and political correspondence and printed political materials. Of note are a short 1841 letter from Henry Clay and an 1844 letter in which Mangum discussed Whig politics. Papers, 1851-1890, relate chiefly to A. W. Mangum (1834-1890) documenting his life as a student at Randolph-Macon College and work as a Methodist preacher in North Carolina; Confederate Army chaplain at Salisbury Prison, N.C.; and professor at the University of North Carolina, 1875-1890. Some 1870s-1880s items relate to Greensboro Female College. In 1894, there are courtship letters of Tracy Campbell Dickson. Other 19th century materials include financial records and scrapbooks. Of note are an 1840s physician's ledger documenting medical care of enslaved people, an 1840s account book with labor contracts for overseers and a list of names of enslaved people, and loose bills of sale and hiring out receipts that document the trafficking of enslaved people. From the 1900s through the 1920s, there are family and University of North Carolina letters of Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939), his wife Laura Rollins Payne Mangum, and their son lawyer Charles Staples Mangum Jr. in Chapel Hill, including 1917 letters from a soldier. By 1937, most letters relate to Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum (1928-2017), including many from her father, U.S. Army Colonel Benjamin Abbott Dickson, as a soldier in World War II through his retirement in the 1970s. Letters between William Goodson Mangum (1924-2013), an artist, and Ariana begin in 1949, with some relating to his art, teaching career at Salem College, and European trips they took. In the early 1970s, there are letters from William Preston Mangum II (1958- ), a student at Randolph-Macon Academy. Letters from the 1970s to the 2010s are chiefly of William Goodson Mangum, Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum, and William Preston Mangum II. Also included are genealogical materials and family histories; speeches of Willie Person Mangum; reminiscences of Salisbury Prison; school notebooks; sketchbooks and loose drawings of William Goodson Mangum; writings by Ariana Holliday Dickson Mangum and William Preston Mangum II; clippings about family, Chapel Hill, and other topics of interest; printed materials for schools, arts programming, and travel; and photographs depicting family members, milestones, events, and travels.
The collection contains information about the people enslaved by the white Manigault family on their rice plantations, Silk Hope in Berkeley District, S.C., and Gowrie and East Hermitage on Argyle Island on the Savannah River in Georgia. Plantation journals kept between 1833 and 1897 by Charles Manigault (1795-1874) of Charleston, S.C. and his son Louis Manigault (1828-1899) include lists of enslaved people at the three plantations and anecdotal information about the free Black communities in South Carolina and Georgia during and after the American Civil War and emancipation. Compiled by the Manigaults for the purpose of recording cloth and blanket distributions, the lists of people they enslaved typically provide first names and familial relationships especially those of parent and child and husband and wife. Additional though inconsistently recorded information on the lists includes ages, occupations on the plantations, disabilities such as blindness, self-emancipation attempts, sickness especially from cholera, deaths, births, and the dates and monetary amounts related to the trafficking of people in the internal slave trade. A photograph of Dolly, a Black woman who emancipated herself on 7 April 1863, is pasted to Louis Manigault’s “runaway slave” notice in volume 3. Other papers include Charles Manigault’s will, essays he wrote on slavery and other topics, a lengthy manuscript autobiography by his son Gabriel Edward Manigault (1833-1899), a physician and curator of the Museum of Natural History at the College of Charleston, and an album compiled by Louis Manigault about the Civil War that is accessible only on microfilm.
Members of the Manigault, Morris, and Grimball families of Charleston, S.C., Philadelphia, Pa., and Morrisania, N.Y., include Margaret Izard Manigault (1768-1834), daughter of Ralph (1741-1804) and Alice De Lancey Izard (d. 1832) and wife of Gabriel Manigault (1758-1809); Margaret's daughters, Elizabeth Manigault Morris (fl. 1795-1822) and Harriet Manigault Wilcocks (fl. 1831-1832); and Elizabeth's daughter, Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball (1810-1881).
Members of the Manly family of Wake County, N.C., included Charles Manly, governor of North Carolina, 1849-1851; his son, Basil Charles Manly, a lawyer who served as mayor of Raleigh, N.C.; and son-in-law George Badger Singeltary, lawyer of Greenville, N.C.
Basil Manly (1798-1868), was a Baptist clergyman, president of the University of Alabama, and husband of Sarah Murray (Rudulph) Manley. The collection includes letters to and from Manly, chiefly concerning the University of Alabama and Baptist church affairs. Also included are letters, in part photocopies, from Manly's son, Richard Fuller Manly, with Hilliard's Legion, Confederate States of America, in Alabama and Mississippi; and letters to another son, Charles Manly, concerning Basil Manly's death.
Basil Manly Jr. (1825-1892) was a prominent Baptist minister and educator in South Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia. Chiefly correspondence, 1842-1885, of Basil Manly Jr., and his brother Charles Manly (1837-1924), also a Baptist minister. Personal correspondence, 1850-1881, consists of letters to Charles Manly from his family, especially Basil Manly Jr., and letters written by Basil Manly Jr., to his parents and siblings. The letters detail family matters; church politics and activities; religious views; Basil Manly Jr.'s teaching career in South Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia; and national politics, including secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Items of interest include a description of the February 1865 evacuation of Columbia, S.C., during Sherman's occupation; an 1870 letter describing black members of the South Carolina legislature; and letters of condolence at the death of Basil Manly, Sr. (1798-1868), a Baptist minister and educator and president of the University of Alabama. There are also many letters, 1842-1885, to Basil Manly Jr., from fellow ministers and educators, discussing church business, personalities, and politics; conflicts with Baptists in the North and other denominations; theological questions and controversies, especially the issue of pedobaptism; the publishing of Southern religious literature; and Basil Manly Jr.'s career as an administrator and professor at various Baptist colleges and seminaries. There are also several letters describing missionary activities in Shanghai, China, and among Turkish Armenians in the 1880s. There are also 22 letterbooks, 1852-1893, on microfilm of Basil Manly Jr., while he was professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and at other institutions.
Matthias Evans Manly of New Bern, N.C., was a lawyer, state legislator, superior court judge, and state Supreme Court judge. Scattered papers of Matthias Evans Manly, include letters, among them an 1835 William Gaston letter about the North Carolina constitution, slavery, and other topics. There are also civic and political speeches. Also included is correspondence of his son, lawyer Clement Manly of Winston, N.C., particularly in 1896 when he was state Democratic Party chair. Some letters relate to the North Carolina Populist Party. Earlier items consist of colonial family deeds, land grants, and other legal papers. The addition of November 2002 includes financial and legal documents and correspondence of Matthias Evans Manly, including an 1862 letter about his leaving New Bern as the enemy took over the town.
Charles Riborg Mann (1869-1942), native of New Jersey, was a physicist and engineer, and a civilian adviser in the United States War Department during World War I as a member of the Committee on Education and Special Training. The collection includes memoranda, speeches, clippings, and other papers of Charles Riborg Mann, chiefly relating to his service as a civilian adviser in the United States War Department during World War I, particularly as a member of the Committee on Education and Special Training. These papers deal with such topics as officer training, engineering education, the National American Council, and national defense following World War I.
Julian Smith Mann was a planter, state legislator, and lawyer of Middleton, Hyde County, N.C., and of New Bern, N.C.
W. Robert Mann was professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina. The W. Robert Mann Papers consist of correspondence and other materials relating to Mann's support for integration of the university, Chapel Hill schools, and local businesses. There is also a newspaper article, 1999, about Leroy Frasier and Ralph Frasier, who along with John Brandon integrated the University of North Carolina in 1955.
Letter book, 1847-1851, of James Manney, a physician in Beaufort, N.C. The letters reflect Manney's professional activities, his participation in various community projects and other business ventures, and his political opinions. Many items are letters-to-the-editor relating to the sectional controversy of the late 1840s and 1850, and to railroad matters. Others are to Manney's son, James Lente Manney, and concern the latter's medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.
Isaac Hall Manning was the dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine from 1905 to 1933.
John Manning was a lawyer of Pittsboro, N.C.; U.S. representative from North Carolina; and professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John Manning of Edenton, N.C., was the father of John Manning (1830-1899), law professor at the University of North Carolina.
Thomas C. Manning (1825-1887) resided in Edenton, N.C.
The Bill Mansfield Collection consists of audio and video recordings created by the North Carolina based folklorist and musician, Bill Mansfield. The majority of the collection consists of 11 field recordings, 1990-1992, that Mansfield conducted for his master's thesis on North Carolina based tobacco auctioneers, while studying folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These field recordings feature auctioneers, tobacco graders, farmers, buyers, and warehouse employees speaking in various industrial environments. The collection also includes 1 video recording, 1988, featuring a community-based music party that includes footage of clogging and in-context rabbit dancing.
The Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas Manumission Records consist of sixteen sets of formal court records detailing the efforts of formerly enslaved people, or patrocinados, to obtain their freedom. Records contain official documents of the Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas, letters, and other supporting material. The Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas was created in 1880 when the law of patronato (apprenticeship) was passed in Spain. The law represented a legal strategy to gradually abolish slavery in Cuba. Most of the workings of the Cuban enslavement system were preserved, but patrocinados, as formerly enslaved people came to be known, received a minimal set of legal rights and were to be paid a token wage. The transition to the patronato system was overseen by a provincial network of government agencies called Juntas de Patronato. The Junta Provincial functioned as a statewide entity, and local juntas present in municipalities and cities were under the jurisdiction of the Junta Provincial and the civil governor.
The collection assembled by rockabilly musician Larry Manuel contains three typescripts and sixteen captioned photographs pertaining to his father and hillbilly musician Joe Manuel (1912-1959) and the elder Manuel's stage act and radio show called Saturday Night Jamboree. The Jamboree ran from 1953 to 1954 in Memphis, Tenn. Typescripts are a profile of Joe Manuel's music career, copy of a letter Larry wrote about the Memphis music scene of the 1950s, and a description of the Saturday Night Jamboree. Photographs are chiefly copies of promotional pictures for the radio show and include handwritten labels identifying the individuals and groups depicted.
A set of documents, 1829, pertaining to the conveyance under the auspices of the Yearly Meeting of Friends of North Carolina of a group of blacks from Perquimans County, N.C., to Wayne and to Washington counties, Ind. (authorization to travel, accounts of expenses, and list of names); and a six-page affirmation, 1778, by Josiah White and Caleb Trueblood, Quakers, arguing that the courts of Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, N.C., should review proceedings wherby certain blacks who had been manumitted had been seized and re-sold into slavery.
Papers, 1773-1845, chiefly of Richard Mendenhall (1778-1851), a white Quaker of Guilford County, N.C., relating to the Manumission Society of North Carolina and other anti-slavery groups. Papers concern the emanicipation of enslaved people and the emigration of free Black people to Haiti on the ship Sally Ann, sponsored by a branch of North Carolina Quakers, including correspondence about arranging the voyage, legal papers liberating enslaved people, passenger lists, and agreements and accounts concerning the ship and voyage. Other papers and volumes include scattered minutes and other records, 1773-1845, of Quaker groups in North Carolina.
Lucien Douglas Starke (1826-1902) was a newspaper editor at Elizabeth City, N.C., Confederate officer, lawyer at Norfolk, Va., and member of the Virginia leglislature, 1875-1877. His wife was Elizabeth F. Marchant Starke. Their daughter, Elizabeth Starke, married William Bruce Martin (1846-1921), son of J. G. Martin and his first wife, Mary Anne M. Read Martin (1811-1857). J. G. (James Green) Martin (1819-1878) of North Carolina was a United States and Confederate army officer.
The first band at the University of North Carolina was organized in 1903 with Charles T. Woollen as its director. By 1920, the band had become a regular part of football games. By the mid-1960s, there were several bands, including a marching band, concert band, and pep band; and the original band had become known as the Marching Tar Heels. From the 1920s through the mid-1960s, the Department of Music was responsible for the direction of the bands. Responsibility then shifted to the Division of Student Affairs until 1989, when it returned to the Department of Music. As of 2012, the Marching Tar Heels were directed by Jeffrey Fuchs of the Department of Music.
Blackwell Markham (1897-1977) was a general surgeon in Durham, N.C. He received his medical training at the University of North Carolina and at Harvard University. He served in the United States Army in World War II in North Africa and Europe.
J. C. Markham was a general merchant of Elizabeth City, N.C.
Paula Rosengarten was born in 1929 to Frank and Sophia Rosengarten, immigrants from Russia who became naturalized citizens of the United States. According to the 1940 census, the Rosengarten family resided in Norfolk, Va., and Paula had two siblings, Shirley and Stanley. Ben Marks grew up in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. After completing the tenth grade (the limit of public schools at the time), Ben attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia, followed by business school in Baltimore, Md., and may have attended American University. Paula Rosengarten and Ben Marks met in October 1947 and began corresponding immediately. They were married in August 1950. Paula Rosengarten Marks died in 2011.
Audiocassette recordings and typed transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Stuart A. Marks, a white biologist, anthropologist, and professor. Stuart A. Marks compiled the recordings while preparing for his book, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991). The interviews, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, are mostly with North Carolina hunters. Of particular note is an interview with Lumbee educator and preacher, D. F. Lowry. The collection also includes supporting documentation, including Stuart A. Marks' research notes and other materials on hunting that he compiled as part of the book project.
Cartoonist and author, Doug Marlette (1949- ), of Hillsborough, N.C., created the nationally syndicated comic strip Kudzu in May 1981. His political cartoons and other work has appeared in major newspapers and news magazines. Marlette has also been involved in numerous other projects including Kudzu, A Southern Musical, the musical adaptation of his comic strip, which he wrote in collaboration with Jack Herrick and Bland Simpson of the Red Clay Ramblers. Marlette won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1988. The Doug Marlette papers include original art and art reproductions divided into three series: the Kudzu comic strip, both original artwork and reproductions of daily and Sunday comics, along with unpublished and incomplete strips; political cartoons in both original artwork and reproduction; and other artwork, including work relating to books and other projects. Other papers include correspondence, writings, clippings, other files, and photographs. Correspondence, 1972-1995 (bulk 1988-1990), includes letters and related materials that Marlette received from family, colleagues, fans, and critics, some relating to his 1988 Pulitzer Prize and some to his career moves. Writings include drafts of Marlette's 1991 autobiography, a draft of a screenplay; and copies of speeches and articles. Clippings are chiefly articles and images Marlette collected, 1971-1998. Other files include materials relating to Marlette's personal and professional interests. Pictures are of Marlette and others, including some relating to Kudzu: A Southern Musical.
The collection contains audio cassettes of interviews conducted in 1996 by John C. Marlow, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Professor Leon Fink's history class. The interviews are with an Intracoastal Waterway lamplighter at a United States Coast Guard station on the South Carolina coastline and with drywall contractors in Lumberton, Pembroke, and Rowland, N.C. Other items are a newspaper clipping about lamplighter Boyd Marlow, a 1954 Coast Guard memorandum, a 1952 printed item titled Light List Intracoastal Waterway of the United States , and two log books for lamplighters covering the years 1951 to 1955. Acquired as Part of the Southern Historical Collction.
Goodrich Wilson Marrow was a farmer and businessman of Townsville, Vance County, N.C.
Daniel G. Marsh (fl. 1785) was apparently involved in shipping in Rhode Island and North Carolina. The collection includes a cipher book, circa 1785, with the name Daniel G. Marsh inscribed on the cover, also containing shipping accounts, 1788-1792, from Providence, R.I., with references to Newport, R.I., Bath, N.C., and Ocracoke, N.C.
John B. Marsh was a 19th-century teacher, preacher, and Sunday school superintendent in Henderson and Transylvania counties in North Carolina.
Marshall and Wildes was a merchant firm of Boston, Mass. The principals in the firm were Josiah Marshall (1771-1848) and Dixey Wildes (fl. 1822-1826). The collection includes records of Marshall and Wildes in trade with China and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), including accounts with stewards, lists of cargo (including sandalwood), sales and purchases in Canton, China, and Sandwich Island (Hawaiian) ports, names of vessels, etc.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, diaries, writings, and other papers of Susan (Taliaferro) Wellford of Gloucester County, Va.; her husband, Beverley Randolph Wellford (b. 1828) of Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., lawyer, secessionist, chief clerk of the Confederate war department, and judge; her brother, Edwin Taliaferro (1835-1867), professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and Confederate Army officer serving in northern Virginia and in Macon, Ga.; and her son-in-law, Henry Alexander White (d. 1926), theologian at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and Columbia Theological College, South Carolina. Volumes include minutes, 1777-1835, of the Saint David's Society of Society Hill, S.C., organized to maintain a school in Darlington District, S.C.; diary of Dr. Robert Wellford, 1794, as surgeon to Virginia troops supressing the Whiskey Rebellion, and his personal diary, 1800-1819; journal of Edwin Taliaferro while traveling in Europe, 1856-1857, and his Civil War journal, 1863, as an ordnance officer with McLaws's Division in Virginia; Berverley Randolph Wellford's diary, 1865, of the flight of the Confederate cabinet; and other items. James Alexander Seddon, Confederate secretary of war, was a relative and frequent correspondent. Included are a play and several accounts, essays, and anecdotes, many discussing Virginia plantation life and events during the Civil War.
The collection of ethnomusicologist and fiddler Erynn Marshall of Victoria, British Columbia contains a copy of her 2003 thesis titled "Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia Fiddle and Song Traditions" and a cd with archival and field recordings of fiddlers in West Virginia. Marshall completed her master of arts degree in the Graduate Programme in Ethnomusicology and Musicology from York University in Ontario, Canada. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Louis Marshall was a physician and educator, native of Virginia, and younger brother of chief justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Marshall married Agatha Smith (1780-1844) and with her had six children, three of whom served in the U.S. Congress: Thomas Francis Marshall (1801-1864), representative from Kentucky, 1841-1843; Edward Colston Marshal (1821-1893), representative from California, 1851-1853; and Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), representative from Kentucky, 1855-1857.
Matthias Murray Marshall was a Confederate Army lieutenant and chaplain during the Civil War, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and an Episcopal clergyman in Raleigh, N.C.
Dorothy B. Martin was presumably of Cumberland County, N.C.
Edwin Martin began taking photographs in 1980. His North Carolina subjects, taken 1990-1995, include coastal areas, tobacco farming, and Wake County historic buildings.
The collection contains letters to Elizabeth S. Martin (active 1841-1849) of Pocotaligo, S.C., from her cousin, Ellen Galt Martin (active 1841-1849) of New Orleans, La. Ellen, who developed a hearing impairment and speech disorder around age 4 or 5, wrote about her schooling, travels to the North, attempted cures for her deafness, local events, and family news.
Eugene Stuart Martin was a sergeant major in the 18th North Carolina Regiment; later a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery, Confederate States of America.
George Alexander Martin was a lawyer and Confederate army officer of Norfolk, Va. The collection contains records and writings of Martin, including accounts with clients, 1863-1909; scrapbooks of clippings and articles on Confederate and postwar activities; articles by Martin on the birth and demise of the Confederacy; and nine letters, 1871-1889, concerning business and state politics.
James G. Martin, son of Rev. Arthur Morrison Martin and Mary Grubbs Martin, was born in Savannah, Ga., 11 December 1935. In 1960 he received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University. From 1966 to 1972, Martin served on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, serving as chair, 1967-1971. In 1968, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Martin served six consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District, 1972-1984, and sat on the Republican Study Committee, Republican Conference Research Committee on Science and Aeronautics, Committee on Ways and Means, Ad Hoc Committee on Energy, and House Budget Committee. In 1984, he was elected North Carolina's 65th governor.
Itinerant Methodist minister in northern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, present-day West Virginia, and Baltimore, Md.
Correspondence and other material collected by Joseph M. Martin, Jr., of Spectrum Communications, Inc., Pittsboro, N.C., relating to cable and low-power television. The cable television material reflects the activities of Martin and his company as consultants to the city of Raleigh, N.C., at the time of the renewal of Cablevision of Raleigh's franchise, 1981-1983. The low-power television material consists of photocopies of applications to the Federal Communications Commission from groups wishing to establish low-power television stations in North Carolina and printed matter on the general subject of low-power television.
Josiah Martin was the last royal governor of North Carolina, 1771-1775.
Julien Dwight Martin was a collector who resided in Wilmington, N.C., and Newport News, Va.
Rawley White Martin (1835-1912) of Pittsylvania County, Va., was a physician, and lieutenant colonel in the 53rd Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America, who was wounded and captured in 1863, spent some time in federal prisons, was exchanged, and became Confederate prison director at Columbia, S.C., 1864-1865. The collection is mostly letters, 1861-1865, to Martin from his sisters Mollie, Beckie, Bettie, and Mattie, in Pittsylvania County, Va., about family and community matters; and letters written by Martin describing the movements of his company in the 53rd Regiment of Virginia Volunteers during May-June 1862, and his situation in the United States General Hospital in 1863, after he was wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg. Also included are antebellum letters from members of the family of Lewis W. Ashley, who had settled in Union County, Ill., about their work and situation there as well as postbellum accounts, letters to Martin from William G. Jeffries of Dunnsville, Essex County, Va., about amusements and mutual friends; and tributes to Martin after his death.
William Francis Martin was a lawyer and Confederate Army officer from Elizabeth City, N.C.
William James Martin was a Confederate officer and professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina.
Alfred H. Martine (fl. 1862-1865) was an agent in Beaufort, N.C., for Martine and Emerson, a firm of Massachusetts merchants that traded with the United States military at New Bern, N.C., and in other federally occupied areas of North Carolina.
James Pleasant Mason was a Baptist minister and farmer of Orange County, N.C. The collection is his diary, dealing mainly with activities on Mason's farm, which was later bequeathed to the University of North Carolina. The diary contains a very detailed account of Mason's daily life, including his routines of eating and sleeping, his preaching, and the daily tasks of farming.
John Young Mason, born in Hicksford, Va., graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1816 and served as United States Secretary of the Navy in 1844-1845 and 1846-1849. He was also a federal judge, a U.S. Congressman, and a land owner.
John Young Mason, from Greensville County, Va., graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1816. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia, 1831-1837; served as secretary of the Navy, 1844-1845 and 1846-1849; was attorney general of the United States, March 1845-September 1846; and served as United States minister plenipotentiary to France, 1854-1859.
The Mason family of Northampton and Surry counties, Va., included Joseph D. Mason of Elmsford, N.Y.
Otis Tufton Mason (1838-1908) was an ethnologist. The collection includes correspondence, 1883-1910, mainly concerning the genealogy and history of the Mason and related families, addressed to Mason; letters, July-August 1889, from Mason to his wife, describing in detail his sightseeing in London, England, and Paris, France; and assorted other items including photographs, and clippings.
R. S. Mason (1795-1875) was an Episcopal minister and rector of Christ Church, Raleigh, N.C.
Robert Henry Mason worked as a writer and in other capacities for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., 1945-1952 and 1957-1978, and was editor of that paper, 1962-1978.
Thomas Williams Mason was a lawyer and cotton planter who conducted the bulk of his professional activities in and around the town of Garysburg, Northampton County, N.C. After his discharge from the Confederate Army in 1865, Mason took up residence with his wife's family at Longview Plantation, outside Garysburg, and from there supervised both his own planting interests and those of his father-in-law, William Henry Gray. In the years after 1877, Mason was active in state and local politics and as lawyer in Northampton County. In the latter part of his life, Mason often acted as a collections agent for various grocers and purveyors of dry goods in the region.
Fannie Lillian Massenburg, a white woman from Henderson, N.C., was a family historian, a member of the First United Methodist Church, and a schoolteacher at Franklin County Public Schools in the early 20th century. The Fannie Lillian Massenburg Papers consist of her genealogical papers and collected historical family records, family photographs, and personal correspondence, writings, and other materials related to her church membership and work as a school teacher. Family names represented are Massenburg, Mangum, Speed, Gray, Hillard, and Davis.
The collection consists of miscellaneous letters, including one from Jason B. Jones to his sister, describing naval engagements near Norfolk, March 1862 (handwritten transcription); an 1872 letter about enlarging the membership of the Southern Historical Society; a 1932 letter recalling General Lee's visit to Warrenton, N.C., in 1870; and two 1933 letters to Mrs. J.B. Massenburg from Jessica Randolph Smith concerning Smith's father, Orren Randolph Smith (1827-1913), the Confederate flag, and activities of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The collection of white planter of North Carolina, Nicholas Bryar Massenburg (1806-1867), contains antebellum records chiefly related to operations of his two Franklin County, N.C., plantations, Woodleaf and Egypt, and the enslaved people and their forced labor on these plantations. Family papers in the collection include letters received by Massenburg's daughter, Lucy C. Massenburg from her sister and mother and other relatives and friends. Other items are a journal with brief daily entries about cutting and hauling lumber between 1903 and 1908 and a scrapbook, chiefly containing clippings on agriculture and other topics.
The Susan Massengale Collection contains videotapes and paper documentation from documentary film productions affiliated with Susan Massengale, who produced and directed documentaries on North Carolina subjects for the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television from 1980-1997. Film productions represented in the collection include Step It Up and Go: Blues in the Carolinas (1989), a documentary film that traces the development of blues music in the Carolinas; Boogie in Black and White (1988), a documentary film about the making of Pitch a Boogie Woogie, a film shot in Greenville, N.C. in 1947 with an all African American cast; an untitled production on Cherokee Indians and Joyce Dugan, who was elected Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in 1995; and an untitled production on Black Mountain College, an experimental arts college that was active in western North Carolina from 1933-1957.
The David Massengill Collection consists of audiovisual materials and papers created and compiled by white American folk singer-songwriter, David Massengill. Audiovisual materials consist primarily of sound recordings of studio masters and live performances by Massengill, including masters for the releases Coming Up For Air (1992) and The Return (1995). Papers consist of original manuscripts, promotional headshots of Massengill, and handmade flyers, cards, and books by Massengill.
The collection of Laura Spivey Massie (1912-2001), a white social worker and civil rights activist in Lexington, Ky., contains scattered correspondence, clippings, notes, journals from the 1970s and 1980s with brief entries, and personal items such as collected poems and her report cards from Agnes Scott College. Materials from the 1960s reflect her civil rights work as coordinator of the Lexington Committee on Religion and Human Rights and as a participant in voter registration work in Selma, Ala., through the Summer Community Organization and Political Education project (SCOPE) sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The Addition of August 2020 includes materials from Laura Spivey Massie and William K. Massie, including civil rights materials, family correspondence, documents, and photographs and slides, as well as information about a surgical technique using the Massie Sliding Nailplate method.
The Nathaniel Hardin Massie Papers, 1914-1945, document his courtship of Kathreen Tucker and his military service with the U.S. Marines 51st Company, 5th Regiment, 2nd Division in the U.S. Expeditionary Force in France during World War I and with the U.S. Army Forces Far East Board during World War II. The collection consists chiefly of Massie's letters to Tucker while he was a student at Virginia Military Institute; as a young man employed with Electric Storage Battery Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and Rochester, N.Y.; as a Marine captain in Quantico, Va., France, and Germany during and after World War I; and later as a major from Australia and the South Pacific during World War II. Also of note is a scrapbook of snapshots and postcards of wartime France and Belgium.
The collection is manuscript notebooks, 1831-1855 and 1860, of Henri Masson, a Frenchman who taught at antebellum academies in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The books contain more than 100 sketches or essays (chiefly in French) about many aspects of American manners and institutions--religion, government, slavery, education, customs--especially in contrast with France, and about Masson's experiences, ideas, and intellectual interests. There are also diary entries, memoranda, business records of school teaching, descriptions of conversations with prominent people, and other notations. The collection also includes a typed transcription of one volume that contains a table of contents listing its headings, and some additional descriptive information related to the volumes.
Stephen Matchak was a professor of geography at Salem State College in Salem, Mass. Matchak received his M.A. in 1978 from the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his thesis, The Wildfowl Decoy in North Carolina and Back Bay, Virginia. Matchak also published a related article in Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife in 1989. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation Folk Houses of the Northeast.
The collection contains notebooks of mathematics problems with elaborate diagrams, tables of measure, and values of early American coins. The owner and place are unidentified.
Jackson Mathews was an editor, teacher, poet, and translator. He taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and the universities of Georgia, Oregon, and Washington. He was an editor for Bollingen Foundation publications and worked with numerous American poets. He was general editor of the 15-volume Complete Works of Paul Valery.
Records of a Primitive Baptist church in Rockingham County, N.C., including minutes of meetings, membership lists, records of excommunications, questions of doctrine, accounts of the church's crops, and writings by several pastors.
James Washington Matthews (1798-1880) was a farmer of Maury County, Tenn. The collection includes a copy of the diary, 1 January 1858-6 January 1869, of Matthews with entries of two to three lines per day mentioning weather, relatives, friends, farm work, attendance at church, expenditures, and other matters.
William Lawrence Mauldin (1845-1912) of Greenville, S.C., was a state legislator, lieutenant governor, and railroad executive. The collection contains four diaries covering twelve years scattered between 1870 and 1912 of Mauldin, regarding politics, his cotton crop, and a trip to England. The diaries are from 1870, 1880-1887, July to September 1900 of a journey to England, and 1911-1912. Also included are miscellaneous accounts and an inventory of goods of the related Kern family in the 1820s.
The Maurice family includes Charles F. Maurice (fl. 1830-1858), businessman, educator, and farmer, of Perth Amboy, N.J., and Ossining, N.Y.; his son, Charles Stewart Maurice (1840-1924), civil engineer and bridge builder, who served in the United States Navy during the Civil War and afterwards lived in Athens, Pa., and on Jekyll Island, Ga.; Charlotte Holbrooke (Mrs. C. S.) Maurice (1845-1909), granddaughter of Josiah Marshall (1773-1841), Boston merchant and trader with Hawaii and China; and her children and her mother, Marian Marshall (Mrs. John G.) Holbrooke (1812-1900), of New York, and Charlotte's aunt, Charlotte Marshall (Mrs. Horatio) Bridge (1819-1904), wife of a naval officer, of Maine and Washington, D.C.; and Charlotte's Marshall, Holbrooke, Bridge, Read, and other relatives in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Also related are the Perkins and Eglin families.
MICROFILM AND PAPER: Charles Stewart Maurice (1840-1924) served in the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. Ossipee and the U.S.S. Agawam during the Civil War. The collection includes microfilmed letters, 12 May to 25 June 1863, from Maurice to his parents while he was serving as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Ossipee, a steam ship stationed off Mobile, Ala., as part of the Union blockade, and on the steam ship U.S.S. Agawam. Maurice wrote of preparing the engines for sea, books he had been reading, items he wanted, the reaction of citizens in Portland, Md., upon seeing a steam ship for the first time, and the conditions of life at sea. The collection also includes typed copies of letters from Charlotte M. Holbrooke (later Mrs. Maurice), one about a soiree in Washington, D.C., attended by Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and William H. Seward.
Family members include Abram Poindexter Maury (1801-1848), U.S. representative from Franklin, Tenn.; his brother-in-law, Carey A. Harris of Arkansas; their cousin Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873); and another cousin, Ann Maury of New York, N.Y. Chiefly family and business papers of Abram Poindexter Maury and Carey A. Harris. Also included are some papers of Matthew Fontaine Maury, including a few letters from him, but chiefly papers about his death and the international testimonial fund for his family; and some family correspondence of Ann Maury. The collection includes a letter, 1865, from Matthew Fontaine Maury describing a plan for re-settling Southerners in Mexico; and letters 1853-1854, from Carey A. Harris, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life, including a duel.
James Fontaine Maury was the son of James Hervey Maury (1796- 1874) and Lucinda Smith Maury (1804-1884) of Port Gibson, Miss. He lived there and at Nitta Tola Plantation, about two miles from Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Miss.
Willie H. Maverick, orginally from San Antonio, Tex., was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1865 to 1868.
A. J. (Allen Jay) Maxwell (1873-1946) of North Carolina was a newspaper editor, politician, and state official.
The collection is a letter, 6 July 1842, to Charles F. Mayer about a bill and debt from Greene W. Caldwell (1806-1864), physician; lawyer; North Carolina congressman; superintendent of the United States Mint in Charlotte, N.C.; and captain of infantry during the Mexican War.
The collection is a genealogical chart made in the 1920s of the Mayo family with entries dating to 1640. The chart includes the Atkinson family and other related white Virginia families. The tree was drawn by Laura M. Slade for her cousin, Roger B. Atkinson of Lunenburg County, Va.
Memoirs of childhood in Henrico County, Va.; working in the tobacco business in Richmond, Va.; Episcopal church matters; Confederate service with the Fourth Virginia Cavalry and with railroad administration.
James Francis Mays (1860-1938) was trained as a civil engineer and accountant, but worked as a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine and other companies in Atlanta, Ga., Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala., from the 1890s until 1918. At that time, Mays moved with his wife, Maud Walton Mays, and their children to Lexington, N.C., to pursue full time his hobby of inventing and his dream of manufacturing one of his inventions. Mays had returned to sales by 1923 with the Fuller Brush Company. Papers documenting the career of James F. Mays, especially his inventions and his attempts to manufacture one the Mays Calculating Machine. Included are many diagrams, drawings, notes, and blueprints. There is also a large correspondence from Washington, D.C., patent attorney, James L. Norris, who handled most of Mays's patent applications. There are many items documenting business problems of the three companies organized to produce the Mays Calculating Machine, especially a lawsuit between Mays and Baxter Shemwell, president of one of the companies. There are also contracts and sales reports from Mays's sales jobs, two copies of a Ledger Proof System by Mays, poetry written mainly by Maud Walton Mays, and some genealogical and other notes.
James Francis Mays, Jr., of Lexington, N.C., son of Maud Walton Mays and James Francis Mays (1860-1938).
Official military communications, February-April 1865, to and from Confederate Lieut. Col. McAlister while in Randolph County, N.C., seeking Confederate deserters.
Alexander Worth McAlister was founder and president of Pilot Life Insurance Company and a leader in the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other material of Alexander W. McAlister chiefly includes correspondence with associates in business and civic organizations and versions of published and unpublished writings by McAlister. Most items date from 1930 through 1943, although there is some earlier correspondence and some writings from as early as the 1880s. Well-documented in these papers are McAlister's activities as a member of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, as well as his association with various civic organizations in Greensboro. Much of the correspondence and many writings relate to particular concerns of McAlister, including prohibition, the New Deal, golf, child welfare, prison reform, the Community Church in Greensboro, and education. Although there is some material relating to McAlister's business activities, documentation in these papers of his work as an insurance executive and in other business ventures is incomplete. There also is little personal material regarding McAlister's family and close friends.
Clippings and pictures relating to Jean Colvin McAlister (circa 1900-1987) of Greensboro, N.C., pediatricians and one of Greensboro's first women physicians.
John Worth McAlister, born in Asheboro, N.C., educated at the Orange County and Asheville locations of the Bingham School, 1889-1891; the University of North Carolina, 1892-1895; and the Lowell Textile School, 1897-1899; whose career in textile manufacture in Winston-Salem was cut short when he died of appendicitis at the age of 35.
Alexander McAllister (also McAlester) came to Wilmington, N.C., from Scotland in 1736, returned to Scotland in 1739, and came back to North Carolina in 1740, settling near Fayetteville. He served in the Cumberland County militia, in the provincial congresses of 1775 and 1776, and in the state senate, 1787-1789. He had three wives: Mary McNeil (died 1740); Flora McNeil; and Jean Colvin, whom he married in 1763. McAllister's siblings were Hector, who lived in Scotland; Mary, who married Hector McNeil; Isabella, who married Farquard Campbell in North Carolina; and Grisella. McAllister's son Alexander (1766-1923, married Rachel Smith in 1799. The collection is chiefly family correspondence of members of the McAllister family in North Carolina and Scotland.
The McArthur family of Richmond County, N.C., were white farmers who enslaved people, including Sook (Sucky), Frank, Effy, William, Caleb, Sarah, John, Harriet, Archy, Peter, and Caty. The collection consists of wills, petitions, land deeds, surveys, and other records, 1779-1883, that document the legal and financial relationships of the McArthurs, the people they enslaved, and members of the Graham family.
The McBee family of Lincoln County, N.C., and Greenville, S.C., included Vardry McBee (1775-1864), planter, railroad official and promoter, and mill owner of Lincolnton and Greenville; his son, Vardry Alexander McBee (1818-1904), lawyer, planter, and railroad official and promoter, of Lincolnton; and his grandson, Vardry McBee (1860?-1938), Episcopal clergyman and musician in Wilkes County, N.C. The collection consists of family correspondence and business papers including Lincoln County, N.C., deeds; contracts, bills, accounts, promissory notes, and receipts; estate settlements, bankruptcy proceedings, and guardianship papers; records of two Lincoln County clerks of court; and minutes of the Lincoln County Agricultural Society. Family letters written at Greenville, S.C., 1849-1869, give information about the McBees' varied enterprises, building construction, and property there, and activities of members of the family. Other correspondence refers to efforts to establish a college at Lincolnton, college students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and East Tennessee College in Knoxville, plank road plans, slaves, the Civil War, and postwar conditions in Greenville. Papers, 1872-1900, relate chiefly to business, especially railroads and the development of industrial sites in Greenville, including Camperdown Mills. Twentieth century correspondence, largely personal, includes letters from Silas McBee (1853-1924) and other McBees, North Carolina Episcopal Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850-1932), and one from Sumner McBee, giving a first-hand account of the chase of Pancho Villa by United States cavalry. Also included are diaries, 1857-1860, 1878, of Vardry Alexander McBee, with brief entries concerning plantation and slave work, news of family and friends, court and railroad activities, and weather, and account books, 1852-1872, and papers relating to his position as the treasurer of the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad.
Silas McBee (1853-1924) was a native of North Carolina, active Episcopal layman, author, editor of The Churchman and founder of The Constructive Quarterly. The collection includes McBee's correspondence with leaders in the Christian and other faiths, statesmen, diplomats, educators, and philanthropists; much of it written in connection with his work as editor of The Churchman and The Constructive Quarterly, and as vice president of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. The papers reflect McBee's interest in social, political, religious, and intellectual questions, particularly his concern with Christian world unity, foreign missions, church architecture, and the propagation of the social gospel in American politics and international affairs. Correspondents include James Bryce, Alfred Thayer Mahan, William Thomas Manning, John R. Mott, Gifford Pinchot, Jacob August Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, Speck von Sternberg, and William Howard Taft.
The collection contains correspondence, 1862; receipts for land purchases; land deeds; a store account list; miscellaneous legal papers; and a few other items of the McBride family of Bladen County, N.C. Included are four letters, 1862, from Alexander D. McBride of Company G, 48th North Carolina Regiment, in colloquial style, chiefly concerning his military experiences.
Papers of lawyer Neil G. McBride document his work with the Coal Employment Project, a non-profit focused on gender equality and discrimination issues in coal mines. There are also reports and other materials of the East Tennessee Research Corporation and Rural Legal Services of Tennessee.
John McLaren McBryde (1841-1923) was a professor of agriculture and university professor at several Southern schools. His son, John McLaren McBryde Junior (1870-1956) was an English professor. The collection includes papers, chiefly correspondence 1882-1920, of John McLaren McBryde and his son, John McLaren McBryde Junior. Papers relate to the father's teaching at the University of Tennessee, his presidencies of South Carolina College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and to the son's career at Sweet Briar College and the University of the South, where he edited the Sewanee Review, 1909-1919. Papers after 1919, while McBryde Junior, was at Tulane University, relate chiefly to aspects of his father's career. Volumes include McBryde Senior's diary as a schoolboy in Abbeville, S.C., 1856, and his journals documenting his farming near Charlottesville, Va., 1868-1869.
McCabe's Guitar Shop is a musical instrument store and live music venue in Santa Monica, Calif. The McCabe's Guitar Shop Collection consists primarily of audio recordings, 1967-2008, of live concerts at McCabe's Guitar Shop, including performances by Elizabeth Cotten, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, John Fahey, John Hammond, Bill Monroe, Odetta, Jean Ritchie, Mike Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Merle Travis, Dave Van Ronk, Townes Van Zandt, Doc Watson, Merle Watson, and Kate Wolf, among others. The collection also contains video recordings, including a live performance, 1980, by John McEuen at McCabe's and a video interview, circa 1984, featuring Elizabeth Cotten and her family members. Other materials in the collection include discontinuous newsletter and concert calendars, 1976-2013, created by McCabe's to promote the store's concert series, products, and classes, as well as a newspaper clipping, 1984, and correspondence, circa 1980.
John Walker McCain, professor of English at Jacksonville State Teachers College in Alabama, who received his Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of North Carolina. Correspondence, writings, and other materials relating to John Walker McCain and the McCain family of North Carolina.
Adeline Denham McCall (1900-1989) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a teacher of music and music appreciation. She taught music education and music history at Duke University and served as music supervisor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for 30 years. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she taught music for students interested in early childhood education. She authored or co-authored several books and worked closely with the North Carolina Symphony in its outreach program.
MICROFILM ONLY. Accounts, 1821-1835, of Henry McCall of New Orleans for Evan Hall, a sugar plantation in Ascension Parish, La., and another plantation in Lafourche Parish, La. Entries concern prices for crops, costs of supplies and slaves, and McCall's dealings with the United States Bank and the Louisiana State Bank. Earlier entries, 1773-1774, are by McCall as a merchant in New York and Pensacola, Fla.
Ralph McCallister was vice-president of the Chautauqua Institution, Jamestown, N.Y., 1944-1961; executive director of Shakertown, Lexington, Ky., 1961-1962; operations director of the Learning Institute of North Carolina, 1964-1966; vice-president of the Regional Education Laboratory for the Carolinas and Virginia, 1966-1969; and an official with other organizations.
The collection contains photocopies of documents loaned to the Georgia Department of Archives and History for copying. The department transferred the copies to the Southern Historical Collection in 2009; the location of the originals is unknown. The copies are of letters by Malcom McCallum, Hugh McCallum, and Angus McCallum, who were writing to family members in North Carolina between 1853 and 1864. The early letters from Malcolm and Hugh are written from Arkansas to family in Moore, N.C. Angus McCallum wrote the Civil-War era letters from Hanover County, N.C., a camp at Kinston, N.C., a camp on Black Water, Va., Weldon, N.C., and Hertford County, N.C. Also included is an undated poem titled "On Parting" by Malcolm McCallum.
The collection is an album, 1859, containing a one-page printed history of the University of Virginia; lists of faculty, administrators, and officers; steel engravings of professors and officers of the University and campus views; and pages bearing autographs and farewell messages, 1861, dedicated to student James McCalop.
Collection contains 146 political pen and ink cartoons by white political cartoonist Henry McCarn, ranging in date from approximately 1972 to 1980. The cartoons depict state and national national leaders, including Jim Hunt, Jesse Helms, Bob Scott, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Topics include Watergate, the 1974 energy crisis, the 1976 and 1980 presidential elections, social welfare programs, and highway safety. McCarn's works tended to be relatively neutral, an approach that small town newspapers took to steer clear of controversy and offending readers.
The Henry McCarthy Collection consists of audio recordings, videos, and other materials created and compiled by Henry McCarthy, a poet and radio host. The majority of the collection is comprised of audio recordings, 2009-2015, of the radio program Poets and Writers. Hosted by McCarthy and broadcast by National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate WEHC at Emory and Henry College, Poets and Writers concentrates on the philosophy of poets and writers and primarily features interviews, poems, and songs of artists from Virginia, North Carolina, and the surrounding regions. Interviewees on the program include authors, poets, musicians, actors, academics, and folklorists, among others. Noted guests include Roseanne Cash, Pat Conroy, Lee Smith, William Ferris, and Dale Carter Jett. The collection also contains field notes and ephemera, 2014, affiliated with Poets and Writers, along with miscellaneous videos, 1995-2007, papers, 1975-2015, digital ink-based photographs, 1953-2010, and posters, circa 1988-2014.
MICROFILM ONLY. The McClellan, Stonebraker, and McCartney families of Lincoln County, Tenn., intermarried but the exact relationship between them is not clear. Jacob Stonebraker married Mahala, daughter of Andrew and Susan McCartney. It is probable that Jacob Stonebraker and his brother, George Stonebraker, who had Arnold relatives in Pennsylvania, came to Tennessee in the 1820s via Kentucky and Indiana, and that Jacob for many years operated saw and grain mills in Lincoln County, with various partners. He died sometime between 1862 and 1866. Papers of the McClellan, Stonebraker, and McCartney families of Lincoln County, Tenn., circa 1822-1866, including personal and family letters, business papers, bills of sale for slaves and other merchandise, and contracts of Jacob Stonebraker in connection with his saw mill, grain mill, and the administration of the estate of his father-in-law, Andrew McCartney; and bills, receipts, accounts, and letters from members of the family who moved from Tennessee to Alabama, Missouri, California, and Texas, and a few letters from George J. Stonebraker, son of Jacob, in various Confederate Army camps and the Union prison at Fort Delaware. Also included are two ledgers, 1833-1842 and 1843-1865, of Jacob Stonebraker and various partners containing accounts for saw mill and grain mill.
The McCauley family included Matthew McCauley, Sr. (1750-1832), who moved from Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, to Orange County, N.C., prior to the American Revolution, served in the 10th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army, and, with his brother William, donated 250 acres for the University of North Carolina; and Matthew McCauley, Jr. (born 1803), youngest child of Matthew McCauley, Sr., and his wife, Martha Johnston McCauley.
Correspondence, journals, and genealogical materials documenting the McCauley and McLendon families of North Carolina, 1749-2013 (bulk 1860-1900). Papers include correspondence, 1861-1870, of Anne McCauley of Monroe County, N.C.; personal journals of J. J. McLendon of Matthews, N.C. document his experiences serving in the Civil War, the Anson Guards of Anson County, N.C., and a biographical sketch of an enslaved man, Charles McLendon.
Andrew McCauley (died 1832) of Orange County, N.C., was the father of John McCauley (fl. 1819-1820), William McCauley (fl. 1814-1815), and Robert McCauley (fl. 1819-1820).
Collection contains photographic material created by white photojournalist Edward J. McCauley (1926-2003) between the years 1949 and 1974, mostly for the Burlington Daily Times-News, but also as a private photographer and developer for portraits, weddings and other events. Included are images of local, state, and national politicians and political events; news events; Burlington businesses; civic groups and other organizations; Alamance County schools; sporting events; and other images that document daily life in North Carolina. Most of the images are from Burlington and Alamance County, but many other North Carolina localities are also represented.
William McCauley (born 1837) was a resident of Salem, Va. The collection includes letters to McCauley from friends and relatives with the Confederate Army in Virginia. The letters describe action at Manassas (Bull Run), August 1861; at Fairfax, September 1861; in the Fredericksburg and Port Royal area; in the Chancellorsville and Wilderness area, April-May 1863; and an enemy raid on Salem, in 1863.
The Taylor and McClanahan families lived throughout west Tennessee in the 1800s. James R. Taylor settled in Jackson, Tenn., and married Sarah McClanahan. Sarah had several brothers including John R. McClanahan, a journalist who served as a captain with the United States Army Volunteers in the Mexican War. After the war, McClanahan became part owner of the Memphis Appeal.
Among the members of the McClelland family of Iredell County, N.C., were William McClelland, surveyor; Nathaniel E. McClelland, physician; John McClelland, Rebecca McClelland, and Margaret McClelland. Relatives also included the Stevenson family, the Hall family, the Adams family of Iredell County, N.C., and the Ewing family of Christian County, Ky.
Ezekiel Henry McCluire was a lawyer, deputy marshal of the United States, and clerk and master of the Superior Court of Equity for Buncombe County, N.C.
Mrs. Richard McClure lived on her father-in-law's farm outside Liberty, Allegheny County, Pa. Although the farm was closer to Pittsburgh, butter, wheat, livestock, and other products from the farm were sold in Wheeling, Va., later Wheeling, W.Va. The McClures seem to have had several children, among them Andrew Francis (b. 1838). The diary apparently descended to the Terrill family of Kentucky; Marshall Terrill's name appears in the margins of several pages.
McColl family of Bennettsville, Marlboro County, S.C., and Charlotte, N.C., including Duncan Donald McColl (1842-1911), lawyer, banker, and businessman; his wife, Nellie Thomas McColl (1846-1917); their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren. Papers focus especially on Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1931), banker, and his wife, Gabrielle Palmer Drake McColl (1882-1964); Hugh Leon McColl (1905-1994), banker, and his wife, Frances Carroll McColl (1906-1987); Hugh Leon McColl (1935- ), banker and Chief Executive Officer of NationsBank, and his wife, Jane Spratt McColl (1938- ), and their children: Hugh Leon McColl (1960- ), John Spratt McColl (1963- ), and Jane McColl Lockwood (1967- ).
Andrew McCollam was a sugar planter, deputy surveyor, and member of the Louisiana Secession Convention of 1861. He married Ellen Elleonori and lived first in Donaldsonville, La., and later on the family plantation, Ellendale, located outside Houma in Terrebonne Parish, La. McCollam also operated the Bayou Black, Red River Landing, Terrebonne, and Assumption plantations, whose locations are unclear, although Bayou Black was in Terrebonne Parish. The McCollams had six sons and a daughter. Sons Edmund and Alexander became prosperous Terrebonne Parish sugar growers, running the Ellendale and Argyle plantations, respectively. Edmund was also part owner of the South Louisiana Canal and Navigation Company.
Ann Eliza McCord (fl. 1853-1885) of Selma, Ala., was married to Russell McCord (died 1885), a physician. The collection includes scattered personal and family correspondence, bills, and invitations of Ann Eliza McCord, including the medical diploma, 1853, of Russell McCord, and some items from Brazil, where the McCords apparently lived for periods of time before Russell McCord's death.
David James McCord was a planter and politician of South Carolina.
James M. McCorkle wrote for the Salisbury (N.C.) Evening Post.
Jill McCorkle is an author of novels and short stories. A native of Lumberton, N.C., she studied creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Hollins College. Her first two novels, The Cheerleader and July 7th, were published simultaneously by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1984. Other published works of fiction include her novels Tending to Virginia (1987), Ferris Beach (1990), and Carolina Moon (1996) and several collections of short stories, including Crash Diet (1991), Final Vinyl Days (1998), Creatures of Habit (2001), and Going Away Shoes (2009).
Samuel Eusebius McCorkle was a North Carolina Presbyterian minister and educator. McCorkle served as president and teacher at the Salisbury Academy, Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., during the early 1790s. In 1784, McCorkle drafted the first proposal to found a university in the state of North Carolina. However, his proposal was rejected, and the University of North Carolina was not chartered by the legislature until 1789.
William Parsons McCorkle (1855-1933) was an educator and Presbyterian minister in Virginia and North Carolina.
John Gilchrst McCormick studied at the University of North Carolina, 1896-1899, and while there undertook a thesis on the personnel of the North Carolina Secession Convention of 1861-1862. The collection includes replies from delegates who attended the North Carolina Secession Convention of 1861 and from relatives and friends of the delegates, to a questionnaire distributed by John Gilchrist McCormick, giving profession, records of public service, attitude toward secession, and when applicable, date of death. Much of this information has been published in J. G. McCormick, Personnel of the Convention of 1861, James Sprunt Historical Monographs, No. 1 (1900).
The collection contains account books relating to an Eno River grist mill at West Point (now in Durham), N.C.: one, 1853-1871, for general merchandise, and one, 1870-1874, for building supplies and produce. Also included is an article, The Story of West Point on the Eno, published in the Eno, Volume 3, Number 1, June 1975, describing the history of the mill and referring to the account books.
Papers of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health faculty member David Timothy McCoy include reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, and notes relating to his work on the Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs for the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Letters, circa 1922-1955, from Archibald Henderson (1877-1963), University of North Carolina professor of mathematics, to George W. McCoy, editor of the Asheville Citizen, and his wife, Lola Love McCoy, chiefly about Henderson's work, especially his biographies of George Bernard Shaw; and a few related items.
Research files documenting African American churches, schools, and communities in Granville County, N.C., compiled by African American oral historian James Eddie McCoy. These files, 1980s-2016, include notes and photocopies of historical church documents related to their founding, membership, and activities, and explain how different churches emerged from other churches, especially during the Fusion Politics time period in North Carolina when African Americans were disenfranchised. Many churches were founded by Reverend Walter Pattillo, a leader of the Black Populism movement. School history files, 1980s-2010s, include copies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century land deeds and other county records; alumni association materials; local school board records dating from the 1880s; biographical information about founders, principals, and teachers; and a few scattered original materials. There are also research materials on lynchings in Granville County.
J. Marshall McCue (fl. 1867) was a resident of Mt. Solon, Va.
John J. McCulloch, farmer and teacher, was born in the early 1800s in South Carolina. As a young man, he moved to Jefferson, Ga., in Jackson County. McCulloch married Mary Lowrey, 9 February 1825. Known to have worked as both a farmer and a teacher during his life, he also kept records of people receiving war pensions from the United States government in the 1840s and served as an assistant marshal during the 1850 United States Census.
Henry E. McCulloh was a landowner, lawyer, and agent in England for the colony of North Carolina. The collection is a field book of surveys and plans of lands in Rowan, Guilford, and Anson counties, N.C., belonging to McCulloh, with lists of lands sold or to be sold in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
The collection of white folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and book editor Judith McCulloh (1935-2014) contains correspondence, printed items, research files, a book manuscript, writings by McCulloh and others including folklorist D.K. Wilgus (1918-1989), draft television scripts, and lyric sheets and sheet music for ballads and spirituals. The majority of the correspondence is with folklorists and authors and pertains to McCulloh's editorial work at the University of Illinois Press and to her graduate studies in folklore at Indiana University. Printed items include newspaper clippings; newsletters from organizations such as the American Old Time Fiddlers Association; promotional materials for books, especially Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez; reprints of scholarly articles about folk, country, bluegrass, blues, and popular music; flyers promoting music events at the Ash Grove, a night club in Los Angeles, Calif., and items about the Campus Folksong Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research materials are related to McCulloh's 1970 Ph.D. dissertation titled "In the Pines": The Melodic-Textual Identity of an American Lyric Folksong Cluster. The book manuscript "Music from the Catskills The Camp Woodland Collection" was edited by composers Norman Cazden, Norman Studer, and Herbert Haufrecht and published in 1982 as Folk Songs of the Catskills. The drafts of television scripts are for the series "America's Appalachia" produced by WSWP-TV, a public radio and television station broadcasting in West Virginia.
Newton Alexander McCully was a vice-admiral in the United States Navy and a native of South Carolina. The collection is a typescript diary (some pages original, some carbon copies) in four sections, kept by McCully during a period when he directed the United States Scouting Fleet off the Virginia coast and in other locations. The diary contains records of activities of the fleet, orders, official social functions, and routine activities.
Contains the personal collection of John McCutcheon, a white folk musician, singer-songwriter, storyteller, activist and author. Materials include scores and sheet music, tour passes, project files, original song lyric drafts, album and tour t-shirts, published book projects, promotional materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Audiovisual materials include live recordings of McCutcheon's "Signs of the Times" tour with Si Kahn, as well as other performances by McCutcheon and other musicians, such as Currence and Minnie Hammonds, Bill Fell, Paul Van Arsdale, Albert Hash, Blackie Cool, Lee Sexton, Janette Carter, Cas Wallin, J. R. "Peanut" Cantrell, I. D. Stamper, Luke Smathers, and others.
James McDaniel was a Baptist minister of Fayetteville, N.C.
Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel was born in 1899 in Wadesboro, N.C. After attending Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., January-1916, she matriculated to Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. She graduated in 1920 and moved with her family to Forest City, N.C., where she met Grover Cleveland McDaniel, whom she married in 1923. They had two sons, Grover Cleveland McDaniel Jr. and Andrew Holmes McDaniel. She spent the rest of her life in Forest City, where she was a homemaker, school teacher, member of the Forest City Woman's Club, and board member at the Mooneyham Public Library. She died in 1989.
Microfilm of three letters to Charles James McDonald of Georgia (one each from John C. Calhoun, Benjamin H. Hill, and Robert A. Toombs) and drafts of four letters from McDonald chiefly relating to nullification and states' rights.
D. M. McDonald was an officer in the 56th North Carolina Regiment.
Edward Hitchcock McDonald of Winchester, Va., was a colonel of the 77th Virginia Infantry Regiment and major, 11th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America.
Born in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, in 1943, Elizabeth Drake McDonald grew up in British Columbia's southern interior and taught school on the north coast. The collection centers around Elizabeth Drake McDonald's in-depth study and compilation of the lyrics of songwriter and musician Bob Nolan, who is best known for his work with the singing cowboy group, the Sons of the Pioneers. He penned many trademark songs of the cowboy song genre, including Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Cool Water, and Way Out There. McDonald has transcribed nearly 200 of Nolan's songs into a self-published book, Lyrics: The Song Poems of Bob Nolan. Paul Lawrence Hopper worked with McDonald on the project, writing annotations to Nolan's song lyrics. Hopper also self-published a companion volume, Bob Nolan: A Biographical Guide and Annotations to the Lyric Archive, which contains transcription recording information and a filmography for the Sons of the Pioneers and is included in the collection. Also included is material McDonald gathered during conversations with Nolan's daughter, Roberta Nolan Mileusnich, and his grandson, Calin Coburn. Mileusnich provided McDonald with lyrics from unreleased recordings, which are compiled in Bob Nolan, Volume Two: The Last Song Poems. Calin Coburn donated 274 high-quality scans of documents, letters, manuscripts, and photographs from the Nolan family album, along with a CD-R of the images in electronic format. Printed versions of these are included in the collection as are McDonald's annotations of these materials. Also included are copies of Nolan's song lead sheets, sheet music, lyric sheets from Brigham Young University, and audio recordings of Bob Nolan compiled by McDonald. The Addition of October 2017 contains materials relating to the singer, songwriter, and painter, Robert Wagoner, who was a close personal and professional associate of members of the Sons of the Pioneers.
The collection of white public health professional and ethnographer Mary Anne McDonald consists mostly of oral history interviews, 1982-1984, and documentation related to McDonald's masters folklore thesis on African American quilters in Chatham County, N.C. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Jennie Burnett, Bessie Lee, Laura Lee, Lilli Lee, Thelma Horton, and Mollie Rogers, all of Chatham County. Related documentation consists of interview transcriptions, narrative field notes by McDonald, correspondence with interviewees, newspaper clippings, funeral programs, scattered photographic prints, and other printed materials. The collection also contains additional audio recordings of Christian church services, concerts, and broadcasts compiled by McDonald, including field recordings, 1984-1987, of church concerts and services at Russell Chapel AME Zion Church and Hamlet Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsboro, N.C., as well as field recordings and radio broadcasts of church services and sermons by New Jersey based reverends. Related documentation for these recordings are also included.
In 1978, the city of Durham's plan to construct a dam and reservoir on the Little River, which would eradicate the textile mill village of Orange Factory, eight miles north of Durham, motivated the people of the village to form the Orange Factory Preservation Society. They obtained nomination for the inclusion of Orange Factory on the National Register of Historic Places. As a result, the engineering company hired to build the dam financed an archeological investigation of the area and a social and economic historical study that included oral history interviews with Orange Factory inhabitants. The findings, however, were not considered sufficiently historically significant and, in 1983, Orange Factory's residents were moved to other homes and construction of the dam began.
Ralph Waldo McDonald was an educator, legislator, and North Carolina gubernatorial candidate in the Democratic primary elections of 1936 and 1944. He was associated with the extension service and taught in the education and radio departments at the University of North Carolina beginning in the late 1930s and served as president of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, 1951-1961.
Witherspoon family was of Hillsboro, N.C., and McDowall family was of Camden, S.C. Principal Witherspoon family members include John Witherspoon (1790-1853), Presbyterian clergyman, teacher, and planter, and his wife Susan Davis Kollock Witherspoon (fl. 1790s-1850s). McDowall family members include the Witherspoons' daugther, Susan Witherspoon McDowall (fl. 1830s-1850s), and her husband, William D. McDowall (fl. 1820s-1850s), partner in the firm of Shannon and McDowall of Charleston, S.C. The McDowalls made their permanent home in Camden, S.C.
Sallie Douglas McDowall (fl. 1860-1864) and Susan Witherspoon McDowall (fl. 1830-1859) were schoolgirls in Camden, S.C.
The McDowells settled in Virginia and Kentucky.
Charles Harper McDowell was the descendent of Athan A. McDowell of Cane Creek, Buncombe County, N.C. and Charles G. McDowell, a merchant of Burke County, N.C.
Papers of James McDowell (1795-1851) document the white politician from Virginia who held state and national offices, various white McDowell, Preston, and Venable family members, and people enslaved at Col Alto, McDowell's plantation near Lexington, Va. The collection includes a list of people enslaved by McDowell at Col Alto; an emancipation contract with Lewis James, a person enslaved by McDowell; personal and family correspondence; financial and legal materials; writings; printed material; and genealogical papers. Topics include slavery in the territories; colonization societies; economic conditions and policies; internal improvements and public works, such as the James River and Kanawha Canal project; temperance; nullification; Democratic party politics and campaigns; public education; collegiate and literary societies; colleges in Virginia, especially Washington College (later Washington and Lee University); agriculture and plantation management; McDowell family history; and land transactions in Fayette County, Ky. Also included is the will of Colonel James McDowell (1770-1835).
John Calhoun McDowell (1825-1876) was a physician of Burke County, N.C.
Silas McDowell was a scientific farmer and writer of Franklin, Macon County, N.C.
Manuscript music book, 84 p., containing piano music written by Susanna Smith Preston McDowell of Lexington and Abingdon, Va., in 1812. It is written in treble and bass and includes words to some ballads.
Thomas David Smith McDowell (1823-1898), of Bladen County, N.C., was a planter, legislator, and Confederate congressman. His father, physician Alexander McDowell, was an Irish immigrant and was clerk of Bladen County, N.C., 1812-1844. Besides managing Purdie Plantation with his brother John A. McDowell, Thomas served in the state House of Commons, 1846-1850; in the state Senate, 1852-1855 and 1858-1860; and in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1863. He married Mary Elizabeth Davis of Richmond County, with whom he had two sons, Alexander, who moved to Georgia, and John A., Jr., who took over management of the family lands.
William Wallis McDowell was a landowner, merchant, and banker of Asheville, N.C.
Mary McNeill McEachern (1847-1933) grew up near Fayetteville, N.C., and moved in 1894 to Red Springs, N.C. While attending school in the antebellum South, McEachern became friends with many transplanted northerners. The collection consists primarily of letters written by Mary McNeill McEachern during an 1876 visit to an old friend from the Episcopal Rectory School at Rockfish Factory, N.C., who was living in the Hudson River Valley in New York. Once McEachern arrived in Fishkill-on-Hudson, N.Y., she wrote to her family with details about her trip. She described traveling by train through Baltimore and New York City, explaining problems with the railroad and expressing her feelings about buildings and cities in the North. McEachern provided vivid pictures of life and customs in the post-war North as compared to those of the South, noting sectional differences in language, food, women's clothing, and the household. She also described visits to Vassar College, West Point, and George Washington's Revolutionary War headquarters in Newburgh, N.Y. Letters from one of McEachern's former teachers and one of her old classmates are also included.
Financial and legal Papers, correspondence, clippings, and account books of the McElwee family of Statesville, Iredell County, N.C., and the Alexander family of Iredell County, N.C., Hardiman County, Tenn., and Lowndes County, Ala. Financial and legal papers consist of bills, receipts, bonds, a tax assessment, land survey, jury notice, marriage license, and appointment of attorney, 1800-1865. Correspondence includes letters to J. McElwee, discussing agriculture, slaves, and social affairs, 1853-1858; letters from Confederate soldiers stationed in Virginia, mentioning the Battle of Seven Pines (Battle of Fair Oaks) and the poor conditions in camp; a letter, 1893, giving biographical and genealogical information on the McElwee family; and undated correspondence detailing family and social news. There are also school Papers, including an essay on female education and intelligence, 1856-1858, and genealogical notes on wills of the McElwee, Orr, Miller, and Simonton families. Account books are for leather goods, 1849-1865; milling, 1864-1871; and tobacco sales or barter, 1869-1873.
Samuel Douglas McEnery (1837-1910) was the governor of Louisiana from 1881 until 1888.
Members of the McEntire and Morris family owned plantations in southwestern North Carolina. James Morris built Fox Haven in 1823, naming it after a Native American who defected from his tribe and settled on Morris's land. Fox Haven was located six miles west of Rutherfordton, N.C. The plantation remained in the Morris family until it was purchased by Thomas E. Keeter in 1941. Thomas McEntire built Cleghorn Mansion in 1837, which was later purchased by J.B. Washburn in 1889.
William Randolph McEntire (fl. 1861-1866), perhaps of Buncombe County, N.C., was a Confederate prisoner of war at Johnson's Island Prison, Ohio.
Archibald McFadyen (1836-1911) served in the 5th North Carolina Cavalry during the American Civil War and later was a Presbyterian minister of Bladen County, N.C. The collection contains records of marriages McFadyen performed in southeastern North Carolina and Alabama and of fees received, 1868-1911, along with text for a wedding service (handwritten); his autograph book, 1862 from the University of North Carolina; a notebook of autographs and verse he kept while imprisoned during the American Civil War at Johnson's Island, Ohio; and his official discharge papers from prison, June 1865.
Journalist William M. McFadyen (1915-1946) of Raeford, N.C., served in the United States Army Air Corps (renamed the Army Air Forces in 1942) as a bombardier until reported missing in action near New Guinea on 27 November 1942. McFadyen was declared dead in 1946. The papers consist primarily of correspondence between William M. McFadyan, Jr., and his parents in the early years of World War II. The letters describe his various postings and rates of pay during his period of training in the United States Army Air Corps, 1940-1941, as well as brief descriptions of military life after he was posted to the South Pacific as a bombardier. Also included are condolence letters sent to McFadyen's parents after he was reported missing in action in 1942; news clippings related to McFadyen's disappearance and presumed death; official correspondence and service records sent to McFadyen's parents by the United States government; miscellaneous correspondence among other McFadyen family members; and a photograph of William M. McFadyen, Sr.
Typescript, 378 pp., of The Master Race or Those Germans, an unpublished novel by Alice Harper McFarland; chapters from a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt of disputed authorship; and copies of correspondence, 1945-1947, concerning McFarland's will and Susie Young's claim that she was the author, and thus the owner, of the Roosevelt biography manuscript.
Letters to McFarland, Richmond County, N.C., from her cousin James McFarland, Talbot County, Ga., circulating news of relatives in Georgia and North Carolina.
Microfilm of 21 diary volumes and one letter, 1815-1871, of Francis McFarland, Presbyterian minister and missionary of Augusta County, Va.
Michael McFee was born in Asheville, N.C., on 4 June 1954. He received an A.B. (1976) and M.A. (1978) in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught at the University since 1984. McFee has published collections of poetry, served as assistant editor for poetry at DoubleTake magazine, and was coordinator of the Second Sunday Reading Series in Chapel Hill. The collection contains material related to McFee's writing, including drafts of poems and essays written between 1970 and 2002. Subjects of McFee's essays include writers A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Material pertaining to McFee's published collections of poetry consists primarily of drafts, correspondence about publication matters, reviews and comments, and promotional material. Papers related to DoubleTake concern the selection of poems for publication in the magazine. Material from the Second Sunday Reading Series includes promotional pieces, drafts of reader introductions, and plans for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Series. Personal letters related to McFee's work as a poet and editor are scattered throughout the collection.
The collection includes family, official, and political correspondence, including letters from Irish relatives and other papers, 1799-1815, pertaining to duties as federal tax assessor and collector in western Virginia of Hugh McGavock (1761-1844) of Wythe County, Va.; miscellaneous antebellum papers of Judge Henry Dickinson of Columbia, Miss., father of United States Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; and antebellum correspondence about routine political appointments of Randal William McGavock (1826-1863), Confederate Army officer, Democratic Party leader, diplomat, and mayor of Nashville, Tenn. Also included are a lengthy 1853 letter discussing a rebellion in China and an 1859 letter from William L. Sharkey of Jackson, Miss., about the possibility of secession.
Speeches, subject files, research notes, photographs, and other materials of Edward Grafton McGavran, international figure in public health education and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Files document McGavran's work on public health surveys, starting in the 1940s and continuing into the 1960s, and his activities on behalf of various governmental and private health organizations, including the Iran Foundation, Inc., and the National Budget Consultation Committee.
The McGee family of North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York included Thaddeus McGee, his wife Sallie McGee, and their children William McGee and Harriet McGee. Harriet married Welford C. Reed of South Boston, Va.
The Jim McGee Collection consists of audiovisual materials, photographs, and printed materials compiled by traditional musician and folklorist, Jim McGee. The collection consists mostly of audio and video recordings of live performances, interviews with folk and old-time musicians, Primitive Baptist field recordings, and materials related to Jim McGee's documentary film, Coal Camp Blues, Coalfield Struggle (2003), about folk musician and activist, Carl Rutherford, of McDowell County, W.Va. The collection also contains photographs of Carl Rutherford and other musicians, as well as scattered printed materials on Carl Rutherford and Jim McGee.
Montford McGehee (1822-1895) was a Person County, N.C., planter, legislator, and North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, 1880-1887.
James McGilvray and A. McGilvray were general merchants of Harrisonburg, Va.
Laura Cornelia McGimsey of Burke County, N.C., married John Lewis Warlick during the Civil War. Warlick died in 1865. The widowed Mrs. Warlick married William Brown Avery of Canoe Hill, Burke County, in 1869.
John Bolivar McGinn was an evangelist of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Tennessee and western Kentucky, and a minister in Versailles, Ky., 1883-1888. Thirty-five sermons preached by McGinn at Versailles and Irvine, Ky., 1881-1900, and a few other items.
Frank C. P. McGlinn, banker and 1937 graduate of the University of North Carolina.
The collection of white musician, songwriter, and producer Roger McGuinn contains an oral history interview with McGuinn conducted in 2000 by John Covach, Paul Jones, and Steve Weiss and a 1999 compilation of folk songs recorded for McGuinn's website Folk Den. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire was the wife of John P. McGuire, principal of Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. She authored The Diary of a Southern Refugee, published in 1867 and reprinted in 1986.
A. J. McIntire served as an orderly sergeant in the 38th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company C, and later taught at a school for African Americans in Sampson County, N.C. The collection consists of two volumes of McIntire's diaries and a typed transcription of the earlier volume. The first diary, written between January and June 1864, contains brief daily entries on weather conditions, notable visitors, the shooting of deserters, and the May 1864 Battle of the Wilderness. McIntire's movements immediately after the completion of the first diary and end of the war are unclear. The second diary, dated January 1867 to May 1868, shows McIntire teaching school and describes social encounters, school duties, and religious and political activities.
Florence Barclay Barrow McIntire (b. ca. 1884) was the daughter of United States senator Pope Barrow (1839-1903) and niece of United States ambassador to Mexico Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898). This collection contains materials from McIntire's scrapbook, and includes clippings pertaining to the public life of her father, her uncle, and other family members; family correspondence; Pope Barrow's Washington, D.C. invitations; appointments; photographs; trade cards; Confederate States of America money; and diplomas.
Sixteen letters from Alexander Campbell McIntosh of Taylorsville, N.C., to his wife, Amanda, and son, William Preston McIntosh, while he was serving in the North Carolina legislature in Raleigh, and six letters during this period to McIntosh from his wife. The letters from McIntosh describe, in extraordinary detail, daily life in Raleigh, including sermons he had heard, ladies' fashions, the contrast between city and country crowds, funeral processions, and his arrangements for board and laundry. There is little mention of the transactions of the legislature.
MICROFILM ONLY. McIntosh rose in the Confederate ranks to become a colonel in February 1865; he was chief of artillery for the 2nd Corps at the end of the war. Account of a horseback journey over the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia and Maryland, mixed with reminiscences of battles and campaigns in which McIntosh served as a Confederate artillery officer. Among the battles mentioned are those at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Harper's Ferry, and Sharpsburg (Antietam).
Harriet R. McIntosh (Hattie) lived with her uncle, Alexander McIntosh, in Martindale, Mecklenburg County, N.C. She and her family received letters from friends and family throughout the Civil War. Her correspondents included Benjamin Brown, a friend and possibly a former classmate, and a private in the 56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Thomas Milton Kerr, a friend; Isaac McIntosh, an uncle and a private in the 28th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; William McIntosh, an uncle; James Martin, a family friend and a private in the 56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; William M. Martin, possibly Hattie's former teacher and a private in the 56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Daniel M. Sifford, an uncle; and Robert S. Sifford, an uncle and a private in the 52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, who settled in Tennessee after the war.
James Simmons McIntosh (died 1847) of Georgia, was an officer in the United States army who served in the Mexican-American War. The collection includes contemporary copies of officers' reports by James S. McIntosh and John A. Whitehall (died 1866) of the operations of the 5th Infantry Regiment, United States Army, at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, 8 and 9 May 1846.
The collection contains handwritten birth records, 1759-1812, of the McIver family of North Carolina recorded in the family bible.
Alexander McIver was a professor at Davidson College and the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1873-1874.
Anna R. McIver was born in 1828 and was a resident of Cheraw, S.C. Her father was A. M. McIver, a solicitor.
MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography of George Willcox McIver, written for his family in about 1930 and revised in about 1940. McIver was born at Carthage, N.C., 22 December 1858, son of educator Alexander McIver and Mary Ann Willcox McIver. The memoirs describe his family and his marriage to Helen Howard Smedburg; his childhood at Davidson, Chapel Hill, Bingham School, and Greensboro, N.C.; his education at the United States Military Academy, 1877-1882; his service in the United States Army, 1882-1922, including service in the American west, Cuba, Alaska, the Philippines, Washington, D.C., at West Point, in the Santiago campaign in the War of 1898, and as a brigadier general in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I; and his life in New England and in Washington, D.C., after his retirement from the army.
Lucy McIver of Society Hill, S.C., attended school at Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, S.C.
Martha C. McKay, women's rights activist, Democratic Party leader, and economist, was born in Winchester, Mass., in 1920. She received her B.A. in Economics in 1941 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The collection includes speeches, correspondence, and subject files relating to Martha C. McKay's activities as the founder of the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus and the National Women's Political Caucus, her efforts to garner support for the Equal Rights Amendment, and her efforts to promote economic justice and development for women.
The collection contains the nineteenth-century papers of white Presbyterian minister Neill McKay (1816-1893) of Harnett County, N.C., and the mid-twentieth-century papers of his daughter Frances Reid Ross (1880-1977) of Lillington, N.C. Financial and legal documents comprise the majority of Neill McKay's papers, and many items pertain to land sales in Cumberland and Harnett Counties, N.C. Documents include bills payable, receipts, accounts, land surveys, indentures, deeds, and estate papers, and some items predate McKay's life years, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century. Scattered correspondence pertains chiefly to financial matters. Materials related to his ministerial responsibilities and the Presbyterian Church are slight. Although he had extensive landholdings and owned African American slaves, McKay's papers include little documentation of enslaved people. Correspondence, printed items, and notes particularly on the history of the Presbyterian Church comprise the majority of Frances Ross's papers. Ross taught parliamentary law and procedure, and much of her correspondence pertains to requests from women's clubs, church organizations, training schools and colleges, and the Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics through State College of North Carolina (now North Carolina State University) for her to teach. Organizations represented in Ross's correspondence and other papers include the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc., the Committee on Woman's Work and later the Board of Women's Work for The Presbyterian Church in the United States, the North Carolina chapter of American War Mothers, Kings Mountain Junior Woman's Club, Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, N.C., and Peace College in Raleigh, N.C. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
John McKee was a frontiersman, United States agent to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in eastern Mississippi, and United States representative from Alabama (1823-1829).
Letters circa 1909-1926 between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberdeen, N.C., written during their engagement and marriage as well as a small amount of scattered family correspondence and papers. The collection also contains digital transcriptions of the McKeithens's letters created by their granddaughter Anne McKeithen.
Anne McKeithen, author, journalist, and librarian of Charlottesville, Va., grew up in Aberdeen, N.C. The collection consists of files created by Anne McKeithen in the course of writing her book, Listening to Color: Blacks and Whites in Aberdeen, North Carolina. McKeithen conducted interviews with individuals about their experiences as residents of Aberdeen while schools were segregated and following school integration. Files contain interview transcriptions and notes, research notes and observations, and drafts.
The collection consists of a letter, 1847, from Hector Turner, New York, N.Y., to Archibald A. McKeithen, Moore County, N.C., concerning Turner's medical studies and life in New York; a set of medical remedies, signed by W. H. Maffitt, 1836; and a letter, 1862, from H. H. Smith, serving with the Confederate army in Kinston, N.C., to Archibald A. McKeithen. This letter contains descriptions of camp life and the surrounding area, including the health of the company; Smith's evaluations and speculations; references to the Battle of New Bern; and a brief discussion of shared neighbors and acquaintances.
Digital photographs taken by Hillsborough, N.C., photographer James P. McKelvey at a concert by Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin on 2 October 2013 at the Arts Center, Carrboro, N.C., and at a concert by Bruce Cockburn on 10 September 2011 at the Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C. There are also photographs from the International Bluegrass Music Association Wide Open Bluegrass Festival on 24-28 September 2013 in Raleigh, N.C.
Richard M. McKenna (1913-1964) received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1956. The Sand Pebbles, his only completed novel, was published in 1962.
The Sumner family of Gates County, N.C., traces its lineage to William Summer of England who settled near Suffolk, Va., around 1690. His descendent, Ellen Sumner, married C. H. McKenzie.
Diane McKenzie, a white medical librarian, worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library from 1987 until her retirement in 2007. She was named Medical Library Association Fellow in 2008, and honor awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the health sciences librarianship profession.
Jane Simpson McKimmon was the first home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina, and an author of Raleigh, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY: Merchant's ledger, 1832-1835; plantation records, slave lists, and accounts, 1850-1860; entries of construction expenditures for a brick house, 1858-1860; and records of other expenses of the McKinley family near Milledgeville, Ga. Also included are William McKinley's notes evaluating public officials in regard to their positions on disunion.
The collection is a letter dated 1 February 1863 and written from New Bern, N.C., by Andrew McKinney, a white federal soldier. Also included is a typed transcription of the letter's contents. In this letter to a friend, McKinney writes about marches, United States Army officers, the crimes of federal soldiers he has witnessed, weather, New Bern, and the freedpeople there. He mentions President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation made earlier that year. His comments about the formerly enslaved people are disparaging and dehumanizing, and he compares slavery favorably to the Union Army because by his reasoning, masters provided adequate food and shelter to the enslaved. He reiterates to the letter's recipient that despite these feelings he is not a secessionist.
Ernest Boyce McKissick (Mack) was born in Kelton, S.C., in 1895. His family moved to Asheville, N.C., around 1900. McKissick served in France, 1918-1919, with the African American 92nd Infantry Division during World War I. Returning to Asheville after the war, McKissick married Magnolia Thompson of Asheville. They had four children, the eldest of whom was Floyd S. McKissick, prominent North Carolina attorney, businessman, and civil rights leader, who was the first African American to attend the University of North Carolina's Law School. The McKissicks youngest daughter, Mary Jean, married William Duncan McNeill, who served as second lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II.
Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991) was born in Asheville, N.C. He was an attorney, businessman, and civil rights leader. McKissick married Evelyn Williams, with whom he had four children: Joycelyn; Andree; Floyd, Jr.; and Charmaine.
Correspondence, news releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to the unsuccessful 1978 U.S. Senate Democratic primary campaign of David McKnight, journalist and native of Charlotte, N.C. McKnight walked across North Carolina promoting policies aimed at supporting family farms and businesses.
William A. McKnight (1911-1986), professor, 1936-1978, in the Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was active in promoting the study of contemporary Spanish literature.
Henry Bacon McKoy (1893-1991) was a lawyer of Wilmington, N.C. He was the son of William Berry McKoy (1862-1928) and Katherine (Bacon) McKoy, and his maternal grandfather was Henry Bacon (1822-1891).
William Berry McKoy was a prominent Mason, lawyer and political leader of Wilmington, N.C.
Archibald McLauchlin was born circa 1835. He was a student at the University of North Carolina from 1853 to 1856. After graduation, he returned to his hometown of Elizabethtown, Bladen County, N.C., to teach. A private in the Confederate Army, he died of typhoid fever in 1861.
Eleven letters among or relating to members of the McLaurin family of Morven, Anson County, N.C., and two other related items. Most letters are from McLaurins (Daniel T., Neil, John, D.D.) in the Confederate Army to relatives at home. There are letters from members of the 59th North Carolina Regiment and the 4th North Carolina Cavalry, and from locations that include Smith Island and Fort Fisher, N.C., and Orange County, Va. Letters concern fighting and marches, other war news, news of relatives and friends, health, injuries, and deaths, and clothing needed by soldiers. Other items are an 1899 chattel mortgage certificate and an undated handwrittten version of the song Barbara Allen.
Anna Blue McLaurin (fl. 1860-1864) lived with in Griffin, Ga. Anna's brother Cornelius Muir McLaurin (died circa 1862) entered Confederate service in April 1861 and served with Howard McCutchan (fl. 1862) in the Spaulding Grays (2nd Georgia Battalion). The collection is chiefly Civil War letters to Anna Blue McLaurin from her brother, Cornelius Muir McLaurin and a family friend, Howard McCutchan, while serving in Virginia and coastal North Carolina, requesting information about family and friends at home and discussing camp life and troop movements, primarily in the vicinity of Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth, Va., from April 1861 to April 1862; at Wilmington, N.C., in May 1862; in the vicinity of Richmond, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and along the James River in the summer of 1862; and in northern Virginia from August 1862. Letters of 1864 were from friends and relatives in North Carolina and in Griffin and other places in Georgia discussing conditions on the homefront.
Tim McLaurin, who grew up on the outskirts of Fayetteville, N.C., began writing while in the Peace Corps in Tunisia, 1982-1983. His first novel was published in 1989. McLaurin died of cancer on 11 July 2002.
William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina.
Lafayette McLaws was a United States and Confederate Army officer, and a postmaster and collector of internal revenue in Savannah, Ga., 1885-1886. The collection includes letters and military papers of Lafayette McLaws including items related to the United States Army campaigns against the Navajos, 1858-1860, and the Civil War campaigns in which McLaws participated. Civil War actions discussed include the Peninsula Campaign and Maryland Campaign in 1862; the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863; action in Tennessee in late 1863, especially in the vicinity of Knoxville; McLaws's court-martial in 1864 for failure to cooperate with General James Longstreet, and his exoneration; his command in Georgia and South Carolina in 1864; and actions in North Carolina in 1865. Civil War maps of sites in Virginia, and Gettysburg, and other battles are also present. Post-war items include articles and addresses on military campaigns, especially the Battle of Gettysburg, and McLaws's relationship with General Longstreet. Earlier items are miscellaneous McLaws family papers. Volumes consist of a letter book, 1858-1864, containing abstracts of McLaws's letters to his wife during the Navajo campaign, and an order book, 1865, with journal entries for military operations in North Carolina, and a biographical sketch of McLaws.
The McLean family papers document Willard James McLean of Selma, N.C., and his family members, including his second wife, Anna Allen McLean, his third wife, Fannetta Morrow Scruggs McLean Warner, and his stepdaughter, Karen Scruggs. The collection documents a family of African American educators who taught in segregated schools and pursued continuing higher education opportunities, and contains correspondence, financial material, and professional papers of Willard James McLean, as well as papers related to Willard's involvement in the Presbyterian church and printed material. Correspondence, 1940-1971, comprises the bulk of the collection: through 1951 correspondence is primarily of Willard and Anna, of Willard through 1961, and progresses to letters primarily from Karen Scruggs while she is away at various schools, 1962-1970. The collection also contains family photographs and short audio messages and songs recorded by the principal and students from Annie W. Holland School, an African American school in Rocky Mount, N.C.
Angus Wilton McLean of Lumberton, N.C., was a lawyer, banker, and active Democrat. He served as a director of the United States War Finance Corporation, 1918-1920; assistant United States secretary of the treasury, 1920- 1921; and as governor of North Carolina, 1925-1929.
Archibald McLean (fl. 1770-1822) was a resident of Cumberland County, N.C.
The Malcolm Purcell McLean Papers document the history of several of the companies founded or owned by McLean, including McLean Industries, Inc., McLean Securities, Inc., Walter Kidde & Company, Inc., and United States Lines, Inc. Materials include legal and financial records, a history of Waterman Steamship Corporation, photograph albums of a shipyard tour and meeting, popular and trade magazines featuring McLean and his companies, eulogies and obituaries for McLean, videotapes and transcripts of oral history interviews about unionization of longshoremen and the impact of containerization, Fighting the Tide, a documentary film on the history of containerization based on these interviews, and other video recordings on related transportation topics.
Members of the McLemore family and the related Harper family lived in Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The contents of the scrapbook created by white physician George Ammie McLemore, Jr. (1925-2003) of Smithfield, N.C., chiefly cover the years from 1942 to 1948 when McLemore was a medical student at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Materials pasted or enclosed in the scrapbook include photographs of himself, family, and friends, letters from family members including children, newspaper clippings, picture post cards, theater playbills, ephemeral items, and documents related to his medical education. Many clippings pertain to debutantes. Enclosures include letters from the 1970s and a photograph from circa 1980s.
Lennox Polk McLendon (1890-1968) was a white lawyer in Durham, N.C., and Greensboro, N.C.; a leading supporter of public higher education in North Carolina; and, in 1963-1964, chief counsel for the Senate committee investigation of Bobby Baker. The collection includes papers relating to McLendon's public service activities, especially his membership on the State Board of Higher Education, 1955-1962, including his involvement in plans for desegregation of the University of North Carolina. Also included are materials about McLendon's military career with United States troops in Mexico, 1916, and with the 113th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918; his law practice in Durham and Greensboro; his political activities; and the Senate investigation of Bobby Baker, including tape recordings (some transcribed) of oral diary entries that McLendon made during the course of the hearings. There also are letters from McLendon to his wife, Mary Lily Aycock McLendon; from McLendon and his brother Moran McLendon to their mother, Sarah Josephine Polk McLendon, during World War I; account books tracking investments and real estate; a diary kept at Myrtle Beach, 1967; an unpublished memoir describing growing up in Anson County, N.C., in the late 1890s and early 1900s; and biographical materials and photographs relating to the McLendon and Poe families. There are also materials relating to the life and career of McLendon's father-in-law, Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912), governor of North Carolina, 1901-1905, and other Aycock family members.
Mary Margaret McLeod was a pediatrician, who in 1946 started the first pediatric medical practice in Sanford, N.C. After practicing for 50 years, McLeod retired in 1987 and began serious study of her family's history. This collection chiefly contains material collected by Mary Margaret McLeod in the course of researching her family history. Some of McLeod's personal correspondence and material concerning her career and her civic activities are also included. Letters, 1888-1994, and postcards, 1908-1994, are from family members about their activities and to McLeod from friends and patients. Included in the correspondence are letters from John Archibald McLeod and James Burgess McLeod to their mother, Evvie Thomas McLeod, and postcards from Private Thomas C. McLeod in Europe during World War I. Autobiographical materials include notes about McLeod's early years and also some information about her professional activities. Genealogical materials, 1875-1994, relate to the McLeod family of Moore and Lee counties, N.C. (Lee County was formed in 1907 from Moore and Chatham counties), including materials that went into McLeod's Duncan McLeod and Barbara Kelly and Their Descendants, and materials relating to James A. McLeod and to the Buie, Dye, Gaster, McBryde, McDonald, McGregor, Shaw, Smith-Campbell-Graham, Thomas, and Williams families. Pictures, ca. 1880-1994, are chiefly of McLeod family members. Also included are bills, receipts, and notes, 1855-1908, some relating to Duncan McLeod; McLeod family deeds and land records, 1842-1939, tax receipts, 1869-1915, and account books, 1871-1886, including some store and farm records; newspaper clippings about McLeod, McLeod family members, and Lee and Moore county history; and other materials.
Neill McLeod (1833-1864) served in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
The collection contains ledgers from two Raleigh, N.C., livery stables. One ledger is labelled W. C. McMackin; the other is unlabelled.
James Robert McMichael (1835-1893) was a Confederate officer who served with the 12th Georgia Infantry Regiment. The collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcription of the diary, July 1864-June 1865, kept by McMichael, while he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del, Morris Island, S.C., and Cockspur Island near Savannah, Ga., with memoranda, names of fellow prisoners, a roll of his company, and seven letters to him chiefly about items being sent to him by relatives and friends. Diary entries describe prison conditions, McMichael's health, and his feelings about imprisonment, harsh treatment he received, and the Confederacy.
Paul Agalus McMichael (1820-1869) was a school teacher, county treasurer, and Confederate officer with the 20th South Carolina Infantry Regiment. The collection includes typed transcriptions of Civil War papers of Lieutenant Colonel McMichael, including a diary, 1864-1865, McMichael kept in Virginia and in prison at Fort Delaware, Del., letters to his wife from South Carolina and Virginia, and personal accounts; and a few antebellum and postwar business papers from Orangeburg, S.C.
The McMillan family resided in Bladen County, N.C.
The McMillan and Robeson Family Papers, 1791-1900, consist of family letters and deeds for both land and enslaved people. Correspondence is chiefly between the McMillan and Robeson families, but also includes the Calhoun, Davies, Grier, and Leete families. Letters document family relationships, school, female friendships, health, travel, and daily life. Civil War era letters discuss the impact of the war on the family, conscription, the Home Guard, camp life at Yorktown, Va., and looting by Sherman's army in Cumberland County, N.C. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Files compiled by George McMillan as he researched and wrote his book, The making of an assassin: the life of James Earl Ray (1976). Ray killed Martin Luther King Junior. The files include correspondence, transcripts of interviews, biographical information, research notes, copies of articles and other materials, and a draft of the book.
J. Alex McMillan (1932- ), congressman and businessman of Charlotte, N.C. McMillan, a Republican, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representative in 1984 from North Carolina's Ninth District and held four successive terms until 1994. He was also elected to several offices in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. McMillan worked for Ruddick Corporation and Harris-Teeter Super Markets, Inc., in Charlotte, 1969-1983, in several management positions. He also served vice chair and chair of the First Union National Bank board of directors, 1980-1984; on the board of the Southeastern Savings & Loan Co., 1979-1984; and as director of the Greater Charlotte Economic Development Council, 1981-1982.
James Bryan McMillan was raised in a small farming community in Robeson County, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina and received a law degree from Harvard University. In 1968, he was appointed U.S. district judge by Lyndon B. Johnson. Based in Charlotte, N.C., McMillan handled cases on a wide variety of subjects, including nuclear reactors, prison standards, housing, noise pollution, annexation, and public and private racial, sex, and age discrimination.
The Bobby McMillon Collection consists mostly of audiovisual materials created or collected by Bobby McMillon, a white ballad singer, musician, and storyteller in the Appalachian tradition. As a performer, Bobby McMillon is best known for his ballad and story renditions about Frankie Silver, to whom he is distantly related. He has also collected interviews with and songs and stories from family members, neighbors, and friends since 1968. The collection includes audio and video recordings of performance, documentary audio recordings compiled by McMillon, and acetate discs of the 50th annual Hollow Springs Shape Note Singing Convention. The collection also contains paper materials, McMillon family photographs, and field notes, or supporting documentation, that correspond to the audiovisual materials found in the collection. Paper materials include the song folio, Cowboy Loye Presents 20 Famous Heart Songs, and photocopies of the handwritten text, "Ballads, Love Songs, Meeting House Songs, Verses and Others."
John Henry McMullan was born in Green County, Va., in 1849, and was graduated from the University of Maryland in 1876. He practiced medicine in Hertford, N.C., for 15 years. In the early 1890s, he settled in Edenton, N.C., where he worked until his death on 10 December 1922.
John Henry McMullan grew up in Edenton, N.C., during the 1880s and 1890s.
Interviews conducted in West Virginia in 1997 by Bryan T. McNeil for his honors essay In My Time: The Strike of 1949 in the Lives of the Coal Miners of Southern West Virginia (Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998). The four interviewees are retired from the coal mining industry: Rufus Bethel is an African-American who worked as a coal miner; Roderick Pickett was a mine foreman; and Louis Vasvary and Fred Iddings are Anglo-American former coal miners. In the interviews, the participants discussed their lives, including their family history, their childhood, their experiences in the mines, and their thoughts on the United Mine Workers of America and on the mining industry in West Virginia. Special emphasis is placed on the period 1949-1950 with the men talking about the lifestyle during that time, their knowledge of negotiations during the 1949 strike, and their opinions relating to that event.
Contains correspondence, reports, teaching materials and other records documenting the career of Genna Rae McNeil, the first Black tenure-track faculty member in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials pertain to McNeil's teaching and university service from the l970s through the 2020s, including her work on the Institute of African American Research, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the African American History Month Lecture, and other campus organizations and committees. The collection also contains records of collective action taken by housekeepers against the university in the early 1990s.
Hector James McNeill was a student at the University of North Carolina who received an A.B. degree in 1855.
Letters from Jane Strange McNeill (b. 1821) of Fayetteville, N.C., to her half-brother, James Hipkins McNeill, a student at the University of North Carolina, commenting on family and social matters and his reports of college activities.
The James McNeill Papers consist of letters written between 1846 and 1866 by James McNeill in Lauderdale and Kemper counties, Mississippi. The letters reveal that James McNeill was a Democrat, a slaveowner, and invested in several businesses, including lumber, cotton and corn crops, and buying and selling land in Mississippi and North Carolina. McNeill also wrote about family matters, settlers enacting vigilante justice against Mexicans in San Antonio, Tex., and the futility of the Civil War. There are transcriptions of the letters and background biographical information about McNeill family members.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to North Carolina poet John Charles McNeill. The correspondence consists of letters McNeill wrote while he was a student at Wake Forest College, 1894-1898.
John McNeill was born circa 1801 and died in the 1870s. He was a farmer in Richmond County, N.C.
Jonathan McNeill and Elbert S. McNeill of Laurel County, Ky., were brothers and business operators of J. & E. S. McNeill, general merchandisers. Their brother, Captain James H. McNeill, served in the United States Army, 1861-1862, with the 7th Kentucky Regiment. The collection contains account books and other business records, mostly 1859-1890, of J. & E. S. McNeill; and one volume of coal shipments for a Laurel County company, 1883-1888. Loose papers are chiefly receipts and notes, 1867-1875, of Jonathan McNeill. The ledgers contain per-unit prices of various dry goods. One volume includes accounts with Captain James H. McNeill and members of the 7th Kentucky Regiment, United States Army, and a register of deaths, 1861-1862, at Camp Wildcat and Camp Calvert.
The collection includes scrapbooks compiled by Mary Gilchrist McNeill of Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., containing newspaper and magazine clippings on national and international affairs and people and events of general interest, including war, politics, and the arts.
In 1912, R. M. Vestal was the manager of the Vestal Automobile Company, seller of motor cars and supplies, in Greensboro, N.C. Edna McPherson was an art teacher at the Virginia Christian College in Lynchburg, Va.
Holt McPherson, editor of the High Point Enterprise, was born in High Point, N.C., in 1906. In 1928, McPherson graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BA in journalism. When he became editor of the High Point Enterprise in 1930 at age 24, McPherson was the youngest editor of a daily newspaper in North Carolina. He served as editor 1930-1937 and 1952-1972. He also served as an editor in the Fort Lauderdale bureau of the Miami Herald, 1937-1941, and editor of the Shelby Daily Star, 1941-1952. In addition to his professional involvement, McPherson was a civic leader, serving as chair of the board of High Point College, president of the Journalism Foundation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and chair of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. He was a national leader in the United Methodist Church, a member of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church of High Point, and a board member of the Triad United Methodist Home in Winston-Salem. Holt McPherson died on 10 August 1979 at age 72.
Joseph Pickens McQueen (1854-1904) was the son of John McQueen (1804-1867), a Confederate congressman from South Carolina. The collection includes photocopies of four letters, 1863-1864, from John McQueen while he was a Confederate congressman from South Carolina, to Joseph Pickens McQueen, and three letters 1856, 1864, 1867, from Caroline Pickens, of Greene County, Ala., to her grandson, Joseph Pickens McQueen. All letters deal with personal and family matters.
Duncan G. McRae was a steamboat agent at Wilmington, N.C., president of the Fayetteville and Western Railroad Company, and justice of the peace of Cumberland County, N.C. His father Duncan McRae was a businessman, postmaster, and banker of Fayetteville, N.C. Scattered and disconnected family, business, and personal papers, chiefly 1819-1876, of Duncan Grainger McRae and of Duncan McRae. Included are papers concerning D. G. McRae's imprisonment in 1867 by military officials on a charge of murder (later dismissed) and speeches and writings by him, chiefly on local history. Correspondents include Duncan Cameron, Weston R. Gales, John Graham, William A. Graham, Thomas Ruffin, and Robert Strange Junior
John McRae was the postmaster in Fayetteville, N.C., in the 1840s and 1850s, and a private farmer and businessman in Mangum, N.C., from his retirement in 1853 to his death in 1880.
Volumes, circa 1847-1852, containing commonplace entries and original poems and other entries. The inscriptions, Mary Nowells, Allenton, N.J. and Mary McRae and Fayetteville, N.C. are included.
Griffith John McRee (1820-1872) was a North Carolina historian, author, attorney, and plantation owner. McRee was educated at W. H. Hardin's academy in Pittsboro, N.C., and graduated from Princeton in 1838. He later married Penelope Iredell, daughter of North Carolina governor and senator James Iredell.
Samuel Davis McReynolds (1872-1939) was a criminal judge for the 6th judicial district, Tennessee, 1903-1923; and United States representative from Tennessee, 1923-1939. The collection includes scattered correspondence, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s, including brief letters from Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sam Rayburn; handwritten and typed versions of speeches by McReynolds; about sixty photographs and drawings, some of prominent early twentieth-century Democrats; five scrapbooks; a diary kept by McReynolds on a Far Eastern cruise in 1925; and miscellaneous other material relating to McReynolds's career as a judge and as a member of Congress. Topics of other correspondence include the 1925 cruise to the Far East, the London Economic Conference in 1933, the establishment of the commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935, and the illness and death of McReynolds.
Lawyer Alan McSurely of Chapel Hill, N.C., was born in 1936 in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the 1960s and 1970s, he and his wife, Margaret McSurely, worked with a number of organizations endeavoring to eliminate poverty, bring about an end to segregation, and organize workers in labor disputes.
Michael Rogers McVaugh (1938- ) is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Records include talks given by Dr. McVaugh to local and regional groups and at conferences or professional meetings, some published and some unpublished. Topics of talks include the history of extrasensory perception (ESP) and parapsychology, the history of medicine in medieval Spain, the history of medieval surgery, and medieval Arabic-Hebrew-Latin translations of medical texts.
Videotapes created by Judith McWillie, a white artist, author, and professor emeritus of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Ga. The majority of the video recordings relate to southern vernacular art and southern artists in Athens, Ga., Memphis, Tenn., and throughout the South, including footage of artists Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, Joni Mabe, J. B. Murray, and Art Rosenbaum. The collection also contains Judith McWillie's video field work conducted in Cuba, documentation of Baptist services in Athens, Ga., and footage related to the Athens, Ga. arts and culture scene.
Richard Everard Meade was a physician, of Amelia County, Va. Members of the Whitaker family lived in Halifax County, N.C.
Guthrie Gus Turner Meade, Jr., was a white computer programmer and systems analyst with a lifelong interest in folk music, especially traditional country music and Kentucky fiddlers. Meade avidly collected records and corresponded with record collectors, discographers, and music scholars around the world. He spent his summers recording and interviewing Kentucky fiddlers. In 1956, Meade began an annotated discography of early traditional country music. The discography includes some 14,500 recordings of 3,500 songs organized into four categories: ballads, religious songs, instrumentals, and novelty songs. He worked on this discography until his death in 1991.
The collection includes unrelated ledgers and daybooks, 1860-1892, for general merchandise, Granville County, N.C., and a record book of the Forlorn Hope Lodge, No. 54, I.O.G.T. [Independent Order of Good Templars], Tally Ho, Granville County, N.C., 1873-1879. Individuals who appear to have owned businesses represented here include James H. Webb and Jesse Meadows.
William Belvidere Meares was a physician and planter of Davidson County, N.C.
Members of the Mebane family and their connections lived in Mebaneville, Leaksville-Spray, Greensboro, Graham, and Asheville, N.C., and Danville, Va. The collection contains family correspondence, chiefly 1870-1900, of Frances (Kerr) Mebane (1840-1912), of Mebaneville, N.C., wife of Benjamin Franklin Mebane (1823-1884), physician and originator of the Taraxacum tonic. Letters are from her husband and from her five children while away at schools, including the Nash and Kollock School in Hillsborough, N.C., the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, and the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C.; and while traveling and raising their own families in North Carolina, Virginia, and New York. Also included are some business papers of a son-in-law, James Edwin Scott (died 1888), tobacco manufacturer; and 20th-century business letters concerning the tonic originally prepared by Dr. Mebane. Volumes include physicians' daybooks, 1849-1882; student notebooks; and a brief woman's journal, circa 1881.
William Mebane arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland in the early part of the 18th century. One of his sons, Alexander Mebane (1716-1793), married Mary Tinnie in Pennsylvania and moved his family to North Carolina, settling primarily in Mebanesville. Alexander was the first sheriff of Orange County, N.C., and one of the nine men who selected Chapel Hill as the site for the University of North Carolina. Alexander and Mary's six sons served in the Revolutionary War. David Mebane (1760-1844) was the common great-grandfather of Alfred Holt Mebane and Emma Faucette. His son, Alexander Mebane (1787-1866), married Frances Mitchell (1795-1863), and their daughter, Frances Mebane (1826-1898), married George Currie Faucette. George Allen Mebane (1791-1877), another son of David Mebane, married Attelia Yancey (1803-1882), and their son, Thomas Yancey Mebane (1821-1892), married Elizabeth Frances Mitchell (1823-1902). Alfred Holt Mebane (1860-1927), a son of Thomas Yancey and Elizabeth Frances Mebane, married Emma Currie Faucette (b. 1898), a daughter of George C. and Frances Faucette. Robert Faucette Sr. of France came to the United States about 1750. His great-grandson was George Currie Faucette, who married Frances Mebane.
Deed, 1780, granting land to Nathaniel Rochester of Orange Co., N.C., including a survey; and letter, 1835, from Samuel B. Taylor of Macon, Ga., to Giles Mebane of Hillsborough, N.C., discussing the law in Georgia regarding estates and briefly reflecting on the effect of abolitionists on slave prices and economic and legal affairs in Macon.
Mary E. Mebane (1933-1992) was an African American woman writer, born in Durham County, N.C., the daughter of a farmer and a factory worker. She received her B.A. in English and music from North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) in 1955 and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught English and composition classes at North Carolina College, South Carolina State College, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is best known for two autobiographical volumes: Mary (1981), which discusses growing up in the South during segregation and her struggles with her family and the black community around her, and Mary, Wayfarer: an autobiography (1983), which recounts her years as a high school teacher, college instructor, Ph.D. candidate, and professor.
The Media and the Movement Collection contains audio recordings, 1969-1978, and supporting documentation related to Black-owned community radio stations across the American South. Materials correspond to "Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Black Power in the American South," an oral history project from 2011-2015 based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and funded by the North Carolina Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities. Seth Kotch, a white Associate Professor and historian in UNC's Department of American Studies, and Joshua Clark Davis (position: Assistant Professor of History, University of Baltimore; race: white) directed the project, which aims to understand the media and activism ecosystem of the American South during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s through oral history work and by digitizing rare and endangered sound recordings from Black-owned radio stations across the southern and eastern United States. The collection contains the radio broadcasts compiled by the Media and the Movement Project's team of researchers, which consist mostly of analog open reel and digitized radio broadcasts from WAFR (Durham, N.C.), in addition to digitized radio broadcasts from WVSP (Warrenton, N.C.), WRFG (Atlanta, Ga.), and WBAI (New York, N.Y.). Material was donated by Obataiye Akinwole, a Black radio host and staff member at WAFR, Jereann King Johnson of WVSP, and Valeria Lee, also of WVSP. With the exception of the analog open reel radio broadcasts from WAFR compiled and donated by Obataiye Akinwole, the Media and the Movement Project's team of researchers borrowed, digitized, and then returned original recordings to their owners. Analog and digitized radio broadcasts found in the collection contain interviews, recorded speeches and lectures, educational programs, local news, music, and other segments with a focus on African American music and programming. Of particular note are interviews and appearances by Bobby Seale, Floyd McKissick, Yusuf Salim, Joan Little, Dr. Benjamin Mays, Ben Ruffin, Maynard Jackson, Anne Braden, Alice Balance, Algia Mae Hinton, and Guitar Slim, among others. Other programs discuss the role of African Americans in the development of the United States, music and poetry, the Vietnam War, health, the history of Kwanzaa, and a variety of social issues, such as incarceration and suicide among Black women. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including digital tape logs of the digitized radio broadcasts prepared by the grant project team, as well as loose papers found with the analog open reel radio broadcasts from WAFR.
Letters from North Carolina governors, legislators, and others, most written to members of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina or their colleagues. Included are one lettr, 1912, from Charles B. Aycock about his health; 38 letters, 1910-1947, to and from J. Melville Broughton about several topics, including his activities as legal representative for the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, 1946-1947; 7 letters, 1932-1942, to and from John Ehringhaus about appointments and routine activities; from Clyde Hoey acknowledging supoort and other routine matters; 2 letters, 1931, to and from O. Max Gardner acknowledging receipt of other letters; 3 letters, 1904-1909, from R. B. Glenn acknowledging support and reminiscing about old times; one letter, 1966, from Luther Hodges acknowledging a sympathy card; 4 letters, 1936- 1951, from Clyde Hoey acknowledging supoort and other routine matters; one letter, 1933, from Cameron Morrison acknowledging support; one letter, 1946, from Terry Sanford, declining to pursue a position with the Medical Society; one letter, 1955, from Kerr Scott transmitting U.S. Senate gallery passes; one letter, 1969, from Robert Scott on routine matters; one letter, 1953, from William B. Umstead acknowledging the Medical Society's input about building a sanatorium; and 12 letters, 1880- 1962, from other state officials chiefly acknowledging support or discussing routine matters.
Samuel Mills Meek of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was a physician and Methodist minister. He received an honorary M.D. degree from Transylvania University in March 1846. Collection consists of three items: a journal, January 1842- April 1846; a journal, October 1856-April 1858; and a ledger of expenses, 1835. Both journals record Meek's daily activities, his reading from the Bible, the visits he made, births, deaths, and business related to the church.
Isaac Melson Meekins (1875-1946) of Elizabeth City, N.C., was a lawyer, U.S. district court judge, and Republican political leader. The collection includes a journal, 1905, kept by Isaac Meekins on a trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, and France, with Dr. William Louis Poteat; a volume containing an expense account, January-February 1922, kept by Meekins as manager for Enemy Insurance Company; clippings, 1924-1925, related to Meekins's gubernatorial campaign and his appointment as U.S. District Court judge in 1924; a letter, 1933, from Meekins to his daughter, Mary Purefoy Meekins, conveying his library to her and describing his reading habits; and a speech, 1936?, by an unknown author to the North Carolina Republican Convention, seconding the nomination of William C. Meekins ... to lead that great corps of Republican candidates over the roads and this great labyrinth of highways in the state of N.C. and plant the banner of the Grand Old Party at the door of the Capital in Raleigh ... .
Letters, 1942-1945, chiefly from W. Dennis Meeks, serving with the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, to his wife Carrie in Columbia, S.C. Also included are a few letters from Carrie to Dennis and from Dennis's buddies to Carrie. The few letters in 1942 are to and from Dennis with the 18th Bomb Wing at Camp Rapid, Rapid City, S.D., where he worked in some capacity in the unit's war room. Letters dated 1943 through 1945 are chiefly from Dennis, who appears to have been a clerk at the headquarters of the 385th Bombardment Group somewhere in England. Besides descriptions of the occasional bicycle trip, Dennis wrote little about his activities in England and less about the conduct of the war. Instead, Dennis told Carrie about the letters and packages he had received and responded to what Carrie told him of her life in South Carolina, where she held a series of temporary office jobs and kept up with the activities of friends and relatives. In 1945, censorship relaxed and Dennis was able to give his location as Great Ashfield, Suffolk, and discuss his impressions of England with his wife. The penultimate letter in the collection is from England and dated 12 June 1945; the last letter is dated 9 November 1945, by which time Dennis was back in the United States, perhaps in California, contemplating what he might do when he left the army.
MICROFILM ONLY. Return John Meigs was the son of Major John Meigs of Connecticut and Elizabeth (Henshaw) Meigs. He should not be confused with Return J. Meigs (1740-1823), Revolutionary officer and Indian agent; with Return J. Meigs (1764-1824), United States senator and governor of Ohio; or with Return J. Miegs (1801-1891), Tennessee lawyer and state librarian. Journal of Return John Meigs, 5 June-12 October 1835, kept while he was secretary to the commissioners authorized to negotiate with the Eastern Cherokees in north Georgia and Tennessee. The journal records Meigs's itinerary through western North Carolina, north Georgia, and Tennessee, and indicates places where he lodged, meals eaten, church attendence, scenery, persons met, and business activities. The commissioners included J. F. Schermerhorn and William Carroll. They are mentioned in the journal, along with Elbert Herring and Cherokee chiefs John Ridge and John Ross. In addition to the journal entries, the volume includes Meigs's travel accounts and copies of his own correspondence and that of others.
Anson Gustavus Melton (1890-1960) of Cleveland County, N.C., was a Baptist minister and contributor of poems and articles to newspapers and magazines.
Lionel Dane Melvin (born 1907) of Pleasant Garden, N.C., was a horticulturist and active member of the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society.
C. G. Memminger was a lawyer of Charleston, S.C., and Secretary of the Treasury, Confederate States of America.
Placards from the 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis, Tenn., which Martin Luther King attended and spoke at before his assassination in April 1968.
H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, Md., was a journalist, author, and critic.
David Menconi, a white professional music critic from San Antonio, Tex., began his career in 1985. He joined the News and Observer newspaper in Raleigh, N.C., in 1991, just as the area was being touted as an up-and-coming music scene. In 2000, Menconi published his first novel, Off the Record. The collection includes interview notes, correspondence, press releases, press packets, biographies, and videotapes, 1984-2017, relating to interviews Menconi conducted with alt-country, folk-rock, and rock and roll musicians from North Carolina and other parts of the South. Among those represented are Whiskeytown, Arrogance, the Backsliders, the Connells, Cracker, Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, Flat Duo Jets, Kevn Kinney, Tift Merritt, and Southern Culture on the Skids.
The collection of white writer and concert promoter Art Menius contains subject files, 1985-1995, related to Menius's work in country, folk, and bluegrass music. Included are promotional material from bands, articles written by Menius for various publications, flyers from music festivals, letters from professional organizations, clippings, business papers, and audiovisual materials compiled by Menius.
In part, microfilm. Papers of a Brunswick County, N.C., family, including correspondence of John Mercer (1812-1863), relating chiefly to business issues. Included are letters from J. Prioleau of J. Prioleau & Co., Smithville, N.C., a firm specializing in naval stores, concerning poor financial conditions; letters, 1860-1861, from John's brother, Christopher Columbus Mercer, who operated a turpentine business at Sampit, Georgetown County, S.C., concerning his business difficulties and the approaching war; and letters from several Wilmington, N.C., merchants about credit and commercial matters. Also available, on microfilm, are typed transcript copies of additional materials, including letters, 1861-1864, to and from Oliver E. Mercer (1842-1863), of Supply, N.C., while he was serving with the Confederate Army in North Carolina and Virginia; diary, 1863-1864, of Oliver's sister, Sarah E. Mercer, at Supply, N.C., chiefly discussing her brother; and a biographical sketch of John Mercer and his wife, Anna Jane Evans Mercer (1822-1912), written in 1950, including a description of the house and household at Supply.
George Anderson Mercer (1835-1907) was a Confederate officer and lawyer of Savannah, Ga. Mercer kept his diary intermittently during his time as a student in Savannah, Ga., and New Haven, Conn., at Princeton University, and at the University of Virginia, where he studied law. Included are entries relating to hunting and observations of birds; accounts of his Confederate military experiences in Savannah, 1861-1864, the Atlanta Campaign, 1864, service with Mercer's and Wright's division in Georgia and South Carolina, his capture in Macon, Ga., and return from prison to Savannah, 1864-1865; and his postwar work, social life, family affairs, reading and study, and reactions to current events and ideas.
Anna Mercur (Mrs. Macklon Mercur) lived with her husband in Towanda, Pa., on the eve of and soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. She had several sisters who lived in the South, including Lizzie Buford (Mrs. T. Buford) of Eufaula and Clayton, Ala.; C. A. Swift, a minister's wife in Waymandsville, Ga.; Helen B., a boarding school operator in Wilmington, N.C.; and Caro, who operated a boarding school in Eufaula. Helen B. had at least two daughters, Lizzie, a teacher, and Helen. C. A. Swift had at least one daughter, Helen W. Swift, who attended Caro's boarding school.
The Bingham and Meredith families of King and Queen, Henrico, and Campbell counties, Va. included Gustavus A. R. Meredith (1825-1896), son of Henry Hickman and Mary Bingham Meredith.
Merge Records was founded in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1989, by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, at the same time that McCaughan and Ballance founded local independent rock band Superchunk. The record label began as a way to release recordings by Superchunk and other indie rock bands in the early 1990s. Merge featured bands from the local Chapel Hill music scene and released recordings on 7" records and in audiocassette form. In 1992, Merge released its first full-length release. The label has continued to grow since then and includes a wide range of national and international artists on its roster.
The Meriwether family of Virginia included Charles N. Meriwether (fl. 1791-1843), physician and farmer of Virginia, Montgomery County, Tenn., and Christian County, Ky.
MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography of Meriwether, author and suffragette, describing her early life in Bolivar and Memphis; her Rivers and Avery kin; Civil War experiences, including Memphis under Federal occupation and refugeeing; and reconstruction in Tennessee.
Philip Flynn Meroney (died 1884) was a tailor of Mocksville, N.C.
Aaron Stanton Merrill of Natchez, Miss., became a U.S. Navy officer in 1912 and retired as vice admiral in 1947.
Augustus Summerfield Merrimon was a United States Senator, 1874-1879, and chief justice, 1889-1892, of North Carolina.
Prominent family members include Green Daniel Satterfield, farmer and tobacco merchant of Roxboro, Person County, N.C.; his wife, Mary A. Jordon Satterfield; and their children: E. Fletcher Satterfield (1837-1863), who received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1859, served as a captain in the 55th North Carolina Regiment in the Confederate Army, and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg; Pattie Satterfield (1841-1885); Susan Satterfield (1835-1863); Ida Satterfield (1850-1927); and Mollie Satterfield (1844-1871); as well as Fletcher W. Merritt (1897-1918), who was killed in France while serving as a member of the 120th U.S. Infantry during World War I.
Singer and songwriter Tift Merritt was born 8 January 1975 in Houston, Tex., and grew up in Raleigh, N.C. Merritt studied creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she met drummer Zeke Hutchins and formed a band called the Carbines. Merritt became a popular figure in North Carolina's alternative-country music scene and signed a record contract with Lost Highway Records. As of January 2014, Merritt has released nine recordings, including collaborations with Two Dollar Pistols (1999) and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein (2013).
Photographs created by white photographer John Messina, documenting the 1971 Mississippi gubernatorial campaign of Charles Evers. Charles Evers, an African American politician and civil rights activist, was elected mayor of Fayette, Miss., from 1969 to 1981 and from 1985 to 1989. In 1971 he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Mississippi. Evers' brother, Medgar Evers, was a civil rights activist who was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963. Images depict Charles Evers holding statewide rallies, community meetings, and activities at the campaign headquarters in Jackson, Miss.
MICROFILM ONLY. Plantation and personal diary of Metcalfe, Washington County, Miss., with entries on cotton crop, work, and weather, including the Mississippi River flood, 1890; on hunting, balls, and friends; and on sightseeing in Paris and London.
James Wistar Metcalfe was a planter of Montrose Plantation, near Natchez, Miss.
The collection contains minutes, 12 February and 11 March 1896, of conferences at Hillsborough, N.C., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend D. N. Caviniss presiding. The minutes are entered in a book of printed forms issued by the Methodist Publishing House.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Holston Conference covered western Virginia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee.
The collection is a record book that contains minutes of quarterly conferences, recording financial and other reports, members present, complaints, appeals, church schools, buildings, and preachers' licenses.
James Isaac Metts (1842-1921) of Wilmington, N.C., served in the Wilmington Rifle Guards and 3rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia until he was captured at Gettysburg and imprisoned at Johnson's Island in Ohio. After the war he was a merchant and produce broker in Wilmington and was active in Confederate veterans' affairs.
John J. Metzgar of Granville, Ohio, served in the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 1861 through the end of the Civil War. That unit became part of the Army of the Tennessee, serving under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. The regiment fought at Fort Donelson, Tenn.; Shiloh, Tenn.; Vicksburg, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; Corinth, Miss.; Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; Ringgold, Ga.; Resaca, Ga.; and Kennesaw Mountain, Ga.; among other places. It also participated in Sherman's March to the Sea and Sherman's March through the Carolinas.
This collection contains comic books and other graphic material produced in Mexico by Mexican writers and artists between 1951 and 2020, with the bulk of the materials dating between 2010 and 2019. The collection gives a broad picture of current comic books and graphic novels in Mexico. Story lines are varied and include romance, detective fiction, horror, myths and legends, science fiction, and fantasy. These comics deal with daily life or social movements. Protagonists may be pre-Hispanic or historical characters with superhero traits. Characters may be human, animals or objects with human characteristics, robots, ghosts, etc. Graphic art styles are varied and include the manga and monero traditions and in some cases integrate indigenous elements. The collections include mainstream comics, self-published zines, graphic novels, graphic posters, promotional materials, ephemera, and more.
The Anne Heineman Meyer papers document the work and interests of Anne Heineman Meyer, community activist and radio show host and native of Mainz, Germany, later of Gainseville, Ga., and Miami Beach, Fla. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, papers, and reports relating to the Miami Beach Commission on the Status of Women and the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, of which Anne Meyer was chair, 1977-1980; conference and other material from the first National Women's Conference in Houston, Tex., 18-21 November 1977; papers relating to the Jewish Women's Political Caucus; miscellaneous items about women's topics, including interview notes from talks with Geraldine Ferraro; program files, correspondence, and tapes of the Anne Meyer Radio Show on WQAM in Miami, 1975-1983; correspondence, plans, minutes, and other materials relating to Meyer's various community activities, including the founding of the Colony Theater in Miami and citizen profiles she wrote for Miami Magazine; reports, news clippings, and writings dealing with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, especially about the presentation of a handmade rug to Rosalynn; and various civil rights reports dating back to 1958.
The papers of Philip Meyer, professor emeritus in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are his professional files, which document his career in journalism from the 1960s through the early 2000s and his groundbreaking work in the use of data analysis in news reporting. Files contain correspondence, speeches and lectures, teaching materials, publications by Meyers and others, interview transcripts, draft writings, surveys and public opinion polls, and subject and research files. Topics of interest in the files include the Detroit Riots (July 1967), African Americans in Miami, Fla., race relations and reporting on race, fair housing, the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and discrimination against individuals with HIV, election fraud, the 2001 presidential election, bias in pre-election polls, credibility of the press, big data in journalism, and specific newspapers especially . Professional organizations represented in the files include American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). Teaching materials contain survey instruments on drunk driving and date rape. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Sylvan Meyer (1921-2001) of Gainesville, Ga., and Miami Beach, Fla., journalist; editor of the Gainesville Times, 1947-1969; the Miami News, 1969-1973; and Miami Magazine, 1975-1987; and founder of Meyer Publications. Meyer, who received an AB in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1943, was an editor of The Daily Tar Heel, 1942-1943.
Materials related to the Michal family of Hickory, N.C., including items from the Bingham Military School and the University of North Carolina; scrapbooks; genealogical information about the Michal and Lenoir families; and real estate indentures. The collection also contains photographic negatives depicting Michal family members; scenes from the Bingham Military School in Asheville, N.C.; scenes from University of North Carolina; and activities related to Duke Power Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for which William Norwood Michal, Sr., was employed.
The Michie Family Papers, 1843-1958, consist of letters, chiefly from Michie, Shaifer, and Briscoe family members; photographs of Michie and Flowers family members and a few newspaper clippings related to Frances Fenton Michie and her husband Robert Chalmers Todd. Family letters are scattered over decades and chiefly concern family news and genealogy. Of note are letters documenting movement of enslaved people to Virginia and attitudes toward women in 1843; gold-digging near Sacramento, Calif., in 1850; postwar plantation management and family resettlement in St. Joseph, La., in 1866; and parenting advice in 1915.
Members of the Middleton family include William Middleton, his brother Henry Middleton, and his nephew Arthur Middleton. The collection includes copies of plats and other papers, 1802, concerning the division of lands in Camden County, Ga., according to the will, 1775, of William Middleton, who died in England. Middleton left his land to Henry and Arthur Middleton. These papers contain information about the land from 1767.
Arthur Middleton was the son of Nathaniel Russell Middleton (1810-1890) and Margaret Emma Izard. Born in 1832 in Charleston, S.C., he attended Sachleben's School and Charleston College. He married Julia Emma Rhett in 1853. During the Civil War, Middleton volunteered in the Santee Rifles; was transferred to the Engineer Corps; and, upon the loss of an eye, worked in the Quartermaster's Department. He returned after the war to his Daisy Bank Plantation on the Santee River and later moved to Charleston.
Edward Middleton (1810-1883) was the son of Governor Henry Middleton of South Carolina and a United States Navy officer, 1845-1883. Middleton remained in federal service during the Civil War and retired as rear admiral. The collection includes chiefly official United States Navy correspondence received by Edward Middleton while he was serving in the Pacific Squadron off the coast of Mexico, Panama, and California, before, during, and after the Civil War. Also included is his statement of reasons for opposing secession.
Nathaniel Russell Middleton of Charleston, S.C., was a white plantation owner, treasurer of the Northeastern Railroad Company, and treasurer of the city of Charleston. Other family members represented include Annie DeWolf Middleton (1815-1908) of Bristol, R.I., N. R. Middleton's second wife; and the children by this second marriage: Maria Louisa Middleton (b. 1844), Annie Elizabeth Middleton (b. 1847), Alicia Hopton Middleton (b. 1849), Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Jr. (1851-1896), and Charlotte Helen Middleton De Wolf (1854-1919). The bulk of the collection consists of Middleton and DeWolf family letters, many between family members in Bristol, R.I., and Charleston, S.C. In addition to standard family matters and the peculiarities of life in a family divided between the North and South, these letters and the other papers deal with such topics as Middleton's plantation, Bolton-on-the-Stono (apparently near Charleston); an 1849 insurrection led by enslaved people in the Charleston work house; the College of Charleston; supply shortages during the Civil War; Annie DeWolfe’s business venture, the Carolina Rice Company, began with other women to advertise rice and other goods for sale; and Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Jr.’s attempts to sell phosphate fertilizer during Reconstruction. Also included is "Narrative of his own Conversion" by Reverend John Joice, Darien, Ga., 1824.
Miscellaneous papers of Middleton of Columbia and Edisto Island, S.C., including bills of sale for slaves and of a church pew; morning reports, March 1863, of companies of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th S.C. Cavalry regiments, commanded by Col. Benjamin Huger Rutledge; papers concerning the restoration of property confiscated by the U.S. government; and articles of agreement between Middleton and freed men and women on his plantation on Edisto Island.
Thomas Middleton, son of Henry Middleton (1717-1784) and grandson of Arthur Middleton (1681-1737), was a planter on the Combahee River, which forms the border between Colleton and Beaufort counties, S.C.
Francois Mignon (given name Frank VerNooy Mineah) was born in 1899 in Cortland, N.Y. He was a journalist and curator of buildings, furnishings, and gardens at Melrose Plantation, Natchitoches, La. Melrose was a working cotton and pecan plantation, but it was best known in the period between the two World Wars as a writers' and artists' colony. Cammie Henry, who bought the plantation in 1899, restored its unique collection of African-inspired buildings. These structures sheltered such authors as Lyle Saxon, James Register, Harnett Kane, Alexander Woollcott, and Rachel Field. Mignon began writing his own weekly column for the Natchitoches Enterprise in the 1950s. In addition to his writing, Mignon designed the gardens at Melrose and promoted the African American folk artist Clementine Hunter.
Photograph album and photocopied materials created by white nurse Margaret S. Miles, documenting relief efforts in Grifton, N.C., following Hurricane Floyd. Images depict Margaret S. Miles and other volunteers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.
William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863.
A. J. Miller (died 1856) was a Georgia state senator. The collection contains scattered correspondence of an Augusta, Ga., family including letters home from A. J. Miller while he was a member of the state senate, 1856, and letters from his son, William J. Miller, 1st Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States of America, from Camp Georgia, near Pensacola, Fla., in April and May 1861, and later from Virginia.
The papers of former United States Representative Brad Miller (1953- ) of North Carolina document his career in Congress from 2003 to 2013. Printed materials, constituent mailings, correspondence, press clippings, speeches, transcripts of remarks delivered in congressional committees, briefings, notebooks, audio and video recordings, schedules, and files for Miller's official international travel from Africa to Antarctica comprise the collection. Topics addressed in the documents include healthcare, immigration, subprime mortgage crisis, civil rights, energy policy, regulatory reform, climate change, environmental protection, contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Le Jeune, and Plan B emergency contraceptive. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
George Knox Miller (1836-1916) was a Confederate Army officer with the 8th Alabama Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865; mayor of Talladega, Ala., 1874-1884; and judge, 1884-1911. The collection is chiefly Civil War letters from Miller to Celestine McCann, his fiancee and later wife, who was staying in Anderson District, S.C., with detailed descriptions of battles and discussions of camp life, morale of troops, and news of friends and family members. Miller wrote from Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, and there are particularly detailed accounts of the fighting and battles in north Georgia and Atlanta, Ga., in 1864. Also included are registers and histories of various Confederate companies, compiled after the war; Miller's reminiscences; miscellaneous family letters, including letters, 1858-1861, from Miller when he was a student at the University of Virginia, about student activities, personal news, and conditions at the university; and 23 letters, 1872-1877, in German from Louise Birnstile or (Birnstill) in Newton, Mass., to Mrs. Conradine Heinsen, a friend in Talladega, Ala.
George W. Miller, Democrat of Durham County, served continuously as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1971-2000. He was born in Spencer, N.C., on 14 May 1930; served in the United States Marine Corps, 1951-1953; and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1957. During his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly, Miller served as chair of several committees, including Highway Safety, Insurance, Utilities, Judiciary, and Finance. Miller has also served on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Visitors, and received numerous awards and designations. Miller and his wife Eula (Hux) Miller had three children: Anne, Rose, and George W. III.
John S. R. Miller (died 1863) was an enlisted soldier in the United States Army in the Utah Territory and at Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory, 1858-1860. He was also a captain in the 1st North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, serving in Virginia. The collection is letters to his mother and other members of his family from Miller, while serving in the Utah Territory and at Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory, 1858-1860, commenting on camp life, the Mormons, and the Native Americans; and letters home from Miller when he was a captain in the 1st North Carolina Regiment serving in Virginia about camp life, engagements with federal troops, organizing volunteers and other matters.
Julius F. Miller of Bethania, Forsyth County, N.C., was a notary for the county and appears to have run a store. He was also a manufacturers' representative for textiles and textile machinery.
Recollections by Miller of her childhood in Raymond, Miss., before and during the Civil War, including a stay in Charleston, S.C., in 1861 with Varina (Mrs. Jefferson) Davis, commenting on school, food, diseases, and slavery, and excerpts from later letters.
Collection of photographer and cinematographer Rex Miller, focusing primarily on African American musicians, blues culture in the Mississippi Delta, and the conditions, culture, and lives of inmates and guards at Mississippi State Penitentiary. The materials relate to the creation of the documentary film I’m Walkin’: A Journey Through Parchman and the book and exhibit All the Blues Gone. Formats include: photographic materials (negatives, contact sheets, prints); audio (oral history interviews); video (production elements); papers (correspondence and writings by Parchman inmates, production files, transcripts, and notes), production files, transcripts, and notes. Born digital materials include hard drives and discs of production elements, including video, audio, and text.
Milligan family members included Joseph Milligan (b. 1800) of Hamburg, S.C., and Augusta, Ga., physician, druggist, natural scientist, and cotton speculator; his son, Joseph A. S. Milligan (b. circa 1823), physician at Milton, S.C., and in Georgia, who also ran a small school at Augusta, Ga.; and Joseph A. S. Milligan's wife, Octavia Camfield, who was sister to Joseph Milligan's second wife, Elizabeth Camfield, and various Camfield relatives, including four more sisters and a brother, William A. Camfield. The Camfield family lived at Augusta, Ga.
James S. Milling was a physician and planter in Fairfield District, S.C. In 1859, Milling moved his slaves to a plantation in Bossier Parish, La., where he spent much of his time while his wife (and cousin) Mary W. Milling and their children remained with her family near Camden, S.C. In 1866, Mary and the children moved to Louisiana.
Charles F. Mills (fl. 1835-1859) was president of the Marine Bank of Georgia and a merchant of Savannah, Ga. The collection contains accounts of the operation of a line of steamers operating on the Savannah River between Augusta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga.; accounts, bills of lading, and invoices related to the export of cotton and other goods from Savannah; and a letterpress copybook, 1851-1859, concerning business affairs of Mills as a shipping merchant of the Marine Bank of Georgia and of the Muscogee Railroad.
Charles Mills (1914-1975) was born in 1914 in Griffin, Ga. He married his wife Marguerite around 1935. In 1936, the Millses traveled to Italy where Charles studied singing and began his first book The Choice, which he completed in 1943. Mills's next book, The Alexandrians (1952), was written while he and his family were living Chapel Hill, N.C., where Mills studied languages at the University of North Carolina. This book was a panorama of life in the small Georgia town of Alexandria from the time of its settlement in 1839 until its centennial. Both of Mills's books were bestsellers. The collection includes mainly letters to Charles and Marguerite Mills from literary and academic colleagues and from personal friends. Significant correspondents include Walter Baxter, Lewis White Beck, Warren Pendleton Carrier, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten, Robert Fitzgerald, Allan H. Gilbert, Katharine Everett Gilbert, Paul Elliot Green, Archibald Henderson, Helmut Kuhn, Clare Leighton, Milton Charles Nahm, Betty Smith, and Nathan Comfort Starr. Also included are typed copies of writings of a few correspondents, probably sent to the Millses for review and a war journal Warren Carrier kept while serving in the American Field Service in Burma in 1944 and 1945.
Hugh Harrison Mills II (1915-1961) was a white doctor born in Bridgewater, N.C., and spent his childhood in Superior, Wis. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1935, and married Dorothy Zerbach Mills in 1940. He attended Harvard Medical School, and served in the United States Army from 1944-1946 as a member of the 300th General Hospital. Dorothy Zerbach Mills (1915-2000) was born in Great Falls, Mont. Her family moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., where she attended high school. She was graduated from Duke University in 1938. She and Hugh Harrison Mills II were married in 1940.
The collection of Jerry "Jake" Leath Mills (1938-2012), an essayist, editor, and professor of English Renaissance literature, contains draft writings by Mills and other authors, correspondence with authors, newspaper clippings, printed materials, audio and video recordings, and subject files. Most materials reflect Mills' work as an editor and book reviewer. Authors represented in the collection include Larry Brown of Oxford, Miss., Wayne Caldwell, Tim McLaurin, Clyde Edgerton, Terry Roberts, Cecelia Conway, and Bland Simpson. The subject files focus on the "dead mule" in southern literature, the subject of his 1996 essay titled "Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature" and the musical King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running for which Mills contributed lyrics. Also included is a 1995 final draft of Billy Bob Thornton's screenplay for the feature film Sling Blade. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Luther Rice Mills was a professor of mathematics at Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N.C.
Quincy Sharpe Mills was a journalist and author who worked on the New York Evening Sun newspapers for ten years; served as a lieutenant in the 168th Regiment, Rainbow Division, American Expeditionary Forces; and was killed in France.
The Milner family included Willis Julian Milner (1842-1921), Confederate lieutenant with the 33rd Alabama Regiment and engineer of Birmingham, Ala.
Joseph Milner (1827-1894) was an English immigrant to Alabama, who went to California to seek gold with the 49ers and later returned to Florence, Ala. The collection includes Milner's diary, 1849-1852; a small account book, 1851-1854, of the Mountain Fluming Company in California; and scattered family letters, 1827-1888. The diary is headed California Tour and spans the period 18 March 1849-5 June 1852. Most entries are brief and deal largely with the trip to California and the return home, but there is some discussion of life in California. Some entries are recollections rather than contemporary accounts. The diary volume also includes some accounts, records of correspondence, weather records, and other kinds of entries. The account book includes some diary entries and accounts for 1853 as well as accounts for the California period. The correspondence includes one letter to Milner in California, 1852, but consists chiefly of letters to Margaret Woodell of Alabama dealing with family matters.
Christian Miltenberger, physician, was married to Marie Aimee Mersier (fl. 1803-1841), whose family owned coffee plantations in Saint Domingue on the island of Hispaniola. After their marriage in 1803, the Miltenbergers moved first to Cuba, where they owned property and slaves, and eventually to Louisiana. Miltenberger practiced medicine in New Orleans from about 1809 until his death.
Jacob Florance Minis of J. F. Minis & Co., shipbrokers, steamship agents, and merchants, of Savannah, Georgia, was the son of Abraham Minis, merchant. His Minis ancestors had been in the Savannah area since before the American Revolution. Minis's first wife, to whom he was married in 1890, was Louisa Porter Gilmer, the daughter of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, a United States Army engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers. Minis married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-1964), in 1926. Haskell was born in Columbia, S.C., to A. C. Haskell and Alice Alexander Haskell. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1898 and from 1898 to 1923 she taught school at the Haskell-Dean School in Boston, Mass., and the Cambridge-Haskell School in Cambridge, Mass. She was a close friend of Charlotte Teller, playwright, socialist, and suffragette, who wrote under the name of John Brangwyn; Jacob Giller, a Russian immigrant for whom she provided financial support; and Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese poet and artist, for whom she also provided financial support. Gibran died in 1931, and Haskell was one of his heirs. She was charged with the duty of shipping his possessions and paintings to his birthplace in Bsharri, Lebanon.
The Ministerial Band of the University of North Carolina was a group of students planning to enter Christian ministry who met weekly to study the Bible, hear talks from visiting ministers, and discuss their role on campus and in the community. The records consist of a single volume containing the group's minutes from October 1919 to October 1921 and a list of members.
Minor family members included Stephen Minor (fl. 1786-1816), cotton planter near Natchez, Miss.; his wife, Katharine Lintot Minor (fl. 1815-1843); their son, William J. Minor (fl. 1815-1868), sugar planter at Waterloo Plantation, possibly in Iberville Parish, La.; and Stephen's brother, John Minor (fl. 812-1831), also a cotton planter near Natchez. The collection includes business and other papers of three generations of the Minor family of Mississippi and the related Lintot family. Included is business correspondence from cotton factors in Liverpool, describing market conditions in England, and from factors in New Orleans. Also included are many estate papers and deeds for purchases of land in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., and lists of slaves. There are also some letters to Katherine Minor from her children and friends.
Philip Barbour Minor of Forkland, Ala., served with the Confederate Army in Chattanooga, Tenn.
This collection has been created to house miscellaneous account books. Included are ledgers, day books, and other types of financial account books, some with personal and business records in addition to financial accounts. See individual unit descriptions for details.
The collection includes albums, chiefly of autographs and personal messages, that do not relate to other collections in the Southern Historical Collection.
This collection contains miscellaneous broadsides, including posters, advertisements for various merchants and for a steamer cruise to Hatteras, N.C.; notice of an 1852 slave auction in Charleston, S.C.; political campaign items, including election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843, and a sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, 1885; a way-bill giving mileage for travel points between Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn.; funeral announcements, 1867; news of the assasination of Lincoln, 1864, and of the Battle of Bladensburg, 1814; 1934; sheet music for the song One Hundred Percent American, circa 1927, and lyrics for the National Whig Song, circa 1840, and the Democratic Campaign Song, 1876; a Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan, 1934; posters relating to United States homefront support during World War II; a poster from a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan march and conference in Greensboro, N.C.; and other material intended chiefly for public posting.
The collection contains miscellaneous European papers on a variety of topics. Included are research notes and a hand-drawn map relating to Hittite hieroglyphics and artifacts, apparently produced by a British scholar in the early 20th century; birth and death certificates and a certificate of payment on an annuity for members of the Payart and Fitz-James families, distant relatives of the French writer Charles Nodier; two letters, one, 1770, in Latin, bearing the seal of a theological academy, and the other, 1807, in German, from a philosophy professor to Friedrith Bartholomaeus, 24th Demie Brigade; and a handwritten note on Little Scholars, an article by Anne Thackeray Richie, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, found in a copy of The Cornhill magazine that was owned by Thackeray, describing how the article came to be published. Also included are a letter, 1654, in which Lieutenant Colonel William Brayne of the British army acknowledged receipt of an order from Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell to suppress a Royalist rebellion in Ireland; a letter, 1704, in which Thomas Savage wrote to business associates from Galata (Istanbul) concerning his trading activities there; several 17th century English financial agreements and receipts, several relating to prominent politicians and Exchequer officers. There are also engravings of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, wax portrait sculptor Patience Wright, British naval officer and politician George Johnstone, and Cherokee leader Ostenaco; a handwritten copy of a poem by Thomas Campbell; and a British anti-German propaganda postcard from World War I showing three German soldiers in uniform.
The collection consists of family papers, particularly histories and genealogical materials, from many places in the South. Represented are the following families: Branscome, Burnett, Chorpening, Conyers, Cosby, Cox, Craig, Dalton, Darden, Ervin, Gorham, Hylton, Jarrott, McNeill, Mitchell, Preston, Ragland, Robertson, Schuster, Slaughter, Suggs, and many others. Of special interest is the biography of University of North Carolina alumnus and Confederate Army officer Julius Caesar Mitchell (1842-1876).
This collection has been created to house miscellaneous foreign letters. Most, but not all, are literary in nature. See individual unit descriptions for details.
The collection includes single items, such as poems, short essays, and short stories. Included is an undated, handwritten, signed poem, The Miser Mother (36 lines) by Stephen Phillips, British poet and dramatist; an undated, handwritten poem, The Discoverer by William Bingham Tappan of Massachusetts, a poet, school teacher, preacher, and general agent of the American Sunday School Union in Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, who wrote the poem for John Bartholomew Gough, a reformed alcoholic and evangelistic temperance orator; undated sentences and phrases in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson on one small sheet, one side of which is labeled in the margin in pencil Classes of Men; Los Proceres del Alto Llano (10 pages), an essay, in Spanish, commenting on the Venezuelan independence movement, dated 27 October 1896, by Manuel Landaeta Rosales (1847-1920), Venezuelan writer and editor of El Tiempo, a Caracas newspaper; a receipt, in Italian, for an item purchased, dated Anno VI, 4 Nevoso, sent to Italian writer Ugo Foscolo of Milan, Italy; a letter, in Italian, dated 11 March 1909, from Buonanno[?] to a friend about the controversy over the friendship of Giocomo Leopardi and Antonio Ranieri; a review, dated 1907, of Bliss Perry's Walt Whitman, His Life and Work (1906) by Australian scholar, editor, essayist, and poet John Le Gay Brereton, with instructions to the printer and other remarks, including, on the last page, a note in Brereton's hand: I don't know whether this is to be a signed article. If it is, please sign it WOLOMBIN; 1882 reminiscences and analysis of his writing by T. S. Arthur of Baltimore and Philadelphia, who edited Arthur's Home Magazine, Children's Hour, and other journals and wrote didactic articles and books, including Ten Nights in a Bar Room, as recorded by Edward F. Palen with whom Arthur lived in Philadelphia; We Must Recruit, 1948, a short, satirical musical play about a membership recruiting campaign in a communist labor union, by Viola Brothers Shore and Jeanne Manookian; handwritten copy of Sera este? a comic one-act play by playwright and editor of the journal La Espana Artistica Enrique Zumel of Madrid that was approved by the Madrid theater censor on 21 October 1864 and performed at Madrid's Theatro de Variedades on 22 October 1864; an 1882 poem, A Psalm of Labor, by Joseph Senior of Sheffield, England, author of Smithy Rhymes and Stithy Chimes (1882) and a clipping from a contemporary Sheffield newspaper of a biographical note on Senior; a typed poem by May Sarton, called Dirge for W. B. Yeats, dated 1939; a typed poem, 1945, from James Thurber to Lorraine Governman, regarding an idea for a drawing; and papers, 1932-1994, including a forgery of the death warrant of Rebecca Nurse, with photocopy and the dust cover from the framed document, transcription, and subsequent correspondence explaining the provenance of the document and the evidence of forgery.
The collection consists of single or very small groups of unrelated letters, many from the 19th century, to and from various persons, almost entirely white southerners, some of whom were prominent in the literary and political areas. Topics include family life; travels in North Carolina and other parts of the South; social life and customs; plantation life for enslaving families; slavery and trafficking of enslaved people through sales and hiring out in North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Maryland, and Alabama; local and national politics; the Civil War, both military action and the homefront in Louisiana, North Carolina (including blockading the coast and attacking Fort Fisher), Mississippi, and other parts of the South; the University of North Carolina; World War I; literature; and other topics. Among the correspondents are Abiel Abbott, Henry Ward Beecher, Alfred Holt Colquitt, Sherman Converse, Peter Early, Frank Porter Graham, Sam Houston, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Laura Riding Jackson, North Carolina governor Samuel Johnston, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milledge, Margaret Mitchell, Wilson Cary Nicholas, North Carolina writer William S. Pearson, Isaac F. Shepard, Edward Stanly, Edward Telfair, Albion W. Tourgée, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Bedford Venable, and Daniel Webster.
Miscellaneous collection of handwritten menus and menus printed on cards and sheets issued commercially or printed in connection with formal occasions.
Museum items collected from various sources by the Southern Historical Collection, but not related to other SHC collections.
Scattered, unrelated documents collected in 2005 from a building in downtown Chapel Hill, N.C. Included are an 1879 daybook for merchant H.W. Gordon; financial and legal records including insurance policies for train conductor W.E. Gordon from Spencer, N.C.; correspondence received and sent by editor and director of the University of North Carolina Press, W.T. Couch; handwritten poems, stories, and reflections possibly by David Currie; and a typescript draft titled "Intermarriage, Miscegenation, Bastardy, Concubinage, and Other Domestic Problems" with editorial comments. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers, invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence.
