Showing Collections: 91 - 100 of 739
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
Centennial Celebration. Records, 1936-1950
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG09-01
Scope and Contents
The files begin with copies of the scripts used in Broadcasts over radio stations WSOC and WBT as part of the Centennial Celebration. Next, there is a file on general correspondence involving the Centennial Celebration. This particular file contains a letter signed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., congratulating the College on its centennial anniversary. The third file contains correspondence with the various delegates and V.I.P's invited to speak at the college. The vast majority of the...
Dates:
1936
Found in:
College Archives
Center for Civic Engagement (Community Service). Records, 1987-
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG17-03
Scope and Contents
The files consist of an annual report, brochures and posters, correspondence, speeches, surveys, reports and scrapbooks related to both Community Service and Bonner Scholars. In addition to the files, there is a video (152) on the Hurricane Andrew Relief team, a video (312) of interviews with Bonner Scholars, a cassette tape (114) of a radio interview concerning Into the Streets, a plaque (Artifact 271) and negatives of New Student Orientation service activities and the Davidson College...
Dates:
1987
Found in:
College Archives
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Records
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG03-09
Scope and Contents
The records include annual reports, committee reports, and publications related to the program. The committee report is an evaluation of the program made in 1973.The publications include brochures and guidebooks. The photograph album documents CIS events from 1993 to 2001. The Frontis Johnston folder contains biographical information, correspondence and an untitled speech on higher education. The Department Review notebook contains information on the college, course descriptions and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970 - 2013
Found in:
College Archives
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
Changing Minds. Printed Materials, 2005-
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG12-101
Scope and Contents
The correspondence folder contains e-mails from Changing Minds. There is a folder of Minutes from the end of the 2005-2006 academic year as well as most of the 2006-2007 academic year. The third folder contains issues of the mental awareness newsletter, "Note to Self." The Printed Materials folder contains a Davidsonian article about Changing Minds, an informational sheet, fliers for "Battling Our Bodies," and a flier advertising "Notes to Self Week" November 7-11, 2005. There is also a...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
College Archives
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