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The Centennial Campaign at Appalachian State University was a yearlong event in 1999, to celebrate the hundred year anniversary of the founding of the institution. The Centennial Campaign Records contain planning and administrative documents, publications, ephemera, and photo scans concerning the Centennial Campaign and celebration.

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Leaflet conveying information about the 1952 Centennial celebration of the joining of the two parts, the eastern and the western, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Track.

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The records of the Center for Appalachian Studies, located at Appalachian State University, gives some history of the Center, its functions, its projects, and key people in its operations. The Center's records gives evidence of the activities that seek to encourage to study and invest in the region and its social, economic, and cultural development.

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This collection consists of one page containing the autographs of Chang and Eng Bunker, written for autograph collector Israel K. Tefft of Savannah, Georgia on January 2, 1835.

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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 consists of one political campaign card for Dr. Charles A. Ray of Winifrede (Kanawha County), West Virginia who was the Democratic nominee for the House of Delegates. A photograph of Ray is on the front of the card, and his official statement is typescripted on the back.

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This collection consists of one photograph of two individuals dressed in vestment garments. They are identified on the back as Charles and Emily Lively of Weston, West Virginia. Emily is also wearing a mortar board. The date is circa 1900.

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Charles Beaver (1913-1999) was an Asheville native, WWII veteran, employee of the American Enka Corporation, and participant in a large number of WWII reunions and commorative events. This collection includes materials relating to his life and work including photographs, documents of his army service, and correspondence.

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This unusual collection includes the abbreviated, pictorial history of Charles Town, West Virginia in an actual walnut shell, produced by Trio Novelty Company in 1900.

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This collection consists of photographs of adults, children, and families believed to live in Charles Town, West Virginia, circa 1860s. All but one are carte de visites. The other is a tintype. The individuals are identified.

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The Charles Vess Autographed Illustration Posters is a collection of five oversized illustrations that were probably used in books or in bookstores, and autographed by the artist, dating 1988 to 2001.

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The Charlotte Ross Papers contains her Appalachian bibliography note card collection as well as personal files relevant to the Appalachian region, American history and folklore studies. Charlotte Ross's bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of Appalachian books up to 1976.

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This collection consists of black and white photographs of Chatham Manufacturing workers and owners. Some suggest a party or dinner and one is of a parade. One photo is of a memorial marker for "Chatham employees who gave their lives in defense of their country in World War II." There is also a clipping about Thurmond Chapham, president of Chatham, visiting Roger Babson.

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This collection consists of six sepia photographs of areas around Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga, Tennessee. They are dated circa 1920-1940 and include images of Crow Creek, a bridge across the Flint River, Nickajack Cave, the base of Lookout Mountain, the Tennessee River from the base of Lookout Mountain, and a view of Chattanooga and the Tennesee River.

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The Chattanooga Times Accounts Journal is an expense/payment ledger for the newspaper Chattanooga Times for 1900-1903.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one broadside, written in southern Illinois, entitled "Cherokee Centennial Celebration," circa 1937-1938. It provides historical information about the presence of the Cherokee in Southern Appalachia from circa 1800-1838, when General Winfield Scott was charged with forcibly removing the Cherokee people from their lands. It further describes the creation of prison camps that housed 14,000 Cherokee, the hardships they experiences, and their eventual forced move to...

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Cherokee Exhibit, ASU College of Continuing Education Collection includes a notebook covering a general overview of Cherokee history. This collection also includes photographs.

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This collection includes one newspaper Cherokee Advocate written in both Cherokee and English language, two copies of Cherokee Phoenix, Vol. 1 No. 12, two photocopies of articles 1832 and 1833 from Niles' Register, and a guide of an audiocassette (not in this collection) "Sound of Cherokee" sounding out the Cherokee alphabet.

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Chessie-Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Safety Posters and Papers includes assorted blank railroad forms, three multi-sized calendars dating 1982, 1984, and 1986, and a variety of safety posters from 1985-1986.

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This collection consists of five photographs taken at the dedication ceremony for the Chief Junaluska Monument on November 5, 1910. The photographs include the monument, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Winston-Salem Chapter), and Cherokee adults and children.

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This collection consists of three black and white photographs of the Chilhowie Textiles building exterior, taken circa 1960s in Chilhowie, Virginia.

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This collection is a handwritten deed of 150 acres in Logan County, Virginia granted to Christian Cline from Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia Joseph Johnson, November 1, 1855.

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The Chuck Hemrick Video Recordings include almost two hundred video cassettes and air film from the Blue Ridge Views television news spots, originally shown on local ABC-TV affiliate program WGHP in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This collection contains audio-visual footage of Appalachian crafts people, folk singers and other local traditions of northwestern North Carolina.

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This collection includes an audiocassette identified as "Church Singing and 'The Word' by Brother Andrew," undated.

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This collection is one bound book of official documents involved with the sale of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in 1909.

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One ledger with calculations of coal for Hazleton, Pennsylvania lands. The ledger contains approximately 100 filled pages of statistics of various coal companies with their respective amount of coal mined, exhausted, virgin, thickness, and pillars. The volume is dated 1910 June 11-21.

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The Civil War Journal and Account Book includes a journal documenting an unidentified soldier's war experiences from South Carolina to Bull Run to the Hazel River in Virginia. The diary starts with the regiment's muster in date, April 13, 1861 and continues until February 1862.

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This archival object is a cash book of C. L. Bartlett listing transactions for horse tack, furniture, foodstuffs, and law books. The book likely belonged to the son of George T. Bartlett of Macon, Georgia, whose account books were purchased by the Appalachian Collection in 2014.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a travel scrapbook created by Clara Whiteley of an automobile trip she took with her husband, mother, and aunt from June 22-30, 1935 from their home in Philadelphia to Asheville, NC and back. It is presumed that the scrapbook was created after she returned home from the trip. In addition to photographs and ephemeral items (programs, pressed flowers, brochures, clippings, maps, etc.), Whiteley includes typed entries that explain the significance of places visited...