Assorted photographs, engravings, post cards, and other visual images, not archival related to other materials in the Southern Historical Collection, of individuals, events, and sites in the South. Subjects include political figures, Confederate leaders and soldiers, and other individuals, including Jefferson Davis, P.G.T. Beauregard, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Josephus Daniels, T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Zebulon Vance; town and cityscapes, battlegrounds, plantations, forts and monuments, colleges and universities, and scenes of agriculture and the cotton industry. Also included are photograph albums of scenes of Fort Sumter, 1864-1865; rivers, towns, and individuals in Florida and Alabama, 1916-1917; railroads of the Confederacy; and a 1918 group panorama of soldiers from Camp Sevier, S.C.
Typescripts and holograph copies of scripts of plays, chiefly historical and outdoor dramas. Included are scripts of Horn in the West, Unto These Hills, and other plays by Kermit Hunter. Most of these copies were originally sent to playwright Paul Green.
The collection chiefly contains unconnected letters, 1833-1858, relating to business and trade conducted in the South. Letters are to and from various merchants, agents, planters, lawyers, clerks, ship captains, and other individuals doing business at ports along the North American coast from New Orleans to Maine and at scattered locations in the interior. Many letters are about aspects of the cotton trade, such as shipping and contracting for sale of cotton. Other types of business, such as the selling of tobacco, leather, steel, and foodstuffs, are mentioned less frequently. Several letters concern the collection of money due. Besides showing general business trends, these letters document economic relationships between the slave and non-slave regions of eastern North America.
Miscellaneous school notebooks, including: class notes of Thomas Glaskins, a student at Hampden-Sydney College, Va., 1830-1831, on the lectures of college President Jonathan P. Cushing in chemistry, physics, and arithmetic; two volumes, 1838-1840, of Eliza Ann Orr, a student in Caswell County, N.C., including poems, arithmetic exercises, and sermon texts; an 1820 volume kept by Augustus Moore (1803-1851) of Edenton, N.C., of lectures by Denison Olmsted (1791-1859) at the University of North Carolina; four notebooks, 1920-1921, of Robert H. Wettach, a student at Harvard Law School; two student notebooks, one on geology and the other on Darwinism, of Harry Legare Watson (1876-1956), who was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1899 and went on to careers in law and journalism, chiefly in Greenwood, S.C.; and two ciphering books, one apparently used around 1829 by Sidney O'Briant at the Whitefield School in Person County, N.C., and the other apparently the work of James W. O'Briant. In addition to mathematical instructions, this volume also contains notes on family history, the weather, land purchases, and other information. The latest entry in this book is dated 1860.
Currency, bonds, stock certificates, and other items separated from various collections in the Southern Historical Collection. Much of the currency and many of the bonds were issued by the Confederate States of America; some is from other countries, including early examples of paper money from the Soviet Union. Also included are bonds issued by New York and other states and stock certificates and other papers issued by railroads and other companies.
Mississippi Freelance was begun in Greenville, Miss., in April 1969 as a non-profitable sideline for its editors, Lew Powell and Ed Williams who, then in their twenties, were reporters for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville. Mississippi Freelance was a liberal monthly newspaper, dedicated to reporting the otherwise unreported. All of its writers worked on a volunteer basis. The paper had about 700 subscribers in and out of Mississippi. Mississippi Freelance ceased publication in March 1970, after twelve issues. As of April 1983, Powell and Williams were writing for theCharlotte Observer.
Broadus Mitchell, economist, historian, and liberal thinker, taught until 1939 at Johns Hopkins University, from 1947 to spring 1958 at Rutgers University, and from fall 1958 to 1967 at Hofstra University. He was the son of educator Samuel Chiles Mitchell (1864-1948) and brother of educator Morris R. Mitchell (1895-1976) and labor leader George Sinclair Mitchell (1902-1962). His second wife was economist Louise Pearson Mitchell (1906- ).
Earl Nelson Mitchell (1926-2011) was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1991. He is author of the photographic textbook, Photographic Science (1984), and co-taught with Ross Scroggs the course, Physics 45: Photography. He and his wife Marlys founded Mitchell Winery located outside of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1971 and were instrumental in the founding of the North Carolina Winegrowers Association.
Elisha Mitchell was a native of Connecticut, student and tutor at Yale College, Presbyterian minister, and professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at the University of North Carolina, 1818-1857. The collection includes family correspondence, scientific notes, manuscript articles, and sermons of Elisha Mitchell, for many years connected with the University of North Carolina. Mitchell's correspondence pertains to his varied religious, academic, and scientific activities, including mountain exploration in North Carolina. Among the correspondents are George E. Badger, William Gaston, Francis L. Hawkes, N. M. Hentz, William Hooper, Levi Silliman Ives, Archibald D. Murphy, James H. Otey, John Stark Ravenscroft, and David L. Swain. Included is correspondence with the North family of Mitchell's wife, Maria North Mitchell, in New Haven, Conn., and from the Mitchell children after they had married and moved to Salisbury, N.C., California, and Texas. Volumes include Mitchell's diary, 1813-1816, begun at Yale and kept irregularly while he was teaching at various places in the North, containing mainly religious reflections and slight personal comment; his private notebook, 1818-1847, containing miscellaneous comments on mathematics, musicology, electricity, the natural sciences, and history, and personal accounts and notes on reading and letters received; the diary, 1878, of Mitchell's grandson, J. N. Howard Summerell, on a voyage to Scotland; Mitchell's journal, letter book, and account book, 1818-1842; and Diary of a Geological Tour by Professor Elisha Mitchell in 1827 and 1828 with Introduction and Notes by Kemp P. Battle, published as part of the James Sprunt Historical Monograph Series by the University of North Carolina in 1905.
The collection contains letters and postcards from Lieutenant J. H. Hendley of Anson, N.C., and Sgt. K. W. Brown of Winnsboro, S.C., to G. J. Mitchell of Charlotte, N.C. Hendley was with the 7th Infantry and Brown with an air squadron, both with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. They described their experiences and feelings about World War I.
The collection of folk revival musician and Appalachian dulcimer maker Howie Mitchell is comprised chiefly of letters he received in the early 1960s from traditional singer and banjo player Frank Proffitt. In his letters to Mitchell, Proffitt mentions family and friends, reading, playing music, musical instruments, folk music, folk songs, folk festivals, copyright, recording for Folkways, his tobacco crop, building a new house, and squirrel hunting. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, song lyrics, a letter to Mitchell from instrument maker Dennis Dorogi, guitar strings, and a 2002 note from Mitchell to folklorist and musician Mike Seeger about Proffitt's letters.
John Wroughton Mitchell was born in 1796 in Charleston, S.C., and elected Charleston city attorney in October 1817. That same year, he began his law practice in Charleston and became active in Episcopal affairs there. In 1832, Mitchell held offices of justice and notary in Charleston and was an opponent of John C. Calhoun in the nullification crisis. He moved to New York City around 1833 and continued his law practice there, also serving as Commissioner of Deeds of South Carolina in New York City. He was founder of churches and active in Episcopal affairs in the city. During the civil War, Mitchell was a Peace Democrat in New York City, where he died in 1878.
The Keith B. Mitchell Collection consists of approximately 4,000 comic books, 30 graphic novels, and related materials including issues of The Comics Journal and Comics Interview.
Mary Elizabeth Mitchell was the daughter of Dr. Charles J. Mitchell and Mary Davis Mitchell and the granddaughter of Joseph E. Davis (died 1870), older brother of Jefferson Davis. The collection includes a typed transcription of the journal of Mary Elizabeth Lise Mitchell, 1862-1865 and 1867, at Fleetwood Plantation in Mississippi and at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Journal entries contain many references to her great-uncle Jefferson Davis and his family. Also included are transcriptions of family letters, including several from her parents, Mary (Davis) Mitchell and Dr. Charles J. Mitchell, 1838-1839, who were living in Paris, France, while Dr. Mitchell completed his medical studies; several from her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davis of Hurricane Plantation in Mississippi, 1845-1849, discussing family affairs; and others, 1865-1870, from various persons, including Jefferson and Varina Davis, discussing family fortunes during Reconstruction.
The collection of white farmer, educator, and pacifist, Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976) contains personal and business correspondence and other papers of Morris R. Mitchell. Included are scattered financial records and letters to and from members of his family, colleagues, friends, and students, primarily concerning Putney Graduate School, Friends World College, and Macedonia Cooperative Community. Early correspondence describes Mitchell's experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium in 1918; his graduate education at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn.; his work as headmaster of Park School in Buffalo, N.Y.; his work with the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration during the New Deal; and his later work with the Southeastern Cooperative League. Correspondence for the 1940s provides an overview of activities at Macedonia Cooperative Community during that decade and a glimpse into Mitchell's teaching at Rochdale Institute in Wisconsin and at Walhalla Public Service Camp No. 30 (Mich.), a camp for conscientious objectors. Also included is information about related ventures in education, various cooperative communities, study tours that Mitchell either organized or directed, and the Cold War academic environment.
Samuel Chiles Mitchell was president of the University of South Carolina, 1908-1913; president of the Medical College of Virginia, 1913-1914; president of Delaware College, 1914-1920; professor of history at the University of Richmond, 1895-1908 and 1920-1945; trustee of the Negro Rural School Fund of the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, 1908-1937. The collection contains family, personal, and professional correspondence; an autobiography by Samuel Chiles Mitchell; and other papers of Mitchell and his family. Included are letters from his professional colleagues and former students, labor leaders, and newspaper editors concerning the affairs of various institutions with which Mitchell was connected, public and higher education in the South, race relations, the education of African Americans, Jewish charitable activities, Baptist institutions and activities, the Young Men's Christian Association, labor-management relations and the unionization of southern workers, the New Deal, and other social and political issues. Family letters include those from Alice Broadus Mitchell to her mother discussing family life, and letters of the Mitchell children: Broadus, economic historian and professor at Occidental College, Johns Hopkins University, and Rutgers University, Socialist, and employee of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Terry, advertising executive in Waynesboro, Pa.; George, economist, instructor at Columbia University, and employee of the Resettlement Administration, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Southern Regional Council; Morris, teacher at Ellerbe, N.C., the Park School in Snyder, N.Y., Teachers College at Columbia University, and Alabama State Teachers College, and secretary of the Southeastern Cooperative League in Clarksville, Ga.; and Mary, wife of George Orr Clifford, businessman of Akron, Ohio, Evansville, Ind., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., Ilion, N.Y., and Southport, Conn. Notable correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Charles William Dabney, Virginius Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Howard Odum, and George Foster Peabody.
William Letcher Mitchell of Athens, Ga., was a lawyer; chief engineer of the Western & Atlantic Railroad; graduate, trustee, and professor of law at Franklin College (later the University of Georgia); and active Presbyterian and Mason. He was married twice, first to Sarah Caroline Neisler, and upon her death to Lucia Bass. Mitchell had nine children.
Letters from John Burbidge, a New Yorker living in Walterboro, S.C., to his cousin, Rosina Mix (later Cropper) in New York City. Burbidge's letters discuss personal news in addition to national and state politics, which he followed closely. They include references to nullification, slavery, and the Second Seminole War.
The collection contains commercial recordings of bluegrass and country music on audio cassette and non-commercial recordings of the musical group, the Blue Sky Boys, also on audio cassette. Other artists represented in the audio collection include Jim Nabors, "Little" Roy Wiggins, Debbie Bohanan, Ricky Scaggs, the Statler Brothers, Connie Francis, the Louvin Brothers, and Chet Atkins. Small printed informational booklets accompany some of the recordings. Also included in the collection are letters received by Mobley in the early 1990s from Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys and a brief exchange of correspondence between Mobley and Sarah Ophelia Cannon popularly known as Minnie Pearl. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Letters received by Ruth Butner, later Ruth Butner Mock, of Bethania, N.C., between 1943 and 1946, almost all of which are from Fred Mock, her boyfriend. Some letters discuss Butner's work, but most describe Mock's experiences in the army, first in basic training at Camp Browder, Mo., then at Vint Hill Farm Station in Warrenton, Va., where he was a student and then a teacher of electronics technology for military intelligence. Mock's letters report on his daily life at the base; the movies he saw; visits with friends; and trips into Warrenton, Va., and Washington, D.C. Mainly, however, he wrote about his love for Butner and his uncertainly about her love for him. Also included are several letters Butner received from Mock's chief romantic rival, Lee Weilbacher, also in the army. A March 1944 letter from Weilbacher has many lines crossed out in pencil. One entire letter and part of another from Mock have been ripped up, but remain in their envelopes. In early February 1945, Butner married Mock. She then received letters as Mrs. Ruth Mock.
Elmer Nelson Modlin (1925- ), poet and actor, was born in Belhaven, N.C.; attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; and lived in Los Angeles, Calif., and Madrid, Spain. Artist Margaret Marley Modlin (1927-1998), also a native of North Carolina, exhibited paintings and drawings in California, New York, Italy, and Spain. The Modlins were married in 1949. The collection contains two manuscripts by Margaret M. Modlin and two by Elmer N. Modlin. One manuscript by Margaret Modlin, In Silence and Exile, is a somewhat autobiographical story of a painter who received little assistance or encouragement from her family, neighbors, or government, and who thus sought a new beginning in another country. The other manuscript by Margaret Modlin, Portaits of Henry Miller, discusses the Modlins' relationship with Miller. One manuscript by Elmer Modlin, entitled A Poem in My Pocket, is dated February 1996 and contains poems, many on Christian religious themes, written 1977-1996. The other manuscript, Nagasaki and I, is an account of Modlin's experiences as the first American ashore at Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped there in 1945 ending World War II. There are also three photographs relating to Modlin's Nagasaki experiences.
E. E. (Elvira Evelina) Moffitt was the daughter of North Carolina governor Jonathan Worth. She married first Samuel Spencer Jackson (died 1875), second Samuel Walker (died 1877), and third Eli Needham Moffitt (died 1886).
Helen Monkhouse lived in London, P.W.
Three account books, apparently from the same general store in Blacksville, Monongalia County, W. Va. (Va. until 1863), which include assorted non-financial records. One volume contains accounts, 1831-1832; a record of court cases, 1838, kept by Justice of the Peace F. Brock; and a list of marriages performed, 1841, by Brock. The second, marked F. Brock's Book #2, is a daily account, 1856-1857, of transactions at the store. The third is an irregular daily record of merchandise with notes, 1870-1875, of crops made and shipped.
Scrapbook documenting Jane Kelly Monroe's time in the UNC School of Nursing in the 1950s and her continued involvement with the School in the decades since. Also includes a loose photo and slides, a framed nursing certification, and a small copy of the New Testament of the Bible prefaced by the Florence Nightingale Pledge, given to students in the Nursing program. Scrapbook includes issues of The Messenger, the newsletter of the UNC School of Nursing, 1960s. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The collection contains typed transcriptions of a letter, 28 April 1909, from Charles G. Montgomery of Alabama to his children on his 66th birthday, recounting changes in the world since his youth and giving a tribute to his mother. Also included is a list of his 13 children.
John Joseph Montgomery (1858-1911) was an inventor and physics professor interested in aeronautics from Monterey, Calif.
Kenneth N. Montgomery attended the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1942-1943. This collection consists of black-and-white photographs taken by Montgomery during his time at the Pre-Flight School. Photographs depict scenes of training, recreation, dorm life in Stacey Hall, and campus and town views in Chapel Hill, N.C.. Also included are photographs of the Naval Air Facility in New Cumberland, Pa., and postcards of Montreat, N.C.
Walter A. Montgomery (1845-1921) was a lawyer, Confederate soldier, and North Carolina Supreme Court justice, of Warrenton, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C.
Zach (Zachariah) Montgomery (1825-1900) was a San Francisco, Calif., lawyer who supported the South in the Civil War and refused to take the California test oath on constitutional grounds. The collection includes two untitled, handwritten speeches by Montgomery delivered at Democratic mass meetings in San Francisco in 1864. One speech, delivered in August, protests against arrests of those who refused to take the test oath; the other, delivered in September, opposes the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. The texts of these speeches fill 143 pages in a notebook; emendations, but not the texts, are in Montgomery's hand.
Papers of John W. Moody of Oglethorpe County, Ga., including a bill of sale for a slave, 1844; a dentist's bill, 1878; a contract with a sharecropper, 1885; and a court contract between Moody and a farm laborer, 1896.
William Moody was a Confederate soldier in the 1st Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters. The collection contains letters, December 1861-June 1864, from William Moody to his wife Margaret. The letters primarily concern family life, updating Margaret on the health and whereabouts of friends who were soldiers and informing her about military life. These letters were written from various locations, including Camp Lordon, Camp Anderson, Camp Lee, Camp Harkie, and Camp Way.
The Moore, Blount, and Cowper families of North Carolina were active chiefly in Wake, Franklin, and Halifax counties. Moore family members included B.F. Moore, an anti-secessionist lawyer and North Carolina attorney general, 1848-1851; his daughter Lucy Catherine Moore Henry Capehart and sons Bartholomew Figures Moore, Van Boddie Moore, and James Moore; and his grandson Bartholomew Figures Moore, who was married to Olivia Blount Cowper Moore. Other Cowper family members included Olivia's paternal grandparents, Pulaski Cowper and Mary Blount Grimes, and maternal great grandparents, Bryan Grimes and Lucy Olivia Blount.
The collection contains papers of the Moore family, originally of Chatham and Person counties, N.C. Contents are chiefly genealogical materials, but also included is business and family correspondence, 1855-1922, of Frederick Lawrence Moore (1835-1922) of Washington, D.C. Moore's correspondence relates to his activities as a philanthropist, businessman, organizer of the Y.M.C.A. in Washington, and director of various charitable organizations. Volumes include Moore's diaries, 1860, 1868, and 1895; the diary, 1883, of his wife, Christine Virginia Campbell Moore, on a trip from Washington, D.C., to Florida; and a scrapbook, 1902-1922, of reports of the Washington, D.C., Children's hospital written in verse by Christine Moore.
Members of the Kennedy, Moore, and Southgate families were early settlers in the area around Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Details of the settlers, their families, and their descendants follow. Thomas D. Kennedy, II (d.1821), operated the first ferry between Cincinnati and Covington, Ky. It seems that Thomas, II, and his brother Edmund R. were involved together in either this same ferry boat company or in another company in the late 1820s. Thomas D. Kennedy, III (1795-1869), grandson of Thomas D., II, married Nancy Davis, and in 1817 they moved to a farm near Covington. Thomas D., III, was a surveyor and engineer; his son, Joseph D. Kennedy, married Sallie Ann Moore (1831-1921) in 1861. Joseph D. and Sallie Ann Kennedy's daughter, Lallie Moore, married into the Southgate family.
The Moore and Gatling Law Firm of Raleigh, N.C., a law partnership between B.F. (Bartholomew Figures) Moore (1801-1878) and his son-in-law John Thomas Gatling (1840-1888), was established in 1871. Just prior to Moore's death in November 1878, Gatling went into practice with Henry A. Gilliam, with whom he partnered until roughly 1883, when he then joined with Spier Whitaker in a partnership that appears to have ended in 1886.
The collection of folklorist and art professor A. Doyle Moore (1931-2013) contains materials Moore compiled in the course of his research on the autoharp, a musical instrument patented in 1882, and C. F. Zimmerman, a German immigrant and accordion maker who invented the autoharp and manufactured the instrument in Philadelphia, Pa., at the end of the nineteenth century. Materials include Moore's notes, Zimmerman's manuscript autobiography and a translated transcription, songbooks, sheet music, music charts, instructional manuals for the autoharp from the 1890s, manufacturers' catalogs and advertisements, newspaper clippings, articles, and printed items related to contemporary auto harpist John Kirby Snow.
Ben M. Moore (circa 1850-1913) was a prosperous farmer and Raleigh landlord. He grew cotton on his farms in Youngsville Township and St. Matthew's Township and owned stock in cotton mills. He owned many pieces of property in Raleigh and where he lived on Hillsboro Street.
Edward Jocelyn Moore (1839-1891) resided in Wilmington, N.C.
Genevieve Pearce Moore (born circa 1889) of High Point, N.C., was an elementary school teacher and counselor in North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
Diary of Moore (later Mrs. Thomas P. Weakley) in Nashville, Tenn., during its occupation by federal troops, concerning weather, social events, army and civilian relations, and attitudes of blacks who joined the U.S. Army.
Writer of Talladega County, Ala., who used the pen name Betsy Hamilton.
John W. Moore (1833-1906), historian, author, lawyer, and Confederate officer was born at Mulberry Grove Plantation, Hertford County, N.C. An 1853 graduate of the University of North Carolina, he married Ann James Ward and practiced law in Murfreesboro, N.C. During the Civil War, Moore served with the 2d Regiment of North Carolina Cavalry and later commanded the 3d North Carolina Battalion. At war's end, he returned to Murfreesboro and later moved to Maple Lawn Plantation in lower Hertford County. In the 1870s and 1880s, Moore published several historical works, including a North Carolina history text, a roster of North Carolina troops in the Civil War (1882), and a series of historical sketches of Hertford County. He also published a novel, The Heirs of St. Kilda (1881); completed the manuscript of another; and wrote extensively on religion and politics. Papers comprise mostly Moore's writings, ca. 1850s-1906, and include drafts of speeches, essays, novels, and poems. Topics in the nonfiction writings are the founding of the University of North Carolina, the ad valorem tax on slaves, the coinage of silver, North Carolina Baptist church history, Christian philosophy, and the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Among the speeches is an address Moore made to his graduating class at the University of North Carolina in 1853. Filed with the essays is a biographical sketch, written by T. E. Skinner, of North Carolina Baptist minister Charles Worth Skinner (1784-1870). An incomplete draft of a book of Hertford County historical sketches is also included. None of Moore's writings pertain to his published novel or to his roster of North Carolina troops, and none document his Civil War service. Moore's poems, sentimental in nature, treat romantic love, nature, death, battle, chivalry, and religious feeling. An unpublished novel , The Belle of Albemarle, concerns Edward Teach (Blackbeard). Also included are a few Moore family letters, 1851, 1876, 1892, 1908, and undated, that provide glimpses into social life in Murfreesboro and other coastal North Carolina towns. One letter, 1851, describes the activities of a mesmerist in Murfreesboro. There is also an account book/scrapbook belonging to Moore containing accounts, 1872-1874, for a Hertford County dry goods merchant and numerous poems, clippings, and recipes Moore later added and a 1961 photograph of the Mulberry Grove Plantation house.
Lucinda Sugg Moore (fl. 1927) was the daughter of Josiah P. Sugg and Margaret M. Sugg.
Martin Van Buren Moore was a journalist, author, and experimental farmer of Lenoir, N.C., and Auburn, Ala.
Robert Henry Moore was born in Madisonville, Ky., in 1940. From 1954 to 1958 he attended a military school, the McCallie School, in Chattanooga, Tenn. He attended Davidson College, 1958-1962; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1962-1964; and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1964-1968. He was an English Department instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he served as a United States Army Captain, 1968-1970. He taught courses on American and southern literature and history at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became a tenured associate professor, 1970-1977.
The collection is a 1735 land grant in Brunswick County, N.C., from King George II to Roger Moore (1694-1751), the son of James Moore English governor of colonial Carolina from 1700 to 1703. In 1735, Roger Moore established Orton Plantation, where he grew rice and enslaved hundreds of people.
The Samuel Dalton Moore Receipts include a South Carolina contract, 4 April 1842, for the sale of two enslaved people, Dorcas and Virgil, to Samuel Dalton Moore from William Wallis, and a receipt, 5 October 1861, for $500 received by Robert S. Gilmer from Richard Gwyn for purchase of articles to clothe volunteers of Surry County N.C.
Samuel J. C. Moore, lawyer and planter of Berryville, Clarke County, Va., was an officer with the 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and adjutant to Jubal Early during the Civil War. His wife Ellen Moore remained in Berryville during the conflict. Their son Samuel Scolley Moore attended the University of Virginia.
The collection includes accounts and business papers of Stephen Moore of New York, who moved to North Carolina during the Revolution, and of his son, PHillips (b. 1771), and grandsons Stephen and William, merchants in Hillsborough, N.C. Included are occasional letters from Stephen (1734-1799) to his father, Phillips, a New York City merchant, documenting their business affairs. Volumes include one shipping account book, New York City, 1767-1770; eighteen account books, 1781-1827, for farming operations, sales, and miscellany, at Mount Tirzah plantation in Person County, N.C.; thirteen account books, 1831-1867, of a general merchant at Hillsborough; and letters from William Moore to his father.
Thomas Sturge Moore was an English poet, playwright, and art critic. Largely self-educated, Moore wrote books on modern artists and volumes of poems. His correspondence with William Butler Yeats has been published.
William C. Moore (died circa 1862) was a planter of Stokes County, N.C. The collection includes accounts, bills, deeds, notes, and personal and business correspondence of William C. Moore and of various relatives and successors. Represented are the Clements, Critz, Rives (or Reves) and Harris families of North Carolina, and the Martin family of Tennessee. Correspondence, chiefly 1818-1850, includes letters from Clements relatives discussing planting and family news in Campbell County, N.C. Also included are 24 volumes, chiefly small miscellaneous account books, but also including accounts with farm laborers, 1872-1888; the captain's record book of Company K, 11th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America; an unidentified [Methodist] minister's record of sermons preached and other memoranda, 1845-1846; and a diary, 1830-1831, of a trip from Virginia through the Midwest, to New York State, and back to Virginia along the eastern seaboard.
Zeno Moore was the first agent of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in Edgecombe County. He started the Whitakers Extension Club in 1911. His wife Eloise Moore was also active in extension work.
The collection of filmmaker and documentarian Kent Moorhead (1954- ) of Oxford, Miss., contains 16mm film, analog and digital video recordings, and audio recordings, pertaining to documentary films on which he worked as a producer, director, director of photography, or cinematographer. Films represented in the collection include and , both of which have social justice as a theme. Other collection materials include grant proposals, Moorhead's notebooks for various projects, release forms from individuals depicted in his films, photographs of on-site production work, and subject and research files for the films. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Guilford Mortimer Mooring (1847-1916) was a farmer and politician in Pitt County, N.C. The Guilford Mortimer Mooring Papers consist chiefly of land indentures, deeds, and grants; personal receipts; and receipts relating to Mooring's work as sheriff of Pitt County, N.C. Also of note are an 1862 promissory note pledging payment to Temperance Congleton for keeping a group of enslaved children and an 1867 indenture for Alexander Brown, a six-year-old orphan.
Ruth Moose (1938- ), North Carolina writer; reference librarian at Pfeiffer College, 1988-1996; and, since 1996, teacher of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ruth Moose worked as a free-lance writer, including a stint at the Charlotte Observer, for which she was a regular columnist, and as poetry editor for the Uwharrie Review and The Arts Journal. In addition to numerous articles, poems, and stories that have appeared in magazines and newspapers, she has published four poetry and two short story collections. Moose is married to artist Talmadge Moose and has two sons. Materials include drafts and published versions of poems, short stories, book reviews, and essays; correspondence; clippings; professional activities files; and collected material. Writings comprise the bulk of the collection. Correspondents include Charles Edward Eaton, Jean Burden, Doris Betts, John Nichols, John Ciardi, Clyde Edgerton, Marianne Gingher, Fred Chappell, Donald Hall, Sam Ragan, Maxine Kumin, and Susan Ludvigson. Clippings are chiefly reviews of Moose's work and interviews with her. Professional activities files contain materials relating to her education, grant applications, workshops and conferences, readings, and book signings. Collected material includes copies and reviews of fellow writers' works. There are also miscellaneous materials relating to Talmadge Moose.
MICROFILM ONLY. Three volumes, 1798-1868, 1868-1903, and 1903-1956, of minutes of monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings of the Morattock Primitive Baptist Church, Washington County, N.C., concerning membership, financial affairs, and religious practices.
Mordecai family of Warrenton and Raleigh, N.C., and Richmond, Va. Prominent family members included Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838); his sons Samuel (1786-1865), Solomon (1792-1869), and George W. (1801-1871); and his daughters Ellen (1790-1884), Emma (1812-1906), and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788-1838).
Alfred Mordecai, physician of Winston-Salem, N.C., who served with the United States Army Medical Corps, 1918-1944, and as a health officer in Forsyth and Wilkes counties, N.C., 1940s-1960s. His wife was Elsie Elizabeth Hess. Correspondence, writings, essays and addresses, printed materials, maps, drawings, and photographs relating to Alfred Mordecai's service in World War I; his duties in Forsyth and Wilkes counties, N.C.; rural culture and folk traditions in the area near Blowing Rock, N.C.; and Mordecai's various interests, including conservation, astronomy, and horticulture.
George W. Mordecai was a white landowner, enslaver, lawyer, bank president, railroad president, businessman, and Episcopal layman, of Raleigh, N.C. He was the son of Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838), a leader of the Jewish communities of Warrenton, N.C., and Richmond, Va. Some family members remained Jewish, while other, either through marriage or choice, became Christians. The collection consists of personal, legal, and business correspondence and financial papers, chiefly 1840-1870, of George W. Mordecai and, to a lesser extent, of Margaret Bennehan Mordecai, to whom he was married. The business papers relate primarily to George's law practice, business ventures, the Bank of the State of North Carolina, the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, the North Carolina Railroad, the American Colonization Society, and the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The personal papers reflect, among other subjects, conditions at the military and home fronts, especially in Richmond, Va., during the American Civil War, the mental illness of some family members, and George's administration of various family estates. Persons represented in the collection include Mordecai, Lazarus, and Devereux family members, and various members of the Cameron family. Volumes consist of a travel diary, account books and estate settlements, plantation accounts for Durham County, N.C., plantations, and bank books. The correspondence and other papers of Margaret Bennehan Mordecai, chiefly 1872-1886, deal primarily with Cameron and Mordecai family affairs.
Eugene Lindsay Morehead (1845-1889) was a student at the University of North Carolina, a Confederate soldier on the North Carolina coast, and a partner in a bank and a tobacco factory, residing in Greensboro, N.C., and later Durham, N.C. He was married to Lucy Lathrop in 1874.
Contains the papers of the white Morehead Family, primarily John Motley Morehead III and his cousin John Lindsay Morehead. Materials include correspondence, business records, family materials, and planning materials. Topics include the Morehead Family; John Motley Morehead III’s work with Union Carbide; Morehead’s involvement in politics; and Morehead’s work with the University of North Carolina, including the gift and planning of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, the construction and donation of the planetarium building and the purchase of the Zeiss planetarium instrument, and the establishment of the John Motley Morehead Foundation (since 2007, the Morehead-Cain Foundation).
Joseph M. Morehead was a Confederate officer and a lawyer of Greensboro, N.C. The collection includes legal and business papers, chiefly 1880-1913, of lawyers Joseph M. Morehead and James Turner Morehead, Jr. (1838-1919) of Guilford County, N.C.
Typed copy of 1777 inventory and appraisal of the estate and personal property of John Morel of Christ-Church, Ga., including a list of 155 slaves and their values.
The collection is Johann Georg Morell's record of property boundaries, jurisdictions, etc., in the City of Augsburg, prepared by a committee for the City Coucil, 1755, with further data added by Morell's son in 1771.
Edwin Wright Morgan (1814-1869) of Pennsylvania was an engineer, educator, and an officer in the United States army. The collection includes military correspondence and papers of Lieutenant Morgan, commander at Fort Dade, Fla., during the Second Seminole War, chiefly concerned with ordnance and with communications between Fort Dade, Fort Brooke, and Fort King in central Florida.
Lady Elizabeth Morgan was the holder of a mortgage on property on Ludgate Street, London, England.
The collection is a volume of newspaper clippings, commonplace excerpts, and about 100 pages of handwritten recipes, presumably collected by Fannie Yeatman Morgan of Nashville, Tenn.
Correspondence and other materials relating to James Lorenzo Morgan, tobacco manufacturer of Glasgow, Howard County, Mo. The letters, mostly from Morgan to a friend, 1863-1865, pertain to the deteriorating social conditions in the Missouri countryside; Brooklyn, N.Y., where Morgan lived in 1864 and 1865; and the life of Morgan's brother, W. H. Morgan, in Union prisons in South Carolina. The papers also include certificates of commissioning and materials relating to Morgan family history.
James Morris Morgan (1845-1928) was a Confederate naval officer; a soldier in Egypt, 1870-1871; a businessman in Washington, D.C.; and an author. The collection includes letters, chiefly 1900-1925, from Morgan to his daughter, niece, and nephew, containing personal news, reflections, and advice. Also included are later letters between family members in Shreveport, La., and Washington, D.C.; scattered letters received by Morgan; and a few items relating to his Confederate and Egyptian service.
John Hunt Morgan of Kentucky was a Confederate cavalry raider and brigadier general. He married Mattie Ready in December 1862 and died in Greenville, Tenn., on 4 September 1864.
John Morgan (fl. 1878-1899) of Vance County, N.C., was a farmer of tobacco, corn, wheat, cabbage, oats, potatoes, and other crops and livestock.
Three volumes presumably from Gloucester County, Va.: an account book, owner not identified, 1840-1848, including a list of slaves hired out and rates charged; lawyer's fee book of M. B. Seawell, 1842-1844, including amounts won and lost at cards, 1843-1856; and account book of Wyndham Kemp, 1860-1861.
The collection is an indemnity bond, 1745, from Morgan Morgan to Mary Porter at Wilmington, N.C.
The papers of Richard Morgan, former member of the North Carolina General Assembly, contain letters from constituents of the 52nd House district and files regarding issues and legislation, 1994-2006. The collection also includes audiovisual and born-digital materials. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Robert Morgan, poet, received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, and began teaching creative writing at Cornell University in 1971. The collection contains letters and writings of Robert Morgan. Letters are chiefly from from Morgan to Russell Banks of the literary magazine Lillabulero and the small press of the same name. Writings are typescripts, corrected galleys, and/or published versions of poems, some of which were published in six of Morgan's books of poetry: Zirconia Poems (1969); The Voice in the Crosshairs (1971); Red Owl (1972); Land Dying (1976); Trunk and Thicket (1978); and Groundwork (1979).
Collection contains stereographic cards primarily made by white stereograph photographer and studio operator Rufus Morgan (1846-1888) of New Bern, N.C., Goldsboro, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. Morgan's photographs were taken mostly in North Carolina, but he also traveled to South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, New York, and California. The collection consists of more than 350 individual stereographs, 316 stereographs mounted in the Illustrated Catalogue of Southern Scenery by Rufus Morgan, several photographic prints, and some documents related to Morgan's portrait business. Morgan took a majority of the images in this collection and collected some materials by contemporary photographers between 1869 and 1880. Like many photographers, Morgan devised a classification system to manage the thousands of images he made, and often created titles to accompany stereograph cards made for sale or display. Some of these classifications or titles contain offensive and racist language.
Samuel Lewis Morgan was a Baptist minister, writer, and commentator of the North Carolina piedmont.
Samuel Dold Morgan (1798-1880) was a resident of Nashville, Tenn.
William H. Morgan (1818-1901) was a physician and dentist in Nashville, Tenn., executive in mining and insurance companies, and founder and dean of the School of Dentistry at Vanderbilt University. The collection includes correspondence and other papers, mostly concerned with the dental profession in the South: professional training, organization, appointments, and supplies. These include letters from other dentists, prospective dental students, and patients. Other important topics of correspondence are Morgan's dental practice in partnership with T. B. Hamlin in the 1840s and 1850s, and the Vanderbilt dental school in the 1880s and 1890s. Also included are papers from the 1870s and 1880s relating to the Silver Mining Company in Tennessee, the Santa Gertrudio Mining Company in Mexico, and the Nashville Life Insurance Company; and personal correspondence relating to crops in Tennessee and Kentucky, banking, politics, war, and current events.
A. Alexander Morisey was an African American journalist from North Carolina. He wrote for the Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and the Winston-Salem Journal in the early 1950s and later was public relations manager of the New York Times.
William Groves Morris (1825-1918) was a carpenter and millwright from Dallas, Gaston County, N.C., who served as captain and lieutenant colonel of the 37th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War.
William M. Morris was a resident of Mississippi. The collection is chiefly letters to Morris from friends and relatives serving in the Confederate army in scattered places. Also included are items relating to James B. S. Alexander (died 1861) of Charlottesville, Va.
Columbus Morrison (1808-1862) was a planter of Alabama and Georgia. The collection includes record books and a few miscellaneous letters of Morrison. Volumes include an autobiography, farm and family memoranda, and diary, 1845-1846, kept near Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a family and plantation account book near Marietta, Ga., 1859-1862; and intermittent memoranda, 1847-1862, at both locations, including information about Civil War military activities, especially in the Missouri area.
MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography written just before his death by Elam Johnston Morrison, Presbyterian minister in Virginia, son of James Morrison of Mecklenburg County, N.C. Elam Morrison graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to these aspects of his life, the autobiography describes his Presbyterian Church assignments in Fredericksburg and Leesburg, Va., and his travels in North Carolina and Virginia.
Henry Leonidas Morrison of Iredell County, N.C., was a school teacher and farmer.
John C. Morrison (fl. 1857-1862) served in the Confederate Army.
Journalist, author, and professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina, 1946-1970. The personal correspondence deals with Morrison's work for Cantor Publishing Company, applications for research grants, teaching at the University of North Carolina, journal articles and other writings, and work with various writers' conferences. Included also is correspondence with friends and professional colleagues, particularly Harry Golden of Charlotte, N.C. The material related to his work on W. J. Cash, Josephus Daniels, and O. Max Gardner includes correspondence with people who might have known each subject; copies of articles and other printed material by or about each subject; and Morrison's research notes.
Louis Philip Morrison (born circa 1819) served in the United States army with the 8th New York Infantry Regiment. He married Rebecca Thacher of Massachusetts in 1851 or 1852.
Robert Hall Morrison (1798-1889) was a white Presbyterian minister who opposed slavery but also enslaved people at Cottage Home Plantation in Lincoln County, N.C. The collection includes letters written to and from members of the Morrison family, financial papers of R.H. Morrison, and miscellaneous papers. The letters, chiefly from R.H. Morrison to his cousin, James Morrison, discuss family matters, especially affliction by various diseases and illnesses. Morrison occasionally mentioned illness among Black people in the community, including Bagwell, en enslaved person who suffered from a kidney infection; an unnamed enslaved person who died of Typhoid fever while trafficked to Poplar Tent, N.C.; and health disparities between Black and white populations during a small pox outbreak. Other topics include the Carolinas hurricane of 1822; the business of the Presbyterian Church in North Carolina, including synod meetings such as one in which John Arch, an indigenous person of North America, visited, apparently as an example of a convert to Christianity; R.H. Morrison's work in the establishment and administration of Davidson College; details of his congregations in Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties, N.C., and the existence of Sunday schools for Black congregants in Rocky River, Poplar Tent, and Sugar Creek, N.C.; his religious convictions; his views against slavery and secession and on the raid on Harpers Ferry; and agricultural activities on his Cottage Home Plantation, including silk farming. Morrison's financial papers consist of letters from agents managing his property in Tipton County, Tenn., and Lafayette and Sevier counties, Ark., detailing his business concerns; problems in conducting business during secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; the construction of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad and the Memphis and Ohio Railroad; and perspectives on westward expansion into Mississippi River bottom lands. There are also receipts for his expenses and tax payments in North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Other papers include a letter concerning the trafficking of enslaved people, letters from members of the Morrison family in Dallas County, Ala., and two letters from a chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia during the war.
MICROFILM ONLY. Native of Orange County, N.Y.; married William Newton Morrison, a minister from North Carolina, circa 1835. About a dozen widely scattered entries by Morrison about her personal feelings, devotions, and important events in her personal life. Topics on which she commented included having charge of a school in Providence, R.I., in 1834; being married to a minister, in 1835; the difficulties of being a minister, in 1841; the heavy responsibility of four children, in 1845; the loss of two sons, in 1863-1864; and the commitment of her son, Theodore S. Morrison, to the church, in 1867.
Theodore Davidson Morrison was an attorney of Asheville, N.C. Members of his extended family and ancestry include Theodore F. Davidson, William Mitchell Davidson, John Mitchell Davidson (born 1829), A. T. Davidson, and Hugh H. Davidson. The collection includes scattered papers of and about the Davidsons and other families of Buncombe County and Haywood County, N.C. Among other items are a narrative, written in 1898, by John Mitchell Davidson of the the years 1843-1847 during which his family emigrated from North Carolina to Texas by way of Illinois, describing in detail the journey and life and society in widely scattered areas of Texas; two letters, 1881, from Senator Zebulon B. Vance about the possibility of Prohibition and other political matters; and five letters (typed transcriptions), 1861-1865, from family members in Buncombe County to John Evans Brown in Australia and New Zealand where he apparently had gone seeking gold. The letters to John E. Brown are from his father, William John Brown, his brother, and his step-mother; they are extremely long, colorfully written discussions of family, community, and public life, including reflections on the sadness and difficulties brought on by the Civil War.
Bill Morrissey (1951-2011) was a folk singer, songwriter, performer, and author born in Hartford, Conn., and based in Massachusetts and New Hampshire throughout most of his career (circa 1980-2011). He recorded more than ten albums, including North (1986) and Standing Eight (1989), and was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album Songs of Mississippi John Hurt (1999). He also wrote poetry and fiction, including the novel Edson (1996).
Arthur Alexander Morson (1803-1864) was a lawyer of Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., and member of the Yale College Class of 1822. The collection is chiefly letters from Arthur Alexander Morson while he was a student at Yale College to his father, Alexander Morson, in Fredericksburg, Va., describing college life, 1818-1821, and visits to New York, N.Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and other locations, 1818-1819. Also included are three letters, 1825-1826, to Morson at Fredericksburg, Va., from his brother William at Yale;and several letters to Alexander Morson from Benjamin Silliman, a Yale professor.
Individual accounts and settlements for the professional services of Dr. Morton, physician of Blount County, Tenn., 1856-1867 and 1878-1891; and Washington County, Ill., 1864-1865; and a biographical sketch of Morton by Dr. Ben C. Ogle Junior, written in 1974.
In 1991, David C. Morton, a white author, published DeFord Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music. Bailey (1899-1982) was a legendary African American harmonica player who performed on WSM's Grand Ole Opry, a weekly radio show broadcast from Nashville, Tenn. Bailey began his career soon after Nashville's WDAD radio station came on the air in 1925. He continued to play until 1941, becoming well known for his tune, Pan American Blues. The collection contains text and photographic documentation, sound recordings, and a videotape chiefly relating to Morton's work with DeFord Bailey. Documentation consists of correspondence concerning Morton's biography of DeFord Bailey and other matters relating to Bailey; newspaper and magazine clippings referring to Bailey's contributions to country music; calendars with photographs of Bailey; memorial information; a tributary brochure; publicity photographs and other images; and a poster for the segment on DeFord Bailey and the Grand Ole Opry that aired on 24 November 2000 as part of National Public Radio's Lost and Found Sound series. Sound recordings include reel-to-reel tapes and audiocassettes from interview sessions between David Morton and DeFord Bailey; they contain conversations and music recordings of Bailey on harmonica, guitar, and banjo. Also included are some recordings of performances by Bailey, recordings of National Public Radio programs related to Bailey, and interviews with other Grand Ole Opry employees. The videotapes are DeFord Bailey: A Legend Lost that was developed for Nashville Public Television, Inc., and Waiting in the Wings: African Americans in Country Music, produced by Henri Giles. There is also a 16mm film with sound of a DeFord Bailey performance. Other materials include Hohner advertising posters featuring Walter Horton, an African American harmonica player, and promotional photographs and a hand-held fan that depict white performers Sidney J. "Fiddlin' Sid" Harkreader and Jamup and Honey wearing blackface makeup.
The collection contains still images and motion pictures made by white North Carolina businessman and political figure Hugh MacRae Morton (1921-2006). Images document North Carolina from the 1930s to the 2000s, including statewide landmarks and attractions; schools and businesses; nature; Grandfather Mountain; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; sports; and World War II.
Matilda Lamb Morton was a child living in Tarboro and Williamston, N.C., during the Civil War. Her brothers, John Calhoun Lamb and Wilson Gray Lamb, were Confederate officers.
John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) of Powhatan County, Va., was a lawyer and Confederate officer.
James Alexander Moseley was a native of North Carolina; graduate of Yale University; resident of Glen Ridge, N.J.; and 1st lieutenant, Company C, 166th Infantry, 42d (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
Artus Monroe Moser (1894-1992), writer, educator, and historian, spent much of his life collecting ballads in and around his home in Western North Carolina in an effort to document the folk traditions of Appalachia. Moser wrote extensively about the folk songs, folklore, and history of Appalachia, and recorded numerous Appalachian performers onto acetate discs. In 1945, the Library of Congress provided Moser with the equipment to collect and record more material, which was later placed in the LC's Archive of American Folk Song. The Artus Moser collection includes biographical material relating to Artus Moser and his wife, Mabel Young Moser, and Moser's numerous writings on Appalachian folk song, folklore, history, and other subjects. Moser's writings on the life of novelist Thomas Wolfe and his biography of North Carolina potter Walter Benjamin Stephen are also included. Other materials are Moser's ballad collection, consisting of versions of over 200 traditional ballads and folk songs, as well as collected stories and reminiscences of Appalachian folklife. There are also family history materials and numerous photographs of Moser and his family, including Moser playing the part of Andrew Jackson in a 1950 performance of the outdoor drama Unto These Hills. The collection also contains numerous sound recordings and scattered moving images. Sound recordings consist of commercial 78rpm records and LPs Moser collected, as well as his own acetate disc and reel-to-reel recordings of traditional Appalachian performers, including Jean Ritchie, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Marcus Martin, Maud Gentry Long, Samantha Bumgarner, George Pegram, Pleaz Mobley, Red Raper, and Virgil Sturgill. Other recordings include Waldensian singing, Western North Carolina Cherokee singer Will West Long, and shape note singers from Etowah, N.C.
The Joan Moser Collection consists of audiovisual materials and papers related to folk musician, music teacher, and historian, Joan Moser. The majority of the collection is made up of audio recordings compiled by Moser, including live recordings of folk festivals; interviews with folk musicians and folklorists, including her father, Artus Monroe Moser; class lectures by Joan Moser; and dubs of folk songs, ballads, and fiddle tunes collected by Joan Moser. Other audiovisual materials include a Super 8mm motion picture film of the 1970 Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, Va. and field notes found with select audio recordings. Collection papers include ballads, biographical materials, correspondence, dance instruction books, and writings by Joan Moser, among other materials.
Martin Moser was a farmer of Alamance County, N.C.
Edward P. (Edward Pearson) Moses (1857-1948) was a public school teacher and administrator of Tennessee, Florida, and North Carolina.
Raphael Jacob Moses (1812-1893) was the chief commissary officer for General Robert Toombs, General James Longstreet, and the state of Georgia, during the Confederacy.
Albert Moses Luria was a lieutenant in the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
The collection consists of personal photographs documenting the Reverend Edgar James Moss, an African American native of Benham, Ky., a coal mining town in southeastern Kentucky, and later of Connecticut, during the period of about 1958 to 2013, in both Kentucky and Connecticut. Formats present include prints, negatives, and digital images.
William Dygnum Moss (1866-1932) was born in Ontario, Canada. His career as a clergyman in the Presbyterian Church included posts in his native country and at two churches in the United States. He served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill, N.C., for more than 20 years, during which time he also ministered to students at the University of North Carolina. The collection contains correspondence, sermons, prayers, articles, clippings, and photographs documenting the life and work of William Dygnum Moss, mostly as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, N.C. Among the photographs are some of Chapel Hill; the University of North Carolina campus; and school children, some of them barefooted, at school in the 1920s. There are also materials of Chapel Hill resident Madge Kennette, a member of the family with whom Moss resided at the time of his death in 1932. These include letters; clippings; and diaries, 1911-1969, that closely document her daily life.
Blaise Motte was born in France and emigrated to America around 1828. He kept a general store in Washington, Saint Landry Parish, La., from the late 1840s until the mid-1870s. A number of his customers were African Americans.
Mound Bayou, located in Bolivar County, Miss., was founded on 12 July 1887 as an African-American colony by Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green. In 1994, Milburn Crowe, of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mound Bayou's History, began working with members of the Southern Historical Collection and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in an effort to better preserve Mound Bayou's historical documents and launch an oral history initiative.
Mount Carmel Baptist Church began in Orange County, N.C. In the 1850s, the church expanded and its Chapel Hill, Orange County, N.C., site became the main church.
Mount Helena Plantation in Madison County, Miss., was owned by George C. Harris, Episcopal clergyman and planter of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.
The Mount Moriah Church (Baptist) was organized in Orange County, N.C., on 4 March 1823, breaking off from the Eno Church and joining the Flat River Association. The first deacons were ordained October 1823, and the Church met in monthly conference for worship under the deacons' guidance until the first pastor, T. D. Armstrong, was called in 1832. The interracial church had 195 members as of July 1840, of which about 50 were African Americans. It is unclear whether the African Americans were enslaved or free Blacks. In 1856, an African-American deacon was ordained. The Church was still functioning in the 1990s. Records of the Mount Moriah Church, 1823-1940, are in four microfilmed volumes as listed below. Volumes 1-3 contain a copy of the Church's constitution, a list of Rules of Decorum by which the Church was governed, and lists of members of the congregation. In volume 1, there is also a short narrative of the founding of the Church. There are three items tipped into volume 3: Nancy J. Sparrow's 1887 certification of church membership; a blank church membership certificate; and a letter, dated 20 February 1924, from the Carrboro Baptist Church about fundraising. In volume 4, the constitution and rules of decorum are replaced by a printed church covenant, declaration of faith, and rules of order. Volumes contain short entries documenting actions at monthly meetings.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters to Samuel Hepburn at Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges County, Md., from his father-in-law, James Muir, and from James's son, John Muir, on the Eastern Shore in Dorchester County, Md. Topics of letters include family and neighborhood news, farm activities, commerce, currency, and frequent trips across the Chesapeake Bay.
Eli W. Mullican was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., and spent his childhood working on his family's farm. A Union supporter, Mullican left North Carolina and joined the Union Army as a private in the 13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in September 1863. During his service, Mullican was a regimental clerk, brigade clerk, ordinance sergeant of the regiment, and, towards the end of the Civil War, first sergeant of Company 1. Mullican spent twelve years in the revenue service after the war. In 1868, he married Sarah C. Nelson. They had two stillborn children, and Sarah died soon after. In 1872, Mullican married Susan Shutt. They had eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. In the 1890s, Mullican became an ordained minister and continued to preach until he could no longer travel. He died in 1937.
The collection includes papers of the Mullins family of Lincoln County, N.C., including ten family letters, 1857-1860, most to Elizabeth Mullins, from family members and friends who wrote colloquially about activities in Lincolnton, N.C., and elsewhere; and accounts, 1855-1877, for carpentry, painting, paper-hanging, weaving, and other work, and for food purchased by labor.
William Sidney Mullins was a railroad president, South Carolina state legislator, and member of the class of 1842 of the University of North Carolina.
Mehetable Mumford of Rowan County, N.C., was the widow of United States congressman George Mumford.
James Keen Munnerlyn was a native of Georgetown, S.C., who during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. He first served in the Palmetto Guard, 2nd South Carolina Regiment, and later in Company F of the Georgia Hussars, Jeff Davis Legion, Stuart's Cavalry.
A. C. Murdock ran a coach shop in Hillsborough, N.C.
Family members include Hardy Murfree, hero of the Revolutionary War attack on Stony Point, N.Y., and incorporator in 1787 of Murfreesboro, N.C., who moved to Tennessee in 1807 and for whom Murfreesboro, Tenn., is named; his son Wiliam Hardy Murfree, attorney and North Carolina legislator, who settled in Tennessee around 1823; William Hardy Murfree's brother-in-law David Dickinson of Tennessee; Thomas Henry Maney, who was a businessman in Nashville, Tenn.; Eliza Maney Cook and her husband Ed C. Cook, Confederate acting brigadier general killed in action in 1864; Mary Noailles Murfree, novelist who wrote under the name of Charles Egbert Craddock; and other members of the Brickell, Dickinson, Maney, Maslin, and Murfree families.
The collection includes a court docket, Rowan County, N.C., August term, 1769; a lengthy document headed "Gentlemen of the Jury," about the responsibilities of grand juries, probably by Archibald De Bow Murphey, undated; records of the court of equity, Morgan District, N.C., 1806; and a few other miscellaneous records of 18th-century North Carolina courts.
Archibald D. Murphey was an Orange County, N.C., lawyer, judge, trustee of the University of North Carolina, legislator, and advocate of internal improvements and other reforms.
Virgil S. Murphey (fl. 1864-1865) was a Confederate colonel in the 17th Alabama Regiment, and a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio.
The Catherine Murphy MAESTRA Collection consists of the original videotaped interviews and the audio, video, and transcript working files that Catherine Murphy and others created to produce the 2012 documentary film about young women who participated as teachers in the Cuban literacy campaign of 1961. There are also interviews with Murphy and documentation about the project's archives. Most of the collection is available in digital form. The Addition of February 2022 consists primarily of flyers, promotional materials, and event programs documenting various screenings of MAESTRA, appearances by Catherine Murphy, and related events at various locations including college campuses and film festivals, 2011-2014. The addition also contains printed material emanating from and related to Fidel Castro's Cuban literacy campaign that the MAESTRA film documents; a small number of program registration documents, 1961; newsletters and pamphlets that are not related to MAESTRA; scattered letters and photocopied information about the status of Cuban women; and a medal awarded to those who particpated in the literacy campaign.
Edgar Gardner Murphy was an Episcopal clergyman, publicist, executive secretary of the Southern Education Board, 1903-1908, author, and amateur astronomer.
Hanson Finla Murphy (1813-1882) was a physician and member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1865-1866, and county court.
John Henry Murphy (1824-1889) was a resident of New Hanover (now Pender) County, N.C. The collection includes miscellaneous papers of Murphy consisting chiefly of items relating to David Gurganious and his estate, of which Murphy was administrator. There are five letters, 1862, from Gurganious while he was serving with the 51st North Carolina Regiment at James Island, S.C., mainly concerned with affairs at home. Also included are family letters, tax returns, and vouchers from the Murphy family and Wright family.
Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a white physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C.
Richard J. Murphy, Assistant Postmaster General, Democratic National Committee leader, and corporate executive, was born in 1929 in Baltimore, Md. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1951. In 1952, he was elected national president of the National Student Association. Murphy was Assistant Postmaster General of the United States, 1961-1969, encouraging the hiring and promotion of minorities and testifying in defense of desegregation at a 1963 reverse discrimination investigation in Dallas, Tex. Upon retirement, he became assistant to the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Lawrence F. O'Brien. He attended every Democratic National Convention from 1952 to 2000, supervising security committees at seven conventions. He was general director of the 1972 convention. In 1970, Murphy co-edited a book about labor relations with public employees. During his career, he also was vice president of Time Warner Cable and director of government affairs for Unisys Corporation. Murphy died in 2006.
William Murphy, a white law professor, was on the law school faculty at the universities of Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina. He also worked as an independent labor arbitrator. The William P. Murphy Papers document his work as both a law school professor and as a labor arbitrator. Materials include correspondence, speeches, printed materials, teaching materials, oral history transcript, writings, and arbitration case descriptions and background materials. Topics of note include labor law, arbitration, the National Academy of Arbitrators, law school education, campus unrest over the Vietnam War, resistance to Brown v. Board of Education in Mississippi, politically motivated threats to academic freedom, and a fair housing ordinance in Columbia, Missouri.
Henry Spence Murray was an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. The collection includes seven letters to his family in Goshen, N.Y., from Murray, while a United States Army captain serving in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and at a parole camp in Annapolis, Md. The letters tell of friends from home seen at camp, troop movements, and other activity.
Blythewood Plantation, Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, La., was owned for a time by Franklin A. Hudson and later by John Hampden Randolph. The collection includes a typed copy of records relating to weather and to the sugar cane crop at Blythewood Plantation, 1823-1908.
The collection includes two manuscript books of vocal music from Mecklenburg County, N.C. One volume, 30 pages, dated 1785, was presumably compiled by Archibald Woodside. The other, 76 pages, 1813, is inscribed with several different names, including Samuel W. Reid, Rebecca McDowell, and John W. Herron. Both volumes contain words, tunes, and instructions to singers.
Individuals represented in the collection include Philip Phillips (1807-1884), South Carolina and Alabama state legislator and United States Representative from Alabama; his wife, Eugenia (Levy) Phillips (1819-1901); their sons, William Hallett Phillips (1853-1897) and P. Lee Phillips (1857-1924); and related members of the Levy and Myers families of Savannah, Ga., and Washington, D.C.
The Myers family counted among its members William Raiford Myers (fl. 1852-1854) of Charlotte, N.C., who owned a cotton plantation in Cass County, Tex.
Microfilm. Series of notes relating to the genealogy of the Myers family of North Carolina and other locations primarily in the South. Many notes pertain to members of the related Morris and Mills families, especially Eleanor Morris Mills (born 1740).
The collection consists of two sets of letters and accompanying photographs from members of the Myers, Patterson, and Snell families of Loris, S.C.; Thomasville, N.C.; and Wilmington, N.C. The first set was written during the Civil War and describes military life of Wilson Lindsay Myers (1839-1930) and John W. Patterson (1845-1865) in Virginia and South Carolina, respectively. The second set is from Paul Myers Snell, Sr., and was written while he was in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, working for the Army Corps of Engineers on dredging and developing the levee system around New Orleans in the 1930s. Photographs depict Wilson Lindsay Myers and the Snell family.
Abraham Charles Myers was a United States Army officer, and later a Confederate quartermaster general.
Christopher N. Leroy was a shipping agent of Boston, Mass.
Thomas J. Myers (fl. 1865) was an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. The collection is a typed transcription of a letter from Lieutenant Thomas J. Myers to his wife, giving an account of pillaging during Sherman's occupation of South Carolina.
The collection of white University of North Carolina Alum, William Starr Myers (1877-1956), consists primarily of images depicting William Starr Myers and his family, including portraits and outdoor group scenes. Also included is an ambrotype portrait of an enslaved Black man identified as "Jed (or Jerry?) last slave of the Morford family" holding a young white girl identified as Elizabeth Morford. The collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, (modern) copy negatives, and photographic prints. Some copy prints and negatives were made of images that were discarded. The majority of the daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes are encased.
William Starr Myers (1877-1956) was a white journalist, author, and professor at Princeton University, 1906-1956. He received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1897. Papers of include letters and clippings sent to him, 1894-1895, while he was a student at the University of North Carolina by his parents, J. Norris Myers and Laura Virginia Starr Myers, in Asheville, N.C., concerning family, friends, and the Central Methodist Church. Most of these letters are accompanied by clippings from the Asheville Citizen on local subjects. Other letters include several from Archibald Henderson, May and December 1918 and 1924. Also included are diplomas from the Asheville, N.C., high school, 19 May 1893, from the University of North Carolina, 2 June 1897, and from John Hopkins University, 12 June 1900; a University of North Carolina class reunion certificate, 1947; a drawing book of Myers when he was a child; The Book of William Starr Myers, compiled while he was a student at the University of North Carolina and containing doggerel, college songs, a class poem, copies of poems, a list of classics read by Myers, and educational expense account; a manuscript music book of Myers when he was a child; and a picture of Myers's room at Gilman Country Day School in Baltimore, Md.
Walter B. Myrick was a general merchant in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., and Southampton County, Va.

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The NC Club, predecessor of the Monogram Club, was formed on 28 September 1908 as an organization of athletes who had lettered in their sports. The purpose of the club was the promotion of athletics at the University of North Carolina. Records of the NC Club include reports, 15 March 1909, of committees on football, baseball, track, and tennis; the constitution of the club; and minutes of club meetings, 28 September 1908-13 May 1912.
Eight letters from Napoleon to Josephine, six from him to Talleyrand, other letters and speeches by him, documents relating to him, and items relating to other members of his family.
The Nash County Historical Association (NCHA), a non-profit group headquartered in Rocky Mount, N.C., was organized in 1970 to promote the study and preservation of local history and genealogy. Since 1975, NCHA has been responsible for the administration, restoration, and preservation of Stonewall Manor, an antebellum plantation home in Rocky Mount.
Abner Nash (circa 1740-1786) was a Revolutionary governor of North Carolina, 1780-1781, and member of the Continental Congress. The collection includes letters to and from Nash, mostly concerned with state business in regard to military affairs.
Arnold Samuel Nash (1906- ) was a professor in the Department of Religion of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and an Anglican minister. Nash moved to the United States from his native England in 1939. His particular areas of academic interest were philosophy of science, sociology of science, and the sociology of religion. He was the author of The University and the Modern World (1944) and numerous articles. Arnold Samuel Nash's papers reflect his interests in current events and issues facing the University of North Carolina. Included are records from UNC Department of Religion; routine business papers as well as records of Nash's speaking engagements and conferences, extensive correspondence files, and subject files on current events. Most of the speech and conference materials relate to religion and the university or the university and society. In the correspondence files are letters to and from the friends he left in England; topics discussed in these letters include the experience of living in London through World War II, the Lend Lease Program, and the Speaker Ban at the University of North Carolina. Also included is a letter to Nash from Albert Einstein.
Arthur Cleveland Nash, born in Geneva, N.Y., in 1871, was architect at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C, and later in Washington, D.C. He died in Baltimore in 1969. The collection includes materials relating to Arthur Cleveland Nash's career as an architect and to Nash and related family history. Architectural papers, 1938-1956, include correspondence and other materials relating chiefly to University of North Carolina building projects. Nash family papers, 1859-1970 and undated, include correspondence and other documents relating to Arthur Cleveland Nash and to the activities of Nash family members. Tucker and Nash family papers, 1818-1831, include correspondence and other materials of Tucker and Nash family members. Among these are letters of Captain Joshua Nash about his travels in Germany and Italy, including one from poet Gabriele Rossetti, and letters of Paul Nash, Arthur Cleveland Nash's brother, discussing his career as a United States Consul in Siam, Italy, Hungary, and England. Many of the Cleveland and Coxe (Cox) family papers, 1756-1932, relate to Arthur Cleveland Nash's maternal grandfather, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, 1865-1896, or to Arthur Cleveland Coxe's father, Samuel Hanson Cox, and his pastorate at the Presbyterian Church of New York, 1833-1854. Other genealogical materials, 1853-1971 and undated, relate to the Cleveland, Coxe (Cox), Nash, Screven, Arnold, Sewall, Gindrat, Forman, Hanson, Tucker, Kent, Pendarvis, and Bedon families. Photographs include some relating to Arthur Cleveland Nash's architectural projects at the University of North Carolina and others that relate to family members, including photographs of people and places in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Francis (Frank) Nash (1855-1932), son of the Reverend Frederick Kollock Nash (1813-1861) and Anne McLean Nash, was assistant attorney general of North Carolina, 1918-1931, and clerk of the State Supreme Court, 1931-1932. The collection includes legal, business, and personal correspondence, chiefly 1900-1919, of Frank Nash and members of his family. The papers, 1729-1859, consist of land grants, deeds, indentures, copies of wills, and correspondence of the Nash and Strudwick families of Hillsborough, N.C. Of special note are the letters of North Carolina federalists during the early 1800s. Also included are the personal letters of Frank Nash's grandfather, Frederick Nash (1871-1858), who served as Superior Court judge, 1818-1826 and 1836-1844; as justice of the State Supreme Court, 1844-1852; and as chief justice of the Court, 1852-1858. Papers, 1859-1865, deal with events leading up to and during the Civil War. Following the war, papers are mainly legal and business records with scattered reference to state and national politics. There are also items relating to the Nash and Kollock School for girls in Hillsborough; the Good Roads Movement, 1911-1913; and the campaign for prohibition, 1915. Also present are 37 volumes that are account books; scrapbooks; legal notebooks; and notebooks of historical and biographical writings, including writings on history and historical fiction by Frank Nash.
Captain, 307th Infantry Division, United States Army.
The collection is a postmaster's ledger of accounts with individuals for mailing and postage kept at Nashville, Nash County, N. C., August 1833-April 1834.
Nathaniel Hunt and Company was a commission mercantile firm of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes letters from J. B. Witherby of Tullahoma, Tenn., to Nathaniel Hunt and Company concerning arrangements for handling his account.
The National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers was founded in 1905 as the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers. By 1933, the organization dropped its activities related to underwear manufacture and changed its name to the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers (NAHM), which merged with the Southern Hosiery Manufacturers' Association in 1956. In 1999, NAHM merged with the Carolina Hosiery Association to form the Hosiery Association, which represents the manufacturers of more than 85 percent of the hosiery produced in the United States, providing its members with lobbying, statistical, and public relations services, and organizing industry conferences and trade shows. Records of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, 1918-1996, include minutes of meetings of the board of directors; programs, proceedings, and other items relating to annual meetings and conferences; membership records; other papers; and videotapes of conferences in the early 1990s and of presentations on issues of interest to hosiery manufacturers. Topics include the organization's membership and financial affairs, government policy affecting the hosiery industry, labor issues, costs and prices, hosiery industry standards, research projects, and public relations. The bulk of the materials relate to the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, but there are also records of predecessor organizations--the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers and the Southern Hosiery Manufacturers Association--and of related meetings, such as Hosiery Industry Conferences.
The collection conists of 19 book manuscripts reviewed by Elizabeth Spencer for the 1996 National Book Award. Some of the manuscripts have accompanying letters from the publishers promoting the work for the award.
Audio recording of the second annual Hollerin' Contest, Spivey's Corner, Sampson County, N.C., held 20 June 1970. It is unclear who created or donated this recording to the Southern Folklife Collection.
Records of NationsBank, a Charlotte, N.C., based multinational financial institution. Materials are primarily correspondence and speeches, 1962-1992, of Thomas I. Storrs, chair of the Board of North Carolina National Bank (NCNB), predecessor of NationsBank. Also present are transcripts of 11 interviews conducted in 1983 with banking officials, including Storrs and his successor, Hugh McColl, and of 31 interviews conducted in 1996-1997 about the history of Nationsbank and the McColl family, especially Hugh L. McColl, with family members; people from Bennettsville, S.C.; former NCNB and NationsBank employees; and other associates. Audiocassette recordings of 24 of the interviews are also available.
Collection materials consist primarily of videotapes of original footage and aired broadcast episodes of Exploring North Carolina, a UNC-TV distributed television program about North Carolina's local landscapes and natural resources produced by Natural World Productions. Videotapes feature the plants, animals, geology, and history, both natural and social, of North Carolina. The collection also contains release forms related to the television program, as well as additional videotapes by Exploring North Carolina videographer, Joe Albea, which may not be associated with the television program.
The Neal Family Papers document Black and white life in Franklin, N.C.; Fayette and Henderson counties, Tenn.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hinds County, Miss.; Waxahachie, Tex.; and other areas of the old Southwest in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are two letters written by enslaved people about life after being trafficked away from home and family. Letters from white enslavers in the Neal family and related Fox and Timberlake families describe an act of resistance planned by enslaved people in Mississippi and the subsequent murders by hanging in Lexington, Miss.; the murder of an enslaved person by another enslaved person; attitudes toward and treatment of enslaved people, including corporal punishment; health of enslaved people; courtship, marriage, and divorce among enslaved people; and Black musicians. Most of the antebellum correspondence concerns the problems associated with trafficking in forced labor, moving west, buying land, and establishing profitable cotton plantations. There are also a few letters concerning religious life in the old Southwest and student life at the University of North Carolina. There are twelve letters from the American Civil War years that describe camp life and combat experiences, mainly in the Virginia theater. Letters from after the war describe a Black religious revival; a 12 year old Black girl who was jailed for starting fires; the perception of antagonistic relations between Black people and indigenous people of North America; the oppressive impact of stock laws on Black and white farmers; home remedies; and more broadly, late 19th-century farm life in North Carolina and small-town life in Texas. Financial, legal, and other items date from both before and after the American Civil War.
Papers of Bill Neal (1950-1991), a white Southern chef, author, and co-founder of restaurants La Residence and Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, N.C., contain typed and handwritten recipes and introductory essays for Bill Neal's southern cooking and page proofs, artwork, copy edited sections, partial drafts, notes, and photocopied clippings of columns by gardening author Elizabeth Lawrence relating to Bill Neal's Gardener's Latin: a lexicion. The collection also contains typescript and published versions of articles, fiction, and recipes by Bill Neal; scattered correspondence with publishers and literary agents; and other items.
The collection is a typescript titled "Comments on Like a Family by a Son" by Leon Neal (1938-), a white consulting engineer and owner of Leon Neal's Wood & Word in Raleigh, N.C. In the unpublished manuscript, Neal provides commentary and critique on the 1987 book titled Like a family: the making of a Southern cotton mill world by historians Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Lu Ann Jones, Robert Rodgers Korstad, et al. Neal writes in part from his own personal experience growing up in the company-owned mill village in Caroleen, N.C., as the son of textile workers.
The collection is a letter, 13 February 1860, from F. Fentress to Daniel W. Neeley, concerning tuition for Neeley's daughters.
The collection of anthropologist Sharlotte Neely (1948-) contains recordings on open-reel audiotape of musical groups performing at the 1974 Trail of Tears Singing held by the Snowbird Cherokee Indian community in Graham, N.C. Cherokee groups from both North Carolina and Oklahoma featured at the Singing include Lossey Quartet, Snowbird Indian Quartet, Grand State Gospel Four, and the Littlerocks. The 1974 recordings contain interviews in the Cherokee language with Snowbird tribal council members Ned Long, Mose Waschacha, and Jim Jumper and with Gilliam Jackson, the first college graduate from Snowbird. Field notes with narrative description accompany the recordings. Also included are a 1973 recording of the Third Sunday Monthly Singing at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Graham County, N.C., and a 1971 recording of a Cherokee language lesson for children conducted by Goliath George. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Nancy Dols Collection consists of video recordings created by ethnomusicoligist and musician, Nancy Dols Neithammer. The recordings primarily feature old-time fiddlers Tommy Jarrell of Surry County, N.C. and Luther Davis of Grayson County, Va., including footage of Jarrell and others playing on and off stage at the 1982 Low Gap Fiddle Contest in Low Gap, N.C. and footage of Davis playing at his home outside of Galax, Va. Of particular note is the bowing lights video in which Jarrell plays in the dark with a light attached to his wrist to help illustrate his bowing technique.
English merchant and exporter in Charleston, S.C., and other American cities. Contemporary handwritten copies of letters, 1784-1798, written by Nelson, with a few letters received and other commercial records. The letters were written to Nelson's associates in London, W.C. and Francis Lambert; to his partner, Samuel Bellamy, who was at various times in Philadelphia, New York, and other cities; to South Carolinians to whom he sold goods and whose rice and other products he exported; to relatives in England; and to commercial connections in many eastern seaboard cities. From 1784 to 1796 the letters were written chiefly from Charleston (although occasionally from other places), and in 1796-1798, chiefly from Philadelphia.
James M. Nelson (fl. 1835-1861) was a cotton factor at Stateburg, S.C. The collection includes papers of Nelson, chiefly correspondence, receipts, and bills, documenting transactions with the firm of Robinson and Caldwell of Charleston, S.C. Also included are papers of C. and E. L. Kerrison and Company, importers and wholesale and retail dry goods dealers of Charleston, S.C.
Martha J. Nelson is a former graduate student in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1994 to 1995 she was staff folklorist at the Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center in Hiddenite, N.C.
This collection documents white politician Michael("Mike") R. Nelson's 16 years of elected office in Carrboro, N.C., including his service from 1995 to 2005 as the first openly gay mayor in North Carolina. The collection primarily contains newspapers and campaign materials documenting Nelson's political career, beginning as campaign manager for Joe Herzenberg's 1987 Chapel Hill Town Council campaign. Materials document Chapel Hill and Carrboro election campaigns, Carrboro events, and actions taken by Nelson while serving as an alderman, mayor, and county commissioner. There collection also contains a small amount of letters, speeches, and audiovisual materials, as well as newspaper articles documenting Ray Warren becoming the first openly gay Republican officeholder in December 1998. The collection also contains newspaper articles, letters, and other documentation from the Orange County Commissioners and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen pertaining to a 1994 ordinance allowing unmarried couples to register as domestic partners and receive benefits, as well as a small amount of political memorabilia dating back to the late 19th century.
Frank H. Netter (1906-1991) was a white artist and physician whose illustrations depicted many medical conditions, treatments and anatomy of the human body. Before Netter studied medicine and became a physician he studied art and had established himself as a commercial artist early in his career. After completing medical school he set up his medical practice but was unable to make a living as a physician because of the Great Depression. It was at this time that he began making medical illustrations for various pharmaceutical companies. His pictures appeared in medical advertisements, pamphlets and books. His relationship with Ciba Pharmaceutical Company (later called CIBA-GEIGY Corporation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation) encompassed most of his career and resulted in the publication of many anatomy books. The best known of these is the eight volume set titled the Ciba Collection of Medical Illustrations or the "green books." The first volume of this collection was published in 1953 and the last volume was published posthumously in 1993. This collection is now known as the Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations. Frank H. Netter completed the 'Atlas of Human Anatomy' in 1989 and a large number of his illustrations were used in Clinical Symposia which was a publication of Ciba.
Financial and legal records of the Neuse River Ferry Company include survey contracts, indenture contracts, loan contracts, promissory notes, company share certificates, sales receipts for materials, deeds, and tax receipts. There are also will and related probate materials of Malachi Potter, the original owner of the company, and later deeds of his son, William Potter. There is also one unidentified tintype photograph.
John Nevitt was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and owner of Clermont Plantation near Natchez in Adams County, Miss.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers related to the Union occupation of New Bern, N.C., during the Civil War, including the muster roll of Co. B, 1st North Carolina Infantry (Colored), U.S.A.; scattered letters from Union soldiers at Camp Stevenson describing in detail camp life and accommodations; and a plan of the town of New Bern showing the location of Burnside's headquarters.
The New Bern Oral History Project was undertaken by members of the Memories of New Bern Committee, New Bern, N.C., beginning in 1991. Under the direction of Joseph F. Patterson, Jr., and others, 155 interviews were conducted with 138 older New Bern residents. Interviewers sought to capture memories of life in New Bern, circa 1905-1980, before the arrival of large numbers of retirees and modern times dramatically changed the town's character.
The collection includes collected, unrelated papers from colonial New England, including letters from governors John Endecott, 1649, Joseph Dudley, 1710, and Jonathan Belcher, 1733-1734, of Massachusetts; Cotton Mather, 1691; William Bollan, 1761; and President Eleazar Wheelock of Dartmouth, 1773, introducing two Native Americans to Sir William Johnson; a report of an examination, circa 1640-1670, of Hester [Lugge?] by Governor Richard Bellingham of Massachusetts, in which the accused confessed that she was pregnant out of wedlock; and a sermon in shorthand, 1727.
The New Light Gospel Music Store, owned by Roumel William Taylor, was located in Philadelphia, Pa., selling gospel music recordings and related items.
New Voices was a series of radio visits with young writers in North Carolina airing 5 April 1978-17 May 1978 on WUNC radio, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Four miscellaneous items: a deposition, 1762, by Johan Conrad Petre regarding land east of the Hudson River; a letter, 1806, from Richard Bogardus, Boston, Mass., to Abraham Huffman, Kingston, N.Y., concerning runaway slaves in Ulster County, N.Y.; a bond, 1830, for a tavern license issued to Jacob B. Near; and a letter, 1831, from Littleton D. Tenche, a Maryland legislator, to United States senator Charles Edward Dudley (1780-1841) of New York, concerning banking.
The collection consists of post-1801 theses in multiple languages from leading medical schools throughout the world. Europe is well represented, with many theses originating from universities in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Countries with lesser quantities in the collection include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Algeria, Indonesia, and others.
The collection is a Civil War diary, with entries 18 June 1861-5 November 1861, of an unknown federal soldier from New York. Entries were made while the writer was serving with the New York 14th Infantry in New York; Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D.C.; and various locations in northern Virgina. Entries describe volunteering for the army; military life, including foods eaten during his tour; military duties, including standing guard, chores, and roll call; interactions with fellow soldiers; and interactions with civilians. Included are an account of the exchange of arms for long Enfield rifles; the Union army's defeat at the first battle of Bull Run and observations of injured troops returning from that battle; and artillery firing near Fall Church, Va., 14-15 October 1861.
Larkin Newby (1781-1824) was a merchant and state legislator of Fayetteville, N.C.
Robert C. Newby (fl. 1877-1878) was in the leather and tanning business and farmed in Fauquier County, Va. The collection includes the diary, March 1877-February 1878, of Newby, recording in great detail daily activities, weather, neighborhood events, conversations with neighbors, and relations with workers.
Typed copy of A. S. Newcomb's Sand and Grit: A Yankee's Recollections of Thirty-five Years in the Sandhill Section of North Carolina (1939), which appears not to have been published.
An audio interview with Mittie Agnew Barrier, a white quilter from Rowan County, N.C., who discusses wakes, black cats, and textiles used to cover coffins. Laurel Horton, a white folklorist and quilt researcher, and Joyce Joines Newman, a white artist and folklorist, conducted the interview circa 1975 when they were both students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection also contains a note by folklorist Dan Patterson, who provides a brief description of the recording.
George Washington Carver (1864?-1943), African-American scientist of the Experimental Station of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insitute, was known for his work in agricultural experimentation, especially in investigations of uses of peanuts and sweet potatoes and extraction of dyes from soils and clays. He was also an accomplished painter and lectured extensively in behalf of agricultural improvements and interracial cooperation. Wilson L. Newman first met Carver when Newman was a student at Vanderbilt University and chair of the Commission on Race of the Regional Council of the Student Y.M.C.A. Newman later taught in the Home-Study Department of the University of Chicago.
Brief daily records, 1857-1861, 1873-1882, of crops, weather, slaves' work, supplies issued to slaves and tenants, and visits and other personal matters, kept by overseers of Newstead plantation in Washington County, Miss.
Charles McKinney Nice of Birmingham, Ala., served in the Alabama House of Representatives, 1954-1958; as circuit court judge, 1974-1982; and, after that, as family court judge until his retirement in 1988. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and other materials, chiefly relating to Nice and his judicial career. Some materials document Nice's stands against race discrimination as a legislator and against capital punishment as a judge. Correspondence, largely 1970s and 1980s, includes personal and professional letters written and received by Nice, who was a prolific letter writer with interests in history and politics. Included are letters, chiefly about politics, from Terry Sanford, Alabama politicians, and others. Most letters are from Nice's tenure a circuit court judge in Jefferson County, Ala. Writings include copies of journals Nice wrote throughout his lifetime. Most of the journals contain reminisces about cases he handled and about the end of his career on the bench. Also included are contemplatory writings by Nice about politics and his time in the Alabama legislature. The bulk of the newspaper clippings are about judicial cases, including some relating to death penalty cases over which he presided. Also included are election materials, speech notices, and genealogy materials chiefly relating to the Nice and McKinney families.
The Nicholls family lived in King and Queen County, Va.
The collection includes family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1850, of John Watson of Brockport, N.Y., New Canaan, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Tex., with members of his family, particularly his father, William A. Watson of Brockport, his wife, Mary Ann Watson, of New Canaan, his daughter, Julia E. Watson, while she was attending school at West Winsted, Conn., in the early 1850s, and Henry Watson; and correspondence and papers of the Nicholson family of Pasadena, Calif., North Carolina, Indiana, South Dakota, and Kansas, including some Quaker religious writings of William Nicholson and correspondence relating to his activities as a federal Indian agent in Kansas in the 1870s.
Caroline O'Reilly Nicholson (born circa 1812) was the wife of A. O. P. Nicholson (1808-1876), United States senator and chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The collection contains Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (Mrs. A. O. P. Nicholson), typescript (43 pages), written circa 1894, by Caroline O'Reilly Nicholson, and one letter. The reminiscences cover social activities, religious life, and town events in Columbia, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn., 1820s-1840s; politics and elections in Tennessee, 1830s-1840s; social life in Washington, D.C., 1840s; and A. O. P. Nicholson's political activities, including his personal and political friendship with James K. Polk. The recollections end about 1850. The letter is from A. O. P. Nicholson to James K. Polk, 1848, recommending a young man for an appointment as midshipman.
Green Nicholson appears to have been a traveling school teacher in Orange County, N.C., in the late 1820s and early 1830s. He was married twice, first to Mary Sharp and later to Mary Phillips, and he had a total of ten children.
Thomas A Nicholson joined the Stonewall Brigade (Company D of the 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment) at Winchester, Va., on 18 July 1861. After brief stays at Harper's Ferry, Va., and Manassas Hospital, he spent much of what is known of the rest of his military career at Camp Centerville, Va. He does not appear on the muster rolls for his unit after December 1861. The collection consists of five letters of Virginia Civil War soldier Thomas A. Nicholson to his mother and sister, May-November 1861, while Nicholson was serving in the Stonewall Brigade. The letters discuss various aspects of military life; Nicholson's stay in Manassas hospital; his desire to meet the Union Army in battle; and his unit's prospective move to winter quarters at Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley.
Paul Nickell (28 December 1915-17 May 2000), worked as a director of early television dramas from 1948-1968. Nickell left television in 1968 to join the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught until his retirement in 1981. The collection contains television scripts annotated by Nickell over the course of his career as a director, scripts annotated for student productions, scripts sent to Nickell, mentions of Nickell in printed media, and motion picture film prints of television dramas directed by Nickell.
The collection contains four audio cassettes with an interview of Appalachian storyteller Ray Hicks. North Carolina outdoor writer T. Edward "Eddie" Nickens conducted the interview at Hicks's home in Beech Mountain, N.C., on 12 May 1989. In the interview, Hicks discusses growing up, living, and working as a farmer in Beech Mountain and explains how he became a storyteller. Hicks tells Nickens several Jack Tales including "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Lucky Jack and Unlucky Jack," and "The Cat and the Mouse." The collection also includes a partial transcription of the interview and field notes. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Walter Nicol was a Scotsman who settled in Louisiana and worked for a New Orleans lumber exporter.
Diaries, scrapbooks, and other records of Niles, who practiced law for 46 years in Kosciusko, Miss., and served as a Republican U. S. representative from 1873-1875. The diaries, 34 V. (estimated 6,800 or more pages), cover Niles's early life and education in Vermont, 1831-1838; teaching school at several places in Ohio and Tennessee, 1838-1848; residence in Mississippi, 1848-1890; and numerous trips: to Canada, 1864; Ohio and North Carolina, 1871; California, 1872; and Texas, 1873. The diaries are an unusually full and articulate record of the experiences and opinions of a New Englander residing in the South. Fifteen scrapbooks, 1847-1888, of clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, and other items, contain material on Mississippi and national politics, particularly during Reconstruction, on Niles's New England literary interests, and on many other events and subjects. Also included are a diary and scrapbook, 1869- 1871, of Henry C. Niles, and a Kosciusko town school record, 1853-1854.
The collection is chiefly correspondence of Nims, Rankin, and Spratt family members, most in Mount Holly, Gaston County, N.C., and Fort Mill, York County, S.C. Included are several letters, 1850s, describing railroad building in the South; some letters with detailed information about slaves and Native Americans in Georgia; and a few letters, 1860-1865, showing the centrality of the Civil War in the lives of family members and discussing life in the Confederate army. Letters, 1865-1907, deal chiefly with family life, including discussions of the family's agricultural interests and its cotton mill in Mount Holly, N.C. A few letters relate to service in a hospital in the Philippines during the Insurrection. After 1910, correspondence increasingly centers around Spratt family members in Mount Holly, chiefly the women, who included a Gaston County, N.C., social worker and a professor of home economics at Cornell University. All of these women wrote frequent and highly detailed letters, most dealing with their time as college students and later with routine family matters, fashion, and sewing. Also included are family financial and legal papers, including labor contracts with freedmen in 1866; writings; school materials; genealogical materials relating to the White, Spratt, Jenkins, Rankin, and Campbell families; diaries with short entries by some of the Spratt and Rankin women; clippings; and photographs, chiefly of family members and soldiers from Camp Greene in Charlotte, N.C.
Members of the Nisbet family resided in Macon, Ga. Junius Wingfield Nisbet (1858-1933) was a lawyer and civic leader.
John Nisbet (1841-1917) worked for most of his life as a cotton factor in Savannah, Ga. In 1870, he married Virginia Lord King (1837-1901), daughter of planter and Whig politician T. Butler King (1800-1864). By the end of the 1870s, John and Virginia Nisbet had at least five children: Jack, Marie, Florence, Nanni, and Lordie. During the Spanish American War, Florence Nisbet met Philip Thornton Marye, an officer from Newport News, Va., stationed in Savannah. Married in January 1900, Philip and Florence Marye had at least one child, John Nisbet Marye. By 1917, the Maryes were living in Atlanta, where Philip was an architect. The collection includes correspondence of the John Nisbet family of Savannah and Marietta, Ga., and of the Philip Thornton Marye family of Newport News, Va., and Atlanta, Ga. It documents the business and domestic life of these families, but particularly business activities of Savannah cotton factor John Nisbet in the 1870s; the education of Florence Nisbet Marye while traveling in Europe, 1889-1890, and at St. Timothy's School in Catonsville, Md., early 1890s; that of Jack Marye at the University of Virginia in the early 1890s; the courtship of Florence by Philip Marye during the Spanish American War; Philip's movements as commander of the Third Army Motorpool of the American Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; and the activities of their son, John Nisbet Marye, at summer camp in New Hampshire and at Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry, Va., 1918-1919. Also included are letters from Nanni Nisbet in Germany reporting on the dislocation of German society after World War I and a few school reports, receipts, and genealogical charts.
Hume Nisbet was an author and illustrator who published about 40 books between 1886 and 1900. His works include romances in exotic settings and works on art.
John Nisbet, a Revolutionary patriot and merchant, moved with his parents and five siblings to Iredell County, N.C., from New Jersey, circa 1750.
David Nitschmann was a Moravian missionary bishop.
Alfred Nixon (1856-1924) was born on 28 May 1856 to Robert Nixon and Millie Womack Nixon in Lincoln County, N.C. He attended Rock Springs Seminary in Denver, N.C., before attending the University of North Carolina, where he was graduated in 1881. Nixon became Sheriff of Lincolnton, N.C., in 1884, and also served as Superintendent of Public Instruction and Clerk of Court for Lincoln County. Over his professional career, he was featured as a speaker at numerous events in Lincoln County, and published extensively on the history of the county and its people. He married Iola Jane Robinson (1862-1937) on 19 October 1882. They had nine children, including Kemp Battle Nixon (1883-1964), Joseph "Joe" Robert Nixon (1887-1952), and Millie Elmyra "Myra" Nixon Turley (1894-1984). Kemp Nixon served as an attorney for 57 years. Joseph "Joe" Robert Nixon was a teacher, and served as the Superintendent of Lincoln County Schools from 1931 to 1964. He also published on the history of Lincoln County and its people. Myra Nixon Turley was a teacher.
The collection of poet Sallie Nixon of North Carolina is chiefly correspondence from 1975 to 2005 with Poet Laureate of the United States of America, Ted Kooser. Kooser's letters discuss his writing projects. Also included are greeting cards featuring poetry and artwork by Kooser as well as printed and photocopied materials relating to him.
Alice Noble (1891-1972) was a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, staff member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation, and associate secretary and associate editor of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. The collection includes genealogical and historical data, notes and copies, mounted clippings and pictures, writings, typescripts, and pertinent correspondence, compiled by Alice Noble, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes are organized by family name or topic, and include genealogical scrapbooks on the Barron, Brice, Consolvo, Ellis, Graves, Hawks, Hooper, Jones, Lillington, Lister, Noble, Primrose, Robinson, Stephens, Turner, Watters, Yarborough, and related families; genealogical and historical scrapbooks on New Bern, Wilmington, and Hillsborough, N.C., and on the Reverend John La Pierre and the Palatine settlers in North Carolina; a history of the Chapel Hill, N.C., chapter of the American Red Cross during World War I; and a paper on Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina. Also included are photographs of Noble family members, a photograph album for the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation from circa 1920s to 1960s, and a 1959 volume titled "They Fought the Good Fight" containing editorials by Alice Noble and correspondence with alumni of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy, who were serving in the armed forces during the Second World War.
M.C.S. Noble was an educator and leader in the development of public schools in North Carolina; superintendent of schools in Wilmington, N.C.; member of the University of North Carolina faculty, 1898-1942, as professor of education and dean of the School of Education; and author of History of Public Schools in North Carolina (1930) and of numerous articles and textbooks.
Mary Noble was a resident of Rome, Ga., during the Civil War. The collection includes letters exchanged between Mary Noble and Thomas D. Attaway while he was serving with the 21st Georgia Infantry Regiment in Virginia, concerning military activities at the front and wartime events in Rome, Ga.; and postwar family letters of Noble relatives.
Stuart Noblin (b. 1913) was a professor of History at North Carolina State University and author of Leonidas La Fayette Polk, Agrarian Crusader (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1949).
R.C. Nockold was a jeweller of Frith Street, London.
Faculty papers, 1980s-2008, of Warren A. Nord, the founding director of the interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities and Human Values at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nord held this position from 1979 to 2004, and also taught the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of education in the Philosophy Department from 1981 until his retirement from UNC in 2009. Acquired as part of the University Archives.
Norfleet family of Bertie County, N.C.
The collection is two letters, one 18 May 1859, from Ben T. Roe of Nashville, Tenn., to William C. Norris of Rome, Tenn., and the other, undated, from Mrs. Norris, giving personal, domestic, and neighborhood news.
The collection is letters about the death of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), written to James Lawson Norris (1845-1910), a lawyer of Washington, D.C., from Morgan's relatives and others, in response to inaccuracies in the accounts of Morgan's death, which occurred during a Union raid in Greeneville, Tenn.
Daily logbooks of the U.S.S. North Carolina, cruising the Mediterranean under the command of Capt. John Rodgers (1771-1838), noting daily position, weather, activities on board, and places sighted and visited. One volume covers the period 14 November 1825-31 March 1827; the second, kept by W. S. Ogden, 4 February-16 August 1826.
The North Carolina Arts Council was created in 1964 by executive order of Governor Terry Stanford to strengthen North Carolina's creativity, invention, and prosperity. In 1967, the North Carolina Arts Council became a statutory state agency. It operates under the aegis of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The Council makes information, technical assistance, and over 1,000 grants a year available to non-profit organizations and artists in North Carolina. It also oversees the distribution of state and federal funds appropriated for support of the arts.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation is a nonprofit corporation established in 1966 as the endowment agency for the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Records include minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of the foundation, of the foundation membership's annual meetings, and of various committees; files on the history of the foundation and the garden; bylaws; membership lists; correspondence; records relating to the North Carolina Botanical Garden; and other material.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is an administrative unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Garden has been a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States for more than 40 years.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is an administrative unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a regional center for the conservation, study, and interpretation of plants. It was established in 1952 on a 72-acre tract of university land south of Chapel Hill; since that time it has been considerably augmented. In 1988 the garden administered approximately 598 acres. In addition, the North Carolina Botanical Garden manages several natural areas around the state and works with other conservation agencies and organizations to preserve lands of botanical value. The garden was part of the Department of Botany until 1982, when it became a separate unit. The director of the garden now reports to the university's provost. The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, an independent support organization, raises money and acquires and holds lands for the garden.
Nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institution whose purpose is to study state government policies and practices and to make recommendations for changes. Funded primarily by foundations, the Center issues special reports on major policy questions, publishes a quarterly magazine, and sponsors a yearly symposium or seminar dealing with a specific policy question.
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is a college athletic conference that was founded in 1912 as the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association. It is the oldest African American athletic conference in the nation. North Carolina Central University (NCCU), then North Carolina College for Negroes, joined the CIAA in 1928.
In 1909, James E. Shepard founded the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race. The school was later known as North Carolina College for Negroes (1925-1946), North Carolina College at Durham (1947-1968), and, beginning in 1969, North Carolina Central University. North Carolina Central University was the first state-funded liberal arts college for African Americans in the United States.
The graduate program in Public Health Education at North Carolina College for Negroes (North Carolina College for Negroes (1925-1946), then North Carolina College at Durham (1947-1968), and later North Carolina Central University (1969- )) was developed in 1945 by the founder of the College, James E. Shepard, with the assistance of M.J. Rosenau, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. The establishment of the program came out of a concern for disparities in health status between black and white Americans.
Ephemera from North Carolina counties, cities, and regions including brochures, pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, newsletters, menus, travel guides, and scattered issues of periodicals. Materials document arts and entertainment; businesses and nonprofit organizations; county/city departments; housing and accommodations; parks and historic sites; political, religious, and social organizations; restaurants and bars; schools and institutes; sports and recreation; and tourism. Some ephemera was created prior to 1980 and some items may date to the late 19th century. The collection began in the 1980s as a ready reference file maintained by the North Carolina Collection. Materials are collected by library staff and friends of the North Carolina Collection during their travels throughout the state. Donations vary from year to year. Some cities, counties, and regions may not be represented in every series.
Image reference cards relate to frequently requested, popular, and important images from the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, the North Carolina Collection, and a few private collections not held in Wilson Library Special Collections. They were compiled by members of the North Carolina Collection reference staff starting in 1970 and ending in 1990.
This is an artificial collection created by the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from postcards donated over a period of decades. The collection consists of picture postcards dating from circa 1905 to the present arranged by North Carolina county name. Postcards of miscellaneous mountains and miscellaneous scenes of North Carolina are filed at the end. Within some counties additional subdivisions exist by city/town or topic. All 100 of North Carolina's counties are represented in the collection.
A collection of unrelated iconographic materials of miscellaneous subject content. Most of the images cannot be identified with regard to precise geographic localities in North Carolina. A few relate to more than one location or to localities outside North Carolina. Primary subjects appear as subject access points; more detailed subjects appear in the contents list.
North Carolina College, a Lutheran educational institution in Carrabus County, N.C., was founded in 1853 under the name of Western Carolina Male Academy, becoming the North Carolina College in 1859 and Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute in 1902.
The North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation was established in 1921 as a state affiliate of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation to work toward improved race relations in the state. Like its parent organization, the NCCIC, sought both to alleviate injustices and to change prejudiced racial attitudes. Its efforts included meetings with individuals, correspondence, press releases, radio programs, pamphlets, local meetings, and state-wide conferences. After closing its offices in 1949, the NCCIC became an affiliate of the Southern Regional Council in 1951 and, in 1955, changed its name to the North Carolina Council on Human Relations.
The North Carolina Council on Human Relations (NCCHR) was one of twelve state organizations affiliated with the Southern Regional Council (SRC). An interracial organization, it sought, from 1954 until 1969, to solve racial problems in North Carolina through research and communication.
The collection consists of images depicting places, events, and people in each of North Carolina's 100 counties. The collection is organized into two series by format and arranged within each series according to county. Images are primarily black-and-white photographic prints and film negatives.
Addresses of J. H. Durham, M.D., D.D.S., to the annual meetings of the North Carolina Dental Society, 1884-1898; programs and photographs of the Society's annual meetings, 1922-1948 and of scattered meetings of the Society's first, second, and fifth districts; and two volumes of minutes of the Society's meetings, 1876-1924, which include the Society's constitution, 1875, by-laws, and membership lists.
The collection consists of digital photographs taken by winners of the North Carolina Documentary Photography Award, 2012-2015. The North Carolina Documentary Photography Awards is an annual program available to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduate and graduate students and is sponsored by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. The photographs depict a variety of subjects in different locations across North Carolina, and cover a variety of topics including immigration, farming, economic change, Gullah culture and religious gatherings, and North Carolina businesses.
The North Carolina Adult Education Association, affiliated with the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., is a professional organization of adult educators aiming to further the cause of continuing adult education in North Carolina and to support the efforts of its membership. Records of the North Carolina Adult Education Association include correspondence of officers, minutes of executive and other committees; minutes, agenda, ballots, programs, and other material about annual conferences; reports; memoranda; handbooks; newsletters; and photographs. Material relating to the Southeastern Association for Adult Education is also included.
The North Carolina Education Research Council was established in 1998 to provide research-based information to the North Carolina Education Cabinet, which included state officials concerned with education policy: the governor; the chair of the State Board of Education; the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction; and the presidents of the University of North Carolina (System), the North Carolina Community College System, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The council consisted of six members, each appointed by one of the members of the Education Cabinet. The council, in turn, appointed a director to administer research on issues that the council determined. For administrative purposes, the director and research staff were based in General Administration of the University of North Carolina (System). General Administration also provided staff assistance as needed to the council. Significant initiatives backed by the council included Governor James B. Hunt's NC Schools First in America challenge, Governor Michael Easley's Education First Task Force, and the Duke-University of North Carolina Research Consortium on Minority Achievement Gaps. The Spencer Foundation and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation provided grants that supported much of the research. The North Carolina Education Research Council was discontinued in 2003.
The North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration was a division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), a New Deal program enacted to alleviate adult unemployment.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was founded in 1916 in Chicago, Ill. It was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, which merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO. The North Carolina Federation of Teachers (NCFT), also known as the American Federation of Teachers - North Carolina, was formed in the mid-1970s as the state affiliate of the AFT. It is distinguished from its main rival organization, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), which is affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), in that it only represents teachers and other school-related personnel who do not serve in a supervisory capacity.
Records of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, District VIII, which coordinates activities and fosters cooperation among member clubs in Chatham, Durham, Orange, Person, and Wake counties. The NCFWC is part of the General Federation of women's Clubs, a national organization.
The North Carolina Folklife Institute Collection contains project files, administrative records, publications, and publicity materials for programs, events, and documentary works produced or supported by the North Carolina Folklife Institute, a nonprofit traditional arts organization in Durham, N.C. Projects and programs documented in the files include North Carolina Folklife Festival, Blacks 'n' Blues, Black Folk Heritage Tour, Blues to Bluegrass, Celebration!, Charlotte Country Music Story, Folk Music in the Schools, Cherokee Voices Festival, British American Festival, Sounds of the South conference and the establishment of the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the documentary films Free Show Tonite and From Our House to the White House: Square Dancing in Western North Carolina. Most projects were launched by the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, and supported by the Folklife Institute. Files contain correspondence, memorandum, planning documents, publicity materials, press releases, contracts, grant proposals and reports, budgets and other financial documents, participating artists' information, programs and schedules, posters, and newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Other events and organizations represented in the collection include the 1980 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C. The collection also contains some sheet music and a 1989 oral history interview on audiocassette tape with an accompanying tape log. The interview conducted by Leslie Williams is with Piedmont blues guitarist Etta Baker (1913-2006) of Caldwell County, N.C.
The North Carolina Folklife Media Project Collection contains radio programs and associated field recordings, 1982-1983, produced by the North Carolina Folklife Media Project, a National Endowment for the Arts funded media project directed by Cecelia (Cece) Conway, a white folklorist and professor at Appalachian State University. As project director, Conway headed the production of North Carolina Traditions, an 8-part radio series featuring North Carolina based musicians that aired on WUNC, the flagship National Public Radio station for the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. The collection contains master recordings, 1982-1983, of these radio programs produced by the grant funded project. The North Carolina Traditions radio programs feature such artists as Etta Baker, an African American Piedmont blues guitarist from Caldwell County, N.C.; Ike Rochelle, a traditional white fiddler, Worth Mason, a white singer and accordion player, and Otha Willard, a white fiddler, all from the coastal region of N.C.; Dorsey Dixon (1897-1968), a white singer and composer of textile and other songs from Richmond County; the Golden Echoes, an African American gospel quartet of Granville County; Big Boy Henry (1921- ), an African American blues guitarist and singer from Beaufort County, N.C.; Algia Mae Hinton, an African American blues singer and guitarist and buck dancer from Johnston County, N.C.; and John (Frail) Joines (1914- ), a white traditional storyteller from Brushy Mountain, Wilkes County. The collection also includes field recordings, 1983, of Algia Mae Hinton that were used as source material for the North Carolina Traditions radio program, " Algia Mae Hinton: Blues Woman of Zebulon".
The North Carolina Folklore Society was organized in 1912 at the instigation of the American Folklore Society and Frank C. Brown (1870-1943) for such literary and educational purposes as the study of folklore, and especially the collection, preservation, and publication of the folklore of North Carolina. Brown, a white academic who collected folk songs and folklore of North Carolina, was secretary-treasurer, 1913-1943. He was succeeded by Arthur Palmer Hudson (1892-1978), who served until 1964. Hudson, a white professor of English, 1930-1953, and executive secretary of the Curriculum in Folklore, 1950-1963, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, established the Society's journal, North Carolina Folklore, in 1954 and edited it until 1963. The collection includes reports of council meetings and annual meetings, treasurers' records, correspondence, and other records of the North Carolina Folklore Society. For 1912-1938, records of council meetings and annual meetings are almost complete. There is, however, little financial information and no correspondence from before 1926. Treasurer's records and reports of annual meetings are complete for the years of Arthur Palmer Hudson's secretary-treasurership, 1943-1964, but reports of council meetings are sporadic, and there is little correspondence for this period. Documentation, 1964-1976, is primarily limited to correspondence concerning publication of North Carolina Folklore and to amendments to the Society's constitution in 1970. Additional material received in October 2001 primarily contains programs, minutes, and select audio recordings of annual meetings, 1964-1996; financial records, 1976-1997; and applications and reports, 1968-1994, for grants received by the Society from the North Carolina Arts Council. Also included are some files about the history of the Society, the North Carolina Folklore Journal, awards given by the Society, and other activities of the Society, as well as audio recordings of the 83rd Annual North Carolina Folklore Society Meeting.
The North Carolina Fund, an independent, non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1968. Governor Terry Sanford and other North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewide anti-poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plus additional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; and the Office of Economic Opportunity--enabled the Fund to support a broad program of education, community action, manpower development, research and planning, and other efforts to fight poverty. The collection consists of administrative and financial records (about 32,000 items), including policy statements; Board of Directors minutes and other records; correspondence, speeches, and other files of Executive Director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) and other staff members; records of meetings and conferences; proposals and grants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Foundation for Community Development, the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation, and other organizations; subject files; clippings, audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records. There is also material about Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis's 1967 attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over political activity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development and Craven Operation Progress. Other material relates to How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment, an opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grant applications for housing, education, community development, job training, leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter Education Project; proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council Inc.; and audiovisual material created by the Public Information Department, including social welfare documentary films and audio recordings of interviews, board meetings, and radio shows.
The North Carolina Geological Survey was established in 1891 to assess the natural resources of the state and suggest economic development. Joseph Austin Holmes (1859-1915), professor of geology and natural history at the University of North Carolina, was state geologist, 1891-1904. Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942), professor of economic geology at the University of North Carolina, was state mineralogist, 1897-1906, and state geologist, 1906-1923.
The North Carolina Good Health Association, Inc., headquartered in Durham, N.C., was a public relations organization which promoted the activities of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, a state agency. The Association engaged chiefly in popularizing the building of hospitals, nursing education, and health insurance in rural North Carolina.
The collection includes miscellaneous commissions, land grants, appointments, and one letter, signed by North Carolina governors. The letter, 1773, is from William Tryon, governor of New York and formerly governor of North Carolina to Colonel Nathan Stone concerning procuring an Anglican clergyman for the town of Windsor, N.C.
The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP) was established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971 through the efforts of Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Cecil G. Sheps. The program, known as the North Carolina Health Manpower Development Program (NC-HMDP) until 1990, sought to increase the number of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who were educated and employed in the health professions and, thus, to ease the shortage of healthcare workers in rural, inner-city, poor, and minority communities throughout North Carolina. The program provided a variety of resources for pre-college and college students to attract them to the health care field and prepare them for health professions education programs. Though it was based administratively at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Health Manpower Development Program was an inter-institutional program of the University of North Carolina System. By 1976, affiliated health careers centers had been established at Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina Central University, and Pembroke State University (later the University of North Carolina at Pembroke). The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program also worked closely with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (AHEC).
Organized in 1844 by University of North Carolina President David L. Swain, the North Carolina Historical Society collected publications and manuscripts related to the history of North Carolina. The collection includes the constitution and by-laws, irregular minutes, and some accounts and membership lists of the North Carolina Historical Society, 1880-1901.
Printed policies of various unrelated individuals, chiefly insuring homes in Raleigh and eastern North Carolina against fire, issued by the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, 1847-1861, and the North Carolina Home Insurance Company, 1874-1889. One policy, 1856, insured the life of Christopher, a slave who worked as a house servant and waiter in Charleston, S.C.; the report of a physician's examination of the insured is included.
The North Carolina Institute of Education was founded on 22 June 1831 by University of North Carolina professors and state leaders of the public school movement. The purpose of the institute was to diffuse knowledge on the subject of education and by every proper means to improve the condition of the common schools and other literary institutions of our state. Records include minutes of the first two annual meetings of the North Carolina Institute of Education and the institute's constitution and membership list.
Files, consisting of correspondence, board minutes, and other items, of Thad Beyle, member of the board of the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership documenting the work of the Institute, which was formed in 1987 with the aim of improving the quality of political leadership at every governmental level in North Carolina. The Institute annually trains about 40 fellows in weekend sessions in such areas as campaign strategy, public policy, public relations, and other topics important to those seeking political leadership roles.
The collection contains papers, mostly June 1800, related to a court called by the legislature to investigate frauds in connection with land grants to Revolutionary War veterans.
The collection is a daily list of mailings from the North Carolina Land Company, indicating name and address, type of item (letter, papers, etc.), and postage. Most of the addressees are for northern investors.
The collection includes miscellaneous land grants from the Carolina Proprietors and royal and state governors, legal certificates of alterations in land grants, and deeds from individuals, chiefly in the colonial period and for lands in eastern North Carolina. Counties represented include Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Caswell, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland, Davie, Dobbs (1758-1791), Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Johnston, Lincoln, Martin, Mecklenburg, Orange, Perquimans, Rowan, Tyrrell, and Wilkes.
In 1998, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsored a weekend literary festival for readers and writers. Open to the public, this inaugural statewide event had as its focus A Celebration of Southern Writers & Readers. Over 100 writers appeared on the festival program, giving talks, leading forums and panel discussions, and reading from their works. Subsequent festivals were held in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009, alternately hosted by the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. The 2002 and 2009 festivals were at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The North Carolina Music Teachers' Association Records consist of administrative files, including constitution, handbook, minutes, newsletters, and correspondence, as well as reports of sections and reports to Music Teachers' National Association, and scrapbooks. There are also compositions commissioned by the Association and records of 1974 national competition winners.
The North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH) is a private, nonprofit membership organization of workers, union locals, and health and legal professionals. Chiefly working through local unions, NCOSH volunteers and staff offer training and education relating to toxic chemicals, safety hazards, stress, video display terminals (VDTs), repetitive motion, reproductive hazards, workers' compensation, and other issues. NCOSH also assists unions in strengthening health and safety contract language and effectively using the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Administration (NC OSHA). NCOSH offers technical assistance and research services relating to specific complaints, maintains reference materials, and makes medical and legal referrals as appropriate. Fighting for stronger OSHA standards, building coalitions, and gaining public support for union safety and health struggles are parts of NCOSH's political mission. NCOSH office files, include membership lists, financial records, investigative files, and materials relating to labor history. Also included are videotapes and slide presentations, many of them about asbestos in the workplace.
The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association was founded in 1880. Membership primarily consisted of white males throughout the state. The association legally changed its name to the the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists in 1999, and unified with the the North Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and the North Carolina Retail Pharmacy Association on 1 January 2000.
The North Carolina Poetry Society was organized in Charlotte, N.C., in 1932, with goals of fostering the study, writing, and publication of poetry; offering North Carolina poets a chance to meet; and developing a public taste for the reading and appreciation of poetry. Gastonia poet and editor Zoe Kincaid Brockman was the first president.
The North Carolina Pottery Center Collection of Oral Histories consists of audio interviews conducted by the North Carolina Pottery Center with North Carolina based potters. The interviews were part of the center's "Living Tradition" oral history project, which was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS).
The North Carolina Press Association (NCPA) was founded on 15 May 1873. Member newspapers created the organization for mutual benefit and protection. The NCPA holds annual conventions to discuss important issues facing the press. During the 1960s and 1970s, the NCPA retained lawyer William Lassiter to monitor legislation that threatened to limit freedom of the press and to report on other legal issues with which the NCPA was concerned, including privacy and access to governmental meetings. The NCPA is also interested in photojournalism; its annual photo contest honors the year's best in North Carolina photojournalism in a variety of categories.
Records of the North Carolina Press Club, chartered in 1978 as an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women, with goals relating to assisting in the professional development of its members and recognizing their accomplishments. Materials relate to the Club's organization, its meetings and those of the National Federation, and Club-sponsored activities, such as contests for writers and photographers.
The collection consists of 66 images of North Carolina railroad stations. Images depict railroad stations in over 40 counties in North Carolina and consists of photographic prints made from images taken by unidentified photographers. Materials are arranged by location, and many descriptions include the name of the railroad company that owned or managed the stations.
The North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals (Sociedad de Profesionales Hispanos) was founded in 1999 with the mission of promoting the education of Hispanic students at all scholastic levels. The collection consists of three videotapes related to the work of the NCSHP: two tapes of the 2001 North Carolina Legal Immigration Forum and one tape of the North Carolina Hispanic Educational Summit.
Records of the North Carolina Society of New York, an upper class social club founded in 1898 for North Carolinians residing in New York, include membership applications and directories, minutes of trustees' board meetings, bylaws, financial records, officers' reports, photographs, and printed items such as newspaper clippings event programs and invitations. Much of the collection pertains to the organization's membership by application, financial operations, and events, particularly the Annual Dinner Dance.
The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) administers financial assistance to students seeking postsecondary degrees and scholarships to parents sending children to private K-12 institutions. Additionally, NCSEAA publishes an annual publication that assists student, parents, administrators, and school counselors in seeking financial assistance. The records consist of administrative files including annual reports, correspondence, committee and council files, conference and meeting materials, audits, budget files, escheat fund earnings, trust agreements, bond files, College Foundation, Inc files, statistical data reports, and files on various organizations and funding programs including College Board, National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs (NASSGP), and National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs (NCHELP), North Carolina Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NCASFAA), NC Insured Student Loan Program, and the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The North Carolina State Thrift Society was an organization that aimed to promote personal saving by school children.
The North Carolina Symphony was formed in 1932 under the direction of Pulitzer Traveling Fellow, Lamar Stringfield. The Symphony was a Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s; in the 1940s, it was the first orchestra to receive state funding on a continuous basis. Benjamin Swalin and Maxine Swalin led the Symphony from 1939 to 1972. They promoted the idea of taking the orchestra out to all parts of the state, a tradition that began in 1943 when the North Carolina State Legislature passed what was referred to as the Horn Tootin' Bill. As of 2009, the Symphony plays over 175 concerts in 30 to 40 counties in North Carolina per year.
Records of the North Carolina Theater Consortium from the 1990s and early 2000s document initiatives and operations of the nonprofit, membership organization for the state’s theater practitioners, presenters, and supporters. The collection contains agendas and meeting minutes for the board of directors; annual reports; newsletters and other organizational publications; marketing files; program and project files; brochures, flyers, and other ephemeral printed items; calendars; directories and mailing lists; operations manual; planning documents for annual convention; and executive director David zum Brunnen's correspondence, especially printouts of his email exchanges with colleagues. Other materials include photographs, posters, video recordings, playbills, newspaper clippings, publications from other theater organizations, and data gathered for a statewide theater census conducted between 1995 and 1996. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The University Magazine was established in 1844 as a monthly literary journal and was published off and on under various names during the 19th century and from 1897 until 1948. For the period covered by these records, the publication was called North Carolina University Magazine. This publication was succeeded in 1948 by the Carolina Quarterly. Records are chiefly financial and include subscription lists maintained by the student treasurer, 1859-1860, and by the faculty adviser, Collier Cobb, 1892-1895 and 1897.
The collection contains two volumes of typed lists of voters in eastern North Carolina, 1916. These lists probably were made for use in a political campaign.
The North Carolina Writers' Network Records, 1977-2010s, consist of office files, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting the work of the board of trustees, programs, conferences, membership, authors, fundraising, writing awards and competitions.
The North Carolina Department of Community Colleges was established in 1963 by order of the North Carolina General Assembly. The creation of the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges established a unified administrative body for the state's community colleges and technical institutes.
The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources is the state agency responsible for arts, history, and library programs; among its divisions is the State Library of North Carolina.
The collection consists of 276 color 35mm slides made circa 1970 that are organized by North Carolina geographical regions and subject themes. The slides were originally used in presentations. Also included are 171 note cards describing the slides' subject matter. Subjects include tobacco; general North Carolina locations; historic sites and other structures; and the coastal, Tidewater, Piedmont, and mountain regions.
The collection includes records of early North Carolina state legislatures, consisting chiefly of papers, 1784-1809, pertaining to land fraud cases involving state officials, including correspondence and committee reports, messages between various governors and the two houses of the legislature, material from the legislative investigation, and petitions. The fraud involved land granted to Revolutionary War soldiers. Also included are miscellaneous papers, consisting of resolutions, governors' messages, and items for various legislative committees, 1793-1842.
Reports, orders, and muster rolls (50 pages) pertaining to the 5th Regiment, North Carolina militia, while on active service, 1815; and a roster of cavalry and artillery field officers of the militia in certain eastern North Carolina counties, 1810-1811.
North Carolinians for the Freeze, a coalition organized in 1982 as a citizens' group advocating a mutual, verifiable nuclear weapons freeze between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The group's main activitiy was the campaign for a freeze resolution in the 1983 session of the N.C. General Assembly. The resolution narrowly failed.
The collection is a survey, from the coast, of the boundary line of North and South Carolina, signed by Samuel Spencer, Morgan Brown, Nicholas Bond, Samuel Davis, William Howard, William Hardwick, John Stuewart.
The collection contains printed oaths of allegiance to the United States government signed by citizens of Alamance, Warren, and other North Carolina counties and of Anderson District, S.C., 1867-1868, and a volume containing the stubs of oaths signed in Orange County, N.C., September 1865.
James Heyward North, of Charleston, S.C., was a purchasing agent for the Confederate Navy in Europe. The collection contains North's passport, telegrams, and a pocket diary begun after he resigned from the United States Navy, telling of visits to Charleston, Montgomery, Norfolk, Baltimore, New York City, and Philadelphia; the voyage to England with his wife, daughter, and Edward Clifford Anderson; and experiences in England and France, while purchasing supplies for the Confederate Navy.
J. W. Roy Norton, North Carolina state health director, 1948- 1965, and professor in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
MICROFILM ONLY. Notes and selections from a scrapbook compiled by John Alston Norton of Montgomery, Ala. Notes include a list of Confederate states in the order in which they seceded from the Union, a handwritten copy of Alabama's secession document, names of Confederate Congress members, a summary of events leading up to the capture of Fort Sumter, and accounts of Civil War battles and casualties through April 1862. The information was apparently taken from newspaper accounts. There are particularly detailed accounts of the Battle of Fort Donelson by Brigadier General Pillow; the naval battle at Hampton Roads; and women's sewing societies. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings with anecdotes about Confederate soldiers and reported atrocities of Union troops. There is also a long account of the Battle of Shiloh from the Alabama Advertiser.
Otway B. Norvell (fl. 1860-1891) was a Confederate soldier who served with the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. He was captured in 1863 and imprisoned at Camp Douglas near Chicago, Ill., until 1865. The collection includes an account (37 pages), written in 1891, by Norvell of his experiences, 1863-1865, as a Confederate prisoner in federal Camp Douglas, mentioning hardships and maltreatment. Also included is a contemporary handwritten transcription (4 pages) of charges against conspirators who allegedly planned to attack Camp Douglas in 1864.
William Norvell, attorney and politician of Carlisle, Ky.; his father Lipscomb Novell; sister Martha; and brother Lipscomb.
The collection includes letters from Joseph Caldwell, James Hogg, William Hooper, and James Webb to James Alves and Walter Alves, Hillsborough, N.C., on a variety of subjects, including land division in Tennessee and Kentucky in 1798, the War of 1812, and the University of North Carolina, 1813-1825. Letters from others concern Hogg family genealogy and the Civil War. Items dated before 1861 are handwritten transcriptions. Civil War letters include a letter of Thomas Lenoir Norwood, son of J. C. (Joseph Caldwell) Norwood and Laura Leah (Lenoir) Norwood, describing student life at the University of North Carolina in 1861 and not mentioning the war; two letters from Laura Norwood in North Carolina to her mother about raising troops and about sentiment for the war; a letter of Walter Norwood written in 1862 from Camp Lee near Savannah, Ga., describing camp life and speculating on Union tactics as federal troops moved toward Savannah; and a letter of Thomas Lenoir Norwood, written in 1863, from Richmond, Va., describing being wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, being taken prisoner, escaping and traveling through Union lines, and meeting with General Robert E. Lee.
James Alves Hogg Norwood (1804-1852) was one of eight children of William and Robina Hogg Norwood of Hillsborough, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, 1824, and was a tutor at the university, 1833-1834; a student of law; and a teacher.
Thomas M. (Thomas Manson) Norwood (1830-1913) was a lawyer, judge, Confederate soldier, and United States senator from Georgia. The collection includes manuscripts and clippings pertaining to Thomas Manson Norwood, including clippings of the satirical public letters written by Norwood in 1871 to Republican Georgia Governor Rufus Bullock; a few speeches and essays, including parts of A True Vindication of the South; and other miscellaneous items.
This artificial collection includes the personnel files of Albert Coates, Howard Odum, Louis Round Wilson, William B. Aycock, Paul Sharp, and J.C. Sitterson. Acquired as part of University Archives.
William Nott sold and bartered merchandise in Fayetteville, N.C.
The Bill Nowlin Photographs consists chiefly of images taken by the white co-founder of Rounder Records, Bill Nowlin, depicting folk singers and musicians at folk festivals, fiddling contests, and other performances, circa 1967-1975. Events depicted in the collection include, Northeast Oldtime Fiddlers Contest, National Hollerin' Contest, Smithsonian Folk Festival, UC Folk Festival, Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Contest, and other events. Also included are images of the Rounder Records offices in Cambridge, Mass., as well as earlier photographic prints collected by Nowlin that depict musicians Clayton McMichen and Riley Puckett.
A. B. (Alonzo B.) Noyes was Superintendent of Lights and Collector of Customs in St. Marks, Apalachee Bay, Fla. The collection includes communications received by Noyes in connection with his offices as Superintendent of Lights and Collector of Customs. Included are printed circulars, bulletins, government forms, and letters from the Secretary of the Treasury and others.
The collection contains recordings made on audio cassette tape by folklorist, radio producer and broadcaster, and bluegrass musician Philip Nusbaum. The recordings of Nusbaum's projects and radio shows include gospel music artist Lessie Anderson, fiddle contests, and modules from his "Gems of Bluegrass" series. Modules focus on specific elements of bluegrass music and feature music segments and commentary. Titles on the recordings are "Symbols of Stability in Bluegrass," "Bluegrass Banjo Styles," "Melodic Bluegrass Banjo," "The Bluegrass Boy in Town," and "The Culture of Bluegrass." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection is a daybook containing accounts of a general store at Nutbush, Granville County (now Williamsboro, Vance County), N.C., December 1832-September 1834.
Henry Nutt was a Wilmington, N.C., merchant actively interested in the improvement of the city harbor and of navigation in the Cape Fear River.
Leroy Moncure Nutt (1828-1882) of Culpeper County, Va. was a lawyer and captain of scouts in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This collection contains papers pertaining primarily to Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) and his men. The bulk of the collection consists of letters, 1866-1867, from veterans of Forrest's command written to Forrest or to his biographers, General Thomas Jordan (1819-1895) and J. P. Pryor. These detailed letters contain descriptions of the service of various Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi regiments and batteries, primarily in Tennessee; sketches of fellow officers killed in the war; narratives of battles; and eyewitness accounts of Forrest himself. Also included are military messages from Forrest's adjutant regarding troop movements in the Nashville campaign, November-December 1864, and scattered personal and military papers of Leroy Moncure Nutt of Shreveport, La., captain of scouts in the Army of Tennessee.
Bill Nye was a Western humorist who spent his last years in North Carolina.
Kemp Battle Nye (1915-1994) was a white University of North Carolina alumnus, a U.S. Marine in the detachment guarding the U.S. emabassy in Peking (now Beijing) in the 1930s, a record store owner in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a writer. Papers of Kemp Battle Nye chiefly document his time at the University of North Carolina as a student; his record store, Kemp's; and life in Chapel Hill, N.C. Materials include clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, an account ledger for the store, and subject files. The Addition of December 2019 consists of Nye's writings on his experiences in China during the 1930s and on North Carolina and copies of The Horse Marines of Peking, in which Nye is the narrator, and Triangle Almanac.
Margaret Nygard (1925-1995), a white environmental conservationist, her husband Holger Olof Nygard, and others in 1965 formed the Eno Historical Society (later renamed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley and often called the Eno River Association). She was also involved in other local and state-wide groups that supported efforts to protect sensitive environmental areas. The Margaret Nygard Papers chiefly relate to her involvement in founding and running the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley. Topics include the acquisition of land along the Eno River for the Eno River State Park, the Festival for the Eno and other outreach events of the Association, Nygard's involvement with the North Carolina Division of State Parks and North Carolina environmental organizations, and her opposition to development projects, including the proposed expansion of Raleigh-Durham Airport. Also included are some Nygard and related family materials. Additions to the collection consist of materials similar to those found in the original seven series; new topics of note are materials about the Cave, Fews, Cole, Malone, Markham, and Mangum families who lived in the Eno River Valley; the Native American people and trading paths around the Eno River, Occoneechee Mountain, and Oxbow areas; and images by Durham, N.C., photographer Hugh Mangum, depicting members of the Mangum family of Durham, N.C., and the Eno River and surrounding areas.

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Promotional materials relating to the motion picture film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, including lobby cards, photographs, poster, and production notes.
Papers of Michael O'Brien, historian of the American South, contain academic and scholarly papers, correspondence, membership records, student records, and other items.
Erin O'Brien Moore was born in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1902. She was primarily a Broadway stage actress, but also appeared in films and on television. O'Brien-Moore died in 1979.
Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972 and helped form the Women's Studies curriculum. Throughout her career she continued to teach courses relating to women at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The collection includes files on organizations with which Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter; and other publications.
The 1990 video tape recording on VHS contains performances of the Saint Luke AME Zion Church choir in Wilmington, N.C., with its director Beryl Constance O'Dell. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Mark J. O'Donnell Collection consists of live audio recordings, publicity, set lists, posters, and other materials compiled by white collector, Mark J. O' Donnell, who recorded and collected live audio recordings of bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, and rock music in North Carolina and elsewhere. Materials relate to concerts and festivals at North Carolina area venues, including Cat's Cradle, ArtsCenter, Festival for the Eno, and MerleFest, as well as some national venues and radio programs, including McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Calif. and the Los Angeles based syndicated radio program, Folkscene. Some items are signed by performers.
Prudencio de Hechavarria y O'Gaban was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1796. He was a lawyer, judge, professor, orator, and eminent poet. Bernardo de Hechavarria y O'Gaban was Prudencio's brother and was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1812. He also studied law and, like his brother, received recognition for his writings, but in his case for political ones instead of poetry.
The collection contains transcriptions of speeches for presenting a flag to the Fayetteville, N.C., militia, circa 1857, and for accepting the selection of May Queen.
Letters received by O'Keef as editor of The Raleigh (N.C.) Times, from readers of the newspaper chiefly concerning race relations, the Ku Klux Klan, and other civil rights matters in North Carolina. Topics of discussion also include local and national politics, the gubernatorial campaign of 1964, and the state university speaker ban law.
Alfred Moore O'Neal (fl. 1861-1865) was the son of Governor Edward Asbury O'Neal of Alabama. He served in the Confederate army as a member of the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment. The collection includes reminiscences (14 pages) by Alfred Moore O'Neal of his experiences during the Civil War while stationed in Mobile, Ala., and in Virginia; a piece of the battle flag of the 26th Alabama Infantry; and a letter, 1902, from Thomas Warren to Mrs. Alfred Moore O'Neal, his sister, concerning the Confederate military service of their father, Merwyn J. Warren.
Edward Asbury O'Neal (1818-1890) was a lawyer, local secession leader, Confederate Army officer, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886. The collection chiefly consists of Civil War letters among O'Neal and his two sons in the Confederate Army, and his wife at home in Florence, Ala.; postwar letters and papers relating to his law practice in Florence, Ala., and Huntsville, Ala.; and correspondence concerning his two gubernatorial campaigns and Alabama politics, with very little concerning the United States presidential election of 1876. Volumes are chiefly scrapbooks of clippings and manuscripts pertaining to O'Neal's political career, as well as other members of the O'Neal family.
The collection contains a land grant, 20 April 1745, from George II to John O'Neal with plat, concerning land in Craven County, N.C., and a letter, 1893, from Mary C. Thompson to Margaret Lee concerning everyday activities.
The collection includes a copy of minutes, 1923-1928, of the Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Yanceyville, N.C.; and History of the Primitive Baptist Church of Historic Caswell County, N.C., by J. Burch Blaylock, which includes the location, founding dates, and history of the Primitive Baptist congregations in Caswell County, N.C.
Oakland College, located in Claireborne County, Miss., was established in 1830 by the Mississippi Presbyterian Church. The collection includes two reports (21 pages and 22 pages) from the faculty of Oakland College to the college's trustees and to the Presbyterian synod of Mississippi, discussing the building endowment and financial and other affairs of the college.
Appleton Oaksmith, North Carolina state legislator from Carteret County, N.C., was the son of Seba Smith (1792-1868), Maine and New York political humorist, and Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893), author, lecturer,and reformer, who used the name Ernest Helfenstein.
A twenty-year editor for Guitar Player magazine, Jas Obrecht has been writing about music since the mid-1970s. The Jas Obrecht Collection consists of audio interview recordings, 1978-2012, that Obrecht conducted with prominent guitarists and musicians throughout his career as a music journalist; manuscript versions of Obrecht's books, My Son Jimi, Talking Guitar, and Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar; original articles by Obrecht in Victrola and 78 Quarterly and reprinted articles in Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese issues of Guitar Player and in other German and Italian magazines; celebrity correspondence and memorabilia; materials affiliated with the musician, Brian Patrick Carroll, who is known professionally as Buckethead; demo tapes and mixes; and other writings and papers.
The Occoneechee Hotel existed in Hillsborough, N.C.
Ocean City Beach (N.C.) Community Records document the African American community founded on Topsail Island, N.C., in 1949. The collection consists of anniversary programs celebrating the establishment of Ocean City Beach; maps and brochures of the island; Ocean City Courier newsletters; the Ocean City Beach Citizens Council handbook; other printed materials and newspaper clippings documenting the impact of the Chestnuts, one of the founding families of the community; and photographic prints and slides depicting Chestnut family and friends, aerial views of the island, and scenes from the community, chiefly during the 1950s. Other materials include a 1995 interview of Caronell Chestnut and a photobook of the Ocean City street sign dedication from May 2012.
Ochag Russkikh Shofferov (Foyer des Chauffeurs Russes, "Hearth of Russian Chauffers"), was a Russian émigré organization based in Paris, France, and a local chapter of the French drivers union, Cochers et Chauffeurs de Voitures de Place. It was formed in November 1944, when the independent Russian taxi driver union, Soi︠u︡z Russkikh Shofferov (Union Générale des Chauffeurs Russes, "Union of Russian Chauffeurs") was dissolved and absorbed into Cochers et Chauffeurs de Voitures de Place. The organization carried out activities to support its members, as well as various cultural and educational programming to benefit the Russian émigré community in Paris. The Ochag Russkikh Shofferov Records contain meeting minutes; annual financial reports, membership fee records, loan requests, and other financial records; French social security registration cards of members (with dates and places of birth in the Russian Empire and home addresses in Paris); correspondence, primarily member business correspondence, including with other Russian émigré organizations and various French agencies; and ephemera.
Odum family of Robeson County, N.C., included Malcolm E. Odum (1884-1954), who raised tobacco, cotton, and corn as cash crops, and his daughters, who rented out shares to tenants after their father's death. The family sold their farm in 1986.
The papers of white sociologist Howard Washington Odum (1884-1954) document his role in founding the Department of Sociology, School of Public Welfare, and Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina and chronicle his academic career; scholarly research interests, including African American secular folk music; work in race relations in the American South, regional planning, and Jersey cattle breeding; and affiliations with regional and national councils and commissions that were concerned with social and economic welfare especially during the Great Depression, lynching, and what was contemporaneously called “interracial cooperation.” The collection contains professional correspondence with social science researchers, other scholars and academics, journalists, and civil rights and civic leaders; reports from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation about mob terror and murders by lynching; speeches; published and unpublished writings; administrative files; organizational materials; newspaper clippings; printed items; teaching materials; research files, including a study Odum started on the term “poor whites” in 1938; and photographs including a sub-regional photographic study conducted by the Farm Security Administration from 1939 to 1940.
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, artist and Episcopal clergyman, was born in Bavaria and came to the United States in 1848. In 1851, he married Julia Adelaide Torrey (d. 1907), with whom he had four children. His works include decorations for the ceiling of the House of Representatives in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.; Rock of Ages, which was widely circulated in reproduction; and many religious paintings and wood carvings for churches. Oertel served as rector in Lenoir and Morganton, N.C.; Glen Cove, N.Y.; and Emmorton, Md.; and briefly operated a sawmill in Orange Springs, Fla. From 1895 to 1902, he painted a series of large canvases collectively called Redemption, which he considered his highest achievement.
Elmer R. Oettinger Jr. was born in 1913 in Wilson, N.C. He was, among many other things, professor of public law and government and assistant director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He died in 2010.
Leon Oettinger, tobacco warehouse owner of Douglas, Ga., in the 1940s, and his wife, Amy Montgomery Oettinger, who wrote about warehousing and selling tobacco.
Members of the Ogden family, headed by James and Mary Odgen, lived in Manchester, England. Their children Thomas Ogden (d. 1787), Titus Ogden (d. 1793), and Isaac Ogden (d. 1785) emigrated from Manchester to North America circa 1770, where they settled in New Bern, N.C., and became successful landowners and merchants. Titus Odgen later moved to Philadelphia, Pa., and then to Tennessee, where he died in 1793. Titus Ogden was a paymaster to the troops and of Native American annuities; he was present at the 1791 signing of the Treaty of Holston with the Cherokees in Philadelphia.
The collection is a muster roll of a company of Butler County, Ohio, riflemen, commanded by Captain Anderson Spenser (fl. 1812), called into federal service on the frontier, 1812. The list was certified in 1817.
Daniel Okun (1917-2007) worked in 89 countries over the course of his career. He began his career in the Army as a Sanitary Engineering Officer, and later switched to the private sector, working for Malcolm Pirnie. In 1957, he moved into academia at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (though he continued to consult), where he remained until his retirement.
Records of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Task Force include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, research materials, proposals, master plan, and cemetery plot data. Also included are materials related to the Black Student Movement's 2001 call for restoration of gravestones in the African American section of the cemetery.
The collection contains the administrative records of The Old-Time Herald magazine founded by folklorist and traditional music performer Alice Gerrard, based in Durham, N.C., and published by the Old Time Music Group of Galax, Va. Records include a prospectus for the magazine, galley proofs, camera ready art and copy, authors' manuscript submissions, correspondence, minutes and audio recordings of board meetings, reports, subscriptions, and financial documents such as receipts from vendors and donors. The majority of the correspondence was received by Alice Gerrard, who served as the magazine's first editor. Other materials are publications including other magazines about folk music and organizational newsletters, files about other organizations with which Gerrard and the Old Time Herald were connected particularly the Old Time Music Group, the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, and the Blue Ridge Music Association. Additionally, the collection contains some of Gerrard's writings, research files, and field work including transcriptions of interviews with musicians Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, Tommy Jarrell, and Luther Davis. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Steve Oliva grew up in Asheville, N.C., and Cape May, N.J. He studied English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 2007. He works as a designer, illustrator, printmaker, and musician in Durham, N.C.
Billy Brown Olive of Durham, N.C., was a white attorney who specialized in patent and intellectual property law, The collection includes materials on environmental and social issues of interest to Billy Brown Olive, specifically his opposition to the Interstate 40 construction through Orange County, N.C.; the proposed landfill site near Eubanks Road in Orange County; and the proposed extension of the East/West Expressway (North Carolina Highway 147) through the historically African American Crest Street community in Durham, N.C. Interstate 40 papers consist of Olive's office files related to Interstate 40 construction through North Carolina, including correspondence, meeting minutes of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, newspaper clippings, maps of routes, and petitions. Landfill site materials relate to the proposed placement of an Orange County landfill near Eubanks Road in Orange County, and include court documents, letters of opposition written by Olive, newspaper clippings, landfill drawings, and publications and reports. Crest Street papers include correspondence; court documents, specifically those related to the Save Our Church and Community Committee of Durham; maps of Duke Forest; publications and reports; and additional correspondence relating to I-40 construction in Durham. Also included is material related to the Orange County Municipal Waste Project, chiefly consisting of correspondence of Olive with state and local officials, newspaper staff, educators, and the Landfill Owners Group, but also including studies and reports on waste management. There are a few related photographs scattered throughout the collection.
Lindsay Shepherd Olive was born in Florence, S.C., in 1917. He received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942. He was on the faculty of the botany department at Columbia University, 1949-1968, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-1982. Professor Olive was a distinguished mycologist whose research focused on the cytology, genetics, morphology, and taxonomy of fungi and mycetozoans. Professional correspondence, research notebooks, drawings and photographs relating to Olive's research, and other materials relating to Olive's education, research, and academic career.
Elizabeth Oliver was born in 1940 on her father's dairy farm in Virginia. After attending the University of North Carolina, she moved to New York City, N.Y., and worked as a set designer in the theater. In 1968, she taught craft workshops at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, N.C. She then moved back to New York City to work as a video producer and editor. In 1977, Oliver was a student at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Me., where she was later invited to teach and serve as a visiting artist. Her primary topics were papermaking and crafts. In the 1990s, she also ventured into poetry and began performing her work. None of her work was published. Around 1997, she was diagnosed with cancer and began three years of treatments. She died on 10 October 2000 in Virginia Beach, Va.
Contains research, correspondence, and original photographs and slides pertaining to Dr. Jean Oliver's kidney research. Collaborators include, but are not limited to: Thomas Addis, Carl W. Gottschalk, Malcolm Holliday, Ronald A. Kramp, and Louis G. Welt. The addition of 2005 includes correspondence collected by Malcolm Holliday.
Charles H. Olmstead (1837-1926), was a Confederate Army officer and member of the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment. The collection contains military papers including orders, circulars, communications and telegrams, reports, and some correspondence about military matters, sent and received by Charles H. Olmstead at Fort Pulaski, Ga., from 1861 until its surrender in 1862; at Morris Island and Fort Johnson on James Island, S.C., in 1863; and in the vicinity of Savannah and Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia in 1864-1865. Olmstead was imprisoned at Fort Columbus after the surrender of Fort Pulaski and wrote a letter, 10 June 1862, to United States Secretary of War Stanton complaining about the treatment of the Confederate sick and wounded in a manner in violation of the surrender terms. In addition, there are twenty-four letters, 1861-1864, from Olmstead to his wife at Savannah and Milledgeville, Ga., describing camp life; military activities at various locations, including, in addition to places previously mentioned, Tybee Island, Ga., and Hilton Head, S.C.; his estimation of the military situation; and speculation about the future.
Ten letters, 1862-1863, from Henry Oman written while serving in the 124th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment to his wife, Sarah Mentzer Oman. Oman writes about religious beliefs and practices, shared acquaintances, interactions with enslaved people on plantations, the Siege of Vicksburg, and plans for the future.
Chartered on February 16, 1973, the Psi Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was the first historically black Greek organization established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This scrapbook documents the activities of the fraternity during its first semester on campus, spring 1973. The scrapbook includes photographs, text, news clippings, and ephemera.
The U.S.S. Steam sloop Oneida was a screw corvette of 1032 tons and nine guns. Under the command of United States naval officer S. Phillips Lee for the period of the Civil War covered in the diary, the Oneida participated in an expedition up the Mississippi River to Vicksburg, Miss.; engaged in the blockade of Mobile, Ala.; made monthly stops in Pensacola, Fla., for refueling; and visited the Lesser Antilles.
Opelika Pictures is a film company founded by New York-based filmmaker Macky Alston (Wallace McPherson Alston III). Alston directed the documentary film, Family Name, which examines the links between himself and the descendants of former slaves in North Carolina who share the Alston name. The collection is composed of research and genealogy notes, audio and video tapes, film, record albums, publications, photographs, business and personal correspondence, and clippings associated with the making of Family Name. Included are photographs of the work of artist Charles Henry Alston and interviews with his sisters and others who knew him. There are also photographs and taped interviews with Macky Alston and members of his family.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers including a bill of indictment in a case of assault, 1769; a record of mock trials, 1770, conducted by the Regulators (19th-century copy); and three warrants against Hermon Husbands, 1770-1771.
The collection is a list of landowners in Orange County, N.C., with acreage owned and valuation of land and improvements, made in determining the federal direct tax for 1816.
The collection contains unrelated daybooks, ledgers, and other records of general stores, blacksmith shops, leather and liquor merchants, and other small businesses of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and other locations in Orange County, N.C. Businesses represented include Barbee and Watson; William Bond; Samuel Claytor; T. D. Crane; Crain and Nash; Leathers, Latta and Co.; Turner and Jones; and Utley and Culbreth.
The collection is an Orange County, N.C., public school register, 1895-1903, and a subscription list, undated, for the establishment of a Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The collection contains a volume of irregular minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Superintendents of the Orange County, N.C., common schools.
The collection contains lists of taxpayers with amounts of tax and date paid, grouped by township.
The collection includes A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, by Annie Sutton Cameron, a manuscript history of the local war effort, and related correspondence and lists of soldiers and members of local committees. Cameron's history covers the Council of Defense and the Home Guard, war bond and overseas relief campaigns, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic of 1918, and other matters.
The Order of Gimghoul was founded in 1889 by Edward Wray Martin, William W. Davies, Shepard Bryan, Andrew Henry Patterson, and Robert Worth Bingham, all students at the University of North Carolina. The society is secret and available to male students and faculty of the university by invitation only.
The Order of the Gorgon's Head, a secret society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was founded in 1896. Membership has always been limited to male members of the junior, senior, professional, and post-graduate classes along with male faculty members. Inductees may not be members of other societies. Officers include Princeps (chief officer), Quaestor, and Scriptor. The purpose of the Order is to promote friendship, good will, and social fellowship among its members.
The Order of the Grail-Valkyries traces its origins to the fall of 1920, when the Order of the Grail was formed to bring together the university's fraternity and non-fraternity men. The order hosted informal dances to bring the two groups together, and it served the university by contributing the dance proceeds to scholarships for deserving students. In 1976, the Order of the Grail merged with the Valkyries, a group of university women who embraced the same ideals as the men of the Grail. Since 1941, the Valkyries had been the only campus honorary society that recognized extraordinary contributions of university women. The Order of the Grail-Valkyries funds scholarships from its participation in class ring sales; it also hosts lectures and inducts outstanding students into its organization.
The Order of the Old Well is an honorary organization founded in 1949 by a group of students and faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to honor students for exemplary and otherwise unrecognized service to the university. Membership in the Order has been open to both male and female students from its founding.
The recording made in circa 1989 by Laura Orleans, a folklore graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, contains selected songs performed by the klezmer musical group Die Yiddishe Bande founded by fiddler Bert Chessin and based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Jerrold Orne (1911- ), library director, Library Science professor, and consultant on library concerns, with a national and international reputation as an expert on academic library buildings, library standards, and bibliographic control.
The Orr and Patterson family joined two prominent families from South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Family members included J. L. (James Lawrence) Orr (1822-1873), state legislator, member of Congress, judge, governor of South Carolina, 1866-1868, and United States minister to Russia; his son-in-law, W. C. Patterson of Philadelphia, Pa., and Greenville, S.C., son of Colonel W. C. Patterson of Philadelphia; and Lawrence Orr Patterson (b. 1869), a civic leader of Greenville, S.C., and donor of the collection.
Jehu Amaziah Orr (1828-1921) was a Columbus, Miss., lawyer, judge, and Confederate congressman. Papers of Jehu Amaziah Orr, scattered in dates and subjects, are chiefly legal and personal in nature. There is some very dispersed correspondence pertaining to state and national politics, but not to secession or the Confederate Congress. The greatest concentrations of papers are 1847-1859 and 1898-1910, with the later group containing some items concerning the University of Mississippi during the administration of Governor James K. Vardeman but consisting primarily of letters among female family members discussing marriages, deaths, and social news.
Joseph Kyle Orr (1857-1930) was a merchant and manufacturer of Atlanta, Ga. The collection includes correspondence of Orr as Grand Master of the Masonic Knights Templars, concerning the Knights Templar Foundation, which made loans to college students.
A. J. Osborne of Garden Creek, Haywood County, N.C., was an agent for Benjamin B. Valentine and Mann Satterwhite Valentine of Richmond, Va., philanthropists and collectors of Indian relics of the Appalachian region.
Adlai Osborne of Salisbury, N.C., was a patriot, lawyer, clerk of court, and University of North Carolina trustee.
Edwin Augustus Osborne was a lawyer, Confederate colonel, Episcopal priest, and superintendent of Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, N.C.
J. F. Osborne was a country doctor and farmer in Gibson County, Tenn.
John Osbourn (sometimes Osbourne) of Mecklenburg County, N.C., was a planter and landholder who owned several plantations and farms in the area. The collection consists of a diary, ca. 50 pp., containing daily entries of two to three lines each, February 1819-September 1821. Entries highlight social life, including many of the seasonal events and patterns associated with early 19th-century rural life. Included is information about the weather; land and livestock transactions; farm work; visits with neighbors and relatives; trips to Camden and Charleston, S.C., to market wagonloads of crops; and Baptist and Methodist camp meetings that Osbourn and his family sometimes attended. One diary entry mentioned escaped slaves.
James Hervey Otey was an Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, 1834-1863.
John Marshall Otey was assistant adjutant general under General P. G. T. Beauregard during the Civil War.
Robert Boone Outland (1907- ), North Carolina physician.
David Outlaw, a white farmer and a Whig member of Congress from 1847 to 1853, owned a farm near Windsor in Bertie County, N.C., whose operations included the forced labor of enslaved people. George, an enslaved person, managed the farm in David Outlaw's absence. The collection is chiefly correspondence of David Outlaw to his wife, Emily Outlaw. Subjects discussed are trafficking (then called "hiring out") of people enslaved by the Outlaws; state and national politics, including the Mexican War, slavery, sectionalism, the Wilmot Proviso, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and various politicians; social life in Washington, D.C.; and Outlaw's family, especially the education of their daughters, and the farm. Also included are a few letters from Outlaw's wife and daughter and genealogical material on the Outlaw and Anderson families of Tennessee (typed transcriptions).
Wyatt Outlaw was appointed deputy member representing Alamance County, N.C., of the Grand State Council of the Union League of America in 1867. He was later hanged by the Ku Klux Klan.
