African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Masson, Henri, fl. 1831-1860.
Collection number: 898
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Abstract: Manuscript notebooks, 1831-1855 and 1860, of Henri Masson, a Frenchman who taught at antebellum academies in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The books Continue reading “Henri Masson papers, 1831-1860.”
Creator: Webb Family.
Collection number: 1900
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Abstract: Persons represented include Alexander Smith Webb (fl. 1830s) of Person County, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Adeline (Stanford) Webb, daughter of U.S. Representative Richard Stanford Continue reading “Webb family papers, 1765-1960.”
Creator: Pruden, William D., 1847-1918.
Collection number: 1909
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Abstract: William Dossey Pruden, of Edenton, N.C., was a lawyer, an active Democrat, and the North Carolina member of the commission deciding the boundary between northeast Continue reading “William D. Pruden papers, 1812-1919 (bulk 1880-1919).”
Creator: Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
Collection number: 4687
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Abstract: The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (Knight Commission) was established in 1989 with the purpose of drafting a reform agenda for the administration of Continue reading “Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics records, 1989-2007.”
Creator: Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968.
Collection number: 3809
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Abstract: Thomas F. Hickerson was a professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an expert in highway design. Continue reading “Thomas F. Hickerson papers, 1911-1967.”
Creator: Sutherlin, William Thomas, 1822-1893.
Collection number: 3327
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Abstract: Farmer, leaf tobacco dealer, and tobacco manufacturer of Danville, Va., 1846-1861; mayor, 1855-1861; president of the Danville Bank; delegate to the Virginia secession convention; Continue reading “William Thomas Sutherlin papers, 1842-1892.”
Creator: Mercer family.
Collection number: 2990
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Abstract: Papers of a Brunswick County, N.C., family, including correspondence of John Mercer (1812-1863), relating chiefly to business issues. Included are letters from J. Prioleau Continue reading “Mercer family papers, 1854-1950 (bulk 1854-1865).”
Creator: Williams, Sarah Frances Hicks, b. 1827.
Collection number: 3210
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Abstract: Letters from Sarah Frances Hicks to her parents in New Hartford, N.Y., while she was a student in Albany, N.Y., visiting relatives in New York, Ohio, and New Hampshire, and after her Continue reading “Sarah Frances Hicks Williams letters, 1838-1868.”
Creator: Pugh, James Thomas, 1873-1942.
Collection number: 1590
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Abstract: Family correspondence and storekeeping records of a North Carolina family in the 19th century. The collection includes accounts of dealings in merchandise by James Monroe Pugh (b. 1826), father of James Thomas Pugh, 1850s and late Continue reading “James Thomas Pugh papers, 1835-1973 (bulk 1868-1910).”
Creator: Richardson-Vicks, Inc.
Collection number: 4468
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Abstract: Lunsford Richardson (1854-1919) began marketing various remedies in Greensboro, N.C. in 1898. The operation became Vick Chemical Company in 1911 and made increasing profits Continue reading “Richardson-Vicks, Inc. records, 1885-1985 (bulk 1919-1929).”