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These papers (1848-1882) belonged to Johnson H. Bryan, Jr.(1824-1883) of Craven County, North Carolina. Included are deeds, statements of debt and obligation, receipts, receipts for purchase and sale of enslaved people, correspondence, mortgages, bankruptcy papers, and a resolution of complaint related to tariff discriminations and maintenance deficiencies on the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad.
Oral history interview (10/28/2003) by Jason Kokinda, in Richlands, NC, pertaining to Percy Brown's life (1927-2003), childhood in Richlands, NC, education, service in Army during World War II (1945-1946) in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany, marriage to Amy Sue Brown (1947), farming tobacco, corn, soy beans, and truck crops, farm equipment, Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base, work for U. S. Department of Agriculture, housing, Camp Davis. 4 items. 8 p. 2 audiocassettes (2 p.); 1 computer diskette (1 p.); 1 interview index, dated 10/28/2003 (5 p. typescript); 0 oral history agreement. Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. Lu Ann Jones' History 5960 (Fall 2003) class requirements. No Oral History Agreement signed. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.5.b.
Oral history interview (4/9/2004) by Ryan Knott, his grandson, in Fayetteville, NC, pertaining to Alberto Baiza's life (1930-2004), from his birth in Littlefield, TX, childhood in Clovis and Albuquerque, NM, child labor, service in the U.S. Army Air Force (1948-1970) with the 82nd Airborne Division, 11th Airborne Division, 188th Airborne Infantry Regiment, in the Korean War, Beirut, Lebanon, and twice in Vietnam; and his work at the Kelly Springfield Tire Company factory, Fayetteville, NC, (1971-1989). 3 items. 7 p. 1 audio cassette (1 p.); 1 interview description dated 4/27/2004 (7 p. typescript) Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. LuAnn Jones' History 5135 (Spring 2004) class requirements. Oral History Agreement signed by Alberto Baiza and Ryan Knott, 4/9/2004. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.2.c.
Papers include Goforth's correspondence with the Navy Department following World War II and photograph from time at Woodward-Herring Hospital.
Papers (1897-1901) consisting of correspondence of routine personal matters and family matters, clippings, schedule of recitation and recipes relating to Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Speight of Edgecombe County, N.C. and their relatives.
The Mabel A. Grant Papers contain photographs, carte de visites, coursework, ephemera, memorabilia newspaper clippings, poetry, and a personal diary from 1918-1920.
Photographs taken in the Philippine Islands and a biographical sketch of USMC Major Harrison, USNA class of 1941.
Collection (1719-1910) including newspaper, periodicals, sheet music, poems, photocopies of legal records, letters, agriculture, Livestock Journal, magazine etc.
Correspondence (1965-2015) with state and national public figures including Maya Angelou, Will Campbell, Bill Moyers, John Ehle, and Rosemary Harris; Governors James B. Hunt and Michael Dukakis; Congressman James McClure Clark and Elspeth Clark, the Rev. Dr. William Finlator, the Rev. Dr. Donald W. Shriver, feminist Hebrew scholar Phyllis Trible; North Carolina legislators J. McNeill Smith of Greensboro and Willis Whichard of Durham; Civil Rights leader Dr. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, et al. Scholarly addresses delivered before national assemblies and editorials written for N.C. newspapers including the Winston-Salem Journal, the Charlotte Observer, the Greensboro Record, and the Raleigh News and Observer. Early draft of manuscript Ceremony of Innocence, published by Mercer University Press, 2005.
Mattie Barber Sloan was the bookkeeper and assistant to Thomas Store Winstead for his group Winstead's Mighty Minstrels, a Fayetteville, North Carolina, Black Minstrel group who toured the Eastern United States from 1931 to 1956. This collection contains documents and memorabilia (1927-1956, undated) kept by Mattie Sloan related to Winstead's Mighty Minstrels and other Black Minstrel groups such as Irvin C. Miller's "Brown Skin Models". Included are ledgers (1944, 1951, 1954, undated) recording ticket sales, salaries, and routes for the Winstead group and photographs, work licenses, advertising circulars and cards, and a poster. The strength of the collection is the historical significance that shows the involvement of African Americans as performers and managers that were not often included in standard histories of circuses and vaudeville.
Papers (1873-1892) of owner of cotton firm, Farrar, Gaskill and Co., Tarboro, N.C. and Eure, Farrar and Co., Norfolk, Va., and Farrar and Jones, of New York, N.Y., including correspondence, letterbooks, ledgers, financial records, publications, political, balance sheets, commentary
This collection contains information about the East Carolina Pirate Club, Alumni Association, and College of Business, Mr. Chesnutt's time as an East Carolina student, as well as his professional career. Formats include but are not limited to correspondence, printed materials, clippings, and photographs.
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