Papers, 1900-1990.

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Papers, 1900-1990.

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Collection consists of written and audiotaped correspondence, reminiscences, API student notebooks, memorabilia from Wright's days as a Boy Scout, student, and soldier in U.S. Army, ca. 400 photographic prints and ca. 1800 negatives of people and town views of Auburn, Indianapolis, towns in Pennsylvania, Miami, West Palm Beach, Biloxi. Also contains audiotaped recordings of church services, recollections, telephone conversations, and an inventory of household goods. Publications in collection include "Auburn Alumnus" (1928-31), Auburn city phone directories (1942-56), newsclippings, Auburn Methodist church bulletins, United Daughters of the Confederacy pamphlets, and local play programs.

5.5 cubic ft.

Auburn University.

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Auburn University.

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Wright, George Alfonso, 1899-1992.

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Wright graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in 1919 in electrical engineering. He worked in electrical engineering for his entire career, first for Westinghouse, then in partnership with former classmate Louis Vaughn, and after 1928 in Indianapolis as an independent sales engineer. Wright retired to Auburn in 1979, living there until his 1992 death. He was an avid amatuer photographer and grandson of W.W. Wright, an important Auburn merchant. From the ...

Wright, W. W.

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Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...

Wright, John Peavy

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Vaughn, Louis.

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