African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Plyler, Jane Abernethy, 1945-
Collection number: 4230
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Abstract: Jane Abernethy Plyler received a B.S. in nursing from East Carolina University in 1967 and an M.S. in community health nursing from the University of North Carolina at Continue reading “Jane Abernethy Plyler papers, 1979-1980.”
Creator: Mackay and Stiles family.
Collection number: 470
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Abstract: The Mackay and Stiles families were merchants of Savannah, Ga. Prominent family members include Robert Mackay (1772-1816); his wife, Eliza McQueen Mackay (1778-1862); their children, William Mein Mackay (1804-1865), Continue reading “Mackay and Stiles family papers, 1743-1975.”
Creator: Baker, Everard Green, b. 1826.
Collection number: 41
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Abstract: The collection includes personal diaries and plantation journal of Baker of Jefferson, Panola, and Hinds counties, Miss., containing references to farming, household matters, neighborhood affairs, philosophical ideas, and Continue reading “Everard Green papers, 1848-1876.”
Creator: Hudson, Franklin A., fl. 1852-1871.
Collection number: 2290
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Abstract: Franklin A. Hudson was the owner in the 1850s of Blythewood Plantation on Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, La. The collection includes seven volumes of a diary kept by Franklin A. Continue reading “Franklin A. Hudson diary, 1852-1859.”
Creator: Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929.
Collection number: 1641
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Abstract: Personal and professional correspondence of and about Goldberger, physician, medical researcher, and epidemiologist with the U.S. Public Health Service, 1899-1929, concerning his field work and research in connection with Continue reading “Joseph Goldberger papers, 1891-1949.”
Creator: Russell, Ira, fl. 1861-1865.
Collection number: 4440
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Abstract: Ira Russell, physician of Massachusetts, who served in the Union Army as a surgeon during the Civil War, first as administrator of hospitals in northwest Arkansas, then as surgeon- Continue reading “Ira Russell papers, 1861-1865.”
Creator: Robinson, Benjamin, 1775-1857.
Collection number: 3155
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Abstract: Thirteen ledgers, eleven daybooks, and two other volumes of Benjamin Robinson (1775-1857) and Benjamin West Robinson, father and son, physicians of Fayetteville, N.C. These volumes contain records of accounts Continue reading “Benjamin Robinson and Benjamin West Robinson account books, 1805-1863.”
Creator: North Carolina Home Insurance Company policies, 1847-1889 (Raleigh, N.C.).
Collection number: 1395z
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Abstract: Printed policies of various unrelated individuals, chiefly insuring homes in Raleigh and eastern North Carolina against fire, issued by the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, 1847-1861, and the North Carolina Continue reading “North Carolina Home Insurance Company policies, 1847-1889.”
Creator: Barrow, Robert Ruffin, 1798-1875.
Collection number: 2407
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Abstract: Robert Ruffin Barrow (b. 1798) was a sugar planter and canal operator in Terrebonne Parish, La. Barrow was the son of Bartholomew Barrow (d. 1852), a merchant of Fishing Creek, Halifax County, N.C., and later a planter in West Feliciana Continue reading “Robert Ruffin Barrow papers, 1811-1858 (bulk 1811-1814, 1857-1858).”
Creator: Hughes family.
Collection number: 2779
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Abstract: Principal member of the Hughes family of Edgefield, S.C., are Dr. John Hughes (d. 1835) and his son, John H. Hughes (d. 1871), who were both cotton planters; John Hughes’s sister, Continue reading “Hughes family papers, 1790-1910 (bulk 1820-1898).”