Sallie Southall Cotten papers, 1857-1929.

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Sallie Southall Cotten papers, 1857-1929.

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Primarily letters from Sallie Southall Cotten to her son, Bruce Cotten, concerning family news, current events, and women's issues, including her work in various women's organizations and her lobbying activities in the North Carolina legislature. Also inlcuded is genealogical information on the Sims, Dromgoole, Walton, and Southall families; Sallie Southall Cotten's scrapbooks, 1885-1928, containing clippings, poems, pictures, and other memorabilia relating to her work with women's organizations, and to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; four notebooks of reminiscences, 1913-1916, and a copy of "The White Doe."

About 2000 items (2.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7240886

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Cotten, Sallie Southall

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Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's issues. Cotten was a leader in both the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Congress of Mothers, through which she worked to advance the legal and educational status of women. She also published articles and poetry, most notably The White Doe (1901), a verse history of the Lost Colony. From the guide to the Sallie Southall Cotten papers, 1857-1929, (Un...

Walton family.

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National Congress of Mothers (U.S.)

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Southall family.

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Simms family.

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Cotten, Bruce, 1873-1954

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Bruce Cotten, the fifth child of Robert Randolph Cotten and Sally Sims Southall Cotten, was born in Wilson, N.C., on 3 March 1873. He attended the Horner Military School in Oxford, N.C., before enrolling at the University of North Carolina where he spent the 1891-1892 school year. Following a brief attempt at business and a year in Alaska during the gold rush, Cotten returned to the States and volunteered for the Spanish-American War (1898). After becoming a member of the regular army, he partic...

Stephenson, William, 1930-

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Dromgoole family.

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North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs

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