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James R. Thomas, Sr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-04
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of partial and complete newspaper editions of the Asheville Citizen (July 18, 1916, and August 29, 1931) and the News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (December 30, 1917; January 29, 1921; March 5, 1921; January 16, 22, 25, 29, 1923; February 3, 5, 6, 9-14, 22-27, 1923; March 9, 12, 13, 1923).
The majority of the news in the papers relates to World War I and its aftermath.
The majority of the news in the papers relates to World War I and its aftermath.
Dates:
1916 - 1931
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. Terrell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-05
Scope and Contents
James W. Terrell (1829-1908) was born in Rutherford County, NC. Little is known of his early years, except that he migrated westward to the Haywood County-Jackson County area of North Carolina.In 1852 Terrell took charge of William Holland Thomas's trading store in Quallatown, the business center of the North Carolina Cherokee community. Terrell eventually became an “Indian agent” (later known as superintendent), as was his employer and business partner, Thomas.Terrell...
Dates:
1820 - 1908
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
James Watson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-11
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence to James Watson, a Confederate soldier in the 25th North Carolina Regiment, from his wife Elizabeth Watson and friend Alfred Wilson. The Watsons and Wilson were residents of Jackson County, NC.
The first letter wasis dated October 29, 1861, and was written to James Watson, care of Colonel T.L. Clingman, in the Beaufort District of South Carolina. Mrs. Watson wrote about missing her husband, food prices, crop conditions, the...
Dates:
1861 - 1862
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jane Nagy and William Paulk Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 04-05
Content Description
Correspondence of Jane Nagy and William Paulk, of Cullowhee, N.C.
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1984, 1985 & 1986.Folder 2: Correspondence, 1987.Folder 3: Correspondence, 1988.Folder 4: Correspondence, 1988, 1989.Folder 5: Correspondence, 1990.Folder 6: Correspondence, 1991.Folder 7: Correspondence 1992.Folder 8: Correspondence, 1993, 1994. Folder 9: Correspondence, 1995, 1996...
Dates:
1984 - 1999
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jason D. Ledford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-10
Content Description
The collection contains genealogical material concerning the family of Jason D. Ledford of Cherokee County, NC. The main theme of the collection is Nathaniel C. Browder's attempt to establish that Jason D. Ledford (c. 1800-18??) was the son of Peter Ledford, Sr., of Burke County, NC. Browder assembled his evidence through quotations from Ledford descendants and evidence from official documents.Included in the papers are copies of 1923 correspondence from H.J. Crumley of Benton,...
Dates:
1923 - 1978
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jesse Bryson Stalcup Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 11-03
Content Description
The collection contains correspondence of the Stalcup family of Macon County, North Carolina, 1899-1934; documents, including business and financial records; obituary information; thirty (30) photographs depicting images of the Stalcup family, the Buck Creek, North Carolina, vicinity, the Tate City, Georgia, vicinity, Mt. Zion Church in Macon County, mining and industrial scenes, and other scenes or buildings; eight (8) “Time Books” and/or “day books” of Jesse Bryson Stalcup containing names...
Dates:
1899 - 1955
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jesse C. Crisp Collection
File
Identifier: SM 91-03
Content Description
Papers of the Crisp and related families, consisting of correspondence, legal papers, and deeds in Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina, and dated 1855 to 1930.
Dates:
1855 - 1930
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
Jesse R. Siler Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-50
Content Description
The collection consists of photocopies of letters, journals and a diary. The correspondence consists of love letters between Harriet and Jesse R. Siler, written when he was traveling. Of note, is an 1836 letter in which Siler recounts a meeting with the "Old President", assumed to be Andrew Jackson. Mention is made in the same letter of "Calhoun," which could be John C. Calhoun, the former vice-president under Jackson. The first letter is dated 1816 was signed by Robert B. Vance of Buncombe...
Dates:
1816 - 1889
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
Jo Ann Smith Collection
Item
Identifier: SM 84-01
Content Description
The first part of the collection is a photocopy of an 1883 land deed (attested copy 1887) in Jackson County on Mull Branch on which the Liberty School was built; Lewis J. Smith and Clara Smith donated land for educational purposes. This school was dismantled and moved to a site across from the Baptist Church in Cullowhee, where it was attached to the first building for WCU. The addition includes photocopies of selections from a scrapbook belonging to Mrs. Jo Ann Smith. Smith has...
Dates:
1887 - 1977
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 Abbot Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-06
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters and four picture postcards with messages on the backs, received by Rosa Gibbs, an African American resident of Sylva, NC. The correspondence is from family and friends in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and New Jersey. Other items in the collection include a picture of an unidentified couple and a bank book of Marion Carey of Waynesville, NC. The picture is possibly of Rosa Love and her husband. Carey’s relationship to Rosa Love Gibbs is...
Dates:
1899 - 1935
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John and Irenah Wike Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 09-03
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the family of John Wike (1788-1841) and Irenah Isenhower Wike (1789-1875) of Jackson County, North Carolina, containing correspondence from the latter part of the 19th century through the early part of the 20th centur; western North Carolina land grants and deeds from the 19th century; School Census Record cards from the 1930's; brochures from the late 19th century through the early 20th century; a Winchester Firearms poster with land survey information written on the back;...
