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A. C. Reynolds Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-59
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...
Dates:
1888 - 1969
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Amos Medford Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-70
Scope and Contents
Amos Medford, a genealogist, assembled the collection. The collection contains correspondence, business papers, and legal papers of John Liner, a doctor in Haywood County, NC, in the early 19th century; an account by Medford of the 1910 trial of Allen Green, of Haywood County, on charges of manslaughter; a biographical pamphlet by W. Clark Medford on R.A. Sentelle (1846-1934), a former Haywood County school superintendent and minister; a book entitled Old Albemarle and Its Absentee Landlords,...
Dates:
1794 - 1955
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Associated Artists of North Carolina Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-77
Content Description
Associated Artists of North Carolina, Inc. (AANC) was organized formally on January 10, 1960, in Greensboro, NC. The January meeting had been preceded by an organizational meeting held on December 13, 1959, in the Merin Gallery, Greensboro, during which the proposed by-laws and statements of aims and objectives were drawn up.The purpose of the AANC was to bring together persons interested in the advancement of the fine arts in North Carolina. The Association was to conduct,...
Dates:
1959 - 1973
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Bartram Trail Society Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-71
Content Description
The Bartram Trail Society organized for the purpose of marking a hiking trail which follows the route traveled by William Bartram on his exploratory journey through the South in 1773-1776. The Society uses Bartram's Journal as a guide for marking the trails.Most of the collection concerns the North Carolina Bartram Trail Society, but much of their efforts are coordinated with Bartram Trail societies in Georgia and Alabama.
In addition to correspondence, the collection contains...
Dates:
1972 - 1979
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Bartram Trail Society Collection, Add. #1
Collection
Identifier: MSS 97-02
Content Description
The Bartram Trail Society exists for the purpose of marking a hiking trail which follows the route traveled by William Bartram on his exploratory journey through the South in 1773 - 1776. The Society uses Bartram's Journal as a guide for marking the trails.Most of the collection concerns the North Carolina Bartram Trail Society, but much of their efforts are coordinated with Bartram Trail societies in Georgia and Alabama.
This addition to the collection contains internal documents...
Dates:
1978 - 1987
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Charlotte & Leona Young Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-76
Scope and Contents
Charlotte Young and Leona Young were the daughters of Pickney Young, a mail carrier who rose to the rank of Confederate Brig. General during the Civil War. The Young sisters, originally from Candler, NC, taught at various schools in North Carolina and other states. In 1911-1912, Charlotte Young taught at Cullowhee Normal & Industrial School. She later became principal at Webster High School, in Webster, NC (1914-1917).Charlotte Young published several books of poetry, including...
Dates:
1800 - 1977
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Cherokee County (N.C.)
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-27
Content Description
The bulk of the collection consists of notes and articles prepared by Mrs. Louise Bayless, concerning the history of Cherokee County, NC. Several of the articles appeared in regional newspapers. The genealogical materials focus on Cherokee County families. There also is information on Fort Butler, a major collection point (in present-day Murphy, NC), for the Cherokee Indians during their forced removal in 1838. Most of the collection consists of photocopies; although some original items are...
Dates:
1791 - 1970
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
David M. Sherman Collection, Add. #6
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15-05
Content Description
This collection is an addition to MSS 03-03, David M. Sherman, and includes further material concerning the Benton MacKaye Trail and Benton MacKaye Trail Association.
Dates:
2004 - 2015
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
De Soto Trail Commission Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15-02
Content Description
This collection concerns the De Soto Trail Commission, a group which sought to establish Hernando De Soto's route through the southeastern United States after his landing in what would become Florida, in 1539. This collection contains records, reports, correspondence, and meeting minutes of the Trail Commission, with the vast majority of the materials dating from 1988-1992.
Dates:
1965 - 1992
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Dr. Rodney L. and Janie Leftwich Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 06-04
Content Description
Papers of Dr. Rodney L. Leftwich, educator and head of Western Carolina University’s “division of fine arts, industrial technology and home economics,” and of Mrs. Janie Leftwich, educator and “assistant professor” of Western Carolina University’s “art department,” and of their family.
Materials include, but not limited to, Dr. Leftwich’s educational career and contributions; photographs, notably of Western Carolina University (WCU) industrial technology classes and activities,...
Dates:
1954 - 2001
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
George Masa Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-29
Content Description
The George Masa collection is divided into the following groups: photographs and photo-albums, postcards, newspaper clipping notebooks, and books.The major grouping is the newspaper clipping notebooks, mainly taken from the Asheville Citizen during Masa's Asheville period. These notebooks concern the Cherokee Indians, lumbering, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and western North Carolina themes.The photographs are of western North Carolina scenes, including a...
