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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chiefly includes correspondence with associates in business and civic organizations and versions of published and unpublished writings by McAlister.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)

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Avery family. Johnston and Virginia Hall Avery private papers, 1916-1976.

Title: Johnston and Virginia Hall Avery private papers, 1916-1976.

The collection consists of carbon copies of correspondence and papers which reflect Johnston Avery's involvement with several important issues of his time. The majority of papers consists of correspondence written or received by Avery including holograph, typewritten and typewritten carbon copy letters. Important correspondents include William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia from 1944 to 1971 and other Liberian government officials; Robert R. Reynolds, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1933 to 1945; J.C.B. Ehringhaus, North Carolina governor from 1933 to 1937; and various businessmen involved in the LAMCO Joint Venture. A few items were not addressed to Mr. Avery. These items include letters written by or addressed to his wife, Virginia Hall Avery.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3376 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49886402 View

Jeffress, E. B. (Edwin Bedford), 1887-1961. E. B. Jeffress papers, 1860-1955.

Title: E. B. Jeffress papers, 1860-1955.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly relating to E. B. Jeffress's public life. Beginning in 1921 and continuing throughout the collection, there are items relating to Jeffress's managerial duties at the "Greensboro Daily News." Materials from the period 1925-1929 document Jeffress's activities as mayor of Greensboro, particularly his interests in taxes, highway construction, airmail delivery, and bonds to finance various civic improvements. Correspondence about highway construction, consolidation of the state's public universities, prison reform, electric power rate hikes, Democratic Party politics, and taxes documents Jeffress's tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly. There are also materials relating to Jeffress's activities as chair of the North Carolina State Highway Commission and its successor, the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Many of the letters are to and from persons interested in specific road projects. Other letters relate to prison problems, which were closely allied to road issues, since many roads were built using convict labor. Also included are a typed copy of Jeffress's unpublished manuscript "The Modern State of North Carolina, 1776-1955" and a few photographs.

ArchivalResource: About 3300 items (3.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28359486 View

Ashe, Samuel A. (Samuel A'Court), 1840-1938. Samuel A. Ashe papers, 1855-1938.

Title: Samuel A. Ashe papers, 1855-1938.

Correspondence, writings, and printed materials. Most of the letters were sent to Samuel A. Ashe, although a few were sent to or from his father, William Shepperd Ashe. Early correspondence includes a letter to naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan; Civil War memos; and letters from Samuel A. Ashe, Jr., writing about college life at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. There are also letters from North Carolina governors, including Thomas M. Holt, Angus W. McLean, and John C. B. Ehringhaus, or from United States senators, including A. S. Merrimon and Furnifold M. Simmons. Some of these letters deal with state and national Democratic Party politics. Other letters to Ashe are from friends, publishers, admirers, and relatives. Many letters include comments on and questions about Ashe's writings, politics, and the Civil War. Noted corrspondents include publisher Charles L. Van Noppen, J. I. McRee of the Richmond Dispatch, writer John Battle, and journalist and historian David Rankin Barbee. Both Alex McBee and fellow historian R. D. W. Connor mentioned the political and economic climate during the Great Depression. Writings by Ashe consist of a journal/scrapbook and other writings that deal with childhood memories, details about Civil War battles, and controversies about how the South was represented after the Civil War. There are also Ashe's petition to join the Children of the Confederacy and materials relating monuments at Appomattox, Va. Printed material chiefly relate to Ashe's publications.

ArchivalResource: About 100 items (0.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57679701 View

Shepard, James E. James E. Shepard papers, 1905-1947 (bulk 1940-1947).

Title: James E. Shepard papers, 1905-1947 (bulk 1940-1947).

The collection contains correspondence, speeches, writings, organization files, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Correspondence with local and national educators, government officials, civil rights activists, historians, and others documents Shepard's professional life at the North Carolina College for Negroes and his civic involvement. Slight correspondence with family members is also present. Speeches and writings address a variety of topics including race relations, World War II, and education. Organization files represent more than 200 local, state, and national civic associations, fraternal orders, businesses, and educational institutions with which Shepard was affiliated chiefly as a board or committee member. The organization materials document Shepard's concerns with social and economic conditions in North Carolina and his involvement in higher education and state government. World War II materials pertain to Shepard in his roles as a spokesperson for African Americans in North Carolina and as one of two African Americans appointed to the North Carolina Appeals Board for men drafted into military service. Newspaper clippings represent a variety of publications and a broad range of perspectives on contemporary issues including, but not limited to, race relations and education. Among the persons significant in the collection are John C.B. Ehringhaus, Clyde A. Erwin, Miles Mark Fisher, Robert Lee Flowers, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, Gordon B. Hancock, N.C. Newbold, Walter F. White, and Plummer Bernard Young. Subjects of photographs include Shepard and his family, as well as faculty functions, Shepard's funeral, and professional colleagues. Among the photographs is one of Booker T. Washington together with Shepard during Washington's 1910 visit to the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 feet of linear shelf space.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768331201 View

Warren, Lindsay C. (Lindsay Carter), 1889-1976. Lindsay C. Warren papers, 1916-1968 (bulk 1924-1954).

Title: Lindsay C. Warren papers, 1916-1968 (bulk 1924-1954).

