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Benjamin Ulysses Ratchford Collection

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Identifier: DC024

Scope and Contents The collection consists of biographical materials, photographs, speeches, research notes and files, printed materials, and a student scrapbook. The biographical material includes an article written at the time of his retirement, citations and certificates. The research materials primarily relate to his speeches and contain his notes and copies of articles used. The printed material includes pamphlets as well as Ratchford's original masters and Doctoral theses. The file folder marked...

Dates: 1932 - 1967

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Blanton-Black. Collection, 1830-1929

Collection

Identifier: DC102

Scope and Contents The collection consists correspondence, financial documents, notebooks, and printed materials. The correspondence folders include letters written to Mrs. Nancy Blanton, primarily by family members and letters to Samuel Lacy Black. The letters in the Black folder include personal correspondence along with military, financial and work-related papers. There are forms from the Bank of Davidson (checks and receipts) in this folder. The folder of Cadwell, Wharey, Overton and Lowrance letters includes...

Dates: 1830

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Bob Wynn Memoir

Collection

Identifier: DC0347s

Scope and Contents The talk "Uncle Lester and Me" was given by Bob Wynn to the Spectator Club in Spartanburg, South Carolina in May 2011. In it, Wynn reflects on his memories of his uncle Lester Maddox in the 1960s.

Dates: 2011

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Booklovers' Club of Davidson Collection

Collection

Identifier: DC039

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a copy of the Constitution and By-laws, undated; minutes, 1901-1907, 1924-1969; membership lists, 1916-1976; correspondence, 1944-1994, histories, 1923, 1958-1960; programs, 1907-1996; clippings, 1948; and photographs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1901 - 2019

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Boyer. Postcards and Images, undated

Collection

Identifier: DC0348s

Scope and Contents The collection contains reproductions of postcards and family photographs related to the college and town. There is one oversize postcard of an aerial view of front campus, a postcard showing the children of Oscar Gant and photographs of the Sample home on Concord Road.

Dates: 2017

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Bradshaw-Ney. Collection, 1843-2004

Collection

Identifier: DC095

Scope and Contents This collection consists of research materials used by Pete Bradshaw in the writing of his book on Peter Stuart Ney, Execution Denied and also some materials he created. The materials include books, posters and artifacts. The posters are include promotional materials for the book, maps and a timeline of Napoleon's march to Moscow. The artifacts are balls of shot similat to what would have been used by soldiers in Ney's time.

Dates: 1843

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Brian Park Notebook

Collection

Identifier: DC0349s

Scope and Contents The collection consists of his course notebook for Political Science 306, spring 2012

Dates: 2012

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Briarpatch Press Collection

Collection

Identifier: DC0288s

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a announcements and catalogs including a flyer soliciting charter subscriptions for the magazine "Briarpatch," a letter from Moreland Hogan to Chalmers Davidson following Mrs. Hogan's death, and copies of Briarpatch publications. The magazine issues contain excerpts from letters written by Mrs. Drury Lacy 1856-1859, poetry by Gill Holland and Tony Abbot, short tales by Moreland Hogan as well as pieces by other regional writers. For copies of Rough Beast, another...

Dates: 1979 - 1992

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Brown Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: DC079

Scope and Contents The collection contains 24 books, including store ledgers, private account books, and recordings of Brown, Johnston, and Torrence family histories. The store ledgers primarily relate to businesses in which members of the Brown family were involved, primarily the Knox and Brown Store. A majority of the ledgers are organized alphabetically by the purchaser's last name, with the description and cost of goods purchased by that individual on a particular date. Beyond Brown family businesses, the...

Dates: 1875 - 1958

Found in: Manuscript Collections

Brown-Knox Mercantile Company Papers

Collection

Identifier: DC0214s

Scope and Contents The collection contains a store ledger for 1909, a deed for 2 shares of Brown-Knox stock, an advertisement, and a broadside notice of a Commissioner's Re-Sale of Real Estate. The store ledger lists the names of Davidson residents and their purchases. The broadside describes the land on which the building stood and the history of ownership of the land. See also DC079 for more store ledgers

Dates: 1906 - 1919

Found in: Manuscript Collections

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