Contains reports, correspondence, photographs, flyers, posters, artwork, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to organizations and causes supported by white organizer and labor rights advocate Ted Outwater. Organizations documented in this collection include the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), the Farmworkers Legal Services of North Carolina (FLSNC), the People’s Alliance, and Orange County Citizens for Alternative Power (OCCAP). Materials range in date from 1969 through the 1980s.
Before her marriage to Dub White, Grace McSpadden Overholser was married to James Overholser and, at some point, worked as a reporter. Later in life, she taught English and African American studies and served as dean at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C.
Bettie Lea Reid Overman of Reidsville, N.C., oldest daughter of Hugh K. Reid and Carolina Graves Reid, was born 25 April 1858. On 27 October 1885, she married Charles Hamilton Overman (d. 1913), with whom she had one child, Reida, who married Robert D. Gapen.
Lee Slater Overman, lawyer, legislator, and U.S. senator, was born in Salisbury, N.C., where he opened a law office and served as president of the Salisbury Savings Bank. In 1878, he married Mary Paxton Merrimon, and they had three daughtrs. In 1882, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and was reelected four times, serving as speaker of the House for the 1893 session. In 1914, Overman became the first U.S. senator from North Carolina to be elected by popular vote, having been previously appointed to the seat by the state legislature in 1902 and again in 1909. Despite his political conservatism, Overman supported most of the Federal Reserve Act, the income tax law, and federal assistance to farmers. He wrote and sponsored the Overman Act of 1918, which gave the president extraordinary powers to coordinate government agencies in wartime. However, Overman stood firm in his conservatism as a leader of southern resistance to woman suffrage. Overman served almost 28 years on Capitol Hill.
John Overton was a Tennessee lawyer and politician. John Overton (1766-1833), Tennessee pioneer, jurist, and dedicated supporter of Andrew Jackson, born in Louisa County, Va. Personal letters (1827-1830) from Overton's Virginia relations chiefly detailing the illnesses (dyspepsia and pleurisy) and death of Overton's sister, Ann Coleman (d. 1828), with comments on the division of her slaves among her heirs, diet, the election of 1828, and a Tennessee land dispute.
MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence, chiefly of John Overton, Nashville, Tenn., lawyer, judge, and land speculator. Topics include Tennessee and national politics, legal issues, land speculation, and Andrew Jackson's political career. Correspondents include Joseph Anderson (1757-1837), John Bell (1797-1869), Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), William Blount (1749-1800), Willie Blount (1767-1835), George Washington Campbell (1769-1848), Newton Cannon (1781-1841), William Charles Coles Claiborne (1775-1817), Henry Clay (1777-1852), William Cocke (1747-1828), John Coffee, William Dickson (1770-1816), John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), Thomas Emmerson, Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849), John Haywood (1762-1826), Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson (1843-1926), William Berkeley Lewis (1784-1866), Philip Lindsley (1786-1855), John Sevier (1745-1815), Martin Van Buren, Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840), and James Winchester (1752-1826). Also included are eight original items, primarily Overton family personal correspondence.
Allison Owen was the son of William Miller Owen, a Confederate officer who after the Civil War formed Longstreet, Owen and Company, a brokerage business, in partnership with General James Longstreet. The collection includes photostatted copies of two letters. One, 26 January 1866, is from Robert E. Lee to Longstreet, Owen and Company congratulating them on their new partnership. The other, 2 April 1885, is a draft of a letter from Jefferson Davis to N. Walker, giving his reasons for declining to prepare a criticism of General Grant's military career.
The Blanton Owen Collection consists of audio, motion picture films, and field notes, 1963-1971, created and compiled by folklorist, musician, and photographer, Blanton Owen (1945-1998). The audio recordings primarily feature Anglo-American old-time musicians from Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, including Hubert Caldwell, French Carpenter, Fred Cockerham (1905-1980), Mose Coffman, Virgil Craven (1902-1980), Burl Hammons, R. H. Haymore, John Hilt, Tommy Jarell (1901-1985), Taylor Kimble (1892-1979), Maggie Hammons Parker, Manco Sneed, Dan Tate, and Oscar Wright (1894-). Also included in the collection are audio recordings of a worship service at Little River Primitive Baptist Church. Of particular note are motion picture films, audio recordings, and field notes, 1971, associated with Blanton Owen's unfinished documentary film project that features Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham playing music and conversing on Cockerham's porch in Low Gap, N.C. The collection also contains field notes created by Southern Folklife Collection staff that correspond to select audio recordings. These SFC field notes include performers' names, technical information about the tape, a brief description of contents, song titles, and tunings.
Guy Owen (1925-1981), novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, and professor of English at North Carolina State University. The collection includes writings, research material, correspondence, subject files, and other papers. More than half of the collection consists of material produced Owen during writing projects, including handwritten or typed drafts of novels, short stories, poems, and articles. Many of the drafts were never published. Correspondence, chiefly professional in nature, subject files, news clippings about Owen and his work, photographs, audiotapes comprise the rest of the collection.
John Owen was the governor of North Carolina, 1828-1830.
Rufus H. Owen (1830?-1892) of Wolf Trap, Halifax County, Va., was a Confederate officer who served with the 6th Virginia Cavalry. The collection includes letterpress copies of letters and reports, most by Captain Rufus H. Owen, Confederate Army quartermaster at Sumter, S.C., chiefly concerning securing fodder and other supplies for army horses.
The collection includes letters, 1805-1824, written to James Wallace, merchant and British consul in Savannah, Ga., from his brother, Michael Wallace, apparently a British diplomat in Nova Scotia, about personal, business, and diplomatic matters; and letters to James's daughter, Sarah Wallace Owens, from her brother John, student in Boston and businessman in Liverpool, England, 1810-1814, and from her husband, George Welshman Owens (1786-1856), lawyer and United States representative, of Savannah, Ga. Included are letters written on travels in England, France, and the West Indies. This collection is microfilm only; location of the originals unknown.
The collection includes photostatic copies of three letters from General Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Va., to Annie W. Owens, Savannah, Ga., about an exchange of photographs and other friendly matters.
Robert B. Owens (1871-1953) was an Episcopal rector at churches in various North Carolina communitites.
The Jesse E. Oxendine Papers, 1860s-2015, consist of letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials of Jesse E. Oxendine (1926-2017), a Lumbee Indian from Pembroke, N.C. Letters, 1944-1954, were written by family and friends from Pembroke, Charlotte, Detroit, and Richmond, chiefly during Oxendine's World War II military service. Other topics include boy scout troop 27 in Pembroke; the history of the 82nd Airborne, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, including their participation in the liberation of Wobbelin concentration camp near Ludwigslust, Germany; Holocaust education; Cherokee Indian Normal School and Pembroke State University; Pembroke local history during the 1940s; Civil War and Reconstruction era recipes and home concoctions; the W. M. Lowry General Merchandise Store; and a 1958 incident in which Lumbee Indians expelled the Ku Klux Klan from Maxton, N.C.
The collection includes a volume containing the minutes of the Oxford Women's Literary Club in Oxford, N.C., including subjects of papers presented by members and the secretary's comments on the procedings; some personal information on members, such as illnesses and bereavements; a printed yearbook of the club, 1923; and assorted notices and letters relating to the club.
An instructor and coordinator of performing arts at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, N.C., Cheryl Oxford received her B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The collection includes materials that Cheryl Oxford collected and produced in conjunction with her Ph.D. dissertation, They Call Him Lucky Jack: 3 Performance-Centered Case Studies of Storytelling in Watauga County, N.C. The focus of this research was the stories and performance paradigms of three traditional Appalachian Jack tale storytellers from North Carolina: Ray Hicks, Stanley Hicks, and Marshall Ward. Other regional tellers of Jack tales, both traditional and revival, including W. W. Rowland, Richard Chase, Frank Proffitt, Jr., Gwenda LedBetter, Doug Elliott, Orville Hicks, and Fred Armstrong-Park, were also documented as part of her research. The bulk of the materials are audio and video recordings of public performances and interviews, which include storytelling. Also included are story transcripts, published articles by Cheryl Oxford, and a copy of her dissertation. Most of the fieldwork was conducted during the summers of 1981 and 1982, with fieldwork and performance documentation continuing until 1988. The collection provides rich documentation of specific stories and storytelling performances by North Carolina regional storytellers and examples of the same story told by different tellers in the same region and the same story told by the same teller on different occasions. Audio and video recordings also contain a wealth of material on Appalachian traditional medicine, ghost stories, music, family genealogy, and folk customs and beliefs. Included is a rare performance of Jack in the Lions' Den by Marshall Ward.
Oyster Boy Review is a literary journal published in print and on the World Wide Web. Damon Sauve edits the journal, which began in 1994 and is published three times a year. Records of the Oyster Boy Review consist chiefly of production materials, including correspondence (chiefly copies of emails) with the authors published in each issue and manuscripts of their submissions. Also included are emails between Sauve and Review editors and a small amount of financial and administrative material.

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P. Linehan & Co., a partnership of Patrick Linehan and J. H. Winder in Raleigh, N.C., quarried granite and sandstone at various central and eastern North Carolina locations and delivered it to railroads and other customers.
Microfilm of an account, written for children, of the family and community life of Charles Phillips, Samuel Phillips, and Cornelia Phillips Spencer, children of James Phillips, professor at the University of North Carolina, beginning with their arrival in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1826.
The collection contains account books, 1811-1828, of the Pactolus Iron Works and a related nail factory operated by Elihu and Elijah Embree in Sullivan County, Tenn.
Clarence E. Page Jr. was born in 1917. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1934 to 1938 as a student in the pharmacy program. He later became a licensed pharmacist and lived in Raleigh, N.C.
Three large scrapbooks comprise the collection of white amateur golfer Estelle Lawson Page (1907-1983) of Chapel Hill, N.C. Newspaper clippings, score cards and other ephemera, photographs, telegrams, greeting cards, tournament programs, and other printed items in the scrapbooks document Page's competitive golf career from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Henry Page was a student at the University of Virginia and the son of United States representative from Maryland and railroad president John Woodland Crisfield (1808-1897). The collection includes letters from John Woodland Crisfield to Henry Page. Topics discussed include the election of 1860 and secession. One letter was written while Crisfield was a delegate to the Washington Peace Convention of 1861.
Writer, union activist, and communist Dorothy Markey (nee Dorothy Page Gary) was born in Newport News, Va., in 1897. Under the name Myra Page, Markey was an active political journalist and writer in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, she taught writing at the Writers' School sponsored by the League of American Writers in New York City. During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote and published the juvenile biographies. Dorothy Markey died in 1993.
MICROFILM ONLY. United States and Confederate naval officer and Confederate army officer, from Norfolk, Va. Logs kept by Page while aboard the frigate Brandywine, 1825- 1826; the frigate Constitution, 1826-1828; the brig Perry, 1852; the sloop of war Germantown, 1857-1860; and his messages sent and received at Fort Morgan, when he was Confederate commander of the defenses of Mobile Bay, Ala., 1864.
Robert Newton Page, member of Congress from Aberdeen, N.C., 1903-1917.
William Nelson Page (1854-1889) worked from 1880-1889 in the coal, iron, and railroad industries in West Virginia and Virginia. This collection contains business correspondence, almost entirely 1880-1889, of Page as superintendent, manager, and director of several coal and iron companies, of the Virginia and Pittsburgh Land Association (a land development company), and of the Pittsburgh and Virginia Railroad Company. The correspondence with other company officials, attorneys, geologists, bankers, and suppliers of equipment concerns organization, real estate, operation, and expansion of coal, iron, and related industries in the region. Also included is personal correspondence with relatives in Staunton, Va., and Richmond, Va.
William Page of Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island (Glynn Co.), Ga., grew rice and Sea Island cotton. Page also owned Colonel's Island, Ga.
Robert Treat Paine of Edenton, N.C., was a lawyer, state legislator, army officer during the Mexican War, member of the United States and Mexican Claims Commission, and United States Representative, 1855-1857.
Letters, chiefly 1866-1869, written mostly by S. C. Painter of western Virginia to members of his immediate family. Letters discuss the economic difficulties Painter experienced during Reconstruction while pursuing farming in North Carolina and Virginia and, later, a retail business in Virginia. Of particular interest is a letter, 1 December 1867, in which Painter included an illustration of his crooked toothbrush. Only one letter, 2 May 1861, relates to the Civil War. In it, Painter described public support for the war and told how unprepared Richmond was to receive the thousands of soldiers who gathered there in May 1861. Also included is a letter, 12 December 1867, from T. L. Painter (relation to S. C. Painter unknown) describing student life at an unspecified medical school.
Members of the Paleske family of Henrico County, Va., included Mary G. Lewis Paleske (1832-1874), her husband Charles G. Paleske (1831-1907), and their daughter Fannie Lewis Paleske Timberlake (1868-1935).
The collection includes notes, 1852-1853, made by A. W. Palmer (fl. 1852-1853) at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., on lectures by Drs. Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872), founder of the school, and Eli Geddings, and undated medical notes of Archibald L. McQueen, also presumably made at the Medical College of South Carolina.
The collection is a list of deserters from the 65th North Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States of America, under command of Colonel G. N. Folk, 12 May 1864.
MICROFILM ONLY. An account book, 1750-1756, kept by John Palmer of Gravel Hill Plantation, probably in what is now Berkeley County, S.C., and an account book, 1778-1784, kept by John Palmer Junior, of Richmond Plantation, also probably in what is now Berkeley County. Included are accounts from the estates of John Monk and John Benoist, slave lists, mercantile accounts, and a memoranda of bonds and notes of John Fitzgerald that were destroyed by British troops in 1781.
George F. Palmes was a resident of Savannah, Ga. The collection includes correspondence and business papers of members of the Palmes family, chiefly of George F. Palmes. Letters detail family news, including illnesses, courtships, and marriages; social events; views on education for girls; and religious sentiments, including a description of baptisms. Business papers include letters regarding cotton sales and other financial matters, and scattered receipts and lists of accounts.
The Panacea Springs and Hotel Company was an Oxford, N.C., company that ran a resort hotel in Warren County, N.C., and sold bottled mineral water.
The Panknin Drugstore in Charleston, S.C., was owned and operated by Charles F. Panknin, a chemist and pharmacist. The collection includes business correspondence, prescription books, and other records of the Panknin Drugstore. Twenty volumes, 1852-1872, record prescriptions, ingredients, and purchasers. Correspondence is chiefly with suppliers and customers, although personal matters are represented. Also included are three account books of scattered dates.
The collection contains original letters from Thomas Wolfe to Albert Coates, Benjamin Cone, Julian Meade, Corydon Spruill, James Holly Hanford, Archibald Henderson, J. Maryon Saunders, and others. There are photocopies of letters from Thomas Wolfe to various recipients, including Lora French and Horace Williams. There are also two original letters from William Faulkner to Richard Walser and one from Sinclair Lewis to Julian Meade. The collection also contains printed material, reminiscences, material gathered by Don Bishop when he was writing about Thomas Wolfe, a bibliography of Wolfe material in the scrapbooks of the Carolina Playmakers, a photocopied galley proof of Of Time and the River, scripts, essays, and articles about Wolfe. There is also material from the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, N.C.; the Thomas Wolfe Society; the Thomas Wolfe 75th Anniversary Celebration; the annual Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C.; the North Caroliniana Society; and the University of North Carolina.
The dubbed recordings on audio cassette tape are of musical artists Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins live in concert at Ebbets Field in Denver, Colo., in 1973 and 1974. David Paradise of Chapel Hill, N.C., collected these recordings. Also included are field notes compiled in 1993 with information about how the recordings were made. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Mollie A. Parham (fl. 1863-1873) was a native of Petersburg, Va., who became a governess in Shelby County, Tenn., and later married Jasper W. Braswell of Shelby County, Tenn. The collection includes the diary, 1872-1873, of Parham, while governess to the children of the Palmer family of Shelby County, Tenn. Brief entries describe her teaching, life with the family, social activities, and a visit to an exposition in Memphis, Tenn. Also included is an essay she wrote as a schoolgirl in 1863.
John Paris (1809-1883) was a Methodist Episcopal minister of Guilford County, N.C., author of religious works, and a Confederate Army chaplain.
The Parish family of Florida included Richard Parish of Leon County, Fla.; his wife, Dorothy Parish; and their daughters, Lydia Elen Parish and Julia Jane Parish, who attended school in Sparta, Ga., and Caroline A. Turnbull of Monticello, Fla.
Daybooks and ledgers of the general merchandise business of David Parker and William Nelson, Hillsborough, N.C.
Luther Rice Parker (1879-1933) was born in McColl, Marlboro County, S.C., and wrote letters from Clio, S.C., Morriston, Fla., Clearwater, Fla., and Williston, Fla. He worked as a brick mason and later as an accountant for businesses in Florida and South Carolina. He served as clerk and treasurer for Morriston, Fla., in 1904. In 1905, he moved eastern North Carolina. Cora Lillian Parker (1880-1971) was born in Averesboro, Harnett County, N.C., where she worked as a school teacher. Luther Rice Parker and Cora Lillian Parker courted, 1902-1907, and married in Dunn, N.C., in 1907.
The papers of white minister Clarence Prentice Parker (1883-1973) of Kentucky document Parker's social justice work and interests, political concerns, and his ministerial services in Episcopal churches in Chicago, Ill., West Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina. The collection contains scattered correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends, printed items chiefly from organizations he supported, financial materials, and newspaper clippings. Organizations and churches represented in the collection include the Civil Rights Congress of Illinois, St. Mark's Church in Chicago, Christ Episcopal Church in Fairmont, W. Va., Southern Conference Educational Fund, Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C., North Carolina Council on Human Relations, American Friends Service Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Social justice causes and political concerns reflected in the materials include racism, racial violence, civil rights for African Americans, labor unions, anti-Semitism, public housing, voting rights, fascism, and communism. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Florence Edith "Edie" Knight Parker (1927-2016) attended the University of North Carolina from 1947 to 1949 where she was active in student government, Greek life, and Model United Nations. The collection includes materials from the Women’s Intercollegiate Government Forum that Parker planned, orientation booklets, rush invitations, clippings about the Model UN from the Daily Tar Heel, and letters from male suitors. The collection also contains notes from a 1948 conference about the United States's role in the European recovery from World War II hosted by Mademoiselle magazine in which Parker participated.
Francis Marion Parker was born in Tarboro, N.C., in 1827. He was educated in schools in Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C., and then farmed in eastern North Carolina. In 1861, Parker was elected colonel of the 30th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He served in this position until wounded in May 1864. Parker saw action in several battles, including the Battles of Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. After the war, Parker continued to manage his plantation until his death in 1905.
Major General Frank Parker, a white native of South Carolina, graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1894; served in the United States Army, 1894-1936; and was director of the Illinois War Council, 1942-1945.
Henry Middleton Parker (fl. 1848-1851) of Grahamville, S.C., was educated at Georgetown Academy, Washington, D.C., and Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia, S.C. His son was also named Henry Middleton Parker (fl. 1873). The collection includes a notebook of Henry Middleton Parker (fl. 1848-1851), kept while he was a student at Georgetown Academy, 1848-1849, and studying for the Presbyterian ministry at Columbia Theological College, 1850-1851, describing his studies, reading, religious thoughts, and personal expenses; and the diary of his son of the same name, kept while he was a seminary student in 1873, describing some personal experiences, especially religious thoughts, and including notes on sermons.
John Johnston Parker (1885-1958) of Charlotte, N.C., was a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit from 1925 to 1958. Papers include correspondence and other materials relating to legal practice; to jurisprudence in general, including judicial organization and international law; to the North Carolina and national Republican parties in which Parker was influential; to Parker's unconfirmed appointment to the United States Supreme Court in 1930 and other occasions on which he was considered for the Supreme Court; to the University of North Carolina, of which he was long an active trustee; and to many other personal, political, and civic matters and organizations. There are also papers relating to official duties, including informal memoranda of cases and decisions, among them labor and racial integration cases, and reports of annual conferences of circuit judges. Other papers relate to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945-1946, at which he was an alternate judge on the International Military Tribunal from the United States, and to study committees of the American Bar Association. The addition of 2013 consists chiefly of personal correspondence with Parker's family and others, concerning education and student life, especially at the University of North Carolina; politics; health; the Nuremberg Trials; and daily life.
Parker of North Carolina, judge of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1925-1958, served as an alternate judge in the Nuremberg trial of major German war criminals in 1945-1946. Files of Judge Parker, consisting chiefly of mimeograph copies of exhibits, briefs, and testimony in the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trial, in which Parker served as alternate to Francis Biddle (1886-1968), the American member of the International Military Tribunal. Most of these documents appear in the official proceedings of the trial, but the files also contain some materials not included in the published proceedings.
John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) was governor of Louisiana, 1920-1924; member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Board of Trade, the Southern Commercial Congress, and the Mississippi Valley Trade Association; and a national leader of the Progressive Party.
The first African-American woman undergraduate to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Karen L. Parker was born in Salisbury, N.C., and grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C. Parker majored in journalism and after graduating in 1965, Parker began a career in newspapers that took her to the Grand Rapids Press, the Los Angeles Times, and to other newspapers before returning to the Winston-Salem Journal. The collection is Karen L. Parker's diary with entries 5 November 1963-11 August 1966. The entries appear regularly every few weeks in the beginning of the diary and gradually appear less often, ending with entries every several months. Parker began the diary while she was a student majoring in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the first entries concerns the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, her observations of reactions in Chapel Hill to the assassination, and her own thoughts and feelings about it. Diary entries describe her experiences as the first African American woman undergraduate to attend UNC-Chapel Hill, her involvement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), her participation in civil rights demonstrations against segregation in Chapel Hill, and her arrest after entering a segregated Chapel Hill restaurant. An entry dated 30 April 1964 describes the visit of former segregationist governor of Mississippi Ross R. Barnett to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and his remarks about the inferiority of African Americans. The diary also includes entries detailing Parker's observations and experiences concerning race relations and discrimination in Grand Rapids, Mich., while copy editor for the Grand Rapids Press and her changing views of the civil rights movement as she considered the merits of self-defense as opposed to non-violent resistance. Entries throughout the diary describe her thoughts about where she belonged as an educated African-American female during the civil rights era. Additions consist of a letter from Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, Dean of Women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to Karen L. Parker's mother, F.D. Parker, concerning Karen L. Parker's arrest on 19 December 1963, newspaper clippings about Karen L. Parker's accomplishments as a journalism student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 38-minute video of Parker reading excerpts from her diary and answering questions with Susan King, dean emeritus of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The video was produced at Parker's home in 2022.
Robert W. Parker was born in 1838 in Pittsylvania County, Va. His father, Ammon H. Parker, and mother, Frances Goggin Parker, eventually settled in Bedford County, Va., where Robert became a farmer. Robert served in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry of the Confederate States of America Army from the onset of the American Civil War, and attained the rank of 4th Sergeant. Robert was killed in action at Appomattox Courthouse, Va., on the morning of 9 April 1865, the same day that Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to the Union Army. Surviving him was his wife, Rebecca Louise Fitzhugh Walker Parker, and two sons.
Joseph Roy Parker, Jr., was born in Ahoskie, N.C., the son of Joseph Roy Parker, Sr., journalist and professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina. In 1953, Parker began his career in journalism as editor of three family-owned weekly newspapers serving Hertford, Bertie, and Northampton counties, N.C. In 1957, after graduation from the University of North Carolina (A.B. Journalism, 1955), he became a political reporter for the News and Observer of Raleigh. From 1963 to 1971, Parker was the News and Observer's Washington correspondent. Returning to Raleigh in 1971, Parker remained with the News and Observer until July 1972, when he left to work on the gubernatorial campaign of Democrat Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles. In 1973, after a short stint as associate editor of the Fayetteville Observer, Parker became the editor of the newly established Fayetteville Times.
William C. Parker was a corporate public relations executive, journalist, and graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (A.B., 1949). The collection contains final typed drafts of profiles written by William C. Parker of Paul Green, Howard Odum, Betty Smith, and James H. Street; issues of Holland's magazine containing articles based on the profiles of Odum and Street; a typed draft of a description of the Chapel Hill writers' colony of the 1940s, which was to be the introduction to a projected book of profiles of writers; and a letter, 1 April 1949, from Betty Smith to Parker about her profile.
Diary volumes, correspondence, photographs, and other material of William Newman Parker, rector of the Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal), Philadelphia, Pa., 1906-1957. Parker's diary, 1903-1959, is in fifty-four volumes; it consists chiefly of brief, factual, daily entries. Correspondence, 1905-1959, chiefly relates to family matters. Five family photograph albums from the 1880s and 1910-1931 are also included.
Irish immigrant; banker of Tallahassee, Fla. Business papers and family correspondence of Parkhill, a native of Ireland who moved from Richmond, Va., to Leon County, Fla., in the 1820s and worked as a postmaster at Tuscawilla and a banker in Tallahassee.
James M. Parks was a surveyor, farmer, school teacher, and moneylender who lived on Jonathan Creek in Haywood County, N.C. The collection includes letters written by Parks to his adult son, William M. Parks, between 1858 and 1896. In addition to details about family, health, children, and recent events, Parks's letters delve deeply into the realities and practices of his various vocational interests, including agriculture, surveying, money lending, and teaching. These activities, especially land surveying and money lending, caused Parks to be quite interested in political and economic matters, and his specific concerns about money, the courts, and Haywood County politics are reflected in extensive passages in his letters. Parks also wrote about some of the difficulties he had raising young children as a widower. Some family history materials are also included.
The Parks family, like many other Scotch-Irish dissenters, made their way to the North Carolina Piedmont, settling in Rowan County. There, William Parks (1770-1842) was born. He married Mary Beaty (1778-1846) in 1795, and the two had ten children, among them a son, John L. Parks (1822-1906). John Parks married his first wife, Margaret McDowell, in 1848. Following two other marriages and service as a Confederate private, Parks moved to the Hopewell area, near Huntersville in Mecklenburg County, NC, in 1868. There he owned a substantial farm and cotton gin. One of his sons, William Beaty Parks (1851-1929), also became a farmer and was the owner of a general store. W. B. Parks married Nancy Alice Gluyas in 1873. They had three sons, one of whom was the Thomas Parks (1889-1980) who collected this material. The McElraths were related to the Parks by marriage. David McElrath left Scotland for America in 1730, and a son, also David, moved to Burke County, NC. Two of his sons, Robert (1770-1814) and John, married into the McDowell family.
The collection assembled by James T. Parrish, Jr., contains sound recordings including 14 instantaneous discs made in the 1950s at the State Annual Singing Convention in Benson, N.C., also known as the “Benson Sing.” The recordings are chiefly of the Young Sisters Trio and include the gospel songs “Non Stop Flight to Glory,” “I’ve Got a Longing to Go Home,” “He Put a Rainbow in the Clouds,” and “I Won’t Have to Cross Jordan Alone.” Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
John Fabyan Parrott was a United States senator from Portsmouth, N.H.
Eliza Hall Parsley was the president of the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; and resident of Wilmington, N.C. The collection includes letters and papers of Eliza Hall (Mrs. W.M.) Parsley of Wilmington, N.C., chiefly those she received or collected, 1890s to 1918, in her capacity as member and president of the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Also included are historical sketches and clippings; scrapbooks and club records; Civil War letters written by Lieutenant Colonel William Murdock Parsley (1840-1865) of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, in Virginia and as a prisoner at Fort Delaware and at Hilton Head, S.C., and his memoranda concerning his capture at Spotsylvania, Va., and imprisonment; a portfolio of amateur plays and pageants presented in Wilmington in the 1890s; and other items.
Penny Parsons, a white music journalist who has spent much of her life involved with the bluegrass community, collected MerleFest posters, circa 1995-2008, and miscellaneous printed materials relating to white bluegrass mandolinist and tenor vocalist Curly Seckler.
The Partrick Family Papers consist chiefly of correspondence of Theodore Partrick Jr. (1889-1935), Watson Kasey Partrick (d. 1961), and Theodore Hall Partrick (1923-2005). Letters document courtship and marriage; family life; and Episcopal Church work and teaching in North Carolina, Haiti, and Mexico; educational pursuits; the American Field Service in Europe at the end of World War II; conditions in Haiti and Mexico during the mid 1950s and early 1960s; and illness and death in the family. Also included are some of Theodore Hall Partrick's writings on Christianity.
Silva Wilson Partridge collected genealogical data on William Paisley (born 1700) and his descendents.
Collection of black and white photographs taken by Ben Moore Patrick, a white writer and photographer for the Durham Herald-Sun between October 1941 and May of 1942 in Granville County and Durham County, N.C. Patrick took the images before construction began on Camp Butner, a United States Army facility built in the area during World War II. The images document the rural communities displaced by construction of the camp, including some that were primarly popluated by African Americans. Subjects depicted in the images include homes, farmlands, farm buildings, railroads, churches, and residents. Also included are a few images depicting early construction scenes at the camp.
Walter Patten, Methodist minister, was pastor of the Methodist Church (now University United Methodist Church) in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1913-1917 and 1921-1927; pastor in Greenville, N.C., 1917-1921; pastor of other churches; and president of Louisburg College, 1939-1947.
White folklorists Daniel W. Patterson (1928- ) and Beverly Bush Patterson study North Carolina folk life, southern traditional and religious folk music, Shaker art and music, and southern religious music. The Pattersons have often collaborated in their work and research, including work as consultants with Tom Davenport on his folklife films and Folkstreams project and website for streaming folklife documentary films; with Jim Peacock and Ruel Tyson on the World and Identity Primitive Baptist collection; and on the Index of Selected Folk Recordings Project. The collection includes letters, subject files, films, photographs and slides of folk musicians and folk traditions, audio recordings and moving images about folklore topics, and other materials involving Daniel and Beverly Patterson, independent filmmaker Tom Davenport, and others, including Bobby McMillon working together or independently to produce films, books, and other materials about life in the mountains; Sacred Harp singing; musical traditions of the Primitive Baptist churches in North Carolina and New York; the Shakers, including interviews with Shakers and field recordings of Shaker music and songs; the legend of Frankie Silver; folk music and folklore; and other topics. SFC material traces its history from 1960s folk archive, through the acquisition of the John Edwards Memorial Collection in 1983, and the opening of the SFC in 1989 at the Sounds of the South conference. There are also student papers that were written by Daniel Patterson's students in the Curriculum in Folklore. Correspondents include folklorist and writer Archie Green; writer D. K. Wilgus and wife Eleanor R. Long Wilgus; Ralph Steele Boggs, founder of the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC in 1939; professor Cecelia Conway; publisher Hugh McGraw; folklorist Bobby McMillon; archaeologist Stanley South; novelist Russell Banks; composer Thomas N. Rice; blues collector and record producer Peter B. Lowry; and professor John Garst. Some materials relate to religious tunebook compilers, including John G. McCurry, who wrote a shape-note songbook in 1855 that Patterson and Garst republished in 1973. Subject files contain materials about religious songs; religious groups and movements such as the Primitive Baptists; music styles; religious tunebooks; and many other topics. Also included are hundreds of photographs by Patterson created while doing research for The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, published by UNC Press in 2012.
Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina and a cooperative observer for the Weather Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture.
Bobby Patterson (1 April 1942–24 September 2017) of Galax, Va., a white guitar, banjo, and mandolin player, was a central figure in the Galax and Blue Ridge Mountain communities. He played with bluegrass, gospel, and old-time ensembles; helped found the magazine The Old Time Herald; created the record labels Mountain Records and Heritage Records; and organized festivals and concerts to promote traditional music in the area, including the annual Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention. The Bobby Patterson Collection consists largely of studio masters for Heritage Records and Mountain Records recordings of the Old Fiddlers' Convention. Other materials of note are files with photographs, artwork, and liner notes relating to record releases; correspondence chiefly relating to Heritage Records; catalogs; printed programs and flyers for local fiddling conventions; and photographs of Bobby Patterson with the Highlanders at the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and other old time musicians. There are also video tapes and 8mm films of fiddler conventions, live performances, and other events.
The North Carolina Folklore Broadcast Collection consists of audio recordings and related material, 1976, created as part of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funded grant project that was carried out jointly by the graduate students and faculty of the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with help from the staff of WUNC-FM. Folklorist and professor in English and Folklore at UNC, Daniel W. Patterson, directed the grant project, which consisted of producing a series of taped radio programs of regional folklore for broadcast over public radio in the state of North Carolina. For the contents of the program, the production team drew from discs and field tapes in the UNC's folklore archives (now known as the Southern Folklife Collection) as well as field recordings made specifically for the project. The radio series consisted of five one-hour broadcasts, each with a specific focus chosen to show a variety of local traditions. The themes and subjects of the five programs included Primitive Baptist songs, Durham blues, Piedmont blues, Chatham County, N.C., Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985), and Cas Wallin. The collection includes both the WUNC distributed radio programs as well as the field recordings made specifically for the project. The collection also includes related materials, including a copy of the NEA grant proposal signed by Patterson, a photograph of Cas Wallin alongside Dellie Norton and Evelyn Ramsey, and field notes that correspond to select audio recordings found in the collection.
Henry Houston Patterson (1884-1917) was a general merchant in Chapel Hill, N.C.
James N. Patterson, a planter, was the second largest slaveholder in Orange County, N.C., in 1850.
M. L. Patterson was a resident of Columbus, Ga. The collection includes scattered papers chiefly concerning business and legal matters. There are a number of letters from Patterson's nephew in Eufaula, Ala. Topics include the settlement of debts, the destruction of financial records by Sherman's army, the suspension of writ of habeas corpus in nine upstate South Carolina counties following race riots over the lynching of black militiamen by Ku Klux Klan members in that state, and a race riot in Alabama after the 1874 election. Other items include financial agreements, the dispensation of the family estate, business conditions in Chattanooga, Tenn., and a letter from parents to their son, a student at Spring Hill College near Mobile, Ala.
Martha (Mattie) Virginia McNair Evans Patterson of Laurel Hill and Laurinburg, Richmond (later Scotland) County, N.C., who married first cotton farmer Erasmus Hervey (Hervey) Evans (1861-1900) of Sherwood, N.C., in 1899 and then Gilbert Brown Patterson (1863-1922) of Maxton, N.C., in 1907, is the focus of the collection, along with her suitors, friends, and Murphy, Evans, Lytch, and McNair relatives.
Mary E. Fries of Salem, N.C., married Rufus L. Patterson (1830-1879) in 1864.
The collection contains a garnishment, 26 May 1862, of Moses Patterson of Lenoir County, N.C., under the sequestration act of the Confederate States of America, and an undated fragment, possibly of a personal letter or recollection alluding to the Episcopal Church of Belleville, N.C.
Rufus Lenoir Patterson (1872-1943) of Salem, N.C., was an inventor and the founder of the American Machine and Foundry Company.
W. A. Patterson (fl. 1866-1890) of Alamance County, N.C., owned and operated a general store and gristmill at Rock Creek, near Burlington.
William Patterson (fl. 1863-1864) was a Federal soldier from near Athens, Ohio. The collection is a typed transcription (83 p.) of the diary of William Patterson while serving with the United States quartermaster and commissary service in Berkeley County, W. Va., and in the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia, September 1863-July 1864. The diary is chiefly concerned with camp life, behind-the-lines activity, and General David Hunter's invasion of the Shenandoah Valley.
William J. Pattison (1828-1897?) was a cotton factor of New Orleans, La. The collection includes business papers and family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1897, including business letters, bills, receipts, invoices, accounts, and legal papers concerning the sale of cotton, the purchase of goods for planters, the management of estates, and real estate of Pattison and various partners. Pattison had close business associates in New York City, where he lived from 1866 to 1867 while handling business for Louisianans. Also present are family letters and household accounts, material on civil and political matters in New Orleans, and papers about Pattison's property in Pass Christian, Miss., and the First Presbyterian Church there, of which he was treasurer in the 1870s and 1880s.
Jacob, John, Sam, and William Patton were the sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Patton of Buncombe County, N.C. The brothers served in the Confederate Army in the Virginia and Mississippi Valley theaters.
Frank Caldwell Patton, Republican of Morganton, Burke County, N.C., was born in 1896. He served as Assistant United States District Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, 1921-1931. In 1932, Patton was appointed to a one-year term as United States District Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina by President Herbert Hoover. He also ran unsuccessfully for United States Senate in 1936, United States House in 1938, and governor of North Carolina in 1944. Patton practiced law in Morganton, N.C., campaigned for national and local Republican Party candidates, and was active in many local causes. He died in 1980.
George McConnell Patton (1844-1925) served in the 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcription of the Civil War diaries of George M. Patton, from his enlistment in 1862 until 1865. Diary entries describe Patton's daily activities during his service in Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as during the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the march north to Alexandria, Va. Daily entries are very brief. Beginning in January 1864, entries are somewhat less frequent, but are also somewhat longer. The last entry is dated 17 May 1865. A few letters are interspersed with the diary entries. Also included are two letters, dated 1918 and 1922, from Patton to his grandson Paul, and a few accounts and other financial items, 1862-1865. The original diaries have been deposited at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Collection contains holograph letters, manuscripts, and galley proofs of American poet Robinson Jeffers, photographs of Robinson Jeffers, his wife Una Jeffers, and their extended family and artistic circle.
Papers of a 19th-century Asheville, N.C., family and their relatives in South Carolina and Maryland. The collection consists chiefly of personal correspondence, including antebellum letters received by Asheville merchant James W. Patton (1803-1861) and his wife, Henrietta Kerr Patton, mostly from Kerr relatives in Charleston, S.C., about family matters; letters of their son, Thomas Walton Patton (1841-1907), politician and mayor of Asheville, while he was a captain in the 60th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War in Tennessee and Georgia, and while he was a volunteer officer in the Spanish-American War; and letters from Fannie Patton, a student at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., 1862. There are also letters exchanged, 1798-1808, by James Calder (d. 1808), Maryland planter, and his son George Calder (1778-1809), United States Navy officer, relatives of Martha Turner Patton, wife of Thomas Walton Patton, concerning the Calders' Maryland plantation, naval affairs, yellow fever, and other matters. Also included are newspaper clippings of articles about members of the Patton, Turner, and Parker families; an account and notebook, 1892, of Thomas Walton Patton on a European trip; a memorial volume, 1918-1923, by the Asheville chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; a photograph, ca. 1886, of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of North Carolina, one of whose members was Haywood Parker, husband of Thomas Walton Patton's daughter Josie; and a videotape, Thomas Walton Patton: Asheville's Citizen and Soldier.
James Welch Patton (1900-1973) was the director of the Southern Historical Collection, 1948-1967, and history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1948-1973. The papers contain correspondence and manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, 1948-1973. Correspondence concerns Patton's work at the Southern Historical Collection; his career as a history professor and historian; his membership in numerous organizations, including the Southern Historical Association; and his publications. Writings include manuscripts and other items relating to The Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers of Luther H. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina, 1954-1961; Journal of a Secesh Lady: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmonston, 1860-1861; Notable American Women, 1607-1950; The Diocese of North Carolina, 1861-1833; and an introduction that Patton wrote for E. M. Coulter's William Montague Browne, Versatile Anglo-Irish American, 1823-1883. There are also papers relating to the formation, activities, and disbanding of the North Carolina Civil War Round Table.
T. E. Patton was a land surveyor in Buncombe County, N.C., in 1836.
The collection contains materials by and about white twentieth-century playwright and social justice activist Paul Green (1894-1981) of North Carolina and the administrative records of the Paul Green Foundation, a grant funding agency founded in 1982 to support the arts and human rights. Paul Green materials include correspondence, scripts, handwritten notes and outlines for dramatic works, musical scores, lyric sheets, a song book, research files for Green's symphonic dramas, a card file of idiomatic expressions compiled by Green and used in Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence, newspaper clippings, printed items especially from theatrical venues, and photographs chiefly of theatrical productions of his work. Symphonic dramas represented in the collection include Cross and Sword , Lone Star, The Common Glory, The Highland Call, Trumpet in the Land, Serenata, and The Stephen Foster Story. The administrative records are financial materials, extensive biographical files on Green including articles about him, minutes and agendas for board meetings, copies and transcriptions of Green's poetry from the First World War, files for events and projects including a centennial celebration of Green's birth in 1994, and correspondence especially with Rhoda H. Wynn and Laurence Avery. Of interest are files pertaining to the foundation and Green's active opposition to capital punishment and the letters by Avery and others requesting commutation of death sentences.
James M. Paul was a farmer and widower who lived near the city of Waynesboro in Augusta County, Va.
Thomas Preston Paxton (died 1893) and his son James H. Paxton (died 1895) had various stock and land holdings in Rockbridge, Va. The collection includes correspondence of Thomas Preston and James H. Paxton, mostly with their lawyers in the 1880s and 1890s, concerning lands in Rockbridge County, Va., and stock holdings. There are also related financial and legal documents.
Anne Blackwell Payne (1887-1969) was born in Concord, N.C. She attended Flora MacDonald College and taught in the graded schools of Washington, N.C. After her mother's death, Payne moved to New York to attend Columbia University and studied poetry under Joseph Auslander. She was a charter member of the Writers' Society at Columbia and an award-winning member of the Poetry Society of America. In 1930, the University of North Carolina Press published her only book of poetry, Released. The book's favorable reviews made her well-known in her home state. After spending summers with her brother's family at their home on the Pimlico River and a brief stint running a library in Wilmington, N.C., for the Federal Housing Administration during World War II, Payne left New York permanently to live in Charlotte, N.C. There she acted as hostess-housekeeper for her cousin Thomas Sparrow. Her writings were published steadily in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies until her death in 1969. Writings, correspondence, clippings, and photographs of Anne Blackwell Payne. Writings are chiefly typed or holograph versions of Payne's poems, many annotated with publisher names and publication dates. Most poems appear in several versions, often with typed or holograph revisions. Also included are several versions of projected books of poems, 1930s-1960s, including a book of poetry for children. Some of Payne's poems were award winners in competitions sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society, the Poetry Council of North Carolina, or the Poetry Society of America. Also included are a few typed short stories and essays, most annotated with place of publication. Correspondence chiefly relates to the publication of Payne's poetry and includes two invoices and a note from Paul Green, then editor of The Reviewer, discussing the author's poetry and accepting at least one poem for publication; items concerning anthology publication; and requests for permission to offer for publication a few of Payne's poems set to music. Clippings are mostly poems published in newspapers and magazines, with a few reviews of Payne's work, including mention of Released (University of North Carolina Press, 1930). There are also a few undated studio photographs of Payne.
Letters from Benjamin and Eleanor Payne, Davies County, Ky., Eleanor's sister Margaret and Margaret's husband, to John Wilson, York County, Pa., concerning farming, business, church, and family activities, and offering glowing reports of life and prospects in Kentucky.
William James Payne (1827-1901) owned the Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. He married Elizabeth Virginia Jones on 28 February 1854.
MICROFILM ONLY. The collection is a sketch of the life of Charles Alfred Peabody, editor of the Muscogee Democrat of Columbus, Ga. The sketch was written by his granddaughter Mary Shepperson Crabb in 1942.
Herbert C. Peabody was a cotton factor, of Mobile, Ala., father of Horace Mansfield Peabody and Emily Peabody (b. 1844), and relative of George Peabody (1795- 1869) of London.
Joseph Peace and his brother William Peace (1773-1865) were partners in a general merchandising firm in Raleigh, N.C. William Peace was also a philanthropist who donated funds and land to found Peace College.
MICROFILM ONLY. The Primitive Baptist Church at Peach Bottom, a member of the Mountain District Association, is located in Independence, Grayson County, Va. The church was established by fourteen former members of the Saddle Creek and Rock Creek Primitive Baptist congregations in May 1876. The church remained active in 1983, with about thirty members. One volume containing minutes of monthly church meetings and lists of members and their status in the church, 1910-1983. The minutes include, in limited detail, records of the business of church meetings and the names of preachers and other church officials. The volume also includes scant biographical information about several church members, the text of the constitution of the Peach Bottom Church, dated 1876, and Articles of Faith.
Audio recordings of an interview with Florence Turner Arnold (1903-1990), a white resident of Covington, Newton County, Ga., about family history, and an interview with both Florence Turner Arnold and Edgar Wood (1908- ), a white friend and neighbor of Florence Turner Arnold, about growing up in Covington, Ga. Included are stories from childhood through early adulthood and recollections of family members and neighbors. Recorded by Claire Peacock, a white graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin and Florence Turner Arnold's grandniece, at Arnold's home on 24 July 1984. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including field collection processing sheets, inventory, and contents listings prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff, as well as a letter from former Southern Folklife Collection staff to Florence Peacock, Claire's mother, and a photocopy of Florence Turner Arnold's obituary.
Questionnaires on households and schools conducted in Indonesia and Singapore, 1969-1970, by James L. Peacock, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in relation to his book, Muslim Puritans: the Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Miscellaneous letters, soldiers' reminiscences, photographs, autographs, and other papers relating to the Confederacy, to Confederate officials before or after the Civil War, and to other aspects of American history, collected by John R. Peacock. Persons mentioned include Jubal A. Early, States Rights Gist, and G. T. Beauregard. Events mentioned include the Cherokee Removal of 1838 and Price's Missouri Expedition, 1864.
Thomas J. Pearsall was an attorney of Rocky Mount, N.C., who was the chief author of the 1956 Pearsall Plan for school integration in North Carolina and chairman of the board of the Roanoke Island Historical Association, 1975-1981.
Typed copy of a letter from William Dickson Pearsall (d. 1892) to Philander Pearsall, answering a request for information of historical facts of the Pearsall and Dickson families in Duplin County, N.C.
The Pearson family of North Carolina included Rowena Frances Chittenden Pearson, who lived in Indiana and North Carolina and ran the Pearson Hotel in Wilson, N.C., and her grandson, Marion Farmer (Pete) Pearson, and his wife, Betty Lee Ramseur Pearson, who lived in Charlotte, N.C. The collection contains memoirs of Rowena Frances Chittenden Pearson, Marion Farmer Pearson, and Betty Lee Ramseur Pearson. The oldest account, ca. 1910, was written by Rowena Frances Chittenden Pearson in response to a call in the Raleigh News and Observer for first-person accounts of the Civil War. The memoir of Marion Farmer Pearson (Pete) focuses on his childhood and young adulthood in Nash County, N.C. He wrote of visiting his grandfather's farm in Rocky Mount, N.C.; his family's move to the DuPont town of Hopewell, Va.; and the year he spent studying at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Most of these memoirs were written in the 1970s. Later, letters, articles, images, and other stories were added to the memoir, including some about Pete's career as a gasoline station owner. In Betty Lee Pearson's memoirs, she discussed both her rural girlhood living on a rice plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and her adult life with Pete in Charlotte, N.C. Also included are several of her poems and digital scans of photographs.
Artist Henry (Hank) Charles Pearson was born in Kinston, N.C., in 1914. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1935; received an M.F.A. degree from Yale University in 1938; worked as a stage scene designer, 1937-1942; and served in the United States Army, 1942-1948, and Air Force, 1948-1953. Pearson's works in acrylic, oil, and water color have been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States and are included in the permanent collections of major museums. Pearson has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as a general critic for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Papers include correspondence, materials documenting Pearson's career and education, photographs, and other items. Correspondence includes postcards sent by Pearson to his mother and other family members, including Minora P. (Mrs. Louis N.) Howard, Stanley W. Pearson, Marta Pearson, and Phylis Bagan, and to friends, including Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Gay, George Wingate, Mrs. J. Worth McAlister, Dorothy Croissant, Loraine Stevens, and Jane Logemann. Postcards to Karl Gay, 1960s-1979, constitute a running account of Pearson's life during those years. Also included is Pearson's correspondence with Seamus Heaney (mostly photocopies of letters from Pearson to Heaney). Materials documenting Pearson's career and education include announcements of art exhibitions; exhibition catalogs; clippings; articles by or about Pearson; school notebooks; a scrapbook documenting Pearson's work as technical director and scene designer at the Dock Street Theater in Charleston, S.C., 1940-1941; and photographs of Pearson and of his work.
Richmond Mumford Pearson, who lived successively in Rowan, Davie, and Surry (later Yadkin) counties, N.C., was a lawyer, legislator, Superior and Supreme Court judge, chief justice of North Carolina, 1858-1878, a noted teacher of law, a unionist Whig, and, after the Civil War, a Republican.
Richmond Pearson of Asheville, N.C., was a lawyer; United States consul in Belgium; Democratic North Carolina representative, 1884-1886; Republican United States representative, 1895-1899 and 1900-1901; consul in Genoa, Italy; minister to Persia, Greece, and Montenegro; and supporter of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party campaign in 1912.
Thomas Pearson, of Asheville, N.C., was an economic advisor to several foreign countries, including Persia (later Iran), 1922-1927; the Dominican Republic, 1937-1941; and Haiti, 1941-1947.
The collection contains two handwritten copies and a typed transcription of a letter dated 17 June 1880 from G.W. Michal to William S. Pearson. Based on information gathered from longtime residents of Burke County, N.C., the letter describes and differentiates between Joseph McDowell (1756-1801) and Joseph McDowell (1758-1799), both of whom were Revolutionary War officers and United States congressman. Both men also died in Burke County, N.C.
The collection consists of 402 black-and-white photographic prints made primarily by white architect C. Ford Peatross intended as illustrations for a dissertation, which was never completed, on architect William Nichols (1777-1853). The majority of the images are of structures and buildings in North Carolina, but there are also images of structures in England, Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., that were designed by Nichols or that influenced his work. A majority of the images in the collection are copy prints made by Peatross of materials from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Original photographs taken by Peatross have been identified and copy work includes citations from original sources.
The Catherine Peck Collection contains oral histories and field recordings created by white folklorist, Catherine Peck. The majority of the recordings relate to Peck's 1991 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill masters thesis on African American women preaching traditions of North Carolina. These recordings, 1981-1984, feature interviews with African American women reverends and evangelists of North Carolina, as well as field recordings made at African American women led churches across the state. The collection also contains audio recordings of self-taught artists of North Carolina, including an interview, 1983, with the African American sculptor, Jeff Williams, of Salemburg, N.C., and a series of field recordings, 1984, that Peck conducted with the white sculptor, Annie Hooper, of Buxton, N.C.
The Peek family of Hampton, Va., included brothers William Hope Peek, who lived for a time in Little Rock, Ark., then served as an assistant surgeon with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, 1861-1863; George Meridyth Peek, a student at the University of Virginia until late 1861, then a teacher at Wesleyan College in Florence, Ala., then in service with the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment in 1863, and a student again from 1866 to 1867; Thomas C. Peek, a newspaperman of Little Rock, Ark., and Camden, Ark.; and Eddie Peek, who served with the 32nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 1862-1864. Their sister Maria Peek (Sis) remained at home in Hampton during the Civil War and was the recipient of most of her brothers' letters.
W. J. (William Joseph) Peele (1855-1919) was a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer, publisher, and trustee of the state College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University).
Carl Hamilton Pegg was born in Deep River Township, Guilford County, N.C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in history and government in 1929. In 1930, he joined the UNC History Department faculty and remained there until his retirement in 1975, during which time he developed a syllabus for the General College's freshman interdisciplinary course and 20th-century European, Russian, Eastern European, and Far Eastern history courses. He also assisted in strengthening the History Department's graduate program.
The Pegram family of Virginina included Edward Pegram Junior, a captain in the Dinwiddie County, Va., militia during the Revolution; his son, General John Pegram (1773-1830), commander of Virginia forces in the War of 1812; John's son, General James West Pegram (1804-1842); and Robert Baker Pegram (1811-1894), an officer in the Confederate Navy.
John David Pegram of Sanford, N.C., was superintendent of the Johnson County Department of Public Welfare, coordinator for the Lee County Council on Aging, disability determination specialist with the North Carolina Department of Welfare, and coordinator for the North Carolina Council on Mental Retardation. He and his wife, Mildred W. Pegram, were active in the Methodist Church and in various service and social clubs.
Members of the Pelham family of Alexandria, Ala., included William; his mother, Martha Montford McGehee Pelham (b. 1805) of Person County, N.C.; and his father, Atkinson Pelham (b. 1797), physician and cotton planter, who attended the University of North Carolina, circa 1820, and later settled in Alabama. William had many siblings, among them Peter (b. 1840), and Confederate hero Major John Pelham, the gallant Pelham.
Phoebe Yates Pember was a Confederate hospital nurse and writer of Georgia.
John Clifford Pemberton (born 1893) of New York was an author and grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton (1814-1891), who commanded at Vicksburg, Miss., 1863. The collection chiefly contains papers about Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton. Included is correspondence, 1922-1941, of John Clifford Pemberton about his grandfather's military career and the biography he published, Pemberton, Defender of Vicksburg (1942). Also included are manuscript drafts of the biography, a variety of collected material about General Pemberton, and some 19th-century correspondence of the Pemberton family.
William Dorsey Pender, of Edgecombe County, N.C., was a West Point graduate and United States Army officer. He served briefly as colonel of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, and as a colonel of the 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment before transferring to A. P. Hill's division and being promoted to major general, May 1863. He participated in many of the major engagements in Virginia and died in July 1863 as the result of a wound received at Gettysburg.
Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), of Caroline County, Virginia, served as President of the Virginia Provincial Congress, was a member of the First Continental Congress, and authored the resolution introducing the Declaration of Independence. The collection consists of letters from Edmund Pendleton to his friend, Continental Brigadier General William Woodford (1734-1780), written from Caroline County and Williamsburg, Va., when Pendleton was president of the Virginia Committee of Safety, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Chancery Court judge. The letters concern public affairs, Revolutionary military campaigns, the army, war measures of the Virginia Assembly, economic conditions, and news from the North, South, and abroad.
Mary Unity Pendleton was born in Louisa County, Va., in 1858. She died in 1944.
William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883) was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, an Episcopal clergyman and schoolmaster in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, a Confederate brigadier general, serving under Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, and rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, Va., 1853-1883. The collection includes correspondence of Pendleton and his family, and their Page, Nelson, Pendleton, and other Virginia relatives, giving an extensive picture of the social life and customs of Virginians in the 19th century. The 35 items dated earlier than 1837 are Nelson and Page family letters. Approximately 1,400 items were written during the Civil War years, including military communications among officers in the Virginia theatre of war, correspondence concerning promotions, personal rivalries and criticism among Confederate officers, letters to and from Mrs. Pendleton at Lexington, Va., and other members of the family. There is correspondence before, during, and after the war concerning the Episcopal Church and specifically the affairs of the Lexington church and threats to Pendleton's tenure as rector, and (from 1870 onwards) Pendleton's work in raising a Robert E. Lee memorial fund. There are also some papers relating to Pendleton's life in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland before he came to Lexington in 1853.
Daniel Allen Penick (1797-1870) of North Carolina was a Presbyterian minister.
Penn Center of the Sea Islands, formerly Penn Community Services, is located on St. Helena Island, S.C., and is the site of the former Penn School, founded in 1862 as one of the country's first schools for freed slaves. The Penn Board of Trustees closed the school in 1948 but three years later reconstituted Penn as a center for community development and conference site for organizations working to advance African American causes or in support of equality, education, welfare, and other social issues. In the late twentieth century, Penn's mission evolved to include a focus on promoting and preserving the history and culture of the Sea Islands, S.C.
The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and white missionaries for former enslaved individuals in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with continuing philanthropic support, it served as school, health agency, and cooperative society for rural African Americans of the Sea Islands. The first principals were Laura M. Towne and Ellen Murray, followed around 1908 by Rossa B. Cooley and Grace B. House, and in 1944 by Howard Kester and Alice Kester. The school closed in 1948 and became Penn Community Services in 1951, with Courtney Siceloff as the first director.
The Penney family of Wake and Johnston counties, N.C., included J. J. (Joseph James) Penney (b. ca. 1843), Penelope Barber Penney, G. W. (George W.) Barber (d. 1863), and others.
William Frederick Penniman (1843-1908) was a native of New York whose family became planters in Camden County, Ga. The collection includes a typed copy of Reminiscences of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction written by Penniman for his children in about 1901. During the Civil War, Penniman served in the 4th Georgia Regiment, operating chiefly in the southern coastal counties of Georgia and adjacent areas of Florida. Reminiscences recount war experiences, refer to social contacts between Confederate and Union soldiers, and describe the state of society in the area during and after the war.
The collection contains accounts of lumber purchased by the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and a few accounts of other expenditures for road repairs. This account book was probably kept by an overseer of maintenance for part of the railroad.
The People's Savings Bank & Trust Company operated in Memphis, Tenn.
Walker Percy was raised in Georgia, Alabama, and Greenville, Miss., and lived most of his adult life in Covington, La. He was the author of six published novels: The Moviegoer (1961), The Last Gentleman (1966), Love in the Ruins (1971), Lancelot (1977), The Second Coming (1980), and The Thanatos Syndrome (1987). He also wrote The Gramercy Winner and The Charterhouse, neither of which was published during his lifetime. Works of non-fiction include The Message in the Bottle (1975), Lost in the Cosmos (1983), and Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning (collected essays, unpublished as a collection). He also wrote numerous short stories, book reviews, philosophical pieces relating to language and to religion, especially Catholicism.
The collection includes personal and family papers, chiefly after 1860, of members of the families of Elisha Alexander Perkins (1828-1897), and his brother, Robert C. Perkins (1825-1904), farmers at Pleasant Valley on John's River near Morganton (Burke County), N.C. Included are letters from three generations of the Williams family [sister Jane Elizabeth Perkins married a Williams] of White County, Ga.; Civil War correspondence, official papers, and diary, 1863 and 1865, of Captain A. E. Perkins of the 41st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America, in coastal North Carolina and Virginia, and civilian correspondence, mostly from the women of the family in North Carolina and Georgia; business papers, especially of R. C. Perkins as a local official during and after the war; various farm accounts; and a journal and account book, 1852, of R. C. Perkins's trip to California and his mining experiences during the Gold Rush. Correspondence after 1900 shows that the Happy Valley farm was run by the Perkins women. Volumes include diaries, 1861-1864 and 1866-1869, of Emma Sue (Gordon) Perkins (1837-1870), wife of R. C. Perkins. Before her marriage in 1863 she was a teacher in Hertford, N.C. The diaries describe daily life in Hertford and at Pleasant Valley.
Constantine Marrast Perkins was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. His parents were John Nicholas Perkins (1822-11896), United States Confederate army officer of Tennessee and later of Rome, Ga., and Mary Elizabeth Perkins Perkins (1838-1909) of Lynchburg, Va. The collection includes miscellaneous items relating to John Nicholas Perkins. Included are an account book, 1854-1863, and other items relating to the family of Mary Elizabeth Perkins Perkins, pictures, and an autobiographical sketch of his life and ancestry by Constantine Marrast Perkins written as a letter to Mrs. Lyman A. Cotten, 1935.
John Perkins, cotton planter and lawyer of Somerset Plantation, Ashwood, La., was appointed judge of the Circuit Court for Madison Parish in 1851; served as Democratic representative from Louisiana in the U.S. Congress, 1853-1855; represented Madison Parish in the permanent Confederate Congress at Richmond, Va., 1862-1865; and emigrated to Mexico in 1865 where he worked as a colonization agent. In 1866, Perkins moved to Paris and thereafter travelled extensively in Europe and in Canada before returning to the United States in 1878.
Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most important editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled For Dear Life. Letters from Maxwell Perkins, editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, to Belinda Jelliffe (1892-1979), critiquing and discussing the production of Jelliffe's For Dear Life (1936), and discussing other literary topics and personal matters. There are also several letters written by others, including one, 1949, from Charles Scribner.
Bills, receipts, estate Papers, legal Papers, slave Records, and other business Papers, relating to the plantations of Thomas C., James M., and Lewis W. Perrin of Abbeville District, S.C., chiefly 1830-1862; and manuscript speeches, mostly religious lectures.
David Bradley Perry was a planter of Beaufort County, N.C. His relatives included David Miller Carter and other members of the Perry family.
B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction.
The collection consists of the diary of Perry, containing scattered entries, some reflecting on her earlier life, including details of family and social life in Greenville, S.C. The diary includes a four-page Preface by Perry's husband, Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886).
Henry Perry (fl. 1875) was the recipient of a certificate of distinction from the University of Virginia. His family resided in Franklin County, N.C., for several generations.
The collection contains three deeds, 1778-1842, from Bertie and Halifax counties, N.C.
The Lloyd Perryman Collection contains papers and audio recordings compiled by the white actor, singer, and Sons of the Pioneers member, Lloyd Perryman. Papers consist of scores, lyrics, song sheets, song folios, publicity photographs, and clippings relating to the Sons of the Pioneers. Audio recordings consist primarily of radio shows, compilations, songs, and public service announcements by Sons of the Pioneers, Lloyd Perryman, Rex Allen, Rusty Richards, The Whippoorwills, and others.
Documentary work by photographer David Persoff including a series of photographs of North Carolina old-time fiddler Joe Thompson during a visit at his home by David Brower of WUNC-FM, photographs of other regional musicians, and a short documentary on the 85th Star Fiddler’s Convention (2012) created for a class at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Person family members included Thomas Person (1733-1800), North Carolina Revolutionary leader, born in Brunswick County, Va., but resident from infancy in Granville County, N.C. He became a surveyor for Lord Granville, and, over the years, he acquired a large estate in North Carolina and Tennessee. He became a justice of the peace in 1756, sheriff in 1762, and was representative in the Assembly in 1764 and frequently thereafter. When the Revolution began, he was elected a general of militia and again made a justice of the peace in 1776. He was a member of the House of Commons from 1777 to 1786, 1788 to 1791, 1793 to 1795, and in 1797 and a member of the Senate in 1787 and 1791. In 1760, Thomas Person married Johanna Thomas of Granville County. They had no children. Thomas Person's brother was William Person Jr. Eliza Person Mitchell, wife of Warrenton, N.C., merchant Peter Mitchell, was probably his granddaughter.
Alice Morgan Person of Franklin County, N.C., was, beginning in 1882, the producer and distributor of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy, a proprietary medicine. In 1857, she married Joseph Arrington Person, a planter from Franklin County, N.C., with whom she had nine children.
Mary Pescud, called Mollie, lived in Raleigh, N.C., in the 1860s and possibly in the 1870s and 1880s. Autograph album and enclosed notes and clipping. The first pages of the album contain poems addressed to "Mollie" and dated 1865 and 1869. Later pages contain signatures, some of which are dated in the 1870s and 1880s.
The Peters family of Missouri and Tennessee included D. B. Peters of Cole County, Mo.; Charles T. Peters; Newton C. Peters; H. C. Peters; Samuel J. Peters; D. W. Peters, a postal inspector; and Scott Peters. Scott Peters was born in Cole County, Mo.; served in the Confederate Army; was licensed to practice law in Missouri in 1867; received an M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1881; and practiced medicine in Huntland, Tenn., 1881-1902, and in Donelson, Tenn., 1902-1911. He then returned to Cole County, Mo., where he lived until his death in 1917.
James Louis Petigru (1789-1863) was a lawyer, politician, and jurist of South Carolina. The collection includes a letter, 11 March 1836, from Petigru, trying to get a post office job for a friend; and a poem, Picture of Coosawhatchie, a humorous description of an imaginary town and its characters, believed to have been written by Petigru.
Certificate of character, 26 February 1861, for Susan Petteford, a free woman of color about 23 years old, by the acting justice of the peace of Granville County, N.C., W. R. White. Attached is an official printed state form, 5 April 1861, signed by the Granville County Clerk of Court Augustus Landis, the Governor's Secretary Graham Daves, and Governor John W. Ellis.
The collection contains documentation of the people enslaved by the white Pettigrew family on their rice plantations, Bonarva, Belgrade, and Magnolia, in Washington County, N.C. and Tyrrell County, N.C., and copies of original poetry by George Moses Horton, a Black man enslaved in Chatham County, N.C. Included are letters written between 1856 and 1858 that were dictated by Malichi J. White (Active 1820-1880), Moses (Active 1856-1858), and Henry (Active 1856-1858), who were enslaved men serving as overseers for William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900), a white Episcopalian minister and plantation owner. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence with white members of the Pettigrew family, particularly Charles Pettigrew (1744-1807), Ebenezer Pettigrew (1783-1848), Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), and William S. Pettigrew pertain to the institution of slavery; a thwarted uprising by enslaved people in Hillsborough, N.C. in 1830; resistance by people enslaved on the Pettigrews’ plantations; trafficking of people in the Haitian slave trade in the 1790s and later in the internal slave trade; and hiring out and relocation of enslaved people from eastern North Carolina to Chatham County, N.C., during the American Civil War. After the war, correspondents discuss their inability to hire Black laborers whom they had previously enslaved. Financial documents before the war include bills of sale for people trafficked in the internal slave trade and lists of people enslaved by the Pettigrews. The collection also contains the white family's poems and autobiographical writings; family histories and genealogical information; notebooks, composition books, speeches, music books, and other school work from University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, N.C., and other schools; commonplace books and collected recipes and cures; records and journals related to the Methodist and Episcopal churches of North Carolina and the ministerial work of Charles Pettigrew and William S. Pettigrew; accounts by James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) of his travels to Spain and other parts of Europe, Charleston, S.C., and Cuba; and framed portraits in oil and photographs of family members and others.
Microfilm of typescript of genealogical materials relating to the Pettigrew and Verner families. Included is information about the related Tilly, Witherspoon, and King families. Among these materials is an article called Leaves from the Family Tree by Penelope Johnson Allen, 1950 genealogical records chair of the Tennessee Daughters of the American Republic.
William Beverley Pettit (1825-1905) was a lawyer of Fluvanna County, Va. In 1851, he married Arabella (Bella) E. Speairs of Columbia, Va., with whom he had six children. During the Civil War, he served in the Fluvanna Light Artillery, enlisting as a private and later becoming a lieutenant.
MICROFILM ONLY. Pfohl worked as a bookkeeper for the textile manufacturing firm of F. & H. Fries, Salem, N.C. He also lived in the household of Francis Fries. The F. & H. Fries firm manufactured jeans for Confederate uniforms during the Civil War, and C. T. Pfohl was exempt from active military duty because of the essential nature of his work. In addition, these letters from family and friends indicate that his physical condition was delicate; however, he did go on active duty in November 1864. Chiefly letters of four of C. T. Pfohl's friends while serving in the Confederate Army, including his cousin William J. Pfohl, a major at the time of his death in October 1864; Sam C. James, a captain at the time of his death in the summer of 1864; Henry W. Barrow, who worked largely with the wagons accompanying the regiment; and Dr. John Francis Shaffner (1838-1908), physician, who later married Carolina L. Fries. All the friends started out together with the Forsyth Rifles, organized in the summer of 1861, which became part of the 11th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers. This regiment became the 21st North Carolina Infantry in 1862. Dr. Shaffner was separated from the others and served in the 33rd and 4th North Carolina regiments and had various medical and hospital assignments. Letters from 23 June 1861-16 November 1864 were written from northern Virginia and mention Manassas, Centreville, Gordonsville, Orange, Winchester, Strasburg, and Fredericksburg. Letters, January-February 1864, were written at Kinston, N.C. Dr. Shaffner was in northern Virginia most of the time, but also wrote from New Bern, N.C., January-April 1862. There is constant discussion of clothes and boots, which the soldiers wanted Pfohl to send them. There is also frequent mention of mutual friends from Salem--both those in the army and those at home--and discussion of politics and elections, the organization and selection of officers in the regiments, and desertion. Dr. Shaffner's letters contain comments on the health of the troops, medical advice to C. T. Pfohl, and discussions of the course of the war in general and the outlook for the Confederacy. The only items not written by the four friends are scattered business letters, occasional official communications about C. T. Pfohl's army status, and letters exchanged between him and his family after his enlistment.
Presbyterian minister Henry Nelson Pharr (1798-1862) was born in Cabarrus County, N.C. He married Dovey Amanda King (1802-1866), and the couple had eight children.
Seth Lewis (1764-1848) was chief justice of the Mississippi Territory and district judge in Louisiana. In 1793 he married Nancy Hardeman of Nashville, Tenn. The collection includes Ancestors and Descendants of the Honorable Seth Lewis (1764-1848) and His Wife, Nancy Hardeman, a compilation of genealogy and pertinent documents relating to the Lewis, Hardeman, Perkins, Taylor, and allied families in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other southern states, with index and biography. Included is A Summer on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation in 1832 (17 pages), by Amelia Thomas Watts, relating to the plantation of Seth Lewis near Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, La.
Henry A. Phelon (born 1831) was a United States naval officer and merchant.
The Lucy Massie Phenix Collection consists of research files, production notes, audio recordings, film and video, photographs, financial materials, correspondence, and personal papers of Lucy Massie Phenix, a white documentary filmmaker. The bulk of the collection pertains to the 1985 documentary film, You Got to Move, which Lucy Massie Phenix co-directed and edited. The film looks at the social justice activists associated with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn., formerly known as the Highlander Folk School. Other films represented in the collection include Winter Soldier (1972), a documentary film on soldiers' experiences of the Vietnam War; Word Is Out (1977), a documentary film on the life experiences of gay men and women of various backgrounds; Cancer In Two Voices (1994), a documentary film that follows Barbara Rosenblum, a sociologist diagnosed with breast cancer, and her lesbian partner, Sandy Butler, a feminist writer and activist; Regret To Inform (1998), a documentary film on "the lasting devastation of war through the eyes of women, Vietnamese and American widows of the Vietnam War"; Stranger With a Camera (2000), a documentary film on the murder of Canadian documentary filmmaker, Hugh O'Connor; and Don't Know, We'll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (2008), a documentary film on Karen Karnes,a white American ceramicist. The collection also contains subject files related to organizations with which Phenix was affiliated in the 1960s, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and American Friends Service Committee. Personal papers include materials from Phenix's childhood and her student years at Connecticut College for Women from 1960 to 1964. The Addition of August 2020 contains family and professional materials documenting Phenix’s work as an activist and organizer, her work at Highland Research and Education Center and the Penland School, travel notebooks, slides and photographs, and materials related to her documentary films.
The University of North Carolina chapter of the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, was chartered in December 1952. Faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate history majors who met the grade average requirement were members. Guest lecturers, panel discussions, and social activities were featured at monthly meetings. Records of the Delta Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta include the chapter's charter, bylaws, membership and initiation records, meeting schedules, bank statements, and correspondence with the national organization.
The North Carolina Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society was established at the University of North Carolina in 1905. From 1920 to 1948, Francis F. Bradshaw and Ernest L. Mackie, as Dean of Men or Dean of Students, administered the chapter. From 1948 to 1966, Dean Mackie continued his activity in local chapter, district, and national affairs while he was a full-time member of the university's Department of Mathematics.
Phi Eta Sigma is the honorary scholastic society for college freshmen. The society was founded at the University of Illinois in 1923. The University of North Carolina Chapter was established in 1947. Records, 1947-1965, of Phi Eta Sigma, University of North Carolina Chapter, consist of the charter, 1947, and photographs and membership lists.
The Gamma Lambda Chapter of the Phi Mu Fraternity was colonized at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964. Founded in 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States.
John F. Phifer, a manufacturer, and his wife, Elizabeth Caroline Ramseur Phifer, resided in Lincolnton, N.C. John and Elizabeth had three sons who served in the Confederate army, Private Will Locke (died 1963), 5th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry; Lieutenant Edward K. (died 1864), Company K, 49th North Carolina Regiment; and Captain George S.
Edward W. Ned Phifer Jr. (1910-1980) was a surgeon and historian of Burke County, N.C., and author of books and articles, chiefly on the history of Burke County, N.C., including: Certain Aspects of Medical Practice in Ante-Bellum Burke County (1959), Burke: The History of a North Carolina Country (1977), Slavery in Microcosm: Burke County, North Carolina (1962), and Courts, Crimes, and Criminals in the North Carolina Appalachian Frontier, 1782-1792: A Study Based on Court Records.
Robert Smith Phifer was a professor of music at women's colleges in North Carolina and Virginia.
The collection includes office files (intermittent) of successive commandants of the Philadelphia navy yard, including communications from various officials of the Navy, including the Secretary of the Navy; the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, & Repairs; Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1863; and other departments of the Navy. Also included is a letterpress copybook, 1832-1835, of James Barron at the navy yard, and official daily reports on activities, 1836-1837.
The collection includes ships' manifests showing cargoes, shippers, etc., for the ships Newbern Packet, John, and Daphne, coming into Philadelphia, Pa., from Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Calcutta, India; and Havana, Cuba; respectively.
Frederick Philips (1838-1905) was a Confederate army officer, Supreme Court judge, and was active in civic and business life in Tarboro, N.C.
James Jones Philips was a physican and scientific farmer of Edgecombe County, N.C., and his cousin Ethelred Philips (1801-1870) was a physician and farmer of Mariana, Fla.
Walter Everett Philips (1860-1939) was a farmer, teacher, and business owner of Rocky Mount, N.C., and Edgecombe County and Nash County, N.C.
The A. Craig Phillips and Guy B. Phillips Papers, 1913-2000s, consist chiefly of scrapbooks created by A. Craig Phillips in his retirement and document his career as a superintendent of schools in Charlotte and for the state of North Carolina (1969-1989). A few scrapbooks and other files document his father, Guy B. Phillips, as dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina and as a member of the State of North Carolina Board of Education. Topics include desegration of public schools, busing, the development of state-funded kindergarten and statewide standardized testing, politics and education, study of international educational systems, retirement, and Navy service during World War II. Scrapbooks are composed of correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, clippings, reports, and other papers.
Alonzo Phillips of Hillsboro, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1865-1867.
The Anne R. Phillips Oral History Collection on the Cundiff Family contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with E. Leroy Cundiff and Gladys Cundiff Morrison, audio recordings of interviews, a small number of photographs, and other papers, including clippings and related correspondence. Anne R. Phillips, oral historian and professor of North Carolina, conducted oral history interviews of E. Leroy Cundiff and Gladys Cundiff Morrison with students enrolled in her college courses. E. Leroy Cundiff (1897-1999) and his daughter, Gladys Cundiff Morrison (d. 2017) of Yadkin County, N.C. were both African American educators, and Cundiff was influential in establishing the first school for African American children where the grades went through high school in Boonville, N.C.
Field recordings of North Carolina based folk and blues musicians compiled by white educator and local blues historian, Bill Phillips. The recordings feature performances and interviews with Dink Roberts, African American banjo player, slide guitarist, and singer, of Haw River, N.C.; Sam Pridgen (1910-1989), white string band guitarist, of Durham, N.C.; Willy Trice (1910-1976), African American blues singer and guitarist, of Durham County, N.C.; and Charlie Poole, Jr. (1912-1968), white string band vocalist and son of old-time musician and string band leader, Charlie Poole, of Randolph County, N.C. The collection contains dubs of original field recordings created by Bill Phillips, along with white anthropologist, Victor "Vic" Lukas, and white record label founder, Barry Poss, as well as a dub of an interview conducted by white folklorists, Eugene Earle and Archie Green. Also included are related tape logs prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff member, Anne Kimzey. Tape logs contain contextual information on the artists and recordings, including technical information, brief content descriptions, and a list of song titles performed by the musicians.
The collection includes family and personal correspondence among members of the Phillips family, long associated with Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina, including mainly letters from University professor Charles Phillips; his wife, Laura (Battle) Phillips; their daughter, Lucy (Phillips) Russell (1862-1962), writer, of Rockingham, N.C.; and Lucy's son, Charles Phillips Russell (b. 1884), journalist of New York and London, author, and University professor from 1931. Also included are personal and social letters from other relatives and friends, mostly female; miscellaneous short writings, including Laura's recollections of the school run by Lucien and Caroline (Fraser) Murat at Bordentown, N.J.; and letters, 1841-1861, from the Murats.
The collection is a letter dated 1850 from Curtis Phillips of Lenoir County, N.C., to James Davis proposing a meeting of local veterans of the War of 1812 to record the history of their military service.
Sarah Ellen Phillips lived near Selma, Ala.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) was an author and historian who focused on the South and slavery. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, and includes typed transcriptions (167 items) of letters to and from other historians, scholars, and friends, a few items about his trip to the Sudan in 1929, and a few short essays or speeches. The transcriptions were made in 1940 by Professor Wendell Holmes Stephenson (born 1899) from the originals, some of which have been destroyed. Also included are 39 manuscript letters, correspondence of Phillips, 1903-1910, with George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927), Lucien H. Boggs, and others about the Georgia Historical Society; and typed transcriptions of interviews with people who had known and worked with Phillips.
William Monroe Phillips, physician, farmer, and postmaster of Wallace, Va., was born and raised in Yadkin County, N.C. Phillips received a medical degree from New York University in 1870. He practiced medicine in Yadkinville, N.C., for three years before moving to Wallace's Switch (now Wallace), Va., in 1872. In 1880, Phillips married Jennie Garrett (d. 10 Nov. 1909) of Wallace. They had no children, but raised Phillips's niece, Willie M. Phillips (b. 1899).
The Philomathean Society, formed July 1847, was a school boys' debate club in the Alamance community, Guilford County, N.C.
The Steed family and Phipps family were united by the marriage of Elizabeth (Bettie) Lundie Phipps (died 1902), a school teacher of Nash County and Harnett County, N.C., and Alexander L. Steed (died 1891) of Vance County, N.C.
The collection consists of a single photograph album containing photographs of the University of North Carolina's 1907 senior class. The photographs were taken by Holladay Studio in Durham, N.C., who specialized in university and college groups. The album was originally owned by Quincy Sharpe Mills.
The collection is a memorandum book of an unidentified Georgia physician, describing symptoms and treatments for diseases. It is inscribed A Rebel Surgeon's memoranda - taken from his House on a Plantation on the Ogechee [Ogeechee] River, Geo. March 1865. Diseases discussed include scrofula, gout, measles, and smallpox.
The collection is account books of physicians with patients in Wilmington and the Albemarle Sound region, N.C. The Wilmington volume is of an unidentified physician, 1855-1862, and includes indications of some patients' diseases, hospital records, and information on various other matters. The volume for the Albemarle Sound region may have been kept by Dr. Hardy Hardison; it consists chiefly of accounts of professional visits to patients such as Josiah Collins and members of the Pettigrew family, 1849-1866.
The Pickard Family Papers, circa 1900s-1990s, document members of the white family from Chapel Hill, N.C., through photographs, newspaper clippings, wedding and baby memory books, legal documents, diplomas and certificates, family histories, and letters.
Pickard Livery Stable of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a livery stable and hauling business operated by George C. Pickard (fl. 1896-1908) and John Frank Pickard (fl. 1896-1908).
W. W. Pickard (1853-1917) was a hotel proprietor in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection, 1885-1931, consists chiefly of real estate and business documents, including deeds and mortgage contracts for land in Chapel Hill and Alamance County, N.C.; lease agreements for the Chapel Hill Hotel and University Inn, which Pickard ran for New York lawyer William G. Peckham before opening the Pickard Hotel; letters, receipts, and order forms connected to the operation of the Pickard Hotel; life insurance documents; city and county tax receipts; a bill from Chapel Hill High School and receipt from the University of North Carolina; and 1931 settlement papers for the estate of Pickard's wife.
The collection contains deeds, accounts, and other business papers, 1800-1844, of Colonel Andrew Pickens Jr., lawyer and planter of Columbia, S.C.; lettercopy book, 1843-1845, and scattered business papers of Lewis F.E. Dugas, cotton broker at Augusta, Ga., and Apalachicola, Fla.; scattered business papers and personal correspondence of the family of Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869), mainly in South Carolina and while he was minister to Russia, 1858-1860, consisting mostly of letters between women of the family; and personal papers and correspondence of his wife, Lucy Holcombe Pickens. Also included are letters of Lucy Pickens concerning the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.
Collection includes an indenture dated 1 April 1854, from white enslaver George Foust to white enslavers Jesse Graves and Mary E. Graves of Alamance County, N.C., detailing the transfer of an enslaved woman named Ellen and an enslaved man named Arnold, to the Graves. Also included is a tax document issued to Jesse Graves as well as two pieces of correspondence between Nealia Pickens of Hendersonville , N.C. and her family.
The collection is an undated reporter's scorebook of Robert S. Pickens for the first basketball tournament of Southeastern Intercollegiate Conference, Greenville, S.C.
S. Vance Pickens (1836-1920) was a Confederate officer, Democratic party official, lawyer, and businessman of Hendersonville, N.C.
Pickett Cotton Mill was organized in High Point, N.C., in 1910. F. M. Pickett, majority stockholder and long-time High Point tobacco manufacturer, served as secretary-treasurer. Robert H. Walker served as president and auditor of the company. Along with Pickett, investors included J. B. Duke and R. J. Reynolds. The mill produced broad print cloths and other cotton goods.
Pierce & Company, dry goods, lumber, fertilizer, and cotton enterprises owned by the Wyche family of Columbus County, N.C., 1897-1990. Family members served on local school boards, as postmasters, and on the Wake Forest College Board of Trustees. They administered timber deeds, tenant houses, real estate transfers, and estates. They were early stockholders in the Columbus County Farmers' Alliance and expressed interest in early fertilizers and new technologies for cotton ginning, lumber processing, and shipping. They contributed widely to the economic life in their area, often arranging crop liens with local farmers, collecting debts, and working with other local companies.
William Whatley Pierson (born 1890) was a professor of history and political science at the University of North Carolina.
Michael Piller graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in radio, television, and motion pictures in 1970. He was best known for his work as executive producer and writer for the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, the latter two of which he helped create.
Wife of Timothy Pilsbury (1780-1858), U.S. Congressman from Texas.
C. Henry Pine (1845-1915) (Charles Henry Pine) of Litchfield County, Conn., served as a drummer boy Civil War in the 19th Connecticut Infantry Regiment (later designated the 2nd Connecticut Artillery Regiment), spending his military career in Virginia. The collection consists mainly of letters, 1862-1864, from Pine to his mother, father, and siblings. There are also several diary-style writings, which appear to have been mailed to his family. The earlier letters cover the routine nature of military life, drills, and inspections. In the summer of 1863, Pine fell gravely ill and was visited by his father, Samuel Winchester Pine, in the hospital at Fairfax Station, Va. A small number of letters from his father, the hospital chaplain, and nurses update the family on his condition. Upon recovery, Pine rejoined his regiment, which faced combat for the first time. Letters from this period discuss the possibility of death, as well as financial matters, the upcoming presidential election, and rumors about the future movements of his regiment.
PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, presenting, and promoting all forms of traditional music, dance, and other folk performing arts. The PineCone Collection consists of office files and audiovisual recordings that document organizational business operations and event activities, including concerts, the Raleigh Fiddler's Convention, and the Eno Bluegrass and Old Time Music Convention. Materials include concert contracts, event information, board materials, financial statements, artist publicity, newsletters, calendars, promotions, photographs, video, and other materials.
The collection contains photoprints of three bills of sale for slaves purchased by James Piper of Nicholas County, Ky. Piper purchased Esther on 7 October 1811 from Michael Letton of Bourbon County, Ky.; Chana and her child on 19 April 1814 from Thomas Buckner of Nicholas County, Ky.; and a Negro girl on 3 October 1814 from William Crawford of Nicholas County, Ky. The photoprints were made in 1954.
Personal recollections and business papers of South Carolina ancestors of Willis Benton Pipkin (b. 1906). Items of particular interest are J. B. Pipkin's brief account of incidents relating to Sherman's march from Cheraw, S.C., into North Carolina, and Eli Willis's brief account of incidents relating to the Confederate retreat from Charleston, S.C.
Reddin Gresham Pittman was a topographical engineer who may have designed Fort Fisher, N.C.
Thomas Merritt Pittman (1857-1932) of North Carolina was a lawyer, judge, and member of the North Carolina Historical Commission, 1911-1932.
The collection documents Philip Henry Pitts, a white cotton plantation owner and enslaver in Union Town (now Uniontown), Perry County, Ala. Included are manuscript volumes, with typed transcriptions, containing accounts and diary entries by Philip Henry Pitts; letters written to and from members of the Pitts family; and miscellaneous papers. The volumes document financial dealings in the cotton trade and in both the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad and Selma and Meridian Railroad, loans and debts, household expenditure for his Rurill Hill Plantation, and expenses, including medical care, relating to people enslaved by him. Other information about enslaved people includes births and deaths, hiring out, and enfranchisement and hiring of freed people after the American Civil War ended. There are also entries that describe enslaved people who self-emancipated by running away and a case of enslaved people who allegedly murdered their enslaver. Other topics include planting and livestock, the weather, folk medicine, anti-Semitism, Radical Republicans, and politics, business, crimes, and social news in Perry County. The Caldwell and Davidson families are frequently mentioned and there are anecdotes about Alexander Caldwell Davidson, Wiliam Rufus King, and Zebulon Baird Vance. The diaries also record the involvement of family members in the 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteers during the American Civil War. The letters relate to family matters and business councerns of Pitts and of his father, Thomas D. Pitts, including the latter's involvement as an officer in the War of 1812. A song lyric about the Nullification Crisis of 1832 is included.
The collection is a typed transcription of a manual containing detailed instructions of a planter, name, date, and location unknown, for the treatment of slaves and the handling of livestock. Pindars (peanuts) are mentioned, perhaps suggesting a location in eastern North Carolina or Virginia. Homeopathy is noted as the preferred medical approach.
Planters Bank of Savannah, also known as Planters Bank of the State of Georgia, dissolved in March 1869 as a result of insolvency brought on by losses incurred during the Civil War and the failure of the State of Georgia to repay wartime loans to the Bank.
MICROFILM ONLY. Notes on the culture of corn, cotton, wheat, and grapes; membership rolls; committee reports; and correspondence of the Planters Club of Hancock County, Ga.
Members of the Potter and Platt families lived in Brunswick County, N.C. Robert Potter became a merchant in 1806, was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1812, and later became a justice of the peace.
Eldridge B. Platt (b. 1847) enlisted as a drummer in the 2nd Connecticut Light Battery on 12 August 1862. By 11 November 1862, he was serving as a cannoneer. He was discharged 10 August 1865. After the Civil War, Platt became successful in the tool and die making business.
Photocopies. Letters from William H. Platt of Port Jefferson, N.Y., to members of his family, written while he was serving with the 5th and 146th New York regiments, in northern Virginia, 1862-1865; letters from Platt's brother, Jesse K. Platt, serving with the 127th New York Regiment in Virginia and South Carolina, 1862-1864; and a few miscellaneous business papers, 1893-1915.
The Pleasant Union Christian Church of Harnett County, N.C., was part of the denomination known as the Christian Church that later merged with the Congregational Church to form the Congregational-Christian Church.
James M. Plumblee (1830-1891) was a private in Company H of the 25th North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Jane Abernethy Plyler received a B.S. in nursing from East Carolina University in 1967 and an M.S. in community health nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. She has practiced nursing in a variety of situations.
Joseph Ezekiel Pogue, born in Raleigh, N.C., 1906 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was a geologist with particular interest in the petroleum industry, and a banker, serving, 1936-1949, as vice- president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Pogue and his wife, Grace Needham Pogue (1889- ), whom he married in 1919, were also philanthropists, dispensing funds to various organizations, particularly educational institutions, from the sizeable trusts they held.
Samuel Pointer Jr. of Milton, N.C. was the son of Samuel Pointer of Halifax County, Va.
Frederick D. Poisson was a lawyer of Wilmington, N.C.
Emily Hines Nisbet Polhill was the daughter of Alfred Moore Nisbet (1797-1874), banker and editor of Athens, Ga., and Sarah Stillwell Edwards Nisbet. She married Benjamin M. Polhill, son of John G. Polhill of Milledgeville, Ga., in 1856. The collection includes scattered letters and papers of John G. Polhill of Milledgeville, Ga.; of his son Benjamin M. Polhill of Macon, Ga.; and of relatives of the Polhills. Most items are antebellum family letters discussing relatives, neighborhood news, and personal activities.
Letters to Frances Polk Skipwith (1835-1884) of Oxford, Miss., from her mother Frances Devereux Polk (Mrs. Leonidas Polk) in New Orleans, La., Asheville, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., and at Columbia Female Institute, Columbia, Tenn., discussing her struggles as a teacher and other matters; her brothers and sisters at various Southern locations; her husband, Peyton H. Skipwith, at various locations and Washington, D.C., including love letters in the late 1860s; and friends and other relatives. Most letters are about family affairs and local news, reflecting the efforts of Southern families to manage in the midst of the difficulties and privations of the Reconstruction period. The Addition of December 2008 consists of 17 letters to Frances Devereux Polk Skipwith from family friends Winchester and Ruth Hall. Winchester Hall commanded the 26th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and published a book detailing the Regiment's history, role in the Siege of Vicksburg, and ultimate disbandment after the Civil War. Most of the letters date between 1863 and 1866. The letters cover a variety of topics including Ruth Hall's experiences during the Union invasion of Louisiana in 1863, including mention of a slave uprising after a Confederate retreat; the death of Skipwith's father, Leonidas Polk; Winchester Hall's thoughts on the future of the South; and other routine topics.
MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence, indentures and legal agreements, circulars, pamphlets, and other papers of a North Carolina family, whose members included Leonidas Polk and President James Knox Polk. The bulk of the collection consists of letters to William Polk (1758-1834) concerning the University of North Carolina, elections of 1824 and 1828, the Bank of the United States, and the politics of Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, John Q. Adams, and Henry Clay. Included are copies of documents relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and a biography, 1859, of William Polk. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Alfred Balch, John Branch, Joseph Caldwell, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John H. Eaton, Daniel Graham, Andrew Jackson, William B. Lewis, Willie P. Mangum, and Thomas Ruffin.
George Edmund Badger of New Bern, N.C., was a lawyer; politician; North Carolina legislator; superior court judge; Secretary of the Navy; United States senator; member of the North Carolina Convention of 1861-1862; and trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1818-1844. He and his second wife, Mary Brown Polk, had two daughters, Catherine and Sarah (Sally). Sally Badger married Montford McGehee, a lawyer; planter; member of the General Assembly from Caswell County in 1864 and from Person County in 1872, 1876, and 1879; trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1864-1868; delegate to the constitutional convention of 1865; and Commissioner of Agriculture, 1880-1887. They had four sons, including Thomas McGehee, George Badger McGehee, and Lucius Polk McGehee.
The collection documents white members of the Polk family of North Carolina and Tennessee and the Campbell, Brown, and Ewell families of Tennessee, and people enslaved by them on family plantations, especially in Haywood County and Dyer County, Tenn. Enslaved people are documented in bills of sale and correspondence that concerns their forced labor and acts of resistance from the perspective of enslavers. Polk family papers include correspondence between William Polk (1758-1834) of Raleigh, N.C., and his son Lucius Junius Polk (1802-1870) of Maury County, Tenn., regarding the management of family land in Tennessee, cotton growing, agriculture, and Tennessee and national politics. Campbell family papers consist of a few legal and financial documents and correspondence of Liszinka Campbell Brown Ewell (1820-1872) and her brother George Washington Campbell Jr. regarding family matters, European travel, plantation life, and conflict and war with indigenous people of North America. Brown and Ewell family papers consist of correspondence and military papers of Lieutenant General Richard Stoddart Ewell and Major George Campbell Brown relating to their service in the Confederate Army, imprisonment at the close of the American Civil War, and defense of Ewell's military record (particularly at First Manassas and Gettysburg). There are also business and financial papers regarding the management of plantations owned by Lizenka Campbell Brown Ewell and plantations she and Ewell developed after the war, including Spring Hill plantation in Maury County, Tenn., and Melrose and Tarpley plantations in Bolivar County, Miss. Topics include cotton growing, sheep raising, problems with securing labor and the possibility of recruiting Chinese and Irish laborers, and legal and financial concerns. There is also scattered correspondence for the Polk and Campbell families from 1803 to 1887. Volumes kept by Campbell Brown concern household expenses for the Spring Hill plantation and memoranda during his military service.
The collection documents three generations of the white Polk and Yeatman families and people they enslaved at family plantations in North Carolina and Tennessee, including Hamilton Place and Ashwood Farm in Maury County, Tenn. Correspondence, financial papers, and volumes document the trafficking of enslaved people and punishment of their acts of resistance; William Polk's (1758-1834) land speculation in North Carolina and Tennessee; his work as a federal internal revenue supervisor in North Carolina; cotton plantation management by Lucius Junius Polk (1802-1870) and Will Polk in Tennessee; and various enterprises in which Polk family members were involved, including a dry goods store and livestock firms. Other materials relate to Henry Clay Yeatman's (d. 1910) law practice in Nashville, Tenn., and to the political and personal life of John Bell (1797-1869), Nashville lawyer, Whig leader, United States representative, United States senator, and Constitutional Union Party presidential candidate. Also of note are a letter from William Polk to the Adjutant General of the United States Army concerning Leonidas Polk, and one letter each from Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk. There is much family correspondence, especially after 1861, and scattered business and personal items of members of the related Hawkins, Devereux, and Rayner families.
George Washington Polk, civil engineer and genealogist of San Antonio, Tex., was the son of Lucius Junius Polk (1802-1870), planter of Maury County, Tenn., and Mary Ann Eastin Polk (1810-1847), who was Mrs. Andrew Jackson's niece, and nephew of Leonidas Polk (1806-1864), Episcopal bishop and Confederate general.
James Hilliard Polk of Tennessee served as captain of the First Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Fort Worth, Tex., during the Civil War. He was captured 14 January 1864 and held at Camp Chase, Ohio. Polk was also one of the Immortal 600, brought to Hilton Head, S.C., to be used as a human shield at the siege of Charleston, August-October 1864, and from which he survived. It is unclear if he was the nephew and or the second cousin, once removed of President James K. Polk. Polk attended the University of North Carolina, 1859-1860 and possibly longer. He was married to Mary Demoville Harding and died 27 November 1926.
L.L. (Leonidas La Fayette) Polk (1837-1892) of Anson County, N.C., was a white farmer; editor; merchant; Confederate officer in the 26th and 43rd North Carolina infantry regiments; Democrat and Populist; first North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, 1877-1880; founder of the Progressive Farmer; and vice president and president of the National Farmers' Alliance, 1887-1892. The collection can be divided into the following time periods: correspondence and other items, 1862-1864, relating to events leading up to Polk's two courts-martial during the Civil War, plus his small diary; letters, 1865, from Raleigh, N.C., where he was serving in the North Carolina legislature; papers documenting the years Polk and his family lived in Anson County, N.C., 1870-1877, where he operated a general merchandise store; papers concerning Polk's term as North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture, 1877-1880; papers concerning various business ventures, 1880-1885, including efforts to sell a diphtheria cure in Boston, Mass., and New York, N.Y.; papers, 1886-1892, dealing with the founding of the Progressive Farmer, Polk's work with the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, his election to national offices of the Union, and his death; and papers, 1892-1919, of Polk's son-in-law, James W. Denmark, and of Clarence Poe relating to the Progressive Farmer and Poe's ultimate purchase of the paper in 1903, and a few Denmark family items. Also included are photographs of Polk and others. Additions to the collection consist of materials on similar topics, especially relating to the Populist Party and North Carolina politics in 1892, the Progressive Farmer, and Polk's court martial. Included are several 1892 letters that concern the election of Marion Butler as president of the National Farmers' Alliance. Other materials include tintype and cartes de visite portraits of L.L. Polk, Sally Gaddy Polk, James W. Denmark, and the Polk family, and a small number of genealogical notes and clippings.
Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate lieutenant-general, was the grandson of Thomas Polk, who fought in the American Revolution, and the son of William Polk (1758-1834), colonel during the Revolution, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina Supervisor of Internal Revenue, University of North Carolina trustee, bank director, and surveyor and owner of lands in Tennessee. Leonidas Polk was related to the Gale, Hawkins, and Yeatman families. Among his children was medical doctor William Mecklenburg Polk, who wrote Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General. MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence and other papers of Leonidas Polk relating to his life and work; Episcopal Church matters; the establishment of the University of the South, 1856-1861; and the Confederate campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, 1861-1864, in which Polk was involved. Also included are papers of William Mecklenburg Polk, chiefly concerning the biography of his father; papers of members of the Polk, Gale, and Hawkins families; correspondence of Charles R. Barney, 1857-1860, engineer for the board of trustees of the University of the South, about the physical development of the University site; and copies of Archibald D. Murphey's papers relating to William Polk.
MICROFILM ONLY. Letters from Polk, of Maury County, Tenn., to his wife from Washington, D.C., in the 1820s and 1830s; political correspondence from prominent Tennesseans; and other family letters. Included are a letter, 10 May 1831, from Andrew Jackson, and a letter, 1 May [1830?], from James K. Polk.
Trusten Polk was a lawyer of St. Louis, Mo.; governor of Missouri, 1857; United States senator from Missouri, 1857-1862; colonel, Confederate States of America; and a military judge, 1864-1865.
William Polk was a planter of Rapides Parish, La.
Emily Louise Pollard (1896-1972) travelled extensively, visiting Europe, 1913, 1924, 1926, and 1951, and California, 1917.
Daniel Hubbard Pollitt (1921-2010) was a white law professor, civil liberties lawyer, and activist for civil rights and other progressive causes. The collection documents Daniel H. Pollitt's legal career and his scholarly and public service interests and activities. The bulk of the collection consists of Pollitt's subject files. Major topics include ABSCAM and other congressional ethics controversies; amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters; planning a law school with a focus on public service; civil rights, especially school desegregration and employment discrimination; the death penalty in North Carolina; government employee strikes; self-incrimination and the House Un-American Activities Committee, especially with regard to Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller; Hobby v. United States, a case about grand jury foreman selection that Pollitt argued before the United States Supreme Court; impeachment; labor, especially the reorganization of the National Labor Relations Board, migrant workers, and the Brookside Mine Strike in Harlan County, Ky.; the North Carolina speaker ban; and Supreme Court nominations. Numerous other topics are covered in these files, many of which concern narrower aspects of constitutional law, such as separation of church and state and search and seizure. Subject files also document long collaborations with a number of legal scholars, civil liberties attorneys, and government officials, including Congressman Frank Thompson, as well as Pollitt's work with academic associations, government agencies, and civil liberties and civil rights groups, and his teaching career and his service to the University of North Carolina. Other smaller series in the collection include Biographical Materials; Correspondence and People Files, which refer to legal cases, writings, and career activities and developments of Pollitt and others, including Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Henry Edgerton, and H.L. Mitchell; Writings, which overlap considerably with the Subject Files; and Photographs, which are chiefly of Pollitt.
A. D. Pollock (Abraham David, sometimes Abram David), a Pennsylvania-born Presbyterian minister of Richmond, Va., and of Fauquier County, Va., married Elizabeth Gordon Lee, daughter of Charles Lee.
Robert E. Pomeranz (1917-1997) of Sanford, N.C., was an entrepreneur and civic leader. He founded the Roberts Company in 1948 and operated it until 1970. Typescript memoir, Gyroscope: A Personal Memoir, by Robert E. Pomeranz of Sanford, N.C., describing his childhood in New York City, education at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and adult life in Sanford, N.C. The memoir mainly describes Pomeranz's business career, emphasizing the development of the Roberts Company, which he operated from 1948 until 1970. The Roberts Company primarily manufactured textile machinery. A chapter at the end of the memoir describes Pomeranz's experiences with Christian Science, which he credits with two major healings. Also included are three photographs of Pomeranz.
The Doug Pomeroy Collection of Concert Fliers consists of nine advertisements for concerts in the Los Angeles area, circa 1955-1956. The concerts featured folksingers Noel and Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton, Odetta, Rolf Cahn, Jo Mapes, Sondra Orans, Sid Berland, and Marcia Berman. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Theodore Medad Pomeroy (1824-1905) was a lawyer, banker, legislator, district attorney, mayor, and Republican United States representative from New York, 1861-1869. The collection includes letters to Pomeroy, while a United States representative from New York, from his constituents in the army at Port Royal and Saint Helena Island, S.C., and at Fort Monroe and elsewhere in Virginia, about army politics.
Scrapbook contains obituaries, speeches, sermons, notices of marriages, devotional poems, etc., all apparently clipped from newspapers and pertaining to the Walter C. Pool family of Elizabeth City, N.C. Also, a few scattered manuscript items are present, including a letter from the University of North Carolina, May 1870, affirming that Walter Pool had been a student, and attesting to his good character; a letter nominating Hon. George W. Brooks for appointment as the Circuit Court judge of North Carolina; and a prayer copied from the day book of Dr. N. G. Pool.
The collection includes correspondence and other items, chiefly 1750-1860, of succeeding generations of several interrelated aristocratic families whose members were prominent in business, the church, and government of Popayan, Colombia, capital of the department of Cauca. The papers concern family matters, religious institutions, mining, stock-raising and farming, production and marketing of quinine, legal transactions and cases, and political revolutions of the nineteenth century. Principal families represented are Valencia, Perez, Arroyo, Varila, Arboleda, Hurtado, Cordova, Delgado, and Mosquera.
The collection documents the Pope family of North Carolina, including Jonas Elias Pope of Northampton County, a man of color who was free before the Civil War; his son, M. T. Pope, who was born in Northampton County and later lived in Henderson, Charlotte, and Raleigh; M. T. Pope's wife, Delia H. Pope of Raleigh; and their daughters, Evelyn Bennett Pope and Ruth Permelia Pope. M. T. Pope graduated in the first class of the Leonard Medical School of Shaw University; served in the Third Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish-American War; and practiced medicine and owned businesses and real estate in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. In the early 1900s, he was one of seven men of color registered to vote in Raleigh; in 1919, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor. Delia H. Pope taught school and was trained in the Madame C. J. Walker method of scientific hairdressing; Evelyn Bennett Pope was a professor of library science at North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University); and Ruth Permelia Pope was a teacher of home economics in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, educational records, and other papers of the Pope family. Included are letters written during M. T. Pope's Spanish-American War service; letters of recommendation, 1892-1899, 1910, and 1914, for M. T. Pope from lawyers, bankers, and college administrators; letters in the 1920s, mostly relating to land in Northampton County; and letters about insurance, real estate, and other financial matters. Financial and legal papers relate to Jonas Elias Pope's land and taxes in Northampton County, N.C. Also included are his certificate of freedom, 1851, and a copy of his will. A few items relate to businesses M. T. Pope helped start or partially owned. Many papers relate to Raleigh property and real estate; income taxes; insurance; stock; bank accounts; utility payments; and hospital bills. Other papers include educational records, biographical information and an autobiographical essay, diplomas and certificates, clippings, notebooks, autograph books, photographs, and other materials. There are also library science articles about African American bibliography by Evelyn Pope; scattered publications of First Baptist Church in Raleigh, the National Medical Association, and the People's Benevolent and Relief Association; and materials about the preservation and promotion of Pope House as an historic site and cultural institution.
The collection contains part of an account book, 1872-1879, of work done and supplies issued to tenants, Edisto Island, S.C., and a letter, 27 March 1888, from Daniel T. Pope, Edisto Island, to W. T. Thompson, Charleston, S.C., about a controversy in the Presbyterian church.
The collection of white educator and professor, Louis Billy Pope (1927-2008), contains correspondence, journals, subject files, school notebooks, and pictures documenting Pope's personal and professional life. Topics include Pope's experience as a student and as a faculty member at High Point College; his work at Presbyterian College and St. Andrews College; community activities in Kernersville, N.C., especially the Sedge Garden United Methodist Church; graduate education in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; and trips Pope took in the United States and abroad, which are documented by letters, journal entries, and snapshots.
Oliver R. Pope of Rocky Mount, N.C., was president, 1932-1934, of the North Carolina Negro Teachers Association and a member of a commission appointed by the governor to study problems of African American schools in North Carolina in 1934. The collection includes letters, 1933-1934, of Oliver R. Pope, relating to the creation of a commission to study African American education in North Carolina. Correspondents are Kemp D. Battle, attorney of Rocky Mount, N.C.; John C. B. Ehringhaus, governor of North Carolina; and N. C. Newbold, director of the State Division of Negro Education.
Audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, and other materials documenting the Popham Seminar, an annual meeting of journalists and journalism educators.
Captain T. G. Popham (b. 1842?) was a Confederate soldier from Rapphannock County, Va. Popham's family owned a cotton plantation and slaves. From June 1863 to April 1865, Popham commanded Company B of the 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Popham had joined the regiment on the first day of the battle of First Manassas. Popham saw service at Williamsburg; Seven Pines; Frayser's Farm; Second Manassas; South Mountain; Antietam; Fredericksburg; at the garrison at Smithville, N.C.; near New Bern; during the North Carolina campaign; Gettysburg; in the second North Carolina campaign; Drewry's Bluff; Milford Station; Cold Harbor; on the Petersburg-Howlett Line; Dinwiddie Court House; Five Forks; and Sayler's Creek.
Letters to Charlotte Porcher, presumably of Charleston, S.C., chiefly concerning deaths in her family, and a few other letters from family members and friends involving Charlotte Porcher and her relatives.
Douglas Watson Porter was a Morgan County, Ga., planter. His wife was Annabella Burwell Dawson Watson (1785-1835).
The collection of Harry W. Porter of Chapel Hill, N.C., contains a color lithograph of Christy's Minstrels dated 1847 and four recordings on acetate discs of ballad singer Charles K. "Tink" Tillett of Wanchese, N.C., and others. The lithograph of the blackface minstrel group founded by Edwin Pearce Christy (1815-1862) in Buffalo, N.Y., is cross listed in Southern Folklife Collection Posters (30021). The acetate discs were recorded by folklorists and song catchers Frank Warner and Anne Warner of New York. Other artists on the 1940 and 1941 recordings are Mrs. C.K. Tillett, Steve Meekins, [John] Culpepper, Sally Daniels, and Albert Etheridge. Song titles performed and recorded include "72 Today My Boys," "Somebody's Waiting for Me," and "Bony on the Isle of St. Helena." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
J.D. Porter lived in Marengo County, Ala., and New York City.
Field recordings, 1976-1977, of Greek folks songs and poems recorded by John A. Porter, a white student of the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes recordings by John A. Porter made in both Greece and the United States, including live recordings of Yannis Rountas (ca. 1901- ) and Theodoros Pantazis (ca. 1903- ), both Greek Sarakatsani shepherds and singers from Vitsa Zagori, Iōannina, Greece, singing Greek folk songs from the northern area of the country in Greek, as well as field recordings of Harry Chepriss (1886-1990), a Greek-American who immigrated from Karpenisi, Greece to Buncombe County, N.C. in 1900. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a field collection cover sheet and tape logs prepared by John A. Porter and former Southern Folklife Collection staff, and a paper by John A. Porter related to his fieldwork with Harry Chepriss.
Joseph Porter (fl. 1851-1852) of Cummington, Mass., traveled to San Antonio, Tex., on business, 1851-1852. The collection includes letters, August 1851-June 1852, written by Porter while in San Antonio, Tex., to his sister, Sophia L. Porter, and mother, Mrs. A. G. Porter, at home. The letters describe the Mexican population of the town and accommodations there, and give advice about farming and family matters at home.
Farmer and sheriff in Maury County, Tenn.
William Porter of Swannanoa, N.C., was a soldier in the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (North Carolina Volunteers) in the Confederate Army.
A collection documenting more than 3,500 persons, most of whom have a connection to the state of North Carolina. The collection is arranged by surname and forename.
The Barry Poss Collection consists of 25 recordings, 1976-1979, created and compiled by Sugarhill Records founder, Barry Poss. The majority of the items are recordings, 1976-1977, of Virgil Craven (1902-1980), an Anglo-American old-time string band musician of Cedar Falls, N.C. The collection also includes two live recordings from 1975 of Gaither Carlton (1901-1972), an Anglo-American old-time fiddler, banjo player and singer from Deep Gap, Watauga County, N.C., and Arthel Doc Watson (1923-2012), an Anglo-American guitarist, banjo player and singer also from Deep Gap, Watauga County, N.C.
Microfilm only. Plantation book kept by James P. Postell, a white farmer, documents the enslaved people and their labor in growing cotton, corn, and potatoes at Kelvin Grove Plantation, St. Simons Island, Ga. The plantation book includes lists of enslaved people, as well as stock, diagrams of the plantation, and notations, 1853-1854, of daily agricultural work.
Edwin McNeill Poteat was a Baptist preacher, teacher, and missionary in China, 1917-1929, author, president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1944-1948, and pastor at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C., 1929-1937 and 1948-1955, and at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1937-1944.
Contains recordings of interviews conducted by white writer and reporter David Potorti, as well as footage of blues musician Etta Baker, the gospel singing group The Branchettes, and the North Carolina A&T marching band. Interviews include: phone interviews with Gerry McCabe, Bess Lomax Hawes, Ron Hale, Bob Riskin, Walter Camp, and Ed Kahn, circa 1997, regarding McCabe's Guitar Shop; interviews with David Garner, David and Mary Farrell, Kings Pottery regarding potters in Seagrove, N.C.; an interview with artist Stacy Lambert (includes a paper written by Potorti about Lambert and copies of some of Lambert's drawings); interviews with North Carolina traditional musician Marvin Gastner, Jesse Eustice (daughter of old-time musicians Bobbie and Tommy Thompson), banjoist and author Bob Carlin, music journalist Jack Bernhardt, and WPAQ founder Ralph Epperson and his son, station manager Kelly Epperson; interviews with potters M. L. Owens and Nancy Owens, potter Jerry Parnell, and folk artist Vollis Simpson; interviews with old-time musicians Jim Watson and Alan Jabbour relating to a story on the Red Clay Ramblers; and interviews with old-time musicians Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens. Other footage includes: a video of blues musician Etta Baker visiting and singing in Professor Bill Malone's class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5 April 2000 and 6 April 2000; the gospel singing group The Branchettes, 23 February 2000; and the North Carolina A&T Marching Band, circa 2000.
The collection is a scrapbook of poetry and miscellaneous newspaper clippings from Beaufort, N.C., compiled by Ella J. Potter.
The collection is a letter from F. Freeman, New Bern, N.C., to H. Potter, concerning two Massachusetts men in the New Bern area, who were preaching anti-Trinitarian doctrines and were suspected of engaging in dishonest practices.
The collection is a typed copy made in 1931 of genealogical data dated 1756 to 1893. The genealogical information pertains to the families of John Potter (1734-1787) of Mecklenburg, Va., and James Easton (1756-1810) of Hartford, Conn.
John Potts of Noblesville, Ind., served with the 101st Indiana Infantry Regiment (101st Indiana Volunteers), Company D, in Tennessee and Georgia during the Civil War.
Charles Stevens Powell (1843-1918) was a Confederate soldier in the 24th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Powell joined the Army in May 1861 at the age of 17 and served primarily in Virginia and West Virginia.
Daniel A. Powell was born on 29 July 1911 in Wilson, N.C. In the 1930s Powell worked as a salesman for the American Circulation Company, the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and as advertising salesman for the Memphis Press-Scimitar. He was an account executive for the O'Callaghan Advertising Agency in 1939-1940 and served in the United States Army Air Force in World War II. Powell was briefly the Assistant Information Director for the West Tennessee Office of Price Administration in 1945 and in the same year became the Southern Director of the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. When the CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955, the AFL's League for Labor Education joined with the CIO's PAC to cbecome the Committee on Political Education (COPE). Powell then became director of COPE Region 5, roughly the same territory he had covered for PAC. Powell served in that position until his death on 6 August 1983.
Dannye Romine Powell is an author and book editor for the Charlotte Observer.
Dwane Powell is an editorial cartoonist in Raleigh, N.C. The Dwane Powell Papers consist of his original editorial cartoons and other production versions, 1970s-2000s, and other materials, including correspondence and photographs, documenting his career as an editorial cartoonist drawing on politics and government.
Mark Powell (b. 1775) resided in Edgecombe County, N.C.
William H. Powell served as a colonel in the 2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He commanded a brigade of cavalry as part of General David Hunter's campaign through the Shenandoah Valley in pursuit of Confederate general Jubal Early.
The collection of white author, historian, and professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William S. Powell, includes correspondence, research materials, speeches, writings, and other papers relating to William Stevens Powell's professional activities and to North Carolina history. Included are materials relating to the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; to historical organizations, such as the Historical Society of North Carolina, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Organization, the Roanoke Island Historical Association, and local historical societies; and to Powell's research and writing about the history of North Carolina, especially colonial North Carolina.
Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two generations of the Goodman family. Letters are personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Amity, Iredell County; his wife Ellen; and his sons and a nephew, including a building materials merchant at Hillsboro, Ill., a railroad employee at Birmingham, Ala., a resident of Lavon, Tex., and others. Letters from Hillsboro, Ill., discuss weather, prices, wages, opportunity that led to leaving North Carolina, the high cost of food in Illinois, and homesickness. Other personal letters discuss farming and give family news, especially about illnesses, deaths, and estates. Account books, chiefly from Iredell County, are for general merchandise and lumber sales, 1853-1856; church contributions (perhaps Presbyterian), 1855-1856; farm crops and miscellaneous labor, 1891; and a blacksmith, Goodwin and White, of Statesville, N.C., 1891-1893. Also included are miscellaneous Goodman family bills and receipts; deeds of other persons; and fourteen letters, 1922-1924, from a North Carolina black medical student, William D. Washington, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., to a friend, Janie Lee Norton, in Davidson, N.C.
The collection is a diary, 1 January 1862-28 September 1863, of Ellen Louise Power of East Feliciana Parish, La. The diary documents daily activities including household and social affairs. Many entries describe civilian relief efforts during the Civil War, shortages in goods brought about by the war, the departure of slaves from neighboring plantations, and the local response to the Union attacks on New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and nearby Port Hudson.
The collection is a letter from Daniel Pratt of Autauga County, Ala., to R. L. Gracey, describing the merits of the cotton gin he was manufacturing.
Joseph Hyde Pratt was a mining engineer; mineralogist; geologist; and educator.
Mary Bailey Pratt (d. 1929) was married to Joseph Hyde Pratt, a geology professor at the University of North Carolina.
S. S. Prentiss was an orator and politician of Vicksburg, Miss.
The collection is a broadside containing lists of officers, committees, etc., 1861, of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.
Helen M. Blount Prescott was a genealogist of Atlanta, Ga. The collection is chiefly correspondence and notes, 1910-1940, of Prescott. The Adams family, Blount family, Hill family, Howard family, Hughes family, Randolph family, and Reynolds family are among those represented. Also included are thirteen antebellum letters of the Prescott family and Slade family of Fort Gaines (Columbus County) and Columbus, Ga., including one, 1835, from George W. Prescott, Fort Gaines, describing unrest among the slaves caused by abolitionist activities, and a series of letters, 1852-1863, from members of the Slade family to a family friend describing social and family life, especially of Emma (Slade) Prescott. Also included are diaries and personal records of Helen Prescott and her mother, occasionally 1915 to 1944, about daily domestic life.
The collection is a doctor's record of treatment, medicine, and diet prescribed for various patients, presumably from North Carolina, 19th century.
Audio recordings, moving images, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scattered correspondence comprise the collection of Mack J. Preslar (1923-2014), a white CEO and electronics professional who was the associate director of the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina beginning in 1947. Correspondence includes letters from songwriter and producer, John D. Loudermilk, and from country music recording artist, George Hamilton IV (1937-2014), among others. Clippings and photographs depict Preslar's personal life, service in the United States Navy, as well as scenes from the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, including his role in radio broadcasting and his participation in a 1957 effort to photograph an eclipse in Thailand. Audio recordings consist of instantaneous discs of Norman Cordon, an operatic singer and UNC alum; open reel audio of radio broadcasts and live performances on the UNC campus, including a 1954 performance by Louis Armstrong and the All Stars; master open reel audio recordings affiliated with Orville Campbell's independent record label, Colonial Records based in Chapel Hill, N.C.; and other open reel audio recordings compiled by Preslar. Moving images consist of a videotape of Preslar with Norman Cordon and unidentified motion picture films.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was a highly influential musician and actor. Between 1956 and 1969, he starred in 31 films. Each film included songs by the actor, although not all were performed on-screen.
Ethnomusicologist Karen Helms Pressley was born in Union County, N.C. Classically trained in piano, organ, and voice, Pressley developed an interest in the preservation of old-time music and the oral tradition. The collection contains fieldwork relating primarily to the oral musical traditions of the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Union County, N.C., in south-central North Carolina. Outer Banks materials consist of recorded folk songs, stories, and interviews with residents, as well as interview transcripts, Pressley's essay on the oral traditions of the Outer Banks, and ballads and songs she collected. The Union County, N.C., materials consist of field recordings Pressley made documenting the oral musical traditions of Union County. Music includes church gospel, guitar blues, fiddle and banjo tunes, traditional ballad singing, and childrens' songs performed by Union County residents. Also included are other recordings made by Pressley, among them some with storyteller Bobby McMillon, recordings from western North Carolina and the Piedmont area, and recordings relating to music workshops and children's songs.
Letters, writings, notebooks, sketches, and photographs of artist Judy Jones Preston. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Va., was a poet and author. This collection chiefly consists of letters written by editors, authors, and Confederate leaders, and received or collected by Margaret Junkin Preston. Among these are letters from Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson, John C. Calhoun, and Benjamin Rush. Other letter writers include Paul Hamilton Hayne, Jean Ingelow, Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley (Mrs. Charles Kingsley), Rose Kingsley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, P. B. Marston, Thomas Nelson Page, Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster, Alexander Stephens, Mary Terhune (who wrote as Marion Harland), and John Greenleaf Whittier. Most of the letters are from the period, 1875-1892; only a few items are dated earlier than 1855. The collection also contains a manuscript copy of Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War; poems by Preston; and a poetry notebook, 1865-1869, with works by Preston and showing her many revisions. Occasional diary entries, interspersed in the poetry notebook, indicate that many of the poems were written during summer visits to Rockbridge Baths, near Lexington, Va., or the Hot Springs in Bath County, Va. Added to the collection in 1998 is a cumulative index, compiled by Mary P. Coulling, of Preston's published and unpublished poetry.
The Prevatte family has lived in Robeson County, N.C., since the late 18th century. Thomas Prevatte, Jr. (1764-1843) moved to Robeson from Craven County, N.C., in 1797 with his wife, Sally West Prevatte (1771-1853). Thomas and Sally Prevatte had at least nine children and lived on land near Fairmont, N.C., and Old Field Swamp. Thomas and Sally's son, Furney Prevatte (1808-1895), was a Baptist minister and helped establish several churches in Robeson County. Another son, Elias W. Prevatte (1814-1886), appears to have owned a farm and was married to Caroline Bullock Prevatte (1846-1882). Elias W. and Caroline Prevatte's son, E. Fowler Prevatte (1871-1936) apparently grew tobacco and was a member of the Woodmen of the World. Papers are chiefly receipts, deeds, promissory notes, tax receipts, account statements, and other documents of various members of the Prevatte family of Robeson County, N.C. The documents describe business transactions, land grants, farm activities, tax assessments, and other family dealings. Included are receipts, 1886-1887, of executor Charles Prevatte, settling the estate of Elias W. Prevatte; papers, 1893-1934, of E. Fowler Prevatte; papers, 1839-1886, of Elias W. Prevatte; and papers, 1791-1843, of Thomas Prevatte. Also included are papers of other Robeson County residents.
Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919-2001) was a lawyer, judge, politician, educator, and civic and philanthropic leader from Greensboro, N.C. The collection documents the public and private life of Rich Preyer; his wife, Emily Harris Preyer (1919-1999); their children; and other Preyer and Richardson family members. Political papers follow Preyer from his failed candidacy for governor of North Carolina in 1964 to his role as advisor and fundraiser for the Democratic Party after he left elected office in 1981. Most materials pertain to his six-terms in Congress representing the sixth district of North Carolina, including his service on the Select Committee on Assassinations. Also documented are the Preyers' extensive civic and philanthropic work for education, the environment, health care, legal affairs, politics, social uplift, and the First Presbyterian Church. Richardson family materials show Preyer's contributions to family interests, including the Vick Chemical Company; the Lunsford Richardson Memorial Hospital, which served African Americans in Greensboro; the Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.; and other family businesses. Preyer's law practice and judicial appointments are also documented, as are his speaking and teaching activities after 1981. These materials reflect Preyer's interests in education, the Democratic Party, ethics, media, politics, and health policy. Emily Harris Preyer papers include speeches and other materials that document her roles as civic leader in her own right and supportive wife of a politician. Also included are biographical materials, scrapbooks, photographs, audio-visual items, and other materials documenting familial relationships and academic and leisure activities of Preyer and his family.
Members of the Price family resided in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and Fayette County and Giles County, Tenn., where several members of the family moved to settle and where many of them owned land. The collection is primarily business and financial papers, with some family letters, of several generations of the Price family. Papers are mainly those of Isaac Price, Isaac Price Junior, and Isaac Jasper Price, and deal with farming, estate settlement, lands and property, medical services, settlement in Tennessee, the Steele Creek Church in Mecklenburg County, and family matters.
The Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers are chiefly letters of Thomas Francis Price to Sarah Harrill Price, married white farmers from Rutherford County, N.C. Thomas Francis Price wrote from camps in Tarboro, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Wilmington, Winston, Halifax, Garysburg, Trap Hill, and Allegheny County, N.C., and from Franklin, Richmond, Drury's Bluff, and Petersburg, Va., while serving in the 56th North Carolina Infantry, Company I. His letters are concerned with upkeep of the farm, the weather at home, provisions, camp life, clothing, morale, pro war and pro peace sentiments within his company, the temptation to desert, and the death penalty for a soldier accused of desertion. There are a few letters written by Sarah Harrill Price, S. L. Price, William H. Harrill, and D. D. Price. (Typed transcriptions for all letters have been provided by the donor.) Also included is A Soldier"s Conscience, an article about these letters by Doran L. Cart, 1983.
The collection contains 24 wax cylinder recordings released by Edison Records in the early twentieth century and an Edison record player. Recording artists featured on the cylinders are Ada Jones, Billy Murray, Rachael Grant, Billy Golden, Joe Hughes, Anna Case, Walter Van Brundt, Charles D'Almaine, Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra, and Jaudas' Society Orchestra. Songs include "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice," "Steamboat Leaving Wharf at New Orleans," "Hawaiian Nights," and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling-The Isle O' Dreams." The collector is United States Representative David Price of North Carolina. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Elias Winans Price (1829-1897) was the son of Jeremiah Price (1786-1861) and his second wife Maria Gibbs Price (1788-1838) of Elizabeth, Essex County, N.J. Among Elias Winans Price's siblings were Theodore (born 1819) and Henrietta McDowell Price (born 1826). The collection includes papers of the Price family of Essex County, N.J., including eighty-five Civil War letters written home by Elias Winans Price, serving with the 5th New York Regiment in Maryland and West Virginia. Price's letters concern the discomforts of camp life; his activities as a nurse, cook, and prison guard; the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg; and his reactions to national news, especially the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Also included are antebellum papers, including records of Price's father, Jeremiah Price, constable of Essex County, N.J., relating to delinquent tax collections; letters from a brother in Michigan; and letters from E. W. Price and a brief account book Price kept while he was apprenticed to a bookbinder in Waterbury, Conn.
Joseph Price (1835-1895) of Wilmington, N.C., worked in the United States Revenue Marine Service before the Civil War and served as a commander in the Confederate Navy.
R. Channing Price joined the 3rd Virginia Howitzers at the outbreak of the Civil War and fought with them during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. On 29 July 1862, he was appointed aid-de-camp to General Jeb Stuart. He served in that capacity during the Antietam Campaign. While serving in Stuart's command, he made the acquaintance of Fitzhugh Lee and guerilla leader John Singleton Mosby. He was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville on 1 May 1863. The collection contains Civil War letters, 1861-1863, from R. Channing Price written from the Virginia peninsula, 1861-1862; south of the James River, 1862; and in northern Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, 1862-1863. Letters are chiefly to members of the Price family in Richmond describing battles and military life. Among military actions discussed are the Peninsula Campaign, 1862; the Antietam Campaign (Maryland Campaign), September 1862; and the death of Lieutenant Colonel John Pelham (1838-1863) at Kelly's Ford. Also included is Price's diary, October 1861-May 1862, kept while he was camped in Warwick County, Va., and letters of condolence to Price's family after his death from generals Jeb Stuart and Fitzhugh Lee. Pre-war items are chiefly letters from Price to various family members discussing life in antebellum Virginia. There are also letters relating to pre- and post-Civil War affairs of John Singleton Mosby and Fitzhugh Lee, a pre-war list of property belonging to Mosby, and several letters relating to Mosby's death. Selected items are available on microfilm.
William Prince, born in Roanoke, Va., and raised in Chapel Hill, N.C., was a successful magazine illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. He was head of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina during World War II and produced drawings and posters in aid of the war effort. The Southern Part of Heaven, his boyhood memoir, was published in 1950. Actress Lillian Hughes Prince, William's wife, appeared in many stage productions in and around Chapel Hill, particularly with the Carolina Playmakers. She also played Queen Elizabeth in Paul Green's The Lost Colony, 1947-1953, and acted with the touring company of Howard Richardson's Dark of the Moon, 1945-1946. The couple had one adopted daughter Caroline, who returned to her birth parents in 1941.
John Prinn completed a history of Gloucestershire in 1737; it was never published.
The Prism was a free, progressive, non-profit newspaper serving the Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, N.C., communities, 1990-2000. The newspaper was run by volunteers and focused on the politics, economics, and rights of progressive and minority groups.
The collection contains photostatic copies of volume 1, number 1 of Prison Times, published by J.W. Hibbs, captain, 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment, and written by Hibbs and other Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware, Del., in April 1865.
The collection includes the diary of Catherine McAlpin Wray Pritchard of New Orleans, detailing a trip from New Orleans to England and Scotland in 1829, and correspondence and legal papers, 1887-1899, about a claim against the United States government for property damages suffered during the Civil War. The diary includes details of the voyage aboard the ships Tally Ho and Jane, and descriptions of Liverpool and London, and of life with Pritchard's relatives and friends at Meole, England. A few entries were written by Catherine's husband, George Worthington Pritchard (d. 1860). The claim, pressed by Catherine and her daughters, Catherine Mary Pritchard Rogers, Cora Rosine Pritchard, and Georgine Pritchard Rainey, involved purported damages caused by Union troops during their occupation of the Pritchard's house in New Orleans, 1863-1865.
John Aston Pritchett (1826-1909) of Greensboro, N.C., was a cabinetmaker, undertaker, active member of the Republican Party, and justice of the peace and legislator, 1881 and 1887.
William and Mary Proffit lived near Lewis Fork Post Office, Wilkes County, N.C.
Collection consists of approximately 7,500 images made by white sportswriter, columnist, and photographer William W.(Bill) Prouty while working for The Chapel Hill Weekly and The Chapel Hill Newspaper, between 1955-1961. Subjects depicted in images include community organizations; events; businesses; churches; schools; sports teams; people of local and national significance; and scenes and activities in and around the towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough in Orange County, N.C.
Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Pruden (1866-1942), United States Army chaplain, was a native of Virginia who enlisted in Durham, N.C. The collection contains military papers relating to the career of Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Pruden, chaplain in the 1st North Carolina Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899; in other units of the United States Army in the Philippines and Hawaii Territory; as commandant of the Training School for Chaplains and Approved Chaplain Candidates, Camp Taylor, Ky., during World War I; and at other locations until his retirement in 1922. Included are letters of promotions, military personnel records, correspondence regarding military matters, and a few items relating to the role of military chaplains. Most of the materials concern personnel actions, such as transfers and promotions, affecting Pruden and to his handling of funds.
William Dossey Pruden, of Edenton, N.C., was a lawyer, an active Democrat, and the North Carolina member of the commission deciding the boundary between northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia in 1886-1888. Chiefly correspondence, 1880-1919, of Pruden with friends and legal colleagues relating to personal matters, national and state politics, business trends, social conditions, and other matters. Prohibition is mentioned frequently as is the Norfolk and Southern Railroad, for which Pruden was attorney. Of particular interest are 116 letters, received 1886-1888, about the work of the Boundary Commission. Also included is a book of personal accounts, 1867-1869, that contains an eight-page family history.
The Prudhomme family of Natchitoches Parish, La., were the French Creole owners of a plantation based on a workforce of enslaved people and later tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and day laborers, with interests in cotton, corn, hay, lumber, livestock, and a general store. Six generations of Prudhommes and enslaved people and their descendents, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, lived at Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland). The collection documents life and labor on the plantation from the perspective of the plantation owning family members. Topics include courtship and marriage; sickness; social activities; travel; agricultural and general store operations at Bermuda/Oakland plantation, including accounts with sharecroppers, tenants, and hired laborers, many of whom were freedmen; relationships with other Cane River plantation owners and businesses across the country; the succession of plantation ownership; accounting records of the plantation physician, James A. Leveque; genealogy and historic preservation; and school, religious, military, political, and club activities. Other families represented in the collection are the Cloutiers, Lecomtes, and Metoyers of Natchitoches area, and the Keator family of Webster Groves, Mo. Other plantations represented in the collection are Magnolia, Shallow Lake, Vienna, Gente Place Coco Point, Homeplace, and Cognac in Natchitoches Parish and nighboring parishes. Collection materials include correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, photographic materials, financial records, genealogical and family history materials, maps and plats, and audiovisual materials. Many 18th- and 19th-century materials are in French.
The collection includes images created by white photographers Otis N. Pruitt and Calvin Shanks between the 1920s and 1980s chiefly in Lowndes County, Miss. Most of the images were created by Pruitt circa 1920s-1950s. They document his work as a commercial (for-hire) and studio photographer in Columbus. Images primarily depict the town and people, including local businesses, churches, residential areas, schools, events, and people. Of particular interest are images of visits by Mississippi state politicians, historic homes, the African American community, and civic groups. The collection also includes images from outside Columbus, including other locations within Mississippi, as well as in Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
The Publishers Association of the South (PAS), an organization of book publishers and related firms and individuals, was established in 1985 to promote book publishing in the South and to provide information and educational opportunities to its members.
MICROFILM ONLY. Volume compiled around 1884 by E. W. Pugh of Windsor, N.C., to record the descendants of all the different families whose blood runs in my veins. Included are family letters relating to genealogy. There are also charts, trees, and histories of the Williams, Pugh, Collins, Slade, Whitmell, Alston, and Dawson families. Also included are some materials relating to the Tunstall, Clark, and Hunter families.
The collection is a typescript genealogical record made in 1944 for the Pugh family of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Records date from 1666 to 1891.
James Thomas Pugh (1873-1942), a teacher and lawyer of North Carolina, was the son of Sallie Keck Pugh and James Monroe Pugh (born 1826), a Confederate officer and storekeeper. The collection includes family correspondence and storekeeping records of the Pugh family in the 19th century. The collection includes accounts of dealings in merchandise by James Monroe Pugh, 1850s and late 1865, at various places in North Carolina, particularly in Alamance County. Civil War items include letters of James Monroe Pugh as a sergeant in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment serving in Virginia, and records he kept relating to cavalry horses and forage. The bulk of the papers consists of family letters and store records of James Monroe Pugh and his wife, Sallie Keck Pugh, at Morrisville, Wake County, N.C., 1868-1910. Family letters relate primarily to everyday life and interests, but include letters from James Thomas Pugh as a student and Latin instructor at the University of North Carolina, 1890-1894; a classics student at Harvard University, 1895-1897; teaching in Cleveland, Ohio, 1896-1897; and practicing law in Boston, Mass., after 1897. Also included is family correspondence of James Thomas Pugh's wife, Mabel Vaughan Pugh, and of his sons, Edward C. Pugh and Roger Vaughan Pugh.
Raymond H. Pulley was a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966-1973, and at Appalachian State University, 1973-1995. While a student at Oscar Frommel Smith High School in South Norfolk, Va., 1955-1957, Pulley worked as an engineer and disc jockey at the student-run radio station WOSFM, hosting The Cuzin' Ray Hoedown, a daily two-hour program that featured rock and roll, country, and hillbilly music. On 12 February 1956, Pulley interviewed Elvis Presley, Maybelle Carter, Helen Carter, June Carter, and Anita Carter in conjunction with their appearance at the Norfolk Municipal Auditorium.
John H. Purrington (1768-1837) settled in Halifax County, N.C., in the late 1790s. His son, Robert F. Purrington (1799?-1837), purchased the Beach Swamp Plantation in Scotland Neck, N.C. Both men were doctors, with Robert attending medical school at the University of Maryland, 1825-1826. A.L. Purrington (1867-1940) was born at Beach Swamp Plantation and educated at Horner's Military Academy in Oxford, N.C. His parentage is unclear; he may have been the son of Rufus H. Purrington. In 1900, he married Georgie Bosley, daughter of Georgie Price Bosley and Samuel Parker Bosley, who was raised in Towson, Md., and educated at the Girls Latin School in Baltimore and Goucher College. The couple had five children, Luther Purrington among them. Georgie Bosley Purrington lived at Beach Swamp Plantation until her death in 1977.
The papers of Alfred Luther Purrington, Jr., a white lawyer of Raleigh, N.C., and his wife Nella Grimes Ward Purrington document family members’ and friends’ extensive travels at the turn of the twentieth century particularly from trips to Europe, Alfred's military service during the Second World War in the United States Army Operations and Training Division, his law school education at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s, and Grimes family history and genealogy. The collection contains travel diaries and correspondence dating from 1889 to 1957, travel ephemera and printed items such as trip itineraries and guide and interpreter books, United States Army documents and letters home from Alfred during the Second World War, scrapbooks, law school notebooks, writings, estate records for the Grimes family dated 1907, family photographs, and items related to Grimes family reunions in the 1990s. Also included in the collection are materials related to Meredith College professor of ancient languages Helen Price, including her reminiscence titled "Memories of Swarthmore before 1909." Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
John R. Purvis was a colonel in the Confederate States of America.
Bennet Puryear (1826-1914) was a professor. His son, Charles Puryear (1860-1940), was also a professor of mathematics and dean at Texas A & M University. The collection includes published tributes and articles, and a typescript biographical note concerning Bennet Puryear and Charles Puryear. Also included is a letter, 29 September 1889, from Charles Puryear to his sister Sallie describing conditions at Texas A & M during its early years, and a Puryear family genealogy.
The Zion Presbyterian Church and Frierson Settlement, both in Maury County, Tenn., were founded by South Carolinians in 1805.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. is a New Yorker of Venezuelan, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ancestry. Letters, memoirs, and printed items pertaining to Cuba, Cubans, and Americans living in Cuba comprise the bulk of the Louis A. Pérez Jr. Collection. Letters dated 1991 to 1992 are from respondents to a query Louis A. Pérez placed in the New York Times Book Review. In these letters, the American and Cuban American authors describe their experiences living in Cuba during the mid-twentieth century. Topics include social interactions between Americans and Cubans, social customs, class stratification, American businesses such as the United Fruit Company, sugar plantations, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban revolution. Memoirs are by Cuban American authors writing at greater length on topics addressed in the letters. There are additional memoirs of women involved in the Cuban revolution. Other papers are chiefly printed materials, including pamphlets, books, government documents, and ephemera pertaining to Cuba chiefly during the twentieth century. Topics include Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolution, Havana, tourism, economic sanctions, public health, slave trade, Cuban literature and art, Cuban émigrés, politics, socialism, poverty, class stratification, public opinions, economic and social conditions, political prisoners, human rights, and international relations particularly with the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union. Also included are copies of FBI files for Albert Anastasia, Meyer Lansky, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, and research files relating to Pérez’s work on Cubans working in the sugar and cigar industries in Tampa, Florida. Research files from the addition of November 2022 include images from Cuban municipal archives related to military hospitals in Cuba, including records of Spanish soldiers; collected photographs of Fidel Castro; U.S. Government reports obtained via FOIA related to Cuba, including information from the CIA on the Bay of Pigs invasion; newspaper clippings related to Cuba; and images of clandestine newspapers published in Cuba in the 1950s.

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Mrs. Perrin Quarles was the mother of Lieutenant James Perrin Quarles Jr. (1919-1944) of Charlotte, N.C., who was killed in World War II.
Anne Queen was the white director of the YMCA-YWCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, financial documents, clippings, pamphlets, publications, pictures, and other documents relating to her professional and personal life. Family correspondence consists of letters to Anne Queen from her mother, Effie Mease Queen, and her sisters, Mattie Ruth Queen and Bonnie Mae Queen, relating to everyday occurrences at the family's house in Canton, N.C. Other correspondence includes letters written by people involved in politics, social justice movements, religious service, missionary work, or non-profit service, some of whom had been students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. YMCA-YWCA records deal with tutoring programs, workshops on world affairs and race relations, national YMCA and YWCA conferences, staff development programs, and personnel matters. Also included are personal financial records and records relating to the upkeep of Queen's home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Subject files include documents related to race relations and the civil rights movement, free speech and the 1964 speaker ban at the University, international exchange and volunteerism among University students, theological issues, and the role of religious organizations on a secular university campus. Organizations documented in the records include the American Friends Service Committee, the Peace Corps, and the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. Photographs document farm labor projects undertaken by Queen while at Yale University and the American Friends Service Committee, as well as various YMCA-YWCA social functions. There are also photographs of Terry Sanford, William Friday, Eli Evans, and other state and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill figures. Restricted materials include personnel records, tax documents, and other materials.
Charles B. Quick, who was from Cayuga County, N.Y., enlisted in the Union Army in May 1861 and served as a sergeant until his unit was mustered out of service in the late spring of 1863. The collection consists of Quick's correspondence with his sister, Mary Tanner, and other family and friends. Letters, 1861-1863, were generated during Quick's service in the Union Army, and letters, 1864-1865, were written after Quick left the Army. The earlier set details Quick's experiences enlisting with New York's 19th Infantry Regiment and serving in the Union defensive perimeter around Washington, D.C. In December 1861, his unit was converted into the New York 3rd Light Artillery Regiment, and, from April 1862 until the late spring of 1863, was posted in New Bern and Washington, N.C. Letters describe the construction of forts, skirmishes with Confederate troops, interactions with the local population, and an explosion of gun powder that severely injured a number of Union soldiers. Quick's post-service correspondence is fragmentary. He wrote from Indianapolis, Ind., and then Louisville, Ky., of his unhappiness about being unable to remain in New York because of a soured romantic relationship. He eventually settled in Louisville and became engaged to be married.
The collection contains scattered letters of the Quin family between relatives in Philadelphia, Pa., Ireland, and in Washington, N.C. Topics include steam transportation; life in a girls' school, 1834; European travel, 1839; secession sentiment; and economic conditions in North Carolina, 1878. Also included is a will, 1834, of T. Edward Quin.
Johnstone H. Quinan was captain of the United States revenue cutter Tahoma. The collection includes the papers of Quinan including a log, 1909, of a voyage from Baltimore, Md., eastward around the world, ending at Port Townsend, Wash., with various data about the voyage and reports of Turkish-Armenian hostilities in the eastern Mediterranean. Also included are other scattered papers including a description of a winter rescue off Alaska, 1910, and other documents relating to dramatic events of Quinan's maritime career.
The Quince and Watters families resided in New Hanover County, N.C. Members include Confederate army soldiers William Hasel Quince and John Louis Quince. The collection includes papers, chiefly 1839-1869, of the Quince and Watters families. The bulk of the collection consists of letters and poems of Mary Ivey Moore Watters (1770-1854) and Confederate army letters of William Hasel Quince and John Louis Quince. Also included are a rollbook of the Wilmington Light Infantry, 1860; and a manuscript arithmetic book of James Sanders (born 1762), 1783-1786, which includes Sanders family data and the statement William Hodge made just before his execution in Oglethorpe County, Ga., as written down by William Sanders.
Sister Bernetta Quinn (1915- ) received a B.A. degree from the College of St. Teresa in 1942, an M.A. from the Catholic University of America in 1944, and a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1952. A teacher and poet, Sister Bernetta's two primary areas of scholarship are the Catholic Church and modernist poetry, especially the life and work of Ezra Pound and Randall Jarrell.
The collection contains information about the people enslaved by the white Quitman family on their cotton plantations Springfield in Adams County, Miss., Palmyra in Warren County, Miss., their sugar cane plantations Live Oaks and Dulac in Terrebonne Parish, La., and their primary home Monmouth in Natchez, Miss. A memoranda book kept by John A. Quitman (1799-1858) between 1833 and 1849 contains lists of people and families enslaved at Springfield Plantation. In correspondence from the same time period, John A. Quitman and his business partner and brother-in-law Henry Turner discuss plantation operations including management of the people they enslaved, cholera epidemics in the enslaved community at Palmyra Plantation, a murder of an enslaved person at Palmyra in October 1844, and a legal dispute Turner had with Rice C. Ballard, who trafficked people in the internal slave trade. Correspondents at Monmouth during the American Civil War discuss the impact of the war on Natchez and the self-emancipation of enslaved people during Federal occupation of the city. A short manuscript dated 1897 tells the story of Isaac Hughes (active 1830s-1880s), a Black man enslaved by the Quitmans at Monmouth who visited the manuscript’s white author, Antonia Quitman Lovell (1835-1916) after the American Civil War and emancipation. Quitman family papers include personal correspondence of John A. Quitman during his military service in the Mexican American War and his political career in Mississippi and Washington, D.C.; childhood diaries; journals; writings; household account books; and correspondence of Rose Duncan Lovell (1866-1916) concerning family matters, social events, travel, and illnesses.

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RTPnet is an online community network for the Research Triangle Park area (including Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, and surrounding towns) of North Carolina. It is a volunteer-driven, membership-based service of Public Information Network Inc., previously known as Triangle Free-Net, and is dedicated to helping North Carolina nonprofit organizations leverage Internet tools to promote and support their missions. The collection documents the organizational progress, 1989-2015, of RTPnet. Included in the chronological files are drafts of policies, meeting agendas and minutes, organizational charts, user guides, materials related to RTPnet publications, conference materials, project descriptions, correspondence regarding requests for public access terminals at the Chapel Hill Public Library, quarterly status reports to Orange County, financial information, grant proposals, NCTech4Good materials, and Community Networking newsletters, among other items. Clippings and copies of local news articles and other publications from the 1990s that discuss affordable Internet access and its potential benefits, the emergence of electronic democracy, and other technology issues are also included. Subject folders contain tax information, user guides, certificates, bylaws, attendee lists, evaluation forms, emails, and other items. Other materials include correspondence between RTPnet and individuals and groups that used RTPnet's Internet services and disk space and a videotape, Community Computing: If it plays in Peoria ..., which describes the Heartland Free-Net of Peoria, Ill., one of the largest freenets of the early 1990s.
George Wesley Race (1821-1881) was a lawyer of New Orleans, La. The collection includes Race's daily diary, 1869. For most of the year, the diary is a record of professional activity, but entries for June-September record a stay at springs in West Virginia, a visit to Nashville, Tenn., and a railroad trip to San Francisco, Calif.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary describing family and social life, housekeeping difficulties, Episcopal church work, and civic activities in New Orleans, La., and Pass Christian, Miss., of Race and her husband, George Wesley Race.
