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Warning: This collection contains racial imagery and rhetoric that may be offensive to users. Collection (1917-1920s, 1965) of Ku Klux Klan materials including correspondence, publications, an admission card to a talk, and a parody basketball game ticket.

Collection of Red Oak Church records (1871-1956), including a Record Book, 1872-1921, 1945, 1947, containing membership lists, sermons, and expenses

The Alice Morgan Person collection (1874-1943, 2004-2008) contains ledgers, testimonials, advertisements, correspondence, and news clippings related to the Mrs. Joe Person Remedy Company. The Remedy was developed by Alice M. Person (Mrs. Joe Person) of Franklinton, Charlotte, and Kittrell, North Carolina, and marketed by her and later her son Rufus M. Person. Other material pertains to the sale of her arrangements of popular songs, and to family life.

Includes Luther K. Edwards Sr.'s PhD diploma in pharmacy from Southern College of Pharmacy, Kenneth Edwards Jr.'s North Carolina Board of Pharmacy certificate, and Bachelor of Science diploma in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina.

This collection (1791-1960) documents the horse and mule business, farm operations, land transactions, saw mill operation, and other business enterprises of Edward Cyrus Winslow (b. 1886) of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C. Included in the collection are correspondence, financial and legal records such as account books, ledgers, bills and receipts, contracts with other mule dealers, promissory notes, agricultural liens and chattel mortgages, deeds, and lease and rental agreements. Also included are superior court records, blueprints of farm tracts and dairy equipment, printed material, business and family photographs, and a small quantity of family correspondence.

Papers (1945-1984 [Bulk: 1984]) documenting the life and literary career of Karl [Jay] Shapiro (1913-2000), the noted Baltimore, Maryland-born American poet, critic, and educator, consisting of an unbound page proof of Love and War, Art and War (1984) by Karl Shapiro; also containing loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection relating to Collected Poems, 1940-1979 (1945-1984), New and Selected Poems (1984), and To Abolish Children and Other Essays (1984) by Karl Shapiro.

Collection includes a photograph album kept by three men as they travelled from Ohio to Warren County, North Carolina, (November 16-30, 1917) as they accompanied a train car load of cattle. Included are images of trains, train bridges, the farm ("plantation") belonging to N. A. Connell at Norlina and Warren Plains, North Carolina, Connell family members, farm equipment, and the process of cotton production (being picked, cotton gin, spinning cotton).

Letter from L. L. Bennett to Clarence Searl in 1915. The letter indicates Bennett giving Searl dental forceps he had been using while in Minnesota.

Printed materials (1960-1990) received by Drs. Joseph and Lala Steelman related to the National Democratic Party and related organizations concerning social, environmental, and political issues (1969-1990). The collection also includes family files on Steelman and Edmisten families, plus large collection of familial correspondence. Records pertaining to the Steelmans' time at East Carolina are located in University Archives.

The collection includes correspondence and some photographic material documenting the service of Richard Lewis Kinney (1927-2015) of Lexington, North Carolina in the United States Army in occupied Japan at the end of World War II. The collection provides a glimpse of an American soldier's point of view and experience serving overseas during the post-war occupation of Japan.

Interview (1904-1997) with home economics teacher and home demonstration agent, from Moycock, Currituck County, NC, who attended Louisburg College, 1924-1926, who taught at Salemburg, marriage and divorce, move to Baltimore, MD, 1928-1933, re-marriage to Sam Sanderlin, 1938-, work for Farmers Home Administration, with Black and White families in Currituck County, pellagra, fighting flies, 1933-; other jobs, Huddlers group, work for Home Extension Service, Elizabeth City, NC, marketing women's crafts. 4 cassettes. 6.0 hrs. Interviewer: Lu Ann Jones. Interview date: 7/31/1997, Shawboro, Currituck County, NC. Typed interview transcript by interviewer available. 38 p. Rec'd 10/28/2003.

Lockey Family Collection (1891 - 2002, undated) relating to the Lockey Family, early settlers of the Pamlico River valley, including the Will of Joseph Lockey, 30 January 1746, copied from the NC Historical Commission, NC Wills, Vol. XVIII, p. 54-56 (Mss typescript); "In Memoriam of J. P. [John Peyton] Lockey (1805-1891) (Photocopy); Letter from Mrs. Donald A. Philbrick, 21 Oakhurst Road, Cape Elizabeth, ME, undated to "Dear Cousin Peyton" regarding Lockey family genealogy (Photocopy typescript); Letter from "Daddy," Tallahassee, FL, 7 September 1953, to "Dear Hope," regarding John Peyton Lockey (Photocopy typescript); and Letter from Jon Guy Diffenbaugh, Greenville, NC 3 May 2002, "To whom it may concern," transmitting the collection.

Papers (1917-1941) of Frank M. Wooten Sr. (1875-1941), a leading Greenville attorney, Superior Court judge, and member of the N.C. General Assembly, and Greenville mayor, consisting of correspondence during first World War, letters, political campaign, pamphlets concerning tobacco, cultivation, agricultural alcohol, clipping, financial papers, etc.