Dates:
1822 - 1949
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John B. Battle Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 92-02
Content Description
Published and typescript materials associated with a Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center collection.
Dates:
1850 - 1932
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John B. Battle Papers, Add. #1
Collection
Identifier: MSS 00-01
Content Description
The collection consists of a variety of historical, although unrelated, items.
Dates:
1858 - 1963
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John B. Battle Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 94-9
Content Description
Twenty-one (21) images on twelve (12) items (i.e. some items have two images, front and back). Most images have had a number penciled in one corner (indicated under "Description" below)
Item - Description1) [unidentified group photograph; seventeen people in two rows on a front porch. Numbered "1"]2) [unidentified; rail-line running along river leading into a town/settlement; hillsides are barren. Numbered "2"][unidentified; view of a town across a...
Dates:
1860 - 1930
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Ehle Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 17-02
Content Description
John Ehle manuscript Pray to the Red Rattlesnake (typescript with handwritten edits), 644 pages. A proof copy of Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation accompanied the donation and has been cataloged with Special Collections books.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Goebel Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-21
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of data compiled by John Goebel from cemeteries in Buncombe, Haywood, and Swain counties, and the Qualla Reservation (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) of North Carolina. The information includes the number of graves, names of those buried, dates of birth and death, and inscriptions.
Dates:
1786 - 1960
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Harden Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 80-32
Content Description
The collection consists of photocopies of radio show scripts from "Tales of Tarheelia," a WPTF radio show from Raleigh, N.C., featuring John Harden. The show was presented weekly for sixteen months in 1946-1947, and featured stories, legends, mysteries, myths, and other folklore. The outgrowth of this series was a book by Harden entitled "The Devil's Tramping Ground: And Other North Carolina Mystery Stories."
Dates:
1946 - 1947
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Jacob Niles (Film) Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 94-1
Content Description
One copy of the film "John Jacob Niles" by Appalshop, Inc. (32 minutes, color, c1978), with accompanying film transcript and study guide.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Moore Crawford Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SM 80-24
Scope and Contents
John Moore Crawford (1829-1933) was a descendant of George W. Crawford, Sr., the latter being the progenitor of Crawfords in Haywood, Macon, Clay and Cherokee Counties, NC. George W. Crawford, Jr., and Lorena Moore were the parents of John Crawford. The genealogy of the Crawford family may be found in incomplete form in W.C. Allen's The Annals of Haywood County, North Carolina (pp. 558-567). See also the excerpt from Daniel's Lyle's Daniel Lyle, Immigrant, which relates the ancestry of...
Dates:
1812 - 1946
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Parris Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 00-06
Content and Scope
Papers of journalist and author John A. Parris (1914 - 1999).Parris served as a war correspondent during World War II and reported from the North African and European theaters. After the war he became noted for his "Roaming the Mountains" column that was a regular feature of the Asheville Citizen and Asheville Citizen-Times newspapers and which first appeared in February 1955.Parris' works included Springboard to Berlin (co-author; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,...
Dates:
1853 - 1999
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
John R. Brinkley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SM 02-06
Content Description
Bound, typescript report entitled “Properties of Dr. John R. Brinkley, Sylva, North Carolina,” by Ellis Clarke Soper, Consulting Engineer, containing “Letter of Transmittal” (four pages, dated May 1, 1937), “Index” (three pages), “Report” (fifteen numbered pages plus title page), “Appendix” (three pages), thirty-five photographs, and two maps.
Dates:
1937-05-01
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John S. Seymour Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 84-03
Scope and Contents
John S. Seymour was an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina Teachers College (WCTC) (later Western Carolina University). Seymour was born in Charleston, SC, on April 5, 1893. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees (1921, 1927) in social science and education from the University of South Carolina, and a second M.A. degree from Columbia University (1928). He also did advanced study at the George Peabody College for Teachers and the University of North Carolina....
Dates:
1935 - 1940
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John Taylor Relief Prints Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 92-7
Scope and Contents
Twenty-six relief prints produced circa 1940's by John Taylor.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Found in:
Hunter Library - Special Collections
John W. Edwards Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 04-13
Contents
Folder 1 – Photographs. Dr. Alex Pow, with colleagues, students, and associates. n.d.
Folder 2 – Photographs. Dr. Doug Reid, with colleagues, students, and associates. 1956-1966, n.d.
Folder 3 – Photographs. Dr. Doug Reid, with colleagues, students, and associates. 1957-1968, n.d.
Folder 4 – Portrait. Etched paper portraits of Doug Reid. n.d.
Folder 5 – Plate. Etched metal plate, portrait of Doug Reid. n.d.
Folder 2 – Photographs. Dr. Doug Reid, with colleagues, students, and associates. 1956-1966, n.d.
Folder 3 – Photographs. Dr. Doug Reid, with colleagues, students, and associates. 1957-1968, n.d.
Folder 4 – Portrait. Etched paper portraits of Doug Reid. n.d.
Folder 5 – Plate. Etched metal plate, portrait of Doug Reid. n.d.
Dates:
1950 - 1970
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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