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Photocopies of papers (1757-1899) of Pitt County, NC, Family, including correspondence, land records, estates papers, a will, school reports, and miscellany.

Records (1913-1934) of Greenville, NC Buggy and Automobile dealership, including photographs, price list, catalog, and chart of accounts.

Records (1954-1990), including minutes, constitution and bylaws, and booklets of the Pickwick Book Club of Greenville, North Carolina.

Papers (1830-1931) including correspondence, speeches, property records, deeds, appointments, clippings, financial records, etc. of a Quaker farmer and business leader in Belvedere (NC).

Ledger (1880-1897) of Kinston, N.C., physician, Dr. Henry Otis Hyatt, containing accounts of patients, medical cures for illnesses, and the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Kinston Commercial and Trade Association. A native of Tarboro, N.C., he moved his practice to Kinston, N.C., in 1872 and established Dr. Hyatt's Sanatorium for the Diseases of the Eye and General Surgery in 1891. Dr. Hyatt was one of the best known and skilled physicians in the state, and had one of the first "free clinics" in this country. Dr. Hyatt was also instrumental in the development of the Kinston Commercial and Trade Association, later known as "The Merchants Association."

Register (1851-1852) including correspondence, list of day to day activities, list of activities of provisioner, list of orders supplies to ships, etc.

Papers (1942-1958) including correspondence, photographs, military papers, orders and publications newspaper clippings, and miscellany.

Memoir (undated) of Naval officer aboard the USS Ranger, Orizaba, and Santee during World War II, as published in Sea Classics.

Two photographs of Dr. Ernest Monroe Perry and unknown woman in Perry's medical office in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Records (1947-1955), including correspondence, contracts, and ledgers for the farmers tobacco warehouse of Claxton, Ga. And the Metter tobacco warehouse of Metter, Ga.

First person account "Masako Never Die" of atomic blast at Nagasaki, Japan (August 9, 1945), as translated by Hiroaki Otwa.

Papers of Mark Harris [Finkelstein] (1976) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Mount Vernon, New York-born American journalist, novelist, and literary biographer who was also a creative writing educator at San Francisco State University, Arizona State University and several other universities; consisting of a bound, uncorrected, galley proof of his autobiography, entitled Best Father Ever Invented: The Autobiography of Mark Harris (1976).