The 1989 radio show dubbed on audio cassette tape was broadcast on the commercial radio station 2GB News Talk 87 in Sydney, Australia. The show featured a special report on the Australian country music collector and discographer John Edwards (1932-1960) and the John Edwards Memorial Collection in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included in the collection is a brief exchange of letters between Australian broadcaster John Raedler and UNC English and folklore professor Dan Patterson about the show. No additional information about John Raedler was provided with the recording. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Papers document the career of Samuel Talmadge Ragan (1915-1996), a white journalist, poet, and patron of the arts in North Carolina. Ragan was managing and executive editor of the News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), 1948-1969 and editor and publisher of The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.), 1969-1996. He served as the first secretary of the North Carolina Department of Art, Culture, and History from 1972 to 1973, and was also chair of the North Carolina Arts Council, chair of the North Carolina Writers' Conference, and president of the Friends of Weymouth, which operates the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines. In 1982, he was named Poet Laureate of the state of North Carolina by Governor James B. Hunt. Correspondence files include materials relating to newspaper organizations, the North Carolina Arts Council, North Carolina Writers' Conference, North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Subject files include information about the Freedom of Information Act and on the Free Press-Fair Trial confrontation of 1968, along with correspondence from various North Carolina writers. Writings include materials regarding Ragan's The Tree in the Far Pasture (Blair, 1964), typescripts of commentaries from Sam Ragan Reports, which aired on WTVD television in Durham, and drafts of works by other writers. There are also materials relating to Ragan's tenure at the News and Observer, typescripts of the columns, and letters to the editor used on the editorial page of The Pilot. Financial information chiefly relates to the The Pilot. Also included are photographs of Sam Ragan alone and with others and audio and video recordings of North Carolina Writers' Conference banquet dinners.
The Ragland Family Papers document a white, multi-generational family of Salisbury, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C., from the 1890s through the 1950s. It consists primarily of correspondence between W. H. Trent Ragland Sr. and Alice McKenzie Ragland and between W. Trent Ragland Jr. and his parents and later with Anna Wood Ragland. W. H. Trent Ragland Sr.'s letters describe his experience serving in the United States Army in World War I. W. Trent Ragland Jr.'s letters describe his experiences in summer camp, boarding school, college, and while serving in the United States Navy during World War II, and his feelings and plans for the future with Anna Wood Ragland. Also included are letters from various correspondents concerning family matters and social news.
First and other editions of Sherlock Holmes novels and stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlockiana, and historically set mystery novels collected by white North Carolinians Charles J. Ragland and Nancy Ader Ragland in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection contains books; ephemera; pamphlets; newspapers; magazines; serials, newsletters, and other publications of societies dedicated to Sherlock Holmes including the Sherlock Holmes Scion Society; and memorabilia including a novelty cap and pipe and a menu from the Sherlock Holmes Restaurant in London, United Kingdom. Publications include parodies and pastiches, biographies, novels, plays, handbooks, atlases, compendiums, and literary criticism and interpretation. Historical mystery novels are chiefly first editions of popular titles written by American and British authors and published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Authors include Anne Perry, Rosemary Rowe, Margaret Frazer, and Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Some editions are signed by the authors. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.
Woodson Wren (b. 1779) was raised on the frontier, later serving as collector of customs in New Orleans, La., and postmaster in Natchez, Miss. Woodson's daughter Catherine married James Rainey.
MICROFILM ONLY. Reminiscences by Rainey of his childhood in Columbia, Tenn.; of political divisions around his home in Columbia in the first years of the Civil War; of the federal occupation of Tennessee; of service in the Confederate Army with the 7th Tennessee Cavalry; of battles at Franklin, Spring Hill, and Jackson; and of the Atlanta campaign.
Philip Rainey (fl. 1835-1849) of Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., was a partner in the firm Bennett & Rainey and later in Rainey & Puryear. The collection includes letters received by Rainey chiefly concerning merchandising and lands, from two friends and business partners who had gone to Hempstead County, Ark., and Springfield, Ill. The letters discuss business transactions, economic and social conditions, and personal matters, including moving from Virginia to Arkansas.
George Washington Rains was a United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of Craven County, N.C.
Vertical aerial photographs of systematic survey of Wake County, N.C. Photographs taken by several different aerial photography companies.
The collection is a Raleigh, N.C., account book with entries dated from 1892 to 1902, possibly belonging to a lumber mill. Listed are sales of lumber and other building materials, including shingles, flooring, and lathes. Accounts are for individuals, partnerships, businesses, institutions, and governmental units. There are also internal accounts documenting bills receivable, cash, expenses, merchandise, and stock.
The collection is a ledger of an unidentified grocery store in Raleigh, N.C.
The collection includes an alphabetical index to an unidentified ledger, probably of a bank, in Raleigh, N.C., circa 1870-1890s. Individuals listed include Kemp Battle, George W. Mordecai, Paul C. Cameron, and others.
Johm Ramsauer traveled between the Yadkin valley of North Carolina and Pennsylvania in 1752.
James Graham Ramsay (1823-1903) attended Davidson College, 1823- 1841, and Jefferson Medcical College in Philadelphia, 1844-1848, and practiced medicine in Iredell and Rowan counties, N.C. He was a Whig state senator, 1856-1864, and served in the Confederate Congress. After the war, he was active in the state Republican Party and served again in the legislature in 1883. His children included James Hill Ramsay (1855-1930), longtime postmaster of Salisbury, N.C., and delegate to the 1896 national Republican Convention, and Claudius C. Ramsay (1865-1930), a prominent citizen of Seattle, Wash.
John A. Ramsay of Salisbury, N.C., was captain of the Rowan Artillery, later Company D, 10th North Carolina Artillery Regiment, which served with the Army of Northern Virginia throughout the Civil War.
A diary, letters, and other material of Julius Frederic Ramsdell, member of the 39th Massachusetts Regiment, from Woburn, Mass. Letters from Ramsdell to members of his family and the diary that he kept while in Virginia during the war constitute the bulk of these papers. The letters and diary discuss fellow soldiers; marches; drills; fighting, especially the Battle of Globe Tavern, Va., August 1864 (Battle of Weldon Railroad); Ramsdell's imprisonment at Belle Isle Prison, Richmond, Va., August and September 1864; Southern dialect; the friendliness with which Union soldiers were treated; blacks; and other matters.
Poet Howard Ramsden was a native of New England, but lived for many years in Leaksville, N.C. His poems were published in a wide variety of publications, including little magazines, literary journals, and daily newspapers.
Stephen D. Ramseur of Virginia was an officer in the United States and Confederate armies.
Darley Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, N.C., was a newspaper editor, public speaker, city and state official, member of educational boards, writer, and sportsman.
J. G. M. (James Gettys McGready) Ramsey (1797-1884) was a historian, railroad director, banker, and physician, of Knoxville, Tenn.
Lawyer of Plymouth, N.C., who moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., about 1863. Business and property papers of Ramsey and of his father, William Ramsey (died 1839) of Washington County, N.C. Notes and receipts, 1830-1866, of Joseph Ramsey comprise a large part of the collection. Joseph Ramsey's papers also include estate settlements, deeds, bills of sale, accounts, and legal and other correspondence. Papers, 1860-1863, concern his functions as United States collector of customs at Plymouth and federal district superintendent of lights, and the same functions continued by him under the Confederate Treasury Department and the Confederate Lighthouse Bureau; and the legal handling of intersectional debts and the sequestration of enemy alien assets by the Confederate government. Rocky Mount, N.C., papers concern insurance company business. Also included are account books, 1853- 1860, and 1907-1911, and a memorandum book, 1864-1866. There are few papers after 1866.
The collection contains a letterpress copybook with outgoing letters from Ramsey and from Ramsey & Bro., concerning merchandising and other business at Fayetteville, N.C., 1854-1855, and at Pittsboro, N.C., 1858-1859 and 1871; and a list of members of the White Elephant Club of Durham, N.C., circa 1930s.
Paul Ramsey, poet and professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. and M.A.); Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Ruth West Ramsey worked for the Wayne County (N.C.) Welfare Department in the 1960s and attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work, first for a masters in social work, 1961-1962, and then for a supervisory certificate, 1964-1965.
The collection is a letter, 1849, containing an account of the Revolutionary battle at Ramseur's (or Ramsour's) Mill, 20 June 1780, told to the writer by a participant when he was 90. Also included is a typed transcription.
The papers of United States Army physician Emmett G. Rand chiefly document his military service during and after the Second World War. The collection contains correspondence, field journals, printed items, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Army and War Department documents such as forms, reports, orders, and certifications for service. Letters from Rand to his brother "Trip" describe Rand's wartime experience in Europe. Photographs depict Army personnel including Rand, a military hospital, aftermath of combat and bombings, and La Cambe, France after the Normandy Invasion. Printed items include a pamphlet with special orders on German and American relations from Lieutenant Omar Nelson Bradley and a 1942 year book titled "Historical and Pictorial Review Medical Department Station Hospital Fort Bragg." Other materials are military insignia, picture post cards he collected in Europe, undated petitions from residents of New Bloomfield, Pa., asking Rand to stay in town and continue practicing medicine, copies of Rand's obituary, and a memorial service guest book. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
James Ryder Randall was a poet and newspaper editor of Baltimore, Md., and Augusta, Ga.
William George Randall (1860-1905) native of Burke County, N.C., and graduate of the University of North Carolina, was an artist and portrait painter.
Sarah Ann Yates Randolph Stewart (fl. 1815-1852), daughter of Peter Randolph, Mississippi's first U.S. District Court judge, and Sara Greenhill Randolph of Virginia, married T. Jones Stewart sometime prior to 1833. They lived at Centreville, Amite County, Miss., and Holly Grove, Woodville, Wilkinson County, Miss.
Edward Brett Randolph (1792-1848) was a United States Army officer in the Apalachicola River region of Florida during the 1st Seminole War.
MICROFILM ONLY. Detailed travel narrative of two Virginians, V. M. Randolph and A. T. Burnley, on a trip through Virginia and North Carolina to Knoxville, down the Tennessee River through Alabama, then by way of the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, mentioning taverns, homes, persons met, conversations, hunting trips, flora and fauna, and towns visited.
Chiefly account books recording transactions relating to businesses operated by various members of the Rangeley family of Virginia. Early books, 1823 through the 1860s, pertain to an establishment operated by John Rangeley of Patrick County, Va., which may have been a combination tannery and general store. By the 1850s, account books show John Rangeley operating in Henry County, Va., and in the 1870s the Rangeleys appear to have been operating their tannery and dry goods business under the name Rangeley and Son. Account books relating to W. H. Rangeley's dry goods and produce store in the town of Preston, Henry County, begin in 1885. Also included is a volume which, besides farm accounts, 1922-1923, includes brief diary entries probably written by George C. Rangeley, also of Henry County. There are also the following volumes: Mount Bethel Sunday School record book, 1892-1894; a poorhouse record book, circa 1929, listing paupers of Henry County by race and including brief entries describing the lives and deaths of particular individuals; and Pioneer Days of Rangeley, Maine, 1949, printed pamphlet about the northern branch of the Rangeley family.
Claude Wharton Rankin (born 1883) was a collector of historical materials, primarily related to North Carolina.
Emma Lydia Rankin (1838-1908) was a teacher and conducted a school for girls known as Kirkwood and was active in church and literary activities in Lenoir, N.C.
Henry Ashby Rankin was born in Fayetteville, N.C., and spent most of his life as the owner of a sawmill and plywood business in Cumberland County, N.C. After retirement, he ran a nursery that specialized in native plants of North Carolina. He was an avid amateur botanist and corresponded regularly with members of the botanical community, with whom he exchanged specimens. Two of his botanical achievements were the discovery of a new species of Gelsemium and the re-discovery of a plant first collected and described by the French botanist Andre Michaux and then lost for 125 years. He was a long-time member of the Gray Memorial Botanical Association. He died in 1947.
Hugh F. Rankin (1913-1989), historian of colonial America and the American Revolution, received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1959 and taught, 1957-1983, at Tulane University, where he was also faculty chair of athletics, 1962-1975. Personal and professional papers of Hugh F. Rankin include correspondence, writings, and other papers relating to Rankin's research, publications, teaching, administrative duties, participation in professional organizations, and honors and awards.
Microfilm of biography of Nathaniel P. Rankin, native of Guilford County, N.C., graduate of Davidson College, Confederate army officer, and teacher and civic leader of Franklin, N.C. The biography was written in 1947 by Rankin's son Ernest C. Rankin.
The collection is genealogical data, 1930s, about the descendants of four related Donnell men who settled near Buffalo Church in Guilford County, N.C., 1753-1771. The information was compiled by Samuel Meek Rankin.
S. R. (Sam Rankin) McKay (1893-1971) was a white dentist in Lillington, N.C.
The Tom Rankin Collection consists of 31 field recordings, 1980-1982, created and compiled by photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin, while he was a graduate student in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The audio recordings primarily feature interviews and performances by blues, country, and old-time musicians from North Carolina. Artists featured on the recordings include Richard Big Boy Henry, a country blues artist of Beaufort, Carteret County, N.C; C. L. Scott, a traditional fiddler of Morehead City, Carteret County, N.C.; W. Earl Wicker, an old-time fiddler of Tramway, Lee County, N.C.; Jim Harris, a centenarian fiddler of New Bern, Craven County, N.C.; the Swain family of Columbia, Tyreell County, N.C.; and Mr. O. Williard, an old-time fiddler of Williamston, Martin County, N.C, among others. Rankin primarily recorded the artists performing at their home, while folklorist and banjo player, Bill Mansfield, accompanied many of the artists on the recordings. The collection also includes studio recordings of Big Boy Henry recorded at WUNC in Chapel Hill and dubs of Living Atlanta, a documentary radio series produced by WRFG.
William Calvin Rankin, a native of Guilford County, N.C., worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville before retiring in 1948 to Charlotte, N.C., where he began researching the history of his family and their relations in Guilford County. He was the son of John Henry Rankin (1844-1921) and Nancy Jane Smith Rankin (1846-1919).
D. M. Ransdell was a federal soldier who enlisted at Acton, Ind., and served in the 70th Regiment (state unidentified), the 102nd and 105th Illinois regiments, and the 79th Ohio. Ransdell's Company was partly mounted and was engaged in scouting, guarding railroad tracks and bridges, and impressing horses and provisions in Sumner and Rutherford counties, Nashville, and Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
Matt W. Ransom (1826-1904) was a lawyer; planter; state official; Confederate general; Redeemer; Democratic United States senator from North Carolina, 1872-1895; and United States minister to Mexico, 1895-1897. The collection includes materials, chiefly post-Civil War, relating to Matt W. Ransom. Correspondence, chiefly 1868-1904, relates to the political, economic, and racial aspects of Reconstruction in North Carolina, particularly the railroad industry machinations of George William Swepson; to Ransom's plantations in northeastern North Carolina, particularly in regard to cotton marketing and labor; to national and state party politics, 1868-1904; and to Ransom's diplomatic service in Mexico. Much of the collection consists of Ransom's papers as a senator, including correspondence with politicians and constituents covering most of the major issues of the time: race relations; federal actions affecting southern agriculture and industry, including the tariff, the debate over silver-backed currency, and agrarian unrest; women's suffrage; and many others. Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Sallie Clay Bennett, Grover Cleveland, Sallie Southall Cotten, F. M. Simmons, George William Swepson, Zebulon B. Vance, Garland H. White, and H. G. Williams. Also included are papers relating to a variety of family and business concerns. Material on Ransom's Civil War career and the first three years of Reconstruction is relatively slight, and there is no material related to his pre-war political career.
Robert Ransom was a major general in the Confederate States of America.
William Joseph Ranson of Huntersville, N.C., had about ten children, including several sons who attended the University of North Carolina in the 1910s and 1920s: John Oliver Ranson, who was killed in France during World War I; Lucius H. Ranson, who served as Superintendent of Welfare for Mecklenburg County, N.C., in the 1920s; Robert Lacy Ranson, who graduated from the University in 1924; and Paul J. Ranson. The brothers were involved in athletics at the University, both during their time as students and as alumni. One was on the football team, and two were on the track and field team, although it is unclear which brothers were on which teams.
William Greene Raoul of Georgia lived in the South, the West, New York, and Europe, held many jobs as manager and laborer, and mingled with all classes of society.
Arthur Franklin Raper (1899-1979) was a rural sociologist, civil rights activist, and social science analyst both in the United States and in other countries.
Charles Lee Raper was a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina.
Leonard Rapport was involved in the writing of an essay entitled People of Tobacco, written for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project.
Serial catalogues printed and distributed by rare book dealers and international auction houses that were received and occasionally annotated by curators of Wilson Library's Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most catalogues date from the mid twentieth century to the present, with a few runs from the 1910s and 1920s. The collection includes extensive runs of catalogues from Anderson Galleries, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Christie's, Gilhofer & Ranschburg Rare Books, Ulrico Hoepli, Joseph the Provider, Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., H.P. Kraus, Inc., Maggs Bros., Ltd., Sotheby's, and Swann Galleries. In varying levels of detail, the catalogues provide information on the provenance, ownership, content, condition, unique features, and monetary valuation of rare books, incunabula, manuscripts, and private libraries and collections.
Otis Ratchford (1909-1970), who worked for the United States Coal and Coke Company, and Louvenia Ratchford (1919-1987), a homemaker, raised their children, Jerome, Jacquelyn, Cynthia, and Jeffrey, in the African American Appalachian coal-mining community of Lynch, Ky. The collection documents the education, military service, and social life of three generations of the Ratchford family. Materials include school and military records, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and artifact keepsakes, including the family bible, a high school football jersey, family reunion t-shirt, and kitchenware that has been passed down through generations. The family has been active participants in the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project.
Thomas E. Ratcliffe worked in the Loan Department of the National City Bank, New York, N.Y., 1934-1939; served in the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II; and held various positions at the Library of the University of Illinois, 1946-1971.
Steve Rathe is a white radio producer and founder of Murray Street Productions. The Steve Rathe Collection consists of audiovisual materials, supporting documentation, and office files relating to radio productions for National Public Radio and Murray Street Productions that he compiled. Radio programs represented in the collection include Appalachia Waltz, Folk Festival, USA, HEAT with John Hockenberry, Jazz Alive!, New Music America, RadioVisions, SportsBand, and The Territory of Art, among others. Other miscellaneous audio recordings found in the collection include unidentified radio productions, demos, audition tapes, dubbed recordings of 78s, and conference recordings. There are also moving image materials compiled by Rathe, including live performances, promotional videos, dubbed television broadcasts, video production materials, and video materials relating to select radio productions. The collection also contains festival programs, posters, souvenir books, t-shirts, and other ephemera from various music and art festivals. Photographic materials primarily consist of portraits and images of Steve Rathe relating to his work in the radio industry, circa 1978-2000.
Descendents of early French Huguenots, the Ravenel and related DuBose families of South Carolina ranked among the most prominent members of the state's planter class. William Francis Ravenel (b. 1828), son of physician/planter Henry Ravenel (1790-1867), achieved note as a lawyer and planter in the Berkeley District. His half-brother, Henry W. Ravenel (1814-1887), became a well-respected botanist. Around 1857, William Ravenel married Ellen DuBose, whose brother, Theodore Samuel DuBose (b. 1785), was a graduate of Yale and a prosperous planter in the Fairfield District.
Beatrice Witte Ravenel, writer and poet of Charleston, S.C.
Thomas P. Ravenel (1850-1936) was a lawyer from Savannah, Ga. This collection contains deeds, wills, estates inventories, business correspondence, and other papers, chiefly from the 1840s, collected by Ravenel. Subjects include letters from Confederate soldiers, a railroad merger, and other post-war economic matters. The volume contains letters, wills, and deeds relating to Hiram Roberts and Mary Jane Roberts of Savannah, Ga.
John Stark Ravenscroft was an Episcopal bishop of North Carolina.
The Eben T. Rawls Papers, 1917-2005, document the arc of white businessman Rawls' career from an office job with a sugar company in Preston, Cuba, in 1917-1918, to the founding of the Rawls-Dickson Candy Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1926, and finally the success of his sales group, Eben Rawls Associates, Inc., in the 1960s.
Actress; wife of lawyer, theatrical producer, and newspaper publisher Donald Seawell (1912- ). Papers and other materials of Rawls (1913- ), Broadway and television actress; and her husband Seawell, lawyer, army officer, and theatrical producer of Denver, Colo., and New York, N.Y. Series I contains the personal and professional correspondence of Rawls with her children, relatives, colleagues, and friends, 1916-1974. Series II, comprising Seawell's office files, 1947-1972, relates to his business and theatrical affairs and to the production of several plays in the 1960s. In addition, there is extensive correspondence between husband and wife during World War II, while Seawell was an army counterintelligence officer stationed in England and France. Series III consists of writings by Rawls and others, chiefly typescripts of radio plays, plus drafts of her one- woman shows on Fanny Kemble and Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are photographs; posters; video tapes; scrapbooks of clippings; notebooks of Rawls's activities as a drama student at University of North Carolina, 1932-1933; and a large number of radio, television, and theatrical scripts for productions in which she appeared.
Cabe Lamkin Ray (1845-1865), assumed to be of Orange County, N.C., was mortally wounded at the Battle of Wyse Fork near Kinston, N.C., in March of 1865. The Cabe Lamkin Ray papers contain a pocket-size bible with biographical notes written by Ray; two framed photographs (one of Ray's brother, Nazareth (Nazor) Vernon Ray, and his family, and one of Ray's sister-in-law, Elibeth Parcilla Wilson-Ray); and scattered letters, land deeds, and an indenture, 1759-1864.
David A. Ray was a merchant of Fayetteville, N.C., who settled estates and handled other business for persons in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, chiefly in the 1950s. His daughter, Malinda B. Ray, attended a seminary in Fayetteville, 1860-1861.
Tom H. Ray graduated with honors in writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. As of 2006, Ray is the Collections Management Coordinator at the Library of Virginia (Richmond, Va.) and an adjunct faculty member at Catholic University.
Clara Compton Raymond (born 1857) was a resident of the Evergreen and Flowerton plantations in Rapides Parish, La., and was educated in Stuttgart, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland, 1865-1868. The collection is her recollections, written in the 1930s, of her life as a girl on the Evergreen and Flowerton plantations in Rapides Parish, La., and of her education in Stuttgart, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland, 1865-1868.
Isidor Rayner (1850-1912) of Baltimore, Md., was a lawyer and United States representative 1887-1889 and 1891-1895, and senator, 1905-1912. The collection includes scattered letters and speeches and 11 scrapbooks regarding the political and legal career of Isidor Rayner. The scrapbooks contain clippings and other records of celebrated legal cases conducted by Rayner and his son William B. Rayner (born 1872), including their defense of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley at a court of inquiry in 1901, and of their activities in state and national Democratic politics.
Kenneth Rayner was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, member of the Alabama Claims Commission, solicitor of the United States Treasury, and United States Representative from North Carolina.
The collection contains miscellaneous genealogical notes, circa 1944, relating to the Rea and Scott families of North Carolina and Virginia.
Alice Ready was a Tennessee girl who attended school in Maryland, and lived in Murfreesboro, Tenn., during the Civil War. Ready's sister married Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in December 1862.
The collection of attorney William E. Ready, Sr., of Meridian, Miss., contains correspondence, research files, notes, newspaper clippings, case files, client files, pleadings, summaries, briefs, motions, and other court documents. Materials reflect Ready's law practice and prominent cases on which he worked. Cases represented in the collection pertain to civil rights for prisoners, workers, and mental health patients, among others. Topics addressed include racial discrimination in the workplace, workers' compensation, wrongful death following a mass shooting in the workplace, environmental conditions in prisons, jail fees, antitrust legislation, and the Mississippi State Department of Mental Health. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Reaves family were prosperous planters and businessmen originally from Wayne County, N.C., who lived from around 1837 in Hardeman County, Tenn. Edmund Reaves moved to Tennessee with many of his neighbors from North Carolina. He had a plantation with land valued at $29,000 and 42 slaves in 1860, and he ran a small store in Middleton, Tenn. His son, John Rufus Reaves, also ran a store; founded and edited a newspaper, The Hardeman Free Press, served in several civic offices including the Tennessee State Senate; worked for the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph of Bolivar, Tenn.; and was a member of fraternal organizations including the Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan. John Rufus Reaves's three children were Ina Emma Campbell Reaves Stroupe, Stella-Dora (Teddie) Reaves Kearney, and Edmund Hugh Reaves. Edmund H. Reaves worked in telephone offices for most of his life, finally settling in Rocky Mount, N.C., where he was the district manager for the Carolina Telephone office. Edmund H. Reaves married Emily Mae Moore and had one daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Reaves McGregor Coleman. This collection documents the careers and faces of members of the Reaves family of Middleton and Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn., from 1834 to 1942. The papers include the will of John Reaves (d.1835), several Civil War and Reconstruction-era papers of Edmund Reaves documenting his claims against the U.S. Army in the war and claiming that he had never supported the Confederacy, and many financial papers, some correspondence, legal materials, Masonic documents and other papers of John Rufus Reaves. There are clippings taken from John R. Reaves's paper, The Hardeman Free Press of Bolivar, Tenn., and a copy of C. W. Tyler's The K.K.K., a book passed down from John R. to Edmund H. Reaves. The collection also includes sixty pictures of virtually every member of the Reaves family, including Edmund H. Reaves's siblings, Stella-Dora (Teddie) Reaves Kearney and Ina Emma Campbell Reaves Stroupe, his wife, Emily Mae Moore, and his daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Reaves McGregor Coleman, some of their friends, and the John Rufus Reaves House. Many of the images are cased ambrotypes and daguerrotypes, but tintypes and albumen prints are also represented among the nineteenth-century prints. There are a number of twentieth-century photographs as well, mainly of Edmund H. Reaves and of a John Rufus Reaves family reunion held in 1930.
The collection contains 12 Recordio acetate discs with audio recordings of musicians from North Carolina and Tennessee performing folk songs and traditional music. Musicians include Artus Moser, Irene Moser, Joan Moser, Virgil L. Sturgill, Charlie LaCombe, Eva Russell, J.R. Martin, Harry West, and Pleaz Mobley. Songs recorded include "Barbara Allen," "The Merry Golden Tree," "I Gave My Love a Cherry," "The Knoxville Girl," "Blow Away the Morning Dew," and examples of traditional melodies played on the mountain Dulcimer. The label of one disc indicates that the recording was made to supplement Joan Moser's application for a Fulbright award. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Letters, 1840-1865, chiefly to William E. Rector of Cedar Hill, Spartanburg, and Williamston, S.C. Correspondents are mainly family members, and topics discussed concern mostly domestic matters. Two letters, dated 12 April 1864 and 2 March 1865, mention the Civil War.
The Red Clay Ramblers began in 1972 as a trio of musicians who had been playing in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. Personnel has included Tommy Thompson, banjo, guitar, vocals (1972-1994); Jim Watson, mandolin, guitar, vocals (1972-1986); Bill Hicks, fiddle, vocals (1972-1981); Clay Buckner, fiddle, vocals (1980- ); Mike Craver, piano, vocals (1973-1986); Bland Simpson, piano, vocals (1986- ); Jack Herrick, bass, horns, vocals (1976- ); and Chris Frank, piano, guitar, accordion, horns, vocals (1987- ). Over the years, they have released numerous albums, gone on U.S. State Department-sponsored tours, collaborated with Sam Shepard on plays and films, and had several successful off-Broadway runs. The collection contains materials, 1970s-1990s, chiefly relating to the Red Clay Ramblers' musical performances and theatrical presentations. Included are programs, newspaper reviews, and publicity posters from Hot Grog: A Tuneful Pirate Saga; Life on the Mississippi; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas; A Lie of the Mind; Far North; Sam Shepard's Silent Tongue; Fool Moon; and Kudzu: A Southern Musical. Also included are drafts of the musical Diamond Studs: The Life of Jesse James by Jim Wann and Bland Simpson, along with materials relating to its performances; a manuscript and call sheet for Silent Tongue; a scrapbook with materials relating to Bland Simpson's Southern States Fidelity Choir, Diamond Studs, and other works; a radio script for The Last Song of John Proffit, an historical play by Tommy Thompson based upon the life Dan Emmett and his interactions with the Snowdens, an African-American family from Ohio, which touches on the development of the banjo, the culture surrounding minstrel shows, and the interaction between Anglo-American and African-American musicians; photographs documenting Ramblers' musical and theatrical activities; biographies and venue lists created for promotional purposes; and correspondence, primarily between Bland Simpson and theater companies about performances.
Records, 1969-1987, of the Red Mountain Foxhounds, a fox hunting club in Durham County, N.C., including budgets, board of director minutes, bylaws, and a copy of the lease for the club's property, Quail Roost Farm.
The collection includes daybooks and ledgers of Redd and Johnson, a Columbus, Ga., firm selling dry goods, and some accounts for general merchandise, groceries, and tailoring, presumably relating to the same firm.
W. R. Redding (died 1864) was a Confederate officer in the 13th Georgia Volunteers. The collection includes letters from Redding while stationed in Virginia and Savannah, Ga., to his wife, E[lizabeth] (Lizzie) M. Redding, in Randolph County, Ga., discussing camp life, troop movements and skirmishes, and conditions at home. Also included are letters to Lizzie about her husband's death in late 1864.
The Charles Maurice Redfern Papers document a white U.S. Navy lieutenant's experiences while stationed in the South Pacific during World War II. The collection chiefly consists of letters home from Peleliu Island, 1943-1945, describing daily activities and inquiries about life back home. Also included are a scrapbook; snapshots; training and service records; military unit newsletters and informal communications; a Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 503 yearbook; an audio recording and a transcript of Redfern's interview for a veteran's oral history project conducted by the Monroe Union Historic Properties Commission; and memorials, tributes, and clippings from 2002 about the life of Charles Maurice Redfern.
Legal and financial documents related to the white Reed family of Cabarrus County, N.C., comprise the majority of the collection. Documents include receipts, indentures, deeds, accounts, lists of property, and court summons and pertain chiefly to estates, land sales, and taxes. Family members represented in the collection materials include Arthur Reed, George Reed, Henry Reed, and George Allen Reed. The collection also contains scattered family and business correspondence and a small number of Civil War era documents, some pertaining to a Unionist in the Reed family. Of interest are a notebook dated 1855 with detailed instructions for a musical performance and a document dated 1850 certifying Henry Reed (born circa 1820) to treat patients with stammers and other speech disorders using the signatory Allen Reed's "rules and presentation for curing" them.
The Reed family settled in Buncombe County, N.C., before 1789. Notable Reed family members include Joseph Reed (1827-1884), a captain in the Confederate States of America Army during the Civil War, who married Catherine Harrison Miller Reed. Joseph's son, Marcus Lafayette Reed (1851-1938), also known as Mark L. Reed and M. L. Reed, was a member of the North Carolina State Legislature, and was chair of the Board of County Commissioners for Buncombe County. His son, Mark L. Reed (1902-1944), was a prominent businessman and aviator in Asheville, N.C. His son, Mark L. Reed (1935- ), was a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1963-2000, and a prominent William Wordsworth scholar.
Anselom Reed of Forsyth County, N.C., had land holdings in various North Carolina locations. The collection includes business papers, chiefly of the 1840s, including deeds and other papers pertaining to Piedmont North Carolina lands, bills from merchants, and correspondence, 1866-1874, about lands in Tennessee and Arkansas.
Contains audiovisual materials created by B. Bernetiae Reed, a Black genealogist, historian, documentary filmmaker, and social activist, consisting of interviews with Reed's family, extended family, friends, and people related to her research for the two-volume history of the Black people enslaved by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, The slave families of Thomas Jefferson : a pictorial study book with an interpretation of his farm book in genealogy charts that she published in 2007. Additional subjects covered in the video recordings and audio recordings relate to family history, William Reed at North Carolina A&T State University farm in Greensboro, N.C., Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., Governor John McKeithen at Columbia, La., and Quaker history in North Carolina.
Henry Sloan Reed (1836-1907), son of Samuel Reed (1800?-1856) and Jane Fisher (1808?-1884), was married 17 January 1861 to Louisa Elizabeth Goldin (1844-1928). The family seems to have moved often, living in several southern states, including Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
John Shelton Reed (1942- ) was director of the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in, among other subjects, southern regional studies, popular culture, public opinion research, and regional value differentiation. The papers of John Shelton Reed begin in the 1940s and include correspondence between Reed and colleagues, friends, and family; letters relating to Reed's publications and the publications of others working on topics of interest to him; reviews of publications, particularly those handled by Reed as book review editor for the journal Social Forces; and other material relating to the study and teaching of sociology, history, southern culture, popular culture, and related fields.
Papers of Mark L. Reed III, Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at UNC; author of "Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Early Years, 1770-1799" and "Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1800-1815." The collection, 1920s-2008, consists of correspondence between Reed and his friends and colleagues regarding work on his books, postcards to Reed, and holiday cards. Also included are notes on and photocopies of works by Wordsworth and other Romantics; invoices and correspondence from UNC Library and Reed's book acquisitions and purchases; rare book auction catalogs and catalog clippings (bulk 1960-1980). Acquired as part of the University Archives.
The Ola Belle Reed Collection consists of audio recordings and other materials of American folk singer, songwriter, and banjo player, Ola Belle Reed. Reed was born in Grassy Creek, N.C. As a teenager, she performed with an early version of the North Carolina Ridge Runners. In 1949, she married Bud Reed. Together they formed the New River Gang, along with Ola Belle Reed's brother, Alex Campbell, and operated New River Ranch, a popular country music park near Rising Sun, Md. In the early 1960s, they moved to Sunset Park in West Grove, Pa., and began broadcasting a weekly show from their store in Oxford, Pa. During the 1970s, Ola Belle Reed and family performed at many folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention. Audio materials in the collection include open reel recordings, 1969-1972, of traditional and original songs by Reed; family members, Bud Reed, David Reed, Ralph Reed, Herb Campbell, and Alex Campbell; and friends and neighbors, including Hazel Waltman. Additional audio materials include open reel recordings of Reed speaking about her life and music, a taped performance by the North Carolina Ridge Runners, and compact discs of live performances, 1960-1976, by Ola Belle Reed and others, including Alex Campbell, Bud Reed, and David Reed. The collection also contains a copy of High on the Mountain, Reed's unpublished autobiography; lyrics, handwritten sheet music, and lists of traditional songs and original compositions by Reed; clippings about Reed from various publications; a program from the Foothills Festival 1977; a promotional flier from Sunset Ranch; and three photographs. Correspondents include Josh Dunson, Pete Seeger, and John McGuigan.
The collection of folk singer and musician Susan Reed (1926-2010) of Columbia, S.C., contains audio recordings from the late 1940s and 1950s on open-reel audio tape and scattered publicity materials related to Reed's career in New York during the folk music revival of the mid twentieth century. One audio tape dated 1957 was recorded from "Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party" television show. Most of the tapes are not dated or labeled with identifying information. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection of retired librarian Joe C. Rees of Durham, N.C., contains genealogical materials about the Lloyd family and related white families in Virginia and Tennessee that were compiled and collected in the 1980s. Materials include notes, letters exchanged between relatives about family history, family trees and charts, and copies and transcriptions of nineteenth-century documents related to family history.
John Livingston Reese (1839-1899) was a native of Philadelphia who received his M.A. (1860) and D.D. (1875) from Union Theological Seminary. He later served at churches in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Edward Payson Reeve (1832-1898) of Richmond, Va., was a captain in the 1st Viriginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and a druggist after the war. He married Hester Goodall in May 1861.
The collection contains letters to Elizabeth Reeves and Andrew J. Reeves of Carroll County, Ga., from friends and relatives in Fayette and Gwinett counties, Ga., Louisiana, and Alabama. Included are letters, 1888-1892, from J. M. Pearson, a tenant farmer in Gwinett County, one of which details difficulties that forced him to become a hired laborer. Other letters deal with personal and family news, health, crops, local social events, and religion, with one letter, 19 March 1862, from John M. Reeves to his parents describing his army experiences outside Atlanta, Ga.
Kindred (Jackie) Reeves, born 22 April 1847 in Haywood County, N.C., began his military career on 30 April 1864 when he enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves (also referred to as the 9th Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves). He was later promoted to sergeant and sent to Goldsboro, N.C., to be transferred to regular service as a member of Clingman's Brigade. His military service included action in Wilmington, N.C.; Weldon, N.C.; Bellefield, Va.; Petersburg, Va.; Tarboro, N.C.; and Goldsboro, N.C.
Correspondence, research materials, photographs, and other items documenting the work of Alvaretta Kenan Register, social worker and professional genealogist of Norfolk, Va., focusing on her work on The Kenan Family (1967). Most items are copies or compilations of family records, family correspondence, or family photographs.
The Scott and Reid families included William Scott (1813-1884) of Aspen Grove, Rockingham County, N.C.; Governor and Senator David Settle Reid; and his sister Rhoda Reid Scott.
In the 19th century, the Reids of Warren County, N.C., and its environs were primarily small landholders and tenant farmers. Family members included Jesse Arthur Bynum (Binium) Reid (1828-1875) and his wife, Nancy Lilly Neal Reid (1837-1886). Among their children were Nancy Hellin Reid Kelly (1861-1937) and Eaton Willis Reid (Bud) (1863-1934). The collection includes financial and legal materials, personal letters, and other items of Reid family members. Most financial and legal items relate to expenditures for groceries, dry goods, taxes, medical bills, and agricultural supplies. Some materials document income, primarily from sales of cotton and tobacco through cotton factors in Petersburg and Norfolk, Va., and tobacco warehouses in Oxford or Rocky Mount, N.C. Included are items documenting Jesse Reid's Civil War service in the 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment (photocopies) and the North Carolina Home Guard and materials relating to Thomas S. and Nancy Neal, Nancy Lilly Neal Reid's parents. Personal letters were primarily written by members of the extended Reid family to family members living in Warren County, N.C., or in other nearby communities. They document family life and local concerns, including the weather, crime, agricultural news, and venues for entertainment. Also included are letters, 1885-1896, from Nancy Hellin Reid Kelly and her husband Daniel in Davis and then Paris, Tex., about the virtues of their new home state; letters, 1886-1888, from David Lucas, M.D., and his attorney attempting to collect payment for medical services rendered during the illness of Nancy Lilly Neal Reid; and love letters, 1886-1895, that Eaton Willis Reid received from a number of young women. A social history of the Reid family (2000) and a genealogist's report (1981) are also included, as are a few poems, songs, and a short story.
Harvey Reid joined the United States Army at Racine, Wisc., in 1862. He served with the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment through 1865, participating in the campaigns against Morgan's Confederate Cavalry in Kentucky in 1863 and later in Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas. The papers of Harvey Reid consist primarily of letters he wrote to his cousin, Will E. Reid, during Harvey Reid's service with the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The letters center around military life in camp, the movements of Reid's unit to various positions in Kentucky and Tennessee, and his ruminations on the conduct of the war. The final letter, written at the end of Sherman's march through the Carolinas, gives a critical account of the behavior of Union troops during the campaign. Also included are two letters addressed to Harvey Reid from his sister Sara. These letters discuss everyday activities of Reid's family and friends in Racine, Wisc., during the war.
John Reid and his wife, Keziah Simpson Reid, lived in Caswell County, N.C. The collection contains five letters, January-May 1816, to John and Keziah Reid, from their son, John B. Reid, and two from Keziah Reid's brother, Richard Simpson, both in Madison County, Ky., about John B. Reid's studies and struggle with measles, from which he died; four letters, 1845 and 1847, from Richard Simpson in Jackson County, Mo., to his sister Keziah and her family about family and community activities; and one letter, 1929, from Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, author of a book on Andrew Jackson, inquiring as to whether John Reid was the aide to Jackson (he apparently was not).
Nathan Reid (fl. 1775-1807) of Campbell County, Va., was an officer in the American Revolution. His son, John Reid (died 1816), was an aide to General Andrew Jackson and a lawyer and landowner of Rutherford County, Tenn. The collection includes photostatic copies of a letter, August 1807, from John Reid to Major Nathan Reid concerning economic conditions in central Tennessee, especially conditions for acquiring land; and a short sketch of the life of Major John Reid, reprinted from the National Intelligencer.
After a political and judicial career in Georgia, Robert Raymond Reid (1789-1841) was appointed judge of the Superior Court in the Eastern District of Florida in 1832. He was a member of the Florida Constitutional Convention of 1838 and was territorial governor from 1839 to 1841.
Rufus Reid (1797-1854) of Rowan and Iredell counties, N.C., was a planter and merchant and also served in the North Carolina House of Commons in the 1840s.
The David Reinhold Transcription Discs Collection consists of 11 audio recordings of religious radio programs compiled by the Brooklyn-based collector, David Reinhold. Radio programs represented in the collection include The March of Faith, "Sermons in Song" from The General Council of the Assemblies of God, and a recording related to the Southern Religious Radio Conference held in Atlanta, Ga. All of the audio recordings are on undated transcription discs that were presumably made and broadcast in the 1940s and 1950s by National Broadcasting Company and others.
Abraham Rencher was a lawyer, Governor of the New Mexico Territory, 1857-1861, U.S. minister to Portugal, and U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
John Grant Rencher and William Conway Rencher were students at the University of North Carolina during the Civil War.
The collection is a letter dated 8 June 1863 from one Confederate soldier Andrew H. Rendleman to another, Milo Roseman. Both men were from North Carolina, and Rendleman wrote the letter from an encampment near Guiney's Station. In the letter, Rendleman excoriates Roseman, calling him a quack doctor, charlatan, and "half breed." He accuses Roseman of being a drunkard and of "propagating mulatto children." He denies that Roseman ever treated him for gonorrhea as Roseman had claimed and asserts that Roseman had insulted his wife. Rendleman threatens to exact revenge when he next saw him by "inflicting such blows" as to make Roseman unrecognizable.
Richard James Rendleman of Salisbury, N.C., served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he returned to Salisbury, where he worked in the chemical field and became a well-known businessman.
Joseph Rennie (1831-1864) was a seedsman and florist in Spring Grange, Richmond, Va. He married Aramita J. Rennie and his children included Sarah Brooke, Mary E., and Joseph R. Rennie.
Joseph Rennie (1860-1943) was a Presbyterian pastor in Chase City, Va.; Oxford, N.C.; Louisville, Ky.; Covington, Ky.; Norfolk, Va.; Greenwood, Miss.; St. Joseph, Mo.; and High Point, N.C.; 1888-1935.
The Republican Women's Club of Chapel Hill, N.C., is a member of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women. The North Carolina Federation of Republican Women is affiliated with the National Federation of Republican Women. The collection includes office files relating to the activities of the Republican Women's Club of Chapel Hill, N.C. Also included are some materials relating to the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women and the National Federation of Republican Women.
The Research Triangle Foundation (RTF) is the owner and developer of Research Triangle Park, N.C., a research park housing research institutes and other businesses in Piedmont North Carolina.
The collection of James Reston Jr., a white author, chronicles more than forty years of his writing career from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s and documents many of his interests including amnesty for Vietnam War resisters, civil rights especially for African Americans in the American South, General William Tecumseh Sherman's March, the downfalls of President Richard Nixon and Major League Baseball player Pete Rose, President John F. Kennedy's assassination, astronomy and space exploration, the medieval crusades and modern jihad, the millennium and apocalyptic thinking, disabled children, theater, and Jim Jones, the People's Temple, and the 1978 Jonestown tragedy in Guyana, South America. The collection includes correspondence, proposals for books and documentaries, drafts of books, plays, and articles, editorial notes and comments, photographs, audio recordings, digital files, research materials, and printed items including playbills, posters, catalogs, and magazine and newspaper clippings. Collection materials represent many of his major works, including two novels, three theatrical plays, a biography of Galileo and other historical and nonfiction works, a memoir of raising his disabled daughter Hillary Reston, and radio and television documentaries about Jonestown and the 3 November 1979 murders of Communist Party members in Greensboro, N.C.
Transcripts of testimony, briefs, clippings, taped interviews conducted by James Reston, and other materials relating to the trial of Joan Little, a black prisoner who was accused and acquitted of murder in the death of a white male jailer in Washington, N.C., in 1975. Reston used these materials to write The Innocence of Joan Little (1977). Interviewees include Golden Frinks, civil rights activist; Joan Little; Jerry Paul, defense attorney; Richard Wolf, an astrologer who helped the defense in jury selection; and three North Carolina women prisoners.
The collection contains love letters and poems written on successive Saint Valentine's Days from 1854 to 1858. Addressed to John R. Reston of Wilmington, N.C., the letters and poems were composed by an unidentified woman, who signed her writings Mary Valentine. The collection also includes a letter dated 23 March 1935 from Mary F. Meares of Wilmington, N.C., to Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, that briefly describes the life and character of John R. Reston and the provenance of the Reston documents. In her letter, Meares offered the poems and letters to the university for preservation.
Marie Louise Du Brutz Reston was the daughter of Joseph Du Brutz, an antebellum Alabama doctor.
Michael Rigsby Revere is a poet and native of North Carolina. The collection contains chiefly correspondence and writings of Revere. Correspondence in the original deposit is slight and mostly with his mother. The additions contain more correspondence with publishers and friends. His published and unpublished works are represented. Other materials include an audio tape interview with Revere for WUNC radio, newspaper articles about Revere, items related to other activities, and photographs.
The Eliza Reynolds Autograph Album is a small volume of poems, drawings, and clippings contributed by female friends, signing from Kittanning, Pa.; Leechburg, Pa.; Doaneville Seminary; and Mignonette Female Seminary. The collection also contains a tintype portrait of two children, one of whom is Woodward Reynolds Patterson, the son of Eliza Reynolds and her husband, David Patterson.
Henry Lee Reynolds, originally from Norwich, Conn., was a white merchant and cotton factor of Mobile, Ala., and New York City. Mary Wilson Hill Reynolds (1839-1911), originally from Washington, D.C., was married to Henry Lee Reynolds and the mother of at least two children. The collection includes business and personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items of the Reynolds family and relations, chiefly concerning H. L. Reynolds's companies: Reynolds, Witherspoon, & Co., a Mobile merchandizing firm, and its successor, H. L. Reynolds & Co., cotton factors and merchants in Mobile and New York. Also represented are members of his family, including his father-in- law, Reverend Stephen Prescott Hill, Baptist minister of Washington, D.C.; and his son-in-law, Gardiner Greene (1851-1925), judge of the Connecticut superior court and state legislator. There are many letters relating to family matters, especially since Reynolds was often in partnership with family members. During the Civil War, there are documents relating to Reynolds's arrest and detention by federal agents. Letters, 1866-1868, chiefly concern getting bales of cotton from Alabama and Mississippi to market in spite of federal agents' authorization to seize cotton as reparation payments. Also included are four diaries, written by unidentified female family members in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, recording daily life and family events, 1802-1840, with considerable gaps; papers relating to land warrants of the Mobile firm of Harding and Redditt, 1858-1884; documents about Greene family history; an incomplete biographical sketch of Hezekiah Smith (1737-1805), Baptist evangelist of Haverhill, Mass.; and a sketch book of Reynolds's son, Harry, containing North Carolina scenes. The addition consists of diaries, 1852-1911, of Mary Wilson Hill Reynolds; Hill family papers, including wills and religious writings; Charles Reynolds County Court Docket, 1811; records of the Women's Missionary Society of Christ Church, 1904-1905; and school materials.
Joseph S. Reynolds was a Chicago high school graduate who enlisted in the Union Army at age 23 in October 1861. He was an officer of the 64th Illinois Infantry Regiment and the Yates Sharpshooters, taking part in 17 battles, including Sherman's March to the Sea. He was mustered out on 16 July 1865.
Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) was a congressman and senator from South Carolina, 1837-1852, and a member of the Nashville Convention, 1850; the secession convention, 1861; and the Confederate Congress at Montgomery, 1861.
The collection contains a letter, 1900, to Judge W. W. Rhodes of Louisville, Ga., from John Usher Junior, of Augusta, seeking the heirs of Ann Rhodes, who received a land grant in the state of Georgia in 1824, and Rhodes family genealogy.
Rhodes Military Institute was founded in 1902 by William Henry Rhodes in Kinston, N.C., and apparently served both as a military academy and business school. It closed in 1909.
Papers of the Rice, Thompson, and Winbourne families of North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, and Virginia are chiefly mid to late nineteenth-century letters received by farmer and carpenter Thomas Rice of Randolph County, N.C., and by one of his daughters Mary Elizabeth Rice Thompson (Lizzie) before and after her marriage in 1872. Siblings, parents and children, in-laws, cousins, and friends write on varied topics, primarily family, children, farming, crops, economic conditions, church and religion, health, grief, and the deaths of loved ones. Other topics include gardening, social life, politics, particularly in Florida after the Civil War, teaching and teachers at Normal and Common schools, boarding with families and taking boarders, college studies, homesteading in Colorado, and mineral wealth in Alaska. Passing mentions to African Americans in the community are made in some letters. Letters written during the Civil War reflect the attitudes and experiences of both Confederate soldiers and civilians living in the South. Some Reconstruction era letters refer to interactions with Federal soldiers, Radicals in the state and national governments, and economic difficulties. Also included are two land transaction documents, a copy of a will, newspaper clippings with obituaries and funeral notifications, printed items including materials from the University of North Carolina's 1901 commencement, genealogical information and family charts, and photographic copy negatives of children in the 1920s.
Oscar Knefler Rice, chemist and professor, was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He came to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1936 and in 1959 was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry. In 1946-1947, he served as principal chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Materials documenting Rice's career including material relating to his research, some of it defense-related; notes pertaining to his published works; bibliographies; notebooks he kept as a student; and Federation of American Scientists materials.
Thomas Nelson Rice (1933-2000) of Virginia composed more than 60 works, some by commission, including concertos, orchestral compositions, and chamber music.
Members of the Richardson and Farrar families of St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, La., included Henry B. Richardson (b. 1837?), surveyor, engineer, and Confederate general staff officer; Anna Farrar Richardson (fl. 1860-1876); Anna Mary Girault Farrar (fl. 1860-1876); Edgar Howard Farrar (1849-1922); and Jane Kempe (fl. 1860-1876), maternal relative.
Edmund Richardson (1817-1886), born in Caswell County, N.C., was a cotton planter and merchant of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and commissioner of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, 1884.
The recording on audio cassette tape is a copy of two radio shows, "Pretty Polly" and "Little Rosewood Casket," broadcast on NBC Radio in 1934 for the program "Hillbilly Heart-Throbs." Created and produced by song collector Ethel Sloan Park Richardson (1883-1968) of Tennessee, "Hillbilly Heart-Throbs" featured song stories, mountain ballads, and guest musical artists. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
MICROFILM OF TYPESCRIPT. Planter and legislator of Louisiana. History of three generations of his family, circa 1680-1856, set down by Richardson from personal recollections and family tradition, chiefly concerning Arthur Richardson, planter and Revolutionary War soldier of South Carolina; his son Francis (1760-1817), who emigrated to Wilkinson County, Miss., in 1810 and fought in the War of 1812; and Francis's son John Gaulden Richardson (1785-1856), father of Francis DuBose, who began sugar planting in Louisiana in the 1820s.
Richardson family of Iberia Parish, La., including Frank Liddell Richardson, Confederate soldier; his wife, Martha Josephine (Moore) Liddell (1846-1897); and his father, Francis DuBose Richardson (b. 1812), Louisiana state legislator.
H. Smith Richardson (Henry Smith Richardson) was born in Greensboro, N.C. In 1907, he became sales manager for the Vick Company (later Richardson-Vicks, Inc.), which his father founded in 1905 to market Vicks Family Remedies. Richardson was also an early leader in management development, including the Vick School of Applied Merchandising, a college recruiting program in the 1930s, and special reports to shareholders on the importance of management development. He was also a pioneer in corporate governance, initiating practices in the 1940s that spread to other companies in later years.
Isaac C. Richardson (fl. 1862-1865) was a Union officer who served with the 10th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment. The collection includes letters, 1862-1865, from Richardson while serving in Virginia, to his wife Esther Richardson, written in the form of diary entries each covering several days. Richardson discussed marches, camp life, skirmishes, church services, the areas around Yorktown and Newport News, and other matters.
Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee, 1885-1905. Letters received by Richardson from members of Congress, newspaper editors, and other prominent individuals, answering his request, after publication of the first six volumes, for written opinions on the value of the work, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (1917), which he edited.
John M. Richardson studied medicine in Lincoln County N.C., in the 1850s.
Materials of white political science professor and university adminstrator, Richard J. Richardson (1935-), include many that relate to his service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill papers include general subject files; materials documenting Richardson's involvement in the planning and observance of the University's bicentennial celebration; and papers of John Patrick Hagan, a student of Richardson's who earned his Ph.D. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and who died in an automobile accident while completing a visiting professorship at the University. In addition to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill materials, there are also documents created during and prior to Richardson's years as a student at Caruthersville High School in Caruthersville, Mo.; papers from Richardson's undergraduate years at Harding College; papers from his year in Dublin, Ireland, on a Rotary Foundation fellowship; and documents relating to his graduate school years at Tulane University and his early teaching career. There are also recordings of two of Richardson's speeches, a videotape about University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's honor system, and a few photographs. Additions contain photographs, office files, and other recordings.
W. George Richardson was born in the early to mid-nineteenth century, the son of William Richardson, M.D., who was a first cousin of John Ruskin (1819-1900). Little is known about George Richardson's life. He corresponded fairly frequently with Ruskin during the period 1864-1877. In the 1870s, he handled some of Ruskin's business affairs. In 1873, Richardson was working with Hill, Richardson and Wright, presumably a London law firm. George Richardson married Margaret K. Manson and had a son, Arthur George Stueart Richardson, who traveled in Africa in the 1890s.
Lunsford Richardson (1854-1919) began marketing various remedies in Greensboro, N.C. in 1898. The operation became Vick Chemical Company in 1911 and made increasing profits with its Vicks VapoRub cold remedy. The Company was managed over the following decades by Richardson's sons H. Smith (1885-1972) and Lunsford, Jr. (1891-1953). After various mergers and acquisitions, it became Richardson-Vick, Inc., in 1980. In 1985 the Richardson family sold the company to Procter & Gamble Co.
MICROFILM ONLY. Records of the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society, including the constitution and by-laws, 1855, and minutes, 1855-1873. The Society met at Richmond Academy and Spring Hill, N.C., presumably Richmond and Scotland counties, N.C. It principally opposed the negative effects of alcohol.
The collection includes correspondence between English artist George Richmond, in France and Italy, and his wife Julia, in England, about their daily lives, their children, his travels and work, and mutual friends, including John Severn and John Ruskin (there are 31 letters from George Richmond and 15 letters from Julia Richmond); and scattered letters, chiefly to Richmond from friends and relatives.
Theodore Richmond (1837-1916) was a lawyer in Ligonier, Ind., and Marshall, Iowa, who moved to Athens, Tenn. in 1865, and to Chattanooga in 1870. The collection includes letters, 1861-1863, between Richmond and Harriet Burgert of Navarre, Ohio, whom he married in 1862, and correspondence with members of her family; slight family and social correspondence after the Richmonds moved to Tennessee; frequent letters from Richmond's daughter, Grace, while she was a student at Vassar College, 1880-1884, as well as letters to Grace from her family describing social life and schools in Chattanooga, Tenn.; and a brief diary, 1926, by Richmond's daughter, Bessie, of a West Indian cruise. Early papers pertain to Richmond's father, Judah L. Richmond (1807-1868), Baptist preacher, and include a diary, 1844, written while he was living in Forestville, N.Y., and preaching in Chatauqua County, N.Y., and scattered family letters.
Peirson Ricks was an author, advertising agent, and native of Winston-Salem, N.C.
Members of the Riddick family include Wallace C. Riddick (1864-1942), professor of civil engineering and administrator at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., 1892-1937; his nephew, Ivy G. Riddick (1890-1956), an agent of the British-American Tobacco Company, Shanghai, China, 1918-1943; and Ivy Riddick's wife, Margaret Riddick.
Charles C. Riddick (fl. 1848-1855) was a farmer of Coffeeville, Yalobusha County, Miss. The collection contains letters received by Riddick from his relatives in Norfolk, Va., and Gates County, N.C., about family members and friends, the dry goods business in Norfolk, and, briefly, politics in North Carolina.
Elsie G. Riddick was born in Gates County, N.C., the daughter of Elbert and Cornelia (Speight) Riddick. She attended the North Carolina Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro, N.C., and after graduating in 1897 went to work for the Agricultural Commission in Raleigh. In 1899 she began work with the Corporations Commission, which in 1933 became the Public Utilities Commission. She was active in the women's suffrage movement, both locally and nationally; the Business and Professional Women's Association; the Democratic Party; and other organizations. She also organized the Elsie G. Riddick Fund to provide loans to young women attending the Women's College at Greensboro [now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro].
The collection contains homemade audio recordings of folk songs on acetate discs, which were purchased in 1993 by white collector of music and old-time radio recordings, Randy Riddle of Durham, N.C. Riddle found the discs at the Vintage Village Flea Market in Yadkinville, N.C., and he transferred and mastered the recordings of songs, which were performed by unidentified musicians likely in the 1940s. Song titles include "Cotton Eyed Joe," "Red River Valley," "Lonesome Road Blues," "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," "Sunny Home in Dixie," "New River Train," and "Turkey in the Straw." The collection also contains an audiocassette with dubs made by Riddle after he mastered the acetate discs, as well as narrative field notes composed by Riddle to provide context about his work on the recordings.
W. J. Ridgill was a cotton broker of Montgomery, Ala.
Account book in which are noted diverse receipts and expenses of an enterprise which, in addition to producing iron, apparently sold general merchandise. Ridwell Furnace was presumably located in Shenandoah County, Va.
The collection of Bob Riesman, the white author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, includes research files, audiocassette interviews, live recordings, and printed materials relating to his biography of Broonzy, an African American musician from the Arkansas Delta who was a major influence on American blues and folk music.
The collection is an account book, with cash account entries chiefly dated 1854-1864, kept by an individual, presumably E. H. Riggan, who apparently lived in or near Mecklenburg County, Va. [The most frequent references in the volumes to locations are Boydton (Mecklenburg County) and Lawrenceville (Brunswick County, Va.), although there are references to other locations, such as Richmond and Petersburg, Va., and Raleigh and Warrenton, N.C.; appearances of Riggan's name in the account book and elsewhere suggest that he or she may have made the entries.] The book includes records of payments received for bacon, beef, sugar, oats, tobacco, wheat, and other products, and of payments made for items such as buttons, boots, butter, apples, coal, and confectioneries, and for labor, such as sewing and farm work. Some entries refer to slave hires and cash given to slaves for corn, tobacco, coal, and extra work. Entries in 1863 record work done by slaves on fortifications. There are occasional records of payments for dental procedures, and a few notes in the front of the volume on predicting weather, horse breeding, and growing fruit trees.
Andrew Jackson Rike (born 1828) was a native of Alamance County, N.C., and eventually settled in Washington, Hempstead County, Ark.
The collection is chiefly legal documents relating to rents, freeholds, copyholds, and other tenancy issues at Kilsby, Parish of Liddington, County of Rutland, England. Many of the documents relate to Thomas Colledge of Kilsby, and other Colledge family members, including J. R. Colledge, who was an ophthalmologist in Macao and China in the 1820s. Thomas Colledge was also involved with John and Elizabeth Gardner and others in a land shares scheme at Kibworth, County of Leicester. Some of the documents relate to actions taken to satisfy the requirements of the act for dividing and inclosing open and common fields passed by Parliament in the mid- 1770s. Also included are documents relating to members of the Richardson, Ridgely, Boyes, and Gibbons families, some of whom appear to have been related to the Colledges. The earliest item is an indenture dated 1506, which bears Thomas Shakespeare's signature on the back; the latest is an 1886 inventory of a public house at Kilsby. There is also a short travel diary of a journey to the Channel Islands in 1836.
J. Fred (James Fred) Rippy (1892-1977) was a historian and author specializing in Latin American and diplomatic history. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, 1920-1926 and 1936-1958; professor at Duke University, 1926-1936, and the director of Duke University Press, 1928-1936.
Ferdinand William Risque of Lynchburg, Va., attended the University of North Carolina in the 1820s.
Papers, 1821-1859, of David Rivers (1793-1853), a white landowner and enslaver who lived in Beaufort District, Prince William's Parish, S.C. Rivers appeared to have been in the sawmilling business with David Cope. Materials include a receipt for purchase of an enslaved woman named Rose and Rivers's last will and testament, dated 1848, which includes the names of 15 enslaved individuals. There are also deeds, letters, account sheets, warrants for surveys, estate settlement papers, and other papers relating to Rivers's property and other businesses. Some of the letters also contain family and personal news. Estate items include legal papers, tax receipts, accounting sheets, releases, a list of personal property sold, and other items.
John Minott Rivers, Jr., son of John Minott Rivers (1903-1988) and Martha Robinson Rivers (1909-1994). The Rivers family owned WCSC, Inc., which operated a Charleston, S.C., radio and television stations until 1987. WCSC-AM went on the air in 1930, the second oldest radio station in South Carolina; WXTC-FM went on the air in 1947, the first FM station in Charleston. WCSC-TV, the first television station in Charleston, went live in 1953 and is the oldest in South Carolina in terms of continuous operation. WCSC, Inc., was also active in real estate and property development in and around Charleston. It also was involved in background music, long-distance telephones, paging, two-way radio, voice mail, cellular telephones, billboards, custom video production, security systems, hospital nursing stations, and the WCSC Broadcast Museum, now the John M. Rivers, Sr., Communications Museum housed at the College of Charleston. John Minott Rivers, Sr., filled leadership roles in broadcasting and in Charleston civic and social affairs. Martha Robinson Rivers was also a civic and social leader, who worked extensively with the Junior League, the Garden Club of Charleston, and other groups. Rivers's sister Martha Craig Rivers Ingram was important in fundraising for the arts in Nashville, Tenn.; his sister Elizabeth R. Lewine lived in New York City.
M. Rutledge Rivers (1868-1940), lawyer of Charleston, S.C., who served as attorney for various corporations and corporate counsel for the City of Charleston, 1918-1920. Rivers was also active in civic affairs, chairing the Port Utilities Commission in 1923 and serving on the South Carolina Board of Education and on the boards of trustees of both the College of Charleston and the Medical College of South Carolina. The collection includes correspondence relating to M. Rutledge Rivers's solicitation of support from political allies for his son, Buist Rivers, who was seeking the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee of the South Carolina legislature; a yearbook celebrating the centennial of the High School of Charleston, of which Rivers was then president of the board of trustees; a couple of miscellaneous items relating to the Masonic Lodge; a certificate of membership on the South Carolina State Board of Education; and a microfilm copy of a letterpress copybook, ca. 700 pages, containing business letters, 1 March 1894-28 October 1898. The letters relate to legal actions Rivers undertook on behalf of various clients. An index to correspondents is included in the front of the volume.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary, 1865-1869 and 1888-1899, chiefly describing family and household events in Shreveport, La., but also including entries about visits to New Orleans and Mansfield, La., and a sojourn, 1868-1870, at Gilmer, Tex., where Rives's children were in school.
MICROFILM ONLY. Minutes of the annual meetings of a company organized to preserve the site of the lost colony at Fort Raleigh, and financial reports, a list of stockholders, and surveys of the Fort Raleigh site.
The collection of white lawyer and delegate to the 1875 North Carolina State Constitutional Convention, Franklin C. Robbins (1833-1926), includes family letters, legal and financial papers, clippings, and other items. Letters include one from 1862 concerning the death of Robbins's brother in the Civil War at Sharpsburg, Md.. A 1918 letter was sent to Robbins's son during his involvement in World War I. Copies of three letters written by Robbins in March 1888 to John F. Cromwell, president of Trinity College, concern the reinstatement of Robbins's nephew to the school. There are no letters sent or received by Frank Robbins during the Civil War. Legal and financial documents mostly concern the transfer of family land in Caswell County, N.C., between 1800 and 1832. Clippings consist of several obituaries for Frank Robbins and a newspaper interview with him that was done five years before his death. Family histories and genealogies include the recollections (with family tree) of Robbins's daughter and a recounting of the Lamar family lineage up to Robbins's father. Another history was written by Carolina Long Avery and includes excerpts of letters written by family members in the 1850s, which are personal in nature, but include many references to Trinity College (later Duke University). Other items include two handwritten recipe books; an application by Robbins's second wife, Wilson Bracken, to join the Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1890s; and the diary of Robbins's daughter, Julia B. Robbins, who died in 1894 at a young age.
Julius Alexander Robbins (1832-1864) was a Confederate soldier from Randolph County, N.C.
William McKendree Robbins was professor at Normal College (later Trinity College), Randolph County, N.C., 1851-1853; lawyer in Alabama, and Salisbury and Statesville, N.C.; and North Carolina congressman, 1873-1878.
Personal correspondence among members of the Roberson family living in Orange County, Chatham County, Moore County, Bladen County, Raleigh, and other locations in central North Carolina. The letters primarily concern health and family matters. There are references to conditions during the Civil War. There are also bills of sale for slaves in Chatham and Orange counties; receipts and other items relating to the death of Allen Moore Roberson; and papers relating to Avis J. Roberson's work as a captain in the North Carolina militia during the Civil War, including lists of men, apparently from Chatham County, who were eligible for military service.
The Robert B. House Undergraduate Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill opened in 1968 and is dedicated to serving the needs of undergraduate students. This collection consists of animated GIFs created for the Undergraduate Library's fall 2017 GIFABLE UNC contest. For the contest, students and staff submitted animated GIFs related to two categories: UNC history and UNC in 2017.
David Robert is a former owner of the Chapel Hill (now Carrboro), N.C., music venue Cat's Cradle and previously ran Moonlight Records, an independent record label based in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection consists of financial records for Cat's Cradle, El Morocco, Rock Club Ltd., and Catbird; Cradle Robber and other publications; band posters and promotional materials; sound recordings; and club calendars and ephemera.
Letter from Lawrence Wood Robert Jr., a white official in the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., to Honorable J. [sic] Gregg Cherry, a white politician in Gastonia, N.C. Robert's letter introduces and praises Eneas Africanus by Harry Stillwell Edwards, a white southern writer in the plantation tradition, known for his benevolent view of slavery and use of dialect writing.
Elmer Roberts (1863-1937) was an Associated Press correspondent in Berlin, Germany, circa 1900-1914, and chief of the Associated Press office in Paris, France, 1914-1927. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, scrapbooks, political commentaries, and other papers, relating to Roberts's work for the Associated Press in Berlin and Paris, and including extensive material on European political affairs before, during, and after World War I. Also included are correspondence with reporters in Cuba in the 1890s and a scrapbook of clippings about the Spanish-American War; a scrapbook about Germany, 1903-1904; correspondence, drafts, and source materials for Roberts's biography of Friedrich von Holstein; copies of lectures of Rudolf Steiner and other materials about Rosicrucianism; and other items.
The Gene Roberts Papers, 1990-2012, chiefly document the late stages of Roberts' journalism career. Included are letters sent upon his retirement as managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer; other correspondence with colleagues, some with regard to his winning the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (2006); eulogies; biographical materials; speeches; a photographic scrapbook of the Fourth Estate Award celebration; a copy of the Diane Rehm Show; a videorecording of anecdotes about Roberts; and a videorecording of a story told by his mother, Margaret Roberts.
Katherine R. Roberts has held a joint appointment in the Curriculum in American Studies and the Curriculm in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2006. Her research interests are centered on material culture.
Eliza Ann Marsh Robertson was born in Petit Anse Island (now Avery Island), Iberia Parish, La., to John Craig Marsh and Eliza Anne Baldwin Marsh. In May 1844, she married William Robertson (1819-1890), with whom she had ten children. She died in October 1878 in New Iberia, La.
The collection most notably documents enslaved people who were trafficked by George W. Robertson (Active 1807-1855), a white physician who also operated a tobacco warehouse, and his business partners in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C. Financial papers consist of records with the names and ages of enslaved people, as well as the prices assigned to them. The ledger chiefly contains a record of purchase and sale of tobacco, but there are also numerous references to trafficking enslaved people in North Carolina and Virginia and evidence of three separate trips to Alabama to traffic enslaved people. Letters describe two of these trips; anticipation of the American Civil War; courtship; the Yanceyville homefront during the war; the concerns of Eliza Baldwin Skidmore Carraway, a newlywed bride in Clinton, Miss., in 1860 and later in the aftermath of the fall of Vicksburg when the people enslaved by her departed and Union soldiers encamped on her land; and Mary Royal Robertson Alexander's everyday concerns in 1870, including her fear of and frustration with Black people. Other materials include clippings of recipes, housekeeping advice, and home remedies for illnesses and pests; a tintype of Willie P. M. Robertson in uniform of an enlistee in the Yanceyville Greys, Company A, 13th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army; and several copies of the Bible and other volumes, some with marginal notes recording births, deaths, marriages, illness among enslaved and white people, and thoughts of their owners. There is also a file of background information on curing yellow or bright leaf tobacco, a process discovered by Stephen, an enslaved person on Abisha Slade's farm in Caswell County, N.C.; family history; Willie P. M. Robertson's death and the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Va.; and transcriptions of the ledger and of the marginal notes in Sallie Robertson's Bible.
Julian Hart Robertson (1899-1995) was born in Wilmington, N.C. He was graduated from Clemson College with a B.S. in textile engineering in 1919. Robertson was active in North Carolina textile manufacturing around Salisbury and Lexington, N.C., for many years, and served in various capacities with textile organizations, including as president of the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association in the 1950s. Robertson married Blanche Spencer of Martinsville, Va., in 1931; the couple had three children: Julian, Jr., Blanche, and Wyndham.
The Robeson family of Tar Heel, Robeson County (formerly Bladen County), N.C., included James Salter Robeson and his aunt, Emily Salter Robeson Love. Robeson was an engineer with the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, N.C., and with the merchant marine during and after World War II. In 1972, he retired to Florence, S.C., where he died in 1989. Robeson family papers relate to James Salter Robeson, Emily Salter Robeson Love, and other family members. James Salter Robeson materials include correspondence with friends and family; information about his merchant marine engineering career, including items from his travels during and after World War II; and financial, medical, educational, and other records. Travel materials include picture post cards, maps, flyers for events and shows, advertisements, and other items. Some materials touch on Robeson's problems with alcoholism. Robeson family materials are chiefly genealogical, some relating to the family's land in Robeson County, N.C. (formerly Bladen County, N.C.). Some materials relate to financial and other activities of Emily Salter Robeson Love. Photographs include images taken by or featuring James Salter Robeson and his friends and family and images Robeson purchased during his merchant marine travels, among them some of post-war Japan. There are also several late-19th-century images relating to Emily Love.
Lawyer and teacher in Randolph County, N.C.; private secretary to Governor Zebulon Vance during part of the Civil War, and North Carolina legislator during and after the war; and chairman of the State Senate committee investigating North Carolina railroads, 1867.
Benjamin Robinson (1775-1857) and his son Benjamin West Robinson were physicians of Fayetteville, N.C. The collection includes thirteen ledgers, eleven daybooks, and two other volumes of Benjamin Robinson and Benjamin West Robinson. These volumes contain records of accounts with residents of Cumberland County, N.C., and nearby areas for medical advice, professional visits, and medicine dispensed. Some records give details of address, occupation, or race of patient, and nature of complaints and drugs prescribed, but most do not.
Hubert Samuel Robinson (1893-1972) was a chauffeur, butler, and gardener, 1932-1949, for the family of Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina. Robinson was also a custodian, 1950-1966, at the University of North Carolina, a civic and political leader, and the first black alderman of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Diary, 1913-1914, kept by railroad bridge builder John Roy Robinson documenting his travels through Arkansas and Oklahoma performing maintenance and repairs on railroad bridges.
Field recordings of Cherokee tales performed by Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey (1907-2000), a white storyteller, teacher, and an honorary member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Select recordings also include a conversation with Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000), a woodcarver and member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Ron Robinson, a white Duke graduate student of Waynesville, N.C., made the recordings in 1980 for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill folklore course taught by Daniel Patterson. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Confidential files and correspondence of W. D. Robinson (1865-1945), legislative correspondent and roving reporter in Louisiana and Mississippi for New Orleans newspapers. The files contain memoranda in the 1920s and 1930s (chiefly 1930-1935) about the activities of Huey Pierce Long and his associates, mostly in regard to alleged malfeasance. A smaller number of items are concerned with the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana and Mississippi in the early 1920s, in particular the Mer Rouge Murders in Morehouse Parish, La. Correspondence is with leading political figures in Louisiana and Mississippi, concerning opposition to Long and also other political issues. Among those represented are Huey P. Long, Julius T. Long, Pat Harrison, Theodore G. Bilbo, John M. Parker, Louis M. Howe, Stephen Early, John Y. Saunders, J. N. Sandlin, Mike Sennett Connor, Paul N. Cyr, and Hugh White. Also present are broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, judicial proceedings, and other printed matter about Long or the Klan, and five scrapbooks of clippings about politics in the two states, 1916-1932.
William Smith O'Brien Robinson was a lawyer, judge, and Republican leader of Goldsboro, N.C.
Harriett Hardison Robson (b. 1899) of Wadesboro, N.C., was married to C. J. Canaga, a United States Army officer, and from 1927-1931 they lived in Peking, China where he was assigned as a language officer and military attache. The collection consists primarily of letters from Robson to her mother written while she was living in Peking. The letters describe Peking, the military and political struggle between Nationalist and Communist forces for control of the Chinese government, Chinese customs, trips to historic sites around Peking and to northern provinces, and social activities among the foreign legations in Peking. Also included are a drawing of William Henry Donald, a few clippings, and a Christmas card. Additionally, there are 51 photographs taken in the northern provinces of China and the Hawaiian Islands.
Episcopal minister R. T. (Robert Timpany) Roche was born in 1823 and spent more than 50 years as a missionary and a clergyman in Canada and the United States. The R. T. Roche book of excerpts was compiled by Roche in the middle of the 19th century. The book contains hand-copied excerpts from several texts, at least two of which are concerned with alchemy and the fabled Philosopher's Stone. The markings in the book indicate that it was in Roche's possession during his years at St. Paul's Church of Philadelphia, ca. 1871, and St. James' Church of Eatontown, N.J.
E. F. (Elijah Frink) Rockwell (1809-1888) was a Presbyterian minister.
Loula Ayres Rockwell (1866-1959) was a resident of Marion County, S.C. The collection includes The Election of General Wade Hampton, South Carolina, 1876, as Seen by a Small Girl, 1953, written by Rockwell (typescript, 6 pages), and an autobiographical letter from her son, Paul Ayres Rockwell (born 1889) of North Carolina, discussing his enlistment as a college student from Atlanta, Ga., in the French Army in August 1914.
Rocky Mount Mills, located in Rocky Mount, N.C., was one of the first cotton mills constructed in the state of North Carolina, dating back to 1816. From 1825 to 1883, the Battle family maintained ownership of the mill. As the southern cotton industry grew after the Civil War, the cotton mill experienced rapid growth. The company also supported a residential village for employees, which was eventually incorporated into the city of Rocky Mount in the 1920s. The mill was a major supplier of cotton yarn to the United States Army during World War II. The general decline in southern textile industry beginning in the 1970s eventually impacted Rocky Mount Mills, and the mill closed its doors in 1996.
Frances J. Rodes lived in Lynchburg, Va.
The collection includes letters, photographs, notes, and other items relating to Thomas Wolfe that were collected by Kenneth Rodgers. Included is a 16 January 1937 letter from Maxwell Perkins to Thomas Wolfe responding to Wolfe's claims that Perkins over-edited his books. There is also a photograph of Thomas Wolfe taken in 1900 and photographs of a house, with annotations on the verso (possibly by Thomas Wolfe) indicating that the photographs were taken in 1934 and that the house was in Etowah, N.C., and belonged to a person named Florence. Also included are a legal complaint filed by Wolfe's landlord, Marjorie Dorman, that names Wolfe and his publisher as defendants; notes written by Thomas Wolfe; a letter from Julia E. Wolfe to Fred Wolfe; miscellaneous bills and photocopies of canceled checks; letters written to Thomas Wolfe from fans of his works; and other items.
Francis Asbury Roe (1827-1901) was a United States Naval officer, 1841-1885, who served on the U.S.S. Sassacus during the Civil War. The collection includes an undated letter from Roe commenting on the importance of his service on the U.S.S. Sassacus in 1864; a printed drawing of the ramming of the C.S.S. Albemarle by the U.S.S. Sassacus; and a photograph of Rear Admiral Roe in 1898.
John Henry Rogers, 1845-1911, was born in Bertie County, N.C.; moved to Mississippi in 1852; served in the Confederate army; studied law at the University of Mississippi; practiced law in Fort Smith, Ark., beginning in 1869; served as state district judge in Arkansas, 1877-1882; was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1882 and served until 1892; served as federal judge for the western district of Arkansas, 1896 until his death in 1911.
The collection of speech communication professor Jimmie N. Rogers contains eighty open reel tapes comprising a 36-hour Memphis, Tenn., radio show titled The History of Country Music that was produced by Don Bruce and John Thayer of Together, Inc., in circa 1970. Other materials are scholarly papers presented at professional conferences by Rogers and his colleagues, a few publicity photographs of country music artists including George Jones, and clippings, posters, and printed items pertaining to Lucinda Williams and other musicians. The scholarly papers with titles such as "Audience Attitudes as Indicated by Cheatin' Messages in Country Songs" and "Images of Females as Indicated in the Messages of Loretta Lynn" are chiefly about rhetoric in country music. Rogers' collection also contains commercial videos of country music artists such as Merle Haggard and commercial audio recordings of popular music from the twentieth century on disc (LP, 78-rpm, and 45-rpm records), cd, cassette, and 8-track tape. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Records of John Rogers, a minister of the Disciples of Christ who lived near Carlisle in Nicholas County, Ky., and preached in Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. The books are an autobiography coverning the years 1800-1833 (written in 1859-1863) incorporating parts of diaries and theological writings, and daily diaries of ministerial activities for 1850-1851 and 1859. Issues discussed in the autobiography include his call to the ministry, his education, a journey through Missouri in 1825, a journey through Virginia in 1827, the question of dancing, the views of Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) and Barton Warren Stone (1772- 1844) and the union of their followers, the work of the American Colonization Society in Kentucky and public sentiment in the 1830s concerning slavery, and ministerial efforts in southern Kentucky.
Letter from Louisa H. Rogers to Carolina and Martha Neisler of Athens, Ga., describing at length the physical scenery and her personal experiences in the mountains of western North Carolina around Asheville.
John W. Rolinson was a Hatteras Island, N.C., teacher, porpoise fisherman, and occasional port collector.
Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was a University of North Carolina professor and authority on educational history and administration.
Papers of white folklorist, folk musician, and civil rights activist Anne Romaine (1942-1995) document her music career, teaching career, family and personal life, and social justice activism especially through the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, an organization Romaine cofounded in 1966 with African American folklorist, singer, and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon. Romaine, who was married to civil rights activist Howard Romaine, also worked with Guy Carawan, Esther Lefever, and Hazel Dickens. Materials, 1935-1995, include correspondence, book manuscripts, songs, publicity materials, photographs, and recordings of Anne Romaine's performances. Among the topics covered are civil rights work in the 1960s, labor organization, cotton mills and textile workers, Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, country music, labor songs, and folk music as a means of social protest. Also included are materials relating to her husband Howard Romaine; to her teaching career; and to her interest in astrology, particularly psychic readings. Personal and business correspondence, 1962-1995, includes many copies of outgoing letters. There are also manuscripts of two books, one about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the other a biography of Alex Haley; song-lyrics and audio and video recordings of Romaine's performances and workshops; and publicity photographs and posters relating to Romaine and to musicians and other performers who worked with the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project. Also included are photographs of Romaine's family and slides reflective of various social injustices that Romaine used as backdrops in her performances.
Velma Rooke was raised in Jacksonville, Fla., but spent her adulthood as a professional musician, music educator, and music therapist in New York, N.Y. Rooke studied at The Julliard School and Columbia University. From approximately 1933 until 1956, Rooke was first chair trombonist, relief pianist, and arranger for Phil Spitalny's Hour of Charm All-Girl Orchestra. After the orchestra disbanded in 1956, Rooke became first trombonist for the Great Neck Philharmonic Orchestra. She also worked as a music therapist at the Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center (CARC), commonly known as the Music Therapy Center from its inception in 1960 until the early 1980s. Rooke also conducted music therapy and lessons at various New York locations, including the veterans affairs hospital in the Bronx, the Reece School for Emotionally Disturbed Children, and the Turtle Bay Music School.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House to Evans C. Johnson, Langdale, Ala., replying to him concerning her attitude toward racial inequality in the South.
Anne Freeman Gales Root was the daughter of Raleigh editor, Weston Raleigh Gales (1803-1848) and the wife of Charles B. Root (born 1818), native of Massachusetts, who became a Raleigh businessman.
John Herbert Roper is a white professor of history with interests chiefly related to the history of the American South. The collection includes correspondence, interviews, writings, and other materials relating to historian John Herbert Roper's work as professor of history at Emory and Henry College and on topics in southern history. Among these materials are transcripts of and notes on interviews done in 1978 and 1980 with William T. Couch, Manning J. Dauer, John Hope Franklin, Guy B. Johnson, Guion Johnson, LeRoy E. Loemker, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Carl D. Stewart, and Bennett H. Wall about historian C. Vann Woodward. Also included is a transcript of an interview with Woodward; correspondence with Woodward that includes letters from Woodward about Tom Watson; and a manuscript by Roper of Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race. There is also correspondence about historian U. B. Phillips; materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy about publication of a bibliography of the works of W. E. B. DuBois; correspondence and other papers relating to Roper's editing a collection of essays entitled C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics; an interview with Ellis Merton Coulter about U. B. Phillips; and correspondence and other materials relating to other aspects of Roper's writing and teaching, as well as his affiliation with the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia.
Letters of Alexander Rose (1738-1807), John McAden Rose (1815- 1895), Duncan Rose (1855-1955), and other members of the Rose family of Fayetteville, N.C., chiefly concerning family affairs. A few letters relate to family history. Also included are copies of the farewell addresses of Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston to their troops at the end of the Civil War.
Rose's Stores, Inc., owned by Variety Wholesalers, Inc., of Henderson, N.C., is a southeastern chain of discount retail stores that began in 1915 with the founding of the first store by Paul H. Rose in Henderson, N.C. The collection includes minutes and other papers, 1927-1996; financial records, 1919-1995; photographs, 1930s-1980s; and other items. Minutes relate to the profit sharing trust advisory committee, the auditing committee, the directors and stockholders meetings, the executive committee, and the proxy committee. Other corporate papers include articles and certificates of incorporation; bylaws of the Rose Trucking Co., Inc.; a brief history of the company; and copies of the company newsletter. Tax documents, 1919-1945, include income tax returns, capital stock returns, franchise returns, list of depreciations taken on fixtures, and claims made under the Agricultual Adjustment Act. Balance sheets, 1921-1925, record sales and expenses. There is also a bound volume of monthly financial reports from stores 27 through 53 for 1935. The earliest rent books appear to have been created in the early 1960s, but they contain a financial and real estate history of each store that extends back to its establishment. There are also photographs of various Rose's Stores and employees and a 1979 slide show with audiotaped lecture on loss control auditing.
Ben Lacy Rose was born in 1914 in Fayetteville, N.C., the son of attorney and state senator Charles Rose and Irene Lacy Rose. He attended Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary. He served as a chaplain during World War II with the 113th Cavalry (Mechanized Group), composed of the 113th Calvary Squadron and the 125th Calvary Squadron. A Presbyterian minister, he joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in 1956. His wife, Anne Claiborne Thompson Rose, is the daughter of Dr. W. T. Thompson of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.
Ed E. Rose was the son of William Nicholas and Sarah Langston Rose. He grew up in Bentonville, Johnston County, N.C., an area devastated by the Civil War. He was a teacher in Princeton, N.C., and in Wayne City, near Savannah, Ga., in the 1890s. From 1895 to 1920 Rose worked as a Methodist minister serving rural areas of Georgia.
In 1976, Mike Kappus, a white music manager and record producer, founded The Rosebud Agency, an artist booking agency based in San Francisco, Calif. Kappus started the agency with the concept of offering greater service to an intentionally limited number of timeless, rather than trendy, artists. Until it wound down its active role as a booking agency in December of 2013, the agency booked about 2000 shows a year worldwide for its more than thirty artists. The collection chiefly consists of contracts and other records documenting publicity and promotions for artists represented by The Rosebud Agency. Other records consist of publications and promotional materials relating to the music industry and affiliated award and philanthropic events. The collection also contains audiovisual materials that consist primarily of promotional and licensed materials by Rosebud artists.
The Rosemary Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Milton J. Rosenau was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital Service (now the United States Public Health Service) in 1890. In 1899, he was appointed director of the Hygienic Laboratory of that service. He was instrumental in 1922 in the establishment of the Harvard University School of Public Health and, in 1940, became first dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. The collection includes correspondence, writings, lecture notes, pictures, and other items documenting Rosenau's career as a public health official, chiefly 1900-1924. His activities at the Marine Hospital Service, the Hygienic Laboratory, and Harvard University are covered, as is his work in such areas as milk hygiene, typhoid fever, other diseases, and relief to European Jews. Very little material relates to Rosenau's private life or to his years at the University of North Carolina.
Emil Rosenthal operated a dry goods and general store in Wilson, N.C., 1868-1882. The collection includes a ledger, 1868-1875, of accounts for Rosenthal's store.
Elizabeth Easley Ross, a resident of North Carolina, did genealogical research from the 1970s through the 1990s. She worked on her own family history, including the Easley, Ross, Kepley, and Younts, and related families, and she also did research for others, most notably those working on applications for the Daughters of the American Revolution. The collection includes correspondence, genealogical publications and writings, research notes, family trees, clippings, pictures, and photocopies of historic documents relating to Elizabeth Ross, 1970s-1990s. Family materials concentrate on the Easley, Ross, Kepley, Younts, and related families, but there is also information about families that Ross reseached for others. Geographical materials chiefly concern North Carolina locations, including Alamance County, Davidson County, Johnston County, Perquimans County, Rockingham County, Wake County, and the towns of Garner, Panther Branch, Salisbury, and Snow Camp. Also included are genealogical publications from Indiana. Other genealogy materials include research notes and notecards, obituaries, clippings, and other materials collected by Ross. Photocopied documents include census records, family Bible pages, tax records, wills, deeds, maps, and other property records. Correspondence is with relatives and others interested in geneaology.
The collection contains correspondence and notes of Malcolm Harrison Ross and, after his death, of his wife, related to his The Cape Fear (Rivers of America Series, 1965), including a manuscript of the book, and to related research projects, especially concerning Scottish immigrants to North Carolina. Correspondents include Jean Crawford, Paul Green, Inglis Fletcher, William S. Powell, Camille (Mrs. Malcolm) Ross, Lawrence Sprunt, Archibald Donald McDonald Strange, and Roy Wilder Junior
The collection includes a mimeographed copy of Martha Plant Ellis Ross's Reminiscences Which All of Us Share, written by Martha Plant Ellis Ross in the form of an extended Christmas letter, of the Plant family of Macon, Ga., and Mt. Airy, Ga., in the 1890s and early 1900s, describing family events, leisure activities, and the local social environment in general.
Myron Howard Ross of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a United Mine Workers leader.
Kate Mathews Rosser owned land in Lee County and Sanford, N.C.
Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871) was a painter. Rossiter studied in Connecticut and in Europe, eventually settling in New York.
Francis Marion Rountree (1836-1888), of Hookerton, Greene County, N.C., was a physician and representative for Greene County in the North Carolina State House of Commons.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the life of Lawrence Carmen Roush, salesman, social activist, and militant atheist. Roush wrote prolifically to newspaper editors about various social, economic, and religious issues, 1960s-1985. These papers consist largely of clippings of Roush's letters to editors of North Carolina newspapers concerning religion, capital punishment, civil rights, gun control, prison reform, and other matters; and material concerning a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina to force the removal of a prayer from the official state highway maps.
Peter Rousseau and his family apparently lived in Oxford, N.C.
The Rowan County Historical Society operated in Rowan County, N.C.
William Newton Rowell (born 1873) was the son of Ezekiel Humphrey Rowell (1835-1912), a Confederate soldier and physician. The collection includes duplicated typescripts of an autobiography of Ezekiel Humphrey Rowell with additional biographical information provided by William Newton Rowell, discussing childhood on an Alabama plantation, service in the Confederate Army in Virginia, and the practice of medicine for many years in Denton County, Tex.; and reminiscences of William Newton Rowell of personalities, incidents, and social conditions in Texas in the 1880s and 1890s, and of his dental practice beginning in 1898.
Woodrow W. Rowland was a storyteller from western North Carolina.
Scattered papers, chiefly deeds, wills, and estate accounts pertaining to Carteret County, N.C., and primarily to the Royal and Pigott families. Also included are inventories of equipment and other papers pertaining to the Cape Lookout lighthouse, 1864-1869; scattered correspondence, including letters from Confederate prisoners of war; and a few pages of a diary, early 1865, kept by an unknown person who lived in federally-occupied Morehead City, N.C., and who was in touch with Confederate scouts.
William Royal, originally from New York State, was captain of Company F, 9th Colored Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War, and, after the war, a Freedmen's Bureau (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) agent in Georgia.
Corporal, Coast Guard, 1861; Lieutenant, Sumter Artillery, 1862; Assistant Surgeon, King's Battalion, Artillery, Longstreet's Corps, 1863-1864 and 1865; Haskell's Battalion, Light Artillery, March 1865. Microfilm of scattered family letters, 1821-1862, of the Royall, McIver, and Du Pre families of South Carolina; and Confederate military papers, 1863-1865, of Edward M. Royall, M.D. The family letters include, among others, one, 1858, describing a trip from Georgia to South Carolina in an omnibus and one, 1861, describing the fortifications and locations of troops on the Georgia coast and islands. Edward M. Royall's Confederate military papers include leave, assignment, and instructional papers, receipts and inventories for medical supplies, requisitions, and other items from Royall's service as assistant surgeon with King's Battalion, Artillery, Longstreet's Corps. Also included is an affidavit, 1928, concerning Royall's service from R. S. Venning, Confederate veteran.
Kenneth Royall was born in Goldsboro, N.C., in 1894. He served as the last U.S. secretary of war in 1947 and as the first secretary of the Army, 1947-1949. He also had an active law career in Goldsboro and Raleigh, N.C., and in New York.
William Royall lived in Charleston, S.C.
The Royster family of Raleigh, N.C., descended from James Daniel Royster (1790?-1870?) and Mary Ashley Royster (1795?-1880?).
Correspondence, writings, addresses, and printed material of Vermont Connecticut Royster (1914- ), editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1958-1971; author; and winner of Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing (1953) and distinguished commentary (1984). Most of the material relates to Royster's career as a journalist.
The collection of white author and journalist Robert Chester Ruark contains typed drafts and copies of novels, short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and screenplays, 1942-1945. Also included is professional and personal correspondence. Other papers relate to Ruark's service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and to his travels and safaris in different part of the world, particularly Africa. His correspondents included friends Ernest Hemingway (one letter and one note, 1953-1954), Bernard Baruch (66 letters, 1953-1965), Richard Nixon (6 letters, 1958-1960), and J. Edgar Hoover (4 letters, 1958-1959); associates, especially his secretary, Alan Ritchie, and his literary agent, Harold Matson; and relatives, especially his wife, Virginia Webb Ruark. The correspondence covers a wide range of personal and literary topics, including journalism, literary philosophy, and African politics. Also included are research materials, reviews, photographs, financial materials, and writings by others. Volumes are chiefly scrapbooks of columns and related clippings.
Papers of Louis D. Rubin Jr. (1923-2013) of Chapel Hill, N.C., educator, literary critic, scholar, novelist, journalist, editor, and publisher. Rubin was professor of English at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Included is correspondence with poets, novelists, critics, colleagues, friends, family, and students, including John Barth (1930- ), Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994), Allen Tate (1899-1979), Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), Lee Smith (1944- ), and C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999); correspondence with or about various publishers, universities, books, boats, and periodicals; material concerning Rubin's involvement with the American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Society for the Study of Southern Literature; items relating to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature and A History of Southern Literature; drafts of Rubin's writings, including The Golden Weather, Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth, Surfaces of a Diamond, The Edge of the Swamp, and copies of poetic, journalistic, and essay productions; material concerning Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; items relating to youth and college baseball; drafts of writings by others, including Clyde Edgerton (1944- ), Howard Nemerov, Sylvia Wilkinson (1940- ), and Lee Smith; and miscellaneous material. There is also material relating to the 1956 Fugitives Reunion in Nashville. The Addition of 1998 consists of correspondence, writings, and related materials, circa 1985-1996, of Louis D. Rubin. Writings include drafts of Heat of the Sun and A Writer's Companion. There is also correspondence relating to Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and its predecessor Bright Leaf Books, as well as and records of incorporation, sale, and dissolution.
The collection contains dubbed audio recordings of the African American gospel music group, the Swan Silvertones. Kerill Leslie Rubman, then a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, made the dubs from commercial recordings published between the 1940s and 1960s. Field notes accompanying the recordings list the songs, including "I Want to Rest" and "Amazing Grace." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
MICROFILM ONLY. Three Civil War letters between W. Rucker of North Carolina and his wife Eveline, and between J. L. Rucker and his brother. Subjects include camp life, news from the regiment, camp preaching, and plans regarding farming. One letter between the Rucker brothers dated 1872, regards the construction of a school. Material in the scrapbook consists of post-1865 newspaper clippings; obituaries, poems, letters to the editor, and stories relating to Rutherford County, N.C., schools, of which Adin L. Rucker was superintendent.
The collection contains a typed copy of a genealogy, 23 pages, of the Ruffin family of Virginia, compiled by W. A. Graham Clark in 1942, and a mimeographed copy of The Name and Family of Ruffin, 13 pages, compiled in 1950 by the Media Research Bureau of Washington, D.C. Also included is a copy of Why you have a family name and what it means, undated, 4 pages
The Meade family of Prince George County and Ruffin family of Hanover County, Va. Principal family members are Rebecca Beverley Meade (d. 1867); John E. Meade, Jr. (1843-1862); Charlotte Meade Ruffin (fl. 1837-1900); Julian C. Ruffin (d. 1864); Eleanor Meade Platt (d. 1866?); and Bessie Meade Callender (b. 1832).
Edmund Ruffin Jr. was a wheat, tobacco, and cotton planter of Prince George, Hanover, and Amelia counties, Va. Ruffin, the son of Edmund, Sr., and Susan (Travis) Ruffin, owned two James River plantations, Beechwood and Evelynton, in Prince George County, and Redmoor Plantation in Amelia County. After his father's death in 1865, he inherited part of the latter's estate, Marlbourne, in Hanover County. Ruffin had at least three children: George, Thomas, and Nancy (d. 1863). George and Thomas both served as privates in the Confederate Army. Ruffin himself served briefly at Camp Lookout between May 1861 and August 1862, when he was released for poor health.
Francis (Frank) Gildart Ruffin (1816-1892), was a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., Confederate colonel, 2nd auditor of Virginia, editor, and political writer. Ruffin served as chairman of the Virginia Sinking Fund Commission, secretary of the Miller Manual Labor School, and editor of the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch. Other prominent family members represented in the collection include Ruffin's uncle, Albert G. Ruffin (died 1829), lawyer in Mississippi and Alabama and planter in Hanover County, Va.; Albert's wife, Eliza Roane Ruffin (fl. 1825-1837); and Eliza's father, Spencer Roane (1762-1822), state senator and judge, of Hanover County, Va.
Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the Superior Court, 1816-1818; as reporter of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1820-1822; and as judge of the Superior Court in 1825-1828. Ruffin became president of the State Bank of North Carolina in 1828. He was elected judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1829 and became chief justice in 1833. He served as chief justice until 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859. Ruffin was president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, 1854-1860. He was a delegate to the Washington Peace Conference and to the North Carolina Secession Convention in 1861.
Nathan Rumsey (fl. 1777) was a courier of messages from the Continental Congress. The collection is a copy of a letter, 8 March 1777, from Nathan Rumsey in Paris, France, where he had helped carry dispatches from the Continental Congress, to his father, William Rumsey in Cecil County, Md., commenting on the arrival at Nantes of a packet ship bearing dispatches from Congress, on the sale of ships captured as prizes, and on French-British relations.
The Terry W. Rushin Collection contains a documentary film made by Terry W. Rushin while he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The short film, titled A. R. Cole, Potter, documents the artistic practice and pottery shop of Arthur Ray "A. R." Cole, whose family has worked in the ceramic arts for more than three generations. The film is shot entirely on location at A. R. Cole's pottery shop in Sanford, N.C., while the non-synchronous soundtrack consists of audiotaped interviews with A. R. Cole and his daughters, Celia and Neolia. The collection contains a 16mm moving image print of the film, as well as a digitized version with added title cards and countdown.
John Ruskin was an English art critic, writer, and reformer.
Charles Phillips Russell was a journalist, biographer, and member of the faculty of the English Department, 1931-1937, and the School of Journalism, 1937-1954, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, writings, financial and legal material, diary volumes, subject files, and drawings and photographs of Charles Phillips Russell. Professional correspondence, primarily 1931-1969, relates chiefly to writing and publishing books and articles, to the work of colleagues and former students, and to higher education. Included is correspondence with publishers (Brentano's, William Morrow, Scribners, and others) and with newspapers and magazines in North Carolina and New York. Letters from Russell's mother, Lucy Phillips Russell, deal with life in Rockingham, N.C.; with her writing; and with Russell's career. Writings include drafts, research notes, outlines, synopses, and printer's proofs of Russell's books, plays, short stories, articles, poems, and newspaper columns and of works by others. Much of this material relates to Russell's biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones. There are also papers documenting Russell's financial affairs; short diary and other volumes; subject files pertaining to organizations with which Russell was associated and topics of interest to him; scrapbooks of clippings of articles by and about Russell and on other topics; photographs and photograph albums with images of Chapel Hill, N.C., Russell, family members, and friends; drawings by Russell and family members; an audio tape of a radio production about Horace Williams by John Ehle; and a home movie.
Daniel Lindsay Russell was a Wilmington, N.C. lawyer; Confederate Army officer; Republican leader of eastern North Carolina; judge; United States Representative, 1879-1881; and Republican-Populist governor, 1897-1901.
Edith Russell Harrington was a writer, producer, and director of civic pageants across the South, who professionally used the name Edith Russell. With her husband, Herschel R. Harrington, she founded Harrington-Russell Studios, Complete Pageant Service, in Asheville, N.C., in 1930, and operated the business for about fifteen years. Herschel Harrington did technical work, including lighting and set design, for the pageants his wife wrote and directed. The collection includes correspondence, plans, outlines, notes, and other papers of Edith Russell, primarily from the 1930s, relating to outdoor dramas, pageants, and festivals produced by Harrington-Russell Studios throughout the South; material relating to Van Horn's, a Philadelphia costume supplier for which Harrington-Russell acted as agent in Florida in the 1930s; and scripts Russell wrote for the Children's Civic Theater in Atlanta, Ga., in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Ira Russell, physician of Massachusetts, who served in the Union Army as a surgeon during the Civil War, first as administrator of hospitals in northwest Arkansas, then as surgeon-in-charge of the hospital complex at Benton Barracks near St. Louis, Mo., which could serve between 2,000 and 3,000 patients at one time.
J. N. Russell lived in Fairview and Shufordville, both in Buncombe County, N.C.
James A. Russell was a physician of Granville County, N.C.
John Russell (1954-) is a white lawyer, entrepreneur, and writer from North Carolina. The John Russell Papers, 1980s-2007, document his literary work; the one billion dollar Envoy Corporation merger with Quintiles Transnational, a pharmaceutical outsourcing services company; and the emerging national effort to address the potential for bioterrorism. Materials include manuscript drafts of three novels and a videotape with an interview of Russell about Favorite Sons; two bound volumes documenting the acquisition and sale of Envoy Corporation and a binder on the merger with Pharma Services Holding, Inc.; a binder of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee and two videotapes with topically related programming.
Audio recordings of a biographical interview with John Mason Brewer (1896-1975), a Black folklorist known for his work on African American tales and folklore, who was born in Texas. Recorded by Robert L. Russell in March 1967 at Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including field collection cover sheets prepared by former library staff. Supporting documentation indicates that the interview was conducted for an article that Russell wrote on Brewer.
Chiefly personal letters, mostly 1870s-1880s, received by Russell of Sardis, Miss., and Petersburg, Va., from relatives and friends. Correspondents include members of the Webb family of Granville County, N.C.; a resident of Batesville, Ark.; and other persons scattered over most of the southern and several eastern and midwestern states. Also included is The Russells, the Heflins, and the Webbs of Granville County, N.C. (18 p.), by William James Webb, 1935, consisting of genealogical data, copies of wills, and information about slaves and the location of Webb lands and houses.
J. R. Rust was a sergeant in the Confederate army.
Helen Laura Ruth was a teacher at Leland University in New Orleans, La., a private institution of higher learning for African Americans founded in 1870. It closed in 1915; was re-named Leland College and re-opened in Baker, La., in 1923; and finally closed in 1960.
The collection is a manuscript copy, made in 1802 from county records, of land grants, including names, acreage, and description of property.
Griffith Rutherford (1721-1805) was a colonial and Revolutionary official, military officer, and land speculator. He was born in Ireland, but by the early 1750s, had settled in Rowan County, N.C.
Letters, deeds, slave list and bills of sale, and miscellaneous other papers of the Grimball, Wilkins, Seabrook, and other families of Charleston, S.C., and the South Carolina low country. Items include a letter, August 1863, from Arthur Grimball to his father about conditions; business letters, 1826, to John Berkeley Grimball; the will of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, 1854; and lists of slaves belonging to John Berkley Grimball and Martin L. Wilkins, undated.
The collection consists of two letters to Henry A. Rutledge of Talladega, Ala., including one, 1834, concerning a debt and the other, undated, from his sister concerning family news.
John Rutledge (1766-1819) of South Carolina was the son of Governor John Rutledge (1739-1800). He studied in Charleston and Philadelphia and traveled in Europe in 1787 through early 1790. His wife was Sarah Motte Smith. He practiced law in Charleston, was a planter in the Savannah River area, served in the South Carolina legislature, was a member of the United States House of Representatives, 1797-1803, and was an officer in the South Carolina militia. The major portion of the papers consists of letters written to Rutledge and is most detailed for his years in Europe and his period of political activity. There are letters in the earlier period from friends in England and Europe and from prominent persons he met while there. There are a few letters from his brothers in Charleston, but none from his father. Later letters deal primarily with politics and the Federal Party and are from political leaders and government officials. There are also a number of letters from Rutledge to his father-in-law, Bishop Robert Smith, written during the period 1797-1803. Rutledge and his wife were separated in 1804 and there is some discussion of divorce law about this time. After 1808 there is little political material and the papers deal largely with business and plantation affairs. Later items include scattered business papers of Hugh Rose, a South Carolina planter whose daughter married Rutledge's son; papers of Abram A. Massias, major and paymaster in the United States Army; and scattered papers of later members of the Rutledge family. Also among the major correspondents are William Short, with reference to the French Revolution, and Harrison Gray Otis.
The collection contains daybooks of the general merchandise business of J. S. Ryall at Spring Hill, Mobile County, Ala.
Martha Ryan (born 1765) and her sister, Elisabeth Ryan (1767-1815) were daughters of plantation owners James Ryan (1735-1777) and Ann Ryan (1737-1794) of Bertie County, N.C.

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A postcard depicting the lynching of five African American young men in Hemphill, Sabine County, Tex., on 22 June 1908. Below the image is a poem about white supremacy titled The Dogwood Tree.
Correspondence and financial and legal papers relating to the Snider family of Chambersburg, Pa., and to Porter Sacket (died 1837) of Natchez, Miss. The principal focus of this material is the child, apparently fathered by Sackett, born out of wedlock in 1836 to Margaret E. Snider (died 1844).
Michael Sadleir was an author, publisher, and bibliographer.
James M. Saffell was a business man and postmaster of Frankfort, Ky. The collection includes scrapbooks of James M. Saffell and his wife, Fanny Berry Saffell (1849-1897), containing clippings about local events, state and national politics, articles about their family, and a variety of other matters.
The writer was a sailor on the Memphis during its passage from New York to New Orleans between 30 March and 24 April 1847.
The collection is a scrapbook of death notices and clippings of funerals and weddings, 1883-1891, pertaining to St. James Parish, La., with some miscellaneous clippings.
The collection is a record of baptisms, marriages, funerals, confirmations, communicants, and other concerns of Saint John's Parish, a Maury County, Tenn., Episcopal Church. Some of the services were conducted by Leonidas Polk, bishop of Louisiana and Confederate general.
W. C. Sales was a Confederate veteran of Buncombe County, N.C.
The Salisbury Book Club, of Salisbury, N.C., held its first meeting on 1 March 1891, and continued to meet monthly for thirty-three years.
Mary Margaret Salm (1921- ) served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Salm's name when she served in the Army was Mary Margaret Schisler.
William James Samford (1844-1901) of Opelika, Ala., was a planter, lawyer, United States representative, and governor of Alabama. Samford's son, Thomas Drake Samford (1868-1947) of Opelika, Ala., was a planter, lawyer, United States attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Democratic party leader and member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1892-1894, and 1900-1940, and real estate investor.
The collection contains papers of the white Samonds family of Mecklenburg County, N.C., including correspondence, chiefly written during the American Civil War, between T. K. Samonds and his wife Mary Brown. Civil War letters written from camps in Virginia and North Carolina describe Samonds's duties in the Confederate army, regiment movements, the aftermath of battles such as Gettysburg and Fredericksburg, illnesses, daily routines, and household duties. Other letters describe work and courting opportunities in antebellum Arkansas and Mississippi and postbellum travel to the North Carolina mountains. Transcriptions are available for all letters.
The collection contains deeds, 1852-1856, to land in Sampson County, N.C.
Edwin W. Sampson was a lieutenant in the 145th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Ira B. Sampson (1840-1890) of Springfield, Mass., was a captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. He was captured on the North Carolina coast and imprisoned at Andersonville, Ga., and Columbia, S.C. The collection consists of a Civil War diary and memo book (226 p.), 1864-1865, of Ira B. Sampson, with a few related papers. The pocket diary describes the surrender of Fort William at Plymouth, N.C., in April 1864; Sampson's experiences as a prisoner at Andersonville, Ga., and at Columbia, S.C.; and other matters. Also included are a photograph of Sampson, 1863; his two commissions as an officer in the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1863; and photocopies of Sampson's 1881 application for a disability pension and his widow's 1891 application for a pension following his death from consumption in 1890.
Correspondence and other papers of Joseph Sams and members of his family, consisting mostly of letters from Joseph Sams to his wife, Polly Ann Crawford Sams, during the Civil War years. A native of Madison County, N.C., Sams was in the minority of Confederate sympathizers from that part of the state. Sams's letters to his wife Polly chronicle his hopes and fears for the the Southern cause from his arrival in Raleigh in 1861 to his capture at Yazoo City, Miss., in 1863; they include references to Confederate activities at Camp Haynesville, Elizabethton, Jackson, Charleston, Morristown, and Shelbyville, Tenn., and at Yazoo City, Miss. Sams fought with the 64th and 29th North Carolina regiments. Also included are a ciphering book, dated 19 June 1820, of Robert Benson Crawford, Joseph Sams's father-in-law, and a few letters of other members of the Sams and Crawford families, including letters from H. T. (Henry?) Crawford, R. B. Crawford's son, a Confederate soldier at Dalton, Ga., and Greeneville, Tenn., in 1864 and 1865.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet and author.
Claudius Brock Sanders was a lawyer, planter, and legislator of Johnston County, N.C.
John L. Sanders (1927- ), a white faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taught at and/or directed the Institute of Government (IOG) from 1956 to 1994, with interruptions. The IOG provides training, research, publishing, and consulting for North Carolina's state and local governments. Sanders was also directly involved in state and local government, working on the creation of a statewide community college system and on state constitutional and reapportionment issues. He helped design a plan for desegregating The University of North Carolina and, as Vice President for Planning for the University, 1973-1978, helped complete the its first long-range plan. He was active on The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Buildings and Grounds Committee and in The University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly. The collection includes papers of John L. Sanders concerning The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina politics, business, and history. Topics include the reapportionment of the North Carolina General Assembly and the redistricting of its congressional districts, the restructuring of the state's community college system, the revision of tenure standards and the retirement age for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professors, Sanders's work on the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School and the Governor's Commission on the Future of North Carolina (NC 2000), and the Research Triangle Foundation Board of Directors and the development of Research Triangle Park. There are also materials relating to the North Carolina Bar Association; the Kellenberger Historical Foundation; the Tryon Palace Commission and other historic preservation work in Edenton, N.C.; the Historical Society of North Carolina; and the Historic Preservation Foundation (Preservation North Carolina). Also included are materials relating to Sanders's service at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Bicentennial Observance Planning Committee, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Historic Properties, the Morehead Planetarium Task Force, and the Committee on the University and Public Service, and his time as a student at the University of North Carolina in 1949-1950.
Wiley Briton Sanders (1898-1973) was a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an avid bird watcher.
James Sandoe was a critic and student of mystery stories.
Louis J. Sands of New York state served in the United States Navy before and during the Civil War.
Terry Sanford of Scotland, Cumberland, Wake, and Durham counties, N.C., was a politician, educator, administrator, lawyer, and soldier. He served as state senator, 1953-1954; governor of North Carolina, 1961-1965; president of Duke University, 1969-1985; and U.S. senator, 1986-1992. The collection includes campaign files and other items relating to Terry Sanford's career. Pre-1960 material includes items related to Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat campaign for U.S. President; to Sanford's successful 1949 campaign for president of the Young Democrats Clubs of North Carolina; to Frank Porter Graham's 1950 senatorial campaign; and to North Carolina's Pearsall Plan for public school desegregation. 1959-1960 gubernatorial campaign items include correspondence between Sanford's staff and county liaisons, correspondence with key advisors, clippings from state and regional newspapers, letters responding to Sanford's support of John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention, and films and audio tapes of Sanford gubernatorial campaign advertisements. Topics include agriculture, industry, public schools, welfare, race relations, women in politics, and religion and politics. Items, 1961-1965, document Sanford's political activities as North Carolina governor. Topics include North Carolina's 1963 "Gag Law," the Good Neighbor Council, and the North Carolina Fund. Items, 1965-1984, relate to Sanford's proposed 1968 U.S. senatorial campaign against Sen. Sam Ervin; the 1968 Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie Committee; and Sanford's 1972 and 1976 presidential campaigns. Materials related to Sanford's unsuccessful 1992 U.S. senatorial campaign include North Carolina voters' responses to a Sanford questionnaire, detailed reports on Sanford's opponent Lauch Faircloth, folders on women's and children's issues, and photographs and several video and audio tapes related to the campaign. 1992 campaign topics include welfare, industry, education, crime, and taxes. Correspondents represented in the collection include John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, Bert Bennett, Hugh Cannon, Henry H. Wilson Jr., Frank Porter Graham, Clyde Hoey, William Friday, Sam Rayburn, W. Kerr Scott, Luther Hodges, Dan K. Moore, Hubert H. Humphrey, I. Beverly Lake, Sr., Malcolm Seawell, Sam Ervin, Lauch Faircloth, John Larkins, John Gavin, Robert F. Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson. The addition of 2011 contains notes, short letters, and greeting cards, 1960-1985, addressed to Margaret Rose (Knight) Sanford; some letters discuss Sanford's 1960 gubernatorial campaign and victory, support for Sanford's 1961 tax plan, and the end of Sanford's gubernatorial career. There are also a few letters, 1959-1964, chiefly thank-yous, to Terry Sanford; letters, 1960-1967, to his mother about Sanford's achievements; and other items. The addition of 2014 chiefly contains materials related to Sanford family activities and events, including papers related to Sanford's parents, Cecil Sanford, Jr., and Elizabeth Martin Sanford; photo albums related to the Knight family; scrapbooks and photo albums made by Margaret from her college years, Sanford's political races, and vacation trips; personal papers from across both Margaret and Terry Sanfords' lives as well as legal materials, memorial arrangements, and notes of condolence related to their deaths; awards, certificates, and honorary degrees presented to Margaret and Terry Sanford by various institutions; and various recordings, including video interviews with Sanford.
Donald Bridgman Sanger (1889-1947) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. The collection contains photostatic and carbon copies (location of originals unknown) of two lectures by Sanger: The American Civil War. Part I. Causes, and Part II. Conduct, delivered at the Army War College, Washington, D.C., 1935; and two letters concerning Sanger's manuscript of The Biography of General James Longstreet.
George Washington Sargent, the son of Winthrop Sargent (1753- 1820) and of Mary McIntosh (Williams) Sargent, was born in Mississippi, where his father was the first territorial governor. After his marriage to Margaret Percy, he lived in Philadelphia, Pa., and Natchez, Miss., from which he managed his family's extensive property holdings in Ohio, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Celestine Sarratt (fl. 1860-1865) was a resident of Gaffney, S.C. The collection includes letters to Sarratt from a brother, a cousin, and friends in the Confederate army in Virginia and on the South Carolina coast, chiefly concerning other soldiers, death, and illness.
Correspondence, writings, notes, and other items of North Carolina journalist Reed Sarratt (1917-1986), whose career took him from editorial posts at the Charlotte News and the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel to directorships of the Southern Education Reporting Service and the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association. Sarratt's chief editorial interest was civil rights, and he was particulary involved in monitoring the desegregation of public schools.
Dix R. Sarsfield was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1923-1927. He later worked as an editor for the Associated Press in Charlotte, N.C.
Sasser family members were landowners in what is now Wayne County, N.C., and the surrounding area. The collection includes the papers of John Sasser Sr. (d. 1782) and his descendants, including grants, deeds, surveys, and legal proceedings pertaining to lands, and bills of sale for slaves in Wayne County, N.C., chiefly in the 18th century.
Field recordings of various versions of the religious song, "Looking for the Stone," and other religious songs recorded in western North Carolina, including Buncombe County, N.C. and Graham County, N.C. Diane Sasson, a white author and educator, made the recordings for her term paper on the song "Looking for the Stone" when she was a student in a southern folklore course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The audio recordings feature various musicians in Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C. and West Buffalo, Graham County, N.C. Of particular note is a field recording of a Cherokee church service in Graham County, N.C., which includes a gospel song, "Children of the Heavenly King", and an early shape-note tune from the Cherokee oral tradition. The recordings also feature, Lynn Trull, a male vocalist with the Copper Basin Christian choir singing "Heaven is My Aim," a camp meeting spiritual, and a recording of the congregation of the Cedar Cliff Baptist Church, both in West Buffalo, Graham County, N.C. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a cover sheet prepared by former North Carolina Folk Music Archives staff, as well as sheet music for "Heaven is My Aim".
Sallie Rowan Saufley, daughter of Stokeley Donelsen Rowan of McMinnville, Tenn., married Micah C. Saufley (1842-1910), lawyer of Monticello and Stanford, Ky., in 1867.
Joseph Hubbard Saunders (1839-1885) was a planter and Confederate officer of Orange County, N.C.
The collection contains correspondence, business, and legal records of Robert W. Saunders, who lived and conducted business in Virginia and West Virginia. Papers include correspondence, deeds, receipts, and an account book.
Sallie Faxon Saunders accompanied Thomas Wolfe in New Mexico as part of his western journey of 1938. She was later the editor of the Junior League Magazine.
The collection of white lawyer and North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader and organizer, William Laurence Saunders (1835-1891) include his personal papers and his collection of colonial and early state records of North Carolina. His personal papers document his participation in the American Civil War as a colonel in the 46th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate States of America Army (CSA); his tenure as secretary-treasurer of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees; and his editorship of the Colonial Records of North Carolina. Known items related to Saunders’ Klan activities and white supremacist ideology are two letters dated 1871 and 1874 about the murders by lynching of African American men near Hillsborough, N.C., and the failure of an amnesty bill for Klan members to pass in the state legislature. Also included are his pocket diaries, correspondence, and bank books. Colonial and early state records of North Carolina that Saunders collected for his historical research include legal papers and contracts; a 1766 petition of members of the Tuscarora people concerning a dispute over and sale of land; a bill of sale for an enslaved girl; letters of William R. Davie and North Carolina governor Thomas J. Jarvis; copies of North Carolina legislative journals and reports of the royal governors; records of the Episcopal School of North Carolina in Raleigh, N.C.; and manuscripts relating to the early history of North Carolina.
William Page Saunders lives in New Orleans, La.
Represented in the collection are William Rutherford Savage, Episcopal priest of Virginia and North Carolina; his parents Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880), scientist and Episcopal missionary to Liberia, and Elizabeth Rutherford Savage (1817-1899), also a missionary; his brothers Thomas Rutherford Savage (1851-1918), physician of Kalamazoo, Mich., and New York, N.Y., and Alexander Duncan Savage (1848-1935), curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; and his sister Jessie Duncan Savage, an artist, who in 1884 married Thomas L. Cole, an Episcopal priest.
The Patricia Sawin Collection consists of audio recordings, 1979-1989, and a video documentary, 1996, created by folklorist, Patricia Sawin. The materials relate to Sawin's longstanding exploration of the life, songs, and stories of Bessie Eldreth, a folk singer from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina who died in 2016 at the age of 103. Born in 1913 on an Ashe County farm, Eldreth accompanied her everyday life with old ballads, gospel songs and hymns, parlor songs, and original songs. It was not until the 1970s that Eldreth began to sing publicly with her granddaughter, Jean Reid. The Sawin Collection contains audio from this period, including field recordings of live concerts, special events, church services, as well as interviews and story telling with Eldreth and Reid. The collection also contains video copies of Sawin's 1996 documentary film on Eldreth titled, Bessie Eldreth: Stories and Songs of a Blue Ridge Life.
Microfilm only. Sawyers Creek Baptist Church, Camden County, N.C., founded circa 1790, was an interracial church affiliated with the Chowan Association and later with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the Southern Baptist Convention. Primarily minutes of church conferences held every month in the early years and quarterly in later years, with special called meetings as needed. The minutes record transactions of church business and finance; matters relating to the admission, discipline, expulsion, or removal of members; the calling of pastors and the election of church officials; the care of church property; and relations with other Baptist churches. Also included are lists of members indicating gender and race, lists of contributions, and the church covenant and rules of decorum.
Alfred Moore Scales, lawyer, Democratic state senator, real estate developer, and insurance executive of Greensboro, N.C. Correspondence about North Carolina political candidates and elections; political and civil service appointments, both state and federal; proposed legislation affecting insurance companies, particularly, 1909-1913; and the business of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, various committees and agencies of the Orange Presbytery, and the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina. There is also material about the North Carolina Commission on Constitutional Amendments, 1913-1914, and about the Association for the Promotion of Education in North Carolina, 1920-1923.
Archibald Henderson Scales (1868-1925) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. The collection is scrapbooks containing correspondence, pictures, and clippings documenting the career of Archibald Scales as a United States Naval Academy cadet, officer on active service, commander of the Great Lakes Training Station during World War I, and superintendent of the Naval Academy, 1919-1921.
Junius Irving Scales (1920-2002), native of Greensboro, N.C., and graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, was Communist Party chair for North and South Carolina, 1948-1956.
The collection documents the academic career and conservative social and political views of William Kauffman Scarborough, a white historian of the American South specializing in the study of slavery, the antebellum plantation system and economy, agriculture, the secession crisis, and the American Civil War. Spanning from his undergraduate student years in the 1950s to the near present in the years since his retirement from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss., the collection contains student notebooks from his undergraduate and graduate studies, extensive research notes and compiled data about enslavers, drafts and revisions of his published works including monographs, articles, and book reviews, and correspondence with other historians including Eugene Genovese and Stanley F. Engerman. Other materials pertain to professional organizations and meetings and history conferences where he delivered papers and commentary and to his work as a referee for scholarly presses and journals. Political materials in the collection, including pamphlets, newsletters, periodicals, correspondence, speeches, and ephemera, reflect Scarborough's political and social conservatism and his racial views, particularly his support of segregation in the American South during the 1960s and 1970s. Some printed materials also promote anti-semitism. Other political items illustrate Scarborough's affiliations and participation in political organizations, particularly white supremacist Citizens' Councils, his support of former Alabama governor George C. Wallace's multiple bids for president of the United States, his disdain of political correctness, and his defense of flying the Confederate battle flag in public spaces. The collection also contains personal correspondence, including letters exchanged between Scarborough and his wife Patricia Carruthers Scarborough during his deployment aboard the United States Navy battleship, the U.S.S. New Jersey, in 1955 and letters he wrote to his parents during his first two years of undergraduate study from the fall of 1950 to the spring of 1952 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Samuel Scarbrough (fl. 1834-1848) was the postmaster of Mount Gilead in Montgomery County, N.C.
James Howard Scatliff (1927-2017) was white radiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine. He became the Chair of the Department of Radiology in 1966 and continued teaching until his death. In addition to radiology, Dr. Scatliff's research interests included the 16th century Flemish physician and anatomist Andreas Vesalius and the 17th century English physician and anatomist Thomas Willis.
Martin Wilhelm Schaeffer of Dresden, Germany, married Frances Spencer Carter (1875-1938) of Raleigh, N.C., in 1899; served in the German army during World War I; visited the United States periodically, 1935-1939; lived in Asheville, N.C., with his wife; and was interned in the United States for a time during World War II.
Theodore Wilhelm Schaeffer (1907-1981) of Washington D.C., technical translator and interpreter of German and French. Papers, 1900s-1980s, of Theodore W. Schaeffer, including correspondence with his sister Laura Schnorrenberg of Asheville, N.C., and subject files pertaining to his work as a technical translator and interpreter.
Helen Maynor Scheirbeck (1935-2010) was a Lumbee Indian political scientist, educator, and community organizer born in Lumberton, N.C. Scheirbeck both led and served as a consultant to governmental and non-governmental organizations related to American Indian tribal recognition, education, and community development, including the National Congress of American Indians; the Rural and Indian Divisions of the Wisconsin Community Action Programs; the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the John Hay Whitney Foundation; the American Indian Policy Review Commission; the National Commission for the International Year of the Child; the White House Conference on Children and Youth; the associated Lumbee Regional Development Association, Indian Information Program, and United Indians of America; the Save the Children Federation; the North Carolina Indian Cultural Center; Head Start programs serving American Indian and Alaskan Natives; and the National Museum of the American Indian. Scheirbeck's father, Judge Lacy W. Maynor (1904-1972), was one of the first American Indian judges in North Carolina, and was an advocate for Lumbee Indian rights, education, and federal recognition, a leader in the National Congress of American Indians, and a public opponent of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.
The Schenck family included John Schenck (1656-1748), who emigrated from Holland to Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y.
David Schenck was a lawyer of Lincoln and Greensboro, N.C., Superior Court Judge of the Ninth Judicial District of North Carolina, 1874-1882, general counsel of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, and president of the Guilford Battleground Co.
Greensboro Mayor David Schenck was born on 7 January 1927 in Greensboro, N.C., and was the great-grandson of Judge David Schenck, a prominent 19th century lawyer and politician in Greensboro. Schenck received a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University in 1947 and attended the business school at the University of North Carolina in 1948. In 1959, Schenck was elected to the Greensboro City Council where he served as chair of the Transportation Committee and later on the Mayor's Special Committee on Human Relations and Race Relations in 1960. On 8 May 1961, Schenck was elected mayor of Greensboro. He was reelected in 1963 and served until 1965. During his tenure as mayor, Schenck witnessed mass civil rights demonstrations by African-American students and others in Greensboro, culminating in his June 1963 decision to urge Greensboro businesses to voluntarily integrate their facilities. Schenck died in 1970 at age 43 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
The papers of David Schenck (1951- ) a white poet, bioethicist, and social justice advocate originally from Greensboro, N.C. Materials in this collection include include audio recordings of poetry readings; offprints of his scholarly articles; newspaper clippings many containing letters he wrote to the editor; printed items including publications of his poetry; and subject files. These files reflect Schenck's interests and social justice activism. Topics include the Green River Oral History Project, the Affordable Housing Coalition in Asheville, N.C.; St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg, S.C.; a 1996 anti-gay rights resolution passed by the Spartanburg County Council in South Carolina; and the 1960s Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and historian William Chafe, the author of Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. There are also essays, correspondence, memorials and tributes, and other publications pertaining to Thomas Berry (1914-2009), a white Catholic priest known for his teachings about ecology, environment and spirituality. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
MICROFILM ONLY. Mainly reminiscences by Schenck of his early life in Wilmington, N.C., and Civil War and postwar conditions in that city. Also included are family data, a lot-by-lot description of the older blocks of Wilmington, and notes on the 1906 Cotton Convention in New Orleans.
Jan Philip Schinhan, composer, conductor, musician and musicologist, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1887. He was head of the organ department at the San Fransisco Conservatory in the 1920s and early 1930s, and a member of the faculty of the Music Dept., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1935-1958.
Materials on country musician, Roy Acuff, compiled by Elizabeth Schlappi, a white collector and author who wrote Acuff's biography, Roy Acuff, the Smokey Mountain Boy (1978). The collection consists of correspondence, research files, photographs, and memorabilia, as well as audio recordings of live performances, radio and television appearances, interviews, and compilations of commercial releases featuring Roy Acuff and other country music artists. Other artists represented in the collection include Jimmie Rodgers.
Born to a family of Jewish craftspeople near Riga, Latvia, Charles Louis Schlom emigrated to America to avoid religious persecution, and, in 1908, settled in Greenville, Miss., where he operated a jewelry store. The collection includes documents related to the Schlom family in Latvia; legal and financial papers, including the naturalization papers, property deed and loan papers, and last will and testament of Charles Louis Schlom; letters and materials sent to Schlom and newspaper clippings related to the purchase and operation of his Greenville, Miss., jewelry store; photographs of Charles Louis Schlom, family members, and the store; a biographical sketch of Charles Louis Schlom by his oldest daughter, Zelda Schlom Sachs; and other materials.
Collection contains papers and photographs collected by white librarian and labor folklorist Saul Schniderman. Papers include a brochure from the Labor Heritage Foundation, labor song lyrics and music, a 1984 letter from folklorist and historian Archie Green, and tributes written about Green following Green's death in 2009. Photographs of Pete Seeger, Florence Reece, and Si Kahn are also included. Collected as part of the Southern Folklife Collection. Also includes the Forty Years Young record by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Northeast Department.
The Schnorrenburgs are a white family from North Carolina with ties to the Episcopal Church and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Members include Laura Schaeffer Schnorrenberg (1900-1975), resident of Asheville, N.C., Episcopal layperson, and actress in Germany and the United States, 1921-1928; her son, John Martin Schnorrenberg (1931- ), professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1959-1976; his wife, Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg (1931- ), lecturer in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and their daughter, Katherine Schnorrenberg, who was registrar at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, Md., in the early 2000s. The collection includes correspondence and other papers of members of the Schnorrenberg family. Much of the correspondence consists of letters exchanged among the three Schnorrenbergs as well as letters from Laura Schnorrenberg's brother, Theodore Wilhelm Schaeffer (1907- ). It deals largely with family and community matters, including John's experiences, 1946-1949, as a student at Christ's School, Arden, N.C., and, 1949-1953, at the University of North Carolina; Laura's work in Asheville with the National Conference of Christians and Jews; and Barbara's studies and travels in Europe, 1955-1956. Also included is a diary, 1821, in German, of Christian Friedrich von Schrickell, concerning a trip from Gonlitz, Germany, to Switzerland; a handwritten transcription of an account book with lists of enslaved people, 1861, of Emily Ryan of Bertie County, N.C.; notebooks of miscellaneous writings and poetry; a photograph album and scrapbook of clippings relative to Laura's theatrical career, chiefly in German; and Barbara's diary, 1955-1956.
Martha Schofield was a northern Quaker teacher-missionary among the free blacks on Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island (Charleston County) and at Aiken, S.C.
The Mark Schultz Collection consists of field recordings of rural church services created by historian, Mark Schultz, for personal use. The majority of the audio recordings were made at Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal (AME), United Methodist, and Pentecostal churches in Georgia, including Hancock County, Oglethorpe County, and Clarke County. The recordings document African American and white church services, and feature gospel music, pastor anniversaries, homecomings, and choir anniversaries, among other church activities. The collection also contains an additional field recording of an AME choir reunion in Malvern, Pa., as well as a photograph of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hancock County, Ga.
Papers of Schutte, a Haitian planter who emigrated to Portsmouth, Va., circa 1793, including eight family letters exchanged between France and the West Indies, 1741-1753; Schutte's bills, accounts, deeds, miscellaneous legal papers, and correspondence in Haiti, 1769-1789; and papers, 1825- 1832, of Schutte's widow, chiefly concerning her attempt to secure compensation from France for property losses in the Haitian revolt in the 1790s.
Johann Conrad Schweizer (born 1812) emigrated from Switzerland to the United States in 1853. The collection includes a typescript copy of autobiographical notes, diary entries, and copies of letters (circa 1812-1863), under the title, Notes on My Life, written by Schweizer, chiefly concerning his struggles to make a living as a farmer, teacher, and shopkeeper in Knoxville, Roane County, and other places in Tennessee and in Georgia, Alabama, St. Louis, Mo., and Tell City, Ind.
Letters and a few other items, 1839-1867, chiefly relating to the members of the Scott family of New Hampshire and Vermont. The earliest papers are deeds, 1839 an 1849 copies of 1830 deeds, dealing with property of the Scotts' Warren family relatives in Fairfax and Chittenden counties, Vt. Letters begin in 1857, with those of Rogene A. Scott Bailey (b. 1840), daughter of Hanah Scott Warren, attending a private music school in Burlington, Vt. 1858 letters also relate to Rogene, who was then employed as a teacher in Grayson, Ky. Letters 1859-June 1860 find Rogene teaching on a plantation near Cheneyville, La., and those of August 1960-June 1862 document her teaching in Nashville. During her stay in the South, Rogene wrote frequently about race relations, especially attitudes of slaves and slaveholders towards each other and towards northerners like herself. In 1862, she wrote graphically about her work with wounded soldiers. Letters show that, in 1863, Rogene moved to Hyde Park, Vt., where, with her new husband John Bailey, apparently a Presbyterian minister, and her sister-in- law, Rogene operated a fairly successful school. There are also letters relating to Rogene's brother Don E. Scott, who served with the 11th New Hampshire Volunteers. In letters, 1862-1865, to his mother, sister, and future wife Nancy Smith, Scott described military life and his unit's involvement at the battles of Fredricksburg, Vicksburg, and Petersburg. From March 1863 to January 1867, there are also other letters to Nancy, including one from a friend who assisted freedmen in Wilmington, N.C.
Professor of Political Science and founder of the Coastal Carolina Press Andrew MacKay Scott (1922-2005) received a Master of Arts degree, Master of Public Administration Degree, and Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, all from Harvard University. He joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1958, where he taught for over 30 years before retiring. Scott published widely and founded the Coastal Carolina Press, a non-profit press focusing on the history, traditions, people, and places of the coastal area, in 1999 in Wilmington, N.C. He was married to women's historian Anne Firor Scott.
Christopher C. Scott (born circa 1807) was a resident of Virginia and Arkansas. During his political career in Arkansas, 1848-1854, he was an opponent of the Robert W. Johnson organization.
Tommy Scott, a white guitar player and singer, began his career in entertainment performing for local square dances. He performed on a radio broadcast for the first time in 1933, and, in 1936, joined Doc Chamberlain's Medicine Show, which had toured the South since 1890. In 1938, Scott took over the show, which was later known as Ramblin' Tommy Scott's Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree. Scott performed on radio station WWVA in Wheeling, W.Va., where he developed characters and routines that were later featured in his live, radio, and television appearances, including a blackface character named Lightning and a ventriloquist act featuring the puppet Luke McLuke. Scott wrote a number of hit country and western songs and appeared in several feature films. The Ramblin' Tommy Scott Show, which began airing in 1948, was the first country music show on television. During the 1950s, Scott had another show on television called Tommy Scott's Smokey Mountain Jamboree.
Lawyer and judge of New Orleans, La. A four-volume diary of Walter T. Scott and an account of an incident in his life. The diary, April 1877-March 1878, describes Scott's daily family and judicial activities in New Orleans and includes reminiscences of his imprisonment at Ship Island, Miss., during the Civil War. The Case of the Runaway Slave is an account by Katherine Kirkwood Scott of how, in 1855, Scott secured the freedom of Salome or Sally Miller or Muller, a white woman who had been a slave from infancy.
Scrapbook of clippings about literary and general topics. Included are articles, jokes, poems, accounts of foreign travel, and biographical information. Clippings appear to be from Scottish, English, and American periodicals, chiefly from the 1840s with some from the 1850s. They were pasted on top of records of accounts, 1776-1777 and 1793-1784, which appear to have been kept in the neighborhood of Strathaven (called Straven here), southeast of Glasgow. The names appearing most frequently are Thomson and Currie; it is not clear who kept the accounts or their purpose.
Bertha Bragg Scriven was the wife of George P. Scriven (1854-1940) and the daughter of Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (1827-1912). The collection is chiefly letters received by Bertha Bragg Scriven from her husband in Georgia, the Philippines, Cuba, and Peking, China, concerning family and personal matters, and Scriven's daily activities. Also included are letters received from her father written while he was consul general at Hong Kong, 1903-1904, concerning family and social affairs.
Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (1795-1855) was governor of South Carolina and president of the state Agricultural Society.
Samuel Seabury was the first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
The Dave Sear Collection consists of audio recordings, 1959-1996, created and compiled by the New York based folk musician and radio producer, Dave Sear. A veteran of over 40 years in radio, Sear is best known as the host and producer of the nationally syndicated programs, Adventures in Folk Music, Folk and Baroque, and Folk Music Almanac. All three programs were produced at WNYC and broadcast by public radio stations across the United States. The Dave Sear Collection contains programs from these three radio series, in addition to miscellaneous recordings of live concerts and recorded music, all of which feature major figures from the folk revival movement. Artists featured on the recordings include David Amram, Guy and Candy Carawan, Michael Cooney, Louis Killen, Dave Mallett, Tom Paxton, Utah Phillips, Jean Redpath, Jean Ritchie, John Roberts and Tony Barrand, Peter Schickele, Pete Seeger, Fred Small, Bill Staines, Sonny Terry, Happy Traum, and Robin and Linda Williams, among others.
Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell (1810-1893) was a lawyer of Moore County, N.C. The collection includes deeds, land plats, wills, notes, receipts, legal proceedings, accounts for lumber and merchandise, memorandum books containing scattered notes and figures, scattered family correspondence, and other papers, chiefly 1850s-1880s, of Seawell and of other members of the Seawell family and members of the Buie family of Moore County.
The collection is a letter, 30 April 1797, from Henry Seawell in Raleigh, N.C., to Colonel Benton in Hillsborough, N.C., about an order for hats.
The collection contains a report, 9 December 1863, from the Confederate hospital at Augusta, Ga., giving the disposition of cases of wounded from the Army of Tennessee, October through November 1863, signed by William C. Doughty, surgeon-in-charge.
James A. Seddon was the Confederate secretary of war.
Mike Seeger, white traditional music performer, collector, and folklorist, devoted his life to singing, playing, and recording old-time and bluegrass music. The collection consists of audio, video, film, and supporting documentation for studio recordings and live performances in concerts and festivals by Seeger and others, including his band the New Lost City Ramblers, and Seeger's interviews with many notable old-time and bluegrass musicians. There are also photographs of Seeger and many of the artists represented, as well as his correspondence, project files, writings, publicity, and extensive documentation of his appointments, contacts, contracts, and other financial records.
Live audio recordings created by Mary Seelhorst, a white museum professional, writer, musician, and auto racing crew member, when she was a graduate student of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The recordings include a 1983 documentary recording of the funeral of Mary Seelhorst's grandmother, Sena Edith Burke (1902-1983) of Greenup County, Ky., as well as a performance of old-time tunes, bluegrass, and country songs performed by the house band of the Pollirosa Restaurant in King, Stokes County, N.C. in 1984. The funeral service for Sena Edith Burke was recorded by Mary Seelhorst in November 1983 at the Morton Funeral Home in South Shore, Ky. This recording includes lined out hymns and a chanted sermon by Brother Baxter Osborne and members of the Regular Baptist Church from South Shore, Ky. The Pollirosa Restaurant house band features musicians Ralph McGee, white fiddler; J. J. Rierson, white electric guitarist, fiddler, and vocalist; Rex McGee, white pianist (Ralph's son); Rex McGee, Jr., white banjo player (Ralph's grandson); and Coy Vogler, white bass player. Mary Seelhorst recorded the band on 5 October 1984 in the Pollirosa Restaurant. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a field collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff, as well as tape logs and a transcription of the funeral service recording made by the collector.
Ernest Seeman was president of Seeman Printery, Durham, N.C., 1917-1923; editor of Duke University Press, 1925-1934; writer; and social critic of Durham, N.C., and Unicoi County, Tenn.
Edward D. Seghers (fl. 1862-1865) was a Confederate officer from Louisiana, who served at Vicksburg, Miss., and Mobile, Ala. The collection includes a volume containing accounts and a few diary entries of Seghers while a Confederate officer serving at Vicksburg and Mobile. Included are accounts for food, apparently for troops, and personal accounts with fellow officers. Diary entries refer briefly to military events.
Letters, January-October 1943, from George Seibert in Marine Corps training at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, N.C., to his wife Jean in West Hartford, Conn. Seibert, who progressed from private to staff sergeant during this time and took charge of warehouse accounting and distribution of supplies at Cherry Point, wrote chiefly about camp life--movies he saw, beer he drank, duties he performed--and arrangements for Jean's visits to North Carolina or his visits home to Connecticut. He also commented on Jean's activities in Connecticut, encouraging her to socialize more, but not too much, and wrote about his studies and visits to nearby towns, but gave little detail on either of these topics. Also included are a few letters to Jean from Seibert's friends.
Frederic Seip (b. 1818) was a doctor in Natchez, Miss. Also represented in the collection is his grandson, Frederic Seip (1840-1911), a Confederate Army officer and planter at Oak Isle Plantation near Alexandria, La.
Microfilm of a daily plantation journal of John Armistead Selden (born 1802) at Westover, Charles City County, Va., 1858-1862, and at other plantations in Amelia and Charlotte counties in Virginia, 1862-1864.
Samuel Selden was chairman of the Dept. of Dramatic Art and director of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, 1944-1959.
The North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women has been presented annually since 1950 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Epsilon Beta Chapter of Chi Omega Fraternity. The award recognizes a long and distinguished career or achievement by a North Carolina woman. The Selection Committee is made up of representatives of the university administration along with student and alumna members of the fraternity. The Original Accession of the committee records was largely generated under Chair Douglass Hunt, 1973-1995. It includes correspondence, 1975-1995; meeting minutes, 1971-1993; copies of award citations; and speeches delivered by award recipients. Most of the citations and speeches are post-1970. The Addition of March 2014 consists of records kept by Division of Student Affairs staff who provided administrative support to the committee, beginning with Dean of Women Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, who served as its secretary from the 1950s through 1977. These records are duplicative of some of the materials in the Original Accession, but they include the bulk of the materials related to the awards given prior to 1972. Included are files on awards given 1954-1992, which include committee minutes, lists of nominees, correspondence, and some citations and speeches.
Seligman and Company was a timber firm apparently based in Tamaqua, Penn., which was active in the lumber industry in Pasquotank County, N.C. The company appears to have been affiliated with the Clear Creek Coal Company, Inc., which also operated out of Tamaqua.
The Sellars Family Papers, 1770s-1990s, document a white family who operated a department store in Alamance County, N.C.; the related white Kime, Coble, Jordan, White, Kerr, Scott, Staley, and Ritchie families in Orange County, N.C., and Randolph County, N.C.; and people who were enslaved by these families. The collection includes bills of sale for the trafficking of enslaved people and estate papers listing enslaved people by their first names. There is also a scrapbook containing a newspaper clipping from 1931 with a former enslaved man's obituary and a photograph of the elderly African American man, Jerry Sellars, who had been enslaved by Thomas Sellars Sr., in Alamance County, N.C. Other materials include genealogical files, photographs, correspondence, business records, and financial and legal documents. Genealogical files are extensive and contain family trees, family histories, and other materials. Photograph albums and loose images principally depict family members. One photograph album shows the redevelopment of downtown Burlington, N.C., during the 1970s in color snapshots. Correspondence includes letters from members of the armed services during World War II. Business records, including account ledgers and minutes of board meetings, document B.A. Sellars & Sons, Inc., and Sellars Department Store in Burlington, N.C., during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Located in Saxapahaw, N.C., the Sellers Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1927 to produce fine combed cotton yarns for the hosiery industry in Alamance County, N.C. Starting out with fewer than 10,000 spindles, the company expanded until, at its peak, it employed 1,000 people and operated approximately 75,000 spindles. The Sellers Manufacturing Company also owned the Royal Cotton Mill in Wake Forest, N.C., and the Sellers Dyeing Company, Jordan Spinning Company, and National Processing Company. Charles V. Sellers was the company's president, serving from 1927 until his death in 1941. B. Everett Jordan was the company's treasurer and general manager. The records, 1927-1994, of the Sellers Manufacturing Company of Saxapahaw, N.C., and related companies, Royal Cotton Mill, Sellers Dyeing Company, Jordan Spinning Company, and National Processing Company, include minutes of stockholders meetings and directors meetings, tax returns, inventories, accounts, a supervisors' policy and procedures manual, and other items.
James Benson Sellers (1898-1964) was a collector of historical materials primarily pertaining to antebellum Tennessee and Alabama.
Benedict Joseph Semmes (1823-1902) was a wholesale merchant of Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., a Confederate commisary officer, and was to married Jorantha Jordan of New York City. This collection contains correspondence between Semmes and Jordan during their engagement and first 16 years of marriage. Letters from 1848-April 1849 (62 items) were written during their engagement when Semmes was in Washington, D.C. and Jordan resided in New York City. Topics include family and social affairs, religion, and their ideas about life and marriage. Letters from June 1849-1859 (31 items) mostly discuss family matters and social life, but also the wholesale grocery business and moving to Memphis, Tenn. Letters from 1862-1865 (128 items) concern Semmes's experiences with the Confederate Army in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia, discussing supplying the army, camp life, military engagements (especially the Atlanta Campaign of 1864), rumors, and news of friends. Jorantha's letters discuss family life, the grocery business, reports of rumors, conditions in Memphis under Union occupation, and the family's removal to Canton, Miss.
Captain S. S. Semmes served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Henry C. Semple of Montgomery, Ala., an artillery officer in the Confederate Army, served during the Civil War in Alabama and with the Army of Tennessee. The collection contains carbon copies of typed transcriptions of letters written home to Alabama during the Civil War, military records, and other correspondence of Semple. Civil War letters discuss the hardships of military life, military orders and movements, and progress of the war.