Papers, primarily 1924-1954, include Warren's correspondence with constituents, friends, and associates in Beaufort County and other parts of northeastern North Carolina, and in Congress, and with federal officials on affairs of his district. Many earlier papers were destroyed by fire. There are papers pertaining to Warren's special interests in agricultural legislation, particularly pertaining to potatoes and peanuts; the United States Coast Guard; river and harbor legislation, waterways, and the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; hunting, fishing, and game conservation and regulation; the Cape Hatteras National Seashore; highway development; congressional and governmental reorganizations; and government accounting, as chairman of the House Committee on Accounts. Also included are papers relating to his membership on the North Carolina constitutional commission of 1931-1932. Papers after 1940 are mostly personal. Scattered items relating to the position of comptroller general, and reports, testimony, speeches, and clippings, 1940-1954, are mounted in scrapbooks and other volumes. Prominent correspondents included are Josiah Bailey, William B. Bankhead, G. A. Barden, W. J. Boyd, John Cochran, C. W. Darden, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Bruce Etheridge, E. G. Flanagan, Oliver Max Gardner, John Nance Garner, Clyde R. Hoey, W. E. Hooks, John H. Kerr, John McDuffie, Harry McMullan, Lee S. Overman, J. B. Pierce, W. O. Saunders, Furnifold Simmons, and Ford Worthy. Early papers of Herbert Bonner, Warren's secretary and successor as United States representative, are also present.

ArchivalResource: 37,000 (ca.) items (47.0 linear ft).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319546 View

Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Medical Society of the State of North Carolina letters from governors, legislators, and others, 1880- 1962 [manuscript].

Title: Medical Society of the State of North Carolina letters from governors, legislators, and others, 1880- 1962 [manuscript].

Letters from North Carolina governors, legislators, and others, most written to members of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina or their colleagues. Included are one lettr, 1912, from Charles B. Aycock about his health; 38 letters, 1910-1947, to and from J. Melville Broughton about several topics, including his activities as legal representative for the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, 1946-1947; 7 letters, 1932-1942, to and from John Ehringhaus about appointments and routine activities; from Clyde Hoey acknowledging supoort and other routine matters; 2 letters, 1931, to and from O. Max Gardner acknowledging receipt of other letters; 3 letters, 1904-1909, from R. B. Glenn acknowledging support and reminiscing about old times; one letter, 1966, from Luther Hodges acknowledging a sympathy card; 4 letters, 1936- 1951, from Clyde Hoey acknowledging supoort and other routine matters; one letter, 1933, from Cameron Morrison acknowledging support; one letter, 1946, from Terry Sanford, declining to pursue a position with the Medical Society; one letter, 1955, from Kerr Scott transmitting U.S. Senate gallery passes; one letter, 1969, from Robert Scott on routine matters; one letter, 1953, from William B. Umstead acknowledging the Medical Society's input about building a sanatorium; and 12 letters, 1880- 1962, from other state officials chiefly acknowledging support or discussing routine matters.

ArchivalResource: About 160 items (3 folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30485624 View

Pope, Oliver R. Oliver R. Pope letters, 1933-1934 [manuscript].

Title: Oliver R. Pope letters, 1933-1934 [manuscript].

Letters, 1933-1934, of Oliver R. Pope, relating to the creation of a commission to study African American education in North Carolina. Correspondents are Kemp D. Battle, attorney of Rocky Mount, N.C.; John C. B. Ehringhaus, governor of North Carolina; and N. C. Newland, director of the State Division of Negro Education.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50280838 View

Moore, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), b. 1855. Charles Moore papers, 1915-[195-]

Title: Charles Moore papers, 1915-[195-]

Materials include correspondence; news clippings; State Agricultural and Mechanical College by Charles H. Moore; thesis, A History of the Agricultural and Technical College, 1925-1945, by Elizabeth Jacqueline Howard; and transcript of interview with Moore (1936).

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70968956 View

Charles Walter Tillett Papers, 1853-1954

Title: Charles Walter Tillett Papers, 1853-1954

Charles Walter Tillett (1888-1952) was a prominent Charlotte, N.C., lawyer, supporter of the United Nations, and University of North Carolina trustee. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, and research materials of Tillett. Over half of the materials are documents Tillett used in researching his speeches and articles. Many items relate to the United Nations and international law. Most of Tillett's speeches and articles deal with international concerns, although some pertain to local Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, state, and national Democratic Party politics; legal matters; and civic organizations. Correspondence, which dates from 1907 to 1952, largely concerns legal matters; fund-raising campaigns for various organizations; Tillett's work for the American Bar Association's section on International and Comparative Law; and his involvement in various activities at the University of North Carolina, including his service on the Board of Trustees. There are also materials relating to various aspects of his legal career and a few relating to his personal life. Among Tillett's correspondents were Josephus Daniels, John C. B. Ehringhaus, Edward Kidder Graham, Frank Porter Graham, and Tillett's wife Gladys Avery Tillett. Also included are some materials relating to Tillett's parents.

ArchivalResource: About 2,000 items (11.0 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04438/ View

Carr, James O. (James Ozborn), 1869-1949. James O. Carr papers, 1743-1938.

Title: James O. Carr papers, 1743-1938.

Political correspondence, mainly 1916-1938, of James O. Carr, especially with Henry G. Connor, Angus W. McLean, J.C.B. Ehringhaus, and Josiah W. Bailey, concerning Democratic Party organization, political issues and programs, and North Carolina state and national elections and patronage. Among the topics discussed in detail are the administration of Federal law courts in eastern North Carolina, especially the problem of enforcing liquor laws; North Carolina state financial programs; the state highway program; public education; the huckleberry industry; and the New Deal's effect on North Carolina. Earlier papers consist of family letters, mainly 1818-1885, written by members of the Dickson, Carr, and Hall families of Duplin County and Wilmington, N.C., and their relatives and friends in other southern states. Many of the correspondents were female. Volumes include seventeen general merchandise account books, 1876-1894, of Jacob W. Carr (b. 1827) at Rose Hill, N.C.; military court martial records and other information pertaining to the Duplin County militia, 1784-1853; secretary's book of the Hannah More Academy in Duplin County, 1834-1844; and Carr family history.

ArchivalResource: 1,550 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864362 View