Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates Papers, 1841-2001
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Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates Papers, 1841-2001
Albert Coates (1896-1989) was director of the Institute of Government at the University, 1931-1962, and a professor in the University of North Carolina's School of Law. In 1928, he married Gladys Jane Hall (1902-2002), who by all accounts played an important and integral role in many of the projects that Albert Coates undertook. The collection includes office and personal files of Albert Coates and his wife, Gladys Hall Coates. Boxes 1-6 (Original deposit) contain materials, 1941-1965, relating to North Carolina nonprofit organizations apparently collected by Coates in preparation for a study of these agencies at the local administrative level. Included are annual reports and publications of a variety of social and community organizations, like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Also included are materials about regional organizations arranged by place name, reports of various committees of the North Carolina Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and information about other North Carolina and national agencies. Miscellaneous items included two original manuscripts by Coates, and Boxes 8-36 (Additions of February 1993 and October 1994) chiefly contain office files, many of which relate to Coates's tenure with the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Many file folders and occasionally individual letters are annotated with summaries, topic statements, or indications of importance. Topics include the founding and operation of the Institute of Government; legal education; law enforcement training; cases and statutes on legal topics; student government; Coates's writings, speeches and talks; speaking engagements; honors and awards; and personal matters. Boxes 37-43 (Additions of February and March 2003) contain letters, telegrams, wedding invitations, bills, report cards, course materials, and other papers. Boxes 44-85 (Addition of September 2009) consist chiefly of personal letters to Gladys Hall Coates from friends and family, but there also are letters to Albert Coates and correspondence between Albert and Gladys. Letters from Gladys's family in and around Portsmouth, Va., are extensive and particularly descriptive of family relationships and women's daily lived experience in the context of the social and political climate of the 1930s through the 1970s. Non-family letters reveal more about Gladys's life, in particular her expansive circle of friends and acquaintances, her contributions to husband Albert's professional successes, and her own active civic life. Other materials in this addition include speeches and interviews, some recorded on film and audiocassette, and writings; correspondence and other materials relating to the Coates' work at the University of North Carolina and the Institute of Government, including a 1934 police school film; family papers, including diaries, military papers, newspaper clippings, fraternity and University of North Carolina pins, and memoirs and genealogical research relating to the Coates, Pollard, and Bradley families; travel papers, including itineraries, correspondence and other papers related to travel in Europe and the Soviet Union; photographic materials, 1860s-1990s, (a few signed by Bayard Wootten) including formal and informal portraits and snapshots of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates and their Coates, Hall, Pollard, and Cauthorn relatives and friends that depict University of North Carolina and Institute of Government work and events, family gatherings, vacationing at North Carolina beaches, travel to Europe and Mexico, late nineteenth- to mid twentieth-century fashion, and other subjects; and other published and unpublished papers, including printed ephemera, notebooks and clippings, Gladys Hall Coates's and other materials. The Many Lives of North Carolina Women, Palingenesis: An Example. Special Keepsakes,
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About 51,600 items (73.5 linear feet)
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