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Register (1886-1893) including school register, number of students, grades, daily attendance, age, sex, occupation of parents, list of book used.
Collection (1816-1899) including correspondence, legal papers, military papers, etc. relating to William D. Holt and his cotton sales business, local policies, railroad construction, the Farmers Alliance, private debts, his service during the Civil War, and business records.
A collection (ca. 1885-1918, undated) of 55 cartes de visite and cabinet cards mounted on cardboard, a scrapbook containing 11 snapshots, a manuscript, and printed materials belonging to John Miller Faison, a North Carolina physician, Democratic Party leader, and Congressman from the N.C. Third District between 1911 and 1915.
Papers (1760 [1880] - 1935) including correspondence, financial papers, account books, daybooks, essays, speeches, legal records, land records, notebooks, etc. of Eastern North Carolina farmer, leader of the NC Tobacco Growers Association, and NC Secretary of State (1901-1923), etc.
The papers consist of two medical certificates and a remembrance card.
Oral history interview (11/28/2003) by Martha Baldree, in Greenville, NC, pertaining to Hutton Cobb (n.d. - 2003) a banker with Wachovia Bank, son of professor of History at East Carolina University, William H. Cobb, a resident of the Lakewood Pines Neighborhood. Part of the Lakewood PInes Neighborhood Oral History Project, which was initiated to help the Association oppose the construction of a 500 unit apartment complex. 7 items. 10 p. 1 audiocassette (1 p.); 1 computer diskette (1 p.); 1 title page (1 p.); 1 biography and interview's comments, dated 11/28/2003 (2 p.); 1 interview index (2 p.); and 1 transcript, dated 11/28/2003 (2 p. typescript); 1 oral history agreement dated, 11/28/2003 (1 p.). Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. LuAnn Jones' History 5960 (Fall 2003) class requirements, submitted 12/15/2003. Oral History Agreeement signed by Hutton Cobb and Martha Baldree Farmer, 11/28/2003. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.4.d.
Collection (1899-2004) of printed materials compiled for the centennial of the Orville & Wilbur Wright's first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; including an article written by the Wright brothers on their flight experiments with various airplanes coupled with printed copies of photographs and a printed reproduction of the article; also copies of Monthly Weather Review magazines from August-September 1899; and a copy of the North Carolina Literary Review dedicated to commemorating the centennial of the first flight complete with poetry and interviews; also two calendars illustrated with images of the Wright brothers flight experiments.
Peart's Journal : Prepared from notes kept on a prisoner of War odyssey from Bilibid Prison, Manila, P.I., to Manchukuo, via the prison ship S.S. Oryoku Maru (undated)
Papers (1909-1938) including diaries, notebook of reminiscences, an expense book and other financial records, photographs, post cards, a map, certificates, diplomas, bonds and miscellany.
Oral history interview (11/29/2003) by Adrienne Prelewicz, her granddaughter, in Lynchburg, VA, pertaining to Betty A. Hamlet's life (1929-2004) in Oak Hill, WV, father was coal miner, move to Lynchburg, VA, family life, marriage, children, separation and divorce (1957), work in Limitorque shoe factory (1952-1987), life during Depression, remarriage, restaurant business, World War II, 3 items. 19 p. 1 audiocassette (1 p.); 1 interview description, with index and transcript dated 11/29/2003 (17 p. typescript); 1 oral history agreement dated 11/29/2003 (1 p.). Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. Lu Ann Jones' History 5135 (Spring 2004) class requirements. Oral History Agreement signed by Betty A. Hamlet and Adrienne Prelewicz, 11/29/2003. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.3.f.
Papers of Jesse Stuart (1955-1977) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Riverton, Kentucky-born American school teacher, educator, short story writer, novelist, and autobiographer consisting of a typescript of My Health is Better in November (1977) and other poems; and reprints of the poem One Body (1955) and of the short story Two Worlds (1967) by Jesse Stuart.
Yukon gold rush diary (1898 - 1899) (Photocopy [117 p.]) and typescript copy with introduction by Frank Moss [January 1998, 44 p.] and copies of photographic prints of Yukon gold rush [15 p.] Original diary withdrawn 5/9/2002, in possession of the donors.
William and Harry Whittaker were brothers who both served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. William mainly served in West Germany while Harry was sent to Vietnam in 1967. Their letters to each other cover the years 1964 to 1968 and discuss both basic training in Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and their service in West Germany and Vietnam. Also included are numerous photographs taken by Harry while he was stationed in Vietnam.
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