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
- Creation: 1888 - 1969
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
8.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Condition Description
Good
Subject
- Reynolds, Alonzo Carlton, 1870-1953 (Person)
- Sylva Methodist Church (Sylva, N.C.) (Organization)
- Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (Cullowhee, N.C.) (Organization)
- Western Carolina Teachers College (Organization)
- Western Carolina College (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Blueprints (reprographic copies)
- Church bulletins
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Family histories
- Minutes (administrative records)
- Newspapers
- Notated music
- Pamphlets
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
- Poetry
- Programs (Publications)
- Registers (Lists)
- Scrapbooks
- Sheet music
Geographic
Topical
- Commencement ceremonies
- Educators -- North Carolina, Western
- Hotels -- North Carolina -- Webster
- Hotels -- Registers
- Leatherwood, Lillian, 1898- -- Poetry
- Public schools -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
- Reynolds family -- Photographs
- School boards -- Records and correspondence
- Sylva Methodist Church (Sylva, N.C.) -- Clergy
- Western Carolina University -- History
Uniform Title
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Hunter Library - Special Collections Repository
Cullowhee United States