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Burgess, Alfred (1928). Collection, 1925-1928
Collection
Identifier: DC0356s
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a framed montage photograph of members of Delta Theta Chi fraternity in 1928, oversize photographs of student organizations, his college scrapbook, his Freshman Regulations poster, commencement program, and advertisement card for a student business. The scrapbook has an extensive diary section and photographs of athletes. Commencement programs and his Freshman regulation sign are housed separately with the commencement and regulations collections.
Dates:
1925
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Calvin Brice McKeown Letters
Collection
Identifier: DC0133s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters written by McKeown to friends describing college life and student unrest. There are also typescripts of the letters.
Dates:
1871
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Captain James Cunningham Harper Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC051
Scope and Contents
The volumes of the Lenoir High School Band Scrapbook contain the history of the Lenoir High School Band. The scrapbooks contain all programs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs of the band and subsidiary organizations, snap shots and letters commending the band and its work. Several volumes were also donated to the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Significant letters, photographs, and other materials are found throughout the collection. VOLUME I...
Dates:
1924 - 1995
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Catawba Springs Hotel Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0232s
Scope and Contents
The files contain the guest ledgers from 1838-1851 and 1852-1854. These ledgers contain the names, residences and destinations of the guests. Peter Stuart Ney's signature can be found in Volume I on September 20, 1841. The files also contain letters and poetry. There is a manuscript copy of the advertisement for Catawba Springs found in the South Carolina Gazette and Columbia Advertiser. There is a letter to Mr. Chalmers G. Davidson, dated August 16, 1949, from Robet F. Cope discussing the...
Dates:
1838 - 1949
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Centennial Book Club Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC033
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of annual program booklets, minutes, and corresponedence. The booklets include member lists, officer lists, and the topics for programs. The dates covered are 1939 to 2023; some programs from the 1940s are missing. The minutes date from 1937 to 1942 and 1987 to 1997. Correspondence and clippings about the club are filed within the minutes.
Dates:
1939 - 2023
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Centre Church Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0265s
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a scrapbook, which was once part of the Davidson College Library Collection, containing material on the Centre Church. Newspaper clippings include histories of the church by Rev. E. F. Rockwell and Capt. R. R. Morrison (1938), as well as the Osborne Family by Dr. Archibald Henderson (1935), the centennial celebration (1896), and others about the church dated 1949 and 1970. Also included are a program (1963), an excerpt from a speech delivered by Dr. James McRee in...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Chalmers Gaston Davidson Papers
Collection
Identifier: DC059
Scope and Contents
Dr. Davidson corresponded with a variety of different persons. The first three boxes contain letters written to and from Dr. Davidson to authors, politicians, businessmen, educators, etc. Persons with a great amount of correspondence were given their own folder. Box 4 contains copies of tests, lecture notes and class outlines for two of Dr. Davidson's history courses that he taught at Davidson College. The two courses are "Social & Intellectual History to 1860" and "Social &...
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Chalmers Gaston Davidson Plantation Files.
Collection
Identifier: DC058
Scope and Contents
These files contain the research materials collected by Dr. Davidson for his research in writing The Plantation World Around Davidson. The files contain a vast amount of information on local history including the areas of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Catawba County, Iredell County, and Gaston County. Information on well-known families of the 19th century in these counties is located here. Most of the files contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and genealogy research on the families of...
Dates:
1907 - 1994
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Charles Alphonso Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC017
Scope and Contents
The collection is organized in the following series: 1) Biographical information; 2) Correspondence; 3) Manuscript; 4) Notes; 5) Printed Material. The collection contains a very limited amount of biographical information. There is correspondence from 1894-1934, much of which discusses this Library of Southern Literature. There is also correspondence about his becoming the Roosevelt Professor, and a copy of a letter from President Roosevelt, There is a letter which is supposedly from the King...
Dates:
1894 - 1934
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Charles Augustus McGirt Speech
Collection
Identifier: DC0103s
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of McGirt's Respondent's Speech for the 1919 Davidson Commencement.
Dates:
1919
Found in:
Manuscript Collections