A. C. Reynolds Collection
Content Description
A.C. Reynolds (1870 - 1953) served as the second president of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (Western Carolina University), from 1912 to 1920. He was influential in Buncombe County education and instrumental in establishing Rutherford College, in Brevard, NC. Reynolds wrote about his experiences in fostering education in western North Carolina, his beliefs about the role of education, and his life as a boy in the mountains of western North Carolina in the late 1890s.
The collection contains materials dealing with education in western North Carolina, the formation of Western Carolina University, Reynolds' life as an educator, Jackson County public schools, Buncombe County Board of Education minutes, a genealogy of the Flinton family, and a hotel register from the Mountain View Hotel, in Webster, NC.
Additions to this collection include a scrapbook, family photos, a collection of Sylva Heralds and bulletins of the Sylva United Methodist Church.
Dates
- 1888 - 1969
Conditions Governing Use
No publication fee is made for use of Western Carolina University Library special collections material in scholarly publications. The Library retains sole right to judge what constitutes a non-scholarly or commercial publication. Permission to publish commercially, in circumstances where the Library is qualified to grant it, requires proper authorization. Please contact Special Collections at SpecialCollections@email.wcu.edu for more information.
Extent
8.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Condition Description
Good
- Asheville citizen (Asheville, N.C. : 1900) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Blueprints (reprographic copies) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Church bulletins Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings (information artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Commencement ceremonies Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (Cullowhee, N.C.)
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Educators -- North Carolina, Western Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Family histories Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hotels -- North Carolina -- Webster Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hotels -- Registers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Leatherwood, Lillian, 1898- -- Poetry Subject Source: Local sources
- Minutes (administrative records) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Newport plain talk and tribune Subject Source: Local sources
- Newspapers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- North Carolina, Western -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Notated music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pamphlets Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph albums Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poetry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Programs (Publications) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Public schools -- North Carolina -- Jackson County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Registers (lists) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Reynolds family -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reynolds, Alonzo Carlton, 1870-1953
- School boards -- Records and correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sheet music Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sylva Methodist Church (Sylva, N.C.)
- Sylva Methodist Church (Sylva, N.C.) -- Clergy Subject Source: Local sources
- Sylva herald and ruralite Subject Source: Local sources
- Western Carolina College
- Western Carolina Teachers College
- Western Carolina University -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Hunter Library - Special Collections Repository
Cullowhee United States
