African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Powell, Daniel Augustus, 1911-1983.
Collection number: 4364
View finding aid.
Abstract: Daniel A. Powell was born on 29 July 1911 in Wilson, N.C. In the 1930s Powell worked as a salesman for the American Circulation Company, the Pacific Mutual Life Continue reading “Daniel Augustus Powell papers, 1945-1983 (1950-1981).”
Creator: Spengler, Abraham S., fl. 1859.
Collection number: 3221-z
View finding aid.
Abstract: Letter from Abraham S. Spengler to his brother reporting news from the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, including threats against local abolitionists, probably after the Continue reading “Abraham S. Spengler letter, 1859.”
Creator: Hairston, Elizabeth Seawell Hairston, 1855-1945.
Collection number: 1518
View finding aid.
Abstract: Elizabeth Seawell Hairston Hairston was a Virginia genealogist. Papers of Elizabeth Seawell Hairston Hairston and of other members of the Hairston, Penn, Wilson, and related families, chiefly of Patrick and Henry counties, Va. Included are Continue reading “Elizabeth Seawell Hairston Hairston papers, 1805-1943.”
Creator: Hubard family.
Collection number: 360
View finding aid.
Abstract: The collection includes business and personal papers of Edmund Wilcox Hubard (1806-1878), planter, militia officer, state legislator, and U.S. Representative from Virginia, and of Continue reading “Hubard family papers, 1741-1907.”
Creator: Kean and Prescott family.
Collection number: 2851
View finding aid.
Abstract: Scattered personal correspondence of the Hill and Kean families of Caroline County, Va., and the Prescott and Moore families of Louisiana. Topics include the War of 1812, economic conditions in the 1840s, and planting in Continue reading “Kean and Prescott family papers, 1779-1881.”
Creator: Burwell, George W., d. 1873.
Collection number: 4291
View finding aid.
Abstract: George W. Burwell was a physician, planter, and businessman of Mecklenburg County, Va. He had family and business connections to Henderson, Granville County, N.C., and other locations along the North Carolina-Virginia border, Continue reading “George W. Burwell papers, 1786, 1800-1884.”
Creator: Brownrigg family.
Collection number: 2226
View finding aid.
Abstract: Brownrigg family of Wicklow County, Ireland; Chowan, Pasquotank, and Hertford counties, N.C.; and Mississippi. Included are Richard Brownrigg (d. 1771) of Ireland; brothers John and Thomas Brownrigg; Thomas’s wife, Ruth; their son, Continue reading “Brownrigg family papers, 1736-1986.”
Creator: Pearson, Richmond, 1852-1923.
Collection number: 3647
View finding aid.
Abstract: Pearson, lawyer of Asheville, N.C., was U.S. consul in Belgium; Democratic North Carolina representative, 1884-1886; Republican U.S. representative, 1895-1899 and 1900-1901; Continue reading “Richmond Pearson papers, 1852-1940 (bulk 1872-1912).”
Creator: Dickins, Francis Asbury.
Collection number: 218
View finding aid.
Abstract: Francis Asbury Dickins (1804-1901) was a planter of Ossian Hall in Fairfax County, Va., agent for the United States War and Treasury departments and lawyer of Washington, D.C., specializing in government claims, son of Asbury Dickins Continue reading “Francis Asbury Dickins papers, 1729-1934.”
Creator: Rangeley family.
Collection number: 4625
View finding aid.
Abstract: Chiefly account books recording transactions relating to businesses operated by various members of the Rangeley family of Virginia. Early books, 1823 through the 1860s, pertain to an establishment operated by John Rangeley of Patrick Continue reading “Rangeley family papers, 1823-1949.”