Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers, 1915, 1962-1966

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Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers, 1915, 1962-1966

Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers, 1915, 1962-1966

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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer and president of the Chatham Railroad. He was active in state affairs during the Civil War and served as state treasurer and as University of North Carolina president, 1876-1891, and professor of history, 1891-1907. The collection includes correspondence and other papers relating to a competition established by Battle in 1915 for students at the University of North Carolina to write an essay on technological changes reflected in the Montgomery Ward catalogs of 1915, 1965, and 2015. Included are the catalogs of 1915 and 1965 (two copies); photocopies of the 1965 winning essay, by R. B. House; correspondence, 1962-1966, about arrangements for the the competition, chiefly between Battle's grandson Kemp D. Battle of Rocky Mount, N.C., and James W. Patton, curator of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC; financial materials, 1965-1966, relating to the Kemp P. Battle 1915 Fund; a metal box in which the 1915 catalog had been preserved. Great and Important Changes: The Machine Age in North Carolina as seen by comparing Montgomery Ward & Company's catalog of 1915 with that of 1965

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection