E. C. Branson papers, 1895-1933.

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E. C. Branson papers, 1895-1933.

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Personal and professional correspondence and writings of E. C. Branson. The collection includes papers pertaining to research into all aspects of rural life in the South and in Europe, including an international correspondence and many writings; to his activities as professor at the University of North Carolina; and to varied other public and civic issues, in particular farm tenancy, illiteracy, and rural credit. He was actively involved in North Carolina movements concerning the reclamation of farm land, better port terminal facilities, and good roads. Few papers pertain to Branson's teaching career before 1914.

18,000 (ca.) items (23.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Branson, E. C. (Eugene Cunningham), 1861-1933

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Branson was an educator, author, and editor, president of the State Normal School of Georgia, 1900-1912, head of its department of rural economics and sociology, 1912-1914, and founder and head of the rural social economics program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of E. C. Branson papers, 1895-1933. WorldCat record id: 25031620 Eugene Cunningham Branson (1861-1933) was an educator, author, and editor, president of the Stat...

Branson family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Rural Economics.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...