Family correspondence, chiefly 1849-1888, of Emma Maria Service of Augusta, Ga., and her parents, John Hugh James Service and Martha Stackhouse Williford Service, and their children from previous marriages, including William S. Williford, commission merchant at Macon, Ga., and Martha Williford, teacher at Montpelier Institute near Macon and missionary, 1850-1874, in West Africa (at least partly in Liberia) under Episcopal Bishop John Payne, whom she married; and letters from members of the Stackhouse family of Hinds County, Miss. Correspondence concerns William Williford's business in Macon; Martha Williford's work as teacher and as missionary; life in Hinds County, especially during the Civil War; Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., where Samuel H. Stackhouse was a student, 1860-1861; family activities; and other matters.
Thomas Settle (1789-1857) of Rockingham County, N.C., was a lawyer, legislator, and judge of superior court in North Carolina.
Thomas Settle Jr. (1831-1888) of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871; chair of the Republican National Convention, 1872; and United States district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. Settle's son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), was a lawyer in Rockingham County and Guilford County, N.C.; state district solicitor, 1886-1893; and Republican United States representative, 1893-1897.
Rufus King Sewall wrote articles concerned chiefly with historical events in the state of Maine. Augustus Mitchell was a physician and natural scientist who was living in Portland, Me., in 1850. H. A. S. Dearborn, son of Henry Dearborn, was a soldier, state legislator, member of the United States House of Representatives 1831-1833, author, and horticulturalist, who practiced law in Salem, Mass., and Portland, Me.
Digby Gordon Seymour (1855-1927) was a railroad engineer who lived and worked in the southeastern United States. He was the father of Knoxville, Tenn., lawyer and businessman Charles Milne Seymour (1882-1958), who was the father of Tennessee medical doctor and historian Digby Gordon Seymour (1923- ).
Correspondence, sermons, writings, scrapbooks, digitized photographs, subject files, printed items, and interviews comprise the papers of Robert E. Seymour (b. 1925), a progressive, white pastor of Warrenton Baptist Church in Warrenton, N.C., Mars Hill Baptist Church in Mars Hill, N.C., and Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, N.C. The papers document his ministerial career and to some extent the Southern Baptist churches where he served from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Seymour's writings, sermons, and subject files reflect his support for racial integration during the 1960s and for other progressive causes and efforts during his long career, including Binkley Memorial Baptist Church's welcoming of homosexuals and his opposition to capital punishment. There are also interviews by Robert Seymour with Chapel Hill figures, including University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball coach Dean Smith, which aired in 2003 on The Special Hour with Robert Seymour on WCHL 1360, and an interview of Seymour by Jim Heavner.
James Shackelford was a planter of Abbeville District, S.C.
The collection of white civic leader and development officer for the University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Charles Milton Shaffer (1913-2004) of Greensboro, N.C., contains personal correspondence, files relating to his participation in the University of North Carolina alumni affairs and Chapel Hill civic organizations, and files relating to his service on committees of the Chapel of the Cross and of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The collection also contains bound typescripts of the opinions of Justice John Wallace Winborne, 1937-1962. Files on alumni activities pertain largely to reunions of the class of 1935. Also included are records relating to Shaffer's participation, after his retirement, in the University's Bicentennial fundraising campaign. Photographs include one of Shaffer as a football player at the University of North Carolina, one of an unidentified football player, and one of an unidentified woman.
Shaffer family of Terrebonne Parish, La., included William A. Shaffer, sugar planter; his sons Thomas J. (1843-1915) and John J. (fl. 1876-1906), sugar planters and Confederate veterans; and John Dalton Shaffer (fl. 1875-1919), sugar planter, lawyer, and state senator. The Shaffers' plantations, all in Terrebonne Parish, were Crescent Farm, Magnolia, Anna, and Ardoyne. The collection includes Plantation Journals, account books, scrapbooks, and financial and legal Papers, chiefly documenting Shaffer family sugar plantations. The journals contain brief daily records of agricultural activities, business transactions, and personal events, 1825-1846 and 1876-1918 (with occasional gaps). A diary of John Dalton Shaffer includes records of treatment of sick Italian workers in 1905. The scrapbooks provide some information on family members, particularly on John Dalton Shaffer's career as a state senator and Democratic Party leader, 1906-1918, and on Thomas J. and John J. Shaffer's involvement in Confederate veterans associations, 1905-1911. The financial and legal papers date chiefly from the 1830s to the 1850s and include bills of sale for land and slaves.
The United Society of Believers, also known as the Shakers, of South Union, Logan County, Ky., was established by missionaries from Ohio and Upper Kentucky who arrived in the Gaspar River area in 1807. They expanded in Logan County with the acquisition of lands and the early establishment of saw and grist mills, silk worm raising, and a brick kiln. Early members include John McComb, the Reverend John Rankin, Absolom Chisholm, and Samuel G. Whyte.
The Shakspere Club was organized during October 1886 by professors of the University of North Carolina Department of English, led by Thomas Hume, Professor of English Language and Literature. Hume served as president of the Club from 1886 until it disbanded upon his retirement in 1907. The initial purpose of the Shakspere Club was to stimulate and guide scholarly studies of Shakespeare and his work. However, the scope of the Club's activities expanded to include comparative studies of dramatic literature and English composition in general. Meetings, conducted as seminars, were held monthly and were devoted to the presentation of papers by members. The Club envisioned publication of its proceedings, but only the 1886-1887 Journal of the Shakspere Club appeared. Records of the Shakspere Club include executive committee minutes, Club meeting minutes, and the Journal of the Shakspere Club, 1886-1887.
Class notes and sketches, 1907-1909, kept by tuberculosis expert Arnold Shamaskin while he was a student at the University of North Carolina School of Basic Medical Science.
The William Shanks family and the William A. Moody family were related. Both were chiefly tobacco planters of Granville County, N.C., and Mecklenburg County, Va. The Royster family of Granville County was related to the Shanks and Moody families.
The collection of Josie Shapira, country and western music enthusiast and founder of a Sons of the Pioneers fan club, contains photographs of musicians. Most images are snapshots taken by Shapira. Some images include Shapira with performers. Musicians depicted in the photographs include Wes Buchanan, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Karl Farr, Hugh Farr, Shug Fisher, and Lloyd Perryman. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Two photographic albums created by members of the The Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C. Albums include images depicting white board members, founders, and others attending annual picnic and other events related to The Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill.
J. H. Sharp (fl. 1865) was a Confederate courier of the 13th Virginia Artillery.
The collection of white attorney, jurist, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996), documents Sharp's professional career and personal life through correspondence, subject files, speeches, and other material, chiefly 1920s-1990s. Subject files contain clippings, memoranda, and correspondence about judicial and personal matters. There are also speeches, chiefly on judicial topics, that Sharp delivered beginning in the 1950s; notebooks in which she defined legal terms and cited precedents; and memoranda, opinions and other materials related to cases she decided. Correspondence, speeches, and other materials document Sharp's 1974 campaign as Democratic Party candidate for the chief justiceship, and there are related letters from friends and associates after her election and her selection as one of twelve 1975 Time magazine Women of the Year. Some of the materials relate to William Haywood Bobbitt, whose retirement as chief justice made way for Sharp's election, and to professors, particularly Albert Coates, and students at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Topics include judicial reform and procedures, particularly relating to discipline of judges; women in the judiciary; women lawyers; women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment; and prisoners' rights. Much of the personal correspondence is with Sharp family members and friends. The Additions contain materials similar to those in the original deposit and include correspondence between Susie Sharp and her siblings discussing trials and family affairs; family photographs; professional photographs; scrapbooks compiled by Sharp and her mother, Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp; newspaper clippings, some of which pertain to the Klenner-Lynch murders; personal correspondence with family and friends, some of which is in Gregg shorthand; calendars, diaries, notebooks, and other volumes that record professional and private affairs; and papers of James Merritt Sharp that concern fundraising for the Near East College Association.
The Sharpe Funeral Home Inc. (also known as Sharpe Funeral Home and Cremations Inc.) is located in Burlington, N.C.
Eli Sharpe of Bellemont in Orange, later Alamance, County, N.C., planter and maker of whiskey, who, with his wife Sally, had at least two sons, Daniel and Milton H., both of whom served with the Confederate Army, and two daughters, Temperance and Laura. Upon Eli's death, his daughters, who were unmarried, contracted with Green Alexander Nicholson (1857-1949) to run the family farm.
John McKee Sharpe (fl. 1903-1941) and his ancestors, Amos Sharpe, Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe, Silas Alexander Sharpe, and John H. McKee were all from Iredell County, N.C.
Joshua Sharpe (fl. 1747-1750) of London was solicitor for the Hudson's Bay Company and his practice was largely in colonial American legal business.
Correspondence and other items of Lawrence A. Sharpe, professor of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chiefly relating to his interest in universal or international languages. Among other topics, Sharpe's correspondents discuss such interlinguistic experiments as Ido and Neo.
Leander Quincy Sharpe was a lawyer, of Statesville, Iredell County, N.C., and member of the North Carolina state legislature.
William Reese Sharpe practiced medicine in Fulton, Davie County, N.C., from about 1840 to 1896.
Luther W. Shatterley of Greensboro, N.C., entered military service on 27 September 1941. He was sent to the Canal Zone on 3 May 1942 and, on 25 July 1944, received orders to return to the United States. The diary, 2 January-30 July 1944, of Luther W. Shatterley describes his work as a military clerk in the Canal Zone during World War II and his leisure activities. Shatterley's diary mentions typing, filing, making out the payroll, typing the regimental newspapers, and other work. It also records that attending movies, swimming, and playing tennis were frequent leisure activities.
The collection is a microfilm copy of Amanda E. Shaw's autograph book containing mostly autographs and messages from Confederate soldiers and residents of Charlotte, N.C.
George Bernard Shaw was a playwright and critic; founding member of Fabian Society, 1884.
G.C. Shaw was pastor of Timothy Darling Presbyterian Church, Oxford, N.C., and founder and president of Mary Potter School, a secondary school for African Americans in Oxford.
Lauchlin Nordan Shaw, a third-generation farmer from Anderson Creek Township, Harnett County, N.C., taught himself how to play his father's fiddle when he was ten years old. Shaw traveled and recorded extensively, often with A. C. Overton, his musical partner for 50 years. He was repeatedly honored for his traditional fiddling style and promotion of old-time music. The collection includes sound recordings, many recorded by Lauchlin Shaw's wife, Mary Lily Shaw, at the Shaw residence; notes from 8-track and reel-to-reel tape boxes; and other documentation. Musicians include Apple Chill Cloggers, the Britt Brothers, Virgil Craven, Glenn Davis, Marvin Gaster, Tom Hearn, Wayne Livengood, Margaret Martin, Wayne Martin, Fred Olson, A. C. Overton, Evelyn Shaw, Malcolm Shaw, Robert Temple, and Wade Yates. Scattered throughout the recordings are Christmas carols that were recorded during family gatherings.
Ruth Faison Shaw was an artist, teacher, and art therapist who lived in North Carolina, New York, and Rome, finally settling in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was a proponent of using finger painting in education and therapy work.
W. N. Sheats was Florida's superintendent of public instruction, 1893-1905 and 1913-1922.
William Shelburn was active as a photographer in North Carolina circa 1856-1907. During that period, he frequently relocated his studio and gallery, which at various times were in Oxford, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Asbury, Greenville, Kinston, Durham, and Burlington.
The collection contains two diaries kept by Union solider Isaac O. Shelby while he served in the 25th Iowa Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and three carte des visites portraits of him. Diary entries describe his regiment's involvement in the siege of Vicksburg; the Battle of Chattanooga; the siege of Atlanta; the Battle of Bentonville, and the surrender at Bennett Place.
George F. Sheldon is a white surgeon, educator, and administrator who spent most of his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection documents his professional career and includes chronological files, alphabetical files, individual correspondent files, reports, clippings, biographical materials, photographs, licences, financial materials, calendars, articles, news releases, speeches, publications, and other items.
Microfilm of address by Major Sheldon, Confederate States of America, of Georgia, describing events of April 1865 during the last march of the Army of Northern Virginia, delivered at Savannah, Ga., 1901.
The undated open-reel audiotape contains traditional songs collected and recorded by Herbert Shellans in Mount Airy, N.C. Female and male vocalists including Shellans performed the songs, and some were sung with accompaniment of autoharp and guitar. Song titles include "Broken Engagement," "Oh Willy My Darlin Come Back," "Old 97," and "Froggy Went-a-Courtin." Shellans may have recorded these songs for his book Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains : 50 Traditional Songs as Sung by the People of the Blue Ridge Mountains Country. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Miscellaneous volumes from Shenandoah County, Va., including six account books of the Pine and Piola iron forges, 1804-1816, 1820-1826, and 1831; a general merchandise daybook, 1825-1828; and accounts of the Beckford Parish poor house, 1799-1838.
The Lilly, Cook, Blose, Luttrell, Bywaters, Perry, Corbin, Gawthrop, Whitescarver, Walden, Washington, Miltenberger, Breeding, and Hess families all resided in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The collection contains scattered family letters and business papers of various persons in Augusta, Page, and Rappahannock counties, Va. The collection includes letters, 1830s to 1880s, from natives who had migrated to Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky, business papers such as licenses, bonds, promissory notes, bills, and a shoemaker's ledger (218 pages) with records of purchases of leather and of shoes made for cash or barter. Correspondents that appears frequently include members of the Lilly, Cook, and Blose families; their letters briefly discuss crops, health, and other family matters.
Veteran F. Carlyle Shepard's collection contains his recollections of military service in Europe during World War I and World War II. Other materials are transcriptions of letters written home from overseas between January 1944 and May 1945 and letters to family members written between 1966 and 1972, the latter containing personal recollections about family members in North Carolina and the army. Genealogical information about the Shepard family is included.
James Edward Shepard was born in Raleigh, N.C., on 3 November 1875 and died in Durham, N.C., on 6 October 1947. In 1909, he founded and served as president of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race. In 1925, the School became the North Carolina College for Negroes (later North Carolina Central University), the first state-funded liberal arts college for African Americans in the United States.
Henry Elliott Shepherd of Fayetteville, N.C., was superintendent of schools in Baltimore, Md., in the late nineteenth century.
Microfilm copy of Louisa Cheairs McKenny Sheppard's A Confederate Girlhood, recollections of childhood, chiefly of 1860-1865, in Springfield, Mo., at the beginning of the Civil War and the subsequent war years spent in Yazoo County, Miss., in Arkansas, and in Texas. Included are vignettes of slaves, of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign, and of Confederate women's heroism.
The collection includes genealogical notes on the Fowke, Fant, and Pender families; a love letter from B. Morgan, Warrenton, Va., to Mollie G. Fant, Washington, D.C., 1855; a letter from United States Senator John S. Barbour (1826-1892) on the candidacy of Grover Cleveland, 1892; and newspaper clippings.
Ten letters, 19 August 1862-21 May 1863, from Fredric Sherman, a Massachusetts sailor serving on the U.S.S. Morse on the James River and in Hampton Roads, Va. The letters describe daily activities, military life, items he wants from home, the destruction of the Navy yard at Norfolk by fire, and other events.
John M. Sherrerd (1794-1871) of Warren County, N.J., was the father of Samuel Sherrerd, iron manufacurer and farmer in Rockbridge County, Va., and John B. Sherrerd, iron manufacturer and physician, in Botetourt County, Va. The collection contains personal letters to John M. Sherrerd from his sons describing the increasingly difficult financial situations in their ironworking businesses, the physical operation of their foundries, legal arrangements, and various family affairs.
MICROFILM ONLY. Guest register of Sherrill's Inn, formerly the main house at the Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Fairview, Buncombe County, N.C.; accounts, perhaps of Bedford Sherrill, owner of the inn; and biographical notes on some of the registrants. Also included are explanatory notes written by D. Hiden Ramsay of Asheville, N.C.
The Sherrod family resided in Franklin County, N.C., in the 19th century. Thomas Sherrod was a member of North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress, which met in Halifax on 4 April 1776, and he fought in the American Revolution, reaching the rank of colonel. He died in 1818, leaving Jordan R. Sherrod as one of the executors of his will. Jordan R. Sherrod's children included John, Henry, Lucian, Alphonzo, and Martha. John M. Sherrod and Henry H. Sherrod served in Company E, 15th Regiment North Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
The Shiloh (Grist) Mill, Edgecombe County, N.C., was owned by North Carolina Governor Henry Toole Clark
This collection contains manifests, bills of lading, certificates of unlading, letters, accounts, and other items pertaining to shipping between New England, South Atlantic ports, and the West Indies. Sales of slaves are mentioned in an accounting document regarding trips between New Bern, N.C., and Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1792. Also included is a book of accounts of Killey Eldredge (fl. 1793-1798), Massachusetts ship captain, with owners of two ships, kept during a voyage from Massachusetts to Charleston, S.C., 1793-1794, and on a voyage to England, Ireland, and France, 1796-1798.
Don Shoemaker (1912-1998), journalist and civic leader, received his A.B. in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1934. The collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials chiefly documenting his career as a journalist and his work with the Southern Education Report Service (SERS), a news service dedicated to impartial and nationwide reporting on the progress of school desegregation. Materials, 1937-1955, from his tenure in Asheville, N.C., include personal and professional correspondence relating to his work at the Asheville Times and the Asheville Citizen and with the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association; writings; and clippings. Materials, 1954-1959, from his tenure in Nashville, Tenn., include correspondence, speeches and articles, clippings, and other items from Shoemaker's tenure, 1955-1958, as executive director of SERS. Materials, 1958-1998, include correspondence, writings, and clippings relating to Shoemaker's work as editor of the Miami Herald, as well as to his involvement in many civic and political concerns of Miami, Fla., and the Dade County area. Also included are a few photographs. The addition of October 2000 contains correspondence with, writings of, photographs of, and other material relating to poet Carl Sandburg, who was a neighbor and friend in western North Carolina.
Michael Shoffner was a farmer and grist miller in southern Alamance County, N.C.
Charles Wilkins Short of Hayfield (near Louisville), Ky., was a physician, noted botanist, professor of medicine at Transylvania University and the Medical College of Louisville.
Emily London Short was born Emily London Harriss in 1923, in Wilmington, N.C. She was married to Dugald Stewart III in 1946, in Laurinburg, N.C. Short studied the family histories of her mother Margaret Cronly Harriss's family (the Cronly family), her grandmother Eliza London Cronly's family (the London family), and her maternal great-grandparents' families (the Jones family).
Nathan Shotwell was a Presbyterian minister who held pulpits in antebellum Virginia and North Carolina and in Tennessee after the Civil War. His son, Randolph Abbott Shotwell (1844-1885) was a Confederate officer, North Carolina editor, and politician prominent on the conservative side of Reconstruction.
Jane Fennell, also referred to as Jean, of Wilmington, N.C., and Edward Shuford were married in 1918, following Edward's graduation from Kansas City Veterinary School. Shortly after, Edward was stationed in France with the Army in World War I, returning in April of 1919. In 1920, Edward and Jane had their first child, Mary McKay, and in 1925 Jane died. Edward sent Mary McKay to be raised by Jane's sister Nell in Virginia and continued his work as a veterinarian in Asheville, N.C.
Samuel A. Shumway was 34 years old and working at a forge in Fiskdale, Mass., when he was mustered into Company A of the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment on 31 August 1864. He was stationed with his unit on garrison duty around New Bern, N.C., and Portsmouth, Va., for most of his service. He was discharged at New Bern on 26 June 1865 and returned to the Sturbridge, Mass., area. The diary of Samuel A. Shumway, begun in January 1865 and continuing into 1866 when he had returned to the Sturbridge, Mass., area, contains descriptions of camp life with the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment during the Civil War, chiefly around New Bern, N.C., and Portsmouth, Va. The diary also mentions the fall of Richmond, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and other events. There are several entries about attempts to raise the Confederate ram Albermarle, which had been sunk near Plymouth, N.C., and a small amount of information about Shumway's activities in the year following his discharge.
Francis Rawn Shunk (1788-1848) was a lawyer and governor of Pennsylvania. The collection includes letters, 1826-1833, 1842-1848, concerning politics and family affairs, written by Shunk to his family and friends, primarily to his wife, Jane Findley Shunk, and to Captain John C. McAllister at Fort Hunter near Harrisburg, Pa. A few family items from after Shunk's death are also included.
Hampton Shuping (d. 1989), a native and lifelong resident of Greensboro, N.C., was graduated from the University of North Carolina with a B.S. in Commerce in 1947 and went to work for J. P. Stevens & Co. He became a vice-president of J. P. Stevens in 1967. Shuping served as a director of the North Carolina Textile Manufacturers Association. Shuping was a member of the West Market Street United Methodist Church. He was married and had five children.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary kept by Shurley, teacher and farmer, when he was teaching at Furman Institution near Winnsboro in Fairfield District, S.C., 1847- 1848, and when he was living near Ebenezerville in York District, 1862. Topics discussed include crops, weather, church, personal thoughts and feelings, and local and personal affairs. Civil War news and a tableau put on by local women to benefit soldiers are also mentioned.
John Raymond Shute (born 1904) was a Monroe, N.C., businessman, state legislator, and active member of many masonic orders. The collection includes correspondence, 1930-1939, clippings, articles, and other papers of Shute relating to his interest in the history and lore of masonry. The papers include copies of minutes, constitutions, letters, and other papers, 1765-1927, relating to masons in North Carolina; and Shute's correspondence concerning the American edition of Gould's History of Freemasonry, and his own membership in various masonic groups.
The North Carolina chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was established at the University of North Carolina in 1857. Collection consists of photographic prints depicting members of the Sigma Epsilon fraternity. Included in the collection are images of Edward Kidder Graham (class of 1898) and John Motley Morehead III (class of 1891).
The North Carolina Xi chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was established at the University of North Carolina in 1857. It was the third chapter of the fraternity, which was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856.
Sigma Alpha Iota is an international music fraternity for women founded in 1903 at the University of Michigan School of Music. The Iota Tau chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota was chartered on April 29, 1946 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1955, the chapter of went inactive. At the time, only music majors were admitted to the fraternity, and because few women entered UNC as first-years or sophomores at that time (many instead transferring in from women's colleges as juniors), there weren't many students eligible to pledge the organization. The chapter reactivated on April 7, 1977 with eleven members and has remained active since. Today, the organization is open to any woman student with an interest in music who has taken at least one music class. The chapter supports the Music Department, provides receptions for recitals and concerts, hosts formals, semi-formals, and other events, funds a Music Department scholarship, and promotes community among students involved in music at the University. These records include meeting minutes, flyers, programs, yearbooks, member manuals, and photographs and scrapbooks documenting the chapter's activities.
The collection of Jewish American folklorist and longtime editor of the folk music magazine Sing Out! Irwin Silber (1925-2010) contains correspondence, writings, subject files, articles, newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, sheet music, lyric sheets, song books, bibliographies, photographs, a video recording, and newsletters, zines, pamphlets, and other publications chiefly related to American folk music and workers' rights. The materials document Silber's leading role in the folk revival of the mid-twentieth-century, publication of topical American folksongs and protest songs, leftist political activism and writings, anti-war stances and protests particularly during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, and Silber's avid support for workers and labor unions, civil rights of African Americans, and women's rights. Major correspondents include Pete Seeger, Archie Green, Ronald Cohen, Raeburn Flerlage, and Silber's wife, folk singer Barbara Dane. Of interest are materials related to the House Committee on Un-American Activities including Silber's subpoenas to appear before it in the 1950s, a notebook he kept during a trip he took to Vietnam in 1974, and professional correspondence and papers related to the American Folksay Group, People's Songs, People's Artists, Sing Out!, and the record label Paredon Records that he and Dane started.
Brief notes of ages, years of birth, values assigned to, and other information about people enslaved by the white Siler family of Chatham County, N.C.
MICROFILM ONLY. Members of the Siler family are chiefly descendants of Weimar Siler (1755-1831), who was born in Pennsylvania, fought in the Revolutionary War, married Margaret Rafferty of Virginia in 1783, and moved to Pendleton, S.C., around 1787, Buncombe County, N.C., around 1805, and settled in Macon County, N.C. in 1827. Minutes of Siler family meetings held in Macon County, N.C., 1853-1953. Annual entries document the meeting place, number of attendees, and order of business. There are also records of deaths, births, marriages, and accomplishments of family members.
MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections by Siler, written about 1832; a few letters, 1830- 1832, concerning Methodist Church matters and Siler family data; a biographical sketch of Jesse Weimar Siler; and tributes to Jesse Weimar Siler in letters and newspaper notices. The recollections concern Jesse R. Siler's clerking for Erwin Smith and Co., Asheville, N.C., beginning in 1814, his marriage in 1818 to Harriette Dorothy Patton, his settling in Franklin, Marion County, N.C., in 1821, and his joining the Methodist Church in 1829 and building a church shortly thereafter.
Letters, 1810-1828, to Enoch Silsby, cotton factor of Boston, Mass., from cotton dealers chiefly in Liverpool, England, but also in Marseilles, France; New York; Germany; and other places where Silsby sold cotton. Letters relate to Silsby's business activities, buying cotton in Savannah and New Orleans, shipping it on his brig to Europe, and bringing back hay, mackeral, and other products. Included are printed prices current from Liverpool and other markets and a few bills for repairs to Silsby's brig.
MICROFILM ONLY. Minutes of the annual meetings of Silver Creek Primitive Baptist Association, embracing churches in Burke, Caldwell, and surrounding counties in North Carolina. Also included are the association's constitution, rules of decorum, articles of faith, and other records.
Accounts for equipment, supplies, and hiring slave laborers by a New York company mining silver, copper, lead, and iron in Davidson County, N.C., 1859-1862. The ledger also includes some personal accounts, 1893.
The collection of white pianist and publisher Robert Silverman contains sound recordings of piano music on open-reel audio tape, a 1987 interview of Silverman by folklorist Amy Davis on audio cassette tape with accompanying notes made by Davis, a 1984/1985 issue of Silverman's publication, and black-and-white photographs taken in North Carolina and dated 1947. Music recordings include Silverman's composition for the Joffrey Ballet's 1948. In the interview, Silverman discusses a 1947 trip to the South including North Carolina and Tennessee and the tobacco worker strike in Winston-Salem, N.C., that year, a folk festival in Asheville, N.C., poverty in the mountains, Tennessee Valley Authority dams, and sharecroppers in Alabama. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. The collection includes Simkins's research notes for his biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina political leader; and manuscripts (typescripts with holograph corrections) of History of the Seaboard South (unpublished) by Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper (born 1898), with related correspondence.
Furnifold M. Simmons (1854-1940) was United States senator from North Carolina from 1900 to 1930. The collection includes campaign materials from the 1930 North Carolina election campaign for United States Senate in which Furnifold M. Simmons was opposed by Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946), and a carbon copy of an appeal, 23 March 1933, from the United Dry Forces to the General Assembly of North Carolina not to weaken the state's prohibition laws.
Soldier and educator of Providence, R.I.
R.N. Simms was a lawyer of Raleigh, N.C., and president of the Raleigh Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1941-1942.
The collection contains an invitation, 14 September 1842, to William Gilmore Simms to deliver a lecture before the Tuscaloosa Lyceum during his visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala., the ensuing winter, signed by A. B. Meek, Robert T. Clyde, and D. H. Robinson; and a letter, 2 April 1845, from Simms to Charles S. Palmer, c/o Wiley and Putnam, New York, in regard to two autograph letters of Francis Marion (1732-1795) in Simms's possession.
James Simons (1813-1879) of Charleston, S.C., was a lawyer, legislator, and militia general. His son, James Simons Jr. (1839-1919), was a student in Leipzig, Germany; a Confederate officer; a state legislator; a lawyer; and was active in the Society of the Cincinnati as president of the state society in 1898 and vice president general of the national organization in 1902.
The Simpson family of Tallassee, Tallapoosa County, Ala., included Lieutenant James M. Simpson, 13th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, who served in Virginia.
Avington Wayne Simpson (b. 1834) was a soldier from June 1861 until May 1865. He began with the Missouri State Guard and then served with the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army. In 1863, Simpson was sent west of the Mississippi as a recruiting officer. Simpson was captured in April 1865 by the Union army, along with the entire garrison at Spanish Fort, Ala. He was paroled on 9 May 1865 in Meridian, Miss. The collection includes a manuscript diary, about 150 pages, half-filled with entries dated 12 February 1862-9 August 1865, documenting Avington Wayne Simpson's service during the Civil War with the Missouri State Guard and the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment. The diary also includes two pages of genealogy, dated 17 January 1880, and an undated autograph from a friend. Also included are photocopies of a typed transcription of the diary; two certificates of war service; and 20 pages of Simpson's other service records, including muster roll reports, personal and company requisition and expense reports, and his signed parole at the end of the war. Entries in the diary are short and vivid, describing the campaigns in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama in detail, particularly the hardships of forced marches, retreats, frequent skirmishing and constant picket duty, punctuated by death in battle or, quite often, death from sickness. Descriptions of military life mention soldiers' concerns for proper food, better camp conditions, and the cutting of communication and supply lines. Occasional amusements, including socializing with local ladies, are also described.
Bland Simpson was born in 1948 and grew up in Elizabeth City and Chapel Hill, N.C. He is a lecturer in creative writing in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beginning in 1987, he served as the pianist for the Red Clay Ramblers, a critically acclaimed North Carolina-based music group. Simpson collaborated on several theatrical presentations and authored several books. The collection consists of materials chiefly relating to Simpson's writings. An edited manuscript of The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir (UNC Press, 1990) is included along with materials gathered in researching the book, which discusses the Great Dismal Swamp that stretches from Elizabeth City, N.C., across the Virginia border nearly to Portsmouth, Va. The author's galleys and a manuscript copy of Simpson's novel about country music, Heart of the Country (Seaview/Putnam, 1983), are included. The collection also contains an early draft from 1977, an undated draft, and page proofs of Simpson's non-fiction novel The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey (UNC Press, 1993), an Elizabeth City, N.C., legend. There are also promotional materials from the musical King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running.
George W. Simpson served in Company A of the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment for over four years during the Civil War.
Josiah Simpson, born in the 1780s, had a short but successful career in law. In 1812, President Madison appointed him as United States judge for the Mississippi Territory. He served as an influential delegate to the Mississippi state Constitutional Convention in 1817, but died soon afterwards.
Microfilmed letter, 20 August 1878, to Kate Simpson (later Mrs. Attila F. Mallory) from her mother Mrs. Susan Alexander Simpson of Pensacola, Fla., describing social activities among young people and the panic resulting from an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans.
Leah Reemar Simpson and Rebecca Calhoun Simpson were sisters and residents of Pensacola, Fla.
William Dunlap Simpson, lawyer of Laurens, S.C., served during the Civil War with the 14th S. C. Volunteers and in the Confederate Congress. In 1876, he was S.C. lieutenant governor, and, in 1878, was acting governor until he became chief justice of the state Supreme Court in 1880. He marrried Jane E. Young, daughter of Henry Clinton Young (b. 1794), lawyer of Laurens, and Lucy Melissa Young (1802-1874). William and Jane's children included William Dunlap, Jr., and Ernest, both lawyers, and John W., banker of Spartanburg, S.C., Greensboro, N.C., and Tennessee. John W. Simpson married Mabel Donald Fleming in 1895.
Charles Barrington Simrall (1843-1901) of Covington, Ky., was a lawyer for the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company and was active in Democratic politics. Family correspondence, chiefly from Simrall to his wife, Isabella Downing Price Simrall (fl. 1863-1901). The bulk of the collection consists of his letters home on family, legal, and political subjects while he was traveling to Frankfort, Ky., New York City, Washington, D.C., and many other places on railroad business; and of letters received from Simrall, Downing, Price, and Corre relations who moved away from Kentucky and engaged in varied activities, including attendance at Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, Ky., 1854-1858, and at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1890-1893. Civil War correspondence reflects the life and opinions of Confederate sympathizers in Kentucky and includes letters from Simrall while he was imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio, and from Canada and Germany after his release. Also included is correspondence of earlier members of the family in the 1850s, later members in the 20th century, and letters, 1876-1910, from a relative concerning his citrus farm and resort hotel at Ormond, Volusia County, Fla.
Francis E. Moody Sims (circa 1845-circa 1912) of Lenoir, N.C., and, later, Charlotte, N.C., attended Davenport Female College in Lenoir, graduating in 1866. She was supported at the college by her paternal uncle, Marcus D. L. Moody and later married James Monroe Sims.
The collection is a photostatic copy (location of original unknown) of Reports of the Virginia and Kentucky R. R. Co's Survey &C, marked Confidential, with a diagram of the line from the Dan River to Big Walker Mountain, submitted by engineers including A. V. Sims.
The collection contains genealogical papers, 1916-1919, of Annie Noble Sims of Savannah, Ga., including data on the Donehoo, Sims, Scott, Coleman, Godwin, McGehee, and many other related families. Also included are copies of early records and deeds, 1677-1832, from Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Contains the personal collection of Barbara Barnes Sims, a white woman, from the years she worked in public relations at Sun Records (1957-1960), including correspondence, promotional photographs, and other publicity materials. These materials offer the perspective of a young woman working in the recording industry for a rising independent record label that would transform popular music and introduce artists including Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley, among others. Sims later became a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU), where she taught English for 36 years and authored the book The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records (LSU Press, 2014).
Papers of white surgeon and gynecologist J. Marion Sims (1813-1883) include correspondence, clippings, certificates, and other items pertaining to his life and medical career. In letters of 1835-1836, Sims wrote from Mount Meigs, Ala., to his fiancée Eliza Theresa Jones (1816-1890) in South Carolina, describing the establishment of his medical practice in a new community. Sims also discussed the sale of enslaved persons, but the papers do not include any documentation of the experimental gynecological and cancer surgeries he conducted on enslaved women. In letters of 1854-1856, Sims sought support for a woman's hospital in New York City. Also included are photographs of Sims and several of his family members. Scattered items, 1861-1876, relate to his career in New York City and in France, and those of 1883-1884 are letters of condolence and memorial resolutions on his death.
Joseph Starke Sims and his wife resided in Union County, S.C. The collection includes correspondence between Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891), historical manuscript collector of Wisconsin, and Joseph Starke Sims and his wife about papers of Mrs. Sims's great-uncle, Revolutionary officer William Henderson (1748-1788).
The collection is a manuscript mathematics exercise book of R. S. Sims of Brunswick County, Va.
Papers include instructions, 1857, to an overseer in Alabama concerning the management of slaves and a fragment of minutes of the first meeting of the Tombigbee Rangers, C.S.A., of which William Henry Sims of Mississippi was 1st sergeant. The diary was kept by William Henry Sims during his imprisonment in a Union Army hospital and military prisons in Tennessee and Kentucky. There are almost daily entries concerning prison conditions, groups interned there, soldier attitudes at the war's end, arrangements for taking loyalty oaths, and so forth. In addition to the diary, there are a few poems, addresses, and miscellaneous notes.
Peter J. Sinclair (b. 1837) was a Confederate officer who fought with the 5th North Carolina Infantry.
The Sing Out! Collection documents the organization's administrative functions and the publication of its magazine about traditional and contemporary folk music. The photographic materials consist of images depicting folk musicians, groups, and related subjects, chiefly in the United States. There are also administrative records documenting licenses, financials, permissions, promotions, fundraising, human resources, the advisory board, book proposals, and the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. Of particular note are extensive collections of folk-related newsletters and serials, folk festival programs, and artist subject files. Also included are some pre-publication materials for Sing Out! titles; a small group of promotional materials, songs, and songbooks of music therapist, teacher, and folksinger, Jean Murai; and audio and video recordings of traditional and contemporary folk music compiled by Sing Out! staff.
The Singletons were cotton planters living near Sumter, S.C. Prominent family members include Richard Singleton (1776-1852), John Singleton (1754-1820), and Matthew R. Singleton (1817-1854).
Anne Hinman Broun married Richard Richardson Singleton (1840-1900) in 1868.
The Susan Sink Collection on Carteret County Folklore consists of open reel audio recordings of a lecture on Carteret County, N.C. history and folklore by Eugene Pond, mayor of Beaufort, N.C. The lecture, titled "Carteret County Folklore: Fact and Fiction", features stories and songs pertaining to American Indian, colonial, and later settlements in Carteret County, N.C., as well as tales and songs about the county's maritime history. The collection also includes a tape log that contains notes on the stories and songs performed by Eugene Pond on the recordings.
J. Carlyle Sitterson (1911-1995) was born in Kinston, N.C. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1931 and began teaching history at UNC in 1935 while completing his Ph. D. In 1955, Sitterson became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and, in 1965, he was appointed vice-chancellor. Serving as chancellor from 1966 to 1971, he steered the University through major desegregation efforts, anti- Vietnamese War protests, and general campus unrest while reorganizing the administration to reflect the needs of a modern university. Through all of his administrative work, Sitterson continued to teach history, moving from his specialty in United States economic history to 20th-century United States history; he retired as William Rand Kenan Professor of History in 1981. Sitterson married Nancy Howard in 1944; the couple had three children: Joseph Carlyle, Jr.; Mary Howard, who married Eric Calhoun; and Curtis Howard. Sitterson died 19 May 1995.
Jane Sivley (fl. 1862-1867) of Raymond, Miss., was educated in Marion, Ala. The collection includes letters received by Sivley while she was in school in Marion, Ala., from her mother, Eliza Hodges Burleson Sivley of Raymond, Miss., concerning family matters, the Civil War, and how Jane should behave; and from her brother and cousins in the Confederate Army, from Vicksburg and other locations in Mississippi and with the 45th Mississippi Infantry; and from other cousins and friends at home during the Civil War, concerning social life, romance, and daily activities.
Sybil Austin Skakle is a Hatteras, N.C., native, writer, poet, and an early woman graduate of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy (1949). The collection contains Sybil Austin Skakle's correspondence from the 1960s to the 2000s, documenting her involvement with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus institutions, the Republican Party, many Christian initiatives, and opinions as expressed in letters to the editor. The collection also includes her daily writings from 1980 to 2013 and a few letters received during World War II.
James M. Skelton (died 1863) of Cass County, Tex., served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The collection includes letters to Emily Skelton of Randolph County, Ga.: nine from her brother James M. Skelton, chiefly while he was a soldier in the 15th Texas Cavalry of the Confederate army in Tennessee and Mississippi; two from her brother A. H. Skelton, 2nd Texas Regiment; and one, a notification of James's death. The letters deal chiefly with relatives and friends, rumors and comments about military events, the trip with troops from Texas to Tennessee in 1862, and reactions to conscript regulations and exemptions. There are comments on the Vicksburg Campaign, but no first-hand descriptions of military action.
The Skinner Family, including Maria Lowther Skinner (1786-1824) and Joseph Blount Skinner (1781-1851) and their children, Tristrim Lowther Skinner (1820-1862) and Penelope Skinner Warren (1818-1841), owned plantations and enslaved people in Bertie, Perquimans, and Chowan counties. The collection is chiefly correspondence that documents a wealthy white family's experiences. Women wrote about their education and reading, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and child care, household and social activities, and political opinions, especially about the War of 1812. Of note are letters documenting the relationship of brother and sister, Tristrim Skinner and Penelope Skinner Warren, and Penelope's 1840 pregnancy. Other letters describe trips to spas in North Carolina and elsewhere. Letters written by school-aged children show differences between male and female education. Letters of several male family members document their experiences at the College of William and Mary and at the University of North Carolina, 1813-1814. Family correspondence also includes scattered references to some of the enslaved people working in the house, including "Annie," "Harriet," "Aunt Eliza," and "Emmaline," and of the challenges of managing an enslaved labor force. Vital statistics about the people they enslaved and other evaluative information about their labor, as well as other aspects of plantation management at Plantation House, Mansion House, and Yeopim, such as work performed, crops, and agricultural reform, can also be found in correspondence, journals, lists of enslaved people, and other papers. Other plantations and residences mentioned include Rosewell, Belgrade, River Farm, and Eden House. Other subjects include North Carolina and Whig Party politics; life in the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.; life on the Confederate homefront; and social conditions in Edenton and Hillsborough, N.C., and Williamsburg and Norfolk, Va.
Richard Skinner (1842-1864) was a United States Army officer from Illinois. The collection includes Civil War letters from Skinner, written from various places in the South and Midwest, to his Yale University classmate William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927), later a noted mathematician. Letters include frank personal reactions to his experiences and surroundings, especially in Davenport, Iowa, in late 1863.
Thomas G. Skinner of Hertford, N.C., was a state legislator, United States Congressman, and lieutenant in the Confederate army.
The Patrick and Cathy Sky Collection consists of a 1991 interview with Tommy Thompson conducted by musician, Cathy Sky, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Thompson was a founding member of both the Hollow Rock String Band and the Red Clay Ramblers, as well as a playwright, composer, and actor. Cathy Sky conducted the interview with Thompson for an article in the Raleigh-based Spectator Magazine. In the interview Tommy Thompson discusses the Red Clay Ramblers, his early dramas and musicals, and playwright Sam Shepard.
Slack family of Iberville Parish, La., included Eliphalet Slack (1778-1843), who moved to Louisiana from Weston, Mass., in 1829-1830, and Henry Richmond Slack (1835-1890), member of the Yale College class of 1855, sugar planter, and Confederate officer. The chief agricultural pursuit of the Slack family in Louisiana changed from cotton growing to sugar growing around 1834.
John Woodville (died after 1827) was an Episcopal minister of Culpeper, Va. The collection includes correspondence of Woodville and a few other related items, collected and transcribed by William Samuel Slack (1869-1944). Twelve items are letters from John Dunn (1762-1827), minister in Loudoun County, Va., to Woodville, about Episcopal church matters, particularly in Virginia; most other items are scattered family letters.
Thomas Bog Slade (1800-1882) of Martin County, N.C., was a Baptist minister, professor, and president of several women's schools and colleges in Clinton, Penfield, and Columbus, Ga. The collection is typed copies of Slade's brief autobiography written circa 1846, a diary of a two-month trip to New England and upstate New York observing women's education in 1837, and two related items.
MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence of Slagle, a tanner from Macon County, N.C., relating to blacksmithing by relatives in Lincoln County, N.C., and El Dorado County, Calif.; to his experiences in 1854 in Baltimore where he went to learn more about leather finishing processes; and to David W. Siler, who apparently was Slagle's employer.
The collection includes scattered bills, receipts, and accounts for purchases, schooling, blacksmith work, and other business of Solomon Slatter, Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C.; and one family letter from Slatter, 1848.
Genealogical materials collected by Mae McMichael and her mother, Ida Abbie Slaughter McMichael Pew, primarily concerning the Slaughter family of Virginia, culled from census Records, county Records, books, genealogical sources, and correspondence. There is also some material on a number of related families listed below.
The collection is five pages from a medical manual entitled A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery containing Practical Instructions for the Management of Women during Pregnancy, in Labour, and in Child-bed, by Samuel Bard, 1817. Records of slave births and deaths from 1807 to 1861 are written in the margins. The pages appear to be from a volume belonging to A.C. Philips. No location is indicated.
Manuscript volume, circa 1854, containing essays and dialogue for a Biblical defense of slavery and criticism of abolitionists. The contents are possibly speech notes or a college student's lecture notes. Source and background of this item are unknown.
Notes regarding legal cases involving slaves in New York City, 1799-1818; bills of sale for slaves, Stokes County, N.C., 1801, and Wake County, N.C., 1818; a list of slaves and values, no place indicated, undated; and a slave pass (typed transcription), Darlington, S.C., undated.
The Lawrence M. Slifkin Collection of Letters, 1874-1875, consist of letters from Bristol, Tenn., seeking employment in Abingdon and Emory, Va., and from Abingdon reporting on the Stephenson family and news of a violent fight that took place between two men after a card game.
John A. Sloan served for the Confederacy as a captain in Company B, 27th North Carolina Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.
Joseph C. Sloane was chair of the art departments at Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr College before serving as chair of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1974, and director of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1958-1978.
The collection contains dubs on open-reel audiotape of country, old time, and gospel music from the 78 rpm record collection of Frank B. Sloop, Jr., a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970s. Sloop inherited the record collection from his uncle, Jasper A. Sloop of Landis, N.C. Recording artists represented on the dubs include the Carter Family, John Lee Williamson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lester McFarland, Robert A. Gardner, the Johnson Brothers, Rev. A.W. Nix, and Rev. S.J. Worell. Field notes accompanying the recordings list the artists and songs. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Dr. Mary Martin Sloop moved to Avery County, N.C., in 1911 with her husband and spent the rest of her life building up the Crossnore School, a home and school for mountain children.
John H. Small (1858-1946) of Washington, N.C., was a United States representative, 1899-1921, from North Carolina's First District, and Washington, D.C., attorney, 1921-1931. The collection is primarily congressional correspondence of Small, with some business and personal material. Correspondence concerns state and national Democratic politics, interests of constituents in northeastern North Carolina, major issues and events of the time, and local affairs of Beaufort County, N.C., in which Small was interested, particularly the public schools. Small's main legislative interest was water transportation. He was active in promoting river and harbor legislation, particularly the east coast inland waterway. Also included are lecture notes while he was at Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C., in 1874; a brief diary, 1879; and directors' and stockholders' minutes and financial reports, 1888-1910 and 1917-1925, of Branning Manufacturing Company, Chowan County, N.C., which was engaged in lumbering and the manufacture of shingles and staves.
The collection of African American historian Arwin D. Smallwood (1965-) contains images from his research related to "Indian Woods," an area in Bertie County, N.C., that was the site of the first reservation for Indigenous people in North America. Smallwood, who grew up in Bertie County, took many of the images in the 1990s and 2000s while conducting site visits as part of his research on the northern Tuscarora people, who were relocated to the area by white colonizers during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The collection consists of images taken in Indian Woods, N.C., and numerous copy images depicting maps, documents, artifacts, and other resources collected by Smallwood while doing research on Indian Woods, N.C. Also included are images that appear to be from a 1990s era gathering of members of the Tuscarora Indian Nation, in N.Y., and copy images depicting photographs of Smallwood's extended family members.
Bart Fearing Smallwood was an African-American community organizer in the Windsor and Indian Woods communities of Bertie County, N.C., in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This collection documents Smallwood's personal and family life and his organizing work in Bertie County, including materials relating to African-American families, African-American education, and involvement in community activities and civic organizations. The collection also contains items relating to Bart Smallwood's children, especially about their education, including Angelia Smallwood's attendance at East Carolina University and Anthony Smallwood's courses at North Carolina A & T State University. Materials relating to Smallwood's son Arwin include his dissertation and research materials on Indian Woods, N.C.
The collection of Charles M. Smallwood (1920-1996) contains scrapbooks, photographs, publications, research notebooks with dance notation, organizational records, and scattered correspondence related to his research and writings on international folk dancing. Scrapbooks hold a variety of materials including newspaper and magazine clippings, picture post cards, photographs, flyers, newsletters, and programs for dance performances and folk festivals such as Folkmoot USA in western North Carolina. Images in post cards and photographs depict folk dancing and traditional costumes and clothing. Publications include books, magazines, journals, and directories related to folk traditions, particularly dancing. Descriptive notes and dance notation including figures and diagrams comprise the research notebooks documenting a variety of specific folk dances from all over the world. Organizational records include by-laws and financial documents for the National Folk Organization of the United States of America. Scattered correspondence includes letters to Smallwood and his wife Judith R. Smallwood from Vytautas Finadar Beliajus, Lithuanian folk dancer and founder of Viltis: A Magazine of Folklore and Folkdance. Dance traditions represented in the collection span the globe and include Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Turkish, German, Russian, Jewish and Israeli, Maori, Kenyan, Indonesian, and Native American folk dancing. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Charles Smallwood of Woodville, Bertie County, N.C., was a planter and physician.
MICROFILM ONLY. Physician and planter. Diary entries on family and farm matters, local society, religion, and politics in Woodville, Bertie County, N.C. Also included are a plantation journal for 1854 and physician's accounts for 1864-1865.
Aldert Smedes (1810-1877) was an Episcopal clergyman in New York City and rector at St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C., 1842-1877. He graduated from General Theological Seminary and was ordained a deacon in 1832. He served as an assistant to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Lyell of Christ Church, N.Y. from 1832 to 1835, and was ordained a priest in 1834. He married Dr. Lyell's daughter, Sarah Pierce, in 1833. From 1835 to 1838 he served as rector of St. George's Church in Schenectady, N.Y. He was recruited in 1842 by Bishop Levi Silliman Ives of North Carolina to direct St. Mary's School in Raleigh. He served as rector of St. Mary's from May 1842 until his death in 1877, when he was succeeded as rector by his son, Bennett Smedes (1837-1899).
Susan Dabney Smedes (1840-1913) was a Mississippi planter's daughter, author, and teacher and missionary in the West. The collection includes copies of papers of or about Smedes and microfilm of a manuscript recipe and household hint book, 1860. Included are Smedes's diary and memoranda, 1888-1889, at Helena, Mont., about life in the household of her sister and brother-in-law, with whom she lived; letters she wrote from England, 1908; and an account of her life written in 1930.
James Smetham (1821-1899) was an English artist, engraver, essayist, and poet associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, and the pre-Raphaelite movement.
The Smith family included Nicholas Smith, who settled in the Scotland Neck section of North Carolina about 1720. Related families include Barrow, Gordon, Whitaker, Marks, Shaw, Battle, Bourne, Schuber, Norfleet, Clark, Hawkins, Hall, Saunders, Nichols, Shields, and others.
The collection contains a genealogical sketch titled Notes of the Genealogy of One Smith Family, 1944, by Edward D. Smith of Atlanta, Ga., including charts, copies of letters and documents, biographical sketches, and photographs concerning North Carolina and Alabama descendants of Thomas Smith of Essex, England, and more particularly of his grandson Richard.
The collection includes scattered personal correspondence and business papers of various persons related to the Smith family and the Sondley family. Earlier papers are chiefly deeds and non-political correspondence pertaining to William Smith (1751-1837), South Carolina state legislator and United States congressman. Papers after 1840 are chiefly scattered business papers and correspondence about family matters of the Sondley family of Newberry District, S.C., including about fifteen letters, 1861-1864, from Christopher Sondley, with a South Carolina regiment at various camps in Virginia to various members of his family about camp life, his views on the war, and other matters.
The Smith and Andrew Family Papers document several members of the two white families from Rowland, Robeson County, N.C., Salem, Va., and other North Carolina and Virginia locations. The collection consists of correspondence and other papers, late 1800s-1930s, that describe daily life concerns, including health problems as lived in the 1910s and 1920s, and work as a Methodist minister and and as a physician. Notable topics include the family's first car, travel to the Chicago World's Fair and to Cuba, World War I, courtship, and a honeymoon in New York City. Other papers include sermons, religious writings, pastor books, Jefferson Medical College and University of North Carolina school materials, personal financial materials, business records for Nalwar Printing, and printed materials for the arts, gardening, and other subjects.
The Smith and Watkins Store in Norwood, N.C., was founded by William Henry Watkins and presumably Charles E. Smith. The general store operated at least from 1865 to 1866. Watkins was a merchant and manufacturer in Stanly, Montgomery, and Randolph counties, N.C., from the 1860s to 1920. He went into business with Smith after serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In 1876, Watkins was elected sheriff of Montgomery County and served two terms as a North Carolina state senator. Watkins was president of the Bank of Ramseur, N.C., and served as secretary, treasurer, and general manager of Columbia Manufacturing Company. Watkins married Louisa Eunice Smitherman, 17 March 1868.
Archibald Aaron Tyson Smith was a lawyer who practiced in the Courts of Equity and Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County, Robeson County, Bladen County, and Columbus County, N.C., chiefly 1830s through 1850s.
MICROFILM ONLY. Manuscripts, pamphlets, articles and clippings, and other material relating to Benjamin Bosworth Smith, first Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. These papers were collected on microfilm, presumably in the early 1950s, by Eugene H. Thompson Junior. Items from the Archives of the Episcopal Church include letters from Smith and other Kentucky bishops, letters concerning Episcopal affairs during the Civil War, and letters concerning the Reformed Episcopal Church (Cummins schism). Papers from General Theological Seminary are essays and addresses by Bishop Smith. Items from Mrs. Hardy include clippings and family letters.
Benjamin R. Smith, captain in Company G, 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, was captured at Rappahannock Bridge, Va., 1863, and imprisoned at Johnson's Island, Ohio, until his release in June 1865.
Benjamin Smith (1750-1829) of Brunswick County, N.C., was a Revolutionary officer, governor of North Carolina, member of the state General Assembly, and member of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees.
Betty Smith (1896-1972) was a white novelist and playwright of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Chapel Hill, N.C. Among her publications were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943); Tomorrow Will Be Better (1948), Maggie-now (1958), and Joy in the Morning (1963). She was married successively to George H. E. Smith, Joseph P. Jones, and Robert V. Finch.
Bill Smith is a white chef and author in Carrboro, N.C. The Bill Smith T-Shirt and Cookbook Collection, 1950s-2014, consists of Smith's collected T-shirts, chiefly of rock bands that performed at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and community cookbooks published by churches and women's organizations located across the South.
C. Alphonso Smith was a native of North Carolina and professor of literature at several southern universities. The collection includes manuscripts and clippings of articles and lectures by Smith and scattered letters received by him. Also included are two leaves identified as being in the hand of O. Henry. One is headed 43 and begins, repeated the conversation to them both.; the other is identified as a page from Lo.
Genealogist Claiborne T. Smith Jr. lived in Ardmore, Pa.
Clayton Smith of Wilmington, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina.
Dean Smith (1931-2015) was the white coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1961 to 1997. The Dean Smith Papers document his youth in Emporia, Kan.; his coaching career and UNC-Chapel Hill basketball; and his retirement activities, including receiving awards, speaking engagements, writing books, and serving on NCAA working groups to study basketball reforms. The collection also includes materials about the coaching career of his father, Alfred Dillon Smith. Materials include correspondence, practice plans and diagrams from the 1992-1993 championship season, student newspapers and newspaper clippings, school work, scrapbooks, photographs, and audio recordings of interviews that Dean Smith recorded with co-authors Sally Jenkins and John Kilgo in preparation for his memoir A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball.
The collection contains autograph letters from the files of the London publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. Letters are from writers and artists chiefly to George Smith (1824-1901); his mother, Elizabeth Murray Smith (1797-1878); or his wife, Elizabeth Blakeway Smith. The subject matter is, with a few exceptions, social in nature. Correspondents include Robert Browning (three letters); Wilkie Collins (two); Charles Dickens (one); Arthur Conan Doyle (one); Thomas Hardy (one); Leigh Hunt (one); Henry James (one); Florence Nightingale (one); John Ruskin (one); John James Ruskin (father of John Ruskin), concerning financial arrangements of John Ruskin (three); Alfred Tennyson (one); Leigh Hunt (one); and Frederick William Burton (1816-1900) (eight).
George Gilman Smith (1836-1913) was a Methodist clergyman and historian of Macon, Ga. The collection includes the diary, 1853-1910, and autobiography of Smith, who grew up in Georgia, attended Emory College, was a Methodist minister at many places in antebellum Georgia, was a Confederate chaplain in the field, preached in Baltimore, Md., and Lewisburg, W. Va., after the war, returned to Georgia, and was the author of books and articles on the history of Methodism. The autobiography and volumes 1 and 2 of the diary are bound typescripts. Diary volumes 3-10 are available only on microfilm.
Girtus Smith, an African American coal miner from Harlan County, Ky., compiled these financial records, bank statements, letters and greeting cards from his friends and family, as well as minutes for the Annual Assembly of the Church of God; and black-and-white photographic negatives and prints depicting the Smith family and friends during the 1930s to 1950s. The collection also includes honors, awards, and recognition certificates for his nephew, Officer Ezell Smith, his caregiver towards the end of his life.
Jacob Henry Smith, born in Lexington, Va., was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, N.C., 1859-1897. He was married in 1857 to Mary Kelly Watson (1834-1924), whose life and letters were published as "The Love That Never Failed." Microfilm of diary, with entries 1860-1897, documenting Smith's pastoral work and professional activities, as well as his personal and family life, reading and study, and travels in North Carolina. Entries typically include a list of persons Smith visited, sometimes with records of problems discussed and advice offered. Smith also recorded which sermons he preached where and the size and response of congregations. He also discussed Presbyterian Church matters in general and wrote of his travels to synod, session, institutes, and various preaching and teaching missions. During the Civil War, he told of his preaching to troops and counseling of civilians.
James Strudwick Smith was a white physician of Hillsborough, N.C., and United States representative from North Carolina, 1817-1821.
John Eliphalet Smith (1878-1963), native of Polk County, Or., was an instructor in geology at the University of North Carolina, 1912-1917.
Joseph L. Smith was a federal judge in Florida.
Joseph W. Smith served as a Confederate artilleryman in Virginia with Potts' North Carolina Battery (originally Company H, 40th Regiment North Carolina Troops (3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery), then Company F, 13th Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery). In 1863, the Battery was in John C. Haskell's Battalion of Artillery, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
Josiah Smith Jr. was a Charleston, S.C., merchant, financial agent, and Revolutionary War patriot. He was born in Cainhoy, St. Thomas's Parish, S.C. A merchant for most of his life, he also acted as a debt collector for individuals owning property in South Carolina, but living elsewhere, and as resident manager and executor for several estates. During the Revolutionary period, Smith served in the S.C. General Assembly and as agent for the U.S. lottery. During the siege of Charleston he was taken as a prisoner-of-war. He returned briefly to his mercantile business after the war, but left it in 1790, when he became cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States, a position he held until 1810. He married Mary Stevens (1741-1795), with whom he had 12 children.
In 1902, Leverette C. Smith of Duluth, Minn., married Nellie B. Cole of Raleigh, N.C., daughter of John W. and Sarah D. Burns Cole. The couple began their married life in Duluth, but quickly relocated to Nellie's family home in Raleigh. Among Leverette and Nellie's children were musicians Leslie and Llewellyn A., both of whom served with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
Marian H. Smith participated in a study tour to California conducted by the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1930.
Mary Ruffin Smith of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a benefactress of the University of North Carolina.
John McNeill Smith Jr. (1918-2011), a white attorney, state legislator, and teacher, practiced law in Greensboro, N.C. He was attorney for University of North Carolina students in the Speaker Ban case in 1963; co-counsel, 1958-1962, for Junius Irving Scales, a Communist Party member charged with advocating violent overthrow of the government; and negotiator during the 1960 lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro. Smith served as state representative and then senator, 1971-1978. After an unsuccessful campaign for the United States Senate in 1978, he continued to practice law and taught constitutional law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The papers, 1937-1999, of McNeill Smith document his career as a lawyer and as a North Carolina state legislator. Political papers, which make up the bulk of the collection, include materials relating to Smith's tenure in the North Carolina legislature, political campaigns, and other political activities. Many of these items relate to environmental legislation, education, and tax reform. Law firm materials include papers relating to Smith's activities in civil rights, the 1963 Speaker Ban Law case, and academic freedom and freedom of speech in general, but there are only a small number of items about his defense of Junius Irving Scales. There are also materials relating to Smith's participation in professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and in civic and religious organizations, especially the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist Church. Also included are writings; items relating to his helping Estonia in its legal preparations for self-governance after the break-up of the Soviet Union; World War II materials relating to Smith's service in the United States Navy as a bomb disposal officer; papers from Robeson County, N.C., schools and the University of North Carolina documenting school life and alumni activities; and personal papers, including family correspondence and financial materials.
Volume compiled by Murray J. Smith containing ten letters, five postcards, and one Christmas card, 1934-1938, from Thomas Wolfe to his friend Catherine Brett, director and superintendent of a private school for girls in Pennsylvania. Wolfe visited the school several times from 1934 to 1938; the letters are substantive and discuss Wolfe's writing and common friends, among other topics. There are also two letters from Wolfe to Ellen Field, one of Catherine Brett's students. The scrapbook volume also contains supplemental material including biographical information about Wolfe, photographs of Wolfe, summaries and transcriptions of the letters to Catherine Brett, and other items.
Napoleon Jefferson Smith (1841-1921) was a Confederate naval officer. The collection includes an account, written circa 1900 by Smith, of activities at Fort Morgan during the battle of Mobile Bay, 1864. One drawing illustrates the account.
Publisher, writer, and bookstore owner.
Peter Evans Smith of Halifax County, N.c., civil and mechanical engineer, inventor, surveyor, cotton planter, and railroad employee.
Peter Francisco Smith was a lawyer of Atlanta, Ga.
Robert Hardy Smith (1813-1878) was a lawyer and Confederate congressman of Mobile, Ala.
Robert W. Smith was a merchant and plantation owner who conducted the bulk of his affairs in Dallas County, Ala., and Mobile County, Ala. Smith amassed a considerable fortune selling sacking and rope. After 1849, he retired from the mercantile trade and removed to Pleasant Hill Plantation in Dallas County. During the Civil War, he raised and financed a cavalry unit (the Crocheron Light Dragoons) that saw action at Shiloh. After the war, he returned briefly to mercantile pursuits in order to recoup his fortunes. The papers of Robert W. Smith are primarily receipts relating to the purchase of slaves; deeds to land in Dallas County, Ala.; lists of slaves owned by Smith and his wife, Sarah Hunter Smith; correspondence relating to the purchase a slave named Lucy from a New Orleans slave trader; and a request that Smith act as a second in a duel. In addition, the collection contains a transcription of a letter from Robert W. Smith to his brother, Colonel Francis Lee Smith of Alexandria, Va.; printed obituaries for Smith and his father-in-law, John S. Hunter; and a transcription of reminiscences of Smith's daughter, Fannie Eleanor Smith, about her childhood experiences at the Harrison Place Plantation, Dallas County, Ala.
The collection contains miscellaneous papers, 1859-1879, chiefly invitations to tournament balls, picnics, and valentines from Bertie and Halifax counties, N.C.
Mrs. Seth L. Smith was an officer in the United Daughters of the Confederacy in North Carolina. The collection includes materials accumulated by Mrs. Smith in the 1930s. Most items are essays on Confederate and southern topics, narratives of the war based on tradition, and biographical sketches and book reviews submitted in the 1930s as entries in contests sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Also included are typescript memoirs of E. D. Dixon, William Edward Brantley, Susan Lennox, J. P. Mullinax, James Reese, and others, regarding their experiences in the Confederate Army and in other capacities in the South during the Civil War, as well as a history of the First North Carolina Cavalry by Minnie Bell, and three letters concerning the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Correspondence, notes, writings, clipppings, charts, and other items collected by Archibald Stuart Hall Smith, relating to genealogical studies and to historic sites in and around Halifax County, N.C. The genealogical material centers on the Smith family of North Carolina and other closely allied families and is chiefly the work of Claiborne Smith, Jr. The historical material includes files on Old Trinity Church (Episcopal) in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, and other sites in Scotland Neck. Also included is an autograph album signed by students and professors at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in the 1860s.
Ten Missions Over Germany was written by William Griswold Smith of Greensboro, N.C., in 1978. The collection includes Ten Missions Over Germany, reminiscences (typed, 29 pages), written by Smith about ten missions he flew over Germany as a pilot with the 100th Bomb Squadron, United States Eighth Air Force, March-April 1945. The account describes attacks on German submarine pens and other facilities, gives information on briefings, and includes comments on other members of the squad and on social life in London, England, while on leave.
William King Smith, Confederate soldier and farmer of South Carolina and Georgia, son of Sidney Smith (1805-1856), physician of Brighton, S.C., and grandson of William Smith (1764-1843), of South Carolina.
William Ruffin Smith lived in Halifax County, N.C. His father was William Ruffin Smith (1779-1846); his father-in-law, Peter Evans (1781-1852); and his granddaughter, Lena Smith.
William Russell Smith (1815-1896) was a United States and Confederate representative from Alabama, president of the University of Alabama, poet, and author. The collection includes letters written by Smith to his family during and after the Civil War, including eight letters to his daughter Mary Smith, 1862-1870, about her education, his feelings for her, and family affairs; a few letters received from friends and political figures; manuscript poems; and five letters, 1898-1903, from General Joseph Wheeler to Wilhelmine M. Easby Smith.
Oliver Smithies (1925-2017) was a British-born American geneticist and biochemist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for developing gene targeting, a technology used to create animal models of human diseases in mice. This collection contains Smithies's class notes and tutorial essays written during his time as a student at the University of Oxford, as well as research notes, student papers, and laboratory notebooks compiled by Smithies throughout his career. Of particular note are some of Smithies's research notes related to the discoveries that helped earn him the Nobel Prize.
Richard David Smyser became the founding editor of the Oak Ridger in Oakridge, Tenn., in 1949 and retired from that position in 1993. Smyser served as president of both the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press Managing Editors Association. He was dedicated to increasing the employment of minorities in the field of journalism and to making publications more inclusive of minorities. As leader of the Minorities Committee of ASNE in the late 1970s, Smyser established the goal of bringing newspaper workforces into parity with the population of the United States by the year 2000.
The collection contains a deed, 7 October 1707, from Roger Snell and his wife Elizabeth to John Blount for land in Chowan County, N.C.
John L. Snell (1923-1972) was an author and professor of German history at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina.
The Whitaker and Snipes families were planters of Halifax County, N.C., and Hinds County, Miss. The collection includes scattered correspondence, financial records, and other materials. Most slave-related items appear to be from Mississippi. Correspondence includes letters from relatives in Leon County, Fla., Webster County, Ky., and Person County, N.C., concerning agricultural, family, and financial matters. Civil War materials include a Confederate soldier's letter describing the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862; typed transcriptions of Confederate army military correspondence regarding an engagement at Staunton River Bridge, Va., on 25 June 1864; a mother's 1865 letter to her daughter concerning the turmoil in North Carolina near the end of the Civil War; and other letters describing financial and family losses on the homefront. Nearly all of the financial records, chiefly bills and receipts, relate to Anderson Snipes in Mississippi. Included are records about cotton growing; farm and labor records relating to freedmen; medical receipts; promissory notes, including notes for the hiring out of slaves; materials relating to the purchase, medical care, and death of slaves; and tax receipts. Miscellaneous materials include two 1865 oaths of allegiance; an 1865 summons to appear before the Provost Marshal of Freedmen; an 1867 voter registration; photographs of William Dunn Moseley and of Live Oak Plantation, probably located in Florida; and a few other items.
James Johnston Snipes was a member of the Snipes family of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Guy L. Snow was born to Preston H. and Sarah Goins Snow of Mount Airy, N.C., in 1910. He graduated from Duke University. He worked as a stock broker; as a Buick dealer in Elkin, N.C., for 20 years; and at the Thompson McKinon Brokerage Firm in Winston-Salem, N.C. In 1939, Snow married Virginia McNeil, daughter of James Calvin McNeil and Daisy Badger McNeil of Bina, N.C. Virginia McNeil Snow was a graduate of the Virginia Intermount College for Women and the Bristol Commercial College. She worked as vice-president and secretary of Snow Motor Company and for the Northwestern Bank. The Snows had two sons, Guy Leighton Snow of Charlotte, N.C., and James McNeil Snow of High Point, N.C., who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1976. Guy L. Snow died in 1989, and Virginia McNeil Snow died in 2007.
William Henry Snow, originally from Vermont, went to Australia in the 1850s to oversee telegraph construction, served in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War, and was a pioneer in the wood products industry in High Point, N.C.
Anne Linebarger Snuggs (1840-1911) was the sister of Thomas James Linebarger (1838-1928), Confederate captain with the 28th North Carolina Regiment. The collection includes seven letters, in part typed transcriptions, February 1863-October 1864, from Thomas James Linebarger, while serving with the Confederate Army in Virginia, to Anne Linebarger, discussing casualties and fighting, especially in the Wilderness Campaign; T. J. Linebarger's terse diary, 1861-1869, listing events of his Civil War experiences and life during Reconstruction in Catawba County, N.C., with cryptic references to Ku Klux Klan activities; and a few other items.
Open reel audio recording of folk songs performed by Martha Boozer Crumpler and Susan Harriet Snyder, both white women affiliated with the Eau Claire Music Club of Columbia, Richland County, S.C. Martha Boozer Crumpler is the maternal grandmother of Susan Harriet Snyder. The songs they perform on the recording were handed down to them by their families in Newberry County, S.C., dating back to the mid and late 1800s. Mary Crumpler Snyder (1922-1987), the daughter of Martha Boozer Crumpler and mother of Susan Harriet Snyder, made the recording at a meeting of the Eau Claire Music Club, for the "Family Participation Program", on 14 May 1963. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff, sheet music, and a letter from Mary Crumpler Snyder containing information about the performance and the history of the songs.
Audio recordings of storytellers, blues musicians, midwives, farmers, and herbalists of the southern United States, compiled by Joseph Daniel Sobol, a white storyteller, musician, and folklorist. The majority of the recordings document stories and songs of residents of Cleveland County, N.C., Hyde County, N.C., and Lee County, S.C. Of particular note is a recording of Drink Small, an African American blues singer of Columbia, S.C., recollecting his musical background and life interspersed with songs and reflections on blues and gospel music; oral history recordings with students and faculty of the Bishopville High School and Mt. Pleasant High School, both in Lee County, S.C., regarding folk tales, supernatural legends, and various rhymes, riddles, and jokes, as well as local student folklore projects; an oral history recording with Elsie Magazine (1904- ), a retired African American midwife of Browntown, Lee County, S.C.; and an oral history recordings of Ivory ("He") Wilson (1913- ), an African American retired farmer of Lee County, S.C. Additional recordings found in the collection include a live recording of Arthur Lee "Tommie" Bass (1908-1996), a white herbalist from Alabama, on a field hike in Duke Forest, Durham County, N.C., as well as live recordings of Donald Davis, a white tale teller from North Carolina, performing and discussing four different jack tales as part of a small group discussion in the Graduate Lounge of Greenlaw Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff that correspond to the Lee County, S.C. and Donald Davis recordings. Documentation consists of select transcripts and tape logs, which include both technical information on the recordings and descriptions of content.
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1968 to further scholarship on the writings and writers of the American South. Records of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature include minutes of executive council meetings, newsletters, correspondence, and a few other files all relating to the SSSL's interest in southern literature, southern authors, southern culture, and African-American studies. Correspondence of the organization's secretary-treasurers, Louis D. Rubin, Robert L. Phillips, and Susan Snell, comprises the bulk of the collection.
The Society of the Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University in 1886 to encourage original research in the pure and applied sciences. The University of North Carolina Chapter was chartered on 30 December 1919 and held its first meeting on 26 May 1920. In addition to lectures held throughout the year, the main function of the chapter was the annual initiation ceremony held in conjunction with the annual meeting during the University's commencement week.
The Ed Solomon Collection consists of audio recordings of folk and bluegrass music created and compiled by music manager and promoter, Ed Solomon. Recordings consist of dubbed compilations created by Solomon, as well as live recordings recorded by Solomon at American bluegrass festivals and music clubs. Notable artists featured on the live recordings include Joan Baez, Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe, New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Redpath, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, and Mac Wiseman. The collection also contains documentation related to the audio recordings, including log books and scattered field notes found with select recordings.
The collection consists of a 1944 letter from George Aronson, a soldier, to another soldier in Chapel Hill, N.C., Stanley Wagner, about Aronson's move to New York. Aronson mentions Clemens Sommer, who was a professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, established on 1 July 1988, supports scholarship and cultural understanding of the African diaspora through the interdisciplinary examination of art, culture, literature, and history.
The Longstreet Memorial Fund was established in June 1991 by the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to erect a monument to the memory of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Confederate States of America. The fund's committee worked with artist Gary Casteel and members of the National Park Service to establish such a monument in Pitzer Woods, Gettysburg National Military Park.
The Sons of the Pioneers was one of the leading vocal and instrumental groups in Western music. They were especially known for their harmonies, songwriting, and musicianship. In addition to their creative success, the Pioneers were among the longest lasting groups in the history of country music, celebrating 65 years of continuous performances in 1998. Over the years, the members of the group included Pat Brady, Ken Carson, Ken Curtis, Tommy Doss, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Shug Fisher, Luther Nallie, Bob Nolan, Lloyd Perryman, Rusty Richards, Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer, and Dale Warren.
The recordings on audio cassette tapes contain live performances by western music singing group Sons of the Pioneers on KERA Radio broadcast from Dallas, Tex., in 1977. Robert L. Huffman of Portland Ore., donated the tapes in 1981. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Alexander Claxton Sorrel served in the Confederate army with the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment. The collection contains miscellaneous items including two biographical sketches of Francis Sorrel (1793-1870) of Santo Domingo and Savannah, Ga.; a letter, 1860, from Francis to his son, Alexander Claxton Sorrel, giving family news; and six items pertaining to Alexander Claxton Sorrel, including clippings, a letter, and regimental lists, and a description of his Confederate service.
Armand Soubie (fl. 1852-1900) was a gunsmith and gun trader of New Orleans, La. The collection is chiefly records, 1852-1900, of Soubie, including a monthly stock inventory, September 1859-April 1861; accounts with Pierre Cazelar of Paris, 1852-1856; a ledger of sales and repairs for individuals, 1855-1857; and scattered other records. Also included are twenty-five letters, 1854-1857, from Charles Hummel, gun dealer of San Antonio, Tex., to Soubie concerning their business dealings, Native American raids, and other news.
Souls Grown Deep Foundation is dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting the contributions of Black artists from the southeastern United States, and the cultural traditions in which they are rooted. The Souls Grown Deep Foundation was founded by William Arnett, an art historian, scholar, and collector. Since its inception in the 1980s, the foundation has been located in Atlanta, Ga.
Sound and Fury was a student performance group founded by Caroll McGaughey in 1939 and recognized by the University as an official student organization in 1942. The group formed as a place for students to gather and write, plan, produce and act in musical theater on campus. This collection consists of musical scores from a show produced by Sound and Fury, audio recordings of a number of the group's performances, and programs from their performance of "Thieves’ Holiday."
Soundings was a half-hour, weekly radio program produced by the National Humanities Center, 1980-1996. Founded in 1978, the National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities located on the campus of the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Soundings aired on more than 200 commercial and public radio stations in the United States and on Voice of America. It was also distributed for non-broadcast use to various organizations affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Soundings host Wayne Pond was the Director of Public Programs at the National Humanities Center, 1979-1997.
Audio recordings of the North Carolina Arts Council funded radio series, Sounds of the South, which aired on WUNC-FM's Backporch Music from 1991 to 1994. Hosted by Tom Hanchett, the series consisted of thirty-minute programs that primarily featured 1930s and 1940s classic country music sourced from the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Folklorist, Wayne Martin, and former UNC Sound and Image Librarian, Mike Casey, were also involved in the production of the series. Program themes on the series included songs of prohibition, early country radio, southern Christmas songs, southern storytellers, women blues singers, the local music scene, The Two Sisters ballad, music from the Carolina coast, local music festivals, Durham blues, preserving African-American traditions, and southern author, Lee Smith. Also included in the collection is an episode list for the 1991-1992 programs, a tape log for the Preserving African-American Traditions program, and photocopies of clippings regarding the program.
Correspondence, financial and legal items, diaries, photographs, and other materials of six generations of the Sours and related families. Much material relates to the Rev. John Dickson Sours (1815-1912), Methodist circuit rider, minister, and teacher of Adams County, Pa., and to the descendents of iron-worker and Civil War soldier Jacob Sours (1823-1888) of Virginia and Ohio. Included are materials that document the lives and careers of Mary Bowling (d. 1956), Alabama teacher, World War II soldier, and long-time music student; genealogist Noland Hubbard Bowling (b. 1886); librarian Sarah Bowling Holland (b. 1910), who was graduated from the University of North Carolina Library School and worked in several southern states; Adam Sours (1836-1888), who went to California to mine gold; Margaret Emma Sours (1859-1926), who taught school in rural Pennsylvania; and other members of the Sours family and the related Bowling, Holland, Hubbard, and other families.
Letter from Isabella C. Sourtan, a freedwoman of Liberty, Va., asking permission to return and work for Manuel J. Thouston, formerly her enslaver, in Gloucester County, Va. She also mentioned John, a freedman with ties to Gloucester County, Va., for whom she would send if given the opportunity to return.
Under the editorship of Sturgis E. Leavitt, University of North Carolina professor of romance languages, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association's South Atlantic Bulletin was published in Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina Press. Emory University English Professor Thomas H. English served as associate editor of the Bulletin from 1934 to 1949. The records consist of correspondence, 1934-1949, chiefly between Sturgis E. Leavitt and Thomas H. English. Letters discuss affairs of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, as well as specific articles and reviews proposed for publication in the South Atlantic Bulletin.
The collection contains deeds, 1704, to land north of Coosaw River in Port Royal and Granville counties, S.C., to William Bull, Lawrence Donnis (Dennis), and John Womsly, and one deed, 1772, for land in the Santee River area.
A ledger, a daybook, and related financial records relating to the settlement of debts of a company that held an exposition in Charleston, S.C., in 1901-1902.
MICROFILM ONLY. South Fork Primitive Baptist Church was located in Alleghany County, near Sparta, N. C. The earliest known record of the church is dated November 1868. Church meetings were held at least until August 1959, the date of the latest church minutes in these papers. The church was not active as of 1982. Two volumes of church minutes, lists of members and their status in the church, and other information relating to South Fork Primitive Baptist Church.
The collection contains photostatic copies of a leaflet and a broadside giving schedules, rates, and distances on the South-Western Line of U. States Mail Coaches, carrying passengers and mail between Fredericksburg, Va., and New Orleans.
William Oscar Southard was born in 1851 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Southard. Southard married Sarah Caroline Bates (called Sallie) of Batesville, S.C., in 1874 and earned an M. D. degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. He then established a family practice and pharmacy in Jonesville, Union County, S.C. The collection includes chiefly account books, 1880-1907, of William O. Southard in which he kept records on his patients. An alphabetical listing of patient names generally precedes the financial records in the books. Entries record charges for visits, obstetrical cases, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. Records show that Southard received payment in goods as well as cash for his services. One of the account books, 1880-1887, also includes lists of drugs purchased for Southard's pharmacy and formulas for remedies to treat diarrhea, dysentary, dropsy heart, and fever. The addition of August 2022 primarily consists of correspondence, financial documentation, Southard's certifications, and photographs. Materials range in date from 1834-1938.
The Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (REJN) Records, 1990s-2010s, document the organization's administrative activities; social, economic, environmental, and racial justice programs; and its resource library. Topics include working women, organized farm labor, race and globalization, 2010 census work, voting rights protection and advocacy, NAFTA, the Hamlet Response Coalition, Bhopal victims, industrial revitalization, youth, and African American and Latino alliance building. Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (REJN), founded by African American activist Leah Wise in 1989, is a local, regional, and international network of individuals and organizations working on social, economic, environmental, and racial justice issues in workplaces, families and communities. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Southeastern Black Press Institute was founded by Sonja Haynes Stone in 1977 as a demonstration project of the Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project provided support to the black press in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Washington D.C., chiefly through technical assistance and leadership training for future journalists. Southeastern Black Press Institute Records, 1976-1979, consist of advisory board minutes and communications, correspondence, reports, photographs, financial records, and print ephemera. Materials document grant activities reported to the Rockefeller Foundation, communications within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, outreach to the black press community and to educators and students who might be interested in the summer journalism program and newspaper internships. Also of note is a letter from Stone to the African Heritage Studies Association in which she sought support for her tenure appeal, citing the project as an example of the value and potential of Afro-American Studies as a discipline and as a bridge to the black community.
The Southeastern Cooperative League, an interracial organization established as the Southeastern Cooperative Education Association in 1940, became a federation of cooperatives in 1941. It worked to promote agricultural, consumer, manufacturing, and housing cooperatives throughout the Southeast from 1940 until its demise in the early 1950s.
The Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies was established in 1963 under the auspices of the Duke University-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cooperative Program in the Humanities. Supported by grant funding, summer institutes were held for the purpose of improving teaching and scholarship. Each institute consisted of seminars conducted by senior fellows and attended by junior fellows. Location of the institutes alternated between the campuses of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A joint committee of faculty members from each campus planned and operated the program. Beginning in 1968, the joint committee initiated a fund-raising effort for continuation of the institutes. Institutes were held through the summer of 1979, but the joint committee was not able to secure a commitment of permanent funding from either Duke University or UNC-Chapel Hill. Plans for the 1980 institute were cancelled due to lack of funding. Records of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies include minutes of the meetings of the joint Duke University-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill committee and correspondence of the committee chairs. In the main, the files deal with funding problems and efforts to obtain commitments for continuing support for the program. Also included are programs of the summer institutes and lists of senior and junior fellows for the various institutes.
The Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH) was founded in 1970 to promote the welfare of women historians in the South and to encourage the teaching of women's history in the South. The collection contains files of officers and committees of the Southern Association of Women Historians, including by-laws, conference materials, financial records, materials relating to surveys concerning the status of women historians in the South, materials relating to prizes given by the organization, and publications of the organization and of groups associated with it.
The Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons was organized in 1974 with the missions of abolishing the death penalty, stopping prison construction and dependency on incarceration, developing alternatives to incarceration, and protecting the human and civil rights of prisoners. The Coalition was active in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Kentucky until the early 1990s. Records include scattered office files of memos, quarterly reports from affiliate state organizations, newspaper clippings, materials relating to the execution of specific individuals, issues of the Coalition newsletter and of other prison and criminal justice reform groups, and miscellaneous short writings apparently collected by Coalition staff. Topics covered include prison reform, capital punishment, prisoners' rights, and criminal justice reform in general, and other materials. The affiliated state organizations represented are the Alabama Prison Project, the Clearinghouse on Georgia Prisons and Jails, the Florida Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, the Kentucky Prisoners' Support Council, the Louisiana Coalition on Jails and Prisons, the North Carolina Prison and Jail Project, the South Carolina Criminal Justice Project, and the Southern Prison Ministry.
The Southern Conference on British Studies was organized around 1966 to promote the interest and activity of scholars resident in the southern United States in British history and culture. A regional association, the Conference functions in conjunction with other learned societies, particularly the North American Conference on British Studies and the Southern Historical Association. Organizational files of the Southern Conference on British Studies contain yearly files, the earliest of which contain materials relating to organizing the Southern Conference on British Studies. Later files contain correspondence about programs, meetings, and organizational matters; financial statements; copies of British Studies Mercury, the Conference's newsletter; and other materials.
The Southern Council on International Relations (SCIR) was established in 1937 as a non-partisan, nonprofit, civic association by a group of civic, religious, and educational leaders representing the ten southeastern states. The purpose of the council was to counter the growth of isolationism in the South and the nation by promoting international understanding through public education. The council supported the United Nations, the International Trade Organization, the international exchange of students and teachers, the Good Neighbor Policy, the strengthening of ties between the people of the United States and Latin America, and other international institutions and programs promoting cooperation among nations in the interest of peace, prosperity, and mutual understanding. The central office of the council was located at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Executive secretaries of the council were Keener Chapman Frazer of the University of North Carolina Department of Political Science, 1937-1943; Fletcher Melvin Green of the university's Department of History, 1943-1944; and Eugene Pfaff, 1944-1946. Records of the Southern Council on International Relations (SCIR) consist primarily of files of the executive secretary or director. Most of the material is correspondence with members of the council and with officials of civic, religious, and political organizations. Also included are minutes of Executive Committee meetings; planning materials for meetings, institutes, educational centers, and other activities; and correspondence with and annual reports to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Also included is a folder comprised mainly of correspondence with Leon F. Sensabaugh of Birmingham Southern University, who chaired the SCIR's Committee on the South and Latin America, 1940-1943.
Sound recordings, posters, and ephemera related to the surf rock and rockabilly music group Southern Culture on the Skids of Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Southern Education Board was established in 1901 as the executive branch of the Conference for Education in the South, which was founded after a series of meetings, 1898-1900, held at Capon Springs, W. Va. The Board worked primarily to promote education, especially rural education, in the South. It disbanded in 1914. Prominent Board members included Robert C. Ogden (1836-1913), pres.; Charles D. McIver (1860- 1908), sec.; George Foster Peabody (1852-1938), treas.; Edwin A. Alderman (1861-1931); William H. Baldwin (1863-1905); Wallace Buttrick (1853-1926); J.L.M. Curry (1825-1903); Charles W. Dabney (1855-1945); George Sherwood Dickerman (1843-1937); Hollis B. Frissell (1851-1917); H.H. Hanna; Walter Hines Page (1855-1918); and Albert Shaw (1857-1947).
MICROFILM ONLY. The Council of Southern Universities was organized in 1952 as an association of nine major southern universities. The Southern Fellowships Fund was a subsidiary set up by the Council to administer a General Education board grant to strengthen the faculty in southern colleges and universities in fourteen states. Office files of Robert MacDonald Lester, recording secretary of the Council of Southern Universities and executive director of the Southern Fellowships Fund. The records include applications, agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence, and financial records.
The collection of organizational records, audiovisual materials, and photographs documents the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, an organization based in Nashville, Tenn., and founded in 1966 by African American folklorist, singer, and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon and white folklorist and folk musician Anne Romaine. The Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project (SFCRP) worked to present traditional musicians from African American and white cultures in performance together at a time when this was considered controversial. The SFCRP continued presenting musical performances throughout the South until the late 1980s, keeping close ties with the civil rights movement.
The materials in this collection were compiled from various sources by Southern Folklife Collection staff, with the goal of creating a reference resource to aid in research. Artist name files contain correspondence, booklets, obituaries, press releases, discographies, promotional materials, and other items relating to many of the artists whose work is relevant to the Southern Folklife Collection as a whole.
The collection consists of materials related to record labels, discographies, and record collecting in the United States and around the world, 1907-2006. Included are recording catalogs, discographies, press releases, newsletters, record release announcements, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, ledgers, and correspondence. Also included are collectors' inventories; auction, sale, and wants lists; collectors' reference guides; and directories of record collectors. Some catalogs, on the Capitol, Conqueror, Columbia, Decca, Gennett, Harmony, His Master's Voice, King, MGM, Okeh, Parlophone, RCA Victor, Regal, Vocalion, and Zonophone labels, date from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. There is also a Victor Records catalog from 1907 and a 1924 Paramount and Black Swan catalog annotated by Paramount producer J. Mayo Williams and sociologist Guy B. Johnson. Okeh Records material includes original label copy for about 150 records released by Okeh in the 1920s. The collection also contains substantial materials related to the American Record Corporation, Arhoolie, Bear Family, Champion, County, Edison, Romeo, Sugar Hill, and Smithsonian/Folkways record labels. There are less inclusive materials relating to many other companies. Ledgers include Brunswick and Vocalion ledger sheets from the 1920s, as well as ledgers of recordings made by record producer Art Satherley. Among the collectors represented are Eugene Earle, John Edwards, Will Roy Hearne, and D.K. Wilgus; among those with extensive discographies are Kitty Wells and Johnny Cash.
This collection contains fan club newsletters, primarily published by the fan clubs of country music artists. Artists significant in the collection are listed as access points. There are also several publications of the International Council of Fan Clubs and the International Fan Club Organization.
This collection contains materials from various music and folk festivals held throughout the United States and internationally in Australia, Canada, England, and other countries, 1936-2005. Festivals center around music (chiefly bluegrass, blues, country, folk, jazz, old-time, cajun, and zydeco) and/or crafts, dance, storytelling, fiddling competitions, or other similar topics and activities. Included are flyers and other promotional materials, programs, guides, newspaper clippings, and other items.
This collection comprises field notes, transcripts, memos, ephemera, and other items associated with sound and video recordings assembled at the Southern Folklife Collection. The identifying number for the associated recording as well as provenance information (where available) is noted in the finding aid. Materials in this collection are associated with recordings from a wide variety of collections, including those of Andy Cahan, Bob Carlin, Cecelia Conway, the John Edwards Memorial Foundation, Joan Fenton, Peter Hartman, Glenn Hinson, John Huddle, A. P. Hudson, Beverly Patterson, Daniel Patterson, and many others. The recordings in those collections include materials produced for commercial distribution as well as (predominantly) materials gathered in a field context by folklorists. The notes include information on African American music, banjo music, Primitive Baptist church music, country music, fiddle tunes, folk music, folklorists, old-time music, popular music, storytelling, and other topics, chiefly but not exclusively relating to North Carolina or the American South.
Southern Folklife Collection Moving Image Materials were compiled, 1972-1989, from various sources, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Folklore Department and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The collection includes videotapes on North Carolina and South Carolina history, town life, culture, religion, and churches; folklife, folk art, and folk music; African American music, dance, and verse; medicine shows; Confederate officer Zebulon Baird Vance; African American slave Denmark Vesey; musicians Pink Anderson, Henry Johnson, Willie Trice, Dink Roberts, Guitar Shorty, Jamie Alston, Wilber Atwater, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and John Dee Holeman; the Blue Grass Rangers; folklorist Bruce Bastine; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Glenn Hinson; and filmmakers Tom Rankin, Beverly Boggs, Rosemarie Hester, Vik Lukas, Cecelia Conway, Tom Davenport, Joan Fenton, and Roger Manley. There are some interviews with and performances by blues and folk musicians, and some items include storytelling. Locations in North Carolina include Badin, Weaverville, Hot Springs, Durham, Elizabethtown, Pittsboro, and Creedmore. Locations in South Carolina include Spartanburg, Union, Wadmalaw Island, and Johns Island. All of the videotapes are U-Matic, 1/2-inch open reel, and 2-inch videotapes with sound. Both field recordings and documentary films are represented.
The Southern Folklife Poster collection comprises posters received from various sources and assembled by the SFC. The posters include advertisements for live performances, conventions, festivals, meetings, dances, and exhibits; promotional materials for commercial recordings; reproductions of drawings, engravings, and other works of art; and other assorted ephemera. Highlights include an 1847 poster for Christy's Minstrels; circa 1950 two-color posters for Grand Ole Opry stars Ernest Tubb, Minnie Pearl, Bill Monroe, Eddy Arnold, and Whitey The Duke of Paducah Ford; advertisements for Carolina Folk Festivals in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and folk festivals in Berkeley, Calif., New York, N.Y., and Chicago, Ill., in the 1960s; a series of circa 1950 posters for country and bluegrass shows at the Lyric Theatre in Rainelle, W.Va.; a circa 1950 poster for a Hillbilly and Variety Show in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia; and a poster advertising the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival.
The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
The collection consists of sheet music and song lyrics from the United States, circa 1852-1988. The sheet music is largely for country songs. Much of this music was published by Acuff-Rose of Nashville, Tenn., but other music publishers are also represented. Among the artists represented are Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, Martha Carson, Helen Carter, Don Gibson, John D. Loudermilk, Ira and Charles Louvin, Roy Orbison, and Leon Payne.
This collection consists of song folios from the United States, Canada, Australia, and England, circa 1882-1983. Some folios were published by radio stations, including WSM in Nashville, Tenn., and WWVA in Wheeling, W.Va. Musical genres and song styles represented include calypso, comedy songs, country songs, cowboy songs, gospel songs, Hawaiian songs, hobo songs, hymns, Irish reels, labor songs, Latin-American songs, minstrel songs, Mormon songs, novelty songs, parodies, popular songs, spirituals, songs of the Industrial Workers of the World, traditional songs, union songs, vaudeville, western songs, and World War II songs. Significant persons and groups are listed below.
The collection comprises 303 folders containing background information on subjects germane to the collecting mission of the Southern Folklife Collection. These subjects, while they all pertain to folkways and traditions in North Carolina or other locations in the American southeast, span a broad array of academic disciplines and cultural interests. General topics include African American music, ballads, banjo music, bluegrass music, blues, cajun music, country music, cowboy music, fiddle music, folk music, gospel music, guitar music, hillbilly music, jazz, old-time music, rhythm and blues, rock, western swing, zydeco, and other types of music; animal calls; folklore and customs of the Appalachian region; folk art; folklore; furniture; ghost stories; hollering; Native Americans; labor lore and songs; legends and storytelling; Melungeons; minstrel shows; oral traditions; Primitive Baptists; race relations; shape note singing; snake cults; square dancing; tattooing; Waldenses; and others. Materials contained in the files include newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, other writings, theses, dissertations, correspondence, memoranda, handbills, sheet music, press releases, bibliographies, discographies, newsletters, theater and concert programs, catalogs, instructional booklets, exhibit guides, directories, invitations, brochures and church fans.
The Southern Folklife Transcription Discs consist of commercially recorded transcription discs documenting a wide array of radio programs and individual performers from the early 1940s through the late 1960s. Performers represented include: Eddy Arnold; Chet Atkins; Gene Autry; Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys; June Carter (June Carter Cash); the Cass County Boys; Spade Cooley; Eddie Dean and the Pals of the Golden West; Jimmy Dean; Johnny Desmond; Duke Ellington; Tennessee Ernie Ford; the Harmoneers; Hawkshaw Hawkins; Ferlin Husky; Hank Keene and His Gang; Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys; Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys; Hank Penny and His California Cowhands; the Prairie Ramblers; Riders of the Purple Sage; Carson Robison and His Buckaroos; Carl Smith; the Sons of the Pioneers; Uncle Henry's Original Kentucky Mountaineers; Kitty Wells; Tex Williams; Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; and many more. Radio programs represented include: Old Fashioned Revival Hour; Music by the Baptist Hour Choir; and The Human Adventure: Story of Ballads. Genres documented include country music, Hawaiian music, jazz, and western swing.
The Southern Furniture Manufacturers' Association, with headquarters in High Point, N.C., was founded in 1911 to promote harmony among manufacturers of furniture, secure concessions in freight rates... and further the interests of its members. Records, chiefly 1905-1919, of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers' Association and its predecessor, the North Carolina Case Workers Association. Records consist largely of secretary's and president's files, and reports of quarterly meetings. Also included are eleven volumes of circulars, 1922-1930, sent by the Association to its members. The circulars relate to technical developments in the furniture industry; government actions affecting the industry; wages, sales, and production in the industry; business management; and other subjects of interest to furniture manufacturers.
The Southern Governors' Association, formerly the Southeastern Governors' Conference, is a regional association of state governors that was founded in 1934 to represent the common interests of chief executives of the southern states and to provide a vehicle for promoting those interests.
The Southern Growth Policies Board (SGPB), established in 1971, is a public research agency governed and supported by the state governments of the southern United States, which analyzes information and makes policy recommendations to promote sound economic development of the region. Its offices are located in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild is a non-profit educational organization with a focus on teaching people in the southern Appalachian mountains traditional handicrafts and providing market outlets for them. The Guild represents over 700 craftspeople in 293 counties of nine southeastern states. From 1993 to 1995, Georgia Wier, a white folklorist for the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, with assistance from Ron Ruehl, Patience Bingham, and Betsy Baker, documented the handicraft work of individual, educational, and organizational members of the Guild in North Carolina. The documentation consisted of interviews with individual artists focusing on their craft and their association with the Guild and other folk art schools, organizations, or family businesses. The handicrafts of woodworking and weaving are particularly well represented, with a number of folk schools and artists documented. Also included are colonial knotting, pewter work, pottery, Hmong needlework, and dried flower arrangement.
The Southern Historical Association was established in 1934 to promote the study of history of the American South and the teaching of all branches of history in the South. The collection includes officers' files and other materials pertaining to the administration of the Southern Historical Association, the historical profession, and related matters. Among individuals whose work with the Association is documented are James W. Patton, Bennett H. Wall, Sanford W. Higginbotham, and Gilbert Fite. Also included are records of the Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in the Southern Historical Association, of the European History Section, and of the Journal of Southern History.
The Southern Justice Institute, a public interest law firm, originally the southern division of the Christic Institute of Washington, D.C. It opened in 1985 as the Christic Institute South under director Lewis Pitts in Winston-Salem, N.C., relocating to Carrboro, N.C., a year later, and to Durham, N.C., in 1991. Formed to provide legal aid and organizing assistance to racial and other minorities in the South seeking political empowerment, the Institute incorporated as the independent Southern Justice Institute in 1992 and operated until 1994, handling, in its last two years of operation, mostly child advocacy cases.
The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA), was founded in 1903 with the purpose of advancing the welfare of member newspapers. SNPA serves its more than 400 members in 14 states by acting as a clearinghouse for information relevant to Southern newspapers, sponsoring annual and special topic meetings, and publishing various newsletters.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
Southern Poetry Review is a journal dedicated to the publication and promotion of poetry in and of the American South. The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, circulation and advertising files, and other business records, typed originals of poems, and related records of Southern Poetry Review (and its forerunner Impetus) for the years 1962-1978, during which the journal was edited by Guy Owen, poet, novelist, and teacher at North Carolina State University. Letters from writers and editors discuss writing and publishing poetry; among correspondents are poets A. R. Ammons, Charles Edward Eaton, and Robert Morgan.
The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, organized at Poinsett County, Ark., in 1934, was especially active in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. The Union spread into the southeastern states and to California, affiliating off and on with larger national labor federations, and maintaining headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., or, from 1948 to 1960, at Washington, D.C. It has become successively the National Agricultural Workers Union and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union.
Southern Texts Society, an institution dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-length collections of manuscript or rare printed materials important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life.
The Southern Economic Journal, the journal of the Southern Economic Association, began publication in 1933 at the University of Georgia and was produced from 1935 through 1997 by the Association and the University of North Carolina. The Journal moved to the University of Florida in fall 1997. The Journal originally was intended to examine economic issues peculiar to the American South. Over the years, its focus shifted to more general economic topics. Records deposited in 1997 cover the period during which the Southern Economic Journal was affiliated with the University of North Carolina; the original accession begins in 1937 and ends with the Journal's move to the University of Florida in the fall of 1997. The collection has since expanded to include records through 2003. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with authors of articles submitted to the journal, but there are also records relating to the Journal's financial and administrative operations, including correspondence, ledgers, bank statements, and subscription information.
Collection of memorabilia, artifacts, postcards, and other objects pertaining to the Southern United States and to other parts of the world visited by staff and friends of the Southern Historical Collection. Includes Mardi Gras beads, ashtrays, porcelain figures, bumper stickers, and other tourist souvenirs. Objects depicting Cajun, Florida, and hillbilly stereotypes are also part of the collection.
Contains annotated materials compiled and created by David Southern (1946-2021), a white graphic designer, publisher, editor, and local historian. Materials mostly relate to Southern's research on land grants and early European land ownership in 17th- and 18th-century Orange and Durham counties in North Carolina, including records of early Native American settlements in the region. There are also some materials from surrounding counties, such as Alamance County and Granville County. Southern compiled many of the materials from other research repositories, including the State Archives of North Carolina.
Southerners for Economic Justice (SEJ) was founded in 1976 during a successful campaign to help J. P. Stevens textile workers unionize. Since then, SEJ has focused on empowering the unemployed and working poor to develop community-based strategies to solve social problems associated with economic crisis.
Transcriptions of interviews in the Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women project of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Radcliffe College with funding from the Ford Foundation. The fifty-six interviews, with transcriptions ranging in length from 17 to over 2,000 pages, were conducted by Fran Leeper Buss during the 1970s and 1980s. Interviewees, some of whom chose to remain anonymous, include three Asian-Americans, twelve African-Americans, and six Native-Americans. The women resided in fourteen states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas in the South; Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the West; Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the Midwest. Appalachia is represented by women from Kentucky and Tennessee. The subjects covered document all aspects of these women's lives--their personal lives, their attitudes and interactions with members of their families and others in their communities, and their feelings about their status at the time of the interview and about their prospects for the future. An extensive subject index is provided. The Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of seven depositories for this material; the original tapes and other materials are housed at the Schlesinger Library.
Hartwell Percy Spain was a volunteer Confederate soldier in the Darlington Guards on duty around Charleston, S.C.
The collection includes a letter, alleged to be from Andrew Jackson, to David Owen, 1835; Joseph F. Spainhour's correspondence about the item; several unpublished articles by Spainhour concerning it; and a copy of a letter, 1932, from S. B. Edwards Senior, concerning the history of the letter. The letter asks for secret help against Jackson's enemies and promises money and position.
Michael Spainhour was a schoolmaster, probably of Burke County (now Caldwell County), N.C.
The collection contains miscellaneous items, circa 1800-1912, collected by Ella Barrow Spalding. Included are circulars concerning the enrollment of slaves and freedmen into the Confederate States Army, 1864, and broadsides of schools, factors, and orchards; biographical sketches; a daybook, 1829, of an unidentified person or firm in Savannah, Ga.; and other tiems. Among these items are curricula, programs, and examinations from academies, women's colleges, and universities in Georgia; an undated map showing the mail route from New York to New Orleans; a biographical sketch of Gen. Lachlan McIntosh of Georgia; and genealogical information on the McIntosh family.
Microfilm of papers of Sparkman family members, especially James A. Sparkman, physician and rice planter of Georgetown District, S.C. Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and writings relate to Sparkman's patients and colleagues; the settlement of the estate of Sparkman's father-in-law, Edward Thomas Heriot; plantation business; agricultural societies; military occupation during the Civil War; and problems during Recontruction.
Collection includes plantation journal, dated 1848 and 1853-1859, of Ben Sparkman, a white man, who owned or managed at least three plantations, likely located in the Georgetown District of South Carolina that were based on a workforce of enslaved people. The journal includes descriptions of the activities of enslaved workers at the plantations, as well as daily weather conditions, and also includes descriptions of the planting, cultivating, and processing of rice and food crops such as potatoes and corn for local consumption.
James Ritchie Sparkman was a South Carolina rice planter and physician of the Pee Dee River area of Georgetown District, S.C. He was the brother of William Ervine Sparkman (1813-1846), and married Mary Elizabeth Heriot, daughter of physician Edward Thomas Heriot.
William Ervine Sparkman, South Carolina rice planter of the Georgetown and Williamsburg districts on the Black River, married M.A.E. Burgess in December 1836. He was the brother of James Ritchie Sparkman (1815-1897).
Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor, and historian of Massachusetts. The collection includes a letter from Sparks to Henry T. Duncan, expressing his appreciation for Kentucky ham and Bourbon whiskey sent to him and mentioning family matters.
Thomas Sparrow was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, and Confederate officer of Washington (Beaufort County), N.C.
David M. Spear Photographs and Papers documents the work and family of white photographer and author David M. Spear. Images in the collection depict scenes of the Neugent Family of Madison, N.C., for the book The Neugents: Close to Home, which portrays the Neugent's rural lifestyle as multi-generational tobacco farmers; scenes in Mexico for Visible Spirits: No Es Nada Como Parece = Nothing Is Ever As It Seems; and scenes in Havana, Cuba, for Ten Days in Havana. Other materials include drafts, research, and related files for these pictorial publications and for Spear's family memoir Playing with Dynamite: The Story of One Newspaper Family in the South; Spear's offices files chiefly relating to his photography and publications; his files relating to the Sherwood Anderson Foundation; and family papers, including correspondence and writings, that chiefly document the two generations of Anderson and Spear family members before him, especially his mother and father, Marion Mimi Anderson and Russell M. Spear, and her parents Cornelia Lane and Sherwood Anderson. There are also images depicting members of the Spear family from the 1880s to the 1990s.
The Robert W. Spearman Papers document study of and reaction to the Speaker Ban Law (H.B. 1395) by Spearman during his terms as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body vice president from 1963 to 1964 and as president from 1964 to 1965. Materials include correspondence, speeches, copies of legislative reports and communications, legal opinions, a survey of journalists' opinions on the impact of the law, and some related Speaker Ban papers collected by Spearman's friend Joel Fleishman. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Walter Smith Spearman (1908-1987) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1937-1978, wrote plays and short stories, wrote for numerous newspapers, and was an amatuer actor for over forty years.
William Oscar Spears (1885-1966) of Chattanooga, Tenn., was a United States naval officer who retired as a rear admiral.
Speculation Land Company was a New York company which owned thousands of acres in Buncombe County, Rutherford County, and Mecklenburg County, N.C. The lands were acquired by Tenche Coxe (1755-1824) in 1797, but soon were turned over to Pierre Etienne DuPonceau (1760-1844) and Abraham Kintzig of Philadelphia, Pa. About 1825 the properties came into possession of a group of New York owners and their agents in North Carolina. The collection includes legal papers, surveying records, agents' account books of sales, and other items, including scattered personal papers of some of the agents. Some correspondence and accounts of the 1850s relate to gold and other mining on the Mecklenburg County lands, and post-Civil War papers relate to the recovery of the properties which had been taken over by Confederate sequestration agents.
John H. Speed, a white clerk or merchant of Edgecombe County, N.C., served in Company G, 3rd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment (also called the 41st Regiment, North Carolina Troops). William H. Edmondson was a white physician who served in Company G, 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment and, later, in the 52nd Virginia Troops Regiment. The collection includes three original letters from 1864, typed transcriptions of two of them, and two supplementary documents providing background on John H. Speed and the Edmondson family. The 10 June 1864 letter was written by J. S.(?) Pierre Gibson transmitting his regards to the sister of the recently deceased Dr. Edmonson, believed to be William H. Edmondson. The 23 September 1864 letter was written by John H. Speed to his daughter Kate(?) giving her news and instructions. During September 1864, Speed's company was on picket duty in Virginia, guarding the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. The 18 November 1864 letter is from Speed, in camp, to his wife, in which he discussed weather, his improving health, and anticipation of another battle before winter.
The collection is a letter, 18 January 1824, from former United States Senator Robert Goodloe Harper of Baltimore to Joseph J. Speed about Mr. Patterson's bill against Githings and other legal matters.
Francis Speight (1896-1989) and Sarah Blakeslee Speight (1912-2005) were married white artists. Francis Speight, originally from North Carolina, spent many years on the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and as artist-in-residence at East Carolina University. He was best known for his landscape paintings of Manayunk, a working-class community just outside Philadelphia. Sarah Blakeslee Speight, originally from Illinois, painted both landscapes and portraits. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal materials, clippings, writings, pictures (both sketches and photographs), and other papers relating to the Speights. Subgroup I consists of materials that relate primarily to Francis Speight's teaching career, chiefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and to his relations with other artists, art organizations, and art dealers. It also includes material relating to the Speights as a couple. Also included are materials relating to Francis Speight's family. Subgroup II contains materials primarily relating to Sarah Blakeslee Speight, including correspondence, pictures (chiefly sketches), and other papers. Correspondence is divided between general correspondence and letters exchanged between Sarah and her long-time friend, anti-war and anti-nuclear activist Margaret Goddard Holt (1911-2004) of Massachusetts. Also included is a small amount of material relating to the Blakeslee family. Additions contain materials similar to those received earlier.
John Francis Speight was a Methodist clergyman, president of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, trustee of Jamestown Female College, and farmer of Edgecombe County, N.C.
The collection contains audio recordings of oral history interviews conducted by James R. Spence, a white lawyer, with Paul Green, a white author, teacher, playwright, and humanitarian. Both James R. Spence and Paul Green grew up in Harnett County, N.C. and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection also includes interviews with Green's wife Elizabeth Atkinston Lay Green and Green's sisters Erma Green Gold, Mary Green Johnson, and Caro Mae Green Russell. Interview topics include Paul Green's professional career and family life in Harnett County, N.C.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and elsewhere.
MICROFILM ONLY. Diary, 4 pocket volumes, 1862-1865, kept by Charles Spencer before, during, and after his service in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, United States Army. In his very brief daily entries, Spencer always recorded the weather and his activities for the day; he often noted his petty expenses and mail he received. Spencer's entries before 1862 chronicle his activities outside his employment in a bank in Massachusetts. Entries from August 1862 to April 1865 describe his activities as a clerk in the army, stationed near Suffolk, Va., and briefly near New Bern, N.C. A few entries report skirmishing nearby, but more are devoted to the illness of his brother, John Spencer, in 1863; the illness of his fiancee, Mary Parker, in 1865; and to his work and social activities. Entries after April 1865 describe Spencer's work and family life in Portsmouth and Richmond, Va. Printed matter at the beginning of each volume includes an almanac with postage rates, interest rates, eclipses, a calendar, the phases of the moon, and other similar information.
Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writer and community leader of Chapel Hill, N.C., was the daughter of University of North Carolina mathematics professor James Phillips (1792-1867) and Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881), wife of lawyer James Monroe Spencer (1827-1861), and mother of Julia Spencer Love (b. 1859), who married Harvard University mathematician James Lee Love (1860-1950).
Elias Spencer of South Carolina was the father of Elisha Spencer, proprietor of a dry goods store in Lynchburg, Lee County, S.C. Elisha married M. A. Fraser and with her had sons Charles Spencer and William Francis Spencer (1851-1877) and daughters Jane Baxter Spencer (Backie) and R. H. Spencer. During the Civil War, Elisha Spencer served in the Confederate States of America Army. Charles Spencer was an attorney in practice in Yorkville, S.C., during the 1870s. Backie married L. M. Crosswell and during the 1880s lived in Bishopville, S.C.
White writer Elizabeth Spencer was born in 1921 in Carrollton, Miss. Spencer married John Rusher in 1956 and was sometimes known as Elizabeth Rusher among friends and family. Spencer taught writing at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 1976-1986, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986-1992. The collection includes correspondence, writings and related materials, and pictures. Business and personal correspondence, 1948-2003 (bulk 1999-2003), includes both letters and printed copies of incoming and outgoing emails. Correspondents include John Rusher and other family members, writers, poets, professors, artists, editors, literary critics, and United States Senator John McCain. Subjects include Eudora Welty, Spencer's writings and professional activities, Spencer family history, McCain's presidential run, and other topics. Writings, 1950s, 1987-2002, are chiefly by or about Spencer. Pictures include photographs of Spencer, family and friends, travels, other writers, and writing events. Also included is a series of pictures that Spencer selected for possible inclusion in her memoir Landscapes of the Heart. The Addition of April 2013 is Spencer's professional website, consisting of resume, portraits of Spencer, published books, and forthcoming projects, many accompanied by the author's own commentary.
Samuel Spencer was a North Carolina Superior Court judge.
Spencer, native of Columbus, Ga., was president of six railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio, 1887-1888, and the Southern, 1894-1906. He was a director of at least ten railroads and of several banks and other companies. Through 1869 the papers consist of personal correspondence while Samuel Spencer was at the Georgia Miliary Academy, serving in the Confederate Army, and at the universities of Georgia and Virginia. Beginning in 1870 there is both personal and business correspondence and a large quantity of business papers, including company reports, surveys, financial statements, bills, receipts, legal papers, lists of stockholders, engineering notes, scrapbooks, and other items pertaining to many of the railroads for which Spencer was engineer, manager, or director, in particular the Baltimore & Ohio, Southern, Savannah & Memphis, and Long Island roads, and to other companies with which he was connected, including the Columbus (Ga.) water works; Pittsburgh & Chicago Gas & Coal Co;, West Virginia Oil Co.; two coke manufacturing firms; the Union Stockyard Company of Chicago; Westinghouse Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh, including correspondence with George Westinghouse; and New York bankers Drexel, Morgan & Company, for whom he was the railroad expert. Other correspondents include many national business and political leaders of the post Civil War period, among them his father-in- law, Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), Georgia Supreme Court justice and Confederate brigadier general. Also included are Spencer's detailed letters while traveling in the western United States and Mexico, 1885, and materials, 1915-1919, of his son, Henry B. Spencer, relating to the Tennessee Railway Company. A scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, and speeches on railroad regulation, 1905-1906.
The collection is one tintype image of a young white man in a military uniform, likely a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. A handwritten note adhered to the verso identifies the subject as "My Great Uncle Samuel Spencer Grandma Pearces Brother 16 old."
Letter from Abraham S. Spengler to his brother reporting news from the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, including threats against local abolitionists, probably after the John Brown raid.
Lucy Elliot Spigel grew up in Norfolk, Va., and, during World War II, was involved with a number of United States Navy servicemen stationed at the Norfolk naval base.
The Spinsters' Club of Fayetteville, N.C., was a social club for unmarried women under age 30.
William L. (William Luther) Spoon (1862-1942) was a civil engineer and good roads advocate of Alamance County, N.C.
Lieutenant C. Bayard Springer of Company I, 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers served in various coastal North Carolina locations.
The Springs family of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and York District, S.C., were white plantation owners who resided at and managed Springfield Plantation, York District, S.C., along with the people enslaved by the family there and at Cornucopia plantation in Georgia, and other family-owned plantations in Cherokee County, Tex. The collection consists of family, personal, and business papers, chiefly 1845-1870, that document slavery, including health, labor, trafficking, self-emancipation, and wealth built upon the labor of, and crimes against enslaved people; freedmen labor and rights; family, especially the lives of plantation women and children who wrote home from school; North American Indian land disputes; social life and conditions, including wealthy white society, crime, and sexual promiscuity; agriculture and plantation management; financial ventures, including banking, railroads, and textile manufacturing; the American Civil War, including wartime conditions for both white people and enslaved people in South Carolina and Texas, the 6th South Carolina Infantry Regiment and the 1st South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, camp life and battles in Virginia, and Confederate politics; Reconstruction, including labor, economic conditions, and politics; race relations, including white supremacist activities and the Ku Klux Klan; and frontier life, including the perspectives of overseers and others who moved to Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas.
The collection contains bills, accounts, checks, notes, and a few letters relating to Springs's general merchandise business with students at Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., chiefly 1856-1858.
Andrew J. Sproul (fl. 1845-1865) was an immigrant from Ireland who settled in Ohio in 1851. During the Civil War he served in the 16th Ohio Regiment, United States Army, at Vicksburg, Miss., and elsewhere on the lower Mississippi River.
Letters from Harriet Burt Parker Spruill, a homemaker, to various relatives concerning social and personal matters in Littleton, Halifax County, N.C., and other matters, including a trip Spruill made to Washington, D.C., in 1918, which she described in great detail in a 137- page letter. The addition of September 2022 includes typed copies of letters written primarily by Spruill, 1879-1919.
The Julia Cherry Spruill Photographs, circa 1925, include individual portraits of Julia Cherry Spruill and with Corydon Spruill, a white married couple, and unidentified snapshots of white men and African American children at construction sites. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Sprunt family included James Laurence Sprunt and Walter P. Sprunt, both of Wilmington, N.C.
Spurlock-Neal Company started out as a drug store in Nashville, Tennessee in 1868, expanding later into a wholesale distributor of products from cough medicine and sarsaparilla to candies and syrups. By 1910, the company had become one of the largest retail druggists in the South.
Seth Squires owned a general merchandise store Camden County, N.C.
The collection is chiefly genealogical correspondence and notes, 1903-1938, of Squires of Norfolk, Va., along with an autobiography by his father, Charles Winder Squires (1841-1900), written about 1894, describing the author's early life in Louisiana, service throughout the Civil War as an officer of the Washington (La.) Artillery, and career as a merchant in New Orleans and Saint Louis after the war.
Records of the predominantly white St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Rowan County, N.C., include an 1840 document noting the church's consecration; an 1879 letter addressed to Rev. George Badger Wetmore from a congregant; a record book with entries dating from 1840 to 1889; and a booklet titled "St. Andrew's Episcopal Church The Sesquicentennial 1840-1990" by Elizabeth H. Etheridge. The record book contains reports delivered at diocesan conventions and information about the lay vestry; the church building and grounds; the congregants including lay women church workers; burials; and sacraments performed including baptism, confirmation, and matrimony. Included in the antebellum baptismal records are the first names of enslaved people who received the sacrament with notations such as "colored servant" followed by the name of their enslaver.
The St. George Tucker Society is an interdisciplinary southern studies group aimed at promoting discussion across disciplinary, ideological, and topical lines among Southernists. Annual meetings feature presentations by established and beginning scholars in the field.
St. James's Chronicle, a London newspaper, began tri-weekly publication in 1761, and was published well into the nineteenth century.
The St. Mary's College Thomas Wolfe Collection was founded at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C., in 1975 by Catherine and John O. Fulenwider. The collection contains materials from many different sources. Items such as programs, publications, and clippings related to Thomas Wolfe were actively sought by St. Mary's College archivists and librarians and added to the collection. The largest individual collections are the papers of George McCoy, editor of the Asheville Citizen Times and one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, and those of Richard Walser, professor of English at North Carolina State University and noted Wolfe scholar. There are also papers of Edgar E. (Jim) Wolf, Thomas Wolfe's cousin who lived in Gettysburg, Penn., and corresponded occasionally with the Wolfe family in Asheville, N.C., and some papers of Thomas Wolfe's brother, Fred Wolfe. The collection was transferred to the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990.
The collection contains notes concerning Bible lectures and brief essays on varied topics presumably by a girl attending St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. The name [Emma?] Johnson appears at the end of the volume.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton, N.C., was organized in 1701.
Minutes of meetings of the board of road commissioners of St. Paul's Parish in Colleton District near Charleston, S.C., concerning regulations and responsibilities for road maintenance. Included are lists of names of slaves assigned to the roadwork.
MICROFILM ONLY. Records of baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, deaths, and miscellaneous proceedings, 1840-1916, in St. Thomas' Parish (Episcopal), Windsor, N.C.
St. Timothy's was a mission church, 1898-1950s, in New Salem Township, Union County, N.C., of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Monroe, N.C.
Marvin Hendrix Stacy was professor of civil engineering at the University of North Carolina, dean of the faculty, and acting president, 1918-1919.
The John Welles Brainard, MAJ, AUS, Ret. Collection of Stafford Family Papers consists primarily of correspondence, 1855-1892, between white plantation owner Robert Stafford (1790-1877) of Cumberland Island, Ga., and white attorney Augustus Brandegee (1828-1904) of Connecticut. This correspondence pertains to the education, legal, and financial affairs of Stafford's children with Elizabeth "Zabette" Bernadey (circa 1822), a free woman of color, whom Stafford moved to Groton, Conn., in 1851, while he remained in Georgia, and Brandegee was engaged to oversee these affairs. The collection also contains published books about Cumberland Island, Ga.
Audio recording of bear hunting tales told by Erwin Peterson, a white storyteller of Sampson County, N.C., for a documentary film project produced in Austin, Tex. Recorded by Bernard Stafford on 3 May 1986. Little is known about Bernard Stafford and their connection to the recording.
Frederic Stafford (died circa 1857) and members of his family resided in Orange, Guilford, and Alamance counties, N.C.
Margaret Ida Neville Stafford (1884-1969) worked as a private duty registered nurse around Burlington, N.C. A day book records her nursing assignments, 1915-1918. Each entry includes the patient's name, medical diagnosis and outcome, attending physician, the amount of time that Stafford spent caring for the patient, and her fee. A brief biographical sketch and family history of Margaret Ida Neville Stafford that was written in 2003 by Frances A. Campbell, Stafford's great-niece, is also included. The Addition of 2017 consists of a graduation announcement for Nurse Training School of The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1911, presumably once belonging to Margaret Ida Neville Stafford.
The collection contains an indenture, 1764, from William Barton to Martin Stala for 165 acres of land in Orange County, N.C.
Clyde M. Stallings is a 1952 graduate of the University of North Carolina. He is the cousin of North Carolina author Bernice Kelly Harris.
Jesse Francis Stallings (1856-1928) was a lawyer and Democratic Party leader of Birmingham, Ala.; United States representative, 1893-1901; secretary-treasurer of Alabama Coal and Coke Co., 1912; and president of Lincoln Reserve Life Insurance Co., 1912-1928. The collection includes political, personal, and business correspondence of Stallings. Few papers concern Stallings's service in Congress. The bulk of the papers concern Alabama politics, particularly Stallings's unsuccessful campaign for the United States Senate in 1906 and his activities as chairman of the state Democratic Party campaign committee in 1910. Other papers relate to personal matters and to the affairs of the Alabama Coal and Coke Company.
The Chris Stamey Collection consists primarily of audio recordings related to Chris Stamey, a white musician and record producer, who was a member of the American pop rock groups, the Sneakers and the dB's. The collection contains mixes, masters, demos, and outtakes by the Sneakers, the dB’s, and subsequent solo projects, as well as recordings by artists that Stamey collaborated with, including Alex Chilton, Peter Holsapple, Whiskeytown and Tift Merrit, and Yo La Tengo, among others. The collection also contains track sheets and other documentation related to the recordings found in the collection.
Mary Stamps (fl. 1863-1883) of New Orleans, La., was the niece of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889).
Millard Filmore Stancell, of Northampton County, N.C., was a student, 1865-1868, at the University of North Carolina. Benjamin Debarry Stancell was his brother.
Planter, of Hawfields, Person County, N.C., and Democratic- Republican U.S. representative, 1797-1816. Chiefly letters, 1804-1816, to Stanford in Washington, D.C., from his family at home in Person County, giving news of the family and plantation; and a smaller number of Stanford's letters home, discussing public affairs and giving advice on how to manage the family's slaves. There are also scattered family papers, including correspondence between Cornelia Adeline (Stanford) Webb and her mother, Mary (Moore) Stanford.
Harry Stanley was born Tufton K. Stanley on 2 September 1832 in Boston, Mass. He first enlisted in the United States Navy in 1855 and then reenlisted on 21 September 1861. He was made master-at-arms, the chief disciplinary officer on the USS Ethan Allen, on 24 August 1863, and left the ship on 14 June 1865 as a yeoman. He died on 15 February 1890 in Boston, Mass.
James H. Stanley, son of James Rowell Stanley (1807-1858) and Mahala Coney Stanley (1814-1858), served in the 8th Georgia Regiment, C.S.A. His brother, Joel Coney Stanley (1844-1899), also served in the Confederate Army.
Recording of an interview with the Clewis family musicians, including Tony Clewis, his father Buck Clewis, and his mother, and live performances of songs on the banjo, piano, and voice. Kay Stanley recorded the Clewis family in Riverview, N.C. ("Crusoe Island") on 20 June 1974. Little is known about Kay Stanley and their connection to the recording. The collection also contains a cover sheet prepared by former staff of the Southern Folklife Collection, which includes minimal information, such as collector and informants names and technical data on the recording.
The Star Concertina Manufacturing Company Collection contains printed items including sheet music and a song book for the concertina and accordion, a self-teaching manual for playing the concertina, an article by accordion player and collector Yoshiya Watanabe (1952-2013), a brief history of the concertina by William W. Brown, and advertisements and ephemera related to the manufacture and sale of concertinas, bandonions, and accordions. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Theodore Osborn Stark (1816-1900) of Wilkinson County, Miss., was a Confederate officer. The collection is chiefly letters received, 1862-1864, by Colonel Stark, while he was in the Confederate Army, concerning personal and business matters and local conditions, from friends in Mississippi, Shreveport, La., Smith County, Tex., and other locations.
The Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE) was established in 1981 in the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was designed to provide training, education, and consultation to hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other medical facilities to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections.
Adolphus Staton (died 1964) was a native of Tarboro, N.C., and United States Navy officer, who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1902 and retired as rear admiral in 1937.
William "Bill" Stauber was editor of the Carolina Buccaneer, a humor magazine published by University of North Carolina students. The magazine, published from 1924 to 1940, was known for its slightly risque content and in 1939, was at the center of a censorship controversy. Its November 1939 issue, "The Sex Issue," was considered so offensive that the Student Council called for all 3,000 copies of the issue to be destroyed. A revised edition was published a few days later with part of the provocative cover illustration covered with a white box. The collection contains the November 1939 issue of the Carolina Buccaneer, also known as "The Sex Issue"; three versions of the controversial cover; a scrapbook compiled by William Stauber about the controversy and his time at UNC; other issues of the Carolina Buccaneer; and other items.
Charles Manly Stedman represented the fifth North Carolina congressional district in the United States House, 1911-1930, and was the last Civil War veteran in Congress.
The interview recorded on two audio cassette tapes is with a person identified only as Hattie Powell. Mary Margaret Steedly, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted the interview in circa 1977 for a folklore class. No information about Hattie Powell was provided with the recordings. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel families of Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Members of these families included newspaper editors, lawyers, missionaries, Methodist ministers, teachers, an artist, a librarian, and a history professor. Heiskell family members lived on the Fruit Hill plantation near Knoxville, Tenn. Ferdinand Lawrence Steel (1813-1873) spent much of his life as a farmer and itinerant Methodist preacher, especially in Mississippi. His son, Samuel Augustus Hankins Steel, served Methodist churches in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana, and in towns throughout the South and Southwest. His son, Edward Marvin Steel, was a Methodist minister residing chiefly in Tennessee.
Frank F. Steel of Ohio was apparently employed as a tutor or contract worker of some sort on a plantation in Mississippi and in Lexington, Ky.
Ephraim Steele (fl. 1778-1787) was a merchant and landowner, of Carlisle, Pa.
John Steele of Rowan County, N.C., was a merchant; planter; banker; influential Federalist; U.S. representative, 1790-1792; state and federal Indian commissioner; U.S. comptroller of the currency, 1796-1802; major general of the militia; and member of the N.C.-S.C. boundary commission. He married Mary Nessfield of Fayetteville, N.C., and they had three daughters: Ann Nessfield Steele (died 1804), Margaret Steele Ferrand (died 1830), and Eliza Steele Macnamara (died 1836). Mary managed family business interests after her husband's death and cared for her granddaughters after their mother Margaret's death.
Henry Maxwell Steele, known as Max Steele, was an author, professor of English, director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and advisory editor at the Paris Review and at Story magazine. Steele was raised in Greenville, S.C., and earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina.
Thomas Steele was a planter at Woodland, near Cheraw (Chesterfield County), S.C. The collection is a plantation diary, 1854-1856, of Thomas Steele containing almost daily entries recounting planting, cultivating, and harvesting cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and other crops; activities and health of slaves; activities of overseers; and discussion of farm animals, including mules, hogs, and dogs; construction projects; financial transactions; neighbors; cures; weather; and Steele's health. Steele apparently had two children, Willie and Eugene, whom he occasionally mentions sending to school.
Walter L. Steele (1823-1891) of Richmond County, N.C., was a manufacturer and held various political offices, including U.S. representative, 1877-1881.
Samuel Hilton Steelman (1894-1975) of Lincolnton, N.C., was a dentist and collector of stamps and historical documents.
John Henry Steinmeyer (1836-1902) was an officer of the Marion Rifles of Charleston, S.C., Company A, 24th South Carolina Regiment.
Thad Stem Jr. (1916-1980) of Oxford, N.C., wrote novels, poetry, and short stories and contributed editorials and short pieces to the News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.), and other North Carolina newspapers. Majors works by Stem include The Animal Fair (1960), Entries from Oxford (1971), Senator Sam Ervin's Best Stories (1973), and Thad Stem's Ark (1979). Stem is featured in Timothy B. Tyson's memoir Blood Done Sign My Name.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens was vice president of the Confederate States of America. His brother, Linton Stephens, was a lieutenant colonel of the 15th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America.
George Erwin Gullett Stephens, a native of Summerfield, Guilford County, N.C., and resident of Charlotte and Asheville, N.C., was a journalist and real estate broker. He married Sophie Convere Myers Stephens. Their children were Sophie Myers Stephens (Martin) and George Myers Stephens.
George Myers Stephens, publisher and civic leader of Asheville, N.C. Stephens started the Stephens Press in 1936, which, along with commercial printing, specialized in books, guides, and maps about the Smokies and western North Carolina.
Marcus Cicero Stephens (fl. 1835-1841) of North Carolina moved to Gadsden, Fla., in 1835.
The collection of white poet and professor of literature and creative writing, Shelby Stevenson (1938-) includes personal and professional correspondence; files relating to Pembroke Magazine, North Carolina arts organizations, and Stephenson's academic career; and many writings by Stephenson, both poetry and prose. Included is correspondence with local, national, and international poets, novelists, editors, and publishers, including A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, Norman Macleod, Guy Owen, and Paul Green. There is also some correspondence with friends and relatives. Pembroke Magazine materials include correspondence with contributors and issue files. Also included are files relating to North Carolina arts organizations with which Stephenson was involved, including the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, the North Carolina Writers Network, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the Friends of Weymouth. There is also some material relating to Stephenson's academic career, especially at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (formerly Pembroke State University). Included are teaching materials and other items. Stephenson's writings include many drafts of poems, manuscripts of several books of poetry, and essays and book reviews. There are also biographical materials and bibliographies of Stephenson's writings and audio recordings of talks, lectures, panels, and interviews by Stephenson and others.
Correspondence, notes, drafts, photographs, slides, and other items relating to Sallie Southall Cotten: A Woman's Life in North Carolina (Pamlico Press: Greenville, N.C., 1987) by William Stephenson, professor of English at East Carolina University, and other writings by Stephenson, chiefly about Cotten and the Cotten and Southall families. Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's rights. Also included is information about Stephenson's establishing the Pamlico Press to publish the book.
Alfred Eric Stepney was an African American enlisted soldier in the United States Army stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1942. He was from White Plains, N.Y.
The collection consists chiefly of stereograph cards made in North Carolina from circa 1870 to circa 1904, some of which depict scenes at the University of North Carolina. Also included are a number of stereocards made outside of North Carolina.
Lew Stern, a white author, writes on banjo history, 18th century British banjo makers, and other banjo-focused topics. The collection consists chiefly of Stern's research materials on traditional musicians Dwight Diller and Tommy Thompson, founding member of the Red Clay Ramblers. Materials consist of research files, audiocassette recordings of interviews and workshops, and born-digital materials compiled and created by Lew Stern. The addition includes a flyer promoting the 2019 Vandalia Gathering; correspondence with John Cohen, a white musician and musicologist, and Malcolm Owen, a white fiddler in the Fuzzy Mountain String Band; and contextual information about these items provided by Stern.
Jeremiah Stetson (1810-1869), a farmer from Hanson, Mass., served in the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. The collection includes 20 letters and seven original poems written by Stetson during the Civil War to his wife, Abbie F. Stetson (d. 1901), in Hanson, Mass. Letters, 15 November 1861-10 December 1863, were addressed from army camps and hospitals in Annapolis, Md.; Port Royal, S.C.; and New Bern, N.C. In addition to accounts of battles at New Bern and Kinston, N.C., Stetson's letters and poems are full of detailed descriptions of military life and hospital life, including comments on the enlistment of African Americans, the enthusiastic reception given by slaves to Union forces entering Maryland, infantry training exercises, the construction of camps and barracks, soldiers' amusements, camp and hospital food, the uncertainty of mailing money and other valuables back to the North, and foraging in the area around New Bern. Stetson regularly sent instructions to his family on tending chickens, fruit trees, and strawberries. Letters show that Stetson's son, Edwin Leforrest Stetson, was with his father as they left Perryville, Md., for Annapolis, Md. They were then sent south to participate in campaigns in eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. Edwin Stetson apparently participated in General John G. Foster's expeditions from New Bern to take Kinston, N.C.; to attempt to take Goldsboro, N.C.; and to destroy railroads surrounding New Bern.
Unpublished manuscripts on the development of the Daily Tar Heel, 1930-1947, and the history of the Chapel Hill YMCA, 1940s-1960s, donated by Hugh Stevens, a first amendment and media attorney in Raleigh, N.C. and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as editor of the Daily Tar Heel and worked to overturn the Speaker Ban.
Robert Louis Stevens (1925-2003) of Asheville, N.C., served as an enlisted man in the United States Navy during World War II aboard the U.S.S. Doyle C. Barnes, a destroyer escort that saw duty in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina in 1949, Stevens went on to a career in publishing and advertising in New York, N.Y. He also wrote short stories and plays.
William H. Stevens (fl. 1862-1863) was a federal cavalry officer with the Rhode Island 7th Squadron and later with the 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry. The collection includes Civil War letters from William H. Stevens while with the Rhode Island 7th Squadron and later with the 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry, stationed in northern Virginia, near New Orleans, at Annapolis, Md., and other places, to Molly. The letters discuss Stevens's health, troop movements, camp life, and other matters.
Genealogical records, 1748-1898, of the Stevenson family compiled in preparation for Samuel Harris Stevenson's A History and Genealogical Record of the Stevenson Family from 1748-1898.
Dora Barbour Stevenson was a school teacher who lived in and around Zebulon, Raleigh, and Smithfield, N.C., between the 1910s and the 1970s. She was married to J.E. Stevenson.
Mark De Wolf Stevenson (1845-1910) was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1862-1863 and 1866-1867, and later became a merchant, teacher, and lawyer of New Bern, N.C.
William Francis Stevenson (1861-1942) of Cheraw, S.C., was a lawyer, South Carolina state legislator, and United States representative, 1917-1933. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, 1917-1922, with constituents of the 5th Congressional District of South Carolina, concerning national questions and individual interests. There is some material relating to Stevenson's campaigns. Also included are a few papers relating to the Chesterfield and Lancaster railroad, 1901-1902, and correspondence reflecting Stevenson's interest in the Presbyterian church.
MICROFILM ONLY. Papers of the Wilson and Stewart families of Georgia and South Carolina, including an obituary, June 1829, of Daniel Stewart of Liberty County, Ga.; a certificate of C. C. Wilson's post as solicitor general, Eastern Judicial District, 1860; letters, 1899-1923, regarding the genealogy of the Stewart and Wilson families, received by Mrs. Edward Karow (nee Anna Belle Wilson); and a genealogy entitled "Stewart of Ledcreich." Also included are two undated poems addressed to Kate Morrison; biographical sketches of Anna Karow's father, Claudius Charles Wilson (1831-1863), lawyer and Confederate colonel who was promoted to Brigadier General just before his death; an obituary of John M. Wilson of Savannah, Ga.; and two printed items: The Wilson Family (1871) by Sara Susannah Wilson and History and Genealogy of the Stewart, Elliott, and Dunwody Families (1895) by Joseph Gaston Bulloch.
Ethelbert Stewart (1857-1936) of Illinois was a pioneer in the field of labor statistics. A longtime employee of the United States Labor Department, Stewart also founded and edited labor newspapers. He served as the commissioner of labor for Illionis, chief of the United States Labor Bureau, chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1920-1932, and statistical advisor to the United States Tariff Board. The collection is writings, correspondence, and clippings of Ethelbert Stewart. Two-thirds of the collection is made up of manuscript or mass-produced copies of articles, speeches, and short stories by Stewart and of clippings by or about him. The other writings and the correspondence with government officials, labor leaders, reformers, and economists concern labor organizations, strikes, the tariff, his official duties, vocational education, education of children with speech disorders, and other issues. Correspondents include Charles Henry Dam and Henry Demarest Lloyd.
MICROFILM AND PAPER: Correspondence of members of the the Pinckney, Horry, Rutledge, and Middleton families of South Carolina with family and friends in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., England, and France. Included are letters to Eliza Lucas Pinckney from her son at school in England and from her other children, letters from Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to Edward Rutledge, and letters from Henry Middleton Rutledge in Europe to his parents, discussing current affairs. Also included is a letter book, 1763- 1771, of Harriott Pinckney Horry.
William Harding Stewart was born in Utica, N.Y., in 1816. He spent most of his adult life in the South as a traveling Campbellite Christian preacher based first in Louisiana and then in Texas. The collection consists of the Reminiscences of Eld. W. H. Stewart, published in Jackson, Miss., in 1894. The reminiscences include an autobiography and sketches for and outlines of his sermons through 1893. Included in the autobiographical portion are comments about Stewart and his work and excerpts of letters to Stewart from prominent members of the Disciples of Christ, most notably Robert Graham. Topics include Stewart's calling to the ministry; his travels and ministry throughout Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas; the loss of three of his children to disease; the affect of the Civil War on his homestead; the deep political and social divisions he perceived among residents in Lincoln County, Ky., after the Civil War; and the loss of his wife of 49 years. The final two chapters of the reminiscence include sketches and outlines of Stewart's sermons. In one of these, he described the organization and church government of the Disciples of Christ.
William H. Stewart was captain of the 95th Illinois Volunteers.
James P. Stimson was deputy sheriff and sheriff of Davidson County, N.C.
William Jasper Stimson (1860-1929) and his son, Benjamin Alston Stimson (1893-1969), were white photographers based in Statesville, N.C. William Stimson moved to Statesville in 1890 to set up Stimson Studio which was later run by Benjamin Stimson. Benjamin Stimson served in World War I, working as an X-ray technician at Base Hospital 45 in Autun, France, in 1918.
Jacob Stirewalt was born in Rowan County, N.C., in 1805. He was married to Henrietta Henkel in 1833 and ordained pastor in Lincoln County, N.C., in 1838. He died in Shenandoah County, Va., in 1869.
The collection is Eunice Stockwell's notes, 1946, on the Green family of Mississippi; Rachel Robards; the swords of John Anthony Quitman; and Rees Fitzpatrick, manufacturer of the bowie-knife.
Stone family members included Moses Stone (d. 1844), planter in Spartanburg District of South Carolina, and his wife, Catharine Smith Stone (1798-1875), who ran the plantation after her husband's death. The collection contains correspondence and business papers, including bills of sale, inventories, land documents and survey reports, subpoenas, promissory notes, and other documents written by or concerning members of the Stone family and related Smith, Tracy, and Barnett families of Cedar Springs, S.C.; Spartanburg County, S.C.; Franklin County, Ga.; Americus, Ga.; Marion County, Ala.; and King's Mountain, N.C. Most materials relate to Moses and Catharine Smith Stone. Many letters, chiefly about family activities, are addressed to Catharine Smith Stone. Also included are charms, medicinal and household recipes, and a few items relating to slaves.
The Connie Jean Stone Collection contains an audio recording of husband and wife, Roy Coleman and Ollie Coleman, white storytellers of Iredell County, N.C. On the recording, Roy and Ollie Coleman, perform ghost stories, witch stories, and supernatural legends related to Iredell County, including stories about family members. Connie Jean Stone, a white student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, made the recording for a folklore class project while at UNC. The collection also contains supporting documentation, consisting of a tape log created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff.
Olive Matthews Stone was a sociologist involved in social welfare and race relations. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina in 1939 and was later associated with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina. She was associate professor in the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Los Angeles, 1949-1964.
Thomas Clarence Stone represented Rockingham County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1935-1947, and Rockingham and Caswell counties in the North Carolina Senate, 1955, 1961, and 1963, and served as president of the Senate in 1963.
Records of a Charleston District, S.C., plantation, comprised of five parts: 1) Ophir plantation diary, notes, and records in five volumes, representing the years 1788, 1824, and 1826-1829; 2) miscellaneous letters and documents of members of the Porcher, Dubose, Croft, and Jenkins families of South Carolina, including genealogical records, letters and documents written between 1833 and 1861, and one undated letter written after the Civil War; 3) papers belonging to Peter Gaillard Stoney, including an arithmetic notebook of C. M. Stoney and plantation notes, 1832-1860, which record the names and activities of slaves at Back River during the years 1835, 1844, 1854, and 1858-1860; 4) diary of Isaac DuBose Porcher, January 1855-June 1860, moral philosophy lecture notes, and a contract for Ophir Plantation; and 5) a roster, belonging to Captain T. Gaillard Croft of Co. C, 16th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, C.S.A., 1862.
George C. Stoney (1916-2012), a white documentary filmmaker, specialized in socially relevant films. He mentored and taught generations of filmmakers and media activists worldwide and was a pioneer in the movement for the creation and use of public access television to enact social change. The collection consists of papers chiefly relating to George C. Stoney's professional work as a documentary filmmaker, teacher, and early advocate of public access television. Correspondence with colleagues, friends, his wife, and a long-time companion all blend description of personal and working life. Also of note are love letters and Stoney's accounts of his experiences as a photo intelligence officer with the 8th United States Army Air Forces. Subject files comprise the bulk of the collection and include materials relating to films Stoney wrote, directed, and/or produced for the Southern Educational Film Production Service and George C. Stoney Associates. Topics include sexually transmitted disease; outreach programs of the Methodist Church; cardiovascular healthcare; education; community mental health; race relations in the South; police training; old age and retirement; midwifery; urban redevelopment; and other social issues. Some of Stoney's early work as a journalist and social researcher is also documented in essays, a report on race relations in Mississippi, and materials relating to his work for the Farm Security Administration. Subject files also document classes and workshops Stoney taught. Additionally, there are film treatments and research materials for prospective projects and printed and other material relating to the documentary film and cable television industries. Loose papers, 1980-1990s, consist of memobooks that likely relate to Stoney's filmmaking, and clippings, reports, readings, conference advertisements, miscellaneous printed materials, handwritten notes, and writings by others. Photographs depict the documentary filmmaking process for several of Stoney's films, public access projects and the Alternate Media Center, the work of Farm Security Administration photographers in the South in the early 1940s, and Stoney's family life. The audiovisual materials consist of films, tapes, and sound reels from various Stoney productions, 1950s-2000s.
Doug Storer was a radio producer, talent agent, and writer responsible for creating and producing radio programs, 1930s-1960s, including Ripley's Believe It or Not and Renfrew of the Mounted. He also introduced Robert Ripley, Dale Carnegie, Bob Considine, and Cab Calloway to radio. From about 1933 until 1949, Storer produced Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not radio broadcasts on several networks and developed a close personal relationship with Ripley. Under Storer's direction, Believe It or Not became one of the most successful radio programs of the 1930s and 1940s. After Ripley's death in 1949, Storer became president of Believe It or Not, Inc., and continued to oversee production of radio programs, television shows, and other projects of the Believe It or Not franchise. In 1960, Storer sold his interest in Believe It or Not and started a similar franchise titled Amazing But True, which included books, radio shows, newspaper columns, and films all featuring tales of strange people, weird occurrences, and peculiar animals and places. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Storer and his wife Hazel Anderson Storer traveled the world researching subjects for Believe It or Not and Amazing But True. The Storers spent most of their later years in Belleair, Fla. Doug Storer died in 1985 at age 86, and Hazel Storer died in 2005.
Eugene H. Storer was a music faculty member of Salem Academy, a school for girls in Winston-Salem, N.C. His parents and brother resided in Boston, Mass.
Joseph Story (1779-1845) was a Massachusetts lawyer and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The collection is letters from Joseph Story dealing with business of his clients.
Sterling A. Stoudemire was born in Concord, N.C., in 1902. He was a long-time professor of Spanish, and chair in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina.
The collection contains a manuscript of John Baer Stoudt's biography of Nicholas Martiau, a Huguenot military engineer who came to Virginia in 1620.
Samuel Hollingsworth Stout was born in Tennessee and served as the organizer and medical director of the Hospital Department of the Confederate Army in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. After the war, Stout worked as a physician in Georgia and Tennessee and, in the 1890s, as Texas Commissioner of Education.
Molly Stouten, artist, art educator, and musician, of Greensboro, N.C. The collection contains a handmade book by Stouten illustrating the traditional folk ballad Omie Wise and 23 field recordings of traditional Appalachian music. One of 15 of its kind, the book includes eleven intaglio prints with the text of the ballad set in linotype. Also included are slides and other materials relating to the book. The field recordings are from several visits and a 1992 residency Stouten did in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. They document musicians, including fiddlers and traditional singers, mostly from Jamestown, Tenn.; Monticello, Ky.; and Fentress County, Tenn. Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport is prominently featured. Also appearing on the audio recordings are John Doss, Merta Doss, Nancy Hicks Winningham, Charlie Acuff, Clyde Troxell, Ralph Troxell, and Virgil Anderson.
