J.O. Derrick Collection

1938-1962
Manuscript Collection #1004
Portions of this collection are digitized (1 item)
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Physical description
0.014 Cubic Feet, 4 items
Preferred Citation
J.O. Derrick Collection (#1004), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
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Custodial History

August 19, 2004, (unprocessed) 4 items, 0.014 cubic feet; Collection (1938-1962) of clippings and printed material relating to water witching, improving education in the South, phosphate mining in North Carolina, and the history of East Carolina University. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Mildred Elizabeth Derrick

Source of acquisition

Gift of Mildred Elizabeth Derrick

Processing information

Encoded by Mark Custer, April 3, 2008

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Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Key terms
Corporate Names
East Carolina University--History
Topical
Dowsing
Education--Southern States
Phosphate mines and mining--North Carolina
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Item 1 Ellis, Arthur J., The Divining Rod: A History of Water Witching. U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 416 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1938), 59 p
Box 1 Folder a Item 2 Southern Association of Science and Industry (U. S. ), The Way to Greater Prosperity in the South. [Improving educational facilities in the South] ([Atlanta ?] Southern Association of Science and Industry, 1944), 24 p
Box 1 Folder a Item 3 Texas Gulf Sulphur Corporation. Welcome to Lee Creek... [Phosphate mining in Beaufort County and Hyde County, NC.] (New York: Texas Gulf Sulphur Corporation, [1962 ?], 8 p
Box 1 Folder a Item 4 Little Normal School That Grew Up, The [East Carolina College] Raleigh, NC News and Observer v. 186, no. 117 (4/27/1958), Section III, p. 1