Dates:
1915 - 1934
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
George Washington Carver / Slagle Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 98-1
Content Description
Twenty-six (26) pieces of correspondence from George Washington Carver to Mrs. Jesse Henry (Margaret Gillispie) Slagle and Dr. Thomas Dickey (Dick) Slagle, dating from 1924 - 1936. Also, twenty-two (22) mail envelopes accompanying the correspondence; a letter concerning the Siler family and Rev. Deal; clippings; and three (3) pamphlets printed in 1924 ("Studies with Phytosterols," "Experiment Station Record," "Some Natural Violet Hybrids of North America").
Dates:
1924 - 1936
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Glenn Tucker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-48
Content Description
A book dealing with Confederate General Longstreet was incomplete at Tucker's death, and the research notes and unfinished manuscript are in the collection. Additional items include a manuscript on Thomas Clingman and Civil War-related notes and materials. The collection contains book drafts, research notes, book reviews, correspondence and miscellaneous personal material.
Dates:
1939 - 1976
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Gordon B. McKinney Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-47
Content Description
The collection consists of a typescript and galley proofs of Gordon McKinney's book, Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community, (University of North Carolina Press, 1978).Also included in the collection are research and draft notes of several published articles by McKinney on politics in Appalachia. The articles are:"The Mountain Republican Party-Army," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 32."The Rise of the Hawk Machine...
Dates:
1843 - 1978
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Great Smoky Mountains Railway Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 13-07
Content Description
The Great Smoky Mountains Railway was a railway which operated in western North Carolina, and was founded in 1988, as a tourist railroad. The railway originally operated on 67 miles of track between Dillsboro and Murphy, which was the western portion of the route known as the "Murphy Branch." The Murphy Branch operated between Asheville and Murphy, N.C., in the latter part of the 19th century and into the 20th century. In 1988, the state of North Carolina purchased the Murphy Branch from the...
Dates:
1988 - 2008
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Higdon Family Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials of the Higdon Family Association, including scrapbooks, newsletters, membership lists, and related material. The Higdon Family Association is an organization dedicated to studying Higdon family genealogy, along with related family genealogy. The group was founded in 1975 in Franklin, N.C.
More information can be found at their website, www.higdonfamily.org.
More information can be found at their website, www.higdonfamily.org.
Dates:
1975 - 2010
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Hiram C. Wilburn Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-17
Content Description
Hiram C. Wilburn was the principal surveyor of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and unofficial founder of the Park museum.Wilburn was born February 28, 1880, in Union, SC. He graduated from Clemson College in 1908, with a degree in agriculture. From 1908-1916, he taught school and served as a high school principal in Union, SC. After this he owned and operated a farming and general supply store in Union. In 1925, Wilburn moved to North Carolina, where he found work as a...
Dates:
1829 - 1962
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Horace Kephart and Laura Mack Kephart Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12-05
Content Description
This collection concerns author and naturalist Horace Kephart (1862-1931) and the Kephart family, including his wife, Laura Mack Kephart (1862-1954) and their children. This collection contains:Correspondence from Horace Kephart’s father, Isaiah, chiefly concerning Kephart family genealogy; Correspondence between Kephart and his children; Correspondence and related material concerning a proposed brigade of “Sharpshooters” that Kephart attempted to organize...
Dates:
1873 - 2016
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Horace Kephart Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-24
Content Description
The collection was given as a gift to Western Carolina Teachers College by the executor of Kephart's will, with other items donated by Kephart's son, George Kephart. Dr. William E. Bird and Hiram C. Wilburn were instrumental in obtaining the collection for a museum they wanted to start. The collection was then loaned to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for approximately twenty years, and returned to Western Carolina University in 1973. The collection contains correspondence, periodicals...
Dates:
1886-1948
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Hubert Hayes Mountain Youth Jamboree Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 87-03
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to the Mountain Youth Jamboree, an annual performing arts event in Asheville, NC, where young people from the Southeast gathered to learn and perform folk music, dance, and song. Hubert Hayes founded the Jamboree in 1948. After his death, in 1964, Hayes’s widow, Leona Hayes, continued to run the gathering until its end. The last Mountain Youth Jamboree, which was held in April 1973. It was concluded with a trip to England to the International Folk...
Dates:
1914 - 1984
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-25
Scope and Contents
Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843) was a native of Charleston, SC. He was a lawyer, founding editor of the Southern Review (1828-1832), and a politician. He served in the South Carolina General Assembly (1820-1822; 1824-1830) and was South Carolina’s attorney general (1830-1832). On the national scene, he was charge d'affaires to Brussels (1832-1836), a member of the United States House of Representatives (1837-1839), and United States Attorney General (1841-1843), in the cabinet of President...