The collection includes papers of the family of Marcellus Augustus Stovall, a Confederate brigadier general from Georgia, consisting chiefly of correspondence of his daughter, Anna (Mrs. G. W.) Hardwick, after the Civil War; and two of Anna's scrapbooks containing some original verse, commonplace entries, and newspaper clippings.
Calvin Stowell was a newspaper writer, federal soldier in the Civil War, and state legislator of Illinois.
The collection is a general merchandise record from Strabane, Burke County (now Caldwell County), N.C.
Physics professor and activist Joseph Ward Straley (1914-2005) was born in Paulding, Ohio. Straley joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1945; he retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. Straley was dedicated to a wide range of social justice issues, including desegregation, civil rights, freedom of speech, academic freedom, and injustice in Central America. He, along with the Reverend Charles Jones, helped start the racially integrated Community Church of Chapel Hill in 1953; served as chair of the Committee of Concerned Citizens, a group of Chapel Hill residents dedicated to civil rights, 1964-1965; was co-chair of the Orange County Energy Conservation Task Force, 1975; and was active in the Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America, 1987-2002. Straley was also an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council, 1980-1984. Straley and his wife Lucy had a daughter, Lesley, and two sons, Joseph Jr. and David.
Robert Strange was a United States senator from North Carolina from 1836 to 1840.
Lawyer of Wilmington, N.C.
The Bryson Strauss Collection consists of live audio and video recordings, 2000, of North Carolina based alternative-country bands, Tift Merritt and the Carbines and Trailer Bride. Compiled by Bryson Strauss, the recordings were made by Aaron Taylor at the Historic Playmakers Theatre in Chapel Hill, N.C. The performances were part of the first annual Classic Sounds of the South concert series sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Folklore. Recordings are on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and MiniDV.
The collection of the Street family centers around Richard Street (1779-1826) and Richard Street (1826-1899), white farmers from Glendon, Moore County, N.C. Street (1826-1899) served as a quartermaster sergeant in the 26th Regiment, Company H of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. This collection chiefly consists of legal and financial items related to estates, debts, and the purchase of sugar, cotton, wool, gun powder and buckshot, tobacco, and other goods. There are also letters to and from Richard Street (1822-1899), including several written during the Civil War from army camps near Kinston, N.C., and Goldsboro, N.C. Of interest is an 1823 letter pertaining to the sale of an unnamed enslaved individual for fifty dollars; the 1877 will of Joseph D. Wilcox (also spelled Willcox) of Lafayette County, Miss.; and a receipt from the sale of tobacco from the Cameron family of North Carolina. Also included are cartes-de-visite portraits of John Willcox and R.P. Willcox.
John Kennedy Street (1837-1914), originally of Giles County, Tenn., was a private in the 9th Texas Infantry, July 1861-November 1863, then a chaplain with the 14th Texas Cavalry. He fought in campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky.
Margaret Berry Street was born in 1892 to the prominent Berry family of Orange County, N.C. Around 1910, she attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913 and from the University of North Carolina Law School in 1915, becoming the first woman to do so. While in Greensboro, she was a member of the Adelphian Literary Society and was active in many student theater productions. She continued to participate in theater with the Dramatic Club at the University of North Carolina. Street practiced law in Charlotte and Ashville, N.C., 1917-1933, and in Atlanta, Ga., and Washington, D.C., 1934-1937. She married Robert Burns Street. The couple had no children. Street died in 1967.
Rebecca Wilkinson Street (1780-1833) was born in New Kent County, Va. She moved with her husband, George Street, to his home in Hanover County, Va., in 1802, and then to Kentucky in 1819. The couple had nine children, at least three of whom died between 1824 and 1830. Following her husband's death in 1831, Street and her four youngest children moved to Jacksonville, Ill., to live with her brother, John Parke Wilkinson.
John Poynter Streety was born in Bladen County, N.C., in 1820. He arrived in the town of Haynesville, Ala., circa 1839, where he became a prosperous businessman. Streety's plantation was located in Lowndes County, where he was primarily active in cotton farming, raising livestock, and other agricultural activities. He was also involved in a co-partnership with a firm named J.P. Streety and Company, which participated in several types of businesses, including mercantile and advancing credit, ginning and milling, and acquisition of land. Streety died in Haynesville, Ala., in 1894.
John V. Stribling (fl. 1869-1900) was a resident of Westminster, S.C. The collection includes typed transcriptions of Stribling's correspondence concerning the functioning and sale of the Clement attachment for spinning cotton yarn and the prospects for Southern prosperity in the textile industry. Correspondence is chiefly with Colonel F. Eugene Whitfield, Corinth, Miss., distributor of the attachment, 1878-1880.
Thomas Stringfield (born 1797) and James K. Stringfield (fl. 1844-1862) were Methodist ministers of east Tennessee. The collection includes papers of and about Thomas Stringfield and James K. Stringfield. Included are two compilations of information and anecdotes about Thomas Stringfield and a few miscellaneous documents relating to him; handwritten transcriptions of letters from Thomas Stringfield written while he was at a church conference in New York, 1844; an irregularly kept diary, 1847-1850, of Thomas Stringfield; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and documents, 1837-1916, chiefly concerning Methodist church matters, especially a controversy involving Thomas Stringfield; James K. Stringfield's diary of daily activity and religious thought, 1859-1861; books of sermon notes and other church memoranda of about the same time, by James K. Stringfield; and a collection, circa 1915, of lyrics to songs, many of them African American spirituals.
Lamar Stringfield (1897-1959) was a North Carolina native and an accomplished composer, conductor, musician, and teacher. Stringfield studied and composed music based on American folklore and worked with many music ensembles, including symphony orchestras, chiefly in North Carolina.
Lamar Stringfield (1897-1959) of North Carolina was a composer of symphonic works based on American folklore, Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship winner, conductor, flutist, teacher, and promoter of local and regional musical groups, chiefly in North Carolina.
Jacob Stroman (1787-1877) was a planter in Barnwell County, S.C., at a village named Graham's Turn Out (near present-day Denmark). His grandson, Jacob P. Stroman, was a planter and physician who lived Orangeburg County, S.C., with his wife Carrie Stroman.
The collection is a letter, 1852, from Stephen Strong of Oswego, N.Y., to Mary A. Hardie of Fayetteville, N.C., concerning the Hall and Buxton families, wills, and friends.
Genealogical information about the descendants of William Strother (b. 1630) of Virginia includes a typescript (10 p.) genealogy compiled circa 1930; Strother Families, by Lester James Strother, 1994; and Houses of Strother Newsletter, April 1998, published by the William Strother Society, Inc., King George, Va.
The collection is a manuscript mathematics exercise book of Bryant Strowd, with vital records of the Durham family of North Carolina, 1804-1840, on the first and last pages.
William Franklin Strowd (1832-1911) of Orange County, N.C. and Chatham County, N.C., served in the Confederate army, was a member of the North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1875, and was a Populist congressman, 1895-1899.
Alexander Robertson Struan (1670?-1749) was a native of Scotland. The collection includes a letter signed Robertson of Strowan, Lyons [France], to Lord Mar (John Erskine, 1675-1732), a prominent Scottish Jacobite, concerning Robertson's suspicion of the loyalty to the king of certain unnamed individuals.
The collection includes business and legal papers of Samuel Strudwick (d. 1794), who lived near Wilmington, N.C.; his son William F. Strudwick (d. 1812), a Federalist member of Congress, 1796-1797; their wives, who were both named Martha; and other members of the Strudwick family of England and the Cape Fear River Valley of North Carolina. Much of the collection consists of deeds, indentures, and other papers relating to land and estate transactions, as well as slave inventories and a few family letters. Also included are letters to Samuel Strudwick from relatives and friends in England, from agents in London about property he owned there, and from merchants in Wilmington about the sale of tobacco and the purchase of articles, chiefly 1771-1792. There are also materials relating to the bankruptcy settlement, circa 1761, with George Burrington, son of North Carolina Royal Governor George Burrington, by which the Strudwicks secured most of their considerable land holdings in North Carolina, including property in what are now New Hanover, Orange, and Alamance counties.
MICROFILM ONLY. Daughter of William F. and Eliza Webb Strudwick of Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala. Diary, 1862-1863, with entries about teaching, reading, relatives, friends, and daily life in Marengo County, Ala.; and a letter from a cousin in the Confederate Army in North Carolina describing recent fighting in Virginia.
Wife of William Francis Strudwick (d. 1851) of Demopolis, Ala.; born Elizabeth Webb, Hillsborough, N.C., daughter of James and Anne Alves Huske Webb.
Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) of Hillsborough, N.C., was a fertilizer broker in Norfolk, Va., and Richmond, Va., founder and president of Bellevue Cotton Mills in Hillsborough, N.C., a banker, a postmaster, and a woodcarver. The collection primarily contains personal and business correspondence of Strudwick, the bulk consisting of correspondence, 1898-1911, between Strudwick and business associates relating to dealings in such commodities as lime phosphate, acid fish scrap, and brick, and related business records. Also included are letters from Strudwick to his fiancee, Susan Nash Read, written during their engagement, 1894-1897. Additionally, there are a few letters by Shepperd Strudwick Junior (1907- ) and other family members. Volumes include an album containing photographs of portraits by Clement Read Strudwick (1900-1958), three sketch books of Edmund Strudwick III (1909-1973) while an art student at the Pratt Institute in New York City, circa 1936-1937, ledgers, notebooks, photographs, certificates, blueprints, and maps of Perry County, Tenn.
Franklin L. Stuart, who also went by the name Frank L. Stuart, was raised in Lincoln County, N.C., and enlisted on 23 May 1861 as a private in the 13th North Carolina Volunteer Regiment (later the 23rd Regiment North Carolina Infantry). He was wounded in the leg on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, Va., but served until 16 January 1865. The collection includes letters, 1861-1865, written by Franklin L. Stuart concerning his service in the Confederate Army. Stuart wrote to his mother, father, and sisters about the life of a private including the incidence of illness in camp; rations; weather; furloughs; news of fighting; news of other soldiers from Lincolnton, N.C.; his experiences in battle; the lack of provisions; marching; the experience of being wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville; and his own morale.
George Edwin Stuart is a white archaeologist, collector, cartographer, writer, editor, administrator, and scholar of the ancient Maya. He received a BS in geology from the University of South Carolina (1956), an MA in anthropology from George Washington University (1970), and a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1975). Stuart participated in archeological excavations in South Carolina and Georgia, 1952-1958. After 1958, he concentrated on the Maya and other Mesoamerican civilizations, conducting field work in the Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico. From 1960 to 1998, Stuart worked at the National Geographic Society, serving as Vice President for Research and Exploration, Chair of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, and Senior Assistant Editor for National Geographic Magazine. In addition to authoring numerous books, articles, and research reports, Stuart lectured at George Washington University, Catholic University, and Duke University. In 1998, Stuart and his wife Melinda founded the Boundary End Archaeology Research Center (formerly the Center for Maya Research) in Barnardsville, N.C. As of 2006, the Center housed a library, antiquities, and other materials related to the ancient Maya and the archaeology of the southeastern United States.
Consists of recollections of James Reeve Stuart (1834-1915), a member of the white Stuart and Barnwell families, of Beaufort, S.C., of his family’s antebellum plantation Roupelmond (misspelled “Ronplemonde”). “’Cousin Jimmie’ Christmas on the Plantation,” written sometime after the Civil War, contains descriptions of Stuart’s visits to Roupelmond during school vacations, including the holiday activities of both his family and the people they enslaved. Stuart mentions several enslaved people by name, including a coachman named Sam and a houseboy named Dick. Stuart notes that after the Civil War, part of the plantation was owned by people who had previously been enslaved by his family.
James Stuart was a physician of Beaufort, S.C.
Letter from Mary Stubblefield of Tennessee to her niece, Ida M. Stanton, containing her recollections of home industries in the antebellum era, including weaving, dyeing, and candlemaking.
MICROFILM ONLY: Contains the concise, sometimes cryptic, daily diary of Alfred Houghton Stubbs, a white Episcopal clergyman in the missionary district of Asheville (which became the Diocese of Western North Carolina in 1922). He was Warden of Ravenscroft Associate Mission, Asheville, serving mission congregations in the surrounding mountain region, and held various church offices and committee appointments in the district. Entries mention services, incidents, problems, meetings, fund drives, Bishop Junius Moore Horner, Archdeacon John Hammond Griffith, Episcopal laymen and families, and social engagements. Volumes for 1911 and 1914 are missing.
William Carter Stubbs, chemist and agricultural scientist, was director of the Louisiana Agriculture Experiment Station, 1885-1895, and the United States Experiment Station in Honolulu, 1900, and was a professor at Louisiana State University and Auburn University. The collection includes manuscript speeches, articles, and reports, and a small amount of correspondence, related chiefly to Stubbs's professional activities as a professor and as director of the Louisiana and Hawaii agricultural experiment stations, particularly his activities involving the sugar industry in Louisiana and Hawaii.
The collection contains documentary projects and corresponding fieldwork created between 1999 and 2003 by college students who completed Into the Fields internships conducted in North Carolina and South Carolina by Student Action with Farmworkers, a nonprofit organization. Oral history interviews, photographs, videos, audio recordings, and publications document the life stories and experiences of farmworkers, many of whom migrated from Mexico and Central America to the southeastern United States. Topics explored in the students' documentary projects include farmworkers' foodways, oral literature and storytelling, folklore, religious beliefs and practices, holiday traditions and celebrations, life in migrant worker camps, the labor movement, and traditional arts, crafts, music, and dance. Many items in the collection including transcriptions of oral history interviews are in Spanish.
Materials documenting the work of the Student Health Coalition, an organization developed at Vanderbilt University in 1969 to reach out to medically underserved communities in upper East Tennessee, West Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, and Southwest Virginia, and to join with local leaders with the goal of building a network of primary care clinics and bringing health services to Appalachian regions lacking reliable access to health care. Materials include correspondence, photographs, administrative files, grant and project proposals, reports, clippings, and research files. There are also materials, including oral histories, relating to the community-driven archival project developed by former leaders of the Student Health Coalition and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the history of the coalition's work.
The records of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Musical Groups document the work of Loreleis, Clef Hangers, Pauper Players, Tar Heel Voices, and the Carolina Union Activities Board. Loreleis, founded in 1981, is a women-only a capella group. Clef Hangers, founded in 1977 as the Morrison Dorm Singers, is a men-only a capella group, and Pauper Players, founded in 1989 is a student musical theater group. Included in the records are Loreleis audition flyers and performance posters. Also, included are performance videos of Clef Hangers, Pauper Players, Loreleis, Tar Heel Voices, and performance organized by the Carolina Union Activities Board.
Students for Economic Justice was a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill active in the anti-sweatshops protest movement at the University in the 1990s. Records consist of handwritten posters created by Lorrie Bradley and other members of Students for Economic Justice during workshops with student and community groups. The posters include information about the conditions of workers and proposed plans for a code of conduct under consideration by the University.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was formally created in spring 1965 when student Jim McCorkel Jr. applied for recognition of SDS as a student organization. In its early years, the chapter was involved in campus opposition to the Speaker Ban, a state law barring speakers who were known to be affiliated with the Communist Party, had pled the Fifth Amendment under questioning about communist affiliations, or had advocated the overthrow of the US government from state university campuses. In recent years SDS has enjoyed a resurgence on college campuses throughout the country, led in part by some of its original leaders from the 1960s. In fall 2006, a new chapter of SDS was established at UNC-Chapel Hill, aimed at organizing student opposition to the Iraq War. The records include fliers, notes, meeting minutes, photos, and video footage of protests. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Leander M. Studwell was an officer of Studwell Brothers and Company, shoe and boot manufacturers, of New York, N.Y.
Otto Stuhlman Junior was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina, 1920-1965.
The collection of white photographer Don Sturkey of Charlotte, N.C., contains images, 1951 to 2007, chiefly made when Sturkey was a staff photographer for the Charlotte Observer between 1955 and 1989. Photographs primarily depict news and sports events, numerous North Carolina and national politicians, and musicians and other entertainers. Sturkey’s images also capture the civil rights movement and racist backlash to the movement in Charlotte, N.C., including protests and picketing of segregated establishments, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and the first African American student to integrate Charlotte and Mecklenburg County school, Dorothy Counts when she walked into Harding High School in 1957 followed by a crowd of white people taunting her. Also included are photographs of several NASA launches (1968-1972) from The Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla. and images depicting the construction of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. in 1971.
Arthur Styron (1890-1958) was an Episcopal minister and author of Wilmington, N.C. The collection includes unpublished plays, short stories, and nonfiction writings by Styron, including a book about Spain and a biography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859); legal papers of an Ulster County, N.Y., family; collected autographs of congressmen; and other historical items.
Oscar Malachi Styron (1838-1865), of Princess Anne County, Va., and Enfield, N.C., was a Confederate soldier serverely wounded in 1862.
Design work by Sue Meyer Design, a design firm founded by white graphic designer, illustrator and art director Sue Meyer, including publications by Southern Culture on the Skids, Hasil Adkins, Sugar Hill Records, the Museum of Life and Science, and Algonquin Books. Materials consist of design and print mechanicals, production mockups, package design, book jacket design, printed promotional posters and a printed catalog.
Founded in 1978 in Durham, N.C., the bluegrass and Americana record label Sugar Hill Records has released albums by more than 100 artists including Dolly Parton, Doc Watson, Nickel Creek, Townes Van Zandt, Donna the Buffalo, Ricky Skaggs, Bad Livers, and Red Clay Ramblers. Recording artist files containing press packets, album reviews, newspaper clippings, and publicity photographs comprise the bulk of the collection. The collection also contains commercial recordings released by Sugar Hill, demo tapes from artists, publicity materials and printed items for the label, and office files with contracts, licensing agreements, correspondence, and financial documents. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Andrew Sullins (fl. 1874-1875) of Mitchell County, N.C., owned and operated a small general merchandise business.
The collection is a letter from Norman Brownson, Fernandina, Fla., to Henry Summer, Newberry, S.C., giving news from Fernandina and describing military bustle and blockade running in Florida.
Joseph John Summerell was a student at the University of North Carolina. He married Ellen Mitchell, daughter of Elisha Mitchell, a professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at UNC. Summerell received his bachelor's degree from UNC in 1842, his master's degree in 1845, and his doctor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. He became a physician and served as president of the North Carolina Medical Society.
Irl W. Summerlin (1893-1968) was born and died in Chapel Hill, N.C. He served as a supply officer for the American Red Cross in the Mediterranean region from early 1944 to early 1945.
Journalist and writer Sam Summerlin, native of Chapel Hill, N.C., graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former senior staff member for the Associated Press, and president of the New York Times Syndicate Sales Corporation.
Jason Summers and Kate Fix created the film Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story (2006). The collection consists of a poster for the film, two holiday postcards created by Jason Summers and Kate Fix, and a digital sound recording, 15 February 1992, of the band Pipe performing live at Jason Summers' apartment in Chapel Hill, N.C. The addition of December 2021 contains digital images of approximately 70 paintings and other works by Bynum, N.C., folk artist Clyde Jones, taken by Jason Summers at his home in Graham, N.C. in February 2020.
Ludwic Summers (born 1795) presumably resided in North Carolina.
Polly Mira Avery Summey lived in Hendersonville, N.C.
Jethro Sumner (1733?-1785) was a brigadier general in the Contintental Army. Sumner served in the Virginia militia, 1755-1761; was justice of the peace, 1768, and sheriff, 1772-1777, of Bute (now Warren) County, N.C.; and was colonel of the 3rd Battalion, North Carolina Continentals, 1776-1778, and brigadier-general 1779-1780.
Francis (Frank) Surget was one of the wealthiest men in the antebellum South. A resident of Natchez, Miss., he owned thirteen vast plantations in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His brother, James, owned nine plantations. Together, they owned over 1,000 slaves. Charles P. Leverich was president of the Bank of New York and cotton factor for Surget and other Mississippi planters. He handled many of Surget's financial and business dealings in New York.
William Thomas Sutherlin (1822-1893) was a farmer, leaf tobacco dealer, and tobacco manufacturer of Danville, Va. He also served as mayor of Danville, president of the Danville Bank, a delegate to the Virginia secession convention, and a Confederate officer. The collection contains correspondence and other materials related to Sutherlin's businesses, including those of Sutherlin as tobacco manufacturer and distributor throughout the southeast; Confederate major and quartermaster at Danville; builder and operator of railroad lines in the vicinity of Danville; farmer, banker, capitalist; and holder of miscellaneous positions of trust in the community and state. The papers are concerned also with legislation affecting banking and railroads, current politics in relation to economic conditions, requests for political and economic patronage, loans, and other aid. The Civil War papers include letters from soldiers in Virginia, state legislators, and Confederate congressmen and businessmen, as well as papers relating to Sutherlin's work in procuring provisions for the Confederate Army, locating scarce items for commercial and industrial use, and his own tobacco business. Included are letters, 1860-1866, from traveling salesmen and crop-buying agents covering the southeast on tobacco business.
Brett Sutton (1948- ) was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. He eared as Masters degree in 1976 from the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His thesis focused on African American spiritual folk singing around Raleigh and Durham, N.C. Peter Hartman (1959- ) earned a B.S. in 1975 UNC. Hartman, also a banjo player, joined Brett Sutton to explore their mutual interest in religious folk music. In 1976, they moved to southwestern Virginia where they worked on an NEH-funded project called Religious Folksongs in the Virginia Mountains. From this research, they produced a book and LP recording called Primitive Baptist Hymns of the Blue Ridge (UNC Press, 1982). The collection consists of sound recordings and documentation relating to Sutton and Hartman's NEH project. The folk hymn singing tradition of conservative Baptists in southwestern Virginia in worship services and congregational meetings were recorded in rural churches, and interviews and songs were collected in congregation members' homes. Supplemental information and transcripts include indices of texts, songs, and informants. Also available is an inventory and comparative summary of tunes collected and the NEH grant application, which includes a narrative about the purpose, significance, and scope of the project.
Folklorist and librarian Brett Sutton was born in 1948 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. He enrolled in the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Masters degree in 1976. His thesis project, The Gospel Hymn, Shaped Notes, and the Black Tradition, focused on African American spiritual folk singing in North Carolina. The collection includes reel-to-reel tapes with cover sheets, tape indices, and content notes for each recording that were gathered for Sutton's thesis research. These tapes were recorded in several locations, including the World's Greatest Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Durham, N.C., an African American congregational church. Recordings consist of Sunday morning services; a benefit to honor the choir's sixth anniversary; shape-note gospel hymns; spirituals; and interviews with Gurtha Dunston, leader of the vocal choir at Gethsemane Baptist Church in Franklin County, N.C. Other tapes contain music and preaching recorded from WSCR radio broadcasts in Durham.
Maude Minish Sutton of Caldwell County, N.C., was a teacher, writer, and folklorist. She taught in Chapel Hill, China Grove, Avery County, and Lenoir, N.C. Sutton was also a contributor to North Carolina newspapers and on the staff of the Lenoir News-Topic. She married Dennis Howard Sutton.
David L. Swain was a white lawyer, legislator, governor of North Carolina, president of the University of North Carolina, and an enslaver. The collection includes a volume, 1855-1868, with a list of the people he enslaved, as well as debts owed to him. Correspondence relates to Swain's position as president of the University of North Carolina; his interest in the history of North Carolina in the colonial, Revolutionary War, and early national periods; and his activity as a collector of historical manuscripts. Also included are three letters from George Moses Horton, a Black poet enslaved by the Horton family in Chatham County, N.C., and scattered items on politics and on railroad promotion in North Carolina and South Carolina. The few items of earlier and later dates are miscellaneous and family materials, with little relating to Swain's active political career. Papers include correspondence with state and national leaders in fields of politics, education, and history. Also included are typed transcriptions of Swain correspondence, 1827-1868, probably prepared by former Southern Historical Collection Curator Carolyn Wallace as part of her research on Swain in the mid-1970s. These are not transcriptions of the original correspondence in these papers, but are likely transcriptions of original Swain materials held in the North Carolina Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and elsewhere.
John L. Swain (d. circa 1880) of Buncombe County, N.C., was a Confederate army captain in Company E, 17th North Carolina Regiment and a Methodist minister.
The collection of white musicians, Benjamin F. Swalin (1901-1989) and Maxine M. Swalin (1903-2009) contains biographical information, writings, correspondence, subject files, musical scores, teaching materials, and photographs. Materials document Benjamin F. Swalin's life from childhood through his music studies, teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his 33 years as conductor and director with the North Carolina Symphony from 1939 to 1972. Maxine M. Swalin's An Ear to Myself (1996) and other papers document her childhood in Iowa and life with her husband and with the North Carolina Symphony, her approach to life and support of the arts, and her dedication to their collective efforts for music education and appreciation in the state of North Carolina. Also included is a run of Symphony Stories that Adeline McCall wrote for the Symphony's Children's Concert Division, 1950-1973.
The Swann family of North Carolina and Florida included John Jones Swann (fl. 1758) of Bluff Plantation near Wilmington, N.C., son of Frederick (b. 1732) and Jane Swann Jones (1740-1781). For inheritance reasons, John Jones Swann took the name of his great uncle John Swann of Swann's Point on the Cape Fear River and married Sarah Moore (d. 1845) with whom he had three children, among them Frederick Jones Swann (b. 1790), who married Ann Sophia Green. Their son Samuel Ashe Swann was born at Belmont Plantation near Pittsboro, N.C., in 1832 and moved to Florida in 1855, settling in Nassau County near Fernandina. His wife's aunt Mary Martha Reid (1812-1894) helped found and served as a nurse during the Civil War at the Hospital for Florida Soldiers in Richmond, Va.
Margaret Swann (1837-1905) was a teacher in Warrenton, N.C. and in Virginia.
Charleen Whisnant Swansea (b. 1933) graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1956 with an M.A. in Modern Poetry. In summer 1956, she married the architect Murray Whisnant. She taught English at UNC for one year before moving back to Charlotte, where she taught at Queens College until 1964. In 1964, Swansea founded Red Clay Reader, an annual magazine that published the work of southern authors and artists. She edited the magazine until 1970. She then founded Red Clay Publishers to publish books by women writers.
Mary Elizabeth Swanson was a senior at Elon College in Elon, N.C., in 1923.
Notebooks containing class notes made by Hunter McGuire Sweaney when he was a student in the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina. Sweaney received a certificate in medicine from the University of North Carolina in 1917. The Addition of 2016 includes two additional student notebooks, a notebook from classmate William Gilliam Wilson Jr, and three account books for surgeries performed by Sweaney at Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C.
The Sweeney and Johnson Company, merchandisers of low-price laces, rugs, and other goods, began as the Brice and Johnson Company in the 19th century. Between 1939 and 1940, the Company filed for dissolution and reincorporated, consolidating the partnership in Patrick M. Sweeney's immediate family. Sweeney and Johnson Company primarily supplied traveling sales personnel and had offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago, Ill., with a headquarters office in New York City, N.Y. Patrick M. Sweeney was the head of the company, but relied heavily on his son James Johnson Sweeney and his nephew P. J. Sweeney to run the Cincinnati office.
George William Swepson was the treasurer of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and president of the western division of the Western North Carolina Railroad.
Fred Dudley Swindell was born 2 March 1882 in Kingston, N.C., to Frederick Dallas (b. 1846) and Sue Decater Swindell. His brother, Charles LeRoy Swindell, was born on 1 December 1884, in Wadesboro, N.C. Charles attended the University of North Carolina in the early 1900s and became a physician in Wilson, N.C. In the early 1900s, Fred appears to have moved to Washington, D.C., or Baltimore. It is unclear where he went to college.
John Swinton (1829-1901) was a journalist, social reformer, and crusader in the field of labor relations. The collection includes letters received by Swinton, while an editor with the New York Times, from two correspondents with the Union army: John R. Hamilton at City Point, Va.; and Henry Jacob Winser (1823-1896) at Fortress Monroe, Va. These are private letters sent to supplement news dispatches and contain confidential comments about military matters and about the reporters' experiences and methods.
Charles W. Sydnor (fl. 1863-1867) of Frederick County, Va., served as a surgeon in the Confederate army. The collection includes letters from Sydnor while serving in field hospitals of the Army of Northern Virginia, to his fiancee, later wife, Mary Louisa Davis (born 1843), of Lovingston, Nelson County, Va., describing his activities and his feelings for her. Postwar papers and letters relate to their life in Frederick County, Va.
Mary B. (Mrs. Andrew) Syme (fl. 1910-1918) was a professional genealogical researcher of Raleigh, N.C.

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Alexander Galt Taliaferro (born 1807) of Culpeper County, Va., served in the Confederate army as a colonel, 23rd Virginia Regiment. The collection is a typed transcription of Taliaferro's recollections, circa 1878, of Confederate service and discussion of whether of not he received a commission as a brigadier general.
William Booth Taliaferro of Dunham Massie, Gloucester, Va. Four volumes containing typescripts of diaries and letters of William Booth Taliaferro of Dunham Massie, Gloucester, Va., 1844-1890; the diary of his wife Sally Lyons Taliaferro (1828-1899), 1859-1899; and other materials relating to members of the Taliaferro and Lyons families. Volume 1 contains letters of the Taliaferrros and Lyons family data. Volume 2 contains the Mexican War diary, 1847, and letters, 1847-1848, of William Booth Taliaferro, documenting his activities during the war. Also included is Taliaferro's 1871-1890 diary, which contains brief entries relating to weather, financial transactions, planting, and family and neighborhood activities. Volume 3 contains Sally Lyons Taliaferro's diary, 1859-1874; volume 4 contains her diary, 1875-1899. These diaries have brief entries about the weather and family and neighborhood news.
The collection chiefly consists of Mrs. Talley's 20th-century correspondence and papers about the genealogy of the LeConte, Furman, and related families of Georgia and South Carolina. Also, scattered 19th century papers, consisting mainly of family correspondence, 1810-1872, of Farish Carter (1780-1861), Baptist minister of South Carolina; and of the scientific LeConte family of Georgia and California. Other items include the manuscript autobiography, circa 1900, and manuscript philosophical essays of the geologist Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and recollections of and collected material about him.
Microfilm of correspondence of Tallichet, Swiss immigrant, with his relatives in Switzerland, describing conditions in Marengo County and Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. Later letters are from Europe, mainly on family matters, but mention Confederate emigrants.
Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1886. In 1898, he began practicing psychotherapy in New York City. He was widely recognized as a scholar of Shakespeare and his times.
Charles A. Tanner, presumable of Kentucky, had a son, Richard P. Tanner, who served with the 26th Kentucky Regiment, United States Army, in Tennessee and North Carolina.
The dvd compiled by Phil Tanner of Dacula Ga., contains film footage from 1955 of Gid Tanner (1885-1960), fiddler with the old-time string band and recording artists the Skillet Lickers. The footage shows Gid Tanner playing music at home with his sons Gordon and G.W. Tanner and playing with Earl Johnson of the Clodhoppers and Johnson's sons Robert and Roger Johnson. The dvd also contains a 1982 documentary titled and a program recorded at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., that same year. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Tar Heel History Society is a student organization focused on campus history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization was founded in 2018. Records consist of digital photographic recreations of historic campus scenes taken by members of the Tar Heel History Society in 2019. Also included are image pairings of the recreations and the original scenes.
John H. Tarbell (1849-1929) was a white photographer who operated a studio in Asheville, N.C., between 1896 and 1901. Originally from Massachusetts, Tarbell returned to New England around 1902 and remained there until his death in 1929.
George P. Tarry of Mecklenburg County, Va., was a delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention. The collection includes five letters, 1901-1902, to George P. Tarry from constituents Armistead Burwell and C. T. Baskerville about issues to be decided by the Virginia constitutional convention, and two earlier family financial papers.
Henry Humphreys Tate was a farmer and cotton manufacturer from Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. The collection contains an autograph book and diploma from the University of North Carolina, 1858, and a Dialectic Society diploma, no name, no date.
The collection contains an autograph book, 1856-1858, from the University of North Carolina, and a Dialectic Society diploma, 1858, both of John W. Tate of Charlotte, N.C.
Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) was a Confederate colonel; president of the Western North Carolina Railroad after the Civil War, except when removed by Republicans; representative of Burke County, N.C., to the General Assembly, 1874-1884; bank examiner, 1886; state treasurer, 1893-1894; and longtime Democratic Party leader of western North Carolina. He married Jennie Pearson, daughter of R. C. Pearson, in 1866.
John Dudley Tatum (1839-1862) was a school teacher, graduate of the University of North Carolina, and Confederate soldier killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro.
Paul F. Tavel was probably a native of western Switzerland. He arrived in the United States in 1844. He was apparently interested in agriculture, particularly viticulture, and meteorology; he was also a bookbinder.
The collection is a ledger of a tavern in Westmoreland County, Va., containing accounts with individual customers, chiefly for food and drink.
Three plantation journals relating to the Mount Airy Plantation, owned by the Tayloe family, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Va., and other plantations in the area. One volume, the first page of which carries the name John Tayloe, contains a daily record of work completed at Mount Airy in 1805. A second volume contains similar information for Mount Airy, 1813-1818 and 1825-1826, and also contains similar information for work completed during this period for Forkland, Old House, Doctors Hall, and Marske plantations, perhaps also in Richmond County. The third volume contains similar information for Mount Airy for 1814, an inventory of slaves, and a crop record for Mount Airy, Landsdown plantation, and the other plantations noted above, 1840-1845.
Dr. Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) was dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School, 1961-1976. He and his wife Gertrude and their five children, Alexander (1947-1993), James Vernon (1948- ), Kate Child (1949- ), Livingston (1950- ), and Hugh Cole (1952- ), lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. James, Livingston, and Kate are musicians.
Alfred R. Taylor was the son of Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) of Mobile, Ala., and Washington, D.C. Taylor was a lawyer, legal author, and United States minister to Spain.
Microfilm of a three-volume diary with almost daily entries noting personal and business affairs of Taylor of Greenville County, S.C., an active Baptist and owner of saw mills, rice mills, and cotton gins. Also included in the diary are some accounts, family data, and cures and recipes.
Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor (b. 1888) of Scotland Neck, N.C., was a nurse in France during World War I, and later in several locations in the United States and abroad. She married Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor, a physician, in 1928. Diaries, 1918-1979, of Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor contain brief entries noting events in her life, especially her travel and social activities. Most of the volumes are five-year diaries with only four or five lines written for each day. Frequent subjects of diary entries are the weather, books read, visits, letters written and received, health, chores, and church attendance. After her marriage in 1928, there are frequent comments on her husband's actions or attitudes. The first diary begins on 7 September 1918. A nurse during World War I, on 8 September, she embarked for France as a member of the Maguire Unit of the Army Nurse Corps. In France, she wrote about working and living conditions and about dances and social occasions. Nursing is occasionally mentioned, but never described in detail. It appears that she worked in Poland in 1920, in Pennsylvania in 1922, and in Texas in 1923, returning to North Carolina after each job. In 1927, she met her husband while working in Guatemala. The couple seems to have lived in Panama and Cuba, finally settling in Florida in 1944.
Francis Taylor (1747-1799) was an officer in the American Revolution and later a planter in Orange County, Va. Taylor lived at Midland Plantation with his father, Colonel George Taylor (died 1794). The collection includes a typed transcription of a diary, 1786-1799, of the daily activities, business and leisure, of Francis Taylor. In addition to farm activities, the diary records daily weather conditions, social and religious activities, purchases, election returns, and local events. From 1789 until 1799 there is a chronological list at the end of each year of the births, deaths, and marriages in the neighborhood. Persons mentioned belonged to the Burnley, Catlett, Madison, Pendleton, and Taylor families. Also included are some military returns of the 4th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.
Frank V. Taylor of Charlotte, N.C., joined the United States Army in 1943 where he trained in the engineering program. He traveled all over the United States including Hawaii and in 1944 was stationed in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific. He was hospitalized in late 1944 and was honorably discharged in 1945 because of his injuries. After his discharge, he returned to Charlotte, N.C.
George Coffin Taylor was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1877. He was a gentleman farmer, lawyer, and Shakespeare scholar. He served for 27 years on the faculty of the English Department at the University of North Carolina until retiring in 1949 to Columbia, S.C. Coffin died in 1961.
Isaac Taylor was a Scottish immigrant to New Bern, N.C.
The John A. Taylor Papers, 1956-2012, consist of cotton reports for the U.S. Department of Defense regarding supplies for the war effort in Vietnam, photographs relating to the Maid of Cotton show, biographical information with extensive description of Taylor's career and cotton expertise, and newsletters of the Tacomis Club (U.S. Tariff Commission) and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
John Taylor (1753-1824) of Caroline County, Va., was the son-in-law of John Penn (1741-1788), signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina.
Mary J. Taylor (fl. 1880) was a student at Roanoke Female College (now Averett College), in Danville, Va.
Nelson Ferebee Taylor (1920-2004) of Oxford, N.C., was a corporate lawyer, professor of law, and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972-1980.
Sallie Blackwell Sharp Taylor of Reidsville, N.C., was born on 21 December 1911, to James Merritt Sharp and Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp. She was one of seven children. Her sister Susie Marshall Sharp was elected chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1974, becoming the first woman elected chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. Sallie attended North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and upon graduating worked as a violin instructor at the North Carolina State School for the Blind and Deaf in Raleigh, N.C., where she lived and worked until her marriage in 1935. Lawrence Arthur Taylor (Arthur) was born on 17 February 1905. Upon graduation from the State College (now North Carolina State University) in Raleigh, N.C., Arthur worked at the Montgomery Ward store in Reidsville, N.C., where he met Sallie. In 1933, Sally and Arthur were separated by his work transfers. They married on 21 June 1935.
Walter Frank Taylor was a lawyer; member of the North Carolina Senate, 1921; member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1939- 1951; and member of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees, 1915-1971.
The collection of white genealogist William Woodruff Taylor (1912-2008) of Warrenton, N.C., contains research files related to white Virginia families and compiled between the 1960s and 2000s. Family names include Poindexter, Taylor, Stuart, Gordon, Hatcher, Brown, Cooke, and Fitzhugh. Narrative family histories, family charts and trees, family newsletters and directories, correspondence with family members, notes, newspaper clippings, and other printed items comprise the genealogical research files. Some files contain scattered original historical documents and photographs, but most historical items are copies or transcriptions. In addition to family histories and biographical sketches of individual family members, the materials contain information about organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, historical markers related to the families, and family reunions.
Microfilm copy of a Tazewell family of Virginia history written by Littleton Waller Tazewell in 1894, including Tazewell, Littleton, and Stratton family data compiled from various sources. A continuation of the family history was added to the volume in 1901.
Stephen P. Teale was a Democratic California state senator representing Railroad Flat, Calif. Don A. Allen was a Los Angeles assemblyman.
The collection consists of Civil War narratives (65 pages) by Daniel Miles Tedder of South Carolina and Andrew Woodley of Virginia, both written in the same notebook. Tedder's account, written in 1865, describes his Confederate Army service in Charleston, S.C., 1861-1865. Woodley's narrative, written in 1864, describes his service in the South Carolina State Troops during the attack on Fort Sumter and the defense of Charleston.
Morton I. Teicher was a white social work educator. He was also one of the founders and a president of the Thomas Wolfe Society. The collection consists of scrapbooks with clippings and pamphlets about Thomas Wolfe, the Wolfe home, the Wolfe family, and books by or about Wolfe. There are also correspondence with several active and longtime members of the Thomas Wolfe Society, scholarly articles about Thomas Wolfe, and color photographic slides of Thomas Wolfe's home and countryside.
The collection contains typed copies, 1940, of a genealogical chart and family history, 1625-1926, on the Telfair, Blair, Baker, Stockton, Carrington, Horton, Hall, and other families of North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Additional materials, including newspaper clippings and material concerning family portraits by Joshua Reynolds and the unveiling of a marker to Theophilus Hunter set up by the Daughters of the American Revolution, are available on microfilm only.
Account book of a Richmond firm that bought slaves in Virginia and sold them in the lower South, showing Virginia price of slaves, purchaser, and price received. The firm also dealt in mules, horses, wagons, and harnesses.
The collection contains three framed panoramic photographs of participants in the biannual Tennessee Banjo Institute held in Cedars of Lebanon State Park near Lebanon, Tenn. The Institute was a three-day event with workshops, lessons, and concerts including the Banjo Meltdown. The images show the large groups of participants all holding their banjos. The timed exposure for the panoramic photographs allowed at least two notable participants, Béla Fleck and Pete Seeger, to appear on both sides of the image taken in 1992. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
This collection contains records of the Tennessee Woolen Mill Company, a textile mill in McMinnville, Tenn. Volumes, 1890-1939, contain annual reports and inventories, minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, records of stock transactions, accounts of products sold and wages paid, records of hours worked and orders received, cash account records, and company store accounts. Papers, 1939-1943, are correspondence and reports of the trustees' liquidation of the mill. Also included is a description of the company store written in 1949 by William W. Bass, the son of one of the company's officials.
Tennyson was poet laureate of England, 1850-1892.
Marjory Terrell (fl. 1918-1919) resided in Raleigh, N.C. She maintained friendly and supportive correspondence with many soldiers during World War I, sending them parcels, pictures, etc., in an effort to boost their morale.
Joseph Green Terry, a cotton and cane farmer from Henry County, Ala., served as a Confederate soldier with the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment. His wife, Sarah Terry, was in Henry County during the Civil War.
John Skally Terry, a white professor and friend of Thomas Wolfe, entered the University of North Carolina in 1914. As an undergraduate, he was active in student publications and became a friend of Thomas Wolfe. While living in New York in the early 1920s, Terry renewed his friendship with Wolfe, joining Wolfe as a member of the English faculty at New York University in 1925. After Wolfe's death in 1938, Terry became a close friend of Wolfe's mother, Julia E. Wolfe, and worked with her on Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother (Scribner's, 1943). Selected by Maxwell Perkins and the Wolfe family to write a biography of Thomas Wolfe, Terry compiled a great deal of material about Wolfe. There was, however, no manuscript of the biography found among Terry's papers after his death in 1953.
The collection contains a broadside, 1 February 1861, titled Declaration of the Causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union -- Also the Ordinance of Secession, printed on satin by the Herald.
Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices.
The collection includes typed transcriptions of four letters of Robert H. Thach to his wife, Lila Coleman Thach, and a postwar reminiscence (19 pages) of Otis D. Smith of Alabama of his experiences in the Confederate army during the invasion of Maryland by John B. Gordon's Brigade, Confederate States of America., in 1862. Thach, with the 9th Alabama Regiment, wrote his wife, who was in Athens, Ala., about the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861, and personal matters.
In 1879 the Kappa Psi Fraternity was founded for medical and pharmacy students. A chapter was established at the University of North Carolina in 1915. In 1925 Kappa Psi officially split into the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity and the Theta Kappa Psi Medical Fraternity. The two orgainizations then issued new charters to the chapters. The Upsilon Chapter of the Theta Kappa Psi Medical Fraternity drew members from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, while the Beta Xi Chapter of the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity drew members from the School of Pharmacy. The Beta Xi Chapter continues today, but the Upsilon Chapter is no longer active.
John W. Thibaut was professor of psychology and chair of the Psychology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1960-1966. Harold H. Kelly was professor of psychology at the University California, Los Angeles.
Irving Thigpen, presumably of Edgecombe County, N.C., possibly kept a general store ledger from 1885 to 1889.
Augustus Thomas wrote popular plays, such as Alabama and Arizona, during the 1890s and the first fifteen years of the twentieth century. In all, he wrote or adapted more than 100 plays, though not all were published. Thomas also was a leader in dramatic organizations and an active participant in the Democratic Party and in debates about political questions of his day. He was married to Lisle Colby Thomas.
Charles Randolph Thomas (1827-1891) and his son Charles Randolph Thomas Junior (1861-1931) were both graduates of the University of North Carolina, lawyers, judges, and members of the United States Congress, of Beaufort, N.C., New Bern, N.C., and Waynesville, N.C.
The collection is a map of Land belonging to Wilna V. Thomas in Brunswick County, N.C., hand-drawn in 1960 based on surveys and earlier maps, and showing roads, property lines, natural features, and the possible site of the Charles Town Settlement of 1663-1664 on Clarendon Plantation.
Howard Thomas (1899-1971) of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, was an artist, professor, and administrator at Wisconsin State Teachers College, 1930-1942; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1942-1943; Agnes Scott College, 1943-1945; and the University of Georgia, 1945-1965.
John N. Thomas was a medical doctor of Havana, Cuba, and Pineville, La.
John Warwick Thomas (1800-1871) was the founder of Thomasville, N.C.
Jordan S. Thomas was born in 1853 and lived in Wilmington, N.C. He attended the University of Virginia in the mid-1870s and was a member of the Delta Psi fraternity. Later, he appears to have served as in the Volunteer Fire Brigade of Wilmington. He died in 1921. The papers include two notebooks, 1874-1875, containing lecture notes on logic and German literature kept by Thomas while he was a student at the University of Virginia. The volumes also contain miscellaneous jottings, poems, and drawings. Also included are photographs, ca. 1873 and undated (probably all late 19th century), of Thomas's friends, some of his Delta Psi fraternity brothers from the University of Virginia, and members of the volunteer fire brigade of Wilmington, N.C., in uniform.
This collection consists of two notebooks kept by Roscious P. Thomas, a white medical student, while taking classes at the University of Virginia, circa 1870. The vast majority of the notes appear to be from 1870. Roscious P. Thomas (1845-1916) was born in Hertford County, N.C. He attended Wake Forest College, the University of Virginia, and the Medical University of New York. After completing his medical education, Thomas returned to Hertford County. He married Mary Mitchell in 1878. The Dr. Roscius P. and Mary Mitchell Thomas House and Outbuildings, also known as the Ruth Thomas Home Farm, is located in Hertford County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sam Thomas was a free black man in Stokes County, N.C., in 1786. It appears that he was able to free his wife Amy in 1802. It also appears that members of the Thomas family moved to Ohio in the early 1800s, settling in Zanesville and Chillicothe. Their relationship to Sam Thomas is unknown. At some point, a Sam Thomas was accused of several crimes in Salem, N.C., including poisoning his wife. The collection includes items relating to the Thomas family, who had been slaves in Stokes County, N.C. In the earliest document, 1786, Frederick Marshall gave the Negro Sam the right to work some land for a yearly rent of either crops or money. There are also bonds, dated 1802, that freed Pleasant Thomas, Sam Thomas, John Thomas, and Amy, identified as Sam Thomas's wife. These bonds were signed by Sam Thomas and several white men from Salem, N.C., including Francis Clark, Archibald Campbell, and Gottlieb Shober. Also included are an 1826 letter to Mary Thomas in Zanesville, Ohio, from a sibling in Chillicothe, Ohio, which chiefly discusses the health of various relatives; a small printed paper stating that Thomas Laurence of Zanesville, Ohio, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1835; and an undated statement, signed by William Johnson and Garrard Johnson, certifying certain criminal charges against Black Sam Thomas of Salem, N.C., who was charged with stealing clothes, robbing a wagon, fighting whitemen, and poisoning his wife and others who were to be witnesses against him.
Captain W. George Thomas was a member of the 313th Machine Gun Battalion and served with the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
Amory Thomas-Jimeno was a French novelist and short story writer who lived in Bern, Switzerland. In addition to works of fiction, she also wrote literary studies and biographical essays. Thomas-Jimeno was born in 1932 in France; was married to Juan Jimeno, a biochemist and painter; and died 30 September 2004.
The Thomason family has relations amongst the Goree family, Nolley family, and Kittrell family of Huntsville, Tex.
Robert Ewing Thomason of El Paso, Tex., was a United States representative from Texas (1931-1947).
Thompson family members included Jospeh B. Thompson (d. 1849), who left Alabama to grow cotton in Louisiana; his uncle, Lawrence Thompson (d. circa 1864), who grew cotton round Tuscumbia (Franklin Co.), Ala., and his wife, Rebecca (d. 1856); Joseph's nephew, Jacob Thompson of Oxford Miss., congressman (1839-1851), secretary of the interior (1857-1861), and Confederate official; and Joseph N. Thompson, a Confederate soldier who was wounded and taken prisoner. Also the related Malone family, represented chiefly by planter Goodloe W. Malone of Franklin County, Ala., and Lucie Blackwell Malone (b. 1847), who married Joseph N. Thompson in 1869.
Cyrus Thompson was a physician of Onslow County, N.C., and a leader of the Populist Party, serving in the General Assembly in 1883 and 1885 and as North Carolina Secretary of State, 1897-1901.
Photographic materials, audio, video, posters, ephemera publications, memorabilia, and audiovisual materials created and collected by D. Kent Thompson, a white photographer, in the course of documenting the independent rock music scene in North Carolina in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s and the "Moral Monday" movement and other grassroots protests and marches centered in Raleigh, N.C., beginning in 2013. Moral Mondays protests began in North Carolina in spring 2013 in response to actions by the Republican-led state government. Later protests focused on the Poor People's Campaign, gun violence, women's rights, transgender rights, and immigration policies separating children from their families. The International Bluegrass Music Association is also documented.
David Matthew Thompson was a teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools in Lincoln County, N.C., Iredell County, N.C., and Gainesville, Fla.
The collection of white lawyer George Nicholas Thompson (1832-1891) of Leasburg, N.C., contains a daily diary, 1851, kept by Thompson while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, and brief diary entries and lecture notes of his daughter Lucretia (Luly) Thompson (1861-1880), which she made while she attended summer normal school classes at the University from 1876 to 1878. Additions to this collection contain genealogical materials and family papers including letters, albums, notebooks, photographs, and financial and legal documents related to the Thompson family and Graves family of Caswell County, N.C.
George Sidney Thompson was the quartermaster of the 28th North Carolina Regiment, 1861-1864, and in the Military District of Florida, Confederate States of America, 1864-1865.
During the 1940s and 1950s, white country music singer and guitarist Glenn Thompson was a popular bandleader, radio personality, and recording artist, performing first with the Burlington, N.C.,-based Blue Ridge Entertainers and subsequently with his own Dixie Playboys. Thompson continued to perform regularly and released several recordings as both soloist and bandleader until his retirement in 1985. The collection includes photographs and sound recordings documenting Thompson's musical career. Photographs feature Thompson, his bandmates, and associates during the 1940s and 1950s, and include several promotional shots of Thompson, the Blue Ridge Entertainers, and the Dixie Playboys. Photographs also document Thompson's involvement with Danville, Va., radio station WDVA and his performance at a number of venues, including the WDVA Barn Dance, the Carolina Theatre (Burlington), a voting rally, a WTOB (Winston-Salem) television show, and several radio stations. Also included are photographs of comedians who performed in Thompson's stage show, most commonly long-time bandmate Sleepy Johnson and WDVA personality Homer T (Thomasson). Other performers include Charlie Monroe; armless musician Ray R. Meyers; and the Louvin Brothers. Sound recordings include CD copies of commercial 78 rpm records and LP records; original 45 rpm records; and cassettes and compact discs issued privately by Thompson or by the Greensboro-based Skatter label. A taped interview, in which Thompson comments on the collection's photographs, provides anecdotes about Buck Owens, Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, the Louvins, Ray Meyers, Thompson's bandmates, and Thompson's musical experiences in Danville and Burlington.
Three letters from John W. Thompson in Richmond, Va., to his brother, Anderson Thompson, in Botetourt County, Va. John Thompson represented Botetourt County in the Virginia House of Delegates; Anderson Thompson managed his brother's farming intersts in his absence. Among the topics mentioned in the letters are bills before the House, including some having direct impact on Botetourt County; Thompson's efforts to line up support for Botetourt County legislation among other delegates; and local Botetourt County politics.
John Thompson apparently lived in Nashville, Tenn. The collection is two volumes belonging to Thompson. One volume (15 pages) contains scattered accounts, 1832-1833 and 1854. The other (8 pages, on microfilm) includes slave records, lists of furniture, garden records, and cures and recipes, 1833-1857.
Lewis Thompson was a white enslaver and owner of Broadneck, Ben Butt, Hickory Neck, and Gorden's plantations near Woodville (also called Hotel) in Bertie and Halifax counties, N.C., and of the family's plantations in Bayou Boeuf, near Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La. Papers before 1840 consist chiefly of land grants, deeds, bills of sale for enslaved people, and estate papers of Thompson's Pugh, Williams, Clark, Thompson, and Urquhart relations. Estate papers include many wills, receipts, and accounting materials that document the trafficking of enslaved people through buying and selling of them as human property; hiring out their labor, skills, and knowledge, including midwifery services; and payments for crops they raised and for medical care. There is also a group of papers relating to land the Tuscarora leased to Thomas Pugh and others. Business papers, circa 1840-1871, of Lewis Thompson, consist of correspondence about plantation management, including work performed, acts of resistance, punishment, and health concerns of enslaved people; accounts; receipts for hiring out of enslaved people; lists of enslaved people; sharecropper and laborer contracts and accounts with freed people; and other documents relating to the production of cotton and wheat in Bertie County, N.C., to sugar in Rapides Parish, La., and to the sale of crops through factors in New York, Norfolk, New Orleans, and Baltimore. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence relating to Lewis Thompson's role as executor of many estates, particularly that of his father-in-law, William M. Clark, who was also an enslaver, and to Thompson's investments with brokers in New York. Although Thompson was also a political leader in North Carolina, serving in the House of Commons and State Senate, 1831-1852, and as a member of the General Convention of 1865, and a trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1848 until his death, there are few papers relating to his political career or to his involvement in university affairs. Papers after Thompson's death in 1867 relate chiefly to the activities of his son, Thomas W. Thompson, who took over his father's North Carolina business affairs. The plantations in Louisiana had been run by Thomas's brother William for many years before their father's death.
Meriwether Jeff Thompson was a Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.
R. H. Smith Thompson was a first lieutenant in the Confederate States Army, serving as Assistant Chief of Artillery to General Bragg in 1863.
The collection contains a typescript of a speech by a Robert L. Thompson before the Young Democrats on the Democratic Party situation in 1938.
S. Millett Thompson was born in Barnstead, N.H., and lived in Durham, N.H. He enlisted on 13 August 1862 and joined Company E of the 13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment on 19 September 1862 as a first sergeant. He was promoted to seconnd lieutenant on 10 June 1863 and fought mostly in Virginia during the Civil War. Wounded during the Siege of Petersburg on 15 June 1864, Thompson was discharged from an infirmary in Hampton, Va., on 4 October 1864. After the war, he moved to Providence, R.I., where he lived until his death on 26 May 1911.
Samuel Thompson (fl. 1781-1826) was a farmer of Orange County, N.C.
Sarah E. Thompson is the daughter of Lawrence S. Thompson and Algernon Smith (Dickson) Thompson.
Smith Thompson (1768-1843) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and United States Secretary of the Navy.
The collection consists of antebellum account books from Bertie County, N.C., including general merchandising accounts of Cherry and Outlaw, 1833-1834, and of H. Thompson, 1836-1840; accounts of Gray and Pierce for wages paid in the production of shingles and for sales of shingles and shoes, 1847-1849; and accounts for a bankruptcy sale of personal property, 1847-1849; and accounts with plantation laborers, 1881-1893, of T. W. Thompson of Woodville, N.C.
The Tommy Thompson Collection includes materials primarily relating to Thompson's musical and theatrical activities, 1970s-1990s. Tommy Thompson (1937-2003), a white co-founder of both the Hollow Rock String Band and the Red Clay Ramblers, was also a playwright, composer, and actor. Included are rough drafts, final scripts, scores, publicity, photographs, correspondence, and other materials related to dramatic works that Thompson authored or co-authored, scored, or performed in.
Waddy Thompson was a South Carolina politician and United States minister to Mexico. The collection is chiefly correspondence of Thompson while he was United States minister to Mexico, 1842-1844, including letters to his wife, Emmala Butler Thompson, and letters received from American political friends in the United States, the Republic of Texas, and Mexico, concerning yellow fever epidemics and general living and working conditions in Mexico, and diplomatic relations among Mexico, Great Britain, and the United States. Also included are some business papers related to sugar and cotton planting and the slave trade in Alabama and South Carolina.
Charles Thomson (1729-1824) emigrated from Ireland as a child and became prominent in Pennsylvania politics, serving as secretary of the Continental Congress for 15 years.
William H. Thomson, originally of Orange County, N.C., was a physician and small planter in Hinds County, Miss. His son Ruffin Thomson was a student at the University of Mississippi and the University of North Carolina; a private in the Confederate Army; and, in February 1864, a Confederate Marine Corps lieutenant. After the Civil War, he studied medicine and practiced in Hinds County. In 1888, he went to Washington Territory as a clerk to the United States Indian Agency, dying soon after his arrival.
William Lindsey Thornburg, a farmer from Randolph County, N.C., served in the 38th North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Papers collected or created by Annie Blackwell Thorne (born 1878) include correspondence, legal and financial documents, genealogical papers, photographs, and other materials of the Alston, Harriss, Kearny, Thorne, and related families, chiefly of Warren and Halifax counties, N.C. Also included is Thorne family material largely from Saint Martin Parish, La. Correspondence pertains chiefly to personal matters, but also deals with business affairs. Included are two letters, 1831, from Thomas Whitmell Harriss (1810-1890) describing his religious conversion while he was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; a few letters relating to the Civil War in Virginia and Louisiana; and letters, 1890s, to Annie's sister, Tempe Williams Thorne (born 1874), from family members and friends. Financial documents include slave bills of sale and materials concerning tobacco sales in the 1850s. Legal materials, many in French, include documents, 1866-1869, relating to cases handled by John Davis Thorne (1834-1900), justice of the peace in Saint Martin Parish, La. The Addition of 2012 consists primarily of correspondence between members of the Thorne family of Littleton, N.C. The majority of letters were exchanged with the children while they were away at college and discuss the family members' daily lives and concerns, including financial matters, tuition bills, and social activities. Silas O. Thorne and Samuel Thomas Thorne II both attended Trinity College in Durham, N.C., and Thomas Whitmell Thorne attended the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Raleigh, N.C. Nena Thorne, Annie Blackwell Thorne and Tempe Williams Thorne all attended Littleton Female College in Littleton, N.C. There are also some letters, including bills, pamphlets and advertisements, sent in the early 1960s to Tempe Williams Thorne and Annie Blackwell Thorne. Other materials include school essays, diplomas from Littleton Female College, a notebook, printed materials, and photographs.
Dan McCarthy Thornton was a Lieutenant with the 6th Marine Division during World War II.
The collection is a typed transcript, 1942, of genealogical notes, 1801-1889, of the Thorp family of Goshen, N.C., taken from a family Bible.
David Franklin Thorpe was plantation superintendent on Saint Helena Island, 1861-1869, and later Rhode Island businessman and state representative.
John Houston Thorpe (1840-1932) of Rocky Mount, N.C., was a teacher, lawyer, farmer, state senator, and Confederate soldier.
Thos. Gilbert & Co. was a printing firm in Columbus, Ga., which issued the Daily Sun. The collection includes letterpress copybooks, 1859-1862 and 1866-1871, of Thos. Gilbert & Co. Letters concern supplies, equipment, advertising, subscriptions, and other business.
Miscellaneous items including slave bills of sale, 1853-1858, involving Thomas Threewits of Columbus, Ga., as buyer or seller.
Cheryl Thurber is an interdisciplinary scholar, cultural historian, folklorist, and photographer. During the 1970s and 1980s, Thurber traveled with fellow folklorist and music historian David Evans through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and California, documenting African American communities, local musicians, and local musical traditions.
W. H. Thurber (fl. 1809-1867) was a Mobile, Ala., factor and merchant. The collection includes scattered papers of Thurber, chiefly receipts and accounts for the shipping of goods sold or turned over to the Confederate government, and antebellum fire insurance policies for cotton and merchandise.
The Thurman and Ecklin families lived in Shelby and Fayette counties in west Tennessee during the Civil War era. Sallie Ecklin married John P. Thurman in 1856.
The collection is elaborate specimens of the penmanship of R.N. Tiddy at Weston Academy (location unspecified), 1847.
MICROFILM ONLY. Intermittent entries about the business, political, social, and intellectual activities of Tift, founder of Albany, Ga., farmer, entrepreneur, Democratic member of the legislature, newspaper editor, and later United States representative.
MICROFILM ONLY. The collection is the diary of Confederate officer Tilghman of Maryland on an ordnance inspection tour of North Carolina during the last months of the Civil War and his journey to Florida immediately after the surrender.
William Tilghman (1756-1827) was a lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa. The collection contains a letter, 1766, from John Armstrong (1717-1795), later Continental Army officer, about James Tilghman (1716-1793), secretary of the Pennsylvania proprietary land office, and about land grants in Carlisle, Pa.; and a letter, 1795, from Lambert Cadwalader (1743-1823), New Jersey Revolutionary leader, to William Tilghman discussing a bond.
Charles Walter Tillett (1888-1952) was a prominent Charlotte, N.C., lawyer, supporter of the United Nations, and University of North Carolina trustee. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, and research materials of Tillett. Over half of the materials are documents Tillett used in researching his speeches and articles. Many items relate to the United Nations and international law. Most of Tillett's speeches and articles deal with international concerns, although some pertain to local Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, state, and national Democratic Party politics; legal matters; and civic organizations. Correspondence, which dates from 1907 to 1952, largely concerns legal matters; fund-raising campaigns for various organizations; Tillett's work for the American Bar Association's section on International and Comparative Law; and his involvement in various activities at the University of North Carolina, including his service on the Board of Trustees. There are also materials relating to various aspects of his legal career and a few relating to his personal life. Among Tillett's correspondents were Josephus Daniels, John C. B. Ehringhaus, Edward Kidder Graham, Frank Porter Graham, and Tillett's wife Gladys Avery Tillett. Also included are some materials relating to Tillett's parents.
Gladys Avery Tillett was vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-1950; co-director of Frank Porter Graham's senatorial campaign, 1950; United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-1968; proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment; and activist for other political and social causes. The collection includes correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, news clippings, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials documenting Gladys Avery Tillett's work for the Democratic Party, the Frank Porter Graham campaign, the United Nations, the women's movement, the Young Women's Christian Association, and other causes. Significant correspondents include Molly Dewson and Lorena A. Hickock, with whom Tillett worked in the Women's Division of the Democratic Party; friend, teacher, and fellow Democrat Harriet Elliott; Eleanor Roosevelt; and Tillett's husband, lawyer Charles Walter Tillett.
James A. Tillman and John Norwood were physicians of Crawford, Russell County, Ala., who, in 1860-1862, appear to have shared a practice, called Tillman and Norwood.
James Tillman, possibly of Person County, N.C., worked as a school teacher in the 1810s.
William H. Tillson was mustered into Company E, 84th Illinois Infantry Regiment, United States Army, on 1 September 1862. He was captured by Confederate troops while foraging for water on 21 September 1863, the day after the Battle of Chickamauga. He was eventually taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., travelling through Chattanooga, Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Augusta, Ga.; Columbia, S.C.; Charlotte, N.C. (which he mistakenly called Charlottesville); Raleigh, N.C.; and Petersburg, Va. He spent the next several months as a prisoner of war before being exchanged in April 1864. He was discharged from the Army due to wounds on 22 September 1864. The collection contains William H. Tillson's handwritten transcription of the diary that he kept, 1863-1864, while a prisoner of war. The diary describes his capture while foraging for water the day after the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was serving with the 84th Illinois Infantry Regiment; his transportation from Georgia to Virginia through various locations in the South; and his confinement in a warehouse adjoining Libby Prison in Richmond, Va. The diary details conditions within the prison and the reaction of southern soldiers and civilians to the captured Union soldiers.
The collection of white historian and Kenan professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Brown Tindall (1921-2006), contains office files, drafts of books, research files, correspondence, and other papers, 1940s-2000s. Also included are materials related to Tindall's activities with the Southern Historical Association and a copy print of a circa 1894 photograph of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Company of Greenville, S.C., an African American fire company.
Marsha Tinnen's collection of photographs, publications, signs, articles, and newspaper clippings relating to the Housekeepers Association's efforts to organize for better working conditions, pay, and benefits at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1990s and 2000s.
Collection of tintype photographs collected by the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. Tintypes were in production from the mid-1850s into the early 1900s. Collection contains 19 images taken of individuals seated or standing for portraits, circa 1856-1900s. Individuals appearing in the images include an enslaved man named Caesar of Hillsborough, N.C., members of Carroll family of Danbury, N.C., and graduation marshals at the University of North Carolina in 1861. Also included are images depicting white soldiers who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; Speck Harris (1837-1863) of the "Flat River Guard" Company B, 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment and James Henry Lane (circa 1864).
Westwood Todd was a native of Smithfield, Va. and lived in Norfolk, Va., before and after the Civil War.
James Hamilton Tomb was the chief engineer in the Confederate and Brazilian navies and an officer of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
In 1900, Sidney Halstead Tomlinson founded Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Co. in High Point, N.C. The company became Tomlinson of High Point, Inc., in 1934. By the 1960s, the company manufactured dining room, bedroom, living room, occasional, and upholstered wood furniture.
Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1851-1914) was an engineer, manufacturer, publisher, author, and leader in Southern industrial development. A native of South Carolina, he received a degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N.Y., in 1873; worked in the steel industry in New York, 1873-1874, and Pennsylvania, 1874-1883; worked as agent for the Westinghouse Machine Company and as an engineer, machinist, and contractor in Charlotte, N.C.; was principal owner of three cotton mills; owned controlling interests in the Charlotte Daily Observer and the Greenville (S.C.) News; wrote a history of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and books about cotton mill operations; and worked actively in business and civic organizations.
Isaac Tompkins was a reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives who operated a stage line between Savannah, Ga., and New York City.
Chiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C. Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are a small number of slave bills of sale.
The Toomer family of Portsmouth, Va., included Alice Virginia Toomer (b. 1841) and Fanny Wortley Toomer (1845-1868), daughters of James Gaskins Toomer (1801-1849) and Fanny Hodges Toomer (1808-1870). Samuel Fisher Tenney (1840-1926) was a soldier in Company K of the Third Georgia Infantry Regiment (known as Wright's Brigade or Athens' Guard). Tenney met Alice in Portsmouth in mid-1861, shortly after the Third Georgia Infantry Regiment was quartered at Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Scattered letters, essays likely written for school, and other papers of Amanda Cobb Toon (1855-1923) of Lumber Bridge in Robeson County, N.C.
Adelaide Williams Totten was a leader in the garden club movement and served as organizer of the Chapel Hill Garden Club; president of the Garden Club of North Carolina, 1935-1937; and director of the South Atlantic District of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, 1942. She was also a certified flower show judge.
H. R. (Henry Roland) Totten was a professor of botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1913-1963; realtor; and Army Reserve officer who served in France during World War I and at Camp Blanding, Fla., during World War II.
The collection is Mrs. E.T. Townsend's copies of letters to and from James Carnegie, agent for the management of extensive Irish real estate owned jointly by members of Townsend family. Carnegie was at Cork; Mrs. Townsend wrote from Devon, Bristol, Delgany, and Dublin.
Nathan Towson (1784-1854) of Maryland, was paymaster general of the United States Army.
Edward Dorr Tracy of Huntsville, Ala., was a Brigadier General in the Army of the Confederate States of America.
The Transcaspian Provisional Government (Zakaspiiskoe vremennoe pravitel’stvo) was one of the forces contending for power in Turkmenistan between 1918 and 1919. The government was formed 11-12 July 1918, in the wake of an uprising against Bolshevik authorities in Ashgabat (Ashkhabad). The government underwent several reorganizations as military and domestic challenges mounted. Its Executive Committee (Ispolnitel’nyi komitet), headed by F.A. Funtikov and composed of, among others, Lieutenant General I.V. Savitskii, L.A. Zimin, V. Dokhov, Iu. Makarov, and N.N. Diterikhs, was disbanded in January 1919. It was replaced by the Committee for Public Safety (Komitet obshchestvennogo spaseniia), a directorate (direktoriia) of two Turkmen and three Russian representatives, including L.A. Zimin and Major General A.E. Kruten’. Lieutenant General Savitskii was appointed commander of the Transcaspian forces in March 1919, as General Malleson began to pull troops out of the region and General Denikin assumed military jurisdiction. Following the withdrawal of the British Military Mission in April 1919 and several military defeats, including the capture of Ashgabat by the Red Army, the Transcaspian Provisional Government dissolved in August 1919.
Paul Trapier (1806-1872) was an Episcopal clergyman of Georgetown, S.C., and Charleston, S.C. The collection is chiefly correspondence of Paul Trapier about church and personal matters, and scattered earlier family papers. Correspondence includes letters from Trapier to Robert W. Harris at Columbia College, N.Y., 1828-1830, and letters from Stephen Elliott (1806-1866), James Hervey Otey (1800-1863), and other Episcopal clergymen. Also included are scattered papers of Trapier's father-in-law, Bishop Theodore Dehon (1776-1817), 1797-1810, and a speech, perhaps by Dehon, on procedures for electing a bishop in Connecticut, 1813.
Part of a travel journal, January-February 1847, by an unknown traveler from New York detailing a business trip from Florida to New York. Along the way the writer described Jacksonville, Fla.; Amelia Island, Fla.; the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina; Williamston, N.C.; Elizabeth City, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; and Washington, D.C., and offered a northern view of the antebellum South. The writer discussed modes of transportation used on the trip, including sailboat, steamboat, and railroad, and weather conditions, especially when they impeded travel. While in Williamston, N.C., the writer witnessed a slave sale and wrote not only about the event, but of the institution of slavery in general. The writer also wrote about the treatment of tuberculosis in the South; the economics of cotton, listing various prices for the commodity; and about inhabitants of places such as Palatka, Fla., which was no more than a supply depot on the fringes of the interior of Florida.
Nelson Travillion emigrated from Albemarle County, Va., to North Carolina. He married Nancy W. Austin in 1820. The collection is a record of dates, names of preachers of various denominations, and Biblical texts used for sermons heard by Travillion in Albemarle County, Va., and Davie County, N.C. Also included are some entries for births and deaths in the Travillion and Austin families and a list of books belonging to Nelson Travillion.
Images taken by white photographer Gary E. Trawick depicting scenes made in the 100 county seats of North Carolina between 1993 and 2016. Images chiefly depict courthouses, police stations, and general scenes in the county seats. Also included are notes written by Trawick, reflecting on his visit to many of the locations represented in the photographs.
Samuel Tredwell of Edenton, N.C., was the guardian of Gustavus A. Johnson and the executor for the estate of Charles Johnson.
William Lee Trenholm (1836-1901) of Charleston, S.C., was a banker and Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, 1886-1889. His daughter, Kate Trenholm Abrams of Washington, D.C., was active in the women's suffrage movement and an organizer of the District of Columbia branch of the League of Women Voters. Her daughter, Katherine T. Abrams, was chief yeoman, Fitness Report Section, Bureau of Navigation, United States Navy Department. The collection includes six essays or speeches by Colonel William Lee Trenholm about the South, King Cotton, the silver issue, and other matters; a play and other papers by Kate Trenholm Abrams; a scrapbook of invitations, calling cards, etc.; and a scrapbook of World War I correspondence, photographs (including one of Josephus Daniels), memorabilia, and other items of Katherine T. Abrams.
Anna Holmes Trenhom (fl. 1865) was the wife of George A. Trenholm, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, April-June 1865. The collection includes a typed transcription of Extracts from the Diary of Anna (Holmes) Trenholm, describing, in the past tense, the Trenholms' flight from Richmond, Va., to Columbia, S.C., at the end of the Civil War; and notes on Trenholm family history and genealogy.
William Peterfield Trent was born in Richmond, Va. He received the M.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1884 and a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. He was professor of English at the University of the South, 1888-1900, and at Columbia University, 1900-1929. Trent's Life of William Gilmore Simms was published in 1892. He was also editor-in-chief of the Cambridge History of American Literature and was co-editor of the Columbia University edition of the complete writings of John Milton (1931). Trent married Alice Lyman (d. 1921) in 1896. Their children were Lucia Trent Cheney, who wrote poetry, and cartoonist William P. Trent, Jr.
Letter to Governor Henry Simpson of South Carolina from Trescot, also of South Carolina, concerning his pardon, amendments to the Constitution, and suffrage for blacks.
The Tri-State Tobacco Growers Association was a cooperative association of tobacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
The Triangle African American History Colloquium (TAAHC) is a student-led organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that brings together students, faculty, and staff with an interest in African American history and culture. The Colloquium was founded in January 2005. Records include materials related to their recognition as a student organization by the University and promotional and planning materials related to conferences.
The collection of the Triangle Area Mushroom Club contains membership lists, The Fungifile newsletters, newspaper clippings about the club, photographic images of club activities, and miscellaneous publications about mushrooms in North Carolina, including two articles by E. A. Lehman.
The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) is a consortium of the libraries of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. TRLN promotes and coordinates cooperative efforts between the four universities, including shared collection discovery and delivery services, and negotiates contracts and licenses on behalf of member institutions. Records document the governance, programs, and activities of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN). Records include annual reports; records of the Governing Board, Executive Committee, the Council of Directors, and other committees; files on TRLN annual meetings and projects, and memoranda of understanding.
The Triangle Universities Computation Center was a nonprofit organization formed in 1965 by representatives of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University to provide information processing facilities for these universities and for other educational institutions in North Carolina. The center also provided information processing services to governmental and industrial laboratories in the Research Triangle area on a time-available basis. The initial operating funds for the corporation were secured through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
MICROFILM ONLY. Records of Trinity Parish (Episcopal) at Scotland Neck, N.C., including a register of baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages and burials, 1831-1909; and minutes of vestry meetings, 1831-1924, with gaps.
William Henry Tripp (1820-1881) and his wife Araminta Guilford Tripp (1833-1897) grew corn and other crops at Durham's Creek, Beaufort County, N.C., 1850s-1880s. William was a state legislator in the 1850s and, during the Civil War, commanded Company B of the 40th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. The collection contains chiefly correspondence between William and Araminta during William's army service, 1861-1865, at Fort Fisher, Fort Holmes, and Fort Alexander, all on the North Carolina coast. Most letters are from William, who wrote of camp life, his own health, blockade running, and the conduct of the war in general. He also offered advice on how the farm was to be run in his absence. Type transcriptions of most letters are included. There are also financial and legal materials, slave bills of sale, and other items that relate to William's early political career, to Araminta, or to other Tripp family members. Also included are one diary of Araminta, 1857-1858, with brief, almost daily, entries chiefly about family and neighborhood activities and her work around the farm and home, and three diaries of William, 1854-1860, with brief, almost daily, entries chiefly documenting work done on the farm by William and/or his slaves, but also mentioning family and neighborhood activities. There are also a few printed advertisements for various products.
Nicholas Philip Trist, student at West Point, 1818-1821; Louisiana planter, 1821-1824; United States State Department clerk, 1828-1834; consul to Havana, Cuba, 1834-1840; State Dept. chief clerk, 1845-1847; and chief negotiator of treaty ending Mexican War, 1847. Trist was also a lawyer and worked as paymaster for the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, and postmaster at Alexandria, Va. He married Virginia Jefferson Randolph (fl. 1818-1875), Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter, in 1824 and lived at Monticello. Other Trist family members were his grandmother, Elizabeth House Trist (d. 1828); his brother, Hore Browse Trist (1802-1856), sugar planter of Lafourche Parish, La.; Virginia's mother, Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836); and Nicholas and Virginia's children, Martha Jefferson Trist Burke (Pattie) of Alexandria, Va.; Thomas Jefferson Trist of Philadelphia, Pa., who was deaf; and Hore Browse Trist, physician of Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C.
Diary, January-December 1866, of Bruno Trombly, apparently of Potsdam, N.Y., who was, for most of this period, a lieutenant in the 81st United States Colored Infantry at New Orleans, La.; and service records (copies only) of Trombly from the National Archives. Trombly discussed daily military and social routines, working for a merchant in New Orleans, and his struggle to decide whether to settle in Louisiana or New York State.
The collection is a letter, 1851 July 27, from J. W. Calvert, Jr., (b. 1786?), St. Francis County, Ark., to his cousin, John L. Trone, Buckland, Prince William County, Va.. Calvert described life at various places on the western frontier of the United States. He mentioned teaming up with a partner in search of saltpetre for making gunpowder; helping transport munitions to the northern frontier; travelling to Arkansas, arriving around the first of January, 1810; hunting a variety of animals, including buffalo and bear; helping starving settlers find food; joining in military activities during the War of 1812 and the First Seminole War; working on quartermaster duty in New Orleans, where he became acquainted with Louisiana governor Pierre Derbigny; backwoods living conditions in the Mississippi River Valley; agricultural conditions in Arkansas; and news of various Calvert family members.
James F. Trotter (1802-1866) was a lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, judge, and law professor, of Mississippi. The collection is the last charge made by Trotter to the De Soto County, Miss., grand jury, reflecting on the Civil War and, extensively, on the revolution in criminal law made by the postwar legislature.
George Michael Troup was a United States representative and senator from Georgia, and governor of Georgia, 1823-1827.
Robert E. Troy was a prominent lawyer in Lumberton, N.C., and served as mayor of the town in 1852. He also was Master of St. Alban's Lodge A. F. & A. M. James Cain (circa 1748-1826) was a resident of Bladen County, N.C. He was wounded in the Battle of Elizabethtown. Colonel Thomas Robeson (1740-1785) led Whig troops in defeating Tories at the Battle of Elizabethtown on 28 August 1781.
Tryon County, N.C., existed from 1768 to 1779, when it was split to form Lincoln County and Rutherford County.
Tryon Palace was originally completed in 1770 in New Bern, N.C., which served as the first capitol of North Carolina. Tryon Palace was the residence for the governor and his family. The original building burned in 1798. Early in the 20th century, a major effort began to re-construct the original palace. The renovated Tryon Palace re-opened in 1959.
Robert L. Tuck (1922-2009) was a graduate of North Central College, Naperville, Ill., and of Columbia University, N.Y. His work at the Russian Institute (now the Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Studies of the Soviet Union) at Columbia University led him to a job at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1949, where, over the years, he worked within several directorates. He served as policy director for Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany, 1961-1972, and then returned to New York where he assisted with Radio Liberty's domestic programming, before returning to Munich in 1976 to serve as the deputy director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He retired in 1981.
The Tucker family of Virginia include prominent family members John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897), constitutional lawyer, legal scholar, United States representative, 1875-1887; and his son Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932), law professor, gubernatorial aspirant, and United States representative, 1889-1897 and 1922-1932. The collection includes personal, professional, and political correspondence of John Randolph Tucker and his son, Henry St. George Tucker, and scattered papers of earlier members of the Tucker and Powell families in Virginia. Papers include lifelong correspondence between father and son; wide correspondence among Democratic Virginia politicians and constituents, American jurists, and statesmen, and a large family connection; and letters and papers, chiefly postbellum, of William Preston Johnston (1831-1899), president of Louisiana State University and Tulane University and Henry St. George Tucker's father-in-law. Tucker correspondence, beginning 1843, concerns the law practice of father and son and other litigation in Virginia; factional, state, sectional, and national politics, issues, campaigns, and legislation; and legal and governmental theory and public speaking and writing mainly about constitutional interpretation. Papers also concern industrial development in the Shenandoah Valley; George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; expositions at St. Louis, Jamestown, Va., and San Francisco; the American Bar Association; public education in Virginia; and Washington and Lee University. There are no congressional papers of Henry St. George Tucker for the period, 1922-1932, and only a few letters relating to John Randolph Tucker's work as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865. Volumes include two account books, 1821-1845 and 1848-1862; a lettercopy book, 1859-1861 and 1864; and scrapbooks of notes and clippings. Also included are antebellum personal and political papers of the Powell family of Virginia and scattered papers relating to Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), jurist, and (Nathaniel) Beverley Tucker (1820-1890), Confederate agent.
Glenn Irving Tucker (b. 1892) was an author, journalist, and historian of Buncombe County, N.C.
The collection is a letter, 18 November 1785, from James Maury of Fredericksburg, Va., to James Hunter of Portsmouth, Va., concerning the circulation of a memorial for signatures and local news.
Robert Pinckney Tucker (1865-1920) of Charleston, S.C., was a real estate businessman. The collection includes correspondence and records, chiefly 1900-1910, of corporations organized by Robert Pinckney Tucker. The primary business in which the companies engaged was buying and selling large tracts of land for lumber, minerals, hunting preserves for wealthy northerners, and development in South Carolina and other states. Records include blueprint maps and land plats; abstracts of land titles, compiled 1906-1908; and financial statements and accounts, 1908-1917. Corporations involved include Carolina Cypress Co., Carolina Land Improvement Co., Dry Fork Coal and Timber Corporation, Midland Timber Co., Oakland Club, Oconee Timber Co., Pine Timber Corporation, Sea Coast Development Corporation, Sea Coast Timber Co., Southern Land and Timber Co., Southern Woodland Co., and Three Runs Lumber Co. Business associates represented in the collection include R. L. Montague and H. F. Welch.
Ruffin S. Tucker, early merchant of Raleigh, N.C., and other members of his family, especially his son, Rufus Sylvester Tucker (1829- 1894), who was active in Raleigh real estate.
Microfilm copy of biographical summary and historical and eulogistic sketches of William Feimster Tucker, native of Iredell County, N.C.; graduate of Emory and Henry College, 1848; school teacher, judge, and lawyer of Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss. Tucker was married to Martha Josephine Shackelford in 1851; rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the Confederate army; and served in the Mississippi state legislature, 1876-1878.
John Graham Tull may have lived in Alabama.
Allen Tullos graduated in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters degree in folklore; he also earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. His research interests have centered on American popular culture, the South, cultural geography, biography, and documentary forms.
William H. Tunnard of Baton Rouge, La., attended Kenyon College in Ohio.
The collection is a letter dated 25 January 1850 about Betsy an enslaved African American child. In the letter to her husband white Virginia politician and railroad executive Whitmell P. Tunstall (1810-1854), in Richmond, Va., white Virginian Mary M. Tunstall (1821-1888) in Danville, Va., acknowledges the arrival of her husband's "present" of an enslaved child named Betsy. Tunstall comments on Betsy having the "right color" skin and sewing skills and on Betsy's suitability for working in the home from the perspective of her enslaver. In the letter, Tunstall also mentions Betsy's previous enslaver, Betty Mead, and another enslaved women named Chloe with whom Betsy will work in the Tunstall house.
Robert J. Turnbull (1775-1833) was a lawyer, publicist, and noted nullificationist of Charleston, S.C.
Turner family of central North Carolina, including sisters Sallie Alston Turner (1880-1970), a legal secretary and world traveler; Marie Alma Turner (b. 1882), who studied in Europe, taught Spanish and French at various high schools and colleges in the South in the 1930s and 1940s, and also traveled extensively; and Pattie Mangum Turner (b. 1892), who taught French at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, Ga., and was head librarian at Wingate College in North Carolina. Correspondence, writings, a 1908 recipe book, photographs, and other materials of the Turner family. Topics include high school and college teaching of the French language, European and Mexican travel, recipes, Turner family genealogy, and Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861), for whom one of the Turner brothers was named.
John B. Turner was an African American professor and dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. He also served as the first Black commissioner for East Cleveland, Ohio. The collection contains essays, articles, conference papers, and speeches; printed materials, including newspaper clippings, programs, newsletters, and books; and photographs. Collection materials principally document Turner's professional interests in community leadership, development, and organizing; public housing issues; teen pregnancy; race relations; social work in community mental health programs; social work education; Black student leadership development; ethnic and cultural diversity in organizations; and quality of life for African American children. Some materials are related to professional conferences for social workers and social work educators, the Children's Defense Fund and other organizations engaged in social welfare issues, and fundraising for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Social Work. Also included are audio and video recordings of events, television programs and appearances, educational programs, and interviews, many of which pertain to white broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt, John B. Turner, and the School of Social Work.
Josiah Turner was a lawyer of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.; antebellum Whig politician; anti-secession Confederate officer; anti-Davis member of the Confederate Congress; and, during Reconstruction, a leading Conservative spokesman as editor of the Raleigh Sentinel.
Marcus A. Turner (fl. 1861-1865) and other members of the Turner family resided in Caswell County, N.C.
Miscellaneous items, most, if not all, from North Carolina, including a slave list; a letter, 1859, from Julia Frances Lilly, a student at Greensboro College, Greensboro, N.C.; a Civil War letter, possibly from Turner, in Pennsylvania; correspondence about a horse trade, 1875; and Turner's tribute, 1906, to Jake Turner (1832-1906), his lifelong friend who was once his slave.
Thomas Turner lived in Plymouth, N.C. in 1834.
Jack Webb Turrentine of Knoxville, Tenn., was the grandson of Samuel Bryant Turrentine, a minister of North Carolina.
George A. Tuthill apparently owned property in Mobile, Ala.
Members of the Tuttle family lived in Stokes County, N.C.
The Frank W. Tuttle Collection of Papers documents enslaved people, land, and other goods as financial transactions of the Harper family, who were white farmers, and others. The records include a deed of sale of house and land, 15 July 1786, by John Laughinghouse to Thomas Laughinghouse in Beaufort County, N.C.; a receipt, 4 March 1808, signed by R. Powell to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 11 February 1820, by I. Bradley of New Bern, N.C., to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 9 November 1847, documenting that Mary, an enslaved woman, and Evaline, an enslaved girl, were sold from the estate of Frances Harper's father in Pitt County, N.C., to Henry Wingate; and a record of auction, 1856(?), where an unnamed enslaved male child was sold and the Harper, Harris, and Wingate families were principal buyers of auction goods. There is also a notice, 1873, of the opening of Sarah R. Dawson's school.
Ida Tutwiler was the sister of Julia Tutwiler (1841-1916), Alabama college president and pioneer in women's higher education. The collection includes a lengthy letter, possibly 1872, from Julia Tutwiler to Ida Tutwiler, discussing her educational experiences; a receipt, 1836, for deer skins; and a family letter, 1837, of earlier Tutwilers.
Netta L. Tutwiler (later Mrs. Thomas Chalmers McCorvey) was a resident of Alabama. The collection contains letters from two Confederate cavalry soldiers, Hal A. Tutwiler and Robert P. Tutwiler, serving in Virginia and Alabama, to Hal's sister and Robert's cousin, Netta L. Tutwiler in Alabama, and a few other family letters. The Civil War letters describe battles, social life, physical conditions, and morals of soldiers. One letter is from Camp 15th Va. Cavalry.
Robert Tweed was a merchant in New Orleans, La., and New York, N.Y.
The collection is the travel diary of John D. Twiggs of Augusta, Ga., on an Atlantic voyage and visit to various English and French cities, 7 May-11 September 1846. Twiggs sailed to Europe on the G.W. and returned on the Cambridge. The diary includes observations on Liverpool, London, Rouen, Paris, and Le Havre.
John Twiggs (1750-1816) of Burke County, Ga., served as a major general during the American Revolution, married Ruth Emanuel, and was the father of David Emanuel Twiggs (1790-1862).
The 1966 field recording on open-reel audiotape contains performances of cante fables, including "The Castle of Calamancas," and ballads. Author James B. Twitchell, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded his family members' folk performances in his hometown of Burlington, Vt. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Tyler family of Bertie County, N.C., includes Moses Tyler, Perry Tyler, and John E. (John Edward) Tyler (1850-1932).
Ernest Rudolph Tyler was born on 14 May 1886, the son of John Edward and Marth Adelia Capehart Tyler. He studied law at the University of North Carolina, 1912-1914; married Ethel Leigh Pierce, 12 September 1917; and settled at Oaklana, Roxobel, Bertie County, N.C. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. The collection includes correspondence, court documents, financial materials, and other papers, 1880s-1950s, chiefly relating to Tyler's law practice. Also included is some information on Tyler's activity with the Democratic Party and his election as solicitor.
Achilles James Tynes (fl. 1864) was a a Confederate captain with the Fifth Virginia Cavalry, from Tazewell County, Va. The collection includes typed transcriptions of letters from Tynes to his wife, Harriet Fudge Tynes, during the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and the raid on Chambersburg, Pa., under Brigadier General John McCausland in the summer of 1864; and correspondence, 1948-1951, concerning A. J. Tynes's association with McCausland and the burning of Chambersburg on 31 July 1864.
The collection includes papers of the Tyson family of Quakers from New Jersey: a deed, 1722; a marriage document, 1733; a deed to a copper mine in Baltimore County, Md., 1744; a will, 1783; a family letter, 1786; and a letter, 1861, from William H. Seward, Secretary of State, to Isaac Tyson, about the seizure of the schooner Arcola.
Industrialist of Knoxville, Tenn.; brigadier general of the 59th Brigade, 30th Division in World War I; and U.S. senator, 1925-1929.
The Ruel Tyson papers consist primarily of research files and field notes of Ruel Tyson, founder of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and professor of the philosophy of religion and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Items chiefly pertain to Pentecostals in Ashe County, N.C. and include interviews, writings, notes, correspondence, as well as audiovisual materials, 1970s-1991. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.

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Records documenting the August 2015 Hawking Radiation Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, sponsored by UNC Global. This collection includes videos of 20 of the conference presentations, a conference poster signed by all of the speakers, and transcripts of conference talks.
The Media and Instructional Support Center was established in 1976 to promote the development and use of audiovisual materials in University classrooms. Eventually the center became responsible for developing course materials and training faculty in their use; acquiring, installing and maintaining equipment; photographic processing; storing and providing bibliographic control of campus holdings of audiovisual materials; and operating two-way television facilities. In 1986, the Media and Instructional Support Center was divided into two, separate administrative units: the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Classroom Technologies Service Center.
The UNC Roosevelt Institute is a student public policy think tank and a chapter of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a national organization. The chapter is organized into six policy centers: The Center for Defense & Diplomacy; The Economic Policy Center; The Education Center; The Center for Social Justice; The Health Policy Center; and The Center on Energy and the Environment. The record group contains administrative records, policy documents, reports, newsletters, proposals for new policy centers, event planning records, and records related to the North Carolina Undergraduate Journal of Public Affairs and the Roosevelt Review publications.
This collection contains recorded interviews, transcripts, and other related material from the UNC Story Archive project. Initiated in 2020, The UNC Story Archive is a collection of short, conversational recordings that document the voices and experiences of historically under-represented, misrepresented, or silenced narratives from people affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stories are recorded in collaboration with student and alumni groups and document a wide range of experiences including those of LGBTQIA+ students and staff, first generation college students, and life during COVID-19 pandemic.
The UNC Student Television Recordings consist of videotapes, 1981-2010, produced by UNC Student Television (STV), the entirely student-run television station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials consist mostly of videotape masters, copies, and elements related to STV programs, including talk shows, news magazine programs, sketch comedy shows, melodramas, music programs, and clip shows. STV programs featured in this collection include Off the Cuff, Late Night STV, General College, Campus Profile, Midday Tonight, R.A.V.E., and The Suite Life, among others. The collection also contains video recordings of campus and community events, such as lectures, press conferences, workshops, student body president forums, mayor forums, and town council meetings.
Founded in 1987, UNITAS is one of several living-learning communities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that connect classroom learning with residence life. UNITAS has focused on building community, tolerance, and understanding among individuals of diverse backgrounds and spreading these values throughout the larger community. Its original purpose was to ease tension in black/white relations, but it has also worked to challenge stereotypes and prejudice based on identities such as gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. As of 2012, UNITAS was jointly sponsored and supported by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Housing and Residential Education, and the APPLES Service-Learning Program, with students required to take two three-hour courses in the Department of Anthropology and to participate in a service project during their spring semester.
Henry Zvi Ucko (1910-1995) was a writer, teacher, and rabbi in Germany until political conditions and growing anti-semitism led him to emigrate. In 1939, he fled to Amsterdam and then immigrated to the Dominican Republic, where he organized a congregation in Santo Domingo (Ciudad Trujillo) and began researching the history of Jews in that country. He moved to the United States in 1946.
Henry S. M. Uhl is professor emeritus of medicine of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. In 1973, he was appointed to be the first director of the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, N.C.
Lesa Ukman co-founded IEG Inc. (www.sponsorship.com) in 1981 and serves as its President and Chairman. Prior to founding IEG, she served in the Mayor's Office of Special Events for the City of Chicago, creating the blueprint for sponsorship of festivals and municipal marketing. The collection consists of posters relating to music festivals, including the Beale Street International Festival, Bubmershoot, Jimi Hendrix Guitar Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Cowboy Poetry, Montreaux Jazz Festival, and Chicago Kool Jazz Festival.
John S. Ullman, a white concert coordinator, director, and manager, co-founded the Seattle Folklore Society in the 1960s and later was a manager for artists including Elizabeth Cotten and Mike Seeger. Collection contains 23 16mm motion picture kinescopes and 48 open reel audiotapes of concerts and workshops organized and produced by Ullman. Recorded artists include: Fred McDowell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mike Russo, Doc Watson, Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White, Jesse Fuller, Mike Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Roscoe Holcomb, Furry Lewis, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Georgia Sea Island Singers, New Lost City Ramblers, Bill Monroe, Robert Pete Williams, Vern & Ray, Joe Pancerzewski, Reverend Gary Davis, Hamza El Din, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sam Hinton, Mance Lipscomb, Ralph Stanley, Big Joe Williams, Buell Kazee, the Mills Family, and others.
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was a pictorialist photographer based in New York City, N.Y., renowned for her portraits of both prominent figures in New York City and of people from the rural South. Ulmann attended the teacher training program at Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School, and enrolled in psychology, law, and photography classes at Columbia University, all located in New York, N.Y. She graduated from the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York City, N.Y. After established herself as a portrait photographer in New York City, she increasingly turned her attention to photographing rural southerners and members of Appalachian mountain communities, to whom she referred affectionately as her mountaineers. In 1929, Ulmann began her collaboration with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Julia Peterkin on the widely-acclaimed Roll, Jordan, Roll, a book documenting African American folk culture in South Carolina's Gullah coastal region. Ulmann continued photographing rural communities until her death in 1934.
Isaac Barton Ulmer was a Confederate soldier of Demopolis, Ala.
The collection includes a diary, 24 February-1 June, 1858, of Ulmer of Grove Hill, Ala., while attending Tuskegee (Ala.) Female Academy, and a detailed letter, Jonesville, Garrison County, Tex., 1857, from T. B. A., describing a horseback journey in northeast Texas and Indian Territory. In her diary, Ulmer described daily events at the school and her activities and those of her friends.
J. W. (John Wesley) Umstead (1889-1968), University of North Carolina trustee, 1939-1963, and state legislator from Orange County, 1940-1963, was an advocate of prison reform, public education, mental health programs, and improved hospital facilities.
William Bradley Umstead of Durham, N.C., served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina, 1932-1938; as a United States senator, 1946-1948; and as governor of North Carolina, 1952-1954. The collection includes correspondence, congressional files, campaign material, and other papers of William Bradley Umstead; papers of his wife, Merle Davis Umstead, originally of Rutherford County, N.C.; and records of Merle Davis Umstead's family's stores in Rutherford County. Political material chiefly concerns Umstead's years in the United States Senate, the period between his service in the Senate and his election as governor, and his 1952 gubernatorial campaign. The addition of February 2002 contains diaries, personal correspondence, financial records, military papers, and other items, most of which relate to Umstead's military service during World War I.
The collection is a cargo manifest and clearance paper, 1810, of the schooner Union from the port of Yorktown, Va., to New York.
The collection contains a commission, 1818, of James J. Wood as captain in the Kentucky militia; a bill, 1824, to Major Wood for merchandise purchased in Shelbyville, Ky.; and a diagram, circa 1820s, of the Battle of New Orleans, 1815.
The United Nations Association of the United States of America, North Carolina Division (UNA-NC), a division of UNA-USA, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to enhancing the participation of the United States in the United Nations system. Within the UNA-NC are the Central Piedmont Chapter (Charlotte-Gastonia), the Coastal Carolina Chapter, the Wake County Chapter, the West Triangle Chapter (Chapel Hill), and the Western North Carolina Chapter (Asheville). Organizational records of the North Carolina Division of the United Nations Association of the United States of America include bylaws of the organization; minutes, agendas, and committee reports of meetings; annual reports, including treasurers' reports and budgets; notes, memoranda, and correspondence; membership lists; brochures, itineraries, notes, and other materials relating to UNA-NC sponsored programs; and newsletters of the Division and its chapters.
The USO (United Service Organizations) is a nonprofit organization, formed as a response to a 1941 request from President Franklin D. Roosevelt that private organizations handle the on-leave recreation of the armed forces. Throughout World War II, USO clubs served as a home away from home for American G.I.s, and as an important focal point for community involvement in the war effort. The Newberry Street USO in Jacksonville, N.C., was established on 23 April 1942 and served the first African American Marines.
The 14th Infantry Regiment of United States Colored Troops was organized at Gallatin, Tenn., in 1863. The regiment marched to the relief of Dalton, Ga.; was at the siege of Decatur, Ala.; fought in the battle of Nashville; and served at Chattanooga and in the District of Eastern Tennessee before being mustered out at Greenville in March 1866. Its commanding officers were Brevet Brigadier Generals Thomas J. Morgan (1839-1902) and Henry Clarke Corbin (1842-1909).
The Psychological Operations Company was originally called the Psychological Warfare School, later reorganized as the United States Army Psychological Operations Company. It is headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C., and is part of John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.
MICROFILM ONLY. Copies of daily telegraphic reports from the Signal Corps station at Cape Lookout to the Chief Signal Officer at Washington, D.C., concerning weather, nautical information, and other official matters related to signal equipment, observations of ships, and the seacoast telegraph line.
Photographs created by the U.S. Coast Guard Public Relations Office Fifth Naval District, based in Norfolk, Va., depicting white members of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard at several public health service facilities in North Carolina. Locations in North Carolina include Kill Devil Hills, Elizabeth City, Buxton, and Moorehead City.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a federal agency, responsible for creating and enforcing public policy regarding food, agriculture and forestry within the United States. The Oxford Tobacco Research Laboratory was established in 1910 in Oxford, N.C., as a facility for research on tobacco production.
The collection consists of about 100 lantern slides identified as having been created for lectures of the United States Department of Agriculture's “Farmers' Institute.” Slides for two lectures are included, with each slide identifying the lecture number and author(s), the slide number, and an original negative. A majority of the images depict farmhouses, farmland, and the Black and white people who lived and worked on the farms. Also included are a sketch of a farmhouse and part of a poem. None of the images are credited or identified as to location.
The collection includes copies of papers relating to North Carolinians in the United States Navy, naval vessels whose names have North Carolina associations, and Revolutionary and Civil War naval actions off the North Carolina coast. Included are biographical sketches of Edwin Alexander Anderson, David Worth Bagley, Osborne Bennett Hardison, Felix Leslie Johnson, William Durwood Leggett Junior, Andrew Theodore Long, John Wesley Roper, and John Wilkes; photocopies of letters and official communications relating to the USS Croatan, USS Currituck, USS North Carolina, and USS Raleigh; communications relating to John Paul Jones, 1778, 1779, and 1782, and to David Dixon Porter, 1864 and 1865; and histories of the USS Albemarle (three different ships), USS Bogue, USS Croatan (the first ship to be named for a North Carolina sound), and USS Currituck.
The United States Navy Pre-Flight School was established in February 1942 and was a major component of the University’s contributions to the national war effort during World War II. The United States Navy announced the establishment of a pre-flight school to train naval pilots on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. The University hosted the second stage of a one-year training program for the servicemen. Cadets began arriving in May 1942 at the rate of about 300 every two weeks until a quota of 1,875 was reached. Collection consists of approximately 6,000 negatives made by United States Navy photographers. The images document the work of the Pre-Flight School, including both training and social activities. Images depict white and Black men and women (including civilians) who contributed to the work of the school as Officers, Cadets, Nurses, WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), and instructors. Also included are numerous images depicting women and Black servicemen who were part of the School’s daily operation. There are images of black servicemen who were transferred to the campus as members of the U.S. Navy’s B-1 Band. They were among the first Black non-commissioned officers in the modern U.S. Navy who were assigned positions other than cooks, porters, or other related support staff.
The Unitarian Universalist Association is a religious tradition formed through the 1961 merging of the Universalists (founded in 1793) and the Unitarians (founded in 1825). The Universalist Convention of North Carolina was formed in 1895 with the goal of promoting coordinated growth of Universalism in eastern North Carolina. It comprises Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations across the state.
Church records, including minutes, financial records, bulletins, photographs, and other materials relating to the University Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The University United Methodist Church, Chapel Hill, N.C., was known as University Methodist Church until 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged with the Methodist Church. The Methodist Annual Conference assigned its first Methodist minister to Chapel Hill in the 1840s. In 1853, the Methodist congregation's first church building opened its doors on Rosemary Street. In 1889, as the congregation grew, a new church was built between the University of North Carolina's campus and Franklin Street. In 1926, classrooms were added for the Church's Sunday School. In 1961, they were replaced when the Education Wing of the Church was built.
The University Woman's Club was established at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1949 as an outgrowth of the University Newcomer's Club. Through teas, tours, excursions, dinners, and other activities, the club sought to foster closer social ties among university faculty wives and women staff members. The Newcomer's Club had been formed in 1939 and in 1969 became a division of the University Woman's Club. The purpose of the Newcomer's Division was to assist new faculty wives and women faculty and staff in becoming acquainted with each other, with the university, and with the Chapel Hill community. In 1987 the Newcomer's Division was disbanded and replaced by the Friends' Network and the Newcomer's Events Committee.
The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the responsibilities of registrar and bursar. The administrative structure of the University remained essentially the same until the twentieth century.
The Board of Trustees, elected by the North Carolina General Assembly, was the governing body of the University of North Carolina from its chartering in 1789 until 1932, when the Consolidated University of North Carolina system was created.
The University of North Carolina's Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research undertook a joint venture with the Library of Congress to collect and microfilm the early records of the states and to make this source material widely accessible. The resulting microfilm publication is The Records of the States of the United States of America. Professor William Sumner Jenkins was director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research from its establishment in 1941 until his retirement from the university in 1967. The records of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research consist of the files of its director, Professor William Sumner Jenkins. The material prior to 1941 consists of Jenkins's correspondence as professor of constitutional law in the University of North Carolina's Department of Political Science. These files also contain materials on Jenkins's Work Projects Administration (WPA) project to collect the legislative records of the states. In 1941, the WPA project was incorporated into the Library of Congress-University of North Carolina project to produce The Records of the States of the United States of America.
The Campus Improvement Fund was established in 1923 by donations from William C. Coker, John Sprunt Hill, and James Sprunt. A committee was appointed to apply this money toward the development and beautification of the University of North Carolina campus. The records of the Campus Improvement Fund consist of the financial files of its treasurer, William C. Coker. Included are records, 1924-1926, of contributions and disbursements.
In 1969, the Class of 1938 announced its intent to give $250,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to build an international student center. By 1975, however, only $60,000 had been pledged. The class gift committee then agreed to create an endowment to fund study abroad for UNC-Chapel Hill students and to assist foreign students enrolled at the university.
The College for War Training was established in 1942 to coordinate the University of North Carolina's involvement in World War II. It served as liaison with the branches of the military that set up units on campus, advised on curriculum and programs, and handled personnel matters related to the war. It was also the office responsible for implementing the GI bill. The College for War Training was phased out after the war.
The Department of Rural Social Economics was an academic department created in 1914. Eugene C. Branson was its first chair, serving until 1933, when he was succeeded by Samuel H. Hobbs. The department continued until 1938, when it became a curriculum in the Department of Sociology.
William Chambers Coker was hired as the first Professor of Botany at the University of North Carolina in 1902. Thereafter Botany became a separate department and remained so until 1982, when it merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Biology.
The Dialectic Society was the first of two literary societies formed in 1795, the year the University of North Carolina opened. Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all students were members of one of these societies. Students from the eastern portion of the state tended to belong to the Philanthropic Society and those from the western portion to the Dialectic Society. The societies provided literary and oratorical training, and exercised many of the functions of student government. They also acquired books and developed extensive libraries. In 1886, the societies merged their libraries into the university library.
The Law Club was established on 24 July 1848 by students in the University's Law Department for the improvement of composition and oration. The club met monthly until it was disbanded on 30 April 1849.
The Circulation Department was formally organized around 1924. Prior to that, books were circulated and reference service was provided from a single desk.
The Monogram Club of the University of North Carolina, successor organization to the NC Club, was an organization for student athletes who lettered in their sports. Records consist of one item: a booklet containing a dinner menu and biographical sketches and custom monograms for some of the club's most prominent members.
The Philanthropic Society was the second of two literary societies formed in 1795, the year the University of North Carolina opened. Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all students were members of one of these societies. Students from the eastern portion of the state tended to belong to the Philanthropic Society and those from the western portion to the Dialectic Society. The societies provided literary and oratorical training, and exercised many of the functions of student government. They also acquired books and developed extensive libraries. In 1886, the societies merged their libraries into the university library.
Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) succeeded Harry Woodburn Chase as President of the Univesity of North Carolina on 1 July 1930. He served in that position until 14 November 1932, when he became President of the newly created Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro. After consolidation, the title of the chief administrative officer on the Chapel Hill campus was Dean of Administration, and later Chancellor.
The Research Club was organized by Joseph Hyde Pratt and George Howe in 1914. Records are bound typed copies of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the Research Club. The annual meetings were occasions of humor, usually consisting of fifteen-minute speeches delivered by the members on esoteric, even whimsical, subjects.
Established in 1919, the university's School of Commerce combined a liberal arts education with practical training in business principles. It offered both the bachelor of science and master of science degrees in commerce. Dudley DeWitt Carroll was dean of the school from its founding until 1950. In 1950 the school's name changed to School of Business Administration and, in 1988, to the UNC Business School at Chapel Hill. In 1991 it was renamed the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Records include the minutes of the school's Administrative Board from its initial meeting in 1920 through 1929. Minutes mainly concern course requirements and student petitions. Also included is one letter, dated 2 May 1928, from the secretary of the Administrative Board to the of the Department of Psychology concerning the psychology requirement for commerce students.
The University Club was founded in 1933 as an organization of members of the senior class who wanted to promote spirit and sportsmanship, improve inter-school relations, interest prospective students in the university, improve relations with alumni, promote freshman orientation, and foster statewide interest in the university and its activities. Records of the University Club include meeting minutes, bylaws of the club, committee lists, membership rosters, correspondence, and radio show scripts. Correspondence covers general club activities including the annual smoker, homecoming and football pep rally expenses, and the club's radio show.
The project to have a portrait painted of Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was initiated by University of North Carolina students in 1949, and taken up again in 1953 through the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, not as an official act of the university, but as a project of friends of Graham. Records of the Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee are comprised primarily of correspondence between Fred H. Weaver (1915-1972), Dean of Student Affairs and secretary of the committee, and D. Hiden Ramsey (1892-1966), chair of the committee, concerning negotiations for having the portrait painted. Also included are letters to prospective committee members and donors; correspondence with Dr. and Mrs. Frank Porter Graham; and documentation of arrangements for the unveiling ceremony and copies of the proceedings and speeches delivered at this ceremony on 19 May 1956. The history of the project is summarized in a letter of 15 April 1955 from Weaver to prospective committee members.
The Advisory Committee on Public Radio was appointed in June 1978 by the president of the University of North Carolina (System) to study North Carolina's FM radio facilities and to make recommendations to the North Carolina Task Force on Public Telecommunications, a group appointed earlier that year by the governor. The Advisory Committee, chaired by Wesley H. Wallace of the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures at the university's Chapel Hill campus, was soon given the additional responsibility of fulfilling the university system's obligation, under an act of the General Assembly, to design, plan, and implement a statewide public FM radio network.
Established in 1972, the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments was founded and funded by students of the University of North Carolina system. Its mission has been to champion the interests and concerns of students at the campuses of the university system and to serve as liaison between the students and state government.
On 1 July 1972, the Consolidated University of North Carolina was expanded to include 16 campuses, and its Board of Trustees was replaced by the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors, made up of 32 members elected by the North Carolina General Assembly, was given responsibility for the general determination, control, supervision, management, and governance of all affairs of the constituent institutions. A preliminary Planning Committee met from January to June 1972 to establish the organization and functions of the Board prior to the Board's first official meeting on 7 July 1972.
With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of Trustees as its governing body. The records of the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (System) include minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees and of its Executive Committee, 1932-1972; files of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Board pertaining to the work of various committees, 1932-1956; and files of the Board's Building Committee (UNC-CH), 1945-1953; Committee on Inauguration, 1950; Committee to Nominate a President, 1956; and Health Affairs Committee, 1955-1963. The Secretary of the Board of Trustees was responsible for correspondence, minutes, and general record-keeping. An Assistant Secretary worked closely with the University President's office, providing more continuity to the Board's records than had existed prior to Consolidation. These records include files of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary pertaining to the work of the Board's committees and containing mostly background material for reports to the Board or its Executive Committee. These are not the actual records of the committees. The Building Committee (UNC-CH) of the Board of Trustees studied and made recommendations on construction and property use at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Records, 1945-1953, include correspondence and other files of the Building Committee and its chair, Collier Cobb, Jr. More than half of these records deal with the construction of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and related projects. The Board of Trustees appointed the Committee on Inauguration in February 1950 to oversee planning for the inauguration of Gordon Gray as president of the Consolidated University in October. Records of this committee include correspondence pertaining to program details, sessions sites on each campus, speakers, and finances for the inauguration; inauguration programs are filed with the correspondence. Following the resignation of Gordon Gray as president of the Consolidated University, the Board of Trustees appointed the Committee to Nominate a President to recommend his successor. The Committee's nomination of William C. Friday was approved by the Board on October 26, 1956. Records of this committee include meeting minutes, suggestions, and comments on the qualifications for president, and data on the candidates considered. These records cover January through May 1956 only. The Health Affairs Committee, a standing committee of the Board of Trustees, advised and counseled the University administration on all matters concerning the Division of Health Affairs at the Chapel Hill campus. Records of this committee include files of George Watts Hill, who chaired the committee, 1957-1972. Files include committee correspondence, minutes, and other materials related to planning for programs and facilities.
Along with its other duties, the Division of Legal Affairs was involved in the desegregation of the University of North Carolina system. In 1970, the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare notified the University of North Carolina System that it was violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by maintaining a racially dual system of public higher education. In response, the university began drafting a desegregation plan. Eight years of draft submissions, revisions, rejections, self-studies, and negotiations followed. The matter was finally resolved through an administrative proceeding that began in 1980 and ended with a consent decree in 1981. Implementation of the provisions of the consent decree continued for a number of years.
Established in 1972, the University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly serves as a faculty advisory board on system-wide issues of the University. It was founded at the request of UNC President William Friday. Records consist of meeting materials, correspondence, resolutions, and petitions. Included are materials related to the founding of the Assembly.
The University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly was established in 1972 at the request of University of North Carolina President William Friday. The Assembly serves the President, the UNC System Office, the Board of Governors, the North Carolina General Assembly, and campus faculty and administrative bodies as a faculty advisory body on system-wide issues. In addition to formulating advice on system issues, Assembly members frequently serve on working groups, policy committees, and personnel committees of the UNC System Office, as well as nominating members of the general faculty to serve on system initiatives as required. The records consist of General Assembly and committee meeting minutes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) is a center for transportation safety research. The Center was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1965 at the recommendation of Governor Dan K. Moore and opened at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. Research produced by the HSRC has been instrumental in a number of safety-related policy changes and initiatives in North Carolina, including changes to the minimum legal age for bus drivers, graduated driver licensing, the child passenger safety law (1981) and seat belt law (1985), and the "Click It or Ticket" seat belt use enforcement program, started by the HSRC in 1993.
The University of North Carolina Leadership Institute was founded in 2001. It included the William Friday Leadership Program, the Food Systems Leadership Institute, and the William Friday Institute for Higher Education. The records include Kellogg Food and Society conference materials, leadership workshop materials, speaker biographies, and a 2007 summary evaluation. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Contains materials from the Office of Communications of the University of North Carolina System, including press releases, speeches for former UNC System President Molly Broad, photographs and other materials pertaining to former UNC System President Erskine Bowles, tuition plans, health care system files, and newsclippings and press release files on system chancellors. These files were compiled and kept by former Vice President for Communications Joni Worthington. Materials range in date from the 1990s through the 2000s.
Records consist of data, correspondence, meeting minutes, project files, committee, council, and taskforce materials, facilities records, admission and enrollment records, Board of Governors files, budget documents, conference and workshop materials. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The records of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Finance and Financial Reporting include financial audit reports up to 1980 from the individual UNC campuses including the UNC hospital. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Associate Vice President for Finance and University Property Officer was an administrative official in the Division of Finance of the General Administration of the University of North Carolina (System). One of the main responsibilities of this official was to coordinate capital improvement projects.
The Senior Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs is the senior academic affairs administrator of the University of North Carolina (System). Established in 1932, the System initially included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro. During the 1960s, the number of schools in the System doubled to include campuses at Asheville, Charlotte, and Wilmington. In 1972 the System was reorganized and expanded to include sixteen schools. The Office of the Vice President was created in 1951 and was then called simply Vice President; subsequently it was called Provost, Vice President and Provost, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Vice President for Academic Affairs (in 1964), Vice President for Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President, and Senior Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs (beginning in 1995).
The Vice President for Finance is the senior financial officer of the University of North Carolina (System). Established in 1932, the System initially included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro; in 1972, it was reorganized and expanded to include sixteen schools. The name of the Office of the Vice President for Finance was originally Comptroller and has been, at various times, Vice President and Controller, Business Manager and Treasurer, and Assistant Vice President and Treasurer.
The position of vice president for planning was created in 1972 in conjunction with North Carolina's reorganization of higher education. The vice president for planning was responsible for assisting the president in planning for and documenting the long-range future character of the university system and all of its constituent institutions. Cameron P. West was the first to hold the position. West had been the director of the North Carolina Board of Higher Education, a position that was phased out as a result of the reorganization. Records are chiefly those of John L. Sanders, who was vice president for planning from 1973 to 1978. They deal with the university's desegregation plan, state aid to private colleges, and planning for state-supported education in the fields of law, nursing, and veterinary medicine. Of particular interest are files related to the accreditation of North Carolina Central University's School of Law and to the decision to build a veterinary school at North Carolina State University rather than at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. A few items date from Cameron West's tenure as director of the North Carolina Board of Higher Education, but are relevant to the files in these records.
The Vice President for University Relations of the University of North Carolina (System) advised the President on matters involving, and served as liaison with, the Trustees of the System, the North Carolina General Assembly, agencies of state government, and other outside agencies with which the University had official relationships. The office originated in 1950 as Assistant to the President and was subsequently called Secretary of the University, Vice President for Administration, and then in 1966 Vice President for University Relations. After 1969, the duties of the Vice President were distributed to other offices.
Contains records of the University of North Carolina System, primarily from the Office of the President and Board of Governors. Materials cover several different time periods: the majority of the materials were created from roughly 2010 to 2015, with some materials dating from the late 1960s through the 1980s and 2004-2005. Materials include correspondence, speeches, records of bond referendums, and subject files, as well as records on each of the UNC System schools. Contains records that span the administrations of several UNC System Presidents: William C. Friday (1956-1986), C. D. Spangler, Jr. (1986-1997), Molly Corbett Broad (1997-2005), Erskine Bowles (2006-2010), and Thomas W. Ross (2011-2016).
In 1950 Gordon Gray (1909-1982) succeeded Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) as president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro.
Contains records, including correspondence, subject files, and other materials, related to the administration of the campuses of the University of North Carolina System while Margaret Spellings served as UNC System President, 2016-2019.
C. D. Spangler, Jr., succeeded William C. Friday in 1986 as president of the University of North Carolina (System), which included 16 campuses: North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Appalachian State University in Boone, East Carolina University in Greenville, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, Pembroke State University, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, and Winston-Salem State University. In 1996, the name of Pembroke State University was changed to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
William C. Friday succeeded Gordon Gray in 1957 as president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro. During the 1960s, three more campuses were added to the Consolidated University. In 1972, through a major reorganization of higher education in North Carolina, the Consolidated University became the University of North Carolina, and Friday became president of the new system. Eventually the system was expanded to include sixteen schools.
Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was the first president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro.
The position of Secretary of the University was created in 1955 chiefly to act as liaison with the System's Board of Trustees. William C. Friday was the first Secretary, when the System included the University at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State, and the Woman's College in Greensboro. After Friday left the position in 1956, it remained empty until Frederick H. Weaver's appointment in 1961. In 1964, the position was abolished. In 1965, the universities at Asheville and Charlotte were added to the System. The position of Secretary was reinstated when the University System expanded to 16 campuses in 1972 and the Board of Trustees was replaced by the Board of Governors. John P. Kennedy, Jr., filled the position in 1972. Because the Secretary's duties were performed by others when the position was not operative, files similar to the Secretary's may be found among the records of the Vice Presidents for Finance and for University Relations.
The UNC Exchange Program was formed in 1997 and was responsible for creating study abroad exchange partnerships between the UNC system and university systems outside of the United States. The program was discontinued in 2016, transferring responsibility for active system-wide agreements to individual campuses.
From 1968 to 1972, the University Advisory Council served as liaison between the President of the University of North Carolina (System) and the faculties of the constituent campuses. Consisting of the chancellors and the faculty advisory committees of the individual campuses, the Council expressed faculty attitudes on matters of systemwide policy. In 1972, with the reorganization of the University System, the Council was reconstituted as the Faculty Assembly.
The images contained in this collection are believed to have been used in a Paul Green documentary produced by The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television. The images depict various artists and performers appearing on The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television over the years.
The records documents the offices origins, programs and various faculty activities internationally, including global collaborations and exchanges. The materials include faculty surveys, activity logs, public relations materials, 1983 until 2002 and quarterly reports. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The University of North Carolina Hospitals Volunteer Association was formed in March 1952 as the North Carolina Memorial Hospital Women's Auxiliary. In 1967, the association's name changed to North Carolina Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and men began to volunteer. The name changed again, in 1981, to North Carolina Memorial Hospital Volunteer Association. After University of North Carolina Hospitals Hospitals became the name of the entire hospital complex in 1989, the association changed its name to University of North Carolina Hospitals Hospitals Volunteer Association. The association has provided a wide range of services to patients and hospital staff as well as outreach to the community.
The collection consists of diplomas and certificates from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., some issued by the Dialectic Society and some by the Philanthropic Society, both literary societies at the University. Most are from the nineteenth century.
The University of North Carolina is the nation's oldest public institution of higher learning, chartered in 1789 and opened for instruction in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1795.
The University of North Carolina Press was incorporated as a non-stock company in 1922. Its original purpose was threefold: to publish periodicals devoted to the research and writing of University of North Carolina faculty; to publish catalogs and other documents for the University; and to promote the arts, sciences, and literature by publishing generally deserving works. Throughout its history, the Press has been especially strong in the areas of southern history and literature. Although supported in part by the University, the Press remained administratively independent until 1951, when it was brought under the supervision of the University of North Carolina System's General Administration. Today the Press is a major publisher of scholarly journals and books.
Noncommercial television began in North Carolina on 8 January 1955, when WUNC-TV, Channel 4 (Chapel Hill) went on the air. The station was licensed to the University of North Carolina system. Planning began in the early 1960s for a statewide network of educational television stations. From 1965 to 2010, twelve stations joined WUNC-TV to form the University of North Carolina Television Network. The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television was established in 1979 to centralize the operation and administration of the network.
The crosslisted course American Studies 60/Folklore 195 was taught between 1990 and 1997 and again in 2008 and 2009 by Professor William Bamberger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrated the bicentennial of its founding in October 1993. The two chief photographers represented in this collection are Dan Sears and Rick Beckman. Sears has served as the official University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill photographer since 1992. He has also worked for several newspapers, United Press International, and the Associated Press. Beckman began his career as a photojournalist and taught for 30 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
This collection primarily consists of ephemera-materials created for a specific event or purpose and intended to be discarded after use-related to events, departments, and organizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Examples of ephemera include flyers, brochures, event posters, and class projects.
The collection consists of images documenting the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill organized into eleven series by broad categories: administration and staff, 1897-1980s; alumni, 1900-1979; athletics, 1890s-1999 and undated; buildings and grounds, 1799-1999 and undated; documents, 1950s and undated; keepsakes, 1980s-1990s and undated; military affairs, 1910-1980s and undated; organizations, 1878-1990s and undated; schools and colleges, 1870-1980s; special events, 1910s-1980s; and students, 1870-1990s. Images are in a variety of formats, primarily black-and-white photographic prints, but also including film negatives, 35mm color slides, 35mm roll film negatives, illustrations, color lithographs, pages from publications, and other types of documents.
The Internal Audit Department aids University management by analyzing the operations, internal controls, and financial accounting of campus units and thereby determining whether resources are being used in accordance with state requirements and University policies. The position of Internal Auditor was established in 1961 in the University's Division of Business and Finance. Since 1994, the Internal Audit Department has reported directly to the Chancellor.
The collection contains the culminating student projects for a folklore class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Danielle Christensen taught the course, Introduction to Material Culture, in 2011. The projects are on different arts, crafts, foodways, and folkways, primarily in North Carolina. Topics include camping, pottery, recreational fishing, bee keeping, canning, pie making, calligraphy, home brewing, aromatherapy and alternative medicine, crochet, and mountain banjo. Field notes, audio recordings of interviews with field consultants, tape logs, digital images, and narrative reflections comprise the project of each student. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection contains the culminating, collaborative student project for a first year seminar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) that was taught in 2004 by history professor Peter Filene. The course was titled "Born in the USA: Coming of Age in the 1950s and 1960s." For their "Forever Young" project, students produced a ten-minute, documentary video, created a collage about UNC students who matriculated between 1950 and 1969, and solicited written comments from their contemporaries on UNC’s campus to generate raw material about youth in 2004 for future cultural historians. Also included are a scrapbook, photographs, student essays, audio recordings of short interviews with UNC students, and several individual, but anonymous, submissions for a survey on students' attitudes toward sexual intercourse outside of marriage. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The University of North Carolina established its Computation Center and purchased a mainframe computer in 1959, primarily to assist faculty in analyzing research data. In 1967, Administrative Data Processing (later Administrative Information Services) was established to help university departments manage their administrative data. In 1987, the Computation Center became Academic Computing Services. Academic Computing Services was part of the Division of Academic Affairs, while Administrative Data Processing was part of the Division of Business and Finance. In 1989, Academic Computing Services began reporting to the Associate Provost for Information Technology, and its name changed to Office of Information Technology. In April 1996, oversight of all campus computing was consolidated under the new position of Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. The vice chancellor headed the new Information Technology Services (ITS), which absorbed the earlier offices that had managed academic and administrative computing and networking, namely, the Office of Information Technology, Administrative Data Processsing, and the Office of Telecommunications. Later that year, the Office of Information Technology and Office of Telecommunications merged to become Academic Technology and Networks. In 2004, Academic Technology and Networks, Administrative Information Services, and Systems and Procedures were brought together under the ITS organizational structure.
The collection consists of 135 volumes containing financial records of the University from 1927 to 1987. The majority of these records were created and maintained by the University's Accounting Department. Some of them, however, predate the formal organization of the department, which did not occur until the 1940s. All of the records are accountings of the University's state-allocated budget; they offer no information about the internal organization or administration of the Accounting Department itself. They include records of allocations and expenditures on capital improvement budgets and maintenance funds. They are not, however, a complete record of the University's finances for the period they cover.
Administrative Information Services was first established in 1967 as Administrative Data Processing. Its primary function was to provide the computer equipment, personnel, and services to process administrative data for university departments. Erwin M. Danziger was its first director and served until 1989.
Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (Air Force ROTC) is a a training program for college students preparing for leadership in the United States Air Force. The AFROTC program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in the fall of 1947. Records consist of a composite photograph from the 2011-2012 academic year and programs for the 2012 and 2013 "Dining Out" events.
The university's Physical Plant Department, established in the 1930s, for many years was responsible for facilities maintenance and for repair and renovation projects whose cost was below the threshold for capital improvements. In the mid-1990s, Architectural and Engineering Services, a unit of the Facilities Planning and Design Office, assumed responsibility for these projects. In 1998, following an administrative reorganization, Architectural and Engineering Services became a separate department within Facilities Services. The Architectural and Engineering Services Department later was renamed Design and Construction Services and became part of Facilities Operations, Planning and Design.
Contains materials pertaining to the Asian American Center during the 2020-2021 academic year. Materials include fliers announcing programs and events, recipes, statements in response to rising violence directed at Asians and Asian Americans, and other materials shared online. Founded in 2020, the Asian American Center’s mission is to cultivate a critical understanding of Asian American peoples, cultures, and histories. The Center strives to engage and empower Asian American students, faculty, and staff and the greater Carolina community through education, organizing, and advocacy.
Claiborne Stribling Jones served as Assistant to the Chancellor from 1966 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1984. In the interim, he was Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance. As Assistant to the Chancellor, he worked in all areas of University administration. Beginning in 1977, however, he specialized in the area of finance.
John P. Evans served as Assistant to the Chancellor from 1974 to 1977.
Susan H. Ehringhaus was appointed assistant to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor in 1974. Her primary responsibility was to provide legal counsel to the chancellor on university policies; faculty, student, and employee grievances; and matters pertaining to academic tenure appeals. She also served as the university's Title IX compliance officer and as university liaison with the North Carolina Attorney General's office in court cases to which the university was a party.
David Dill served as Assistant to the Chancellor for Planning from 1984 to 1993. In that position, he coordinated the University's long-range planning and priority-setting process.
While retaining his position as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Bentley Renwick served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor from mid-1977 to mid-1978. In this capacity, he visited eleven other universities and developed a proposal for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's recruitment and retention of minority students.
Douglass Hunt served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor from July 1980 until his retirement in 1996. He then continued to work part-time as Advisor to the Chancellor for Governmental Affairs until 2002.
Carl W. Smith served as Assistant to the Provost from 1972 to 1995. He was the first individual appointed to an assistant's role in the Office of the Provost. His primary duty was the handling of routine budgetary and financial matters; he was the liaison for such matters between the Provost and the units comprising the Division of Academic Affairs. He was also responsible for monitoring the affirmative action and minority recruitment and retention programs for the Division.
The Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services is the administrator of the University's Facilities Services unit, which is responsible for the maintenance and operations of campus facilities and grounds. Records include reports, memos, meeting minutes, financial records, and other materials related to campus projects and services. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Association for Women Faculty was formed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the summer of 1978 to promote intellectual and social contact among women faculty members. At monthly meetings, the association, led by its elected officers and Board of Directors, discussed topics of interest to the university's female staff. The records of the Association for Women Faculty include its constitution and bylaws, correspondence, membership lists, minutes of meetings, publicity, lists of officers, and records of honors and awards.
Intercollegiate athletics at the University of North Carolina began in 1884, when the first intercollegiate baseball game was played. Baseball and football were the most popular sports for many years, but after World War II, basketball eclipsed baseball. As the number of teams and the interest in them increased, so did the administrative operation of athletics. In 1947 the first director of sports publicity was hired. Later the Sports Information Office was established. The name of the office went through several permutations before becoming the Athletic Communications Office sometime after 2000.
The university's official observance of its Bicentennial began in August 1993 and ended in June 1994. Planning for it, however, began in the early 1980s. The Bicentennial Observance Planning Committee, appointed in 1985, set goals for the celebration. In 1987, the Bicentennial Commemoration Planning Office was created to carry out detailed planning and implementation of events. Within the next year, the name of the office was changed, first to Bicentennial Observance Planning Office, then to Bicentennial Observance Office. William P. Massey was appointed general secretary of the Bicentennial and was put in charge of the office. When Massey left the university in 1991, Steven J. Tepper, who had been assistant general secretary, assumed direction of the office's day-to-day operations. Tepper's title became associate general secretary, then executive director of the Bicentennial Observance. The Bicentennial Observance Policy Committee served as the advisory body to the office. The office was disbanded at the close of the Bicentennial celebration on 30 June 1994.
The Black Student Movement (BSM) formed in November 1967 in response to the slow pace of African American enrollment at the university and the dissatisfaction of black students with the campus chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). One of the organization's main goals was to become the voice for African American students at the university. In December 1968, it presented to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson a list of demands, including increased admissions of black students, the creation of a department of African and Afro-American studies, and better treatment of non-academic employees. In 1997, on the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, the Black Student Movement presented Chancellor Michael Hooker with a list of demands, including a declaration by the chancellor of his support for a freestanding black cultural center. The BSM also organized many events and activities for African American students at the university and fostered subgroups engaged in dance, theater, gospel singing, and other cultural programs. As of 2013, it remained one of the largest student organizations on campus.
The Elections Board was organized under the Student Government constitution of 1940. Later, its name changed to Board of Elections. The board was empowered to supervise campus elections and was required to certify the accuracy of election results. Among the board's responsibilities are recognition of student political parties, certification of candidate eligibility, printing and distributing ballots, selection of polling places and personnel, ballot counting, and certification of election results.
The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as advisor to the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina (System) on matters pertaining to the Chapel Hill campus. The Board also advises the Chancellor on the management and development of the university at Chapel Hill.
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies was founded in 2003 to support the interdisciplinary study of Jewish history, culture, and religion.
The Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, implemented in 2003, was intended to promote entrepreneurship across campus. The initiative offered first-year seminars in various fields including biology, religion, and art. The program also included the Carolina Challenge, a student-led competition that awards funding for the best student-made commercial or social venture. The records consist of one video tape titled "Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative." Acquired as part of University Archives.
Carolina Leadership Development, now called Student Life and Leadership, is a department of the Carolina Union at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to cultivating and supporting student leadership. The department offers workshops and courses on leadership and provides consultations for student organizations, among other services. The records consist of four binders of slides and photographs of events held by Carolina Leadership Development, one of which pertains to the North Carolina Fellows Program. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Carolina Publishing Institute, sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was held each summer from 1993 to 1996. It was comprised of three weeks of instruction, each week dealing with a different aspect of publishing. A local Advisory Board was responsible for planning. Doris Betts of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English served as advisor. Institute faculty was made up of local and national players in the publishing industry, authors, educators, and booksellers. Records of the institute include correspondence with Advisory Board members as well as general correspondence, planning documents, and copies of instructional materials that were handed out to participants.
The Carolina Seminars program facilitates seminars on a wide array of topics each led by scholars from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and beyond. The program also sponsors and organizes the annual Douglass Hunt Lecture. Records primarily document the seminars. Materials relate to planning, participants, speakers, and publicity. Records also include annual reports and correspondence from program directors Ruel Tyson and James Peacock. The collection also documents the planning for the annual Douglass Hunt Lecture. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Center for Early Adolescence was founded in 1978 by Joan Lipsitz, who served as director until 1985. The Center's mission was to promote the healthy development of people between the ages of 10-15 through its research and programs. Through publications, an information service, trainings for educators and others serving young people, and research, the Center worked to address issues specific to young adolescents, particularly middle grade education, preventing school dropout, health and sexuality, literacy and math skills, and community services for young adolescents. From 1978 to 1980, it was located in the School of Education, then moved to the Department of Maternal and Child Health within the School of Public Health. From 1985 to 1988, Leah Lefstein served as acting director of the Center. In 1988, the Center moved to the School of Medicine, and Frank Loda was named director. Records consist of project files, conference and workshop materials, financial information, and other records. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Center for Global Initiatives sponsors programs, projects, and funding opportunities to promote global education. Records include annual reports and conference materials, including audio recordings of talks from the 2015 Navigating the Global South conference, "State of the Plate: Food and the Local/Global Nexus." Also included are materials documenting the activities of the Study Abroad Peer Ambassadors program, including the events Being LGBTQ+ Abroad and Mental Health and Study Abroad. The Study Abroad Peer Ambassadors are UNC students who have studied abroad and share their experiences with other students through events, information sessions, and one-on-one advising.
Committee and research project records from the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Center for Maternal and Infant Health at the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1999 to support maternal and infant health in North Carolina. The collection includes materials about infant mortality, funding from the Duke Endowment for center-sponsored studies, presentations, pamphlets, memorandums about research projects, meeting schedules and minutes, workshops, proposals, and images of events. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Audio and video tapes of lectures and events of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Since 1991, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) has promoted understanding of and engagement with East European and Eurasian countries. It has worked to enhance capacity to meet strategic U.S. needs through a variety of projects and activities: teacher training, public outreach, course development, instruction in area and language studies, conferences and workshops, and faculty and student exchanges. The Center draws upon a broad base of support with 30 core faculty members and nearly 30 associated faculty members who regularly teach courses and engage in research focused on Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Established in 1957, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducts and supports both basic and applied research on urban, regional, and rural planning and policy issues.
The Center for Women in Educational Leadership was established in 1979 in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Education under a grant from the Ford Foundation. One of four such centers funded by Ford, it was founded to promote the identification, advancement, and professional development of women administrators. The center pursued its goals through surveys, workshops, and seminars.
The collection consists of two award-winning submissions for the Center for the Study of the American South's Sounds of the South Award for Undergraduate Research, 2011-2012, and contains field recordings, logs, award proposals, and final reports. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Chancellor Ferebee Taylor created the Chancellor's Administrative Council in the fall of 1972. It consisted of the administrative officers who reported directly to him, including his special assistants and excepting the Director of Athletics. He later included the deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine. The Council's membership varied somewhat, but continued to include most of the University's senior administrators. It meets weekly to discuss University-wide issues and to advise the Chancellor on policy-setting decisions.
Christopher C. Fordham was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 March 1980 until 30 June 1988.
Michael Hooker was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 1995 until his death on 29 June 1999. Beginning in April 1999, he had taken a two-month medical leave, during which William O. McCoy served as acting chancellor.
Paul Hardin was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 1988 to 30 June 1995.
James Moeser became the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 15 August 2000. In September 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as chancellor on 30 June 2008 with plans to return to the university in 2009, after a year's research leave, as a professor in the Department of Music.
Nelson Ferebee Taylor was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 February 1972 until 31 January 1980.
Joseph Carlyle Sitterson was the chief administrative officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 16 February 1966 until 31 January 1972.
Paul Frederick Sharp was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 September 1964 until 15 February 1966.
William Brantley Aycock was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 1957 until August 1964.
Before 1934, the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill was administered by a president. From 1934 to 1945 the dean of administration was the chief administrative officer; in 1945 the title of the position changed to chancellor. Robert Burton House (1892- ) served as executive secretary to President Frank Porter Graham from 1926 and became dean of administration in 1934.
William O. McCoy was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 12 April to 1 June 1999 and from 9 July 1999 through 15 August 2000. During the period 12 April to 1 June 1999, McCoy served as the university's acting chancellor while Chancellor Michael Hooker took a medical leave to undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Hooker succumbed to cancer on 29 June 1999, and on July 9 the UNC Board of Governors named McCoy interim chancellor. McCoy served in this capacity until 15 August 2000, when James Moeser was appointed chancellor.
The Chimera Fantasy and Science Fiction Club was a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student organization devoted to the appreciation of the science fiction and fantasy genres. Chimera membership was open to all students interested in the genres as manifested in fiction, film, television, and tabletop gaming. Between 1984 and 1996, Chimera organized an annual convention known as ChimeraCon and invited writers and critics to speak. Chimera was dissolved in the fall of 1997.
The Clinical Epidemiology Resource and Training Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1986 as the fourth training center in the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN). INCLEN was created in 1980 as a project of the Rockefeller Foundation and became an independent organization in 1982. It sought to improve health care in the developing world by training clinicians from developing nations in research methods and sending them back to their home countries to conduct research in Clinical Epidemiology Units (CEUs). The Clinical Epidemiology Resource and Training Centers (also called Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Centers), or CERTCs, coordinated with the CEUs at INCLEN member institutions, and each CERTC received reports from and provided input to the CEUs. The CERTC at UNC-Chapel Hill was administratively part of the School of Medicine but worked in close collaboration with the School of Public Health. In the mid-to-late 1990s, INCLEN underwent a reorganization, after which responsibility for training was transferred to medical schools in the developing countries. Funding for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CERTC's training program ended as of 30 June 1997.
The Clinical Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides researchers with a variety of research support services including access to inpatient and outpatient examination rooms, a staff of research professionals, specimen processing, and short-term storage facilities. Additionally, the staff assists with study budgeting, letters of support, and new user orientation. The records consist of committee and council meeting minutes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
A unit of the Office of Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Academic Advising Program and its advisors assist undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences and the General College with developing educational plans and course registration. The office is also responsible for communicating the academic requirements of the university to undergraduate students. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, and correspondence of the Eligibility Committee, the Advising Curriculum Committee, and the New Website Task Force. Also included are lists of course perspectives for the College of Arts and Sciences and the General College.
The dean has administrative responsibility for the university's College of Arts and Sciences and its constituent, the General College, which together provide the curricula leading to most baccalaureate degrees. The College of Arts and Sciences was created in 1935 by the merger of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Applied Science. The General College was a separate entity until 1961, when it was merged into the College of Arts and Sciences.
The university's Construction Administration Department oversees all major construction projects on the campus, including both original construction and renovation, and represents the university at acceptance inspections and in all building contract disputes. From 1974 until 1987 the Construction Administration Department was called Engineering and Construction.
The Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense was established in 1972 after an ad hoc committee recommended that the university's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs be integrated into the academic process. The Curriculum was created to administer the ROTC programs and to plan and oversee the courses that would be taught under them.
The University of North Carolina's Curriculum in Public Health Nursing began in 1940 as the Department of Public Health Nursing in the School of Public Health. The founding of the School of Nursing in 1950 brought into question the desirability of a specialized nursing program in the School of Public Health. Nevertheless, the Department of Public Health Nursing persisted as such until 1984, when it was made an interdisciplinary curriculum.
The Dental Research Center was established in 1967 to coordinate the research activities of the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its creation was funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. By 2012, the center had be divided into three research entities: the North Carolina Oral Health Institute, the Center for Neurosensory Disorders, and the General and Oral Health Center.
The Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was formed in 2008 with the merger of the Curriculum in Folklore and the Curriculum in American Studies. This collection consists of records from the office of Dr. Joy Kasson. The records relate to the administration and development of the Curriculum in American Studies and include program requirements, annual reports, and materials documenting curriculum, awards, and events.
The Curriculum in Folklore of the University of North Carolina was founded in 1940 and was the nation's first graduate program in folklore studies. Conceived as an interdisciplinary program, the curriculum engaged in the study of regional history, literature, and culture through ethnographic fieldwork and community engagement. Throughout its history, the Curriculum in Folklore sponsored lectures, symposia, and musical and artistic events, often in partnership with other university departments and with various state and local agencies. In the 1980s, the curriculum partnered with Tom Davenport Films to produce a series of documentary films related to regional folklife. In 2008, the Curriculum in Folklore merged with the Curriculum in American Studies to form the Department of American Studies. Folklore then became a program within the department.
Records of the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consist of faculty correspondence, pertaining both to Department business and to faculty members' research and travels. Records include annual reports, faculty meeting minutes, administrative correspondence, and records related to curriculum, department committees, and operations of the department.
The Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, part of the University's School of Medicine, provided coursework in biological chemistry. Established as the Department of Biochemistry in 1935, it was renamed Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition in 1943; the fuller name, however, was not used until 1973. In 1991, the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition was replaced by a new Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the School of Medicine.
The Department of Biology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill formed in 1980 with the merger of the Departments of Zoology and Botany. The Department of Biology Records include the "Self-Advising Handbook for Biology Majors" and "Seminars," a booklet promoting the speakers and lecture titles scheduled for the Fall 1985 semester. Also included are the department's faculty meeting minutes from 1982 to 1999.
Biomedical engineering courses were offered by the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as early as 1967. The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established along with four other new departments under white dean, Dr. Stuart Bondurant. In 2003, UNC and North Carolina State University joined their two departments forming a Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. The records consist of grant materials including project progress reports, correspondence, annual reports, policies and procedures, meeting minutes, programs, newsletters, conference and workshop materials, department self-studies, program reviews and program development materials. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Initiated and led by African American civil rights activist Floyd B. McKissick, Soul City in Warren County, N.C., was to be a new town administered by African Americans. In 1969, McKissick approached the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) for consultation and assistance in planning Soul City. John A. Parker, then head of DCRP, offered his and his colleagues' services to McKissick, and the DCRP faculty also used Soul City as a case study in their courses, requiring planning students to develop planning reports on various aspects of Soul City and its region.
The Department of Communication Studies was created in 1993 when the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures (RTVMP) and the Department of Speech Communication merged. Areas of study supported by the Department include organization, communication, media studies, performance, rhetoric, technology, and media, writing for stage and screen. Records include correspondence and other materials documenting the administration of the department. This collection includes some records from the Departments of RTVMP and Speech Communication that predate the merger.
The records contain digital templates and organizational files, business manual files, memos, budget and training files, public communication documents, and procurement files. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Department of Environment, Health, and Safety at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is responsible for providing health and safety training, conducting inspections, promoting regulatory compliance, and other related functions at the university. Records consist of one VHS copy of the 11-minute video "Your Link to Fire Safety" produced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997. The video was produced as part of increased fire safety measures following the May 1996 Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house fire which killed five students.
The Department of Health Behavior was established in 1942 as the Department of Public Health Education. The department has gone through several name changes: the name changed to the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in 1988 and to the Department of Health Behavior in 2012. The department is part of the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
The Department of Health Policy and Management was established in 1936 as the Department of Public Health Administration. The department has gone through several name changes: the name changed to the Department of Health Administration in 1969; to the Department of Health Policy and Administration in 1982; and to the Department of Health Policy and Management in 2009. The department is part of the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
The Department of Health Policy and Administration was one of four departments in existence when the Gillings School of Global Public HealthT was founded in 1940. Changes in the field of healthcare in the 1960s lead to curriculum changes in the department and the changing of department’s name in 1968 to the Department of Health Administration. In 1981 the name changed again to the Department of Health Policy and Management. The department trains students in management, policy-making and research to address the challenges of healthcare delivery and ensuring that all people have access to healthcare services. The records includes Program on Health Outcomes, parent surveys, child development information, class rosters, clinical exams, administrative files including overhead trust and foundation account files and materials on retention in the Master Degree program. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The University of North Carolina has had mathematics instructors on campus since classes began in 1795, with Charles Wilson Harris serving as the University’s first tutor mathematics. Joseph P. Caldwell became a "Presiding Professor" of mathematics in 1796. This collection contains records documenting the Department of Mathematics beginning in the late 1960s. Materials include department meeting minutes, graduate school admissions data, curriculum changes, annual reports, commencement information, and faculty curriculum vitae.
The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry Faculty Practice provides a variety of services, including wisdom teeth removal and dental implants. The records consist of spiral bound copies of the 2013 self-study report prepared for a Commission on Dental Accreditation site visit. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Department of Orthodontics is one of the eight academic departments at the UNC School of Dentistry. The School of Dentistry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1949, and the first classes were admitted in the fall of 1950. The Department of Orthodontics offers several teaching, research and patient care programs at both the graduate and pre-doctoral level. Records include departmental correspondence, committee reports and files, materials on continuing education, annual reports, and faculty meeting minutes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
A medical curriculum was first established at the University of North Carolina in 1879. In 1896, Dr. Richard Whitehead, a white professor of anatomy and pathology, taught the university’s first pathology course. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine provides pathology and laboratory medicine services and teaches clinical and scientific concepts of pathology and laboratory medicine and mechanisms of disease. The records consist of the files of John B. Graham, a white professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. The files include correspondence, brochures, reports, memoranda, meeting minutes, project and committee files, university government bylaws, and administration policies. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Department of Pediatrics of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1952 as part of the new four-year Medical School at the University of North Carolina.
