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Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Records, 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

Title: Records, 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Dept., but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370789 View

Richardson, Henry Smith, 1885-1972. Henry Smith Richardson papers, 1811-1999 [manuscript].

Title: Henry Smith Richardson papers, 1811-1999 [manuscript].

The collection includes personal and business correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings and other printed material, and business and association records documenting H. Smith Richardson's career; papers of Richardson's family, including his father Vick Chemical founder Lunsford Richardson and his brother Lunsford, Jr.; and papers relating to Smith and Richardson family history, including audio cassettes of interviews with 17 Richardson family members and printed and videotaped oral histories of the Richardson family. Richardson's correspondence addresses a broad range of issues, including his business interests in the Vick Chemical Company, Richardson- Merrell, Inc., Reinsurance Corporation of New York, and other companies. Letters also document his participation in the America First Committee, the Republican Party, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Boy Scouts of America, the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, and the Smith Richardson Foundation (formerly Richardson Foundation). They also document his interests in anticommunism, Senator Joe McCarthy's tactics, local politics in both North Carolina and Connecticut, and segregation both in the U.S. and South Africa. Writings include a series of articles about the causes of the Depression in North Carolina. Also included are diaries and correspondence of his father-in- law Jacob Henry Smith, Presbyterian minister in Greensboro during the second half of the 19th century, and his wife Mary Kelly Watson Smith, including materials relating to Greensboro during the Civil War and a letter from a slave. Pictures and other documents relate to Richardson's father's birthplace Parker Heights Plantation near Salem, N.C.

ArchivalResource: About 8000 items (19.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32246364 View

Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Title: Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Alexander Worth McAlister was founder and president of Pilot Life Insurance Company and a leader in the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other material of Alexander W. McAlister chiefly includes correspondence with associates in business and civic organizations and versions of published and unpublished writings by McAlister. Most items date from 1930 through 1943, although there is some earlier correspondence and some writings from as early as the 1880s. Well-documented in these papers are McAlister's activities as a member of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, as well as his association with various civic organizations in Greensboro. Much of the correspondence and many writings relate to particular concerns of McAlister, including prohibition, the New Deal, golf, child welfare, prison reform, the Community Church in Greensboro, and education. Although there is some material relating to McAlister's business activities, documentation in these papers of his work as an insurance executive and in other business ventures is incomplete. There also is little personal material regarding McAlister's family and close friends.

ArchivalResource: About 8500 items (15.0 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McAlister,Alexander_W.html View

American Medical Association. Dept. of Investigation. Records. Vibration-Viet Nam Program (inclusive), 1910-1973.

Title: Records. Vibration-Viet Nam Program (inclusive), 1910-1973.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning vibration and vibrating devices of various kinds, 1910-1973; Vicks Family Remedies, a proprietary medicine firm specializing in cold remedies, 1911-1973; Vienna Medical Institute, an advertising style used by a quack specializing in diseases of men, 1910-1959; and Viet Nam Program (actually "Physicians for Viet Nam Program"--file concerns members of the group who lost their licenses for a time for income tax evasion or selling and/or using narcotics), 1968-1971.

ArchivalResource: 12 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23891568 View

Preyer, Richardson. Richardson Preyer papers, ca. 1900-2004.

Title: Richardson Preyer papers, ca. 1900-2004.

The collection documents the public and private life of "Rich" Preyer; his wife, Emily Harris Preyer (1919-1999); their children; and other Preyer and Richardson family members. Political papers document Preyer from his failed candidacy for governor of North Carolina in 1964 to his role as an advisor and fundraiser for the Democratic Party after he left elected office in 1981. Most materials pertain to his six-terms in Congress representing the sixth district of North Carolina, including his service on the Select Committee on Assassinations. Also documented are the Preyers' extensive civic and philanthropic work for education, the environment, health care, legal affairs, politics, social uplift, and the First Presbyterian Church. Richardson family materials show Preyer's contributions to family interests, including the Vick Chemical Company; the Lunsford Richardson Memorial Hospital, which served African Americans in Greensboro; the Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.; and other family businesses. Preyer's law practice and judicial appointments are also documented, as are his speaking and teaching activities after 1981. These materials reflect Preyer's interests in education, the Democratic Party, ethics, media, politics, and health policy. Emily Harris Preyer papers include speeches and other materials that document her roles as civic leader in her own right and supportive wife of a politician. Also included are biographical materials, scrapbooks, photographs, audio-visual items, and other materials documenting familial relationships and academic and leisure activities of Preyer and his family.

ArchivalResource: About 65600 items (96.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56326120 View

Elmo Roper Papers., 1909-1972

Title: Elmo Roper Papers

Elmo Roper (1900-1971) was a pioneer in the fields of market research and public opinion polling. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, speech cards, articles, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, some job files from Roper Research Associates, and a variety of press releases, advertisements, and legal papers from the various groups and corporations with which he was involved.

ArchivalResource:

https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/628 View

Richardson-Vicks, Inc. Richardson-Vicks, Inc. records, 1885-1985 (bulk 1919-1929).

Title: Richardson-Vicks, Inc. records, 1885-1985 (bulk 1919-1929).

Files kept by H. Smith Richardson, Sr., while he was president of Vick Chemical Company, 1919-1929; files pertaining to the operation of the company, chiefly generated by the General Manager's Department; files from the Advertising and Sales Department, including campaign books; financial and legal papers; personnel materials; files from the Production Department; "historical material"; clippings; files of H. Smith Richardson, Jr., concerning hostile takeover bids; Richardson family papers; product samples; photographs; and audio-visual materials. Although the papers include material from the early years of the company through its sale to Procter & Gamble Company in 1985, the bulk of material dates from the years 1919-1929. Coverage of the years before 1919 is scant, consisting of a few mementoes and some correspondence. Coverage of the years 1929-1985 is very uneven. A notable exception is material from the Advertising and Sales Department, which is nearly complete from 1920 to 1960.

ArchivalResource: About 34000 items (100.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26064124 View

Vick Chemical Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

Title: [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

ArchivalResource: v. 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701749711 View

Rock, Arthur, 1926-. Oral history interview with Arthur Rock Beckman Heritage Project 2002 Oct. 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur Rock Beckman Heritage Project 2002 Oct. 9.

Arthur Rock begins the interview with a discussion of his family and educational background. In 1944, Rock joined the United States Army. After World War II, Rock attended Syracuse University, and then continued on to Harvard Business School. After his schooling, Rock began to work on Wall Street and discovered that he had an interest and affinity for business in technology. At Hayden Stone and Company he worked in the corporate department to establish technological companies such as General Transistor. In the late 1950s, Rock received a letter from Eugene Kleiner that sparked his interest. He met the 'Traitorous Eight,' from Shockley Semiconductor and the wheels of venture capitalism were set in motion. Rock's ambitions for the group were so radical that thirty-five companies declined them financial backing before Sherman Fairchild invested what was needed to start Fairchild Semiconductor. Afterwards, in 1961, Rock moved from his home in New York to San Francisco, where he formed Davis and Rock, a firm that lasted for seven years, with Thomas Davis. This pioneering venture capital firm met with great success, creating other semiconductor firms, such as Teledyne Technologies, Inc. Rock reflects on the growing connection between semiconductors and computers and then the decision of Robert N. Noyce and Gordon E. Moore to leave Fairchild in order to form Intel Corporation, of which he was the first chairman of the board of directors. Rock concludes the interview by reflecting on his own innovations.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings ; cassettes (60 mins.)Transcript : ( 29 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62751704 View