Dates:
1816 - 1861
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Ila Champion Cullowhee State Normal Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: SM 09-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a scrapbook by Ila Champion, who was a student at Cullowhee State Normal School (later Western Carolina University).Ila Champion Cullowhee State Normal ScrapbookScrapbook with Cullowhee State Normal School logo on cover. Contains clippings (see below), memorabilia concerning campus events, graduation name cards, programs (see below), correspondence, and ephemera.Clippings"Cullowhee Legally Becomes Teachers College, April...
Dates:
1928 - 1934
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
J. B. Lawson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-54
Content Description
James Brownlow Lawson (1862 - 1941) was a political figure, park ranger, and sheriff in Tennessee and Colorado. From 1926 to 1938, while living in Sevierville, TN, Lawson corresponded with Ms. Maidee Adams of Memphis, TN. His letters recite stories and anecdotes of his family and ancestry.
The newspaper clippings relate to Lawson's political campaigns in Sevierville. Other materials include genealogies of the Lawson and Bird (or Byrd) families.
The newspaper clippings relate to Lawson's political campaigns in Sevierville. Other materials include genealogies of the Lawson and Bird (or Byrd) families.
Dates:
1926 - 1965
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jackson County Arts Council / Jackson County Visual Arts Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 97-11
Dates:
1976-1997
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
James Robert Love Collection
File
Identifier: SM 80-55
Content Description
Colonel Robert Love (1760-1845) was born in Augusta County, Virginia. Love fought in the Revolutionary War and at war's end moved to Washington County, North Carolina (now Unicoi County, Tennessee). He married Mary Ann Dillard (1767-1842) in 1783.Love was active in politics, serving as a delegate to the convention of the State of Franklin in 1784, state representative from Washington County in 1789, justice of the peace in the same county in 1788, delegate to the 1788 North Carolina...
Dates:
1818 - 1939
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
James W. Wilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 81-12
Content Description
James W. Wilson (1832-1910) was influential in the promotion and construction of railroads in North Carolina. He served with the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1864, he was appointed superintendent of the Western North Carolina Railroad and in 1876 was elected president of the Western. Wilson later served as chief engineer for other railroad companies, and was responsible for engineering many of the rail lines which first penetrated the western North Carolina mountains. The collection...
Dates:
1851 - 1954
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jimmy Reed Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 99-02
Scope and Contents
Photographs, reminiscences, and memorabilia, including topically arranged ring-binders. Grouped topics listed include (1) Jimmy Reed Narrative, Class of 1928, Selfridge Field, Frog Level (Haywood County, NC); (2) State and Local Figures, Haywood Community College (Clyde, NC); (3) National Figures, Mrs. Carl Sandburg, Dr. Billy Graham, Prisons, Wildlife; (4) Miscellaneous, State and Local Events, Fontana Dam (Swain County, NC); (5) Miscellaneous, Liftoffs, Lassie, Wagon Train; (6)...
Dates:
1858 - 1995
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Joel T. Hubbard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-02
Scope and Contents
Joel Thomas Hubbard (1855-1933) was the owner and operator of a dry goods and notions store in Wilkesboro, NC, in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.
The collection consists primarily of correspondence to Hubbard from 1880-1931. In addition, there are business records, deeds, tax records and other legal documents, and news clippings. There is limited information on timber operations in Wilkes County, NC.
The collection consists primarily of correspondence to Hubbard from 1880-1931. In addition, there are business records, deeds, tax records and other legal documents, and news clippings. There is limited information on timber operations in Wilkes County, NC.
Dates:
1845 - 1932
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Preston Arthur Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 85-09
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection concerns John Preston Arthur's book, Western North Carolina: A History (From 1730 to 1913), originally published in 1914 by the Edwards & Broughton Printing Company (Raleigh, NC) in cooperation with Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) of Asheville, NC. Arthur worked in conjunction with Mrs. Theodore S. Morrison, who was connected with the DAR, to prepare his history. Arthur's papers subsequently came into the possession of...
Dates:
1899 - 1935
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Josefina Niggli Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 85-13
Scope and Contents
Josefina Niggli (1910-1983) worked in several literary fields--poetry, drama, fiction--but she also is remembered for her twenty-year service as director of drama, director of the Little Theatre, and journalism instructor of Western Carolina University (Cullowhee, NC).Josefina Marie Niggli was born July 13, 1910, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She was the daughter of Frederick Ferdinand Niggli, the manager of a cement plant in the village of Hidalgo, and Goldi (Morgan) Niggli, a...
Dates:
1877 - 1984
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
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