The Department of Psychology was officially established in 1920, though coursework in psychology had been offered since the 1890s.
The Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has its origins in the Curriculum in Public Policy Analysis, which was established as an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in 1979. In 1991, a doctoral program was added. The collection includes records related to the creation and administration of the Department of Public Policy, annual reports, documents related to building a PhD program, PhD program reviews, correspondence of the department chair, and VHS recordings of student presentations. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Department of Religious Studies was founded as the Department of Religion in 1947. Arnold Nash was appointed its first chair and remained the sole member of the department until 1950, when Bernard H. Boyd was hired as the James Gray Professor of Biblical Literature. The department established a master of arts program in 1978. In 1984, the name of the department was changed to Department of Religious Studies, and, in 1985, a doctoral program was established. In 2000, the Department of Religious Studies assumed responsibility for the John Calvin McNair lectures, which focused on science and human values. In the 1970s, the department began to develop its curriculum in Judaic studies, and, in 2003, was instrumental in the creation of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.
The Department of Romance Languages was established in 1901 as the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and became the academic department providing coursework in romance languages. In 1905, the name changed to Department of Romance Languages. Prior to 1901, romance and Germanic languages were taught in one department, known as the Department of Modern Languages.
The Department of Social Medicine, an academic department within the School of Medicine, was founded in 1978 as the Department of Community Medicine and Hospital Administration. It was renamed the Department of Social Medicine in 1980. The department's classes, research, and service focus on the social and cultural factors influencing health and medicine. This collection includes administrative records of the Department of Social Medicine, records related to grant projects, and records documenting department committees and events.
The Department of Speech Communication offered courses that led to a Master of Arts that focused in the areas of communication studies, rhetorical studies and oral interpretation. In 1993 it merged with the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures to create the Department of Communication Studies. Records include correspondence and other materials, primarily related to course changes and curriculum development.
The position of Housing Officer was created in 1946 in the university's Office of Admissions to handle arrangements for student housing. In 1954, the Housing Officer was moved to the newly created Division of Student Affairs. The title of both the officer and office have varied though their functions have remained essentially the same. From 1956 to 1970, the Director of Housing was in charge of the Housing Office. In 1970, the Department of Residence Life was created, and the Housing Office was incorporated into it. In 1973, the Department of University Housing was established.
The Department of Women's and Gender Studies was founded as the Curriculum in Women's Studies in 1976, taking its current name in July 2012. An academic unit in the College of Arts and Sciences, the department seeks to expand the process of knowledge production to include consideration of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Records in this collection include materials documenting the establishment of the program and department, annual reports, advisory board minutes, curriculum development, and the Duke-UNC Women's Studies Research Center.
The Department of Art was created in 1936. Originally its curriculum was limited to art history; later, courses in studio art were added. The chairman of the Department of Art was also the director of the university's art museum until 1974, when the museum became a separate administrative unit. Established in 1937, the art museum was first located in Person Hall. In 1958, a new building was completed with funds from the bequest of William Hayes Ackland. The museum then moved and was renamed the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; in 1979, its name changed again, to the Ackland Art Museum. (Records of the art museum after 1974 are a separate record group).
Intercollegiate athletics at the University of North Carolina began in 1884 with a baseball game against Bingham Military School. The position of director of athletics was established in 1915 to provide oversight for intercollegiate sports. Beginning in 1937, the director of athletics was also the chair of the Department of Physical Education and Athletics. In 1938, the Educational Foundation was established to support the athletic program by raising funds for facilities and scholarships. During 1954-1955, the Department of Physical Education and Athletics was divided into the Department of Physical Education and the Department of Athletics, the latter assuming responsibility for intercollegiate sports. Also at that time, the director of athletics began reporting directly to the chancellor. There were no official intercollegiate women's teams at the university until the early 1970s. In 1974, the women's intercollegiate athletics program became part of the Department of Athletics.
The Office of the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Business and Finance was responsible for overseeing the financial transactions of the Department of Athletics, managing the accounts of each intercollegiate athletic team, and compiling a departmental budget based on information from the individual units within the department.
The Department of Biostatistics is an academic department of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded in 1949 to provide statistical training in the areas of medicine and public health. It offers both graduate and undergraduate degress, and, in addition, provides statistical and data management services to cooperative studies.
Courses in botany were taught as early as 1880, but not until 1902 was the first professor of botany hired. Thereafter Botany became a separate department and remained so until 1982, when it merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Biology. The North Carolina Botanical Garden was an administrative unit of the Department of Botany from its establishment in 1952 until 1982, when it became a separate unit. Records consist mainly of correspondence and memoranda of the department chairmen and annual reports from the department. Of special interest are letters relating to the National Science Foundation Summer Institutes for Science Teachers; files on the North Carolina Botanical Garden, 1952-1967; and files relating to the merger of the departments of Botany and Zoology, 1981-1983.
The University of North Carolina appointed its first professor of chemistry in 1819; the Department of Chemistry was organized in the 1890s.
The collection spans the time period from 1911 through the 1970s and includes photographs and related material documenting theatrical productions, personnel, tours, programs, events, and other activities of the Department of Dramatic Art. Images primarily document the Carolina Playmakers (1918-1975). Many of these early play images were taken and produced by the photographer Bayard Wootten or by Wootten-Moulton Studios. Productions and activities of the PlayMakers Reperatory Company, the North Dakota Playmakers (founded by Frederick Henry Koch in 1905 before he came to the University of North Carolina), and the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project are also depicted. The collection consists primarily of photographic material (prints, negatives, and 35mm slides), but also contains programs from productions, notes on tour dates, reviews, and other materials. A majority of the images in the collection have original description containing production title and date. Some images may have titles and descriptions containing offensive and racist language or depict offensive scenes of white actors portraying people of color.
The Department of Dramatic Art was established in 1936. Prior to that, instruction in the history of theater and comparative drama was given in the Department of English. In addition to its academic instruction, the new department produced plays and supported dramatic efforts. The Carolina Playmakers, founded in 1918, became its production unit. In 1976, the Carolina Playmakers was reorganized as the PlayMakers Repertory Company, a semi-professional theatrical company. Subsequently, the Laboratory Theater, which formed about 1971, assumed the production of student plays in the department. The Carolina Dramatic Association, begun in 1922, was a cooperative program of the Department of Dramatic Art and the University Extension Division's Bureau of Community Drama. The Institute of Outdoor Drama was founded in 1963 as an affiliate of the department; its purpose was to promote the production of outdoor drama in the United States.
Instruction in English language and literature dates to the founding of the university. The Department of English was so named by the university's Board of Trustees in 1901. It began to take on its modern form during the chairmanship of Edwin A. Greenlaw (1914-1925). Under Greenlaw, a freshman composition program and an honors program were organized, courses in speech were expanded, new courses in drama and playwriting were developed, and a comparative literature curriculum was offered. A number of these courses later formed the basis for new departments. Studies in Philology, the university's longest-running journal, was first published in 1906 by the Philological Club. Though it has never been officially recognized as a program of the Department of English, its editors have always been members of the department; and thus its records are among those of the department. In 2006, the Department of English absorbed the Curriculum in Comparative Literature, forming the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
The Department of Physical Education and Athletics was created in 1935. By the 1938-1939 academic year, both an undergraduate major and a master's degree program had been established. Initially the department included both academic instruction in physical education and the previously existing intercollegiate athletics program, but by the mid-1950s, these two branches had begun to operate autonomously, and the academic program became known simply as the Department of Physical Education. In 1980, efforts began to modernize the department's curriculum. These included multiple attempts to establish a Ph.D. program. During this process, the department's name was changed from Department of Physical Education to Department of Physical Education, Exercise, and Sport Science. In 1999, it was again changed to Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
The Department of History was established in 1891, though courses in history had been taught prior to that. In 1920, its name changed to Department of History and Government to reflect the addition of political science to the curriculum. In 1935, when the Department of Political Science was created and the government courses previously taught as part of the history curriculum were transferred to it, the name of the Department of History and Government reverted to Department of History.
The Department of Music of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was founded in 1919 and offers graduate and undergraduate curricula in music theory, performance, and musicology. Records of the department include sound recordings and documentation of select University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music concerts and recitals, 1954-1983 and 2016-2019, as well as administrative records of the department, 1950-1977. The sound recordings feature not only departmental faculty and students but also guest artists. Numerous ensembles are represented, including the Carolina Choir, Early Music Ensemble, Friends of Chamber Music, North Carolina String Quartet, UNC Jazz Lab Band, UNC Opera Theater, UNC Wind Ensemble, University Chorus, University Chamber Singers, University Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, and University Symphony Orchestra. There are also a number of recordings of composer Roger Hannay conducting the New Music Ensemble. In addition, the performance recordings from 2016-2019 also include guest artist lectures, guest artist masterclass performances, and recordings from the department's various concert series such as William S. Newman Artists Series, Scholarship Benefit Series, and Conversations in Modern Music. Some folders contain digital program books with further information on the event. The administrative records are scant and consist mainly of faculty meeting minutes, files related to curriculum planning, and files related to departmental concerts and recitals.
The Department of Naval Science was established in 1940 as the Department of Naval Science and Tactics. It operated in conjunction with a unit of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps and was a direct result of the university's decision to aid the war effort by offering military training. Its name was changed to Department of Naval Science in 1945, and after the war it became a permanent part of the curriculum. Since 1972 the department's course offerings have been coordinated through the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. Records include correspondence and reports, as well as articles and clippings related to the Department of Naval Science and to the Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. Included is material relating to military training during World War II and later, to the establishment of the department as a permanent part of the curriculum, and to the restructuring of the department after the creation of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense as a result of student protests during the Vietnam War.
The Department of Pediatrics of the University of North Carolina was founded following the 1947 appropriation of funds by the North Carolina General Assembly for the construction of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The Hospital (renamed in 1989 as UNC Hospitals) opened in 1952, marking the expansion of the two-year medical curriculum into a full four-year school of medicine. In 2002, the Department of Pediatrics was relocated within the newly opened North Carolina Children's Hospital at the University of North Carolina medical campus in Chapel Hill.
The Department of Philosophy of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is responsible for the university's undergraduate and graduate curricula in philosophy. In 1967 the department, in cooperation with the university's Extension Division (later the Division of Extension and Continuing Education), began sponsoring the annual Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy.
The Department of Physics was officially established in 1907, although courses in natural philosophy, as the subject was called through most of the nineteenth century, had been given as part of the mathematics curriculum since about 1820. In 1973, the name of the Department of Physics changed to Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Until 1993, the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures was the academic department that provided coursework in the broadcast media. It was established in 1947 as the Department of Radio. Its name changed in 1954. Throughout its early history, the department was closely allied with the Communication Center, created in 1945 to centralize the production of audio-visual media on the campus. The department and the center shared equipment and facilities; and the departmental chairman served as the director of the center. The Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures was eliminated in 1993, and its curriculum was absorbed by the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The University of North Carolina's first course in recreation was offered in the Department of Sociology in 1921. By 1941, several courses designed to prepare students for careers in recreation leadership were being offered. Beginning in 1955-1956, two recreation-related graduate degrees were offered: the master of arts in sociology with emphasis on recreation leadership and the master of science in recreation administration. Though most of the courses for the master of science degree were in sociology, some were in other departments. Thus, the Curriculum in Recreation Administration was established. It was housed initially in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, then in the School of Education (1968-1974), and then in the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1986, the name of the curriculum was changed to Curriculum in Leisure Studies and Recreation Administration. In 1998, the curriculum became the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. The department was dissolved in 2004, and its curriculum was transferred to the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
The Design Services Department created publicity and executed design work for university projects and departments. The Department used photographs from various sources, including the Library's University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image Collection. It also commissioned photographs by university photographers, particularly of events and buildings and portraits of faculty and staff. In 2011, the Design Services Department was renamed UNC Creative.
An organized development program at the University of North Carolina began in 1951, when Louis Round Wilson was appointed Special Assistant to the Chancellor in the Field of Development. Wilson's successors in the position were variously titled: Special Assistant to the Chancellor in the Field of Development, Director of Developmental Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director of Developmental Affairs, Director of Development, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Development. As of 1985, the Associate Vice Chancellor oversaw the Development Office, which organized and conducted various fund-raising campaigns for the university and also worked closely with the university-related foundations, such as the Business Foundation and the Medical Foundation. The Development Office was located administratively in the Division of Development and University Relations.
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Joint Senate was formed in 1959 in an initially unsuccessful effort to reverse the decline of the University of North Carolina's historic Dialectic and Philanthropic societies. Membership increased in the 1970s as a result of publicity and special programs. Records of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Joint Senate include meeting minutes; correspondence; committee records; financial records; membership lists; constitution and bylaws; publicity materials; and pictures, some of them 19th-century images of former members of the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies. Audiovisual materials include a 1997 documentary about the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies.
The University's Bureau of Extension was established in 1913 with Louis Round Wilson as Director. In 1921, its name changed to Extension Division. The early division provided a number of programs and services to the state, including a speaker's bureau, public discussions and debates, correspondence courses, legislative reference aids, resources for public school teachers, continuing education for doctors, and the Good Roads Institute. In 1976, the Extension Division was reorganized and renamed Division of Extension and Continuing Education and was placed administratively under the Vice Chancellor for Development and Public Service.
The records consist of various orientation brochures, handbooks, and films. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) was a digital publishing initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provided online access to texts, images, and audio files related to the history, literature, and culture of the American South. The project consisted of sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. It was sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill University Library, and the texts and materials was drawn primarily from its holdings. The records consist of administrative records including grant application materials, project reports, promotional material, and meeting minutes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Employee Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in March 1992 by Chancellor Paul Hardin to advise him and other administrators about the interests and concerns of the university's non-faculty employees and to assist in fostering open and effective communication among all levels of employees, students, faculty and the administration.
The Energy Services Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was created through a 1998 reorganization of the units that comprised Facilities Services. The Energy Services Department assumed the functions of the former Utilities Division, which had been responsible for the operation of the campus electric, telephone, and water and sewer utilities.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill put its first affirmative action plan into effect 1 July 1973. In September of that year, the chancellor appointed an affirmative action officer and advisory committee. Douglass Hunt, who served as the first affirmative action officer, was also vice chancellor for administration. There was no full-time officer or separate Affirmative Action Office until January 1981. In November 1995, the name of the office was changed to Equal Opportunity/ADA Office. The affirmative action officer reports directly to the chancellor.
The position of executive vice chancellor was created in 1995 by Chancellor Michael K. Hooker to serve as the chancellor's chief of staff, coordinating daily activities of the chancellor's office and serving as advisor, planner, and troubleshooter on matters across campus. In addition to handling routine management functions of the chancellor's office, the executive vice chancellor oversaw the divisions of Business and Finance (including Auxiliary Services, Facilities Services, and Human Resources), Student Affairs, and University Advancement as well as the area of information technology. Elson S. Floyd served as executive vice chancellor from September 1995 until his resignation in July 1998. The vacant post was not filled, and the position was later eliminated. Records consist mainly of correspondence and reports reflective of the cross-campus issues addressed by Floyd as executive vice chancellor, 1995-1998. Of particular interest are files related to financial and budgetary matters, information technology, land use planning, student affairs, and race and personnel issues involving the university's housekeepers and groundskeepers. A few files contain background information dated 1994.
The University's Facilities Planning and Design Office was created in 1959 as the Planning Office and was given responsibility for evaluating space need requests and facilities use and for developing plans for both new buildings and renovations. (Once plans were final and a contract was awarded, responsibility for a specific project moved to the University's Construction Administration Department.) In 1974, the Planning Office was reorganized and its name changed to Facilities Planning Office. In 1987, the name was modified to Facilities Planning and Design Office. The responsibilities of the office, however, have remained basically the same. Records consist mostly of planning project files and general files concerning space needs and utilization. Also included are some files from designer Herman B. Carpenter.
Facilities Services of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is responsible for planning and managing UNC facilities and maintaining the University’s buildings and grounds. The records include audit reports, committee files, files on government agencies and university departments, the 2008 Annual Report, demolished building files, and a facility use policy. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Faculty Club was organized as the Men's Faculty Club on 18 February 1939. Membership was open to all University of North Carolina faculty and staff. Women were admitted as associate members until 1954, when the club's constitution was amended to provide for equal membership. At its monthly luncheon meetings, the club was addressed by speakers on topics of faculty interest. In April 1981, the club disbanded for one year due to declining membership and lack of interest. For two years thereafter the club met informally without rules or dues. The club was reactivated in 1986. Records of the Faculty Club include its constitution and bylaws, minutes of meetings of its Board of Governors and committees of the board, lists of members of officers, treasurers' records, presidents' reports, programs and publicity, and correspondence.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty-Staff Recreation Association was incorporated on 9 January 1968 as a nonprofit organization. The establishment of the asssociation resulted from the findings of the Faculty Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Social and Recreational Facilities. Upon recommendation of the Standing Committee on Faculty Welfare, this committee was appointed on 21 February 1966 to inventory available facilities and to gauge faculty interest in favor of expanded programs. The recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee were accepted and a Special Committee on Social and Recreational Facilities was appointed to implement them. Among the most important of these recommendations were the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to oversee the organization and operation of a social and recreational center and the acquisition of land for such a center. On 27 November 1967, the Special Committee held an organizational meeting at which a Board of Directors and a Charter of Incorporation were approved for the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty-Staff Recreation Association, Inc.
The Fine Arts Festival, organized in 1964 by the student government, presents to University of North Carolina students a view of the world of fine arts in action by bringing together creators, performers, and critics. Festivals were held biennially beginning in 1965.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Finley Golf Course opened 9 holes for play on October 24, 1949. Nine additional holes were added to the course in 1950. The records consist of 3x5 photographic prints of the Finley Golf Course from 1998. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had its first intercollegiate football game in 1888. In the 1930s, it began filming its football games to provide coaches with a means to evaluate and train players and to review strategic plays. Beginning in 1990, games were recorded on videotape.
The General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was founded in 1843 as the Alumni Association. It met each year during commencement until 1860, when it disbanded. The association reconvened in 1872 and resumed its annual meetings in 1878. The Alumni Association was reorganized in 1911 and again in 1922, when the name became General Alumni Association. The association's central office, headed by its director (formerly secretary), has always been located on the university campus and has been responsible for organizing reunions and other alumni activities, maintaining alumni records, raising funds for the university through appeals to alumni, producing periodic alumni directories, and publishing the Alumni Review.
The university's earliest Laws and Regulations, adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended Laws of the University adopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings. Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The Faculty Code of University Government, originally titled Faculty Legislation, was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times. In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the Faculty Council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees. Records include minutes of meetings of the General Faculty and of the Faculty Council; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. There are also recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings. Subsequent additions consist of similar materials.
The Geological Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was a departmental library located in Mitchell Hall from 1964-2011. Prior to 1964 there was a joint Geology/Geography Department located in Old East dating back to 1926. The records consist of files of the Department of Geology and the Geological Sciences Library including annual reports, flyers, collections, gift information, facilities, user studies, committee, planning documents, grant materials, memos, newsletters and a departmental history. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants was a federally-funded national center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Its purpose was to teach instructors of health professionals how to provide health consultation in early education and childcare. The records are made up of project files including meeting minutes, presentations, correspondence, and event notes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Graduate History Society was organized as the Graduate History Club in 1952. Membership was open to all History Department graduate students and faculty members. The stated purpose was to stimulate intellectual and social fellowship among history students at the university and to build up an esprit de corps that shall bind them together in their professional careers. Activities of the society included discussions of student concerns, guest lectures, seminars, picnics, and student-faculty teas.
While retaining his position as professor in the Department of English, Blyden Jackson served from 1973 to 1977 as Associate Dean of the Graduate School and from 1977 to 1981 as Special Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School. Although his title changed, his duties remained essentially the same; they were to promote the recruitment and retention of minority graduate students and to work with the university's Student Aid Office to secure scholarships and fellowships for graduate students.
The Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF) was founded in 1971 by graduate students at the university to represent their needs and interests to the Student Government and the university administration. It soon was recognized as a quasi-independent organization within Student Government and was granted seats in the student legislature. A particular interest of the federation has been ensuring that graduate students are not overlooked in the allocation of students fees. In April 2021, the name of the organization changed to the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG). The bulk of the original accession pertains to a large-scale survey of the university's graduate students conducted by the Graduate and Professional Student Federation in 1984. The aim of the survey was to identify problems associated with graduate curricula, policies affecting graduate students, and campus life. Included are the responses to the survey, as well as the final report. Also included are correspondence, constitutions, minutes, and lists of GPSF officers. The Addition of March 2012 consists of various records related to the administration, activities, and priorities of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, 1968-2002. Included are correspondence; constitutions; agendas, minutes, and rosters of the GPSF Senate; histories of the GPSF; budget files; documents related to external committee appointments; student surveys; lobbying materials; and numerous subject files pertaining to issues and topics of interest to the GPSF, including child care, financial aid, student fees, tuition, health insurance for graduate students, research, campus committees, and other topics. There are also copies of various Student Government documents, including legislative bills and other items, assembled by GPSF members.
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) was established as a unit of the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina in 1952. However, it was not named Health Sciences Library until 1968. It served as the central library for the University hospital and the division's five schools (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health) and their associated programs. This collection consists chiefly of photographs documenting the history and staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dating primarily from the 1990s to 2000s, although some are earlier. The remainder of the collection is made up of snapshots, photographs and formal portraits of UNC staff, faculty, and buildings, from the early- to mid-1900s, as well as figures from other institutions important to the history of medicine.
Collection of medical instruments and pharmacy items, and other medical artifacts, primarily dating from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. Highlights include a Civil War-era surgical instrument kit and a small collection of instruments owned by former Department of Pathology chair James Bell Bullitt. Many of the items came to the Health Sciences Library from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) via Department of Surgery professor Warner Wells, and from the office of former Virginia doctor C. E. Martin. Materials in this collection include dental tools, doctor's bags, medicine bottles, microscopes, optical kits, pharmaceutical samples, and surgical instrument kits.
Biographical and subject files collected by UNC Health Sciences Library staff until the collection moved to the Wilson Special Collections Library in 2019.
This collection contains publications from the 1990s and early 2000s. Some titles have since ceased publication.
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) was established as a unit of the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina in 1952. However, it was not named Health Sciences Library until 1968. It served as the central library for the University hospital and the division's five schools (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health) and their associated programs. Myrl Ebert (1913-2001) served as director of the HSL from its founding until her retirement from the University in 1975. She led the effort to develop the new library building, and she was also involved in the creation of MEDLARS, the biomedical bibliographic retrieval system that later became the online database MEDLINE. Records consist of correspondence and other files related to the development and operation of the Health Science Library, including annual reports, budget and grant materials, committee materials, minutes of HSL department heads and council meetings, departmental reports, salary information, newsletters, and a 1973 self-study. Also included are files relating to the development of the new library building in 1970 and later renovations, to the development of MEDLARS, and to the UNC Literature Exchange (UNCLE). Early files are those of Myrl Ebert, director of the library, 1952-1975.
The University's Health and Safety Office grew out of the Radiological Safety Office, which was established in 1960 to oversee the handling of radioactive materials on the campus. The Health and Safety Office was created in 1974 to ensure compliance with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and is responsible for safety standards involving fire, industrial hygiene, and hazardous substances as well as general public safety. The Office is also responsible for scheduling periodic worker health examinations, inspecting safety equipment, and processing worker compensation claims.
The honors program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1954 within the College of Arts and Sciences to serve academically gifted freshmen. In 1958, the Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the honors program with a five-year, $100,000 grant to expand its offerings. The position of assistant dean for honors was created in 1967 to increase recruitment efforts, and by the end of the decade, more than 100 freshmen were being admitted yearly to the program. In 1979, a faculty committee produced a report that evaluated the program and made recommendations for its future expansion. During the 1990s, Associate Dean for Honors Robert C. Allen oversaw the $5.7 million renovation of the Graham Memorial building and the creation of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence (JCUE). JCUE was housed in Graham Memorial and became the home of the Honors Office when the building opened to the university community in the fall of 1999. In fall 2011, the Honors Office was renamed Honors Carolina.
The Human Sexuality Information and Counseling Service (HSICS) at UNC Chapel Hill was formed in October 1971. The peer counseling service aimed to share accurate information on many aspects of sexuality, refer students and other community members to local professionals and resources, and to provide one-on-one counseling on sexuality and relationships. The files in this collection are those of Victor Schoenbach, a white graduate student in the Department of Health Education who served as a discussion leader in the undergraduate course Health Education 33 (HEED 33) and as a counselor for the HSICS.
Courses in journalism at the University of North Carolina were taught in the Department of English beginning in 1909. In 1924, the Department of Journalism was established. In 1950, it became the School of Journalism. The school was renamed School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1990 to reflect the expanded scope of its curriculum. In 2015, the school was renamed the School of Media and Journalism. In 2019, the school was renamed the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, following a $25 million donation by newspaper publisher Walter Hussman, Jr., and his wife, Ben. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
Information Technology Services Teaching and Learning (ITS-TL) provides instructional technology applications and integration to support the University’s academic mission. In 2005, as part of a reorganization within Information Technology Services, the Center for Instructional Technology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was absorbed into ITS-TL. The CIT no longer exists as a distinct organization, but many of its functions and activities are handled by ITS-TL.
The Institute for Academic Technology was launched in 1990 with a $3.5 million grant from IBM. Located in Research Triangle Park, the Institute developed software for use in educational settings, with a particular focus on language and math education. In addition to developing software, the IAT offered conferences, classes, and publications to reach educators interested in using technology in the classroom. The Institute grew out of the Courseware Development Project founded by UNC math professor William H. Graves in 1983. Graves was the first director of the Institute and was later succeeded by Lowell Roberts. Records include annual reports, correspondence, budget files, proposals, grant files, information about software, committee files, policies and procedures, files on projects and partners, conference and workshop materials, and other records. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Institute for Research in Social Science is the oldest institute of its kind in the United States. It began in 1924 with a grant to the University by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. In 1927 it became a permanent institute of the University with Howard W. Odum as its Director. The original purpose of the Institute was to sponsor and to publish research on social and economic conditions in the South and on the role of local government in promoting public welfare. Records include orrespondence and other files relating to the administration and programs of the Institute for Research in Social Science, including correspondence of Howard W. Odum. Also included are correspondence of Rupert Vance as research professor, 1938-1952, and files pertaining to the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, which began as a program of the Institute. In addition, there are 186 audiocassette tapes of various social science lectures and panels, most sponsored by the Institute under the title IRSS Colloquium, from 1983 to 1987. Although the scope of the Institute's research is no longer limited to the South, these records pertain primarily to the South.
Ruel W. Tyson, a white professor of Religious Studies, and Gilian T. Cell, a white dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, established the Program for the Arts and Humanities in 1987. In 1989, the program became the Institute for Arts and Humanities. The institute aims to empower and support faculty by fostering community and cultivating leadership. The records include files on the Program in Social Theory and on Public Ethics. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities serves as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's faculty home for interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. Records of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities consists of meeting materials for the fall 2008 and spring 2009 Advisory Board meetings and a 2007-2008 annual highlights prospectus.
The Institute of Applied Business and Economic Research was established in 1971 as part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Business Administration. Its purpose was to support research on the business and economic problems of North Carolina and the Southeast. From 1971 until its cessation in 1974, the Institute supported eleven major studies through grants from the Economic Development Administration of the United States Department of Commerce.
The Institute of Government was established in 1932 to provide training, consulting, and research services for state and local governments in North Carolina. It is one of the oldest university-based organizations of this sort in the United States and has gained distinction for the comprehensiveness of its programs. Although Albert Coates, who directed the Institute from 1932 to 1962, was on the faculty of the University's School of Law, the Institute was independent of the University until 1942, when it officially became an administrative unit. Currently the Director of the Institute reports to the Provost of the University. Records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration and programs of the Institute of Government, including a number of files, 1928-1932, documenting Albert Coates's plans for the Institute and his efforts to gain support for it. The records include a series of forty interviews conducted in 1972 with educators and state officials on the reorganization of higher education in North Carolina.
The Institute of Latin American Studies was established in 1940 as the Inter-American Institute; it kept the latter name until 1947. The Institute's initial purpose was to expand the university's research materials on Latin America. Its first major program was the School for Latin Americans, which it ran from 1941 to 1945 and which brought scholars from Latin America to the Chapel Hill campus. From its beginning, the Institute has received significant funding from foundations, allowing it to expand its programs and activities to include curriculum development, aid to graduate students, support for travel by scholars, publication of research, and the planning and coordination of conferences. Currently the Institute is organized as a program in the College of Arts and Sciences and is administered by a director and advisory board.
The Institute of Marine Sciences was established in 1947 as the Institute of Fisheries Research. It was made possible largely by the efforts of R. E. Coker, chairman of the University of North Carolina Department of Zoology, and by a grant from the Knapp Foundation. The name of the institute changed to Institute of Marine Sciences in 1967. The institute's purpose is to conduct and support research, both basic and applied, in marine science and to promote the conservation and development of marine resources. The institute has facilities in Morehead City, N.C. Its director reports to the university's provost.
The Institute of Politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IOP), a non-partisan student organization that encourages and supports undergraduate students exploring careers in politics and public policy. Records consist of meeting minutes, mission, member lists, event and program information, and photographs. There are also materials relating to programs sponsored by the Institute of Politics including Civics in the Triangle in which UNC students develop courses on civics and government for local public schools, Tech Team which helps neighboring community organizations and government use digital tools, and Summer in Washington, a networking program designed to connect UNC students with professionals in Washington, D.C.
The Latina/o Studies Program, housed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, was founded in fall 2004 by Dr. María DeGuzmán. The program offers classes across multiple departments focused on the study of Latina/Latino/Latinx cultures. The program sponsors the UNC Latina/o Culture Speakers Series, which began in 1999. Since spring 2013, the program has also included the UNC Teatro Latina/o Series. Records consist of clippings related to the Latina/o Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, informational and promotional materials, a list of speakers hosted by the program, records related to the Latino Alumni Reunion, a report on Hispanic Heritage Month, materials related to the proposal of a Latina/o Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, and ephemera. Materials on the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative and digital materials on the Latina/o Studies Program are from the files of John Ribó, former Latina/o Studies program assistant. Also included is a transcript of an interview conducted by student Gladys Sanchez with program director María DeGuzmán in 2017.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center was established in 2003 as a unit within the Office of the Dean of Students. In 2006, it became an administratively separate unit reporting directly to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The LGBTQ Center is tasked with providing programs, services, and resources to create a welcoming environment for all members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community.
The Acquisitions Department, formerly the Order Department, was responsible for the receipt and routing of new materials for the library. The two main components of the department were the Order Section and the Gifts and Exchanges Section. The head of the department reported to the Associate University Librarian for Technical Services. The Order Department was formally organized around 1924 and continued to be known by that name until the late 1950s, when it became the Acquisitions Department.
From 1901, when Louis Round Wilson became University Librarian, until 1961, the Library's financial records were maintained by the Librarian or one of his assistants. In 1961 the position of Business Manager was created and given responsibility for financial matters.
In 1933, stimulated by the depository acts of the early 1930s, the University Library formed a public documents department. In 1935, the Social Sciences Reading Room was created and made a responsibility of the Documents Department. Later the Business Administration and Economics Library was established. In 1957-1958, these entities were brought together as the Business Administration and Social Sciences Division, of which the Documents Department became a section. During the 1975-1976 academic year, the Division name was changed to Business Administration and Social Sciences Reference Department. Effective 1 January 1993, the Business Administration and Social Sciences Reference Department and the Humanities Reference Department merged to form a single department, named the Reference Department.
The Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) was a digital library program that was part of the University Library. Documenting the American South (DocSouth) was one project the program produced. Records include files of the CDLA directors Kirill Fresenko and Jenn Riley and posters documenting projects of the CDLA. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Prior to the development of the card catalog system, the Library's holdings were listed in ledger books. The Catalog Department was formally organized around 1924, after the card system had been in use for a number of years.
Until 1983 the Collection Development Department of the Library was known as the Bibliographic Services Department. It evolved as staff were needed to assist the Chief Bibliographer in the selection of materials and management of book funds. The position of Chief Bibliographer was established in 1957.
The records include HTML text, associated graphics and downloadable images and documents that appeared on the library homepage. These materials were downloaded prior to the library website redesign in 2013. Up until 2009, when a news blog was introduced, the Communications Office created individual HTML documents to publicize each library event, exhibit, or news item. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The records include a proposal for a Gifts Database, a gifts in kind (GIK) Access database and related files used to generate acknowledgement letters, produce bookplate wording, and generate Carolina Fund reports. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The records document the activities of the Library Diversity Committee, which was renamed Library Diversity Programming and Education Committee in 2014. Records include various event flyers, a library diversity climate survey instrument overview and results, Performing Arts and Special Activities Fund applications, a 2010 Beverly Botsford and Andrea Woods Valdés video, presentation materials including a recorded conversation with the 2008 ARL Director of Diversity, diversity training materials, and the Diversity Taskforce and Library Diversity reports, and guidelines for Diversity Representation on Library Search Committees. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Friends of the Library, a membership organization that provides support for the Library, was founded in 1932 and has been in continuous operation since that date.
The Gifts and Exchanges Section of the Library's Acquisitions Department received and routed materials acquired by gift or by exchange with other libraries and agencies. Until the late 1950s, the Acquisitions Department was known as the Order Department. During the 1920s and 1930s exchanges seem to have been a function of the Periodical, Exchange and Binding Department. When gifts and exchanges became a formally organized unit of the department is difficult to determine.
The Library's Reference Department was formally established in 1924 to handle inter-library loans, provide access to the non-circulating reference collection, and prepare bibliographic aids. During the 1957-1958 academic year, its name was changed to Humanities Division and, during 1975-1976, to Humanities Reference Department. Effective 1 January 1993, the Humanities Reference Department and the Business Administration and Social Sciences Reference Department merged to form a single department, again named the Reference Department.
The Manuscripts Department had its origin in the establishment of the Southern Historical Collection in 1930. A collection of mostly private manuscripts from the states of the former Confederacy, the Southern Historical Collection was assembled by Dr. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, a white historian who became its first director. Though housed in the University Library, the Southern Historical Collection was supported through its early years by grants and donations. In the 1940s, however, it began to receive partial support from the Library, and gradually it was integrated into the Library's administrative structure. In 1958, the Library created a more comprehensive unit called the Manuscripts Department, and made the Southern Historical Collection part of it. From 1958 to 2008, the Manuscripts Department administered not only the Southern Historical Collection, but also the Southern Folklife Collection, General Manuscripts, and the University Archives and Records Service. A reorganization of the Library's Special Collections, effective 1 July 2008, eliminated the Manuscripts Department from the administrative structure. Records includes correspondence and other files relating to the establishment of the Southern Historical Collection and, later, to the development and administration of the Library's Manuscripts Department, including General Manuscripts, the Southern Folklife Collection, and University Archives and Records Service. Heads of the department who figure in these records include J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, James Welch Patton, J. Isaac Copeland, Carolyn A. Wallace, and David Moltke-Hansen. Also included is a series of audiotapes from the Southern Sources Symposium, 18-19 March 2005, held to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Southern Historical Collection.
The North Carolina Collection is a special collection of the University Library; its purpose is to acquire and preserve all published materials dealing with North Carolina. Louis Round Wilson began developing the collection shortly after he became University Librarian in 1901, and in 1917 he hired Mary L. Thornton to be its first curator. The history of the North Carolina Collection as a distinct unit of the library dates from that time.
The North Carolina Union Catalog grew from the Joint Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, created in 1933 by the University of North Carolina and Duke University. The libraries of the two schools agreed to copy and exchange catalog cards for their holdings. In 1937, North Carolina State College added copies of its cards to the University of North Carolina file, which then became the union catalog. By 1957, 15 libraries were contributing cards. The University of North Carolina Library continued to house and maintain the union catalog, which became the chief bibliographic tool of its Interlibrary Center, estabished in 1958 to check interlibrary loan request against the Library's catalog and the union catalog and to refer requests as appropriate. By the early 1970s, over 100 libraries in the state were contributing cards. In 1977, the catalog was moved to the State Library of North Carolina.
Prior to 1850 the university library was a very small collection of books. The student debating societies, the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies, each maintained a larger library made up of volumes purchased by the student members. Not until 1885-1886 were the society libraries incorporated into the university library. Until 1901 the responsibility of operating the library was assigned to a faculty member, who worked in cooperation with members of the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies. Louis Round Wilson, who was university librarian from 1901 to 1932, was the first librarian to devote his full time to maintaining and developing the library. Even in Wilson's day, however, the collections were not centralized. Because of space constraints in the main library, numerous departmental libraries grew up. Two of these, the Law Library and the Health Sciences Library, became administratively separate. Today the University Librarian oversees the main and special library collections and co-administers a number of departmental libraries.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library's Photographic Services unit existed from the early 1950s through 2006 and specialized in photographic processes (copy negatives and photo prints), microfilm and microfilm duplication, still photography, positive microfilm printing, and other services for the University Library and other North Carolina libraries.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries' Photographic Services unit existed from the early 1950s through 2006 and specialized in photographic processes (copy negatives and photographic prints), microfilm and microfilm duplication, still photography, positive microfilm printing, and other services for the University Library and other North Carolina libraries.
The Library's photoduplication program began in 1938, when a microfilm camera was purchased for filming legislative journals in the Documents Department. The volume of filming increased rapidly, and more equipment was purchased. By 1952 the Photoduplication Service was established as a separate unit in the Library; its name soon changed to Photographic Services. In 1982 Photographic Services was reorganized and placed under the direction of the North Carolina Collection.
The Library's SPA Forum was proposed and planned in the summer and fall of 1993 before being formally established in the spring of 1994. Its purpose was to raise the profile of SPA staff members in the day-to-day operations of the library and to serve as a forum for the concerns, knowledge, and experience of those staff members. Forum members were elected from divisions composed of the various library departments. Beginning in May 1994, the forum held monthly meetings to discuss topics such as employee appreciation, health and safety, employment resources, position review, and others that related to SPA employees.
Until 1972, the Library Staff Association was the only campus organization for librarians and other Library staff. It sponsored both social events and programs aimed at professional development. In 1972, the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNCCH) was established for professional librarians, leaving the Staff Association as an organization of mostly non-professional Library employees. The Staff Association ceased to function in 1996, although it was not formally dissolved until 1999. The majority of its functions had been assumed by various committees.
The Staff Development Committee of the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is appointed by the Library's director and charged with coordinating training and development activities for Library staff, excluding orientation of new staff, microcomputer assistance, and training in computer searches. The committee was established in 1981.
This collection contains content shared on the Carolina Commitment website, which documents the University’s response to investigations of academic fraud in the department formerly known as African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM). The website provided updates to ongoing external and internal investigations and reforms as well as copies of public records requests and reports. This collection includes archived versions of the Carolina Commitment website, collected as part of the University Web Archives using Archive-It. The earliest archived version of the website is from 22 May 2014. In addition, the collection includes eight batches of emails and electronic documents gathered during Kenneth L. Wainstein's independent inquiry of the allegations. The records originated from a database of about 1.7 million unique electronic records compiled by Wainstein’s firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, and were made publicly available on the Carolina Commitment website. The records in this collection are saved in 277 PDF files.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its constituent departments and affiliated organizations began utilizing the World Wide Web in the 1990s. The first campus home page went online in fall 1994. Records include websites harvested through Archive-It beginning in January 2013. The majority represent University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academic and business units. Also included are websites of some student organizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the website of the University of North Carolina (System) General Administration, websites related to the Confederate monument (known as Silent Sam) which was removed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in 2018, and websites pertaining to the 2021 Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case. All of the websites include active links to web pages of other Chapel Hill campus and university system entities.
The #SilenceSam collected tweets contain tweets harvested from the Twitter (https://twitter.com) social media platform. During the 2017 to 2018 academic year, students and other activists organized protests calling for the removal of the Confederate monument (known as Silent Sam) on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The protests began with a rally on 22 August 2017 and a subsequent continuous sit-in until 31 August 2017. The following year, on August 20, 2018, a rally protesting the monument was held on McCorkle Place and on Franklin Street. Protestors toppled the monument at approximately 9:20pm on August 20, 2018. On 14 January 2019, Chancellor Carol Folt announced her resignation and ordered the removal of the monument pedestal. Activists and others from the community were also active on Twitter using two primary hashtags, #silencesam and #silentsam. Also included in this collection are captures of a few related hashtags (#boycottunc, #boycottunctownhall, #iaarchat, #silentsham) and two Twitter accounts (@Move_Silent_Sam and @dailytarheel). The data in this collection represents only a snapshot of tweets related to significant protests and events from August 2017 through December 2017, May 2018, August 2018 through September 2018, December 2018 through May 2019, August 2019, December 2019, and February 2020.
The Clinical Protocol Office (CPO) of the Lineberger Cancer Center supports the design and conduct of oncology clinical trials. The CPO is responsible for patient and study coordination-related activities, including subject evaluation and registration, toxicity assessment and safety monitoring of novel therapeutics and patient education. The CPO assists and facilitates protocol development, contract acquisition and management, regulatory oversight and compliance, preparation and submission of INDs for novel studies and novel compounds, internal and external study audits, quality control, and data acquisition, transcription and management. The records consist of Data Safety Management Committee and Protocol Review Committee meeting minutes, agendas, and reports. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Throughout the 1920s University Librarian Louis Round Wilson advocated for a new library at the University of North Carolina, as the university’s Carnegie library (now Hill Hall) was not meeting the needs of the student body. The new library was completed in 1929. In 1952, an addition was made to building to meet the needs of the increasing need for space, and a few years later the library was named for Wilson. In 1977, a second addition was made to the Wilson Library stacks. In 1984, with the construction of the new Walter Royal Davis Library, the Wilson Library transitioned from its role as the central library and was devoted specifically to special collections. It has five collecting areas: the North Carolina Collection, the Rare Book Collection, the Southern Folklife Collection, the Southern Historical Collection, and the University Archives. The five collecting units hold rare books, organizational records, personal and family papers, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, and artifacts that document the history and culture of the University, North Carolina, the United States, and the world. The records of the library consist of annual reports for Wilson Library and its constituent departments, budget and funding files, conservation reports, project and program files including files on Aeon, encoded archival context and web harvesting, the Carolina Digital Library and Archives, the Carolina Digital Repository. Also included are committee files, materials related to grants, and architectural drawings of the library. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) is one of five collecting areas at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing vernacular music, art, and culture related to the American South. The records consist of posters and flyers from SFC events. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The university's Master of Public Administration Program was established in 1966 to offer the MPA degree. It was a joint program of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government though its director was appointed by and responsible to the chairman of the Department of Political Science. In 1997, it became part of the Institute of Government.
Although the Materials Research Center was formally established in 1965, its program began in 1961 with a grant to the University of North Carolina from the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for basic research in the materials sciences. From 1961 to 1965, the program was administered jointly by the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry. In 1965, it was placed under the administrative supervision of the Vice Chancellor for Advanced Studies and Research; when that office was dismantled in 1967, the Materials Research Center was placed under the Provost, where it remained until its cessation in 1979.
In 1923 the Carolina Publications Union was established, by a vote of the student body, to oversee the operations of publications funded by student fees: Carolina Magazine, Daily Tar Heel, and Yackety Yack. The Publications Board was designated as the governing body for the union and, as such, supervised the finances, editorial policy, appointments of personnel, and other administration of student publications. The board later became an administrative agency of Student Government. Its name was changed to Media Board in 1975. Records include minutes of board meetings, bylaws, general correspondence, statements of procedure and policy, financial records, publication contracts, and personnel actions of student publications. Also included are separate files for the Alchemist, Carolina Handbook, Carolina Quarterly, Cellar Door, Daily Tar Heel, WCAR and WXYC radio, and the Yackety Yack.
Medical Illustration and Photography was a unit of the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provided art and photographic services to faculty and staff of the School of Medicine, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and other university departments. It began in January 1953 with a single photographer and continued providing services until 2007, when the School of Medicine closed it.
This collection consists of a blueprint of the 1964 renovation of Bynum Hall as well as drawings and photographs related to three building projects on the UNC Chapel Hill campus designed by architect Michael Newman: the renovation of the Ackland Art Museum (1987-1992) the renovation of and addition to the School of Government (1998-2004), and the addition to the School of Law (1992-1999). Most are in 35 mm slide format. Included are images of the buildings as they existed prior to renovation, design schemes, and architectural renderings.
The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an award intended for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, or fine arts. MURAP seeks to prepare talented and motivated underrepresented students from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, or those with a proven commitment to diversity and to eradicating racial disparities in the academy, for doctoral study in fields in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program provides students with a residential, rigorous research experience under the guidance of a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty mentor or other talented instructors. Each MURAP scholar receives a stipend, meal allowance, campus housing, workshops on writing, communication skills, and professional development, GRE prep course with necessary materials, and a domestic travel allowance. The records include the program of the 18th Annual MURAP Conference and a collection of the student fellows’ papers entitled "A Decade of Excellence in Undergraduate Research: Commemorative Collection of Student Fellow Papers, Vol. 1." Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Music Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in the early 1930s to support the Department of Music's curriculm.
Founded in 1975, the Muslim Students Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC MSA) is a student organization dedicated to fostering community among Muslim students at the university, providing opportunities for worship and learning, and promoting understanding of Islam on campus and in the local community. Records consist of event flyers and programs, documentation of organization roles and responsibilities, khutbas (sermons), photographs, and records related to an October 2015 community dinner.
The collection includes 1,562 images depicting activities of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Navy ROTC from 1941 to about 1985, including training, sailing, social and ceremonial events, awards, and graduating classes. Also included are images depicting aircraft carriers, battleships, and other naval watercraft and vehicles.
The Newman Catholic Student Center Parish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a student center and parish serving the needs of Catholic students. An association of Catholic students, the Aquinas Club, was founded in 1949. This club became the Newman Club in 1954. The Center was built in 1968, and it became a parish in 1971.
The News Bureau had its origin in the appointment, in 1919, of a director of publications, who was responsible for keeping the state's newspapers informed of the activities of the University of North Carolina. In 1921, that position's title changed to director of the News Bureau. In 1955, the News Bureau became part of the Division of Developmental Affairs, later the Division of Development and University Relations. The name of the News Bureau changed to News Services in 1990. Records of the News Bureau (and later, News Services) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill include correspondence of the director, 1924-1953, 1976-1994, and undated; subject files related to faculty and university research, programs, and events. There are extensive materials on Commencement, dating from the late 1920s to the mid-1990s and include photographs, a film, videotapes, and audio recordings; files on the university's Bicentennial observance, also including audio and video materials, 1987-1994; numerous press clippings on the Speaker Ban controversy of the 1960s; and materials related to the filming of the movie Patch Adams on the UNC Chapel Hill campus in 1998. In addition, there are recordings of numerous feature stories and public service announcements, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, highlighting the research and expertise of university faculty in a variety of areas and aired as "Carolina News Line." There are also videos of news coverage and campus events from the 1990s through the 2010s. There are print versions of "Carolina in the News," 1981-1986, and "Health/Science News Notes," 1971-1973 and 1981-1982, both published by the News Bureau. Also of interest is a small group of letters from, notes, and drafts of several articles by Archibald Henderson, 1942-1955 and undated. There are approximately 130,000 images taken by Dan Sears and other photographers employed by the University from 1992 to 2013. These include photographic negatives and prints created 1992-2002 and digital photographs created 1997-2012. The images were used in a variety of official University publications including the "University Gazette."
Administrative records of the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Administrative records of the North Carolina State Approving Agency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to remove financial barriers for students conducting research. The office offers several programs and services to support undergraduate research. The records include self-studies, meeting minutes, presentations, conference materials, workshop materials, correspondence with faculty, an OUR scrapbook, and photographs. Also included are articles on the history of the OUR and its impact on the culture at Carolina. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office of Allied Health Sciences, which reported to the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, was established in 1970 to coordinate the university's allied health curricula and to promote allied health education throught the state. Gradually the office's role in continuing education increased, and in 1974, it was absorbed by the Office of Continuing Education in Health Sciences.
The records of the Office of Business and Economic Development consist of departmental files documenting committees, the Emerging Issues Forum, economic development of other universities, the Chapel Hill, Orange County, and Hillsborough Chambers of Commerce, grants, the Rural Center, the Advising Board Program on Public Life, the Poverty Forum, UNC Tomorrow, and other research and project files. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The records consist of videos of various Office of Development Communications campaigns including "First Carolina," "Carolina on My Mind," "Celebrate Living SECC," recorded speeches of various speakers including Charlie Moeser, Charlie and Charlotte Shaffer, video documenting campus including The Center for Dramatic Art Building and A Walking Tour of campus with William Friday. Also included is a video of a memorial service from Chancellor Hooker and a video commemorating the life of Frank Porter Graham. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Oversight of fraternities at the University of North Carolina was gradually consolidated within the Office of the Dean of Students, beginning in the 1920s. Later, sororities became the responsibility of the Office of the Dean of Women while fraternities came under the Office of the Dean of Men. From 1972 to the mid-1980s, a series of assistant deans within the Division of Student Affairs handled fraternity and sorority matters. In 1994, the Office of Greek Affairs was established in the division. Around 2005, its name changed to Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Administrative records of the General Education Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) is responsible for ethical and regulatory oversight of research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that involves human subjects. The OHRE administers, supports, and guides the work of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and all related activities. Any research involving human subjects proposed by faculty, staff, or students must be reviewed and approved by an IRB before research may begin, and before related grants may be funded. OHRE and the IRBs are components of the coordinated Human Research Protection Program, which serves to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects. The records consist of committee and council meeting minutes. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Administrative records of the Office of Human Research Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the central office responsible for human resources programs, services, policies, and procedures at the University. Records consist of one manual, "Human Resources Manual for SPA Employees," issued in May 1992 by the Office of Human Resources Policy Administration.
The University Insurance Committee was responsible for evaluating insurance needs at the University and making recommendations on supplemental benefit programs. It was managed by the Office of Human Resources Benefits Department, which administers benefits for University employees. Records are of the University Insurance Committee and include meeting minutes, agendas, and attachments.
The Office of Information and Communications was established in October 1997 to promote graduate education and research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by reporting the University's research activities and by helping researchers and students find opportunities for funding. The office assumed responsibility for the GrantSource Library and research publications, which had been among the responsibilities of the Office of Research Services and, earlier, the Office of Research Administration. The GrantSource Library supported faculty, staff, and student research by providing training on grant-proposal writing, information on grants and funding sources, and other services regarding scholarly research. At the beginning of 2012, the functions of the Office of Information and Communications were split between the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate School. The vice chancellor's office took over publication of Endeavors (through its Office of Research Communcations) and the services to faculty previously provided by the GrantSource Library (through the Office of Research Development). The Graduate School, through its Graduate Funding Information Center, took over the student services previously provided by the GrantSource Library.
The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compiles and reports data about the University including information about enrollment, financial aid, student retention, faculty teaching loads, and other statistics. These records include reports produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, associated data, and correspondence spanning from 1977 to 2014.
Scattered administrative records documenting the Office of Contract and Grants, Office of Research Services, and Office of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include research administration, strategic plan for research, College of Arts and Sciences, grant conferences and workshops, administrative correspondence, planning and budget, Science and Technology Center, Prison Nursery Project and other projects, and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office of Scholarship and Student Aid provides financial support to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and supports student recruitment and retention. Records include files on scholarship funds, loan funds, and recruitment. Also included are photos, circa 1971, of Johnston Scholars with members of the UNC Board of Trustees. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Office of University Communications is responsible for media relations and communications on behalf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The office was founded in 2013 as the Office of University Communications and Public Affairs upon the appointment of Joel Curran as Vice Chancellor for Communications. Over the course of the next two years, News Services, previously under the Office of University Development, became part of the new office and was renamed Media Relations. In 2016, after the position of Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs was created, the Office of University Communications and Public Affairs became the Office of University Communications. Records include digital photographs and videos of campus events and people, as well as files on projects related to the Northside Neighborhood of Chapel Hill, N.C.
The records management program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began with a 1992 National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant, which was received by the University Archives and Records Service section of the University Library's Manuscripts Department. University Archives and Records Service provided support and office space for the records management program, but the program reported to the Office of the Provost and was overseen by the campus-wide University Records Committee. Responsibility for the records management program was later assigned to an assistant provost, but that position was eliminated in 2002 due to budget cuts. The provost initially decided to end the records management program at that time, but was persuaded instead to transfer it to the Library. The program became administratively part of University Archives and Records Service, which was later renamed University Archives and Records Management Services.
Administrative records of the Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The position of Associate Provost for Educational and Support Services began in 1985 with the appointment of Marianne K. Smythe as Acting Assistant Provost (the title was not officially conferred until November 1988). The position's responsibilities included overseeing a number of University units that previously had reported directly to the Provost, as well as representing the Provost on several University committees and task forces. Carol Reuss succeeded Smythe in 1987 and served until 1994. During that time, the duties of the position remained roughly the same, though the units supervised changed somewhat. The records consist of correspondence and other files of Smythe and Reuss relating to the operations of the following units of the University: the Ackland Art Museum, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Division of Continuing Education, the Highway Safety Research Center, the Institute for Research in Social Science, the Morehead Planetarium, the National Paideia Center, the North Carolina Botanical Garden, and the Summer School. Also significant are files relating to Reuss's service on the University's Minority Task Force, which was concerned with undergraduate recruitment.
The position of Associate Vice Chancellor for Research existed from January 1988 through June 1990. Its primary responsibilities were to support and enhance the University's research mission by developing new research initiatives and funding sources; providing technical assistance to faculty; and serving as liaison on research matters with funding agencies and other outside organizations. Patricia L. Poteat was the only person to hold the position. The Vice Chancellor for Research's duties were transferred to the Associate Provost and Dean of Research in July 1990. However, Poteat continued to manage the initiatives she had started. Beginning in January 1989, she also served as Special Assistant to the Provost. She was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in July 1990 and continued in that position until 30 June 1994.
The Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business was created 1 January 1970 as part of a major reorganization of the university's Division of Business and Finance. Among the units initially supervised by the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business were the campus auxiliary enterprises, which included the Horace Williams Airport, the Carolina Inn, the Laundry Department, Student Stores, and the campus utilities. The associate vice chancellor also supervised the Campus Police (later named Security Services, then Public Safety Department), the Health and Safety Office, Traffic and Parking, and Purchases and Stores. The position later assumed responsibility for additional units, including the Food Service, other university conference centers (Quail Roost and the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Center), the Internal Audit Department, and Trademark Licensing. Records include correspondence, operating reports, budgets, and other files pertaining to the various units that reported to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business. Individuals who have held the position and who figure significantly in these records include John L. Temple and Charles C. Antle.
The Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has historically overseen Design Services, Internal Communications, News Services, the Office of Public Information, Publication Services, Special Projects, Visitors’ Services, and WUNC Radio. Records consist of the files of William P. Massey as the Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations and General Secretary of the Bicentennial; the files of Ted Bonus, Office of Public Information, relating to the Installation of Chancellor Hardin; files of the Carolina Service Project, and files of Jack Gunnells, Assistant to the Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Administrative records of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
In 1951, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill selected white doctor Nathan A. Womack to be the first chair of the Department of Surgery, which began offering clinic care and instructing students September 1, 1952. The Department provides services to adults and children, trains surgeons, and specializes in treating various illnesses and conditions. The records consist of Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Faculty Day records and programs, materials from the University’s Bicentennial, professional organization materials, event files, publications, annual reports, health policy materials, a self-survey, committee files, meeting minutes, materials related to the history of the department, and photographs. Also included are files of the third department chair, white doctor George F. Sheldon. These include lecture slides, correspondence, and administrative files. Acquired as part of University Archives.
H. Holden Thorp (1964-) was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 2008 until 30 June 2013. Records include binders containing Chancellor Thorp's daily appointment calendars, a list of boards on which he served, and office files that document policies, initiatives, innovations, and other current events in academic and administrative units across campus and relationships with organizations external to the university.
Contains records that span the administrations of several University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellors, 1965-2018. Materials pertain to topics including, but not limited to: commencements, committees, task forces and initiatives, center reviews, honorary degrees, budget models, awards, reports, and athletics. These files were kept and used by the chancellors' executive assistants. Materials cover the administrations of Joseph Carlyle Sitterson (1965-1972), Nelson Ferebee Taylor (1972-1980), Christopher C. Fordham (1980-1988), Paul Hardin (1988-1995), Michael Hooker (1995-1999), William O. McCoy (1999-2000), James Moeser (2000-2008), H. Holden Thorp (2008-2013), and Carol L. Folt (2013-2019).
Carol L. Folt was the chief administrative officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 2013 until 31 January 2019. Records include subject files, correspondence, reports, memorabilia, ceremony programs, and speeches. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The position of dean of students at the University of North Carolina was established in 1919 and was assigned responsibility for matters related to student welfare. In 1933, the Division of Student Welfare (later the Division of Student Affairs) was established with the dean as its head. The dean continued to be head of the division until 1977, when the position of vice chancellor for student affairs was established. Subsequently, the Office of the Dean of Students was redefined; it reported to the vice chancellor and was chiefly responsible for matters of student conduct and for assistance to students with problems or concerns. As of 2011, the Office of the Dean of Students continued to educate the university community about policies and regulations related to student life and student conduct. The office served as a point of reference for students with concerns about their campus experience and provided services and programs to assist students in dealing with problems.
Women were first admitted to the University as graduate students in 1897. In 1917, Clara S. Lingle was appointed Adviser to Women. She was succeeded in 1919 by Inez Koonce Stacy, who held the office until 1946 and during whose tenure (1942) the title of the office became Dean of Women. Katherine Carmichael succeeded Dean Stacy and served until 1977. In 1972, the office of Dean of Women was abolished, and Dean Carmichael was appointed Associate Dean of Student Affairs for Supportive Services. The latter office inherited none of the functions of the Office of the Dean of Women; nevertheless, these records contain several annual reports of Carmichael as Associate Dean for Supportive Services.
Until 1989, the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies was also the dean of the Graduate School with administrative responsibility for the Graduate School and the Office of Research Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The office of dean was established in 1903. In 1932, when the Consolidated University of North Carolina was created, the dean of the Graduate School at Chapel Hill became dean of the Consolidated Graduate School and assumed oversight of graduate programs at the three campuses of the consolidated system. The dean was also adviser on graduate studies to the North Carolina College for Negroes. In 1969, the dean of the Graduate School became vice chancellor and dean and, in 1987, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and dean of the Graduate School. The administrative responsibilities remained virtually the same. In 1989, the vice chancellorship was eliminated and responsibilities for research and graduate studies were divided between two sssociate provosts. In 1992, it was reestablished as the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies; and the dean of the Graduate School became a separate position.
Administrative records of the Office of the Dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Records document accreditation, administration, special projects, curriculum, Dental Foundation, facilities, commencement, conference training and workshops, faculty governance, policies and procedures, and committees.
The university's utilities system began in the 1890s with the construction of a water plant. At that time, the town of Chapel Hill lacked resources to provide complete utilities service to its residents and to the university. Consequently, the university became the developer and eventually the supplier of all utilities to the town. This arrangement continued until 1976-1977, when the university sold its public utilities. After the sale, the university's Utilities Division remained responsible for the maintenance and distribution of utilities on campus. The position of Superintendent of Utilities was created in the 1920s to oversee the operation of the utilities; the title changed to Director of Utilities in 1965. Records include files of the Superintendent, later Director, of Utilities relating to the operation of the university's electric, telephone, and water and sewer utilities. Files consist largely of reports on the status and operation of the utilities. Also included are materials relating to the Regional Solid Waste Task Force, which investigated refuse disposal and recycling in the 1980s.
The Executive Vice Provost is a position reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Executive Vice Provost oversees core university functions including those related to academic personnel and interdisciplinary initiatives. Previously the Executive Associate Provost, the position title was changed to Executive Vice Provost 2011. The position was expanded to include the duties of Chief International Officer later that year, and now serves as the head of UNC Global and leads the University's international initiatives and partnerships. Records consist of files kept by Executive Vice Provost and Chief International Officer Ron Strauss.
The Provost is the university's chief academic officer, serving as liaison between the Chancellor and various deans and directors. Since its creation, this position has had administrative oversight responsibilities for the Division of Academic Affairs (established in 1954), and before 1966, was variously known as Chairman of the Division of Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Vice Chancellor of the University. In 1965-1966 and since 1997, the Provost has also had oversight responsibilities for the Division of Health Affairs. In November 1988, the Office of the Provost was reorganized and charged with consolidating oversight for all educational activities at the university. The Provost became Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, while the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs became Vice Provost/Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. This arrangement lasted until April 1996, when a general reorganization of the university's administrative structure took place. At this time, the title reverted to Provost, and the position no longer shared responsibilities with the Vice Provost/Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, who became the Vice Provost for Health Affairs. The Vice Provost for Health Affairs was eliminated in 1997, when the Provost assumed responsibility for both Academic Affairs and Health Affairs.
The position of registrar was officially established in 1886 to handle student admissions and grade records. In 1930, the title of the position became dean of admissions and registrar. In 1942, it became registrar and examiner; the registrar at that time had administrative authority over the Central Office of Records and the newly created Office of Admissions. In 1947, the registrar's position was eliminated, and the directors of the Central Office of Records and the Office of Admissions were placed directly under the chancellor. In 1954, the Central Office of Records was placed within the new Division of Student Affairs; in 1961, it was reorganized and named Office of Records and Registration. Finally, in 1969, the Office of the Registrar and Director of Institutional Research was established and given authority over the Office of Records and Registration. The Office of the Registrar and Director of Institutional Research was eliminated in 1984. The current positions of registrar and director of institutional research, because of much administrative reorganization, are not true successors to the previous office.
From the founding of the university through the nineteenth century, academic record-keeping was the responsibility of the secretary of the faculty. Originally student exams were oral, and no grades were given. The secretary of the faculty maintained a record of student absences from chapel, recitations, and class sessions. At the end of each term, the Committee on Visitation of the Board of Trustees met on the campus and administered the oral exams. By 1835 a system of grading had evolved and written exams were in use. In 1886 the Board of Trustees created the position of registrar, but the position was assigned to the secretary of the faculty until 1916.
Administrative records of the Office of the Senior Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The position of Vice Chancellor for Administration was created in 1973 and had responsibility for several university-wide functions that previously had been under the direct supervision of the chancellor's office. These included student admission and enrollment, financial aid, and personnel management. The position was eliminated in 1980.
In 1965, under Chancellor Paul Sharp's reorganization of the campus administrative structure, a vice chancellorship for advanced studies and research was created with responsibility for all graduate studies and research activities. The new position was assumed by Professor of Physics Everett D. Palmatier. In 1967, however, the position lapsed; and its responsibilities were reassigned.
The Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance had administrative responsibility for the university's Division of Business and Finance, which consisted of the units that handle the university's budget, facilities planning and capital improvements, maintenance of buildings and grounds, security, personnel and property matters, and routine business operations. The position of Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance evolved from that of Business Manager, created in 1921 and known successively as Controller, Assistant Controller, and Assistant Controller and Business Manager.
From 1990 to 1995, Paul Baldasare, Jr., served as legal assistant to the university's Vice Chancellor for Development and Public Relations.
The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs has administrative responsibility for the university's Division of Student Affairs, which provides extracurricular programs and services for students and oversees student organizations and activities. The Division of Student Affairs was established in 1954; it replaced the former Division of Student Welfare, which had been established in 1933 to promote and coordinate the work of all university agencies affecting student welfare. The Office of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs was not created until 1977. This record group, however, contains papers of all the university officers who have been responsible for matters of student welfare. The titles of those officers have been Dean of Students, 1919-1945; Dean of Men and Chairman of the Division of Student Welfare, 1946-1947; Dean of Students, 1948-1954; Dean of Student Affairs, 1954-1977; Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, 1977-1980; Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Affairs, 1980-1997; and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, since 1997. Prior to 1966 the Division of Student Affairs also oversaw the offices responsible for academic records and student aid.
The Vice Chancellor for University Advancement has administrative responsibility for the university's Division of University Advancement, which includes the offices responsible for the University's private fundraising and for the management of its relations with its various external constituencies. The university's unified development program began in 1952 and was reorganized in 1973 as the Division of Development and Public Service. In 1980, its name changed to Division of University Relations, and, in 1985, it became the Division of Development and University Relations. In 1995, the position of Vice Chancellor for Development and University Relations was eliminated by incoming Chancellor Michael Hooker, but it was reestablished in 1996 as Vice Chancellor for University Advancement.
Administrative records of the Office of the Vice President for Program Assessment and Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Administrative records of the Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Administrative files of Harold Delaney, 1972-1974. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The records consist of administrative files including tuition and fee files, Board of Trustees files, files on the search for a senior-level Provost, taskforce and committee files including a Budget Hearing Committee, an E-Learning Taskforce, and a Capstone Committee. Also included are correspondence, meeting minutes, and agendas, and files on the Carolina Engagement Council. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Responsibility for the University's graduate programs and for research administration has, at times, resided in a single office and, at other times, in separate offices. Prior to 1965 and again from 1978 to 1989, the Dean of the Graduate School had responsibility for both research administration and graduate programs. From 1969 to 1989, the Dean also had vice chancellor status. In 1989, as a cost-saving measure, the vice-chancellorship was eliminated, while the deanship was retained in a position titled Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School. Another position, titled Associate Provost and Dean of Research, was created to handle research administration. The latter was filled by Mary Sue Coleman in 1990. In 1992, Chancellor Paul Hardin recreated the vice-chancellorship as Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research and appointed Coleman to it. Upon Coleman's departure in 1993, Linda L. Spremulli became interim Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research. Campus administrators decided then to re-establish the dual role of vice chancellor and dean. Thus, when Thomas J. Meyer assumed the position on 1 July 1994, he was Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research and Dean of the Graduate School. In April 1996, Chancellor Michael Hooker implemented a campus-wide administrative reorganization. The units within Graduate Studies and Research remained the same, but the title of Thomas J. Meyer's position changed from Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research to Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research.
The Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs (later Vice Provost for Health Affairs) was administrative head of the university's Division of Health Affairs, created in 1948 as the Division of Health and Medical Affairs. It consisted of the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health and centers, institutes, and programs engaged in research and public service, including the Carolina Population Center, the Child Development Institute, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, the Research and Training Center on Blindness, and others. The vice chancellor was also the liaison between the chancellor and the various deans and directors of these units. From its opening in 1952 until 1956, North Carolina Memorial Hospital was administratively under the administrator for Health Affairs. From 1956 to 1971, it reported directly to the dean of the School of Medicine; since 1971, it has been governed by an appointed Board of Directors. In April 1996, the vice chancellor's title changed to Vice Provost for Health Affairs. In 1997, the position was eliminated, and the division's various units began reporting to the university's provost. The records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of and programs in the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Annual reports of the schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Public Health date to the 1930s. Of particular interest are files, 1946-1963, relating to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, a state agency that promoted hospital construction, medical education, and health insurance for rural citizens. Also of interest are files, 1965-1975, concerning the East Carolina University-University of North Carolina Cooperative Committee on Medical Education, which helped plan the School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Division of Health Affairs heads who figure significantly in these records include Henry Toole Clark Jr., G. Philip Manire, C. Arden Miller, Cecil G. Sheps, Christopher C. Fordham, James R. Turner, and H. Garland Hershey. The Addition of January 2013 includes files of Vice Provost for Health Affairs H. Garland Hershey, chiefly 1996-1997, and some files of Associate Provost Edward F. Brooks, 1997-2001. Brooks assumed oversight of the day-to-day operations of the Health Affairs units following Hershey's resignation.
Women's tennis at the University of North Carolina began in the 1930s as an intramural club for female undergraduates. Somewhat later, the club began to host extramural games. A true intercollegiate women's tennis program did not exist, however, until 1970-1971, when the university became a charter member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. Tennis was one of six varsity teams for women established at that time. Records consist of the files of Kitty Harrison, who coached the team from 1976 to 1998. They consist chiefly of individual and team performance records and files related to matches and tournaments. Also included are scrapbooks containing team-related clippings, photographs, press releases, and personal memorabilia compiled by Harrison; team and individual photographs; and Harrison's speech at her 2004 induction into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame.
One Act is a student group that provides training and advocacy services aimed at preventing sexual assault and interpersonal violence on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Sponsored by Student Wellness, One Act also receives support from Campus Health Services, Counseling & Psychological Services, and the Office of the Dean of Students. One Act developed its training curriculum in early 2010 and hosted its first training session in late 2010. A separate curriculum specifically for Greek life was added in early 2013. One Act actively collects data on bystander intervention from student participants and has published a scholarly article based on this information. These records consist of One Act meeting minutes from February 2014 to March 2015.
The Organization for African Students Interests & Solidarity (OASIS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was a student organization devoted to the appreciation of African culture and the fostering of unity among students of African descent. Known as AFRICA in 1981, the group later changed its name to the African Student's Association before settling on OASIS in 1996. As of 2011, OASIS was made up of several subgroups, including dance and acting troupes, a public service group, and a student publication. Among the annual events OASIS organized was Africa Night, which offered African food, entertainment, and scholarly speakers on a range of topics.
The Parachute Club of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as the Sport Parachute Club, was founded in 1968 by students Francis J. Hale III and Robert A. Bob Bolch. Members performed jumps at Raeford Airport in Hoke County, N.C., and later at the Carolina ParaCenter in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Club members competed in both individual and team jumps, and were judged on landing accuracy and style. The club hosted the North Carolina Collegiate and Open match at Roanoke Rapids, N.C., in 1973, and sent a team to the National Collegiate Championships in 1972 and 1973. The club acquired equipment at their own expense and received donations from parachute clubs at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The Philological Club was formed on 20 January 1893 by faculty members of the University of North Carolina's departments of Language and Literature to stimulate original research in philology. With membership open to faculty members and advanced students in the language departments, the club met monthly to review philological journals and for discussion of related topics. In 1906, the club inaugurated its quarterly Studies in Philology. Throughout its history, the club has been closely allied with the Department of English. Records of the Philological Club include minutes of meetings, summaries of papers presented, membership lists, correspondence, and financial accounts.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Photographic Laboratory served the University community for almost half a century, from 1946 to 1990. The Laboratory processed (developed) film for University photographers and served as the image reproduction center for University offices, schools, departments, staff, and student activities. Thousands of the images in this collection appeared in a variety of University-related publications (including the Yackety Yack and The Daily Tarheel) in addition to being used in official materials created to provide information about different departments, schools, and departments on campus. The Photographic Laboratory ceased operations in 1990.
The university's Physical Plant Department was created in the mid-1930s and assigned responsibility for the operation and maintenance of campus facilities and grounds and for the provision of utilities. Those functions previously had been performed by a separate Buildings Department and Grounds Superintendent. By the late 1990s, the functions of the Physical Plant Department had been absorbed by Facilities Services.
The Planning Council was established in 1974, after a university self-study revealed the need for it. The Council was chaired by Professor C. Hugh Holman (1914-1981), who had directed the self-study. Its charge was to coordinate and draw up, along with the University Priorities Committee and the Advisory Planning Board, a five-year plan for the University for 1975-1980. With the completion of this plan in October 1984, the Planning Council was asked to continue indefinitely. Professor Holman remained chair until December 1978; and during his tenure, the Council formulated three more five-year plans, covering the periods ending 30 June 1981, 1982, and 1983. The Council issued subsequent plans covering later periods. The Planning Council was disbanded in 1984 with the creation of the Assistant to the Chancellor for Planning, who now has responsibility for planning.
Founded to provide a source of encouragement and information to students intending to pursue a career in law, the Pre-Law Club functioned as an information exchange for facts about the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), law schools, and the legal profession. In addition, many club meetings featured talks given by lawyers, politicians, and law professors in order to provide professional guidance to undergraduates interested in a career in law. Records of the Pre-Law Club include its constitution, correspondence, a membership list, minutes, material about agitation for establishment of a pre-law advisor, and other items.
Drawings of exterior of some campus buildings and other illustrations done for Printing Services by Cranine Brinkhous in ink and pencil, watercolor, and oil pastel. Also includes photographs from the department of people and buildings. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Program in the Humanities and Human Values was established in 1979 as the Program in the Humanities for the Study of Human Values. Its name changed in 1984 to Program in the Humanities and Human Values. Originally part of the Division of Extension and Continuing Education, it became part of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1988. Since its inception, the program has offered public lectures, seminars, and other programming drawn from the humanities and designed to promote a more humane understanding of the world.
The Program on Aging, established in 1982, was part of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It grew directly out of the school's 1979 federally funded Geriatric Curriculum Development Project. When the project ended, the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated funds for an ongoing Program on Aging. During its brief history, the program obtained a number of training and research grants and provided consultation to public and private agencies. It also developed the Geriatric Education Center in conjunction with the university's Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work and the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program. In 1989, the program's educational and research activities were absorbed by various departments of the School of Public Health, and the program ceased to function as a separate entity.
The Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life was established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997, largely through the efforts of Ferrel Guillory, who became its director. Its mission was to serve the people of the state and region by informing the public agenda and nurturing leadership. The program operated out of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication but worked closely with the Center for the Study of the American South. In 2003, it became an administrative unit of the center. On 1 July 2006, its name changed to Program on Public Life. The program was discontinued effective 30 June 2010 because of budget cuts that followed the 2008 economic recession. Guillory, however, remained on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he continued some of the activities of the former program.
The university's Property Office (originally Property Division) was created during the 1969-1970 academic year to oversee transactions involving the acquisition, sale, and leasing of real property. Other responsibilities included the inventory, care, and repair of the university's museum items and historic furnishings and the management of insurance coverage (except employee benefits).
The Proposal Development Initiative (PDI) began informally in the fall of 1994 with efforts by administrators in the university's Division of Graduate Studies and Research to encourage new research proposals. By January 1995, the PDI was formally established with a part-time director. On 1 May 1996, a full-time director was appointed. PDI assumed several of the responsibilities previously assigned to the Office of Research Services, chiefly assisting researchers in developing structural and funding strategies. The director of the Proposal Development Initiative reported briefly to the Associate Vice Chancellor (later Associate Vice Provost) for Research Development, then directly to the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research. Sometime in the mid-2000s, the name of the Proposal Development Initiative changed to Office of Research Development.
The Library's Rare Book Collection had its origin in the establishment, in 1929, of the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book, which was made possible by an endowment from the family of John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes. The Hanes endowment enabled the Library to acquire a fine colleciton of incunabula, which became the core of its rare book holdings. Other endowments were later obtained and valuable collections added, including collections of Shakespeare, Johnson, Boswell, Dickens, and Cruikshank. In 1952 the Library's rare books were brought together in a new Rare Book Room. Lawrence F. London became the first full-time Curator of Rare Books in 1959 and served until 1975.
The University Research Council was created in 1945 to promote and supervise research by the university's faculty. Originally the council was also charged with pursuing government and foundation support for research. In 1957, however, the University Development Program assumed responsibility for the latter; and in 1965, the creation of the Office of Research Administration further limited the functions of the council. As of 1983, the University Research Council administered four funds from which it made small grants to faculty members. These funds were the Alumni Faculty Research Fund, which is allocated by the Development Office; the Faculty Research Fund, which comes from state appropriations; the Smith Research Fund, established in 1924 from the bequest of Robert K. Smith; and the Pogue Endowment Faculty Research Fund.
The Research Laboratories of Anthropology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first academic center to study North Carolina antiquities, was founded in 1939 as the Laboratory of Anthropology and Archaeology in conjunction with a statewide archaeological survey co-sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, the University of North Carolina system, the Archaeological Society of North Carolina, and several other state agencies. Its name changed to Research Laboratories of Anthropology in 1948 and to Research Laboratories of Archaeology in 1997.
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1968 and became active in 1971. Its membership consisted of all students living in campus dormitories and other university-recognized housing. Its purpose was to bring to light the concerns of those students and to enhance their residential experience. As of 2011, the association remained active and was one of the largest student-run organizations at the university. The records of the Residence Hall Association consist largely of meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, constitutions, and training manuals. In addition, there are files related to RHA elections, files on various issues and policies affecting students in residence halls, newsletters and newspaper clippings, and photographs and slides. The records from the original transfer date chiefly from 1971 to 1996, with scattered materials to 1998 and a 1959 scrapbook from the Men's Interdormitory Council (IDC). Records from later transfers date chiefly from 1980 to 2010 and 2019 to 2022.
The Retired Faculty Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was organized in 1986 to provide a means for retired faculty and their spouses to maintain a connection to the university and the academic world. The association provides information on retirement privileges and benefits and holds meetings featuring talks on topics of interest to members.
The School of Dentistry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1949, and the first classes were admitted in the fall of 1950. As of 2012, the school offered a full array of degree programs in the fields of dentistry and oral medicine, including nine master of science degree programs, two Ph.D. programs, several certificate programs, and the Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) degree. The school's Office of Academic Affairs, which reported to the Office of the Dean, was the unit responsible for administering academic programs.
The School of Dentistry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1949. The school's Office of Institutional and Community Relations administered the continuing education program, which was funded through the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (AHEC).
The university began offering courses in education in 1877 and established the Department of Education in 1907. In 1913, the department became the School of Education. In 1932, the department was again created; it remained a department until 1948, when it once more became the School of Education. Today the School of Education offers both baccalaureate and graduate degree programs; it is administered by a dean, who reports to the university's provost.
Library science was first offered in the university's summer school shortly after the turn of the century. In 1931 the School of Library Science was established to offer a baccalaureate program in librarianship. It was the second such school in the Southeast. In 1951 a master's degree program was established. In 1987 the name of the school changed to School of Information and Library Science.
The Alumni Association of the School of Information and Library Science (School of Library Science until 1987) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was founded in 1936 as the North Carolina Library School Association. It assists the school in welcoming new students and in providing scholarship support, internship opportunities, career information, and job placement notices. It also sponsors reunions of the school's alumni and publishes a newsletter. Records include correspondence and other files relating to the activities of the Alumni Association, including its constitution, annual reports of the president, minutes of the annual business meeting, minutes of the Executive Board, and treasurer's reports.
The university established its first professorship of law in 1845. By 1894 the School of Law had become a fully integrated part of the university, and students who completed a prescribed program received the LL.B. degree. Between 1902 and 1908 the school was called the Law Department; thereafter its name reverted to School of Law.
The University sponsored School of Medicine was established in 1879 with a two-year medical curriculum. When the School of Medicine's first Dean resigned from the University in 1885 to focus on his medical practice, the School of Medicine was closed. It remained closed until 1890, when it reopened with a one-year curriculum. The School of Medicine returned to a two-year curriculum in 1896. In 1947, the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated funds for the construction of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The hospital (renamed in 1989 as UNC Hospitals) opened in 1952, making possible the expansion of the two-year medical curriculum into a full four-year school of medicine by 1954. In 1998, the UNC Health Care System was established, bringing together UNC Hospitals and the School of Medicine under one entity.
The Medical Alumni Office was created to gather records on the alumni of the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine, from the founding of the school in 1879 to its centennial in 1979, and to publish an alumni directory in conjunction with the centennial celebration.
Founded in 1953 as the History Club of the UNC School of Medicine, the Bullitt History of Medicine Club promotes the understanding and appreciation of the historical foundations upon which current medical knowledge and practice is constructed, by encouraging social and intellectual exchanges between faculty members, medical students, and members of the community.
The Centennial Committee was appointed in April 1976 by the Dean of the School of Medicine to plan the observance of the school's centennial in 1979. For two years following its organizational meeting in June 1976, the committee worked to produce a program that included a series of lectures on the history of medical education, a celebration of North Carolina Memorial Hospital's silver anniversary, the appointment of distinguished professors, and the selection of distinguished service award recipients. The program culminated in a convocation in February 1979. Later a centennial alumni directory and a history of the School of Medicine were published.
The dean is the chief administrative officer of the university's School of Medicine. Founded in 1879 by Thomas W. Harris, the school was originally private, although its courses in the basic sciences were taught by the university. From 1890 until 1896, the curriculum was only nine months long and was intended to prepare students for entrance into degree-conferring medical schools. In 1896, the program expanded to two years; and from 1902 until 1910, a four-year course was offered, with the last two years devoted to clinical subjects in Raleigh. The Raleigh branch was discontinued in 1910, however, and the school reverted to a two-year program until 1946, when on the recommendation of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, the Board of Trustees of the university approved a four-year school. The new University Medical Center, including the expanded School of Medicine and the newly constructed North Carolina Memorial Hospital, opened in 1952. From 1956 to 1971, the director of the hospital reported directly to the Dean of the School of Medicine. The School of Medicine is part of the university's Division of Health Affairs, established in 1948. Until 1997, the dean reported to the head of the division, who, for most of that period, was called Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. In 1997, the dean began reporting directly to the university's Provost. The records contain correspondence and other files relating to the administration of and programs in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular interest are files dealing with the expansion of medical education in North Carolina, including the expansion of the School of Medicine at Chapel Hill from a two-year to a four-year program and the establishment of East Carolina University's School of Medicine in the 1970s. Also of interest are files related to the many research centers of the School of Medicine, especially the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and there are numerous files on the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program, the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina Hospitals, and UNC Physicians and Associates (earlier the Medical Faculty Practice Plan). School of Medicine deans who figure significantly in these records include W. Reece Berryhill, Isaac M. Taylor, Christopher C. Fordham, and Stuart Bondurant. Also included are recordings of Your Health, a weekly radio program produced by the Department of Family Medicine.
Records pertaining to the School of Medicine's Program Planning Committee, a standing committee which was active from approximately 1983-1994. Materials include committee reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, surveys, and task force reports and files relating to various fields of medical research. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The School of Nursing of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established, concurrent with the University Medical Center, as a result of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission's 1946 recommendations. The school's first dean was appointed in 1950 and its first students admitted in the fall of 1951. Today the school offers coursework leading to both baccalaureate and graduate degrees in nursing. Until 1997, the Dean of the School of Nursing reported to the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. Since 1997, the dean has reported to the university's Provost. Records of the School of Nursing include correspondence, meeting minutes, annual reports, and reports of faculty committees, materials related to surveys by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and National League for Nursing, as well as files pertaining to course development and to faculty research, including grant applications.
The University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy was established in March 1897 by an act of the University Board of Trustees. Upon its founding, the School was located in New West building and led by Dean Edward Vernon Howell. In 1912, in need of more space, the School moved to Person Hall. In 1925, the School moved into a building formerly occupied by the Department of Chemistry, which in 1931 was renamed Howell Hall. The School remained there until 1959, when a new Pharmacy building, Beard Hall, was completed. In 1997, School of Pharmacy alumnus Banks D. Kerr donated two million dollars to the School for a new facility. Kerr Hall was dedicated in 2003. The same year, another alumnus, Fred Eshelman, pledged $20 million to the school. In the following years, Eshelman committed an additional $110 million to the school. In 2008, the School was renamed the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in his honor. Records consist of issues of the UNC Pharmacy Student Newspaper, 1962-1965, and School of Pharmacy documents, 1984-1985.
Records pertaining to the School of Public Health Development Office. The records include "Evaluation Design for Community Programs for Clinical Research in AIDS" draft, proposal, reports; correspondence, letters and memos. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health became the nation's fourth school of public health and first public university school of public health when it was organized as part of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1936. By 1939, the School of Public Health became a separate school within the University and began awarding its first degrees by 1940. In 2008, the school was renamed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Courses in public health were first offered at the University of North Carolina in 1933 in the School of Public Administration. With the discontinuation of the School of Public Administration in 1936, the Division of Public Health was established in the School of Medicine with Milton J. Rosenau as Director. The Division's emphasis on graduate-level training increased until, in 1940, it was designated as the School of Public Health, with Dr. Rosenau as Dean. The Division, and then the School, was an important force in the early public health movement in North Carolina. Currently the Dean of the School of Public Health reports to the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs.
The School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was founded in 1920 as the School of Public Welfare. Fieldwork has been a component of the curriculum for second-year students since at least the 1930s.
The Student Consumer Action Union (SCAU) was established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 as an agency of Student Government supported by student fees. Its purposes were to protect student consumer rights and improve consumer-merchant relations in the Chapel Hill-Research Triangle area by developing educational, investigative, and advocacy programs. The union focused its efforts on price levels and merchandising practices, food quality and pricing, health care, rental rates, landlord responsibilities, and tenant rights. Records of the Student Consumer Action Union include annual reports, financial records, its constitution and bylaws, general correspondence, its office manual, publicity materials, and copies of its publications and related correspondence. Subjects of the publications include automobile repair, banking, restaurants, health care, and rental housing.
When first organized in 1904, the Student Government of the University of North Carolina consisted of only the Student Council, which was solely judicial in function. In 1921, the executive function of Student Government was established when the first student body president was elected to replace the senior class president as head of the Student Council. In 1938, the first Student Legislature was organized. The Student Legislature was replaced in 1973 by the Campus Governing Council, and was renamed Student Congress in 1986. The Student Council continued to be the primary judicial body on campus, trying all cases involving Honor System and Campus Code violations. In 1968, a student Supreme Court was established, replacing the previous Constitutional Council in its jurisdiction over all other student court appeals and original cases involving constitutional questions. The Women's Association, made up of all women students, was organized as a social organization in 1917 and became a governing body in 1921. The Women's Council served as an executive body and a disciplinary power for Honor System and Campus Code cases involving women. In the 1940s, the Coed Senate was established as a subsidiary body to the Student Legislature to pass laws affecting only women students. It merged with the Student Legislature in 1956.
The university opened its first infirmary in 1858. Beginning in 1890, members of the medical faculty were responsible for treating students there. The infirmary, however, had no full-time physician until 1919, when the first university physician was appointed. The name infirmary continued to be used informally to designate the building; but as early as 1938, the university physician's annual report referred to the entity as the University Health Service. By the late 1940s, that name had changed to Student Health Service. Originally, the university physician reported to the president, then later to the chancellor, of the university. With the creation of the Division of Student Affairs in 1954, the university physician began reporting to the head of that division, the dean of student affairs (later vice chancellor for student affairs). In 1959, the university physician's title was changed to director of the Student Health Service. Records include correspondence to and from the Directors of the Student Health Service, as well as numerous reports and committee and staff meeting minutes. Files pertain to administrative matters, including space and budget needs, and to various health concerns and issues faced by the Student Health Service. Of particular interest are files relating to sanitary conditions on campus in the 1940s; women's health in the 1970s; the planning and implementation of medical reimbursement insurance for students; the role of testing, self-study, and assessment in counseling, vocational, and other student services during the 1940s-1970s. Student Health Service directors who figure prominently in these records include Edward M. Hedgpeth, James A. Taylor, and Judith R. Cowan.
The University's Student Stores sell textbooks and other books, school supplies including computers, and clothing and various souvenir items bearing University logos. Sales from these sales fund scholarships.
In 1999 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established its Summer Reading Program for incoming freshmen and transfer students. Each year students are asked to read an assigned book over the summer and, on the day before the fall semester begins, participate in a two-hour discussion of the book with select faculty and staff members.
The Tar Heel Technology Center Working Group of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was a joint task force co-commissioned in 2011 by the University Librarian and the CIO of the University to "[explore] the creation of a Tar Heel Technology Center to provide a physical and digital commons in which technology competence and creativity can be nourished, encouraged and supported." Records consist of the Working Group's final report.
The Learning Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a center for academic development and support. It is the result of the consolidation of several such programs and services over the past fifty years. It is part of the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences under Academic Services. Missions of the Learning Center and its predecessor programs include improving retention and graduation rates; preparing students for college-level work; supporting the academic development of student athletes and students with learning disabilities; and promoting the engagement and academic development of minority students.
The UNControllables, founded in 2013, is a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student group that promotes anarchism and the dismantling of oppressive hierarchical, capitalist structures. The group hosts events including talks and the annual Radical Rush week, a week of radical political events designed to orient first-year students to radical politics. The records include flyers and posters advertising group events and Disorientation guides that describe campus and community activist organizations including a calendar of events, a map of Chapel Hill and Carrboro businesses, and a summary of incidents, controversies, activist events and initiatives from the past year.
The University Archives is one of five collecting areas at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It supports education, research, and public service through stewardship of University records and open engagement with the evolving historical record of the University. The records include a report titled, “Envisioning the Future,” a “Recman” newsletter on records management, workshop presentations, the 2002 Records Management Program web page, files on email management, and other training materials. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The ad hoc University Committee on Allied Health was appointed in April 1973 by Provost J. Charles Morrow and Dr. Cecil G. Sheps, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. The committee was chaired by Dr. Donald A. Boulton, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, and was directed to investigate the status and needs of the allied health programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with specific focus on provisions for transfer students from the state's two-year community colleges. On 20 February 1974, the committee submitted its report recommending a new degree structure for the allied health professions programs.
The records consist of committee materials including agenda, minutes, presentations, correspondence, and policies of the University Library Emergency Preparedness Committee. Acquired as part of University Archives.
In 1981, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established the University Management Development Program to develop leadership skills among its employees in managerial positions. In 1983, a group of managers formed the University Managers' Association as a way to continue the networking that had begun among the early graduates of the University Management Development Program.
Since 1957, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has required the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other member institutions to conduct periodic, formal self-studies as part of the process of accreditation by the Association. In 1993, with the creation of the Self-Study Steering Committee, the University began a process that ended in 1995 with the publication of a lengthy self-study report and a visit by the Southern Association's Reaffirmation Committee. The University Reaccreditation Office was established to provide clerical and administrative support to the Steering Committee and its task forces; it was disbanded at the conclusion of the self-study.
University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) was organized on 27 February 1973 in response to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action findings that discriminatory practices in hiring and promotion appeared to be widespread on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goals of the organization were to work against discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, to work to equalize salary and fringe benefit levels, and to promote the organization of a comprehensive University-sponsored day care facility for children of University employees and students. The UWAA was organized into five caucuses: (1) faculty, (2) EPA non-faculty employees, (3) SPA personnel, (4) graduate students, and (5) undergraduate students. Representatives of each caucus formed a steering committee, which selected the coordinator and other officers. By mid-1974, UWAA membership had declined to the point that only the steering committee remained active. Functions of the UWAA had been assumed by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action and the faculty Committee on the Role and Status of Women. Records of University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) include minutes of meetings, attendance lists, correspondence, publicity material, and other documents.
Started in 1966, the Upward Bound program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves to help high school students in the Durham, Chatham, and Lee Counties develop skills and motivation needed to succeed in college and obtain a bachelor's degree. The program is federally-funded and administered by the Office of the Provost. The records include annual reports, correspondence and applications to the US Department of Education, budget files, interoffice correspondence, staff meeting minutes and agendas, student handbooks, and photographs from graduations, cultural enrichment trips, and other events. Acquired as part of University Archives.
The University of North Carolina Utilities Study Commission was authorized by an act of the 1971 North Carolina General Assembly and was appointed 30 November 1971 by Governor Bob Scott. Its role was to study whether the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill should divest itself of its water, sewer, electric, and telephone systems. The commission included representatives from the university, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, and state government, as well as former members of the State Utilities Commission. The commission met monthly to discuss the need for and feasibility of divestment by the university. A final report to the Board of Governors was submitted 14 August 1972, recommending the sale of the university-owned telephone system and off-campus electrical system. It also recommended a transfer of the water utilities facility to the Town of Chapel Hill. The commission continued to meet through May 1976 negotiating the sale and transfer of the utilities. Records of the University of North Carolina Utilities Study Commission include correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, and documents regarding the electric and telephone systems.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visitor’s Center serves to introduce visitors to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The Center offers tours and provides information for campus visitors. The records consist of one videotape titled “UNC-Chapel Hill Visitors’ Center.” Acquired as part of University Archives.
The Women's Concerns Coalition formed in the summer of 1988 in preparation for the installation of Chancellor Paul Hardin. Its purpose was to allow leaders from various campus organizations that dealt with issues of concern for women to present their views and priorities to the new chancellor with a unified voice. Following Chancellor Hardin's installation, the group regularly discussed university reports and policies pertaining to women. Meetings and discussions on such topics became the basis for coalition statements and recommendations that were presented to campus administrative leaders. These statements dealt with issues ranging from child care to faculty development to harassment policies. Among the groups represented in the coalition were the University Affirmative Action Office, the American Association of University Professors, the Association for Women Faculty, the faculty's Committee on the Status of Women, the Women's Studies Program, the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee, the State Employees' Association, the Office of the Provost, and the ad hoc Sexual Harassment Committee.
Administrative records of the Systems and Procedures Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of University Archives.
Images depicting the construction of the Blewett Falls Dam on the Pee Dee River in Anson County, N.C., in 1911. Subjects depicted include the site, the base constructions, the works, the river (dry and flooded), and a communication tower.
George Lyttleton Upshur was a descendant of Martha Washington.
William Peterkin Upshur (1881-1943) of Richmond, Va., was a Marine Corps officer. The collection includes letters from Upshur to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. John N. Upshur in Richmond, Va., written every few days, except during 1912, 1913, and 1923. The letters were written from Virginia Military Institute, 1898-1901; University of Virginia, 1902-1903; the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, 1904; on the U.S.S. Kearsarge off the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, 1905-1907; Virginia and South Carolina, 1908-1911; Peking (Beijing, China), 1914; Haiti, 1915-1917; and at Quantico, Va., and Richmond, Va., Annapolis, Md., Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and other American cities and marine stations, 1917-1928. Upshur described his educational, military, and other experiences, as well as his surroundings and reflections, sometimes in significant detail.
Rafael Uribe Uribe, politician, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, general, and Colombia Liberal Party (Partido Liberal (Colombia)) leader, was born in Valparaiso, Colombia, in 1859. Early on, he was involved in various military campaigns, fighting in civil wars that erupted in Colombia throughout the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, he began to concentrate his efforts in journalism and political matters and was actively involved in promoting progressive ideals in a country torn by long-standing political, social, and economic strife. Uribe Uribe died on 16 October 1914 as a result of an ax attack by two individuals while he was walking by the Capitolio Nacional in Bogota, Colombia.
Lieutenant Colonel David Urquhart from Louisiana was the chief aide-de-campe of General Braxton Bragg in the Civil War. Urquhart was with General Thomas Jordan, General G. T. Beauregard's chief of staff, during the Battle of Shiloh, 6-7 April 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
Letters and other papers collected by William E. Uzzell of Atlanta, Ga. Included are the following: five letters, 1857, from David Bisset, Weldon, N.C., and Anderson, S.C., about railroad construction; Chatham County, N.C., legal documents, 1787-1822; letters from [I?] J. Howe, a Confederate soldier from South Carolina, and others about conditions at Camp Guerrin, S.C., and other Confederate and Union camps; letters from prisoners at Point Lookout, Md.; family and financial letters and other items, 1854-1880, of Daniel W. Jordan, a South Carolina planter; letters, 1840-1845, concerning tobacco processing in Lynchburg, Va.; letters, 1872-1901, to J. M. Sykes of Oxford, N.C., about Republican Party activities and other matters; and a diary kept by William Uzzell during the University of North Carolina's Transcontinental Student Tour of 1930.
Contains a portion of the photographic archive of white photojournalist Burk Uzzle. Contents include, but are not limited to: Uzzle's Life magazine work from 1962 to 1968; Dunn, N.C., in 1962, with an emphasis on Uzzle's father, who was the city's manager at that time; Uzzle’s hitchhiking trip across the United States in 1964; the period immediately after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, including King's funeral; the Woodstock music festival, 1969; refugee camps in Thailand and Cambodia, 1979 and 1980; Liverpool, 1967; Haiti, 1975; Bike Week in Daytona Beach, Fla., during the 1980s; Appalachia and the South, beginning in 2006 and including the African American community in Eastern United States in 2010s. Formats include negatives, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and contact sheets.

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V-Day Carolina is a student chapter of V-Day International, a movement fighting violence against women. V-Day Carolina sponsors an annual "V-Week" series of campus events around Valentine's Day, culminating in performances of The Vagina Monologues, a play by Eve Ensler, in English and Spanish. The records consist of materials related to performances of The Vagina Monologues. Materials include programs, fliers, scripts, logo and t-shirt designs, meeting notes, reports, registration forms, photos, and fundraising materials.
The Margaret Vale Papers document the life of Margaret Vale of Charleston, South Carolina. Vale was a white silent film and theater actress, a writer, and a feminist who lived with neuralgia. Vale was involved in the 20th-century suffrage movement, active in the United States Democratic Party and a charter member of The Women Democrats of America: The National Organization of Democratic Women. This collection consists of personal and business correspondence, 1878 to 1955; photographs taken of Margaret Vale, kittens, and the environs around and inside her home with George Howe; scrapbooks; notebooks; production programs; ephemera; writings and editorial work done by Vale; papers relating to advocacy work performed by Vale; clippings relating to social issues followed by Vale; and miscellaneous items.
Herbert Eugene Valentine (1841-1917) was a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers, who served in the United States Army between 1861 and 1864 in eastern Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
William D. Valentine was born in Hertford County, N.C. in 1806. He contracted a debilitating disease at the age of 13 that left him permanently disabled. After a brief stint as a grammar-school teacher in 1837, he became a lawyer, practicing in the courts of Hertford, Bertie, Gates, and Northampton counties in northeastern North Carolina. Valentine never married, and he spent the greater part of his life living at Oaklawn, his father's plantation just outside the village of Bethel, N.C.
A miscellaneous collection of valentines and greeting cards from various sources, dates, and locations.
Correspondence and writings of Van Noppen, native of the Netherlands and poet who lived in New York and lectured on Dutch language and literature. The collection includes typescripts of his writings; correspondence concerning his education in North Carolina and the Netherlands; correspondence with friends and relatives, publishers, prospective employers, and literary patrons; correspondence while a United States naval attache at the Hague and London during World War I; and a diary (34 pages) kept by Van Noppen while he was at the Hague, 9 April-17 September 1918, concerning meetings with Dutch leaders and the political situation in the Netherlands. Papers after Van Noppen's death concern his wife's efforts to have his long poem on evolution, Cosmorama, edited and published; his wife's associations with Universal Order, a mystical cult; and, after Mrs. Van Noppen's death, disposition of the papers. Volumes include reviews and critiques of Van Noppen's work, clippings, and notebooks.
Pages 2-4 of a letter to Reverend Van Rensselaer, New York Presbyterian minister, then giving religious instruction to slaves in Virginia, from Samuel S. Davis in Camden, S.C., describing opposition to such work at Savannah, Ga., and other matters.
The Dave Van Ronk Collection consists of audio recordings, 1965-1971, created and compiled by Dave Van Ronk, an American folk singer and an important figure in the American folk music revival and the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. The collection includes concert recordings of Van Ronk circa 1967, 1969, and 1971, a WBAI radio show of Dave Van Ronk and Terri Thal, a work tape of his 1967 album Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, as well as recordings of Ian Buchanan, Tom Paley, and Bob Dylan.
Arthur L. Van Vleck (died 1863) was a Union soldier with the 126th Ohio Infantry serving chiefly in West Virginia and Maryland near Harpers Ferry, circa October 1862-July 1863. The collection is a contemporary handwritten transcription of a diary (actually, an account in installments) of Van Vleck, circa October 1862-July 1863. The account was sent by Van Vleck to his aunt and then transcribed by sister Lou. It describes camp life, marches, and fighting, in some detail, and is particularly concerned with prayer and worship.
The collection contains letters and post cards received by Mary Elizabeth Case Vance (1857-1930) of Henderson County, N.C., and scattered letters of Confederate soldiers related to her through marriage to John Zebulon Vance (1858-1928). The primary correspondent is her father Thomas Jefferson Case (1819-1885), a white farmer residing in Blue Ridge, N.C., and writing in the late 1870s and early 1880s to Mary in Collin County, Tex, where she lived with her husband and children. Case's letters include local and family news from Henderson County, weather and crop reports, commentary on newspapers Mary sent from Texas, and advice for Mary's teaching career in Texas. Civil War era letters were written between 1861 and 1862 from Confederate army camps near Raleigh, N.C., Fredericksburg, Va., and Manassas, Va. The scattered letters from Mary's father in-law Josiah Gideon Vance (1835-1901) and Vance's brother-in-law Samuel King to family members mention troop movements and camp life.
Rupert B. Vance (1899-1975), Kenan professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was associated with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University from the 1920s to the 1970s. He was a leading sociologist of the American South and actively encouraged social, political, and economic changes in the region.
Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was governor of North Carolina, 1862-1865 and 1877-1879, and United States senator, 1879-1894.
The Delta Cooperative Farm of Rochdale, Miss., was a philanthropically supported endeavor founded in 1936 to help southern agricultural labrorers out of their economic plight. Interracial efforts on the farm were primarily interested in establishing economic equality between African Americans and whites who worked together for equal wages. The collection contains material related to Delta Cooperative Farm collected by Paul J. Vanderwood, journalist for the Memphis, Tenn., Press-Scimitar including articles, clippings, and other items; notes made by Vanderwood; and letters, 1964, to Vanderwood from David R. Minter, physician and head of the Delta Cooperative Farm medical clinic, and Constance Rumbough recounting in some detail their experiences as workers at the farm in the 1930s.
The collection contains miscellaneous items, including two handwritten United States Army documents: General Order No. 51, 25 October 1864, and a circular, 6 December 1864, both by Major General Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882), Commander of the Fifth Army Corps. Also included is a section from the Washington Post, 5 March 1901, briefly describing the inauguration of each United States president up to that time.
Writer Jose Maria Vargas Vila was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1860. He spent a large part of his life in exile because of his critical and controversial writings, many of which included liberal ideas and criticism of the clergy. He died in Barcelona, Spain, in 1933.
Roger R. Varin was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1925. He received his B.A. in business administration from City College, Bern, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Bern. He was a research fellow at Harvard University. Varin has chiefly worked with fiber chemistry, as a research associate at E. I. dePont de Nemours & Company; director of research at Riegel Textile Corporation; and founder and CEO of Varinit Corporation, Greenville, S.C., manufacturers of speciality fiber products, and Varinit SA, Geneva, Switzerland, traders in specialty fiber products and services.
The collection consists of motion picture scripts assembled in 1955 by Earl Wynn and John Ehle of the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina. The scripts are representative of most the major motion picture studios operative in the United States at the time.
Ephemeral items include advertisements, visiting cards, fancy envelopes, invitations, postcards, caricatures and cartoons, printed ribbons, and other items. While almost all of the items are undated, many seem to date from the late 19th century. There are, however, some items that appear to be from earlier in the 19th century and a few from the 20th century. Among the visiting cards is one for General Tom Thumb and his wife, M. Lavinia Magri, and among the ribbons is one mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. There are also a few items relating to rationing during World War II.
William Worrell Vass was treasurer, 1845-1893, of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company and an official of the Chatham Railroad Company, the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Railroad Company, and the Seaboard Airline Railroads (later merged into the CSX Corporation).
Longhand and typed drafts of Francis William Sharpe Vaughan's autobiography, "A Ramble Back in the Past Trod Years Ago," circa 1896. The autobiography describes Vaughan's life up to the 1890s, paying particular attention to his time as a civilian officer for the Confederate Army. The collection also contains a small sample of a history of Pasquotank County, North Carolina compiled by Vaughan.
Paul Turner Vaughan (1839-1916) was a Confederate soldier who served with the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Tennessee. The collection is typed copies of Civil War letters written home by Vaughan and of his diary, 20 pages, 4 March-6 November 1863, kept while he was serving in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Tennessee. Letters describe Fredericksburg, Va., camp life, shortages of clothing, snow, the prospect of Yankees entering Alabama, and his brother's health and release from Camp Douglas. The diary discusses troop movements, pickets, weather, food prices, an explosion in Richmond that killed twelve girls, church news, and how food shortages changed attitudes about foraging.
Vaughan researched and wrote local history and life histories, 1930-1939, with the Federal Writers' Project in Beaufort County, N.C.
C. C. Vaughn of Franklin, Va., was cashier with Vaughn & Company, Bankers. He served as captain of the 4th Virginia Volunteers during the Spanish-American War and later as brigadier general with the 1st Brigade Virginia Volunteers.
The Eloise Vaughn Papers, 1996-2008, consists chiefly of materials documenting the publication and promotion of the book Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms, which chronicles the loss of her and co-author Patsy Clarke's sons to AIDS in the early 1990s. There are also some materials related to the grassroots organization Mothers Against Jesse In Congress (MAJIC) that they created to thwart Senator Helms' reelection in 1996. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The Vein Mountain Mining Company of McDowell and Rutherford counties, N.C., was owned by Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (1838-1915), a New York businessman.
Abraham Watkins Venable (1799-1876), the son of Mary S. Carrington and Samuel Woodson Venable, was born in Prince Edward County, Va.; educated at Hampden Sydney and Princeton; became a lawyer; and in 1824 married Isabella Alston Brown of Granville County, N.C. Venable moved to North Carolina in 1829 and became active in politics as a Democrat, serving as a presidential elector in 1832 and 1836 and in the United States House of Representatives, March 1847-March 1853, representing the fifth congressional district of North Carolina. After congressional redistricting in 1852, Granville County was in the new fourth district, which he failed to win. Venable was a presidential elector on the Breckinridge-Lane ticket in 1860; a delegate from North Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress; and a member of the Confederate House of Representatives, 1862-1864. He died in Oxford, N.C., on 24 February 1876. The collection consists chiefly of letters written to Venable, primarily from his constituents, either commenting on politics and campaigns or seeking office. In 1847 and 1848, some of the letters deal with efforts to obtain appointments in the United States Army. Ten of the letters were written by William Woods Holden, editor of the Raleigh Standard and a leader in the Democratic Party. Also included is an account book belonging to Venable documenting the Brownsville plantation in Granville County, 1864-1872. Entries include contractual agreements, wages, and amounts deducted for staples for freedmen who worked for him (first and last names are listed). Also included are records of wheat and corn crops during this time, with a few memos, promissory notes, and receipts interleaved.
Confederate officer, aide to Robert E. Lee, and professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Official communications, mainly dated 1863-1864, addressed to R. E. Lee, and to Venable and other staff officers, from Confederate commanders in the Virginia theatre of war. Scattered postwar letters to Venable from former Confederate officers contain discussions of military actions and include letters from Venable to his wife and his son, Francis Preston Venable. Other correspondents include R. H. Anderson, P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis, Jubal A. Early, Richard S. Ewell, Wade Hampton, A. P. Hill, J. D. Imboden, Bradley T. Johnson, Fitzhugh Lee, W. H. F. Lee, F. T. Nicholls, George E. Pickett, Jeb Stuart, and T. M. Talcott. Volumes include lecture notes and a printed copy of Venable's 1874 Address before the Society of the Alumni of Hampden-Sydney College.
Francis Preston Venable, son of Charles Scott Venable, aid-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, 1862-1865, and professor of mathematics, University of Virginia, 1865-1896, was born 17 November 1856 in Farmville, Virginia. In 1893 Venable identified calcium carbide, thereby laying the foundation for the success of the Union Carbide Corporation--but was never financially rewarded for this discoverry. From 1900-1914 he served as president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1930 Venable retired from teaching and four years later on 17 March 1934, Venable died.
The collection is primarily miscellaneous promissory notes and receipts relating to business dealings of Elijah Vester in Nash County, N.C., along with five letters sent to him by relatives in Cocke County, Tenn. The letters discuss agricultural crops and prices, social mobility, and the prospects for marriage and plans for immigration to Texas of William Vester (relationship unknown). There is also a letter, 1 September 1838, from Elijah Vester's father, concerning planting in Hinds County, Miss.
Bushrod W. Vick lived in Edgecombe County, N.C.
Thomas Vickery was a Georgia plantation owner.
Correspondence, minutes, and other official papers of the North Carolina Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, including material collected for tours to towns to see Victorian architecture.
James Villas (1938-2018), a gay white man, grew up in North Carolina and was best known as a food writer in New York. The James Villas Papers, 1930s-2010, include correspondence, drafts and published versions of writings and speeches, diaries, menus, appointment books, photographs, and other materials of the award-winning author and food and wine editor of Town & Country. The collection documents extensive contacts with faculty mentors and friends at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1960s and 1970s; the world of cooking, dining, and cuisine from the 1970s through the 1990s; and Villas's social life, sexual relationships, and travels, including cruises aboard the Queen Elizabeth II.
Vine Hill Academy, Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., was apparently a day school for both boys and girls between the years of 1812 and 1893.
The Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company was formed in February 1888 by a group of businessmen from Roanoke, Va., Martinsville, Va., and Winston-Salem, N.C., including Richard Joshua Reynolds, a tobacco grower and wholesaler, and Colonel Francis Henry Fries, whose family controlled large textile interests. The board of directors also included Henry Theodore Bahnson, a physician from Winston-Salem, N.C. The company was formed to construct a railway line between Winston-Salem, N.C., and Roanoke, Va., for the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company, after an earlier contractor had defaulted on the project. The record book of the Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company contains documentation, 1888-1896, of the formation of the company and its by-laws, minutes of meetings of the board of directors, and other information. The minutes discuss the construction of a railroad line between Winston-Salem, N.C., and Martinsville, Va.; the extension of that line to Roanoke, Va.; the acquisition of concessions allowing the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company to make use of the lines of other local railroads; and other matters pertaining to the relationship between the Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company and the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company. Minutes also discuss day-to-day matters of railroad construction, such as compensation for injured workers and the employment of convict labor.
The collection is lists, 1821-1887, of subscribers to the Virginia Free Press (at one time combined with the Farmers' Repository), a Charles Town, Jefferson County, Va. (W. Va.), newspaper, arranged by locality. The lists were evidently made by N. H. Gallagher.
Personal papers of John Vlach, scholar of African American folklife, vernacular architecture, and folk art. The collection consists of correspondence and teaching, research, and publishing files, 1970s-2000s. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection contains the first recorded certificate of confirmation, 1782, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Carolina.
Thirty-four letters written to Charles Vogler of Salem, N.C., and one letter from him, most written while Vogler was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill starting in 1905. Letters are from his mother, aunt, and brother Herbert, and chiefly contain family news from Salem. Letters describe social events, illnesses, and the performances and practices of a band in which both Charles and Herbert Vogler played. Letters express concern about Vogler's health and the hazing of freshmen at UNC. A letter from Aunt Minnie contains a strip of four small photographs of Minnie and two other women and another contains newspaper clippings about jiu jitsu. Four letters, 1902 and 1904, are from Annie Barnard, perhaps a cousin, in Asheville, N.C., describing social activities and family news.
Lisetta Maria Vogler (1820-1903) married Francis F. Fries (1812-1863). The collection includes a typed transcription of the diary of Vogler as an eleven-year-old girl, describing a trip from Salem, N.C., to New York, N.Y., and back, including a stay with Moravian co-religionists in Pennsylvania.
Henry T. Volkening was a literary agent and co-founder of Russell and Volkening, Inc., a literary agency of New York City, N.Y.
Julia A. Voorhees of New York City was the wife of Ricahrd Voorhees and the sister-in-law of writer and politician Lemuel Sawyer of Edenton, N.C.

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Warner Guy Winn was the owner of a general merchandise store called W. G. Winn & Company in Vance County, N.C., near Epson between Henderson and Louisburg, N.C.
WEED was a general entertainment radio station established in 1933 by William Avera Wynne (born 1903) in Greenville, N.C.
This collection is comprised primarily of moving images generated by television station WTVD in Durham, N.C.. The bulk of the collection consists of broadcast master videotapes from WTVD produced shows, such as Reflections, Reel Perspectives, Primetime, Primetime Saturday, and Primetime Sunday. The collection also contains 16mm motion picture films of interviews and b-roll footage related to WTVD programming, including footage of local businesses, organizations, and events. Both the videotapes and motion picture films treat a wide variety of subjects, many of which focus on community-related issues and African American life in North Carolina. WTVD programs found in the collection feature personalities of local and national significance, including African American journalists Ervin Hester, Cathy Stowe, Gail Paschall, and Miriam Thomas. Also included are production and background materials relating to some of the programs and a small number of transcripts, only one of which corresponds to a videotape in the collection.
WUNC is the non-profit public radio service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, broadcasting to central and eastern North Carolina through stations located in Chapel Hill, N.C., Rocky Mount, N.C., and Manteo, N.C., and streaming online at wunc.org. WUNC was located in Swain Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina from its creation in the 1940s until 1999, when it moved off campus to the James F. Goodmon Public Radio Building in Chapel Hill. WUNC began broadcasting intermittently as an AM radio station in the 1940s, switched to FM on 3 November 1952, went off-air in 1970, and was reinstated as a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate on 3 April 1976. WUNC initially provided listeners with a combination of daytime and evening cultural affairs commentaries, news, and music; in 2001, the station switched to a 24-hour local and national news- and information-based programming format.
Campus radio station WCAR was founded in fall 1969 out of the conglomeration of several stations based in campus residence halls. WCAR was established in Granville Towers, but moved to Ehringhaus residence hall soon after. In 1973, new WCAR offices and studios were constructed in the Carolina Union. Through the 1970s, students pursued the establishment of an FM station. On March 18, 1977, FM station WXYC went on the air. The station is credited with producing the first internet radio broadcast in 1994. Records include correspondence, documentation of facilities and equipment, records related to the FCC approval process, timelines, memorabilia, and clippings. Also included are materials from the WXYC 40th Anniversary Symposium held in March 2017. Digital content in this collection consists primarily of scanned copies of the physical records.
Moses Waddel (1770-1840) was an educator and Presybeterian minister of South Carolina and Georgia. The collection contains three letters written by Waddel and a typed transcription of A Register of Marriages Celebrated and Solemnized by Moses Waddel. One letter was written from Waddel's South Carolina academy, 1798, about needs and attainments of students, and two were written while he was president of Franklin College (now the University of Georgia), Athens, Ga., 1823 and 1825, about church matters and the college.
Alfred M. Waddell Papers document the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup, called race riots by its white supremacist supporters, that murdered Black citizens, overthrew elected government, drove opposition Black and white political leaders out of Wilmington, and destroyed Black-owned property and businesses. Waddell became mayor in the aftermath of the insurrection. Other topics include national and state Democratic party politics; the Cameron family and other white politically and socially influential families in North Carolina; Waddell's service in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War with the 41st North Carolina Infantry Regiment; Waddell's law office; recipes; genealogical research into the DeRosset, Waddell, Moore, and Myers families; Gabrielle (DeRosset) Waddell and her involvement in United Daughters of the Confederacy and Colonial Dames; and commentary on art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, and history. Also included are a few colonial and early 19th century papers of the related DeRosset, Moore, Nash, and Waddell families of Hillsborough, N.C., and Wilmington, N.C. Materials include correspondence, writings, speeches, deeds, wills, legal papers, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, and clippings.
Charles Edward Waddell (1877-1945) was a consulting engineer for government and industry and a builder of steam and hydraulic power plants on the eastern seaboard and western North Carolina. The collection includes bound typescript reports containing project descriptions, correspondence, and other papers relating to municipal electric and water facilities chiefly in North Carolina, generating plants for industries, World War I defense and conservation surveys, and other projects in which Waddell was involved.
Susanna Gordon Waddell was the wife of Dr. James Alexander Waddell.
The collection of white musician, record producer, and writer Stephen Wade (1953- ) contains press clippings, posters, magazines, performance programs, and other printed and published items; scrapbooks; commercial recordings; and non-commercial audio and video recordings, both analog and digital. Materials document Wade's musical career and his projects on American traditional music. Scrapbooks and press clippings pertain chiefly to Wade's one-person theatrical show called "Banjo Dancing," which combines storytelling, traditional music, and percussive dance. Commercial recordings are 78 rpm, LP, and other discs from the personal collection of American folklorist and anthropologist with expertise in Haitian life, Harry Courlander. Non-commercial audio and video recordings contain musical performances by Wade and others, and most are related to his projects on American traditional music, particularly Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition (2012) and the Smithsonian Folkways compilation Hobart Smith, In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes (2005). The collection also includes numerous audio and video recordings compiled by Wade, including dubs of live performances and commercial releases of folk music and bluegrass by mostly white performers, such as Blue Sky Boys, Carter Family, Buell Kazee, Jimmy Martin, Earl Scruggs, and Stanley Brothers. The addition of 2018 contains audio and moving image materials relating to Bruce Kaplan, a white folklorist and founder of Flying Fish Records, a Chicago based record label that specialized in folk, blues, gospel music, and country music. The addition includes master audio tapes of Flying Fish artists, including the Zion Harmonizers, Hickory Wind, and Bryan Bowers; live recordings of the Berryville bluegrass festival; copies of Martin, Bogan & Armstrong's Barnyard Dance (1972); as well as film and video recordings related to Bruce Kaplan. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Sarah Lois Wadley was the daughter of William Morrill Wadley (1812?-1882) and Rebecca Barnard Everingham Wadley (fl. 1840-1884) and lived with her family in homes near Amite in Tangipahoa Parish, Monroe and Oakland in Ouachita Parish, La., and near Macon, Ga.
The collection contains genealogical data, 1930, on the Bryan family of North Carolina.
James E. Wadsworth was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1935; served in the United States Navy during World War II; and was housing officer and director of housing, 1946-1973, for the University of North Carolina. He coordinated and moderated a science program at WUNC-TV, 1954-1969, and was narrator of programs at the Morehead Planetarium. The collection includes papers, 1942-1945, relating to the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, N.C.; papers, 1946-1973, relating to student housing at the University of North Carolina; files, 1957-1976, relating to Morehead Planetarium; papers, 1954-1970, relating to WUNC-TV; and photographs, chiefly of people and places at the University of North Carolina. Included are memoranda about housing policy; correspondence about student housing; information about the histories of dormitories and housing at the University; scripts for shows at Morehead Planetarium; and materials relating to Science and Nature, a WUNC-TV show coordinated and moderated by Wadsworth for junior high and senior high school students. Also included are photographs of people at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, of dormitories at the University of North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, of people at Morehead Planetarium, and of Wadsworth and others on the Science and Nature set.
Julius A. Wager was born and lived his whole life in Hector, Schuyler County, N.Y.
E. Leff Wagoner was superintendent of public instruction in Alleghany County, N.C., around the turn of the 20th century.
Henry McGilbert Wagstaff (1876-1945) was an author, editor, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1907-1945.
Warrants for arrest of debtors in Wake County, N.C., 1824-1828.
The Elijah Wald Collection consists primarily of materials related to publications by American folk blues guitarist and music historian, Elijah Wald. Subjects of Wald's publications include the Narcocorrido folk music of northern Mexico; blues singer and guitarist, Robert Johnson; folk singer, Dave Van Ronk; blues singer, guitarist, and civil rights activist, Josh White; the evolution of popular music; and the various music genres found along the Mississippi River. Of particular note are the audio interviews that Wald conducted for select publications. Notable interviewees include Oscar Brand, Compay Segundo, Barbara Dane, Tom Glazer, Sam Hood, Ali Akbar Khan, Barry Kornfeld, Christine Lavin, Josephine Premice, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber, Wavy Gravy, Izzy Young, and members of the Josh White family. The collection also contains interviews and transcripts for his writings on roots and world music for the Boston Globe and other publications, master audio recordings of Elijah Wald's commercial recordings, and other materials compiled by Wald, including writings on the 40th anniversary of Arhoolie Records, course materials, and publicity for Wald's music.
Collection contains a family memoir by John Waldeck Jr. The memoir documents Waldeck's Romanian father's service in the German Army during World War II and the family's immigration to the United States in the 1950s. They lived in rural Virginia for several years and moved to Fearrington Farm in Chatham County, NC, circa 1961. Waldeck's memoir also includes recollections of conversations with his father and research on his grandparents, more distant ancestors, and the family's German origins.
In part typed transcriptions of original items. Letters written home by Waldrop of Virginia, a member of the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, and his diary, 1863-1867, during the Civil War and in Richmond after the war. The letters discuss camp and battlefield conditions and rumors of military action. Also included is the diary, 1862-1865, of his brother, John Waldrop (1845-1891), with the Richmond (Va.) Howitzers; and a bound volume containing copies of letters, 1916-1917, from Eloise Waldrop to her father, R. W. Waldrop, while she was traveling throughout the Midwest with singer Alma Gluck.
Account book of A. Walker and A. T. Walker containing a record of slaves bought and sold in Rockingham and Caswell counties, N.C., in Alabama, and other locales, and of trade in whiskey and other commodities.
Hermione Ross Walker was the daughter of Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929) and his first wife, Anne Roulhac Rose Ross (1850-1888). Anne Roulhac Rose Ross was the daughter of Simri Rose (1799-1869), a pioneer citizen of Macon, Ga., and Lavinia E. Blount Rose. The collection contains typed transcriptions and microfilm (originals returned to private owner) of correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of related families centered in Macon, Ga. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Simri Rose (1799-1869), Macon editor, and his diary of travel in the North, 1830; letters of and about Lieutenant William R. Ross, (died 1863), 66th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America; diaries and poems, 1861, 1867, 1869, of Anne Roulhac Rose (Mrs. Edgar A.) Ross (1850-1888), of Macon, chiefly concerning her feelings and her social life; memoirs of Reconstruction by Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929); other family correspondence; and other items.
James A. (James Alexander) Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and a Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. The collection includes scattered papers of and about Walker, including a small amount of Walker's own correspondence: letters to his fiancee in the 1850s while he was at the University of Virginia and practicing law in Pulaski County, Va., and personal and political letters in Wythe County, Va., when he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1890s. Other papers include 1870s manuscript speeches, correspondence, and clippings about Walker, and a typescript biography by his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell.
Audio recordings of an autobiography of James Walker, Jr., one of the first African American students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. James Walker, Jr., who later worked as a lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C., recorded these tapes late in his life as part of a planned autobiography, which was never published. On the recordings Walker describes his early life, his experiences at UNC, as well as his legal career.
John George Walker (1822-1893) of Missouri was a major general in the Confederate Army.
The John Walker Papers consist of a journal and a genealogical chart documenting the enslaved community and white members of the Walker family, including John Walker, a farmer and journal author, at Chatham Hill in King and Queen County, Va. Chatham Hill depended on the labor of enslaved people to grow cotton, wheat, and silkworms. The journal is particularly rich source for biographical information about the enslaved community, including vital statistics, family relationships, skilled positions held outside the household or fields, and the buying and selling of enslaved people. The journal also provides insight, from the enslaver's perspective, into lived experience of the enslaved through description of activities, relations between enslaved and enslaver, and examples of resistance. The journal also documents Walker's finances relating to plantation income and expenditures; his religious life, including Methodist camp meetings, church business, and preachers; and his legal actions as executor of his father's and of other estates. Also documented is Samuel Thomson's method of botanic medicine, which Walker adopted in the 1830s. The family tree documents the white members of the Walker family from the mid-1660s through the 1950s, but otherwise there is little information about their lives and community.
Nathan Wilson Walker was a professor of education, dean of the School of Education, and director of the summer school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Diary, 6 March 1842-9 August 1843, of Walker, a Texas Ranger, written while he served under the command of Colonel William S. Fisher. Included are accounts of his capture as a spy; the Battle of Mier, 25-26 December 1842; and his escape from Mexico City.
Samuel Hoey Walkup was a colonel of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.
Bennett H. Wall, professor of history at the University of Georgia at Athens and secretary of the Southern Historical Association.
Chiefly papers of William Henry Wallace (1827-1901) of Union County, S.C., Confederate brigadier general and state legislator, pertaining to the estate of his father, Daniel Wallace (1801-1859), U.S. representative, 1848-1853, and to Reconstruction, including a letter, 1878, about the race question in South Carolina, from Samuel H. Bennett, a black politician. Also included are an undated circular regarding the trial of reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan under anti-Klan laws; a scrapbook containing clippings; and other items pertaining to Confederate veterans, to members of the Wallace and Gage families, and to other topics.
The collection contains genealogical information, 1794-1841, about the Wallace family of North Carolina.
Daniel Wallace, author and illustrator, was born in 1959 in Birmingham, Ala. He attended first Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., and then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first novel, Big Fish (1998), was made into a film of the same name directed by Tim Burton in 2003.
Frances W. Wallace of Paducah, Ky., was the wife of Philip Hugh Wallace, a Confederate officer in Alabama.
James T. Wallace was a Confederate soldier who served with a Missouri regiment in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Collection contains images made by white photojournalist Jim Wallace both during his time as an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1960-1964, and images made later in his career while working at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2013. The images from Chapel Hill, N.C., chiefly depict scenes on university campus and other campus activities and were taken when Wallace served as a student photographer for The Daily Tar Heel. Also included are images made by Wallace at the national March on Washington (D.C.) for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963. Wallace was a member of the National Press Club for 25 years and the collection also contains thousands of images depicting speakers Wallace photographed regularly at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., between 1998 and 2013. The collection also includes some civil rights-era ephemera collected by Wallace at various events as well as images taken by Wallace at exhibits and projects that featured his images of civil rights movement.
Scrapbooks created by Lee A. Wallace, a white administrator for District 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Scrapbooks include printed materials and photographs documenting a variety of WPA District 1 projects supervised by Wallace. A majority of the images depict projects in various states of progress, including community centers, schools, bridges, roads, airports, utilities (sewer, water, electricity), jails, courthouses, public piers, and parks. WPA District 1 in North Carolina included Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrell, and Washington counties. Also included are images depicting local WPA staff and personnel that include women and people of color. A majority of the materials are captioned and dated. These projects were completed during a period when segregation laws required the creation of separate public facilities for white and non-white citizens. The scrapbooks contain images with captions indicating they depict work being done in majority Black communities, as well as images depicting Black citizens and workers.
Thomas L. Wallace of Tennessee was a cavalry officer in Gillespie's Brigade, Vaughn's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Tennessee.
Professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina. Personal and professional correspondence of Wallace and microfilm of materials, 1935-1941, collected by him relating to WSOC, a radio station in Charlotte, N.C. Correspondence includes brief letters from public figures concerning the 1963 North Carolina campus speaker ban legislation and letters from Ralph Gary Dennis about personal and professional matters.
Two letters, 1858 and 1859, from Sam and White Waller, respectively, to their sister Maria, regarding life at the University of Virginia, and three letters, 1860, from George Waller to his parents in Henry County, Va., about his medical studies in Richmond. The remaining letters, 1861-1864, discuss the routines of camp life, battles, family news, and George Waller's observations as an assistant surgeon in the 24th Virginia Regiment, and, after July 1864, as a hospital steward with Pickett's Field Infirmary, Chester, Va. Letters from Sam and White Waller, who was with George during the early part of the war, are also present.
The collection includes 33 letters, 1925-1933, to the writer Bruce Beddow, 32 of which were written by English novelist Sir Henry Walpole; a ten-page handwritten essay, Christmas Books When I Was A Boy, by Walpole; and two questionnaires from 1929 submitted by Beddow and completed by Walpole about Walpole's life, work, and literary opinions. The letters briefly discuss book advertising, publishing, and critics, but refer mainly to Beddow's efforts as a novelist, analysis of Beddow's novels, Walpole's own works, and an unpublished biography on Walpole by Beddow.
Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.
Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of several North Carolina writers, producing major works on Thomas Wolfe, George Moses Horton, and William Hill Brown. He retired from teaching in 1970 and died in 1988.
Zeb Vance Walser (1863-1940) was a lawyer, public official, and historian of Lexington, N.C.
David A. Walsh was born on 9 June 1923. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a mechanic. The collection is chiefly letters, 1943-1945, relating to David A. Walsh's United States Army Air Forces service during World War II. The largest concentration of letters are those written by Walsh to his sister, Marguerite Walsh. The letters describe Walsh's military training at the Army Air Forces Technical School at Seymour Johnson Field in North Carolina and the places he was stationed, including Harding Field, Baton Rouge, La.; Waycross Army Air Base, Waycross, Ga.; Army Air Field, Punta Gorda, Fla.; and a base in Karachi, India. Walsh also wrote about military life as an airplane mechanic, social activities, family affairs, the Army bureaucracy, the relationship between enlisted personnel and officers, the books he read, and planetary flight.
F. W. Walter, owner of the Corning Rail Road, and his wife Mary lived in Corning, Mo., with their children Len, Alice, and Andrew.
Harvey Washington Walter (1819-1878) was a native of Ohio, lawyer in Holly Springs, Miss., and a Confederate Army officer.
Business correspondence, invoices, and receipts of James E. Walter, a general merchant in Linden, Warren County, Va., and letters, 1875 and undated, concerning the needs and achievements of Walter's daughter, Cora, a student at Mary E. Simpson's School of Front Royal, Va.
Adelaide Walters (1907-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a local political activist, volunteer, civic leader, and Democratic Party officer.
Bray Baker Walters (fl. 1824-1852) was a resident of Norfolk, Va. The collection includes family correspondence of Walters including letters from his merchant seaman son, James R. Walters (1824-1852), describing voyages to London and Falmouth, England; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jamaica; Cadiz, Spain; India, the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Genoa, Italy.
Ellen Walters, filmmaker, teacher, and anthropologist of Laurinburg, N.C., has produced and directed several documentary films on southern culture. The collection includes unedited video footage used in the making of The Firehouse Women: Faith, Food and Fellowship (1998) and the final edited copy of the film. The Firehouse Women, funded in part by a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, features the Gibson, N.C., Firehouse Restaurant and its family of owners--three generations of women restaurateurs. The restaurant is known for its southern-style cooking, a cappella gospel music performed by the owners, and its family atmosphere.
Joseph Walters of Norfolk, Va., was a quartermaster and later major in the W. H. F. Lee Brigade of Stuart's 13th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A. His parents were Bray Baker Walters and Martha Caroline Riddick, who owned and operated the National Hotel in Norfolk.
The collection chiefly consists of both black-and-white and color photographic negatives of various formats taken by white photographer Tom E. Walters while on assignment for The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer (1950s-1960s), and during his career as a self-employed advertising photographer (1960s-1990s) based in Charlotte, N.C. Also contained in the collection are approximately 1,000 photographic prints, including the images Walters entered into the Annual National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Competition for the years 1958 through 1962. In addition to Walters' photographic prints are tear sheets, magazines, and various other print materials featuring Walters' images. Also included are printed materials, correspondence, and log books related to the operation of his photographic studio. Earlier materials primarily depict news and political events including civil rights sit-ins in 1958 and 1961, numerous North Carolina and United States politicians, and famous musicians and entertainers. Later materials feature regional businesses and organizations such as North Carolina National Bank (NCNB), Charlotte Country Day School (CCDS), the Mint Museum of Art, and Pentes Design. Notable individuals depicted in the collection include North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges, Jack Pentes, Bones McKinney, Harry Golden, and Carl Sandburg.
Members of the Walton family included William Walton (fl. 1811- 1855), who emigrated from South Carolina to western Alabama circa 1820. As of 1836, Walton and his wife, Justina (fl. 1836-1866) were living at Strawberry Hill Plantation near Forkland, Greene County, Ala., where they chiefly planted cotton. Their daughter, Justina, married James Daniel Webb (1818-1863) around 1853. Other family members occasionally lived in Eutaw, Ala.
Eliza Murphy Walton of Morganton, N.C., attended school in Pittsboro, N.C., and later married Thomas George Walton, who served in the Confederate army.
John (Jock) Murphy Walton of Morganton, N.C., was a lieutenant in the army of the Confederate States of America.
Richard Henry Hill Walton (fl. 1848-1856) was a resident of Westward Mills, Brunswick County, Va.
The collection includes family correspondence, 1830s to 1890s, deeds, indentures, and other papers of Thomas George Walton, his wife Eliza Murphy Walton, and other members of the Walton and Murphy families, all of Morganton, Burke County, N.C. Included are letters from John H. Murphy, student at the University of North Carolina, 1843-1847; correspondence between Thomas George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton while he was serving with the Confederate Army in Virginia and Tennessee; earlier land grants, deeds, and family letters; postwar correspondence of Walton concerning law and politics; and a typed transcription of his historical sketch of Burke County, N.C., containing biographies of early pioneers. Correspondents include Tod R. Caldwell, Kemp P. Battle, and Bishop Theodore B. Lyman.
The Millie Wiggins Wandell and Charlotte Wiggins Oral History on Ella May Wiggins, 1984, records the sisters' memories and what they learned afterward of the death of their mother, Ella May Wiggins, a white balladeer, textile worker, and union organizer who was killed during the textile strike in Gastonia, N.C., in 1929. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
The War Resisters League (WRL) was founded in 1923 by pacifists who had opposed American entry into World War I. League members have been active in organizing opposition to American involvement in military conflicts, including World War II, the Vietnamese conflict, and the Persian Gulf War. The League also was involved in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and has also supported the women's movement, the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and other social justice causes. The Southeast Regional Office of the War Resisters League was established in 1977 in Chapel Hill, N.C., for the purpose of supporting WRL activities and other peace and social justice groups in the southeastern United States. A few years later, the office moved to Durham, N.C., where it operated until 1989. The collection includes bulletins, flyers, correspondence, financial documents, administrative documents, newsletters, notes, slides, posters, and other materials related to the operation of the War Resisters League, Southeast Regional Office (WRL/SE), as well as the War Resisters League National Office (WRL) and other peace groups and social justice organizations. WRL/SE materials include correspondence and mailings detailing WRL/SE events and protests, meeting notes and agendas from regional conferences, fundraising and financial materials, and a scrapbook containing clippings and flyers from events. Similar materials exist for the WRL National Office, but also include minutes and staff reports from meetings of the WRL Executive Committee and the WRL National Committee, program proposals and administrative forms for WRL National Conferences, and flyers from speaking tours by pacifists David Dellinger, David McReynolds, Igal Roodenko, and others affiliated with the War Resisters League. Also included are some materials from some other local WRL chapters. A large portion of the collection is devoted to materials documenting protests, events, issues, and organizations with which the WRL and WRL/SE were involved. Organizations represented include the American Friends Service Committee, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice, Jobs with Peace, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; protests and events include the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, the 1976 Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, the 20th anniversary of the National March on Washington, the Women's Peace Walk, and the Women's Roundhouse for Survival; and issues include draft registration and resistance, apartheid in South Africa, nuclear disarmament, feminism, lesbian and gay rights, civil disobedience, American foreign policy in Central America, and the Vietnamese conflict. There are also informational packets relating to specific protest actions or to general topics such as fundraising, war tax resistance, and civil disobedience training. Publications include WIN Magazine and The Nonviolent Activist, published by the WRL, as well as newsletters from various WRL regional offices and local chapters, including the WRL/SE. Slide shows document the history of the War Resisters League, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the consequences of nuclear war, among other issues. Also included are photographs of War Resisters League members at protests and conferences, posters advertising protest actions and pacifist issues, and various audio-visual materials, including films.
C. L. (Christopher Longstreet) Ward (1807-1870) of Pennsylvania was a newspaper editor, lawyer, land agent, and president of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. The collection includes a journal containing daily entries by an unknown clerk or assistant as a record of the management of Ward's interests in farming, real estate, banking, railroads, and other businesses in Bradford, Tioga, and Susquehanna counties, Pa.
Papers of peace activist, clubwoman, and journalist Courtney Sharpe Ward (1911-1997) of Lumberton, N.C., primarily document her pacifism work during the 1930s and early 1940s with several local and national organizations, including North Carolina Peace Action Association, YMCA's at North Carolina colleges and universities, the National Council for Prevention of War, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, and Duke University's Institute for International Relations. Other materials pertain to her work in Christian education, particularly Sunday school for children in the Methodist Church, South, to her involvement with women's organizations and in particular the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, and to the early years of her career as a journalist and columnist with the Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, N.C. Collection materials include a scrapbook, correspondence, printed organizational items, such as informational sheets, brochures, and meeting programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, handwritten notes and reflections, scripts for peace pageants performed in the 1930s, and drafts of lectures and speeches delivered. The collection illustrates the anti-war efforts in which she and her associates including former congresswoman Jeannette Rankin and University of North Carolina System President Frank Porter Graham engaged in the mid 1930s.
Edward West Ward (1833-1908) was a resident of Onslow County, N.C. Active in politics and community life, Ward was a Mason and a member of the Grange. Papers of Edward West Ward are mostly speeches delivered to church, school, and other community groups in Onslow County. Topics include former North Carolina Governor Edward Bishop Dudley, agriculture, the Grange, the Masons, and education.
Contains video footage documenting protests against dumping contaminated soil in Warren County, N.C. on 15 September 1982. Recorded by Richard Ward, the video includes approximately 35 minutes of footage of the protest march, arrests, and the first group of trucks coming through the demonstration and dumping the contaminated soil. It is the only known video of the protest to surface, to date. The footage has been copied from the original 3/4-inch U-Matic tape. In the summer of 1978, more than 31,000 gallons of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-laced transformer oil was illegally dumped along the roadsides of more than 200 miles of North Carolina’s highways. After a four-year battle about what to do with this toxic waste, the state government began transporting more than 60,000 tons of the PCB-contaminated soil to a new landfill that it had sited in a predominantly Black community in Warren County, N.C. On the first day (15 September 1982) that the dump trucks rolled in to dispose of the toxic soil, several hundred community members staged a protest to try to block them. The protest sparked a protracted civil disobedience movement lasting more than six weeks and resulting in more than 600 arrests. The protest has been seen as a watershed moment and a convergence between the civil rights movement and environmentalism, known by many as the "birth of the environmental justice movement."
Hugh Warden was born in the Scottish town of Alyth, near Perth, in November 1745. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to a merchant in Perth, but left after two years without completing the term of his apprenticeship. He was subsequently apprenticed to a grocer from Dundee named George Wright. After serving for 15 months, Warden was sent to Virginia to assist in the oversight of Wright's business affairs. He returned to Britain some time before 1782 and married Mary Keeft in London in 1784. Hugh Warden's diary, 1782, discusses various aspects of life in late 18th-century Scotland. It provides descriptions of his schooling, his early vocational training and terms of apprenticeship, and social customs of the period. In addition, there are brief discussions of relations between various religious sects, stories of personal interactions with friends and acquaintances of the Warden family, and an extensive description of Warden's 1762 voyage to Virginia. Also included is a typed transcription of the diary with explanatory footnotes and genealogical notes from the Warden family Bible.
The collection consists of a five-volume diary kept by Thomas Lewis Ware, presumably of Washington, Ga., while he was a member of the 15th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, serving in Virginia and in the Gettysburg campaign, during which he was killed; and an essay or address about Jews and early Christians. The diary consists of daily entries for the period 21 July 1861-2 July 1863. Entries are often detailed descriptions of military activity or observations on towns, countryside, and civilians. Final pages of the diary are in a different hand.
Letters, 12 May-6 June 1862, from Warfield to members of his family who lived in Alexandria, Va., written while he was serving with the 17th Virginia Regiment, Confederate States of America, containing family news and details of fighting and other military activities at Williamsburg, Va., and around Richmond, Va.
Confederate Army officer.
Henry Clay Warmoth, Louisiana governor, 1868-1872, and later owner of Magnolia Plantation, was born in Illinois in 1842. During the Civil War, he was lieutenant colonel of the 32nd Missouri Volunteers, assigned to the staff of General John A. McClernand. He was wounded in 1863 near Vicksburg, but returned to his command after being cleared of spreading false rumors about the strength of the Union Army. Post-war, Warmoth was judge of Provost Court in New Orleans, and, in 1868 at age 26, was elected Republican governor of Louisiana. His governorship was dominated by issues such as civil rights, suffrage, election fraud, party factionalism, and corruption. In 1872, Warmoth faced impeachment charges for official misconduct, but his trial ended when his term as governor expired. He served in the Louisiana legislature, 1876-1877, and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1888. Warmoth was Collector of Customs for the Port of New Orleans, 1889-1893. Beginning in 1874, Warmoth owned Magnolia, a Plaquemines Parish sugar plantation where he modernized sugar refining. Warmoth published War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana in 1930 and died in New Orleans in 1931.
Audio recording of an interview with Billy Edd Wheeler, a white singer, poet, songwriter, storyteller, and playwright who grew up in Highcoal, W.Va., and lives in Swannanoa, N.C. Recorded in 1975 by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, John N. Warner, a white commercial photographer who graduated from UNC in 1976. Warner made the recording in an English 187 course taught by Daniel W. Patterson for a term paper titled "An Introduction to Billy Edd Wheeler,” which is also found in the collection.
Accounts with customers and suppliers, inventories, and other business records of a Fayetteville, N.C., jewelry store.
Edward Jenner Warren, a native of Vermont, moved to Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., where he was a lawyer; state legislator, 1862-1866 and 1870-1872; delegate to state conventions, 1861-1862 and 1865-1866; and Superior Court judge, 1865-1868. The collection is primarily correspondence of Warren's immediate family and of his and his wife's relatives in Vermont, Massachusetts, Alabama, and eastern North Carolina. Included are letters from Warren, in Raleigh, N.C., serving in the state legislature, attending conventions, and presiding on the judicial circuit to his wife, Deborah Virginia Bonner Warren (1829-1910); letters from his daughter Lucy Wheelock Warren (1850-1937) at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, 1865-1867; from his son Charles Frederick Warren (1852-1904) at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., 1869-1873; and from relatives serving in both the Union and Confederate armies and held as prisoners of war. These include latters from two of Warren's brothers in the Confederate Army: Fred, a prisoner of war in Indianapolis, and Herbert C. (d. 1864), with the 6th Alabama Volunteers. Also included are letters of another brother, John W., who served with the Wisconsin Cavalry and was taken prisoner at Columbia, S.C. Correspondence during the late 1860s and early 1870s includes letters concerning judicial business and court matters, as well as race relations and life at several Virginia health resorts where Edward Jenner Warren went to cure his rheumatism. Papers after 1876 are chiefly personal correspondence of daughter Lucy Wheelock Warren Myers. Volumes include Charles Warren's notes from classes at Washington College, 1871-1872; Deborah Virginia Bonner Warren's notebook of cures and rules for health; and Edward Warren's book of law forms.
The collection consists of over 50 bound volumes of photocopies of transcripts of about 150 oral history interviews from the Earl Warren Oral History Project, done at the University of California, Berkeley, 1969-circa 1978. The interviews document the political career of Earl Warren in California, and concurrent social and political events. Interviewees include Warren family members, political allies and opponents, and writers and scholars of that era, roughly 1925-1953. Note that volumes have been cataloged individually.
Elizabeth Blount Warren, of Washington, N.C., received letters from suitors John M. Ziegle and Fred H. Lefaver, and later her husband, Charles Frederick Warren. Ziegle sent letters from east coast ports while serving on the Bache, a steamer of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Lefaver sent letters while serving on the Arago. Warren, a lawyer, wrote letters to his wife while she was in Baltimore, Md., to receive treatment for an undisclosed postpartum condition. His letters carried news of home and his legal practice. There are a few other letters relating to Charles Frederick Warren's legal practice and a carte de visite, possibly of Elizabeth Blount Warren.
