RB. Manuscripts

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This collection consists of records, correspondence, copyright permissions, contributor biographies, reviews, and memorandums pertaining to the Albion journal. The correspondence contains exchanges between Albion administrators and authors, and reviewers documenting the peer-review process. Also included are annual reports, meeting minutes, budget reports, and submissions of articles. This collection also includes a stamp featuring the journal’s unicorn insignia.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of one 27 page scrapbook, containing photographs, newspaper clippings, a case study from 1938-39, and ephemera from the School of Nursing and the Asheville Mission Hospital from the mid to late 1930s. It also contains ephemera from the Morgan family, including graduation announcements, nameplates, and letters, appointment certificates from the U. S. Army from 1945, 1948, and 1952, photographs of students, nurses, and family, and photographic postcards. Some...

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Beulah C. Campbell is a retired children’s literature and elementary education professor at Appalachian State University. Her collection includes Campbell's personal files, her collection of original illustrations for children's books, materials related to various authors and illustrators of children's books, administrative files related to Campbell's collection of children's book illustrations, and materials related to a memorial for Reverend Paul Burt, a friend of Campbell.

Abstract The Bingham Dai Papers include the professional and personal papers of Dr. Bingham Dai (1899-1996), a psychotherapist. Dai was one of the first native-born Chinese to be trained in new theories of psychiatry and psychology in the 1930s. He taught at Peking Union Medical College in China, Duke University, and finished his career lecturing at Appalachian State University. Collection Overview The Bingham Dai Collection contains...

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The Carolinas Communication Association is an organization for communications professionals in North and South Carolina. The records include the journal publications, meeting minutes, financial records, membership information, constitutional revisions, annual convention information, and member correspondence of the organization.

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Materials related to the Carolinas Symposium on British Studies. Materials include meeting minutes, membership information, correspondence, financial data, annual minutes, and articles of incorporation.

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Handwritten character sketch of an ideal musician. Document is signed "Clara Wentsch, Central High, '06."

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This collection contains 35 music scores, manuscript and printed, and a white satin cloth related in some way to Franceso Bodoira when he played. Gary Boye of the Music Library provided the detailed inventory found in Box 1.

Abstract George J. Trinkaus (1878-1960) was an American composer and violinist. Trinkaus was a cousin of composer John Philip Sousa. In 1914 Trinkaus, along with his good friend Victor Herbert, helped found the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). The George J. Trinkaus Collection consists predominately of music scores written or arranged by Trinkaus. In addition to Trinkaus’ works, it also contains several scores written by other composers such as Victor Herbert and John...

Scope and Contents This collection includes items created by members of the Grohs family, with the majority relating to Lothar Grohs, and is in both German and English languages. In Germany, the surname was spelled "Gross."There are six letters written in German by members of the family, mainly Julius Gross. English translations were provided by Peter Petschauer. There is a wedding telegram book compiled to commemorate the wedding of Julius Gross and Clara Lonnerstadter in 1909. The original is...

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German conductor Hans Schwieger was the first music director for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held from 1948 to 1971. His papers contain photographs, scrapbooks, recordings, annotated scores, correspondence, concert programs and awards relating primarily to his career as a conductor.

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This collection includes eleven samples of wallpaper from Westminster Palace, the location for the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Samples are from the cafeteria, House of Lord’s restaurant, offices, corridors, and the press gallery.

Scope and Contents These records contain a variety of papers, including correspondence, memorandums, meeting minutes, statutes, budgets, and member records of the International Economic History Association. Also included are papers and ephemera from congress sessions in Bern, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Kyoto, Leningrad, Leuven, Madrid, Milan, Stellenbosch, and Sydney. In addition, records addressing the Association’s work with several groups, including; the Academic Institute for Higher...

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This collection consists of papers, slides, photographs, and audio recordings of children’s book author Jesse Jackson. It includes manuscripts, notes, short stories, research on race, slavery, and the family of Henry Clay of Kentucky, class notes and lecture material, autobiographical material, correspondence, newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, and material relating to the Jesse Jackson memorial conference held in November 1983.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a one letter, written by Joshua W. Sharp on September 25, 1864. It is addressed to "All whom it may concern" and written while Sharp was in Rendezvous of Distribution, Virginia. The letter speaks to the character of Harrison Trego, who served under Sharp's command while part of the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment. Sharp states that Trego was "anxious to learn his duty and faithful in discharging it under all circumstances." He further states that Trego was...

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This collection represents the work of Mary E. Lyons as an author of children's fiction and nonfiction books. These papers include her research, manuscripts, revisions, proofs, and illustrations used for books and teaching resources written between 1985 and 2008, as well as correspondence, reviews and awards, articles, and presentations from those years.

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The RB.8012: Music Manuscripts and Images Collection contains a myriad of items relating to music, from correspondence to photographs to programs. The funding for this unique collection is provided by the Max Smith Endowment Fund.

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This collection is arranged into five series: Board and Committee Files, General Files, Correspondence, Publications, and Photographic Prints and Negatives. Subjects include board meeting minutes, conference files, photographs and negatives of meetings and events, newsletters, and financial information.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one photograph album primarily containing black and white photographs of a trip to Washington, D.C. in 1935 by an individual named Florence and their travel companion identified as Gladys. Florence's last name is not known, but the album was inscribed to "Aunt Emma and Uncle Ed"(who lived in Iowa) and gifted to them for Christmas. Photographs were adhered to the right side pages and descriptions were handwritten in white ink on the left side pages. The subjects...

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This collection consists of one black and white photograph of Mary Gertrude Jones wearing her United States Naval Reserve uniform. Acccompanying the photograph is a calling card which has the following printed on it: "Mary Gertrude Jones Ensign United States Naval Reserve." The photograph is dated circa 1942-1944.

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This stamp collection was donated by Robert G. Fox, Sr. prior to 1998. There are single, block, and plates of stamps, foreign and domestic, mint condition and cancelled, dating as far back as the 1840's, as well as dated bank receipts of 1898-1932 and first date of issue envelopes. It also contains correspondence dated and stamped 1827-1913.

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Chemistry workbook handwritten and typed by Sarah Shumate at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, circa 1929.

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Two oversize cartoon production sheets of "Sheena", F.6, p. 19 and F.9, p. 33 make up this collection.

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The Southern Gerontological Society was established in 1978 as a network of gerontology professionals, educators, researchers, and policy makers in the southern United States. The records document the membership, leadership, meetings, finances, administrative operations, publications, and programs of the Southern Gerontological Society in adition to its interactions with other state, regional, and national organizations dedicated to the concerns of aging populations.

Content Description This album contains photographs, circa 1900-1910, of unidentified individuals in unidentified locations. That photographs suggest that the images are of an individual's or a family's travels, most likely in European countries, such as Switzerland and Scotland, though these locations have not been confirmed. In addition to landscape images, there are also photographs of unidentified women posted at different locations (in day wear and swim wear, picnicking, golfing). A few men are pictured...

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Writ of debt issued by the rom King George III to the Sheriff of Warwick County, England stating that the "Goods and Chattels" of William Wood be transfered to James Jordan to cover Woods' debt. The document is witnessed by Richard Cary, Clerk of Court. The document is dated March 20, 1771.