Documents from the case of Jack Warren (alias Will Warren) vs. Stephen Pettes, in Norwich, Conn. The case involved a dispute over Warren's status as slave or free black.
Warren, of Washington, N.C., was a lawyer, legislator, active Democrat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st District, 1925-1940, and comptroller general of the United States, 1940-1945.
Collection contains professional files of Lindsay C. Warren, Jr., a politician who represented eastern North Carolina in the mid-to-late-20th century. Files include materials from Warren's time as state senator in the North Carolina General Assembly including constituent letters, speeches, and political subject files. The collection also includes papers from Warren's service on several North Carolina political and civic committees, including the Joint Courts Commission, American 400th Anniversary Committee, and the Governor's Study Commission on Structure and Organization of Higher Education.
Rebecca Drane Warren graduated from the University of North Carolina in the 1940s and was an active member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Physician and genealogist Claiborne T. Smith (1924-2005), a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., practiced psychiatry in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended UNC and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of UNC and art history student at Yale University, Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004) established the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation in Warrenton, N.C., for his ante-bellum plantation home, Cherry Hill, in Inez, N.C.
Warsaw Drug Company, Inc. operated in Warsaw, N.C. for approximately 100 years before permanently closing in 2015. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the store opened circa 1907.
The collection includes histories and descriptions of 115 churches gathered and compiled by the staff of the Washington, N.C., Daily News for their Annual Tobacco Edition, 19 August 1952, the theme of which was the churches of Beaufort County, N.C..
The Washington Group, Inc., of Winston-Salem, N.C., was assembled in 1973 by R. J. Reynolds heir Smith W. Bagley and James R. Gilley and was composed of numerous companies, including Washington Mills of Virginia, Mayberry Ice Cream Shoppes, High's of Richmond, Johnston Mills Company of Charlotte, Diener Corporation of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and various retail outlets.
The Washington Mining Company ran the Washington Mine, which was probably the precursor of the Silver Hill Mine in Davidson County, N.C.
Copies of typed transcriptions of oral history interviews produced by the Women in Journalism Oral History Project of the Washington Press Club Foundation, which is interviewing women who have played important roles in all aspects of the profession. The Southern Historical Collection, in cooperation with the UNC School of Journalism, is serving as a depository for transcriptions of these interviews.
George Washington (1732-1799) was a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the first president of the United States. The collection includes photocopies and microfilm of an order book with orders issued under Washington's name to various officers and commands from the headquarters of the Continental Army, June-October 1777, chiefly at Morristown, N.J.; and original letter, 5 April 1779, from Washington to Thomas Burke (1747 (circa)-1783), stating his position in regard to a state bounty for soldiers. Also included are photoprints or facsimiles of a notice discharging a soldier from the Virginia Regiment, 1757, signed by Washington; a letter, 1777, from Washington to George Baylor; an English translation of a contract, 1789, between Washington's agent and Washington's German gardener; and a letter, 1798, from Washington to the trustees of Washington Academy.
The collection consists of oral history interviews with faculty members in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted by Tiffany R. Washington in 2008 as part of the project "Pioneers in Social Work Education at UNC Chapel Hill." The project was led by co-principal investigators Dr. Anna Scheyett and Dr. Iris Carlton-LaNey. Included is an interview with Hortense McClinton, the first black faculty member hired at the University.
Diary, 4 April-19 May 1865, of the Rev. Edward Wasmuth, an Illinois Methodist minister who worked as an agent of the U.S. Christian Commission among soldiers and black and white residents of Memphis and other locations in Tennessee. The diary was kept in a book of instructions to Commission agents. In the diary, Wasmuth described prayer meetings, hospital visits, sermons, the distribution of books and pamphlets, conversations with southerners and soldiers, and tales he heard of the Civil War and slavery.
The collection of accordion player and collector Yoshiya Watanabe contains two issues of magazine with articles by Watanabe, English translations of those articles, and a letter from Watanabe to former curator of the Southern Folklife Collection, Michael Taft. The articles are "On the Trails of AA [Alfred Arnold]" about bandoneons built in the Vogtland-Erzgebirge region of Germany in the nineteenth century and "The Chemnitzer Concertina-a big brother of the bandoneon breathing actively in the Mid United States." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Photographic negatives and proof sheets created by photographer, writer, and music promoter Dick Waterman in the course of documenting the blues, country, and rock music scenes in the United States during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Included in the collection are images depicting music legends Joan Baez, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, Albert Collins, Reverend Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Bob Dylan, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Lightning Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Etta James, Skip James, Janis Joplin, Junior Kimbrough, Robert Lockwood, Albert King, B. B. King, Mance Lipscomb, Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Dave Van Ronk, Bobby Rush, Otis Rush, Rolling Stones, Roosevelt Sykes, Sonny Terry, Mavis Staples, Othar Turner, Sippie Wallace, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, and Robert Pete Williams. Materials depict musicians playing at a variety of events and venues including, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, R.I.; WGBH-TV studios, Boston, Mass.; Ft. Lauderdale Blues Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and the Bull Durham Blues Festival, Durham, N.C.
An unpublished work, perhaps early 1950s, about the design and construction of houses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia.
Watkins family of Caswell County, N.C., including farmers Daniel Gunn Watkins (1857-1937) and Lydia Ann Powell Watkins (1865-1960) and their daughter, Mabel A. Watkins (1903- ), an Army nurse before and during World War II.
Louanne Watley is aphotographer and poet based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Her work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Calyx, and North Carolina Literary Review.
The Watson and Morris families of North Carolina and Indiana include sisters Melinda Folger (fl. 1858-1869) and Maria (Elena Maria) Folger (1804-1897); Maria's husband, John Watson (ca. 1798-ca. 1882); their son, trial lawyer Cyrus Barksdale Watson (1845-1916) and his wife Amelia Henley (1847-1907); two of their five children, Thomas Watson (1871-1933), a municipal court judge in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Alice Watson (1879-1954); and Alice's husband, merchant J. Frank (James Franklin) Morris (1870-1928).
MICROFILM ONLY. Thirteen letters, 1862-1864, written by Watson to his parents and siblings while serving with the 27th North Carolina Regiment in North Carolina and Virginia, and as a prisoner in Washington, D.C., and Point Lookout, Md., chiefly discussing the welfare of Orange County, N.C., soldiers with brief references to fighting; seven postwar letters, 1869- 1873, from Watson in Robertson County, Tex., to members of his family, concerning economic and social conditions; and miscellaneous other items, including data on members of the Watson and McCauley families of Orange County.
The collection includes two letters from Elkanah Watson, one to a General Van Rensselaer (probably Henry Kiliaen Van Rensselaer) discussing personal finances, Ohio lands, and European political events, 1797; and one to the editor of the Genessee Farmer, discussing experimental cultivation of corn, 1831.
Harry Legare Watson (1876-1956) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1899 and went on to careers in law and journalism, chiefly in Greenwood, S.C.
The 1972 recordings on open-reel audiotape contain performances by African American gospel singers including members of Echoes of Zion from Scotland County, N.C. Also included on the recordings are three spirituals sung by Novella Covington. Mary Wayne Watson, a white student at the University of North Carolina, made the recordings in Wagram, N.C. Field notes accompanying the recording provide information about the singers and lists songs performed including "I want to walk (be) just like him," "We come this far by faith," and "Let me lean on you." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Robert Briggs Watson (1903-1978), native of Clemson, S.C., was a physician who specialized in malaria research, parasitology, epidemiology, and public health administration. He served as a field staff member of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1942-1966. The collection consists of typed diaries Watson kept during his service with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. The diaries concern his activities related to malaria studies in Memphis, Tenn., 1942-1945. From 1946-1954 his work centered on East Asia, traveling to China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan (formally Formosa), the Philippines, Thailand (formally Siam), India, Sri Lanka (formally Ceylon), Macau, and Pakistan. From 1955-1962 Watson's work shifted to Brazil and other areas in that part of the world, traveling to Chile, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Panama, and numerous other locations around the world. Entries dated 1963-1966 cover his work in St. Lucia, and he traveled to other areas as well. These entries also document Watson's time in Chapel Hill, N.C. where he began teaching in 1966. The diaries are a record of his daily work, together with information related to traveling and living conditions, personal and family affairs, cultural and social occasions, and current events in the countries to which he was assigned. The first four volumes, 1942-1946, are not indexed, but beginning with volume 5 in 1949 there is an index of personal names for each year. For some years there is also a chronological list of subjects, events, and travels. Copies of Watson's annual reports and occasional special reports to the Rockefeller Foundation are included in some volumes, and some of the later volumes also contain clippings and photographs.
Thomas E. Watson of Thomson, Ga., was a lawyer; politician and Populist Party candidate for United States vice-president in 1896 and for president in 1904 and 1908; senator, 1921-1922; author; and newspaper and journal publisher.
W. J. Watson was a Confederate soldier in the 53rd Tennessee Regiment, who served with the Army of Tennessee and was taken prisoner in the Nashville campaign.
William U. Watson (born 1799) was surveyor for the 13th district of Tennessee.
Papers, photographs, and video recordings created and compiled by Melvin L. Watt (1945- ), an African-American politician who served as the United States Representative for North Carolina's 12th congressional district from 1993 to 2014. An attorney from Charlotte, N.C., Watt also served one term as a state Senator and served as campaign manager for Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt. Papers consist mostly of office files related to Watt's time as a congressman, including correspondence, campaign materials, financial papers, memos, clippings, programs, and other materials. Photographs consist of photographic prints and negatives of Melvin L. Watts and digital images related to Watt's Congressional Delegation trips to South America, Africa, and Cuba. Video recordings consist mostly of footage of conferences, forums, town hall meetings, and charity balls attended by Watt.
Miscellaneous papers include an undated clipping from an Asheville, N.C., newspaper containing a copy of the will of Lady Martha Dalrymple of Brunswick County, N.C., 1768, bequeathing her slaves and other property to her Watters brothers and other relatives. There are also grants and deeds, 1733-1741, to William Watters and his father, Joseph Watters, of New Hanover County, N.C.
About sixty-five ballad transcriptions, 1849-1904, by members of the William B. Jones family, Alexander County, N.C.; correspondence, 1966- 1968, about these ballads and related matters between Sue Campbell Watts and Daniel W. Patterson; and a few related items.
Capus M. Waynick (b. 1889), state senator from High Point, N.C., was chair of the joint legislative committee established in 1936 by the North Carolina General Assembly, to consider the 1931 report of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission.
The Wayside Home was operated by women in Union Point, Green County, Ga., to provide food and lodging for Confederate soldiers in transit. The collection includes a typed transcription of a register of names and units of men who visited the Wayside Home.
The collection contains scattered family correspondence, chiefly from S. D. Weakley to his wife, Eliza Bedford Weakley, bills and receipts, and Eliza Weakley's diary of daily activities, including reports of war news and of visitors, 1864-1865 and 1869, at Florence, Ala.
MICROFILM ONLY. Civil War letters of Thomas Porter Weakley, a Confederate officer, apparently with the 2nd Brigade, Breckenridge's Division; letters from T. P. Weakley when he was a student at Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala., 1859, relating news of college, town, and family; correspondence of Benjamin Franklin Weakley, a physician in Nashville, Tenn.; and correspondence of James H. Weakley, a planter in Florence, Ala. Correspondence of B. F. Weakley and J. H. Weakley relates primarily to family matters and finances.
Willis D. Weatherford of Black Mountain, N.C., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, Tenn., 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
William Weathers lived in Shelby, N.C.
Fred H. Weaver, a long-time educational administrator at the University of North Carolina, was born in Aberdeen, N.C. in 1915 and died in India in 1972. The collection is chiefly correspondence, speeches, and photographs that relate to Fred H. Weaver's career as an educational administrator at the University of North Carolina. Most of the materials date from his years as Dean of Students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1946-1961, and his subsequent service with the University of North Carolina System as Secretary, 1961-1963, and then Vice President, 1963-1969. Earlier correspondence, 1941-1946, reflects Weaver's diplomatic career as an American vice consul in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1941-1942, and his World War II service as an aviator in the United States Navy, 1942-1946. There are a number of reports and other writings that were generated in conjunction with a 1952 Carnegie Corporation travel grant for young educational administrators and as a result of his work as a project adviser for educational administration with the Ford Foundation in India, 1967-1972. There are also administrative papers relating to his work as a trustee of Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, N.C., 1962-1967, and his work with the Health Planning Council for Central North Carolina, 1964-1969.
Susie H. Weaver and her husband Bynum owned three businesses in the area from the 1950s-1970s, including Weaver's Grocery and the Chapel Hill Funeral Home and Ambulance Service, the only African American funeral home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Susie also directed the Weaver Gospel Singers, which toured to churches, prisons, hospitals, and nursing homes, and had a weekly Sunday program on the Durham, N.C. radio station WSRC. This collection includes images chiefly depicting African American funerals and other African American community gatherings photographed by Susie H. Weaver. Among the community gatherings are a few photographs of debutante socials. The majority of the images range from circa 1957-June 1961, with a few dating earlier in the 1950s. The collection also includes a vinyl record of "Freedom in Chapel Hill" and "Your Smiling Face" by Susie H. Weaver.
Edwin Yates Webb of Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., a lawyer, was Democratic Party United States Representative for the Ninth North Carolina District (Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, and Mecklenburg counties), 1903-1919, and United States judge for the Western District of North Carolina, 1919-1948. The collection contains primarily correspondence documenting Webb's career in Congress and on the bench. Congressional correspondence concerns the interests of constituents; prohibition, of which Webb was a leading advocate; agricultural and labor legislation; the tariff; nativism; women's suffrage; pure food and drug laws; issues surrounding World War I; Democratic Party politics; Webb's re-election campaigns; and other matters. Beginning in 1919, correspondence relates to law; the judiciary; politics; civic and personal concerns, including Gardner-Webb College; and national, state, and local prohibition. Also included are papers relating to bankruptcy proceedings against the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company. Prominent correspondents include Odus M. Mull, Webb's law partner in Shelby, N.C.; Charles A. Jonas; Robert N. Page; Herbert L. Davis; Josiah W. Bailey; David Clark; Heriot Clarkson; Henry Groves Connor; Josephus Daniels; O. Max Gardner; Wade Hampton Harris; Clyde R. Hoey; Claude Kitchin; Isaac M. Meekins; Lee S. Overman; John J. Parker; Clarence H. Poe; William Louis Poteat; Joseph Hyde Pratt; Daniel A. Tompkins; and Woodrow Wilson.
Correspondence between Webb family members from the early 1900s through the 1950s and early twentieth-century love letters compose the majority of papers from the affluent, white family of Hillsborough, N.C. Webb family members represented in the correspondence include James H. Webb, Annie Hudgins Webb, their son James Webb (b. 1904), who was president of the Eno Cotton Mills and later vice president of Cone Mills Corporation, and Margaret Raney Webb. Collection materials also include v-mail and letters from members of the armed services during the Second World War; genealogical and family history files; a scrapbook from the late 1940s and early 1950s pertaining to Eno Cotton Mills and Cone Mills Corporation; materials related to James Webb's political career in the North Carolina state senate in the late 1940s; subject files on Hillsborough, N.C., history; and an audio cassette tape of local historian Jean Anderson speaking in 1999. Genealogical files contain letters, newspaper clippings, family trees, family histories, copies and transcriptions of historical documents pertaining to related families including the Norwood family and Huske family, and writings by family members. Family history materials include a transcribed 1843 estate document listing people enslaved in Orange County, N.C., by William Norwood (1767-1842) and a reminiscence by an unnamed white female author, who was a child in the late antebellum and Civil War period. In the composition, she perpetuates the southern plantation myth, characterizing her "black Mammy" and other enslaved people her father owned as contented "servants."
Persons represented include Alexander Smith Webb (fl. 1830s) of Person County, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Adeline (Stanford) Webb, daughter of U.S. Representative Richard Stanford (1767-1816) and Mary (Moore) Stanford; and five of their ten children, including: James Hazel Webb (1829-1902) of Person County; Richard Stanford Webb (1837-1901), Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain; Alexander S. Webb (1840-1928), Confederate soldier; William Robert Webb (1842-1926), Confederate soldier, teacher, founder of the Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tenn., and U.S. senator from Tennessee; and Susan Webb, teacher, of Randolph County, N.C.
Dr. Bailey Daniel Webb, a descendent of the Webb family of the Granville, Person, and Orange counties area of North Carolina, was a student in the graduate school at the University of North Carolina in chemistry (1937-1939) and biochemistry (1939-1941). She was an early female graduate of Duke University School of Medicine (M.D., 1946) and then a pediatrician in private practice in Durham Co., N.C., 1949-1987. Webb was recognized with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Distinguished Alumna Award in 1998. Her sister, Kate Webb Williamson, was a public health nurse in Granville County in the 1940s and later served as supervisor of public health nurses in Cumberland County, N.C. Kate Williamson was the recipient of UNC-Chapel Hill's first Margaret Dolan Award in 1973.
Charles A. (Charles Aurelius) Webb (1866-1949) of Asheville, N.C. was a lawyer, United States marshal, North Carolina state senator, and associate publisher of the Asheville Citizen.
Frank Webb (fl. 1867-1877) was involved with the agricultural activities at Lauderdale plantation and at Foley, a sugar plantation in Larourche Parish, La. The collection includes Webb's farm journal, 1867-1877, kept daily at intermittent times, recording agricultural activity, weather, and neighborhood events at Lauderdale and Foley.
Henry Young Webb (b. 1822), a native of Lincoln County, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina from 1841-1844; an M.D. student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; and practiced medicine in Eutaw, Ala.
Howell Webb (fl. 1863-1864) was probably lieutenant colonel in the 11th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. He was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio.
James Webb (20 February 1774-17 February 1855), physician of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., a founder of the North Carolina State Medical Society, Presbyterian educational leader and philanthropist, merchant, and banker.
Lewis Henry Webb of Richmond County, N.C., was a Confederate officer who served with the 23rd North Carolina Regiment in 1861 and in a company that later became part of the 13th North Carolina Light Artillery Batallion, 1862-1865, chiefly in southeastern Virginia.
Lorenzo S. Webb (fl. 1832-1870) owned and operated a general merchandise business, possibly with John Webb, in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C.
Mena Fuller Webb is a writer and creative writing teacher of Durham, N.C.
The collection contains four scrapbooks assembled by Richard Beverly Raney Webb, a white college student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1952 to 1956. Contents of the scrapbooks include letters, a few photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills and programs for events, newspaper clippings many from the society pages pertaining to debutantes, and printed items many pertaining to student organizations at UNC including the Dialectic Society and Order of the Grail. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Thomas Webb was a lawyer, state legislator, and president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, of Orange County, N.C.
William O. Webb worked as a carpenter in Columbus, Miss., and Mobile, Ala., in 1836 and 1837 while Captain John Overstreet, recipient of the letters, lived in Norfolk, Va.
Margaret Isabella Walker Weber (born 1824), a white woman, was the daughter of Caroline Mary Mallet and Carleton Walker. The collection contains reminiscences of Walker's childhood at Moseley Hall, a plantation near Wilmington, N.C.; Walker's Hill, a plantation in Chatham County, N.C., and in Hillsborough, N.C. The reminiscences also describe her school days, chiefly in Hillsborough; marriage to Professor Johannes Heinrich Christian Frederich Weber (born 1812), a German immigrant; experiences teaching school in Columbia, S.C., and in several places in Tennessee, including Columbia and Nashville; and some data on the Walker, Mumford, Mallet, and Moseley families.
The collection is a typecript copy made in 1938 of genealogical data about the Wederstrandt family of Maryland and Louisiana. The records dating from 1736 to 1923 were copied from a Bible in the possession of Mrs. George W. Pigman of New Orleans, La.
The collection includes letters from Joseph W. Weed (fl. 1874) to his family in the United States (possibly Savannah, Ga.) describing in detail his impressions of Rio de Janeiro and Petropolis, Brazil; an Atlantic crossing; and the Cape Verde Islands.
Julia McKinne Foster Weed was the daughter of U.S. Representative Thomas Fournoy Foster and Elizabeth (Gardner) Foster, and the wife of the Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, Episcopal bishop of Florida from 1886 to 1924. She was president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1899 to 1901.
Scattered business papers, commissions and army orders, and letters of Frederick Weedon (1784-1857), physician of St. Augustine, Fla.; his daughter, Henrietta Williams Weedon Whitehurst (1821-1885); and her husband, Daniel Winchester Whitehurst (1808-1872), newspaper editor, physician, and member of the American Colonization Society. The papers pertain to but do not give extensive information about Whitehurst's activities in Liberia, 1831-1834; the Seminole Indian War and the Seminole leader Osceola (circa 1804-1838); Dr. Weedon's estate and the sale of his slaves; the Union occupation of Key West, Fla., during the Civil War; and Whitehurst's service at Fort Jefferson, Fla., during the yellow fever epidemic of 1867. Letters from George St. Leger Grenfell and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, prisoners at the fort, are included, as are a note, 1857, from Louis Agassiz, and a letter, 1867, from Jefferson Davis sending money to aid Grenfell. Also included is a note from Varina Davis. Twentieth-century papers include papers about the military record of Frederick Weedon in the War of 1812 and two letters about relics of Osceola.
James Lewis Bond and his brother, Charles, were college students at Windsor in Bertie County, N.C.
Mangum Weeks (1895-1977), a white government lawyer, lived in Alexandria, Va., and worked at the State Department, U.S. Tax Court, Farm Loan Board, War Department, and at the Department of Justice. Weeks also was active in several historic preservation groups and in birding organizations. The Mangum Weeks Collection consists chiefly of professional and personal correspondence, journals, writings, and related research materials. Topics include the Weeks family; student life at the University of North Carolina in the 1910s; ornithological research; collecting prints and rare books relating to North Carolina and other topics; adjudication for the U.S. Department of Justice in response to claims filed against Spain and Cuba regarding the Strobel-Figuera agreement and by Japanese-Americans following forced removal and incarceration during World War II; the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Education; the Thornton Club; the Philosophers Club; historic preservation and architectural history; and the study of law. Also included is the correspondence of Sallie Preston Weeks Leach, the sister of Mangum Weeks, and courtship correspondence between Mangum Weeks and his wife Josephine Schaefer Weeks.
Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1865-1918) was a white North Carolina educator, historian, and superintendent of San Carlos Boarding School, what was then called an "Indian school," for Apache Indians in San Carlos, Arizona. The collection consists of personal, family, and professional correspondence, papers, diaries, and other volumes. Topics include the history of education in southern states, religion, a dispute at the San Carlos Boarding School, North Carolina history and biograpy, the formation of the Southern Historical Association, southern Quakers and slavery, and George Moses Horton, an African American poet who was enslaved in Chatham County, N.C., during the early 1800s. Also included are the diaries, 1793-1801, of Jeremiah Norman (b. 1771), describing his travels as an itinerant Methodist preacher in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.; typed transcript of a diary, 1746-1771, of Thomas Nicholson (1715-1780), a Quaker writer of Perquimans County, N.C.; minutes, 1815-1817, of the Camden, N.C., Methodist Circuit; a few Moravian items, 1891-1901, in German.
Weil family members included Herman Weil (1842-1914), who emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany, in 1858, and brothers Henry (d. 1878) and Solomon (1860-1914). In 1865, the brothers formed H. Weil & Bros., which operated a store in Goldsboro, N.C. Joe Rosenthal (d. 1927), Henry's brother-in-law, joined the firm in 1892, and, in 1910, Henry's son Leslie (d. 1943) and Sol's son Lionel (1877-1948) entered the family businesses, which included the store, a brick yard, and an ice plant. In 1930, agriculturalist G. Frank Seymour was added to the firm, and, in 1932, Weil Fertilizer Works was started to market plant hormones and other compounds that Frank and Lionel developed. In 1941, Leslie's sons Abram and Henry and Lionel's son Lionel S. became partners. In 1942, the partners established the Weil Employees' Trust Fund, a profit sharing plan. When the Weil Deparment Store burned in 1948, brother Herman Weil (1882-1961) was instrumental in rebuilding the facility. Members of the Weil family were active in the University of North Carolina System, Goldsboro community affairs, and in Jewish life in North Carolina and the nation.
Contains the personal files of personal files of Edward Weiss AKA "Charlie Brown", a white Jewish disc jockey and host of the syndicated beach music program On the Beach with Charlie Brown. From 1964 until 1970, Brown was evening host on Top 40 WKIX in Raleigh, N.C. Materials include song playlists, newspaper clippings, promotional materials, photographic prints, and open reel tapes. One of the tapes includes interviews Brown conducted backstage with touring musicians in the late 1950s, including Clyde McPhatter, Bo Diddley, The Platters, The Crests, Frankie Lymon, Carl Perkins, Duane Eddie, Dion DiMucci (of Dion and The Belmonts), Ahmad Jamal, Dakota Staton, and Keely Smith. There is also a rare interview with Buddy Holly.
The collection contains audio recordings made by Steve Weiss, curator of the Southern Folklife Collection. Recordings on audio cassette tape and digital audio tape (DAT) include live musical performances on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Trailer Bride and Tift Merritt and the Carbines. Other recordings are interviews with songwriters Gary Louris (1955-) and Marc Olson (1961-) of the Jayhawks, and bluegrass musician Doc Watson (1923-2012). Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other materials relating to Eliza Mary Bond Johnston Weissinger of Hillsborough, N.C., and her family. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Weissinger, her first husband George Mulholland Johnston, and her aunt Mary Williams Burke concerning family and personal matters; social affairs in Hillsborough, N.C., and Marion, Ala.; real estate; slaves; and finances.
Cadia Barbee Welborn was a prominent member and officer of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution, Alexander Martin Chapter. The collection includes correspondence of Welborn relating to her efforts to collect genealogical and historical material; compiled genealogical and historical material from many sources relating to colonial times through the Civil War; photocopies of 17th- and 18th-century legal documents; and original 18th- and 19th-century deeds, estate papers, circulars, clippings, and letters relating to North Carolina history, particularly in Randolph County and Guilford County, and to the Welborn family, including letters from Lincoln, Mo., 1839, and Lafayette County, Mo., 1857, describing life and surroundings in those places.
The collection of North Carolina based rock musician Matt Welborn is an uncut layout for a record album cover. The 7" vinyl record by the musical group Razzle was released in 2003 and contains two songs, "Chuck" and "Freshen Yr Drink Guv'ner?"
Abraham Welch was a surgeon in the Union Army in the Civil War.
Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986), longtime resident of North Carolina, was a writer best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains.
Harrison Wells of Zebulon, Ga., was a commissary sergeant with Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment, who served primarily in Virginia and Maryland.
The collection includes antebellum correspondence of the Wells family of South Carolina and Civil War letters written by Henry Duplessis Wells with the 23rd South Carolina Regiment in Virginia, and by relatives in the Army of Tennessee. An 1863 letter describes a battle with Creek Indians on the Arkansas River.
Martha P. Wells lived in Suffolk, Va.
William Ray Wells served with the 12th New York Regiment in federal camps near Washington, D.C., and in Virginia. He was possibly killed in battle in August 1862.
Chauncey Brunson Welton (1844-1908) of Weymouth, Medina County, Ohio, was a soldier in the 103rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, United States Army. The collection includes letters, 1862-1865, from Welton while serving in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, to his parents and other members of his family, discussing his experiences, his opinions of such political matters as union and secession and the Copperheads, and the second inauguration of Lincoln, which he witnessed; and a few postwar items, including family letters.
David Wendel (1785-1841) was born in Winchester, Va., moved to Nashville, Tenn., as a child and settled in Murfreesboro, Tenn., about 1817. He was a merchant and postmaster for many years. The collection includes a letter written by David Wendel and an obituary for him; a letter about Wendel family genealogy written by Barrett Wendell of Cambridge, Mass.; an obituary for Virginia A. James Munday (died 1866) of Gallatin, Tenn.; and and an autograph album, 1850-1852, of Emma C. James from the Female Institute, Columbia, Tenn.
Alice K. Wentz of Wilmington, N.C., was a United States Army nurse in England during World War II.
The Skip Weshner Collection consists of audio recordings and papers created and compiled by Skip Weshner, a radio disc jockey and host of The Skip Weshner Show. Weshner's radio show, originally known as Accent on Sound, was based and broadcasted in both New York City (WBAI, WNCN) and Los Angeles (KRHM-FM) from the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s. The collection includes audio recordings, 1958-1984, of Weshner's radio shows as well as miscellanous papers, 1941-1984, related to Weshner and his carreer in radio. Noted guests on the audio recordings include musicians Hoyt Axton, Leon Bibb, Jose Feliciano, Bob Gibson, John Sebastian, Blossom Deary, Gordon Lightfoot, Mickey Newbury, Jerry Jeff Walker, Fred Neil, Randy Newman, John Denver, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Joni Mitchell.
Wessel and Eilers was a mercantile partnership operating out of Wilmington, N.C.
The collection is a typed copy, 1930, of miscellaneous items, including three letters, 1927, to Mrs. Carl B. Almon of Fort Valley, Ga., from Frances Simrall Riker, and a letter, 1930, to Miss West from Julea King, all concerning genealogy and family history in Georgia and Kentucky. Also included is a paper, Gignilliat-Le Serrurier-Nephew, on the ancestry of Mary Bartow Simrall.
Live audio recording of Henry Atwater (1924- ), an African American blues singer and harmonica player from Carrboro, Orange County, N.C., performing country blues songs on harmonica and voice, with a brief interview about music and religion. Recorded by Bruce Westbrook, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Science student, in Spring 1971 at Henry Atwater's home. Westbrook made the recording in conjunction with a term paper for Daniel W. Patterson's English 146 course, British and American Folk Song. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including an inventory, tape log, and a re-recording data sheet prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff.
The collection consists of eight letters from William R. Witt and members of his family of Epperson, Monroe County, Tenn., to Peggy Westerfield, Montclair, N.J.; and A Mountain Philosopher Recognized, an essay by Westerfield about her relationship with the Witts. These detailed and reflective letters discuss the social and economic situation in a remote section of the Appalachian South.
The collection contains a record of persons to whom Western Carolina Railroad Company stock was issued and the number of shares issued to each.
Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt (1839-1895) was born in Mobile, Ala., and came to North Carolina in 1870.
Correspondence, chiefly 1933-1936, of Martha Gasquet Westfeldt of New Orleans, concerning women's groups and other organizations opposing Huey Pierce Long (1898-1935) in Louisiana and seeking his expulsion by the U.S. Senate; campaign materials of various state and local candidates opposing Long; and a few scattered earlier items.
James Augustus Weston, 1838-1905, was a confederate officer, clergyman, author, and a native of Hyde County, N.C.
Reverend George Badger Wetmore (1823-1888) ofWoodleaf, Rowan County, N.C. From 1855 to 1888, Wetmore was rector of St. Andrew's Church (Episcopal), located between Woodleaf and Cooleemee in Rowan County. He was also active in the temperance movement of the 1870s and 1880s, serving as president of the North Carolina state council of the Friends of Temperance in 1873 and 1874. Wetmore married Rosa Hall (d. 1884) and was related to Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), president of the University of North Carolina, 1876-1891. Wetmore was also related to Ann Troy Hall.
Lemuel Bingham Wetmore of Lincolnton, N.C., son of Episcopal rector William Robards and Mary Bingham Wetmore, practiced law in Lincoln County, N.C., from the late 1880s until his death in 1918.
Thomas Codgell Wetmore (1869-1906) was an Episcopal clergyman at Fletcher and Arden in Buncombe County, N.C., and founder of Christ's School for boys in Arden.
The collection consists of scattered personal and professional papers of Robert Wettach, former Dean of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his wife, Alpha Wettach, who operated a kindergarten in Chapel Hill for 35 years. It contains correspondence; personal daily journals of Robert Wettach; papers from Robert Wettach's service in the United States Navy, including flight logs; papers, photographs, and clippings documenting the kindergarten operated by Alpha Wettach; a photograph album and travel diary documenting the Wettachs's 1910 trip to Europe; papers related to Robert Wettach's employment at the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the dedication of its building partially in his name; and ledgers.
Wetter family ancestors include Edward Telfair (ca. 1735-1807), merchant, member of the Continental Congress, and governor of Georgia. Family members important in this collection are Mildred R. Gould, Louise G. Koch, Pierce T. Wetter (d. 1963), and Telfair S. Wetter (d. 1939), all of whom inherited shares in Sharon Plantation, Chatham County, Ga. Pierce Wetter was a conscientious objector during World War I and was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 1918-1921, because of this. Telfair Wetter ran the Baltimore office of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) during that same period. Correspondence, 1919-1921, is chiefly between Pierce Wetter in Leavenworth and Telfair Wetter at the I.W.W. office in Baltimore, Md. These letters include much discussion of strikes and other labor actions; political prisoners and their trials; events of the Russian Revolution; Communism in general; and internal I.W.W. politics, especially tensions between the Baltimore and Philadelphia branches. The Wetter brothers strongly disagreed on such topics as who among the radical leaders was sincerely committed to the cause, whether or not married women were necessarily parasites, and if conscientious objectors should accept individual pardons or insist on solidarity. Most letters are signed, Yours for the O.B.U. or Yours for freedom. Also included are letters, financial and legal documents, clippings, and other materials relating to the management and sale of Sharon Plantation by Mildred Gould; Louise Koch; Pierce Wetter; Telfair Wetter; and Pauline L. Wetter, Telfair Wetter's widow. There are also a few photographs of unidentified persons and places.
Jerry Wexler (1917- ) was born in New York City. He was a partner with Ahmet Ertegun in Atlantic Records, an independent record label specializing in rhythm and blues, a term Wexler coined while a reporter for Billboard Magazine. With Atlantic, Stax, and other labels, Wexler created a greatly influential corpus of classic rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and soul music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Papers of the Lambdin and Whaley families, white North Carolinians, who were connected to the church and included ministers. The collection contains handwritten sermons performed by the Whaley family in the 19th century, genealogical information, travel logs, 1920s-1930s, printed material, and copies of family portraits.
Don Wharton was a journalist who lived in New York City during World War II and wrote articles on the war primarily for such magazines as the Reader's Digest, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post.
Richard Wharton of McNairy County, Tenn., was an infantryman with Company I of the 154th Tennessee Senior Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was present at the battle of Perryville, but his unit did not participate. After the war, he lived in Verona, Miss., and Chesterville, Miss. In 1874, he married Martha McKinney.
W. D. Wharton (1840-1907) and his brother, John E. Wharton (1835-1916), were raised in Guilford County, N.C. During most of the Civil War, both men served in the Company K, 5th North Carolina Cavalry Regiment (later called the 63rd North Carolina Troops). After the war, W. D. Wharton appears to have returned to Guilford County, N.C., and married Mary Eliza Wharton (1840-1873). John E. Wharton moved to Texas and became a member of the faculty at Austin College in Sherman, Tex. The collection is chiefly correspondence, 1862-1907, relating to W. D. Wharton's Confederate army service in the Civil War. The largest concentration of letters are those written by W. D. Wharton to his parents and fiancee, Mary Eliza Wharton (called Cousin Mollie), from eastern North Carolina, 1862-1863, and from Virginia, 1864-1865. Wharton described military life in camp, speculated about how long the war would last, and gave his assessment of the officers in command. A few of the letters, December 1864, contain a detailed account of the Union raid at Stoney Creek, Va. (also called Stony Creek Station, Va.) on 1 December 1864. Scattered correspondence, 1869-1907, chiefly consists of photocopies of typed transcriptions of letters from John E. Wharton to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Wharton, and his brother, W. D. Wharton. The letters describe the daily lives of John E. Wharton and his family in Texas.
John Thomas Wheat was a native of Washington, D.C., and a Protestant Episcopal minister, teacher, and professor in Maryland, Louisiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Warrant for the arrest of Stirling [sic] Wheaton, a white resident of Wake County, N.C., on complaint of W. C. and R. Tucker for non-payment of a two dollar debt, signed by Thomas G. Scott, Justice of the Peace, Wake County, N.C.
A.S. Wheeler was an internationally recognized expert on dyes and Kenan professor of organic chemistry at the University of North Carolina. The collection contains professional correspondence, 1916-1932, and school notebooks, 1896-1899, of A.S. Wheeler. Letters are chiefly related to the synthesis and testing of organic chemicals, especially those used in dyes. There are also a few letters from or about Wheeler's students at the University of North Carolina. The school notebooks are from Wheeler's days at Harvard and relate to organic chemistry classes he took there.
Personal collection of Billy Edward "Edd" Wheeler, a white author, performer, songwriter, playwright, and visual artist. The collection materials consist of personal papers, photographs, audio and video recordings, posters, and printed materials. Papers include correspondence; business records related to copyrights and royalties; manuscripts of publications for books by Wheeler, including an autobiography and writings on Appalachian humor; press clippings; press releases. Photographs consist of promotional photographic prints and slides related to his career in the music industry. Audio recordings are made up mostly of masters and outtakes related to commercial releases by Wheeler, including Asheville, Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle, and various singles and tracks. Video recordings include footage of performances and television appearances by Wheeler, including Hee-Haw and Nashville Now, as well as interviews, promotional materials, and community events featuring Wheeler, such as the The Writers' Workshop of Asheville, N.C. and Wheeler's induction into West Virginia Hall of Fame. The collection also contains various printed materials related to Wheeler and a scrapbook about his songwriting career.
John H. Wheeler was a historian, diplomat, and public official. A native of Murfreesboro, N.C., Wheeler lived in Washington, D.C., during the time documented by these papers, except for a stint as minister to Nicaragua, 1854-1856, and during the Civil War.
Raymond Wheeler of Charlotte, N.C., was an internist, civil rights activist, and advocate of better health care and nutrition for the poor, especially in the South.
Samuel Jordan Wheeler was a physician and planter of Hertford County, N.C., and, after 1867, Bertie County, N.C.
Wheelers Baptist Church was located in Bushy Fork Township, Person County, N.C. The collection contains minutes of congregational proceedings at the church, including appointments, admission and dismissal of members, finances, church policies, and records of disciplinary actions.
The Willis P. Whichard Papers document the career of a white lawyer, judge, legislator, and educator from Durham, N.C. The collection includes legislative correspondence, committee, and resource files; judicial subject files; materials relating to the North Carolina General Statutes Commission, North Carolina land policy and land use, the Southern Growth Policies Board, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in North Carolina; speeches; collected North Carolina political ephemera; personal papers; and photographs.
The David E. Whisnant Collection consists of audio recordings and other materials compiled by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus of English, David E. Whisnant. The recordings comprise of live performances, interviews, and dubbed radio recordings. Artists or interviewees featured on the recordings include the Blue Sky Boys, Bill Bolick, Garland Bolick, the Burke Family Gospel Singers, and Norman Edmonds, among others. Other materials found in the collection include a publicity photograph of D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces and student papers from David E. Whisnant's fall 1991 course, The Politics of Country Music, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Correspondence of David E. Whisnant, University of North Carolina professor of English, relating to his biography of James Boyd (1888-1944), editor and novelist, and correspondence, writings, a tape recording, and other materials relating to Susan Chester [Mrs. A. Hunt Lyman] (1868- 1917?), founder of the Log Cabin Settlement, a pioneering social service center near Asheville, N.C.
Absalom Benton Whitaker was a cotton planter with plantations in Halifax County, N.C., and Leon County, Fla.
Cary Whitaker was born on 1 January 1832 in Halifax County, N.C. He was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1850-1852; a teacher, 1852-1857; and a lawyer, 1857-1861. During the Civil War, he was captain and then acting colonel of the 43rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. He was judge advocate, C.S.A., 1864-1865. He died 20 April 1865 as a result of wounds received in battle.
Eloise Whitaker of Enfield, N.C., was the daughter of Methodist minister G. A. T. Whitaker. She attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in Greensboro, N.C., where she took music lessons and served as treasurer of the sophomore class in 1894.
Ferdinand Hannon Whitaker was a farmer of Halifax County, N.C.
Civil War letters written home by Jonathan L. Whitaker, an Orange County, N.Y., physician serving as a United States Army surgeon at a hospital at Chester, Pa., and with the 26th United States Colored Troops near Beaufort, S.C.; and some family photographs. Most of the letters are addressed to Whitaker's wife, Julia A. Wells Whitaker. They describe living conditions and physicians' activities.
The Matthew Cary Whitaker Papers document a white physician and plantation owner in Enfield, Halifax County, N.C., the related Whitaker and Fort family members, and people who were enslaved by these families. Enslaved people are identified in bills of sale, wills, deeds, and lists, and are sometimes discussed more broadly in correspondence in terms of their labor, which frequently was hired out. There also is family correspondence, including letters received by Whitaker when he was studying medicine in Baltimore, Md., 1823-1824, and bills, receipts, accounts, and business papers related primarily to plantation operations. Letters from Spier Whitaker and other family members discuss family news, Halifax County political news, opinions of presidential candidates, monetary and other changes made by President Andrew Jackson, and the rising price of grain due to scarcity in Europe. Items before 1823 are deeds, accounts, and other papers concerning the related Fort family and the people they enslaved. Of note are letters concerning plantations in Lawrence County, Ala., and speculating in unclaimed lands in Alabama. The Addition of 2006 also documents Whitaker and Fort family members, friends, and the people they enslaved, and contains correspondence and financial and legal records on similar topics. Of note is an 1864 letter from Jefferson Davis to Mrs. Ransom, a Whitaker family friend, discussing the whereabouts of her husband, Major General Robert Ransom Jr. The Addition of 2012 consists of a physician's ledger kept by Matthew Whitaker, 1827-1839, containing details of treatments, charges, payments, and medications prescribed to white people and enslaved people in the Halifax County, N.C., area; and a plantation journal belonging to Hilliard Fort, 1820-1827, that documents the labor of enslaved people and other aspects of plantation operations, including purchases, promissory notes, and debts.
Spier Whitaker (1841-1901) was a Halifax County, N.C., lawyer and judge.
William A. Whitaker was a chemist; business executive; and collector of art, autographs, literary and historical manuscripts, and rare books.
Two typed, unascribed documents, White Family of Lancaster County, S.C. (undated, 16 p.) and History of the Whites (1933, 31 p.), histories of the White and related families of York and Lancaster counties, S.C., and other locations, which include reminiscences and typed transcriptions of letters. Reminiscences discuss Indians, the Revolutionary War, and slavery in north piedmont South Carolina and other aspects of life in that area. Letters include one from Lowndes County, Ala., 1854, describing a trip from South Carolina to Alabama; and one from A. Bowie, Talladega, Ala., 1855, about the value of wives to husbands, radical developments in the North, and other matters.
The collection contains the accounts of Charles W. Jacocks, steward, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, Murfreesboro Circuit, showing receipts and expenditures concerning White Oak Church, Merry Hill township, Bertie County, N.C., October 1839-November 1840.
The White Rock Baptist Church was founded in Durham, N.C., in 1866.
The White and Hale families lived in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Albert M. White of Iredell County, N.C., was a soldier in the 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in the Confederate army, 1861-1865. The collection contains about 40 letters and typed transcriptions of the letters from Albert M. White to his father, brother, and sisters. Also included are photocopies of White's military records and a few letters from Rufus White of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment to his mother and cousins. Many of the letters from Albert are signed A. M. and G. W. White. White wrote from Northampton County, N.C., and Richmond, Va., in July 1861 and then from Manassas Junction, Va., late July 1861 until March 1862. In the spring of 1862, White wrote from southeastern Virginia. He was wounded on 31 May 1862 and wrote from a hospital in Richmond in June and July. There are no letters for August-December 1862 or June-December 1863. In 1864, White's regiment was in central and then western Virginia. In the fall of 1864, White wrote from the Shenandoah Valley. Early in 1865, he wrote from central Virginia, near Petersburg. The letters describe military life, give news of friends in the regiment, and request supplies and letters from home.
The Bebo White Collection consists chiefly of materials related to jug band music and the jug band music scene of northern and southern California. The collection contains correspondence, subject files, scattered photographs, festival posters, and other jug band materials compiled by Bebo White, a white computer scientist, jug band musician, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alum. The collection also contains an open reel sound recording, 1965, featuring an interview conducted by White with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Raleigh, N.C., and an autographed color snapshot photograph from the session.
Benjamin F. White was a second lieutenant, Company F, 6th North Carolina Regiment, who served in Virginia, July-October 1861. The collection includes the diary of Benjamin F. White containing a detailed narrative of events, with comments and reflections, including discussion of the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), 21 July 1861. Topics discussed include diseases that killed many in the regiment, preaching and baptizing, gambling, and other aspects of camp life.
The Charles White and David Rhees Collection consists of an open reel audio recording, 1972, of the college radio program, Mostly Blues, which aired on WQFS at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. Christopher Kip Lornell, a white folklorist and ethnomusicologist, hosted the program, while Charles White, a white musician, and David Rhees, a white Guilford College student, produced and recorded the program for broadcast on WQFS. The recording features performances by Peg Leg Sam (1911-1977), born Arthur Jackson, an African American harmonica player, singer, comedian, and medicine show entertainer from Jonesville, S.C.; and Elester Anderson (1925-1980), an African American blues guitarist and singer from Conetoe, Edgecombe County, N.C., on guitar, harmonica, and voice, with brief interviews.
Cora E. White of Belvidere, Perquimans County, N.C., was a graduate of Guilford College, 1893, and a student at Bryn Mawr, 1893-1894.
H. B. White (fl. 1860-1862) was a resident of Hanover County, Va. The collection includes a letter, June 1862, from White to his wife describing how he slipped through federal lines from Richmond to his home in Hanover County, Va., and conditions he found there; and two other family items.
Henry K. White was mustered into the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment on 21 September 1861. He served both in the infantry and in the regimental band through the invasion of Roanoke Island; the Union occupation of New Bern, N.C.; and the campaign against Richmond, Va., in 1864. The collection contains two Civil War diaries with entries, 1861-1864, composed during Henry K. White's service in the United States Army as a fife player in the regimental band of the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The diaries detail military life; his participation in the invasion of Roanoke Island; and his part in the occupation of New Bern, N.C. The diaries also include documentation of White's service in the campaign leading to the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864, a list of correspondence received by White during his service, addresses of some of White's army comrades, and notations showing anniversaries of various historical events.
Contains one undated notebook with handwritten notes taken during Dr. J. William White's surgical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on the description supplied by the bookseller, the notes were presumably taken by a medical student attending the lectures, circa 1900.
The James E. White Oral History Collection contains oral histories, 1994-2011, of primarily military veterans conducted by high school and community college students of James E. White, III, a white educator and historian of New Bern, N.C. Conflicts covered by the interviewees include World War II; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; the invasions of Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and actions in Kosovo, Somalia, and Haiti, as well as two interviews with veterans of World War I. Other topics discussed include the Great Depression, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement, among other topics. The collection contains the students' oral history audio and video recordings, as well as materials related to the students' projects, including their reports, short biographies, and other materials they compiled, such as original and photocopied photographs, service and discharge records, certificates, and clippings.
James Jones White (1828-1893) was a captain in the 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment of the army of the Confederate States of America.
This scrapbook includes photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and brochures primarily documenting the professional career of James S. White, the Carolina Drug Company in Mebane, N.C., and White's collection of antique mortars and pestles. Many of the materials pertain to honors awarded to White and the Carolina Drug Company by the affiliated Rexall Drug Company.
James Wilson White (1839-1887) was a Confederate cavalry officer and later a merchant and planter at Fort Mill, S.C. The collection includes family correspondence and business papers, chiefly 1861-1882. Present are letters written by White while an officer of the 1st South Carolina Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War; his bills, receipts, accounts, and business correspondence after the war as a merchant and planter in Fort Mill, S.C.; and letters received from his father-in-law, Edwin Michael Holt (1807-1884), North Carolina textile manufacturing pioneer, and other members of the Holt family.
The collection of white videographer and producer Jim White of Chapel Hill, N.C., contains video recordings for the 1992 to 1993 community history project in Holly Springs, N.C., titled "What Was Lost: The Cultural Consequences of School Closings." Directed by professor George W. Noblit from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Education, the project explored the experiences of both whites and African Americans between 1969 and 1972, when multiple Holly Springs public schools closed as a result of consolidation and desegregation. Other materials include documentation that corresponds to the Holly Spring video project, including a project description, partial script, tape logs, newspaper clippings, notes, and correspondence related to the video production and the larger project. Additional videos in the collection are of a 1995 quinceañera celebration in a Latinx community in Granville County, N.C. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Scattered papers of John Blake White, Charleston, S.C., lawyer, painter, and dramatist; of his son, Octavius Augustus White (1826-1903), physician in Charleston, the Confederate army, and New York; and of O. A. White's son, John Blake White (1850-1935), New York physician. The collection consists largely of family land grants and deeds, estate accounts, and miscellaneous business papers. Also included are a small amount of widely scattered correspondence, medical writings and brief literary essays, and a scrapbook of writings and public health clippings pertaining to New York, 1870-1881 and 1891-1907. Correspondence includes letters, 1817-1822, describing slaves in an estate to be settled, and letters, 1899-1900, from Sen. Benjamin Ryan Tillman about paintings of John Blake White.
Jonathan C. White and Marcus B. White presumably lived in Franklin, La.
The collection contains a photostat copy of birth and death records, 1813-1905, and a genealogical chart, c. 1946, showing the connection of Mattie Barret (Mrs. R. A.) White of California with the Taylor, Spencer, Foster, and Ligon families of North Carolina and Tennessee.
The papers of Irish immigrant Maunsel White (1783-1863) document the enslavement of more than 230 people on White’s sugar plantations in Plaquemines Parish, La., including Deer Range and Junior Place, and in Pointe Coupée Parish, La. ; sugar cultivation and production; and White’s work as a commission merchant and cotton factor in New Orleans, La. The collection contains business correspondence chiefly about marketing cotton, sugar, and other cash crops; letters to his son Maunsell White while the younger White attended the University of Virginia from 1850 to 1851; financial memoranda and records; autograph books; and plantation journals. In the journals, White and his surrogates recorded weather; daily operations; household activities; planting instructions; agricultural production and experimentation; job assignments; distribution of clothing and other necessities to enslaved people; and births, deaths, and marriages in the enslaved communities on his properties. Included in the correspondence is a letter dated 28 February 1842 from Andrew Jackson, whom White first encountered when he served as a militia commander during the Battle of New Orleans in 1814. Portions of this collection are available only on microfilm.
Sarah Caldwell White was a resident of Mecklenburg County, N.C. The collection includes the papers of White, including business and legal correspondence, deeds, bills, receipts, accounts for household purchases, and other papers, chiefly 1870-1918, chiefly relating to property in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Also included are antebellum deeds, land surveys, other legal papers, and a few letters of the Caldwell family. Most of the letters contain family news. One letter, 28 February 1841, from William A. Graham to David Caldwell, discusses the inauguration of William Henry Harrison and Harrison's cabinet appointments.
Thomas Jackson White was a state representative and senator for Kinston, N.C., in the 1950s and 1960s, serving as chair of the Senate Finance Committee and the Advisory Budget Commission in the 1960s.
W. R. White of Prescott, Nevada County, Ark., dry goods merchant and Nevada County clerk.
William Wallace White was a planter and storekeeper at Holly Hill plantation in Warren (now Vance) County, N.C.
Willie Stewart White (1866-1940) was a club woman and local historian of Dalton, Ga. The collection includes collected papers about the history of the Cherokee Indians, including clippings, manuscript articles, notes from various sources, copies of letters from Cherokees, 1822-1826; correspondence, 1879-1935, of White, chiefly concerning Cherokee history, Whitfield County, Ga., historical markers, and old homes; and other materials about the history of Dalton and Whitfield County.
Jesse G. Whitefield was of Dothan, Ala.
The collection documents Floyd L. Whitehead, a white merchant, trafficker in enslaved people, deputy sheriff, and tobacco planter of Nelson County, Va. Business, financial, and legal materials include bills of sale for enslaved people, letters from tobacco dealers, records of tobacco sales, tax and other receipts, promissory notes, and legal documents concerning the settlement of estates, land and property disputes, and the collection of debts, some as sheriff. Personal papers include several letters in the 1860s from Floyd's son, Alexander R. Whitehead, in Jackson County, Ala., describing family news and economic conditions, and his impressions of the Confederate Army and its officers during his service in the American Civil War. There are also a few miscellaneous items relating to Floyd's brother, John Whitehead, and printed material, including advertising circulars and an 1855 broadside relating to local elections.
John Whitehead was born in Salisbury, N.C., graduated from Davidson College, and received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1880. He practiced general medicine in Salisbury from 1880 until 1926. William White McKenzie (1869-1929) also practiced general medicine in Salisbury. He was born in Salisbury and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1891 and from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1893. He was president of the Board of Medical Examiners of North Carolina in 1908 and vice-president of the North Carolina Medical Association in 1903.
Williamson Whitehead was a businessman, public official, and justice of the peace in Cumberland County, N.C. The collection includes the Civil War diary kept by Whitehead while serving as a clerk in the 1st North Carolina Regiment on the Virginia peninsula and in North Carolina, and postwar business papers and account books from Fayetteville, N.C., relating chiefly to building, shipping, purchasing, the bankruptcy of a merchant firm, and rental property for which Whitehead was an agent. The diary covers the period 31 August-10 December 1861, with a few later entries. Some entries are extensive; they deal with camp life, especially religious activities and morality, reflections on the course of the war and the future of the Confederacy, Whitehead's relationship with his fiancee and other matters.
J. E. (James Edward) Whitehorne (born 1840) of Greensville County, Va., was a Confederate officer, who served with the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. The collection includes a typed transcription of Whitehorne's diary, 30 March-22 April 1865, describing in detail the retreat from Chesterfield County to Appomattox, the surrender, and Whitehorne's trip home to Greensville County, Va. Whitehorne's feelings and personal reactions are reflected in his account. This transcription was prepared and edited by W. H. T. (William Henry Tappey) Squires of Norfolk, Va., in 1939.
Ellen Cook Whitehurst was born in 1856 in Elizabeth City, N.C., to Nancy Cook, an enslaved woman, and an unknown father. The collection includes a letter, circa 1930, from Ellen Cook Whitehurst of New York to William White Griffin of Kinston, N.C., a cousin through their common Cook family line. The letter is a twenty-page manuscript written as reminiscences of Whitehurst's life and family history. Also included are several background and contextual items: a verbatim transcription of the letter, a key to the individuals mentioned in the letter, and a copy of Ellen Whitehurst's obituary.
The collection includes 17 tintypes of unidentified families and individuals in and around Marshall County, Tenn.
Plantation owner and lawyer of York County, S.C.
Correspondence, financial and legal materials, and other items relating to members of the Dickey and Whitesides family of Lincoln and Gaston counties, N.C., including James Dickey, Alexander Dickey, Edward Whitesides, and A. M. Whitesides, who appears to have been Alexander Dickey's uncle. Much correspondence focuses on loans made by family members or land transactions in which family members were involved. Some agricultural information appears, mostly about cotton prices, and there are some letters relating to the settlement of various family members' estates. Also included are a few family letters, notably some to Rebecca McGill, who may have been Alexander Whitesides's wife, from relatives in Georgia; to Alexander Dickey from relatives in Arkansas; and to members of the Whitesides family from relatives in Texas. All of these letters discuss family activities and local conditions. Financial items include routine legal papers relating to land sales and estate settlements, bills and receipts for various goods and services, and items relating to money lending. There are a few items relating to the Beattie fammily, apparently Whitesides family relatives. Also included are miscellaneous notes, advertisements for various products, and a few poems from the 1850s by Rebecca McGill.
Whitfield family members chiefly lived in Lenoir and Wayne counties, N.C., as did members of the related Wooten family. Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1835-1914), planter, state and local official, Confederate colonel, and president of Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, was the most prominent family member. Other family members included Nathan Whitfield's wife, Elizabeth Green Cobb Whitfield, and his parents Sarah Elizabeth Wooten and James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841).
George W. Whitfield (1829-1871) was a planter of Marengo County, Ala., and was married to Mary Louisa Wimberly Whitfield.
William Blackledge Whitfield was a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., in the mid-19th century.
Account book of Doctor H. Whitley's Boon Hill Plantation in Johnston County, N.C. The first part of the ledger was used mainly to record items purchased for the plantation, March 1854-May 1860. It is very detailed through December of 1855, with page-long lists dated every few days. From January 1856 through May 1860, entries were made about monthly. All entries list what was purchased, how much it cost, and who was paid. The next 37 pages of the ledger were used to record the sale of Doctor H. Whitley's belongings after his death in 1860. The sale record specifies the item sold, the buyer, the price, and whether it was paid in cash or on credit. It includes a list by name of 61 adult slaves who were leased from Whitley's estate for a year, with the terms of their lease. At the end of the ledger are a few miscellaneous notes and calculations, such as widow's allowance of meat for the year 1861 and taxables belonging to Jas. R. Whitley, April 1, 1862.
Two letters written home and one received by Whitman, a Maine native who operated a school at Clarksville, Tenn. The letters discuss individuals at the school, the closing of the school, and the serious illness of her husband, Edwin Whitman.
Walt Whitman was born on 31 May 1819, at West Hills, Long Island, N.Y. From 1830-1846, Whitman served variously as office boy, printer's devil, schoolteacher, typesetter, and journalist. He published his volume of verse Leaves of Grass in 1855. In January 1873, he suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never completely recovered. Whitman died in Camden, N.J., on 26 March 1892.
Plantation journal of Whitmore, near Natchez, Miss., with slave and crop records and notations of daily work. Also included are copies of correspondence with English factors.
W. T. Whitsett (1866-1934) was a Guilford County, N.C., author, historian, and speaker on family and church history. The collection contains speeches, articles, and other historical papers of Whitsett, most of which were presented at family reunions and church anniversary celebrations. Churches represented include the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Quaker, and Methodist communities in Guilford, Alamance, and surrounding counties. Families represented include the Burke, Cheek, Cobb, Cummings, Field, Hall, Hodgins, Kernodle, Ledbetter, Lowdermilk, Osborne, Pugh, Raper, Ross, Simpson, Stinson, Summers, Trogdon, and Wheeler. Also present are typed copies of 18th century church records of German settlers n North Carolina (in English) kept by John Gottfried Arends (1740-1776).
Eugene Whittemore was a surgeon's assistant on the U.S.S. Augusta. The collection includes a daily record of naval operations, activities of the ship's men, and the weather, kept by Whittemore on the U.S.S. Augusta on blockade duty off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, and related items including lists of ships in the Augusta's squadron and ships captured.
William Rollinson Whittingham was born in New York City, N.Y., and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1825. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1829 and became rector of Saint Mark's Church in Orange, N.J. Whittingham later served as rector of Saint Luke's Church in New York City, and in 1835 became a professor of ecclesiastical history at the General Theological Seminary. In 1840, he was elected Episcopal bishop of Maryland, the youngest American bishop to date, and served in that capacity until his death. During the Civil War, Whittingham supported the Union cause, which lost him the sympathies of many. At the time of his death in 1879, Whittingham was the second oldest American bishop, having served 39 years in office.
MICROFILM ONLY. Personal correspondence, diaries, biographical and genealogical data pertaining the the Whittle and related Bolling, Davies, Kennon, Munford, Murray, Page, Randolph, Sinclair, and Skipwith families. Included are letters, 1807-1824 (128 items), of Elizabeth Beverley (Munford) Kennon (b. 1762), wife of General Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Va., and her daughter, Sarah (Sally) Skipwith (Kennon) Sinclair, to various member of the Mordecai family of Warrenton, N.C., and elsewhere. Topics include family and social news and discussion of anxieties caused by the War of 1812. Also present are an incomplete diary, September 1753-January 1754, of Reverend Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) while on a mission to England for the College and the Presbyterian Church; an orderly book, August-October 1779, of Colonel William Davies, commander of the 1st Virginia Regiment, Continental Army, and aide to generals Washington and Lafayette, apparently kept while serving in New Jersey; and the diary, 1829-1831 and 1857-1858, of Commander William Conway Whittle (1805-1878), U.S.N., during his service on various ships, including the U.S.S. Constellation.
Lewis Neale Whittle was a native of Mecklenburg County, Va., who settled in Georgia in 1836 and eventually lived in Macon, Ga. Whittle started out as an engineer connected with railroad building, but turned to the practice of law; and served as a Confederate Army officer. The collection contains family and business letters, mainly 1834-1872, of Lewis Neale Whittle and his wife, Sarah (Powers) Whittle, and of Sarah's sister, Mary (Powers) Griffin, and her husband, Daniel Griffin (1807-1866), of Columbus, Ga. Griffin was associated with railroad building and other enterprises. Letters to the Whittles were written by family in Virginia and Georgia. Family members included planters, naval officers, and Episcopal clergy, namely Stephen Elliott (1806-1866), Alexander Gregg (1819-1893), and Bishop Francis M. Whittle (1823-1902), and these activities are reflected in the correspondence. Griffin family materials include letters, 1858-1859, to Richard Potter of Macon, Ga., whose connection is unclear. Potter was an Irish immigrant and the letters to him are from his family in Ireland. There are also letters from Daniel Griffin describing a steamboat trip, 1849, and while on an extended business trip to New York and the upper Midwest, 1857. Civil War materials include letters to Whittle concerning organizing and financing a Confederate regiment. Other family members served in the Confederate Army and wrote from various places in Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia, and many letters were exchanged among the women of the family. Postwar letters are scattered in date and content.
Diary, 35 pages, July 1862-July 1863, of Whyte, a native of Kentucky, kept while he was serving as an officer of the 31st Louisiana Regiment in the vicinity of Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss.; and miscellaneous papers, including a photograph of Whyte. Entries in the diary chiefly describe military activities including enemy engagements, troop movements, and war news.
August Wichmann was a merchant tailor of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes an account book, 24 June 1897-April 1907, of Wichmann showing names of customers, their measurements, and cloth used; and scattered bills and business letters.
The letter dated 22 June 1956 is a teenage girl's first-person narrative about attending an Elvis Presley concert in Atlanta, Ga., and meeting Elvis after the performance. Writing to her friends, Genie describes the crowd of mostly screaming young girls, the presence of police for crowd control, Elvis's stage performance including the songs he sang and his dancing, his attire, and even the smell of his hair and his appearance closeup when he gave her an autograph and a kiss. Genie did not faint. The letter and envelope with collage of Elvis image cut-outs were displayed in 2011 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., and featured in the journal that same year. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Thomas Grey Wicker (1926- ), a white journalist and author, worked for the Winston-Salem Journal; the Nashville Tennesseean; and served as staff writer, chief of the Washington bureau, and associate editor for the New York Times. He wrote numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including several presidential biographies. The papers of Tom Wicker primarily relate to his work as a newspaper reporter, bureau chief, and editor, chiefly for the New York Times, and as a writer of fiction and non-fiction works. Included are drafts of his major works and research materials for some books, especially A Time to Die (1975), which is represented by items collected during and after Wicker's participation as an observer at the 1971 prison riot standoff at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, N.Y., and One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (1991). Also included are drafts of his unpublished memoir "Hall of Fame," articles on various topics, and some materials relating to freelance work he undertook in the 1990s. Professional correspondence mostly relates to the publication and distribution of Wicker's books; other professional papers include briefs and press releases accumulated during Wicker's tenure at the New York Times. Many writings and professional materials relate to Richard M. Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, or John Erlichman, and to politics, government, and/or race relations in the United States and in North Carolina. Personal papers include a few writings and other papers relating to Wicker's early life in Hamlet, N.C.; letters from his time as a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1944-1948; letters to his parents while he served in the United States Navy during World War II and in the early 1950s; and other items relating to the Wicker family.
The Loeb family, including Mary Gross and Jacob Loeb and their descendants, was a prominent Jewish family in Canton, Miss. Jay Lucien Wiener compiled the family history in two volumes entitled In Their Own Words: A History of the Descendants of Mary Gross and Jacob Loeb in 1998.
Archibald Lee Manning Wiggins of Hartsville, S.C., was a businessman; banker and, in 1943, president of the American Bankers Association; undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1947-1948; in the 1950s, chairman of the board of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and director of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; and an officer and active participant in many charitable and educational organizations.
M. E. Wiggins may have lived in Gainesville, Ga.
Hiram Coleman Wilburn was an author of North Carolina.
Four volumes of handwritten music, 1843 and undated, most apparently copies from other sources, collected in the 1950s through the 1980s by Glenn and Helen Wilcox of Murray, Ky. Most pieces are hymns, including many with words by Charles Wesley and tunes from early Methodist sources, including some by John Wesley. Also included are marches, quicksteps and other dance music, and classical works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Louisa Reid Wilcox received an A.B. degree from Queens College, Charlotte, N.C., in 1917 and a B.A. (1917) and M.A. (1921) from the University of North Carolina. While pursuing the M.A., Louisa was a leader in the successful fight to fund a women's dormitory at the University. In 1923, Louisa married James S. Wilcox of Charlotte, vice-president and treasurer of Johnson Mills, and became a community leader in Charlotte. Marion Wilcox of Charlotte, N.C., was the sister of James S. Wilcox. She was a Presbyterian missionary in Jiangyin, China, 1924-1942, providing care for poor and orphaned young girls at the Jiangyin mission, teaching literacy courses across the countryside, and providing other services. She moved back to Charlotte, N.C., in 1942, but may have returned to China after World War II. Anna Boyce Lineberger of Belmont, N.C., was a pilot, a Presbyterian, and a donor to the Jiangyin mission. She was the wife of Joseph William Lineberger, a prominant figure in North Carolina's textile industry and an alumnus of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The Lineberger family formed a foundation in 1944 that dispensed many gifts to the University's medical school and libraries.
Mattie Holton Wilcox (1833-1904) lived in Warrenton, N.C., and was the mother of Maurice Wilcox (1860-1879).
Edward Augustus Wild (1825-1891) of Brookline, Mass., was a federal officer with the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1862; 35th Massachusetts Infantry, 1862-1863; and with the African Brigade (1863-1865), a brigade formed from the 55th Massachusetts Regiment (colored) and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd North Carolina (colored) regiments.
Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) was attorney general of Georgia, member of Congress, and professor of law at the University of Louisiana. The collection includes a letter from Wilde, written from Sand Hills near Augusta, Ga., to his friend, Mason, commenting on national politics, the state of the democracy, and family and business matters.
Gaston Hillary Wilder (1814-1873) was a planter of Johnston County and Wake County, N.C.
The collection of Roy Wilder (1914-), white author and a newspaper reporter in New York and North Carolina, contains subject files, correspondence, and other items. The subject files were compiled by Wilder and address a wide range of topics, including southern food and jokes, moonshine, his friend Joseph Mitchell, who wrote for The New Yorker for almost 60 years, author Glen Rounds, and wartime reporting during the Second World War. Correspondence is chiefly with Wilder's family, friends, and acquaintances, including Burke Davis, John Dos Passos, John Ehle, Larry Lesueur, Sam Ragan, Terry Sanford, and Robert Walter Scott. Also included are photographs of Wilder and friends, an audiocassette of a 1996 tribute to Joseph Mitchell, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
The collection contains letters, receipts, invitations, and other papers of Philip A. Wiley (d. 1912) of Washington, D.C., and others, including members of the Wynne family of Louisburg, Franklin County, N.C. Letters concern neighborhood and family news, and the death of Philip A. Wiley's father, including letters from a Masonic lodge in Washington, D.C., and a letter from a Confederate soldier written from Orange Courthouse, Va., August 1863.
C. H. (Calvin Henderson) Wiley (1819-1887) was born in Guilford County, N.C., and was a lawyer, editor, novelist, legislator, state superintendent of schools (1853-1865), Presbyterian minister, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and agent for the American Bible Society for Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Samuel H. Wiley was a Confederate soldier who served with the 15th Georgia Regiment.
William Leon Wiley (1902- ), professor of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wiley was born and raised in rural Georgia, son of a public school administrator and teacher. He attended the University of Chattanooga, 1917-1921, after which he taught at Chickamauga High School. In 1922, he, at age 19, succeeded his father as superintendent of Chickamauga Schools. In 1923, Wiley went to graduate school at Harvard; in 1925, he began teaching in the Department of Romance Languages at UNC. After marrying in 1927, Wiley pursued his doctorate at Harvard, 1928-1930. He returned to UNC as assistant professor of French in 1931; became associate professor in 1935; spent World War II with military intelligence; and returned to UNC, where he became Kenan professor in 1955.
The collection of white folklorist and UCLA professor D.K. Wilgus (1918-1989) contains professional correspondence and papers; personal correspondence; writings and publications about Anglo American folk music; teaching materials of both Wilgus and Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus; research files and discographies for folk music artists and record labels; photographs, many taken at the UCLA Folk Festival in Los Angeles, Calif.; project files and related publications about the Titanic and outlaw Jesse James; a personal card catalog with notes and discographical information about country and western music, songsters, blues, old-time music, Irish music, Rocky Mountain ballads, and other topics; and audio recordings made or collected by Wilgus, chiefly of ballads and songs by individual performers. Audio materials also include copies of radio transcription discs of artists such as Lulu Belle and Scotty, Texas Jim Lewis, Bluegrass Roy, and Faron Young; field recordings made by Wilgus between 1969 and 1972 in Ireland of ballad singers and instrumentalists; recordings of Anglo-American ballad singer Sara Cleveland and early country musician and steel guitar player Jimmie Tarlton; items related to Naomi Wise; and interviews with country musicians Ernest Tubb and Ernest Stoneman.
Wilkerson's memories of her mother's account of an 1841 journey from Virginia to Missouri. Making the journey were Wilkerson's maternal grandfather and grandmother, James Blakely (1811-1887) and Anne Johnson Payne Smith (b. 1816) as well as several brothers and sisters of James B. Smith. More than forty slaves accompanied them on the journey, which required several months of travel. Most of this account, however, is not about the journey, but about the Smith and Payne family genealogies, their views of slavery and of particular slaves, and accounts of Quantrill's Raiders spreading terror near their home (between Richmond, Mo., and Lexington, Mo.) during the Civil War. Written circa 1941 this account jumps backward and forward in time, but offers few dates to identify events.
Miscellaneous papers from Wilkes County, N.C., including land grants, 1782-1802; commissions of local officials, 1804-1868; and the annual returns for the Wilkes County Regiment of the Ninth Brigade of the North Carolina militia, 1801.
Edmonia Cabell Wilkins was a genealogist. Members of her family included Edmonia's greatgrandfather, planter William Wyche Wilkins (1768-1840); William's twin brother, planter and lawyer John Limbrey Wilkins (1768-1850); and William's son, planter and lawyer Edmund Wilkins (1796-1867) The family lived chiefly in Greensville and Brunswick counties, Va., and Northampton County, N.C.
Members of the Willard family, including J. B. Willard and G. Willard, ran a general merchandise business at Kendrick's Creek, Sullivan County, Tenn. The collection includes ledgers and daybooks of the business.
Alfred E. Willard was a textile manufacturer of Columbia, S.C.
The Willcox family of North Carolina and Mississippi included William Penn Willcox (1825-1883), a physician in Carthage, Moore County, N.C., and Jesse Womble Willcox (b. 1879), who attended the University of North Carolina and was a physician in North Carolina and superintendent at several sanitoria, including the North Carolina State Sanitorium, 1911-1912.
The collection contains an essay by Mary Dunn Ruffin consisting of her memories of her grandmother, Mrs. John P. Willcox, and life in the old family home, Flower de Hundred plantation, on the James River in Prince George County, Virginia.
The Willer family most likely lived near or in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the 1940s.
Anne Jackson Williams of Raleigh, N.C., was a newspaper feature writer and secretary to agricultural reformer and editor, Clarence Poe (1881-1964).
The collection of artist and graphic designer Chris William of Durham, N.C., contains posters, art prints, and flyers primarily created for touring music acts performing at venues in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, and Carrboro, N.C. Most posters are numbered and signed prints. Venues represented in the gig posters include Cat's Cradle, King's, Broadstreet Cafe, Duke Coffeehouse, Local 506, Carolina Theater, Nightlight, Duke Performances, Meymandi Concert Hall, and Koka Booth Amphitheater. Musical groups and solo music artists represented in the gig posters and flyers are chiefly Americana, country, bluegrass, and rock acts including Junior Brown, Neko Case, Todd Snider, Avett Brothers, Drive-By Truckers, Maple Stave, Steep Canyon Rangers, Super Chunk, The Queers, Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple, Megafaun, Bob Mould Band, and Susan Tedeschi. Other posters advertise for the Hopscotch Music Festival, the Flicker Film Festival, and the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Tex. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Newspaper clippings, letters, and photographs related to North Carolina's Eleventh Judicial District Superior Court Judge Clawson L. Williams's career, death, and memorial.
MICROFILM ONLY. Clippings, pictures, and lists of warships and participants relating to the fall of Fort Fisher, N.C., in January 1865 and related matters from the scrapbook of Captain E. D. Williams of Wilmington, N.C., who witnessed the capture of the fort.
Edmund Jones Williams (1841-1926) was a soldier in the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry and the 31st North Carolina Regiment.
Eustace Williams collected and compiled material related to the H. L. Hunley, the first submarine successfully used in warfare. The collection includes copies of letters, pictures, clippings, diagrams, maps, and writing concerning the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, compiled by Eustace Williams and items relating to the presentation of the originals of these items by him to the U.S.S. Nautilus in 1958.
Love letters, 1858-1859, other correspondence, financial and business items, a bank account book, and other miscellaneous items of Fatima Massey Williams and her husband, William T. A. Williams (1840-circa 1912), a wheelwright of Rolesville, Wake County, N.C. The correspondence includes eleven letters to the Williamses from Fatima's brothers, Thrush and Alpheus Massey, Confederate soldiers with the 31st North Carolina Regiment near Petersburg, Va., in 1863 and 1864, concerning their health, troop movements, and army life.
Griffin Stedman Williams (1841-1911) of Buffalo, N.Y., was a staff officer with the Empire Brigade and Spinola's Brigade in the Federal army in Virginia and North Carolina, 1862-1863.
H. C. Williams (fl. 1845-1861) appears to have been a well-off landowner living in the vicinity of Fairfax Courthouse, Va., during the first Battle of Bull Run. H. C. Williams's son, Frank Williams (fl. 1861), was regularly employed as a scout between July and December 1861 by Confederate Brigadier General Milledge Bonham (1813-1890). The Civil War era journal of H. C. Williams of Virginia describes troop movements of both the Union army and the Confederate army in and around Fairfax Courthouse, Va., during the period between the first Battle of Bull Run on 21 July 1861 and 26 December 1861. Williams also summarized or copied many newspaper articles on military life and about the course of the war during this time period, including reports of infantry and naval campaigns. In October 1861, Williams reported observing a balloon reconnaissance of Confederate troop positions by Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832-1913).
Henry G. Williams was a captain in the North Carolina militia during the War of 1812. The collection includes scattered papers from northeastern North Carolina, some pertaining to Williams, including itemized bills for building a house and a church addition; a circular from militiamen to citizens of North Carolina, 1814, requesting donations to supplement inadequate government supplies to troops fighting the War of 1812, with signatures and amounts subscribed; and two letters, including one about life at Camp Carolina, Va., July 1861.
Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940) was professor of philosophy and theology at the University of North Carolina from 1890 to 1940.
Methodist and Episcopal minister and professor at colleges in Maryland, Delaware, and New England.
John W. M. Williams (born 1820?), native of Portsmouth, Va., was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. The collection includes chiefly manuscript sermons, articles, and a diary, 1838-1867, of Williams. The diary begins while Williams was a college student and preacher in Virginia, follows his career in Baltimore, and ends with a European tour. Also included are minutes of the Portsmouth, Va., Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church, 1845-1846; a small amount of church correspondence, 1890-1895; and a diary, 1881-1883, of the European trip of Williams's son-in-law, Joshua Walker Gore, who was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina.
John Williams (1731-1799) was a North Carolina Revolutionary leader and judge.
John Williams (1731-1799), of Williamsboro, Granville (now Vance) County, N.C., was a planter, lawyer, and judge. He married Agnes Bullock Keeling (d. 1803), a widow, on 12 November 1759. Their daughter Agnes married Robert Burton. Along with his cousin Richard Henderson, Williams organized the Louisa (later the Transylvania) Company in 1774 in order to develop and sell land between the Cumberland and Kentucky rivers. Williams and Henderson had engaged Daniel Boone to explore the region in 1760. Williams was the resident agent of the company in Boonesboro, Ky., from December 1775 until April 1776. He became one of the first Superior Court judges of North Carolina under the Constitution of 1776, a position he held for 20 years. He was elected delegate to the Continental Congress in 1778 and was a signer of the Articles of Confederation. Williams was one of the original trustees of the University of North Carolina.
Kenny Jackson Williams (1927-2003), an African American studies scholar, taught at Duke University and was appointed to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781-1849) was aide de camp to John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833). The collection includes miscellaneous papers including a letter, 1814, from Leigh about arrangements for the defense of Richmond, Va., and items to, from, or about John Randolph of Roanoke.
Lucy Tunstall Alston Williams was the daughter of Jane Elizabeth Crichton (1840-1891) and Philip Guston Alston (1839-1924), a farmer and Confederate Army captain, of Warren County, N.C. She married Archibald Davis Williams, a planter in Franklin County, N.C.
Marguerite E. Williams (1842-1938) lived near Winchester, Va., during the Civil War. She later married William Eddy Reed of Gaylord, Va. The collection is chiefly letters received by Williams from Confederate soldiers of the 8th Louisiana Regiment (who had been stationed near her home in 1861) describing activities and observations during the Civil War; letters from some of these men after the war describing conditions in New Orleans, La., after they returned home; and three undated valentines.
The collection is a letter, dated 5 June 1819, from Will Williams in Philadelphia to his wife Melissa in Warren County, N.C. Williams, who was on a business trip to New York and Philadelphia, wrote chiefly about his disappointment at the low price offered for his North Carolina tobacco crop.
Nannie Haskins (born 1846) married Henry Williams in 1870. Williams had four children by a previous marriage, and he and Nannie had six children.
Carbon copies of two letters from Williams, a New York banker, to ex-president Harry S. Truman, whom he admired, enclosing cartoons he thought the president might enjoy; four replies from Truman, including comments on mutual friend Harry Jobes; a note from Truman's secretary; and carbon copy of a letter from Williams to Harry C. Jobes.
The collection of Private First Class Ray Stanford Williams (1921-2003) of Gastonia, N.C., contains correspondence and military ephemera from the Second World War. Letters and postcards to family members detail Williams' military life abroad. Also included are newspaper clippings, photographs, a breast pocket bible, and movement orders from 1942.
Sarah Frances Hicks Williams (born 1827) was educated in Albany, N.Y. In 1853 she was married to Benjamin F. Williams, a North Carolina state legislator, railroad investor, and owner of turpentine properties, and thereafter resided in North Carolina and Georgia.
The collection of William H. Williams, judge in the Criminal Court in Shelby County, Tenn., and the Criminal Appeals Court, is comprised chiefly of legal documents pertaining to the cases of James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., and serial murderer George Howard Putt of Memphis, Tenn. Legal documents include petitions, motions, briefs, affidavits, orders, opinions, and memorandum of findings. Other materials include handwritten notes Williams made on the cases, slight correspondence with other officers of the court, and a thank you letter following Judge Williams denial of a new trial for Ray.
Willis r. Williams was a planter and state legislator, of Pitt County, N.C.
D. Abeel Williamson of New Jersey was employed as a tutor on G. B. Shields's plantation in Natchez, Miss., from 12 November 1860 to 11 May 1861. On the inside back cover of the account book, in another person's handwriting, it is reported that Williamson went on to become a lawyer and serve in the 7th New York Infantry Regiment. The collection includes a small account book containing a detailed listing of the expenses that D. Abeel Williamson incurred in the course of his six-month tenure as a tutor on G. B. Shields's plantation in Natchez, Miss. The account book records Williamson's discretionary spending. In addition to recording the costs associated with the more mundane aspects of life, such as haircuts, boot repair, and postage, Williamson's ledger itemizes the costs he incurred during visits to New Orleans, the circus, race tracks, and a concert by Blind Boy Tom. A few notations following the accounts date from early 1862. Also included is a receipt from the Presbyterian Church in Natchez acknowledging Williamson's payment of the yearly pew tax.
The papers of Joel Williamson, white historian of the American South and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are his professional and scholarly research files. The materials are focused chiefly on three major book projects, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (1984), William Faulkner and Southern History (1993), and Elvis Presley: A Southern Life (2014). Also included are research materials about Margaret Mitchell, the author of the novel Gone with the Wind. The collection contains correspondence, research notes and copies of archival documents relevant to Williamson's historical research, grant applications and reports, materials for teaching and for advising graduate students, printed items including published articles by Williamson and others, annotated and amended drafts of his scholarly publications, and talks and papers delivered at conferences for professional organizations including the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.
James Baxter Hunt Jr. served as Democratic governor of North Carolina, 1977-1985 and 1993-2001. In 1984, he ran as Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate, but lost to Republican incumbent Jesse Helms. Samuel R. Williamson served as Hunt's unpaid campaign director for defense and foreign policy issues during the senatorial run.
The collection is chiefly 20th century genealogical materials concerning the Williamson, Davidson, and Lea and related families. Also included is a diary, 1842-1848, of George Washington Jeffreys, a preacher in Caswell County, N.C., and Pittsylvania County, Va., concerning his religious thoughts and farming activities.
The collection contains a volume of nightly reports, 14 June 1861-5 February 1862, from captains of town watch squads of Williamston, N.C. to Mayor H. B. Smithwick. Reports indicate presence or absence of squad members and almost always that the town was quiet.
MICROFILM ONLY. Minutes, 1817-1890, of the Board of Trustees of the Williamston Academy (Martin County, N.C.), with no entries for 1825-1827, 1829-1835, and 1862-1863. These brief records of meetings record the Board's discussion and action as it hired teachers, set tuititon, and determined the number of pupils to be admitted. Also included are a list of those subscribing to the fund to construct a building, regulations for students, and occasional lists of students. Board members whose names are frequently mentioned include Cushing B. Hassell, Joseph Biggs, Asa Biggs, Luman Whittlesley, Edward Yellowley, Samuel Hyman, William J. Ellison, William Watts, D. W. Bagley, Joseph D. Biggs, Lawrence Johnson, James E. Moore, and John D. Biggs. Teachers before the Civil War included Asa Matthews in the 1840s, his son, Samuel W. Matthews, in the 1850s, and Henry L. Chase, 1860- 1861. After the Civil War, D. G. Gillespie and Sylvester Hassell were among the teachers.
The collection contains a genealogical record, 1834-1883, of the Willis family of North Carolina.
Alonzo J. Willis (fl. 1865-1875) resided in High Point, N.C.
Charles Ashley Willis served in Company A of the 1st South Carolina Regiment during the Gettysburg campaign in which he was captured and hospitalized.
Henry Stuart Kendall Willis (1891- ), North Carolina physician. Professional correspondence, research papers, printed items, and photographs, 1913-1976, pertaining to Henry Stuart Kendall Willis's work with North Carolina tuberculosis sanitariums.
J.B. Willis (b. 1851), a native of Delaware, was a Methodist minister and teacher at New Orleans University, an African-American school in New Orleans, La., and at a normal school in Huntsville, Ala.
Materials collected by journalist Carol Wills on Lumbee activist Eddie Hatcher primarily concerning Hatcher's 1988 trial for holding hostages at the The Robesonian newspaper office in Robeson County, N.C. Materials include letters from Hatcher to Wills, 1988-1989, written from the Robeson County Prison and Wills's notes and writings about the trial.
George Whitaker Wills (died 1864) was a soldier in with the 43rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, who served primarily in Virginia.
The papers of William H. Wills, a white general merchant, Methodist Protestant minister, and cotton plantation owner, document the lives of the white plantation-owning Wills, Norman, Swain, Swift, Cotten, and Snell families and the people enslaved by them in Halifax County, N.C., Washington County, N.C., Edgecombe County, N.C., Jackson County, Fla., and Leon County, Fla. Known plantations include Greenwood Plantation, Spring Grove Plantation, and Strawberry Hill Plantation in Halifax County, N.C., and Cotton Land in Leon County, Fla. The collection includes correspondence and other papers documenting enslavement in North Carolina and Florida, itinerant ministers of the Methodist Protestant church in North Carolina and church administration between the 1840s and 1890s. Information appears on circuit travels, camp meetings, local churches, finances, arbitration and trials, divided opinions regarding slavery within the Methodist Protestant denomination, and local, state, district, and national church administration. Other topics include the lives of the white families; boarding school life; conflicts with the Seminole people in Florida; camp and home life during the American Civil War; and women teachers in the period following the war’s end. There are also a few travel diaries documenting journeys in the antebellum South, and a diary commenting on life in Key West, Fla.; Miami, Fla.; and Tampa, Fla.
Richard H. Wilmer (1816-1900) was an Episcopal priest in Virginia and bishop of Alabama, 1861-1900. The collection includes papers of Wilmer, including sermon notes, scattered letters on church matters, and anecdotal reminiscences of parishioners and other ministers.
The collection includes miscellaneous items, plans of the town of Wilmington, N.C., showing streets and lots, 1769 and 1800; a letter, 6 January 1817, concerning the sale of a brig at Wilmington; and a letter, March 1852, from W. B. Davis, a Wilmington resident, to Joseph Abney, Edgefield, S.C., discussing the Missouri Compromise, and other correspondence.
Letters from three brothers, Anderson, Caleb, and Josiah Wilson, and their wives in Clay County, Mo., to Wilson relatives in Orange County, N.C., describing farming, economic prospects, Presbyterian church affairs, and public matters in their area, including the influx of Mormons in 1836.
White members of the Wilson and Hairston families owned plantations, enslaved people, and were merchants of Henry and Pittsylvania counties, Va., and Davie, Rockingham, and Stokes counties, N.C. Enslaved people supplied labor at many of the family's plantations, possibly including Sauratown Hill and Muddy Creek in Stokes County, N.C.; Royal Oak, Oak Hill, Berry Hill near Danville, and Brierfield, all in Pittsylvania County, Va.; Bostick Lower Place, Upper Place, Muddy Creek, Terrell's Place, Bradley's Place, Town Place, all in Stokes County, N.C., or Pittsylvania County, Va.; Goose Pond in Rockingham County, N.C., and Pittsylvania County, Va.; Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, N.C.; and Smith's Place and Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, Va. There were also family properties in Mississippi. The papers include business correspondence, financial and legal papers and scattered personal correspondence documenting six generations of the white Wilson and Hairston families. The people enslaved by these families are documented in the lists of names, in bills of sale, and papers relating to manumission in 1832 through the American Colonization Society. Among the activities represented are plantation management, including purchase of supplies; the sale of tobacco through Virginia commission merchants; the service of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) as a deputy sheriff in Henry County, Va., mainly 1751-1788; and activities of the Sandy Creek, Mayo, County Line, and Staunton River Baptist associations, 1833-1868. Civil War materials are few and consist of scattered family letters and some receipts for foodstuffs sold to the Confederate Army. Approximately one-fourth of the collection consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Alfred Varley Sims as a professor at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), 1895-1904, and as a civil engineer, and includes materials related to his time in Cuba, 1905-1908, and to his connections with various southern and Cuban railroads and other businesses in Cuba and elsewhere.
Materials collected by Clyde Norman Wilson of the University of South Carolina, chiefly on the Civil War, civil rights, and southern culture. Included are pamphlets; audio tapes of lectures, mostly produced by the Mt. Olive Tape Library, Inc., Mt. Olive, Miss.; and a video tape copy of a 1939 film about Cone Mills Corporation, Greensboro, N.C. Pamphlets include The Martin Luther King, Jr., Plagiarism Story (1994) and Southerner Take Your Stand (1993). Audio tapes include recordings from the Confederate Heritage Conference (1994); Thomas Fleming on education and secession; Rod Gragg on camp, field, and home life during the Civil War; D. F. Kelly on James Henly Thornwell & Benjamin Morgan Palmer; Ron and Don Kennedy on Historical Facts About Black Contributions to the Confederacy; Otto Scott on Jefferson Davis: American Patriot; and Rev. Steven J. Wilkins on Lee, Jackson, slavery, religion, and other subjects.
Elmina Foster Wilson was the daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Hunt) Foster of Guilford County, N.C. She first married Emory D. Coffin (died 1863) and second Timothy Wilson.
H. V. Wilson (1863-1939) was a faculty member in biology and zoology at the University of North Carolina.
The collection contains genealogical notes and data, 1961, concerning James Patriot Wilson and his wife, Mary Clark (Frazer) Wilson (1808-1833), whose portraits were acquired by the North Carolina Museum in Raleigh, N.C., in 1966.
The James R. Wilson Collection of Vietnam Veteran Interviews consists of audio recordings of interviews of Vietnam War veterans from across the South. Interviews document what the veterans were doing before the war, their experiences in combat zones, and the impact of the war on their lives in the years after returning home. Transcripts exist for interviews selected for use in Wilson's Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam (1990).
Louis Round Wilson (1876-1979) was librarian and first director of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1901-1932, and dean of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, 1932-1942. From 1901 to 1932, Wilson served on many University of North Carolina committees and was instrumental in founding both the University Press and the Extension Division; he also edited the Alumni Review for twelve years, 1912-1924. When he returned to Chapel Hill from Chicago in 1942, he resumed his many activities at the University, serving on numerous faculty and special University committees until he retired in 1959. He was a consultant to the president of the University from 1959 to 1969.
Louis Round Wilson (27 December 1876–10 December 1979) was born in Lenoir, N.C., and, in the 1890s, attended Davenport College in Lenoir; Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.; and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from which he graduated in May 1899. After teaching for a few years, Wilson embarked on a long and distinguished career in librarianship, library science education, and university administration. Wilson served as librarian and first director of the School of Library Science from 1901-1932 at the University of North Carolina, and dean of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, 1932-1942. From 1901 to 1932, Wilson served on many University of North Carolina committees, developed collections, and oversaw the planning and construction of two of the University's main libraries: the Carnegie Library in 1907 and the 1929 building that, in 1956, would bear his name. When he returned to Chapel Hill from Chicago in 1942, he resumed his many activities at the University, serving on numerous faculty and special University committees until he retired in 1959. He was a consultant to the president of the University from 1959 to 1969.
The North American Traditions Collection consists of audio recordings, 1967-2007, and videotapes, 1997, of North American traditional music created and compiled by Mark Wilson, a white professor who conducted field work and released a wide range of traditional music with the sponsorship of Rounder Records. The collection includes Mark Wilson's original field recordings, sessions, outtakes, and production masters related to Rounder Records' North American Traditions Series, as well as LP copies of the Rounder Records releases. Artists featured on the audio recordings include the Balfa Brothers, E.C. (Estil Cortez) Ball, Orna Ball, John Campbell, Winnie Chafe, Paddy Cronin, Tom Doucet, Art Galbraith, Sarah Ogan Gunning, George Hawkins, Roscoe Holcolmb, Jerry Holland, Van Holyoak, Bessie Jones, Theresa and Marie MacLellan, Carl MacKenzie, Joe MacLean, Doug MacPhee, Glenn Ohrlin, Ola Belle Reed, Almeda Riddle, Fields Ward, and Nimrod Workman. The collection also includes video recordings, 1997, featuring Owen Chapman and J. P. Fraley II, and scattered tape logs and memos found with select audio recordings.
Mary Ann Covington Wilson (fl. 1850-1875) was a school teacher of Cleveland County, N.C.
The collection consists of the legal briefs of a Mr. Wilson, a lawyer, for civil cases tried in Savannah City Court and other courts in the Savannah, Ga., area.
The Norvell Winsboro Wilson and Pearman and Scott Family Papers include letters, diaries, and a scrapbook. Letters, 1842-1869, are chiefly from members of the Pearman and Scott families, who were likely free Blacks living in New Kent County, Va.; Sandusky, Ohio; and Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Letters describe family life, a school for African American children to be set up in Richmond, and feelings about seeking freedom and opportunity for their children. Among the correspondents in these papers are Lucey Pearman, Elizabeth Porter, Peter Lennard, Eliza Pearman, Robert Ellett, Ann Taylor Geddy, William F. Pearman, and William Scott. The diaries are intermittent, 1862-1878, recording pastoral visits, Baptist conventions, social news, and cash accounts of Norvell Winsboro Wilson (1834-1878), a white Baptist minister in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Hillsborough, N.C., 1861-1867; Farmville, Va., and Richmond, Va., 1867-1875; and New Orleans, La., 1877-1878. The scrapbook of clippings documents Wilson's career and writings. There is no apparent connection between the Pearman and Scott families, who were related through marriage, with the Wilson family.
Penelope Wilson (fl. circa 1946) compiled notes on the genealogy of several Virginia and North Carolina families.
Richard Don Wilson (1819-1883) of Lennox Castle, Caswell County, N.C., was a lawyer, teacher, and Confederate soldier.
John Wilson, his son, Robert Wilson, and his grandson, Robert Anderson Wilson, were merchants and farmers of Danville and Dan's Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va.
Business papers of John Dickenson, Samuel Pannill, and Robert Wilson, and the successive general merchandising firms of Dickenson, Pannill and Company; Pannill, Wilson, and Company; and Robert Wilson, Danville, Va. The material pertains to merchandising, tobacco shipments, sawmill and gristmill operations, shopwork, and other activities. Also included are a few personal letters, Wilson family bills, and fragments of manuscript volumes, 1783-1835.
Thomas B. Wilson (1838-1908) of Davidson County, Tenn., was a captain in the 1st Tennessee (Wheeler's) Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes a manuscript memoir describing Wilson's early life on a farm in Davidson County, Tenn. (18 pages), and his Confederate career as captain in the 1st Tennessee (Wheeler's) Cavalry Regiment, with vivid accounts of battle (remainder of volume).
Thomas James Wilson (1833-1904) was a physician of Orange County, N.C.
William B. Wilson (fl. 1856-1882) was a lawyer of York County, S.C. The collection includes a scrapbook/memoranda book of Wilson, containing financial memoranda, clippings, and letters pertaining to his public career, chiefly as an orator before and during the Civil War. Also included are scattered loose items of the same sort, and two Civil War letters from Wilson to his wife while he served as a colonel in a reserve regiment on the South Carolina coast in summer 1864.
The collection includes photographs of faculty groups and buildings at various southern colleges, of private houses, of leisure scenes, and of L. R. Hamberlin, poet and professor at colleges in Texas and other states, and an autograph album of Lily Wilson, with messages and autographs chiefly from Richmond College (Richmond, Va.), 1880.
The Ronald C. Wimberley Collection consists of live recordings of the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, which was held 7-9 August 1970 at the Otis Spann Memorial Field in Ann Arbor, Mich. Ronald C. Wimberley, a white sociologist, and John Hatch, a college friend of Ronald C. Wimberley, created and compiled the open reel recordings, which include live performances by Son House, Big Mama Thornton, Robert Pete Williams, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, John Jackson, Carey Bell, Little Brother Montgomery, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Johnny Winter, Luther Allison, Mance Lipscomb, Junior Parker, Lowell Fulson, Johnny Shines, and Sunnyland Slim, among other blues musicians. The Ann Arbor Blues Festival began in 1969 and was the first electric blues festival in North America. The festival was created and organized by a group of mostly white University of Michigan students led by Cary Gordon, a native of suburban Detroit, and John Fishel, who grew up in Cleveland and had transferred to Michigan from Tulane University. Ann Arbor Blues Festival was sponsored first by the University of Michigan with help later from the Canterbury House, an Episcopal group which owned a folk club in Ann Arbor.
Mary Susannah Winans was born in Centerville, Miss., and lived in Clinton, La. She married Isaac Wall.
John Wallace Winborne (1884-1966), was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
John H. Winder (1800-1865) of Maryland was a Confederate brigadier general and provost marshal general in Virginia.
John Augustus Winfield (born 1904) of Beaufort County, N.C., was a farmer and conservationist, and onetime director of the Division of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture at Raleigh, N.C.
John Q. Winfield (1822-1892) was a physician of Broadway, Va. During the Civil War he served as captain of the 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., under his friend, General Turner Ashby.
Winifred Bryant, a white woman who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943, compiled this photograph album while stationed at Camp Lejune and Cherry Point Marine bases in North Carolina between 1944 and 1945. The album begins with photographs of Bryant's "first day in uniform" followed by portrait images of fellow (women and men) Marines, many signed. Other photographs show Bryant and other women in a variety of uniforms including coveralls. They are also seen in convoy training, with a variety of jeeps and trucks, "cattle trucks," used to transport large groups of marines to training sites, working on engines, a long chow line. Leisure and downtime are also photographed with images of bedtime with "mascots" (stuffed animals), on leave at the beach, and on a fishing trip. Also included are images of their barracks, including bunks and the laundry. North Carolina sites include Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point United States Marine Corps bases.
Francis Donnell Winston (1857-1941) held several positions in North Carolina: he was a lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; clerk of the North Carolina superior court, 1881-1882; member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1889-1900; a state senator from 1887 to 1889, and served again in the legislature in the late 1920s; a judge of the superior court, 1901-1902 and 1916; lieutenant governor, 1905-1909; United States district attorney, 1913-1916; a trustee of the University of North Carolina and president of the North Carolina Bar Association; and an active Mason and member of the Episcopal Church. Also represented in the papers are Winston's brothers George Tayloe Winston (1852-1932), Patrick Henry Winston (1847-1904), and Robert W. Winston, along with his sister Alice Spruill. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, and photographs of Francis Donnell Winson. The earliest papers are Winston and Kenney family letters, along with business papers, including a few related to the sale of slaves and merchandise in Bertie County, N.C., 1828-1830; as well as commissions, orders, and other material of Dr. S. B. Kenney, Winston's father-in-law, 1863-1882. The bulk of the papers date from the 1890s through the 1930s and consist of Francis Donnell Winston's correspondence relating to his law practice and experiences as a judge, Democratic Party politics and his own campaigns, Masonic and Episcopal Church activities, University of North Carolina alumni activities, Windsor and Bertie County community affairs and history, genealogical inquiries in connection with the Winston and other Bertie County families, speaking engagements, and miscellaneous writings. Other papers reflect Winston's interest in New Deal projects for North Carolina such as the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Coastal Improvement Organization, the Governor's Farm Debt Adjustment Commission, the educaton of African American children in Bertie County, and his participation on committees for historical, culural, and patriotic celebrations. Also included are scattered letters relating to personal and family matters. Additionally, there are a number of mostly undated speeches given by Francis Donnell Winston, many of which were delivered while he was lieutenant governor of North Carolina. His speeches were given at Masonic groups, civic clubs, church groups, alumni groups at the University of North Carolina, as well as some radio speeches.
The George Tayloe Winston papers consist of correspondence, volumes, photographs, and scattered papers of George Tayloe Winston (1852-1932), professor and university president, and his sons, Hollis Taylor Winston (1877-1938) and Patrick Henry Winston (1881-1940). The collection documents life in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1879-1881; student life at the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy; service as an officer in the United States Navy, with references to ships, a 1902 naval battle in Panama, and the international affairs of Venezuela circa 1902-1903; a foreign study trip to France and Madeira; financial and domestic concerns; and courtship.
Patrick Henry Winston was a prominent lawyer of Windsor, N.C. The Williams family of Bertie and Martin counties, N.C., included H. S. (d. 1858?), Samuel (d. 1855?), Joseph J. (d. 1865?), John P. (d. 1860?), and William A. K. (fl. 1861-1873). Winston was counsel for William A. K. Williams and executor of the estate of Joseph J. Williams.
Robert W. Winston was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, judge, historian, and biographer.
Audio recordings related to the 1976 Winter Folk Festival, a folk music festival held 20-24 January 1976 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The festival featured concerts, workshops, films, and jam sessions of folk music and traditions of the southern United States, including old-time, blues, Cajun, and string band music. Cecelia Conway and Jan Schochet, white graduate folklore students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conceived of the festival, which was sponsored by UNC's Carolina Union and hosted at various venues across campus as well as the larger Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. The recordings include performances by Tommy Jarrell, Dewey Balfa, Mike Seeger, Howard Armstrong, Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson, 1911-1977), Big Chief Ellis, John Cephas, Fred Cockerham, the Red Clay Ramblers, Hazel Dickens, and Alice Gerrard, among others. It is unclear who created or donated the recordings to the Southern Folklife Collection, although white folklorist and performer, Joan Fenton, is credited for recording select items. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former library staff, consisting of handwritten and typed tape logs and tape index. Tape logs include song titles and performer names when known.
The papers of John W. Winters (1920-2004) a real estate developer and the first African American elected to the city council of Raleigh, N.C., and later a North Carolina state senator, document Winters' political career from the 1960s through the 1990s. The collection contains printed items chiefly from events; photographs; speeches; slight, scattered correspondence; a few items pertaining to his family; materials related to his career in real estate; and a scrapbook largely composed of newspaper clippings about Winters and his political causes and accomplishments. Materials reflect Winters' political interests including fair housing, zoning regulations, and desegregation of Raleigh's public spaces such as the Pullen Park Pool. Also included are items pertaining to Winters' participation in President Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 and the Carter campaign's minority committee. Notable correspondents include African American civic leader and broadcast media producer J.D. Lewis, Edmund Muskie, and Jesse Helms. Photographs include images of Winters with presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton and North Carolina governors Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt.
Members of the Wirt family of Virginia, Maryland, and Florida include William Wirt (1772-1834); his wife Elizabeth Gamble Wirt and their children; Wirt's son-in-law Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877) of Florida; and James McCutcheon Baker (1837-1900) of Pensacola, Fla., who married Wirt's granddaughter. The collection contains personal and family correspondence of William Wirt (1772-1834), of Virginia and Maryland, lawyer, author, and United States attorney general, and of his descendants, including letters, 1802-1822, concerning Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry and his other writings and business and financial affairs; family correspondence, 1824-1832, chiefly between Wirt and his son, William Cabbell Wirt, at school in Massachusetts; letters of condolence at Wirt's death; family letters from the Wirt children to their mother and to each other; family and naval correspondence, 1838-1867, of Wirt's son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), serving with the United States Navy in Brazil, Europe, and Washington, D.C.; and papers, 1861-1919, of James McCutcheon Baker (1837-1900), of Florida, who married Wirt's granddaughter, concerning his Confederate naval career and postwar sea voyages, chiefly letters to his family in New Orleans. Papers after 1900 are of Baker's wife and children. Volumes include William Wirt's reminiscences of his early years, written in 1825 and 1833; Mrs. Wirt's lettercopy books, 1834-1841; and a lettercopy book, 1848-1849, of a female relative teaching school in Pensacola, Fla. Also included are fragments of William Wirt's manuscript on Patrick Henry.
William Wirt, lawyer and author of Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md., served as United States attorney general from 1817 until 1829. He wrote Letters of the British Spy (1803) and Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1817).
Henry A. (Henry Alexander) Wise (1806-1876) was a United States Representative, 1832-1843; minister to Brazil, 1844-1847; Governor of Virginia, 1856-1860; and Confederate Army officer of Accomack County, Va., 1861-1865.
The James E. Wise Collection consists of field recordings of a Saturday evening church service held at the Rescue Mission Church, a holiness church of the Sons of God denomination, in Lenoir, Caldwell County, N.C. The recordings were made by historian and author, James E. Wise, while he was a graduate student in the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and correspond to his 1977 thesis, The Sons of God in the North Carolina Mountains: An Exercise in Thick Description. The recordings feature music, testimonies, and sermons by Margaret Parsons, presiding preacher for Rescue Mission Church, Lenoir, N.C.; Bonnie Pennell, gospel soloist and testifier; Ray Townsell, preacher and testifier; and Coy Parsons, guitarist, gospel soloist, and testifier. Also included in the collection are tape logs and transcripts that correspond to the audio recordings found in the collection, as well as ephemera and transcripts that correspond to additional Sons of God field recordings found in the North Carolina Folklore Broadcast Collection.
Papers, audio recordings, and photographs documenting the social justice activities of Durham, N.C., African American activist Leah Wise, including her work with global social justice organizations and in community action groups. There is particular focus on African and African American issues, workers' rights, anti-racism and anti-Ku Klux Klan groups, women's rights, and agricultural and agriculture workers' issues. Materials include publications, conference materials, internal documents, and special reports from social justice organizations; materials relating to fundraising for and administration and leadership of community action groups; meeting minutes and relating to various committees and projects; and Wise's notes and papers from college courses. The collection also contains audio recordings compiled by Leah Wise, including interviews with African American leaders and Southern Tenant Farmers Union members, as well as photographs documenting the activities of the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network.
The Wishart Family Papers consist of materials relating to Francis Marion Wishart's Civil War military service, his participation in the war on the Lowry (also spelled Lowery) gang and Lumbee people in and around Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., and to Wishart family history. Civil War materials include Wishart's copy of the 1861 Manual of Infantry and Rifle Tactics; his diary containing brief entries, 1861-1862, chiefly reporting troop movements, camp life, and other aspects of his service in the Confederate army; three letters, 1861-1865; and a few other items chiefly relating to camp life. Lowry gang materials include correspondence, chiefly from July and August 1871, between Wishart and his recruits in the violent conflict with Indigenous peoples; notes and writings relating to the Lowry gang; clippings; a photograph depicting three men with shotguns and a Lowry gang member who had been murdered, circa 1871; photocopies of Wishart's journal, circa 1867-1872, documenting his pursuit of the Lowry gang; an unattributed account of the Lowry gang's activities circa 1864 to 1871; and other related research materials. Family history materials include correspondence, 1906-1963, chiefly of William Clifton Wishart and Annabel Wishart Lane, who were involved in gathering information on family history; notes and writings on the Wishart and related families; and pictures of family members.
Old-time musician Stephan Wishnevsky was the author of three books, including How The Hippies Ruin't Hillbilly Music: A Historical Memoir, 1960-2000 (2006).
Anita Dwyer Withers (fl. 1860-1865), wife of a United States and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Tex., and briefly in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War, and in Richmond, Va., during the war, before returning to Texas in 1865. The collection includes Withers's diary, 4 May 1860-18 June 1865, mainly recording her life in the Confederate capital, her concerns for her husband, John (d. 1892) and children, social visits, the Catholic Church, news from battles, rumors and threats of approaching federal troops, and temporary visits away from the city.
C. A. Withers (born 1842) of Lexington, Ky., was a soldier in the Confederate army. The collection includes Confederate recollections of Withers emphasizing humor, pathos, and adventure. Withers served in the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment in Virginia early in the Civil War; he then moved to the western theater, was captured during the Vicksburg campaign, and was later exchanged. He also served with General John Hunt Morgan's partisans in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, was captured in the same engagement in which Morgan was killed, escaped from prison to Canada, and returned to the South by way of Cuba. The recollections particularly relate to attitudes and conditions in the border states.
Francis Withers was a rice planter in Georgetown District, S.C.
Robert Walker Withers Papers document members of the Withers family and the people they enslaved in Greene and Hale Counties, Ala. There are two volumes of Robert Walker Withers, a white physician, farmer, and businessman, that contain birth information about the white family and the enslaved people, including name, birth year, and the mother's name. There are also varied accounts and memoranda pertaining to his medical practice and sale of drugs; his lumber and flour mills; agricultural methods; plantation and household expenditures; costs of river transportation; weather; and records of race horses. The other volumes include an album, 1837-1839, of Maria Withers, and five notebooks of Robert Walker Withers Jr. (b. 1834), containing his class notes while a student at the University of Virginia, 1852-1853. Two of the latter volumes have been used as scrapbooks. Also available, on microfilm, are scattered business letters, 1820-1890, pertaining to Robert Walker Withers's various business enterprises and to his research in an effort to construct a steam engine fed by artesian wells to power a cotton factory.
The collection contains a letter, 1889, from A. J. Witherspoon of New Orleans, La., in response to a letter of sympathy on the death of his son, and another, undated, from the Avenged to Mrs. Pry in rebuke for unwarranted curiosity: "The scorpion lash of accusing fear must indeed be severe, to seduce one into a gross violation of honor, by prying into another's papers with the most sinister motives."
E. D. (Eugene Daniel) Witherspoon (born 1902) was a minister at the First Presbyterian Church, Belmont, N.C.
Civil War letters from Withrow, a lieutenant with the 25th Iowa Regiment in Arkansas and Mississippi, to his wife, Libertatia America Arnold Withrow, in Salem, Iowa; an undated map of the Vicksburg campaign; three letters to Withrow, while he was at home on sick leave, from men in his regiment; and a letter to him from his wife. Withrow's letters concern his daily life and health, other men from Salem in his regiment, troop movements, the Vicksburg campaign, and other Army activities.
Letters and printed items comprise the papers of white educator, writer, and club woman Margaret M. Withrow of Lexington, Va. Letters are from family, friends, students, and editors of education journals. Topics include Withrow's publications, education, teaching, textbooks, the use of phonics to teach reading, music education, home economics, Sunday school education in the Presbyterian Church, Girl Scouts, the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., and the International Congress of Farm Women.
Handwritten musical compositions, mostly in country style, of Reuben Ellsworth Wixson. Wixson played string instruments, composed music, and conducted an orchestra for silent films and vaudeville during the 1920s and 1930s in the Orlean, N.Y., area. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The Wolfe family of Asheville, N.C., included author Thomas Wolfe, his mother Julia E. Wolfe, brother Fred Wolfe, and sister Mabel Wolfe Wheaton.
Frederick William Wolfe was born the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Elizabeth Westall and William Oliver Wolfe, a white family in Asheville, N.C., in 1894. He was educated in Asheville schools and worked as a salesman in Dayton, Ohio, before serving in the Navy during World War I. After his naval service, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, graduating in 1922. Fred Wolfe worked in Atlanta for Fairbanks, Morse and Company for about seven years, and then held several sales jobs in High Point, N.C., and Harrisonburg, Pa. In 1934, he joined the Blue Bird Ice Cream Company of Spartanburg, S.C., as a salesman, a position he held until the early 1960s. He married Mary Burris in 1943. In his later years, Fred Wolfe devoted himself to perpetuating the memory of his brother, Thomas Wolfe, through the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and in speeches at colleges and universities. Fred Wolfe died in 1980 and is buried in the family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C. The papers contain Wolfe family correspondence, correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell in their roles as executors of the Thomas Wolfe Estate, personal correspondence of Fred Wolfe, manuscripts about Thomas Wolfe, legal documents including executors' reports of the estate of Thomas Wolfe, correspondence about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the restoration of the Old Kentucky Home, family memorabilia, and volumes that chiefly relate to the Wolfe family. Family correspondence covers the years 1882 to 1977 and includes letters to and from Fred Wolfe, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Julia E. Wolfe, Frank Wolfe, W.O. Wolfe, Effie Wolfe Gambrell, and other members of the Wolfe and Gambrell families. Some of this material relates to Thomas Wolfe, but much of it concerns family matters. There is considerable correspondence between family members about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, which shows the part the family played in the restoration and preservation of the Old Kentucky Home. Correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell relates to the Thomas Wolfe Estate. There is also correspondence with members of the New York law firm of Ernst, Cane, and Berner, and especially with Paul Gitlin of that firm who succeeded Aswell as executor of the Thomas Wolfe Estate. Other correspondence consists of Fred Wolfe's personal correspondence, some of which demonstrates his efforts in preserving the memory of Thomas Wolfe's life and work. There are letters to and from individuals who wrote about or knew Thomas Wolfe, especially LeGette Blythe, Aldo P. Magi, John Skally Terry, Andrew Turnbull, Henry T. Volkening, Richard Walser, and Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell. There are also subject files containing material relating to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, documents from the Thomas Wolfe Estate, other legal and financial documents, materials relating to real estate in Asheville and in Florida, correspondence about grave markers in Asheville, a few manuscripts of published and unpublished articles about Thomas Wolfe, and a few copies of Fred Wolfe's speeches about Thomas Wolfe. There are playbills from productions related to Thomas Wolfe or his work, tourist guides for Asheville, and publicity materials about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the Old Kentucky Home. Wolfe family memorabilia includes commencement invitations; some business cards for the Old Kentucky Home; and a small printed advertisement for the North Carolina, Julia E. Wolfe's 1904 boarding house in Saint Louis, Mo. Also included are Mabel Wolfe Wheaton's autograph album and guest book, a small account book that belonged to Julia E. Wolfe before her marriage, a small notebook of W.O. Wolfe, and other items.
Thomas Roberdeau Wolfe worked in India, 1840-1842, as a cotton culture advisor for the British East India Company. In 1842, Wolfe returned to the United States where he married Maria Bernard Temple of Fredericksburg, Va., and moved to New Orleans where he practiced law until his death.
American author Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, N.C., and attended the University of North Carolina, 1916-1920. Mildred Hartshorn and her husband Matthew Hartshorn were childhood friends of Wolfe's in Asheville.
Hermine Kean Bulwinkle married Solomon Anderson Wolff (1861-1954) in 1890. They were both faculty members at Gaston College, Dallas, N.C.
Mabel Brooks Womack was an 18-year-old public school teacher in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the 1914-1915 school year. The collection consists of a photograph album kept by Mabel Brooks Womack, 1914-1915, while she lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. The approximately 60 photographs are images taken on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and its environs. Included are a photograph of a procession of academics, among them professors Venable, Battle, Alderman, and Edward Kidder Graham, at Graham's 1915 inauguration as University president and an extensive series of photographs of a costumed May festival.
John Taylor Wood (1830-1904) was a United States and Confederate naval officer. He was the grandson of Zachary Taylor and nephew of Jefferson Davis.
The collection documents the local and grassroots political efforts of Kathleen Kitchen Wood (1926-2011) during the 1960s in Mobile, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. Printed items, correspondence, and organizational documents illustrate the work of politically moderate and mostly white or all white organizations with which Wood affiliated including Alabamians Behind Local Education (A.B.L.E.), which advocated for keeping Mobile's public schools open during the court odered desegregation crisis, and the Georgia Council on Human Relations. Book lists reflect Wood's interest in Georgia public schools' increasing the number of text books and library books with content related to African Americans. Other printed materials, including a petition circulated by the National States Rights Party, represent overtly racist efforts to thwart desegregation. The collection also contains a lengthy 1963 letter by Wood to family about her participation in A.B.L.E.; correspondence with elected officials in state and federal government, including Alabama Governor George Wallace, then Georgia gubenatorial candidate Jimmy Carter, and U.S. Senators John Sparkman, Richard Russell, and Hubert Humphrey.
Trist Wood (died 1952) of New Orleans, La., artist and genealogist, who compiled extensive records on his own and related families and on Zachary Taylor, from whom he was descended.
Wooster E. Woodbury served in the 13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment (13th New Hampshire Volunteers), Company C, during the Civil War. Wooster E. Woodbury kept this diary, 23 April-27 August 1863, while he was behind the lines in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Diary entries mention camp life, picket and guard duty, dress parades, inspections, a hospital, troop movements, working on fortifications, making roads, building a cook-house, pay day, and other matters. Also included is a promissory note, 1862, and Wooster's commission as a corporal, 1865.
John Sherman Woodcock resided near Winchester, Va., and handled considerable property of his own and also funds and arrangements for others. The collection includes accounts involved in Woodcock's managing business affairs for himself and others in Frederick, Shenandoah, and Clarke counties, Va., pertaining to land rental, estate settlements, guardianship, local government funds, legal costs, purchases of provisions, and payments to an overseer, weavers, and a physician. His clients included members of the Carter family and Fairfax family.
Nicholas Washington Woodfin, a white lawyer and legislator of Buncombe County, N.C., was married to Eliza G. McDowell Woodfin. His papers, which are chiefly photocopies, include three letters written from Albert McDowell, an enslaved or formerly enslaved person who had gone to California with Samuel McDowell to work in the gold fields; county deeds; indentuaries; estate papers; scattered family, business, and political correspondence, including letters of John W. Holland, including a few dated 1898-1901 when he was serving in the United States Army in the Philippines; American Civil War letters, including an original 1862 letter from Woodfin to Governor Clarke about the defense of eastern Tennessee; clippings; obituaries; family history materials; and speeches on agriculture. Other items include the bill of auction for the Woodfin Mansion House and Grounds in Asheville, N.C., to be sold 13 August 1879; a biographical sketch of Woodfin written by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton in February 1950; remarks made at a presentation of Woodfin's portrait in Asheville in 1950; and a land warrant from Governor Patrick Henry to William Gibbs (apparently unrelated to the rest of the collection).
Virginia Wooding was the daughter of Emma Shephard Wooding and physician Benjamin Franklin Wooding of Denver, Colo. She married Bryan Hanks, a lawyer, in 1921, and the couple had two children: art administrator Nancy Hanks (1927-1983) and Larry Hanks. The collection contains the diary Virginia Wooding kept during her summer near Boston in 1914 and during her sophomore year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, 1915-1916. Also included are personal and business papers, chiefly correspondence, of Emma Shepard Wooding and Benjamin Franklin Wooding. Their personal correspondence discusses their upcoming marriage, politics, and daily life. Also included are letters relating to Benjamin Franklin Wooding's position as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and at Josiah Simpson General Hospital near Fort Monroe, Va., in 1898 (no items relate directly to the Spanish-American War); invitations; financial materials; and unidentified photographs, mostly of individuals, some of whom may be Hanks family members.
Isabella Ann Roberts Woodruff (born 1837) was a widowed schoolteacher of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes letters to Woodruff from a friend, Charles Holst, describing a trip through Arkansas, 1859, and commenting on the sectional crisis from Chester, S.C., 1860.
Mary L. Woods was an African American woman from Smithfield, Va.
John T. Woodside was a banker and textile manufacturer of Greenville, S.C.
Stan Woodward is a white southern auteur and documentary filmmaker. The Woodward Studio Limited produces documentaries on southern folk culture through the themes of American foodway and related traditions. In the 1980s, Woodward served as director of the Media Arts Center and the Communication Wing at the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C., where he got to know animator Chuck Jones. Woodward also worked as filmmaker-in-residence in Georgia, S.C., and other locations where he was involved in mentoring independent filmmakers and advising classroom teachers on how to teach students to create Super 8mm films. In the 1990s, Woodward worked on productions of Satellite Distance Learning Broadcasts for various television networks.
Vardy Woolley, planter of Brunswick (Glynn County), Ga., married Elvira Amanda F. Scott (daughter of Mary Scott) in 1832. Woolley served as guardian of Miss M. E. Barnard of Savannah in the mid-1850s and 1860s.
The Wooster family of Wilmington, N.C., counted among its members Lucy Wright Wooster (fl. 1844-1846) and her children, Ann Empie Wooster (fl. 1844-1846), William Augustus Wooster (1839-1862), and John Lewis Wooster (1831-1885).
Hugh Hill Wooten (born 1894) was an economist with the United States Department of Agriculture. The collection contains reports, surveys, photographs, clippings, and other materials gathered by Wooten concerning land use and flood control in the lower Mississippi River Valley and land acquisition by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Volumes 1-2, 6 contain mounted photographs depicting land use, flood damage, and houses, as well as images of farmers. Additionally, there are 6 printed reports related to the Tennessee Valley Authority and North Carolina agricultural topic.
Patrick S. Wooten is a 1993 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Political Science, who went on to obtain a law degree and serve as Assistant Attorney General in the North Carolina Department of Justice.
Clarke family of North Carolina; the New Hampshire-based Moulton family; and New Bern, N.C., native photographer, Bayard Wootten are included in the collection. In 1886, Mary Devereux Clarke, daughter of the prominent North Carolina poet Mary Bayard Clarke and Major William J. Clarke, married George Moulton, a traveling salesman. George Moulton came from a New Hampshire farming family headed by Nathan and Sarah Moulton. Mary's daughter, Bayard Morgan Wootten, learned photography as a means of supporting herself after she and her husband divorced. While Chief of Publicity for the North Carolina National Guard, Bayard set up a studio at Fort Bragg, N.C. After working in New York City, she returned to North Carolina and went into partnership with her brother George C. Moulton. The Wootten-Moulton studio became the official photographer for the UNC Playmakers and yearbook. George and sister Celia Moulton helped Bayard run studios in New Bern and Chapel Hill while she was taking pictures on location. Bayard sold the Chapel Hill studio in 1954 and lived in New Bern until her death in 1959.
Collection contains photographs primarily made by white female photographer and studio operator Bayard Morgan Wootten (1875-1959) of New Bern, N.C., and Chapel Hill, N.C. These images, mostly made circa 1904-1954, include scenic landscape photography, much of it depicting the western North Carolina mountains; and scenes of daily life of both white and Black residents in rural areas. Also included are images depicting members of the Wootten, Moulton, and Clarke families of North Carolina. While most of the images are from North Carolina, some are from South Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. Formats include glass negatives, film negatives, photographic prints, lantern slides, and artwork; there are also some manuscript materials. Some of the images might have been made by Wootten-Moulton studio but not by Wootten herself. Like many photographers, Wootten devised a classification system to manage the tens of thousands of images she made, and often created titles to accompany prints made for sale or display. Some of these classifications or titles contain offensive and racist language.
Reminiscences by author R. Bryce Workman of Harpers Ferry, W.V., are excerpts from his longer piece titled "Reflections of a Transplanted Tarheel" that focus on his father Robert Moses Workman (1907-1980). The elder Workman, a fiddler who performed under the name Uncle Henry, played with North Carolina string bands the Silver Hill Buddies, Arizona Wildcats, and Happy Hillbillies in the 1930s, frequently as guests on WFMR radio broadcast from High Point, N.C. The reminiscences include reproductions of photographs featuring Robert Moses Workman and his string bands. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) was founded in 1947 with the objective of providing a worldwide meeting ground for those working in survey research, with particular emphasis on uniting those working in academic settings with those doing similar work in the private sector.
Pamphlets relating to World War I and the home front including: publications of the American Friends' Service Committee, the American Legion, the Red Cross, the University of North Carolina, the American Library Association and other organizations. Pamphlets cover information on war and civil liberties, venereal disease, women's war efforts, war work, gardening and food production diet, speeches, libraries, religion, debt, causes and various social aspects, among other topics.
The World and Identity in Ritual Action Collection consists of field recordings, papers, and photographs related to the 1981-1984 National Endowment for the Humanities grant-funded project, "World and Identity in Ritual Action: A Comparative Study in American Sectarian Religion." Conducted principally by Daniel W. Patterson, James L. Peacock, Ruel W. Tyson, white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professors, and Beverly Bush Boggs (later Beverly Bush Patterson), a white doctoral graduate student, the interdisciplinary grant supported the field work and study of white Primitive Baptist churches in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia, including churches in Alleghany County, N.C, Ashe County, N.C., and Grayson County, Va., as well as Harnett County in eastern North Carolina. Most of the collection is made up of field recordings, 1970-1987, with corresponding field notes. Field recordings consist of sermons, songs, and oral history interviews with Primitive Baptist church elders and members, including Walter Evans, Sonny Pyle, Dewey Roten, Carrie Severt, and Edd Severt, among others. Daniel Patterson, Beverly Bush Boggs, James L. Peacock, Debra Warner, Cece Conway, and Ruel Tyson recorded the majority of the field recordings between 1977 and 1983 as part of their research effort. The collection also contains video recordings of Primitive Baptist services held in Grayson County, Va., as well as audio recordings that predate the grant project, including dubbed radio broadcasts, tapes dubbed from church members' private collections, and preliminary field recordings created by Daniel W. Patterson, Blanton Owen, Beverly Bush Patterson, and Tom Rankin. Papers found in the collection are comprised mostly of printed materials by or about Primitive Baptists, including newsletters and periodicals, directories, Primitive Baptist Association minutes, and photocopies of articles, manuscripts, and publications. Other papers include notes by Daniel W. Patterson and others, as well as papers related to Beverly Bush Patterson and Tom Rankin's preliminary field work. The collection also contains photographic slides, 1982-1985, taken by Beverly Bush Patterson and Daniel W. Patterson. Photographs depict Primitive Baptist churches, church members, church events, and hymn books.
H. G. Worsley, of North Carolina, served in the Civil War as a Confederate cavalryman at Washington and Plymouth, N.C., and Blackwater, Petersburg, and Appomattox, Va.
Daniel Worth was a Quaker from Guilford County, N.C., who migrated to Indiana, came back to North Carolina as an abolitionist Wesleyan Methodist missionary in 1857, and was forced to leave the state in 1860 after considerable trouble in connection with his antislavery activity.
James Spencer Worth, son of David Gaston Worth and Julia Stickney Worth, was active in the insurance business and other enterprises in Wilmington, N.C.
The collection includes correspondence, 1841-1869, relating to Worth's political interests and public activities, including his service as North Carolina Civil War treasurer and as governor, December 1865-July 1868; business and professional papers in connection with cotton planting, real estate, securities, business enterprises, and legal practice; large social and family correspondence, 1853-1899, of Martitia Daniel (Mrs. Jonathan) Worth, Worth's son David Gaston Worth (1831-1897), and Worth's five daughters and other family members at Asheboro, Pittsboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, and in Moore County, N.C. Includes 100 personal letters to Miss Adelaide Worth from her fiance, William Henry Bagley, written 1864-1866, while he was on political campaigns or working as Jonathan Worth's secretary.
MICROFILM ONLY. Daughter of Thomas Dougherty (1774-1822) of Danville, Ky., clerk of the United States House of Representatives, 1815-1822, and wife of Samuel Worthington, planter of Washington County, Miss. Family correspondence and Civil War diary. Correspondence includes letters with political and social news from Worthington's family in Washington, D.C.; letters from relatives at Danville, Ky., describing the cholera epidemic of 1833; Worthington's letters to her son at the University of Virginia, 1857-1858; letters from her son while he was serving in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army of Tennessee; and other items. The diary, 1863-1865, was kept by Worthington's daughter Amanda (born 1845) and mostly concerns social life at Wayside Plantation, Willowby, Washington County, Miss.
Jim Wrenn is a white labor organizer, civil rights activist and researcher. The Jim Wrenn Papers, 1977-2018, document labor organizing, a sanitation workers strike, community building, civil rights struggles, and Martin Luther King Day celebrations in Nash and Edgecombe Counties, N.C. Organizations include the People's Coalition for Justice, the Consolidated Diesel Company Workers Unity Committee, the Carolina Auto, Aerospace & Machine Workers Union--UE 150, the Phoenix Historical Society, Inc., and the Bloomer Hill Community Center in Whitakers, N.C. Materials include newsletters, video recordings, speeches, writings, and digitized scrapbooks of photographs, clippings, and news releases.
Julius Walker Wright (1838-1878), lawyer and Confederate soldier, was the son of Joshua G. and Mary Ann Wright of Wilmington, N.C. Julius married Mollie Murdock in 1868 and moved to Kansas City, Mo.
Brothers Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright are credited with the invention of the first successful airplane.
The collection contains scrapbooks, 1879, of genealogical data and family history relating to the Wright, Hicks, Hayes, Elcan, and Purdy families and a history of McNairy County, Tenn.
John V. Wright (1828-1908) was a United States representative, 1855-1861, a Confederate colonel and congressman, a Tennessee supreme court judge, and a federal official.
Marcus Joseph Wright, Confederate brigadier general and military historian, worked for 30 years, beginning in 1878, as agent of the U.S. War Department charged with collecting and compiling official Confederate army records.
Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) of South Carolina was an attorney, author, member of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, and civil rights supporter.
Moses Rochester Wright (1866-1925) of Rome, Ga., was a lawyer, superior court judge, and member of the Democratic National Committee.
The collection is a sketch of the life of Louis T. Wigfall, a native of South Carolina, member of the Texas state legislature, United States senator from Texas, Confederate brigadier general, and member of the Confederate Senate, written by his daughter, who was the mother of William de Courcy Wright of Monkton, Md. The sketch focuses on Wigfall's defense of Southern rights and his service to the Confederacy.
R. Lee Wright was a lawyer, state senator, and judge of the North Carolina Supreme Court, of Salisbury, N.C.
Stanley H. Wright was the North Carolina state director of the Public Works Administration.
Chiefly correspondence of publisher, editor, and translator Stuart Wright of Winston-Salem, N.C. Included is correspondence of Stuart Wright with A. R. Ammons, Shelby Foote, O. B. Hardison, Robert Morgan, James Seay, Lee Smith, and Sylvia Wilkinson. Enclosed in some letters are poems or fiction by Ammons, Hardison, Morgan, Seay, and Augustus Carleton.
William Wright served as sheriff of Surry County, N.C.
Asa John Wyatt (1829-1862) was a Confederate officer in Company I, 21st Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The collection is a typed transcription of the diary of Asa John Wyatt's Confederate service while fighting in northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Wyatt was wounded at the Battle of Cedar Run on 9 August 1862 and died the next day.
Thomas Barton Wyatt, of Caroline County, Va., served in the Civil War, 1864-1865.
This collection documents four generations of the Wyche Family, a white family from Columbus County, N.C. The papers date from 1854 to 2020, though chiefly consist of letters, 1900-1918, to Joseph Byron Wyche from family and friends. Topics include childhood and daily life; health; engagement and newlywed life; military service, 1903-1906, in San Francisco, the Pacific, and Wyoming; and medical education in the mid-nineteenth-century. Other materials include Wyche family genealogies, dry goods receipts, account books, and school materials.
The collection documents the Otey family of Meridianville, Alabama, and Yazoo County, Mississippi, who were white merchants and owners of cotton plantations dependent on enslaved labor. Family plantations included Green Lawn and China Grove, both near Meridianville; the Camp, probably in South Carolina or Madison County, Alabama; Batchelor's Hall in Mississippi and other unnamed family plantations in Yazoo County; and Locust Hill and Brickley's Mill in Virginia. Collection materials include family and business correspondence, financial and legal papers and volumes, and personal items. Family correspondence is with members of the Wyche, Horton, Kirkland, Pruit, Landidge, and Robinson families in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and Tennessee. There is one letter from an enslaved person, Thomas, in Mount Shell, Tennessee. Civil War era materials include a few letters from Confederate soldiers in the field and some letters relating to difficulties on the homefront. Business papers pertain mostly to William Madison Otey's merchant activities in Meridianville, Alabama, especially with Chickasaw Indians in the 1830s, and to the Oteys' cotton plantations in Madison County, Alabama, and Yazoo County, Mississippi. The financial affairs of the Wyche, Horton, and Kirkland families and enslaved and freed people are also documented in agreements for the trafficking of enslaved people through hiring out of their knowledge, skills, and labor; work contracts with freed people after the Civil War; accounts with cotton factors and merchants; and in estate papers deeds, loan notes, summonses, and receipts. Volumes include account books, plantation daybooks, a receipt book, and a diary that covers the years 1849-1888. The diary and other papers offer detailed descriptions of women's lives, especially in nineteenth-century Alabama and some insight into the lived experience of enslaved people, including illness, acts of resistance, and punishment, from the perspective of white enslaving families. Other topics include alcoholism, hunting as a sport enjoyed by men and women, and depression. Also of note is a 1884 newsclipping about "Blind Tom" (Thomas Green Wiggins Bethune), a formerly enslaved pianist born in Columbus, Ga.
The marriage in June 1905 of African Americans Jessie Early and Thomas A. Wylie united the Early family of Peoria, Ill., and the Wylie family of Coulterville, Ill. The collection consists chiefly of family photographs taken in Illinois and Kentucky between 1893 and 1982, with most dating between 1900 and 1940. Early photographs document members of Jessie Early Wylie's family in Peoria, Ill., and the family of her husband, Thomas A. Wylie, of Coulterville, Ill. Thomas's sister, Mary Wylie Blakeley, is the most frequent subject. There are also many images of Jessie Early Wylie and Thomas A. Wylie's children, especially Minnie Wylie Graves. Other extended family represented include Payne and Reed cousins. Some photographs are formal portraits; others are casual snapshots. Notable images depict Everett Wylie in his World War II uniform; Mary Wylie Blakeley's restaurant in Paducah, Ky.; E. Payne Wylie, a Cherokee Indian who was Thomas A. Wylie's cousin; and Bernice Wylie as a bridesmaid in a 1933 wedding party. Also included are copies of newspaper obituaries, an 1890 prayer card, a photocopy of an 1896 marriage license, and a postcard from the Union Depot in Coulterville, Ill.

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Yadkin Baptist Church operated in Patterson, Caldwell County, N.C.
Bartlett Yancey was a lawyer and politician of Caswell County, N.C., U.S representative, 1813-1817, and member and speaker of the North Carolina Senate, 1817-1828.
Planter, lawyer, antebellum Alabama newspaper editor, Democratic state legislator in South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia; U.S. minister to Argentina; Confederate officer in Virginia, 1861, and Georgia militia officer in the Atlanta Campaign, 1864; publisher of postwar agricultural journals and promoter of agricultural societies, business, and industry in Georgia; and brother of William Lowndes Yancey. Yancey's papers, primarily 1835-1891, include extensive correspondence with public figures and with a large and widespread family connection, which included the Yancey, Bird, Cunningham, Hamilton, Phinizy, and Patterson families; papers relating to plantations in Cherokee County, Ala., and Floyd County, Ga., including correspondence with overseers; papers relating to law practice and politics, especially in the 1840s and 1850s in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina; correspondence and letterpress copy book in Argentina, 1858-1859, including letters to Secretary of State Lewis Cass; and papers relating to military service and varied business, industrial, and agricultural pursuits after the war. Also included are volumes of miscellaneous accounts, 1850-1885, and a woman's diary, 1850, of a seven-week trip from Georgia to New York and New England.
The collection is a letter, 30 April 1824, from Jackson M. Yancey to the Committee of Public Safety, Oxford, N.C., assuring the Committee that Yancey and the other inmates of the hospital did not intend to return to town until they received the Committee's approval.
Jonathan Yardley (1939- ), Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic, columnist, and author, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.; spent his childhood in Chatham, Va., where his father was headmaster of Chatham Hall, a girls' boarding school; and graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1961. After graduation, he interned at the New York Times as assistant to James Reston. From 1964 to 1974, Yardley worked as an editorial writer and book reviewer at the Greensboro, N.C., News and Record; he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, 1968-1969. From 1974 to 1978, he was the book editor of the Miami Herald, then book critic at the Washington Star, 1978-1981, winning a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1981. In 1981, Yardley became book critic and columnist at the Washington Post.
The Catherine and Robert Yates Collection consists primarily of photographs of Chadbourn, North Carolina, around the turn of the twentieth century. Many images depict the strawberry industry, including strawberry fields, markets, and the first long-distance air shipment of strawberries in 1946. Other images depict Chadbourn streets and scenes, businesses, schools, and railroads, as well as other areas in North Carolina and Virginia. Also included are images of various individuals, including William Harmon Chadbourn.
Jesse Johnson Yeates (1829-1892) was a Hertford County, N.C., lawyer, a member of the North Carolina legislature, a Confederate officer, and a United States Representative.
Edward Clements Yellowley (d. 1885) of Pitt County, N.C., was a Confederate officer of the 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops and the 68th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, serving in the coastal area of North Carolina.
Musician, folklorist, and professor of religion at Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Pennsylvania.
The collection contains correspondence, columns, and other materials of Edwin M. Yoder (1934-), white journalist, editor, and professor. Professional correspondence consists of letters from readers, colleagues, and others. Personal correspondence is primarily of friends he made while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Correspondents include Eve Auchincloss, William F. Buckley, Jr., Virginius Dabney, Jonathan Daniels, John Ehle, Joel L. Fleishman, William Frankel, William C. Friday, Charles Kuralt, Tony Lewis, Willie Morris, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Sam Ragan, John Shelton Reed, James Reston, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Tom Wicker, George Will, Louis Round Wilson, and C. Vann Woodward. Writings include speeches, articles and essays, book manuscripts, book reviews, diaries, journals, columns, and editorials. Most are columns and editorials were written for the Washington Post Writers Group, 1982-1996. Topics include social conditions in the South, judicial power, and twentieth-century journalism. There are also writings by others, including reviews of Yoder's books; notes and newspaper clippings in subject files; conference and professional association materials; items from Yoder's teaching career before Washington and Lee University; college materials; biographical and genealogical information; financial and other items relating to the Washington Post Writers Group; personal financial records; drawings by Yoder; photographs of Yoder and others; and videocassettes of television programs in which Yoder appeared.
George Monro Yoder was a Catawba County, N.C., farmer, teacher, merchant, coroner, surveyor, county commissioner, census taker, justice of the peace, postmaster, and elder in the Lutheran church.
Raymond V. Yokeley was born in 1884. He graduated from the North Carolina Medical College in Charlotte, N.C., in 1911, married Maude Sink in 1913, and died in 1938.
The 1985 field recording made for a folklore class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by then student Michael Louis Yopp contains folk songs and spirituals sung by his grandmother. Songs include "Old Uncle Ned," "Dan Tucker," "Roll Jordan Roll," "Slave's Christmas," and "Old Black Joe." Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
The collection is a copy, 1935, of genealogical data, 1737-1860, about the Young family of Virginia and Alabama from a Bible in the possession of Agnes Young and Rosalie Young of Greensboro, Ala.
The collection contains an audio recording of a biography of Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock, and interviews with Jim Evans, who was the founder of the Jimmie Rodgers Society, and with Sara Carter (1898-1979), who was a member of the original Carter Family musical group. The recording includes a recitation by country music singer Dwight Butcher (1911-1978), old-time songs about trains, and steam engine train sounds. Also included in the collection is a 1989 letter from Henry A. Young of Temple, Tex., who compiled the recordings.
Henry Young was quartermaster general of Virginia during the American Revolution.
J. Freeman Young (1820-1885) was an Episcopal priest, and bishop of Florida beginning in 1867. The collection includes letters received by John Freeman Young, chiefly concerning church matters in Florida, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, and elsewhere, but concerning other matters as well. Topics of letters include living conditions in Florida in 1848; the establishment of an Episcopal school for girls in San Francisco, 1854; and a yellow fever epidemic in Louisiana, 1855.
Civil War letters of Young of Mifflin County, Pa., a federal soldier with the 184th Pennsylvania Regiment, to and from his wife, Ann Eliza Young, while he was with the army near Richmond and Petersburg, Va., and while he was hospitalized; and some papers concerning Young's military service and application for pensions. Letters exchange news of friends in the service, contain requests for items from home, discuss possibility of leaves, and note the desertion of Confederate soldiers to the North. Letters during Young's hospitalization discuss his health, treatment, and the possibility of discharge.
Perry Deane Young, journalist, author, and playwright, was born 27 March 1941, in Woodfin, N.C. Young has worked for many North Carolina newspapers and international publications, covered the Vietnam War for United Press International, and written several non-fiction books.
Youth Educational Services, Inc., was a Durham, N.C., non-profit organization that worked with college students in North Carolina to develop grass-roots educational and social action programs aimed at the state's poor and disadvantaged citizens.
Ed Yowell, born in 1918 in Nashville, Tenn., was a sales executive in the textile industry. This collection consists of an autobiographical manuscript, Ed Yowell, A Climber of the Steep Ascent (1996), which documents Yowell's career as a textile industry sales executive, specializing in threads and elastics. Beginning in 1937, Yowell held a variety of positions in the textile industry. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He was trained in various specialties, met his future wife, but never saw combat. The manuscript shows that, after the war, Yowell worked for textile companies in New York and, 1953-1959, for the Episcopal Diocese of New York as director of promotion. In 1959, he returned to the South, working for textile companies in North Carolina and other southern locations until 1996. The text deals to some extent with Yowell's childhood and to a lesser degree with his adult family relationships, but centers on his career and the changes that he witnessed during his long tenure in the textile industry.

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The Craig Zearfoss Collection consists of live video recordings, audio recordings, posters, photographs, and papers affiliated with the Triangle's indie rock music scene from 1988 to 2008. The majority of the collection consists of live video recordings created and compiled by videographer and documentarian, Craig Zearfoss, from 1993 to 2005. The videotapes, which feature live performances and interviews from local and touring musicians, were recorded at various concert venues in the Triangle, including the Brewery in Raleigh, N.C., the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., the Cave in Chapel Hill, N.C., the Local 506 in Chapel Hill, N.C., the Duke Coffeehouse in Durham, N.C., and Pine Hill Farm in Durham, N.C. Notable musicians and bands featured on the live video recordings include, Ben Folds Five, Peter Case, Drive By Truckers, Alice Gerrard, Man or Astro-man?, Tift Merritt, Old 97's, Pipe, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Superchunk, Two Dollar Pistols, and Whiskeytown. Many of the materials found in the collection correspond to Sleazefest, an annual local music festival that Zearfoss documented from 1994 to 2004. These materials consist of live video recordings, papers, photographs, and posters. The collection also contains music videos, 1992-1998, privately released and commercial audio recordings, 1988-2004, as well as broadcast video material, 1994-1999, related to the Triangle based public access shows Live Around Town, Wide Angle, and Radiovision. Also included are posters and papers related to Zearfoss' live video recordings and the Triangle music scene at large, including concert posters and flyers, letters, press clippings, video tape logs, video release forms, and zines.
Dr. Xinshu Zhao (赵心树, 1955-), a Shanghainese, taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism from the late 1990s to 2009. His personal collection consists 378 books printed in China from 1960 to 2004. The political situations in China during the period from 1960 to 1980 had resulted in great reduction of publishing activities to mostly government approved materials. It is especially so during the Cultural Revolution years from 1966 to 1976. Zhao’s collection offers readers a glimpse of Chinese publishing world at the time. The collection includes Chinese textbooks of elementary, middle school and high school in subjects ranging from mathematics, Chinese language, foreign language learning including English and German, Chinese history, social studies, and science. Also included are illustrated books and children’s books. All texts are in Chinese simplified characters.
Contains two notebooks with handwritten notes, one on operative surgery, the other on pathology, by James D. Zilinsky, 1932. Each notebook has about 100 pages. The pathology notebook is comprised almost entirely of hand-drawn color illustrations.
Edward Victor Zoeller was a manufacturer and pharmacist of Tarboro, N.C., and secretary-treasurer of Farmers' Oil Mills of Tarboro.
Religious studies scholar Michael J. Zogry conducted interviews for the Enduring Voices Project through a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. The collection includes typed transcripts and videotapes of interviews with individual members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, N.C. Interviewees include herbalist Amy Grant Walker, musician Walker Calhoun, storyteller Jerry Wolfe, and woodcarver Amanda Crowe. Topics include recollections of childhood on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and Cherokee songs, dances, stories, crafts, stickball games, and medicine.
The Charles G. Zug III Collection consists of interviews, field notes, and other papers compiled by white folklorist and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, Charles G. Zug III. The majority of the collection is made up of audio interviews conducted primarily by Zug with North Carolina-based folk artists, including boatbuilders, chair-makers, painters, potters, sculptors, ship model builders, and weavers, from the counties of Burke, Carteret, Catawba, Davidson, Lincoln, and Surry. Notable interviewees include sculptor, Raymond Coins; potter, Burlon Craig; and painter, Minnie Reinhardt. The collection also contains field notes, or transcripts, created by Zug that correspond to the interviews found in the collection, as well as other papers compiled by Zug, including applications for the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and printed materials featuring published works by Zug on the folk art and self-taught artists of North Carolina.