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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...

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The Clarice Bolick Indian Collection contains materials regarding American Indians, particularly Plains Indians. Materials include newspaper article clippings, pamphlets, booklets, a few photographs, and one letter to Clarice Bolick.

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This collection consists of broadside notice from Claude Harrison, stating that his wife was offended by a proposition from George F. Winecoff on or about May 1, 1916 at her own home. According to Harrison's account, Winecoff insulted Harrison's wife by "trying to influence her, my wedded wife, to show him a 'good time' in my absence, stating he had money for her at any price."

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This collection houses legal documents issued and ruled by Justice of the Peace A.B.C. DePriest of Cleveland County, North Carolina between 1944 and 1956. Records remain in the order as was filed in the case books.

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This collection consists of the following: a letter to Mrs. R. L. Robertson, informing her that Clinch Valley cannot do the work she outlined in her letter to them and recommending Blue Stone Materous Company of Bluefield for the job (dated January 24, 1936), the accompanying envelope with handwritten notes, a Clinch Valley Blanket Mills brochure of Colonial Coverlets, and a wool exchange terms paper for 1935 which includes prices of wool blankets and flannel.

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This Cloudland Park Club collection of papers speaks of the Park that existed on Lookout Mountain in Cloudland, Georgia in the early to mid-1920s. A map of the subdivision and four descriptive postcards, as well as other information, are included. Materials are fragile, but in fair condition.

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The collection consists of photocopies of materials outlining the Civil War service of the members of the First Virginia Cavalry, Company D. Included are: a handwritten copy of the war record of Corporal Thomas W. Colley, a roster with short biographies of men who served with the unit compiled by Colley, and copies of applications by veterans for the Confederate States of America, Roll of Honor.

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The largest college at Appalachian State University, the College of Arts and Sciences offers both undergraduate and graduate programs of study and currently houses 15 different academic departments. The College of Arts and Sciences Records contain meeting minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports and other administrative files, as well as VHS tapes and photos of commencement ceremonies.

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The College of Fine and Applied Arts was established in 1968 as Appalachian State Teachers College was restructuring in to Appalachian State University and currently includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Military Science and Leadership, Technology and Theatre and Dance. The College of Fine and Applied Arts Records contain mostly administrative and committee/council files dating 1968-1999.

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This photograph depicts 15 African Americans standing in front of a building with a sign reading "Colored Department / N. [and] W. R.R. Y.M.C.A. / A Farewell to the / Colored Liberty / Fellows by the / Y.M.C.A. / Oct. 28 330 pm."

Scope and Contents This prospectus contains two maps on one side and a description of the land, as well as the business proposal and list of subscribers, on the verso. One map is titled "Plan of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania, 1865" and shows the land owned by the three proposing companies along Tionesta Creek, as well as Crawford County, Venango County, Warren County, and Forest County. There are two hand-colored areas around Oil Springs on this map with one labelled, in pen, as No. 400. The second map is...

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This collection consists of an advertisement card for Concord State Normal School in Athens, West Virginia. The front side notes the beginning dates for Fall Term (1900) and Winter and Spring Terms (1901) as well as a description of what the school had available and the cost of room and board. Tuition was free for West Virginia students. E. F. Goodwin was principal. On the back of the card are the words to the song "The West Virginia Hills."

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The Concordia College Photograph is an undated matted 10" x 8" black and white photograph of a graduating class of Concordia College, formerly of Conover, North Carolina.

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The Cone Family Collection contains photographs and papers related to industrialist Moses Cone and his family. This collection includes family photographs, correspondence, a leather letter wallet engraved "Moses H. Cone", a newspaper clipping scrapbook inscribed "Ceasar Cone," and other newspaper clippings.

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This collection consists of papers, reports, booklets, maps, and articles on the Conference on Appalachian Development, held by the graduate students of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University in March 1964, meeting along with social scientists and public officials to evaluate the Report to the President by the Appalachian Regional Commission.

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This collection contains a pamphlet entitled "They Shall Not Pass," published by the Conical Roller Cattle Guards Corporation to advertise its cattle guard. The patented device served to keep cattle from standing on railroad tracks. It also includes two photographs of the cattle guard.

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This collection consists of three items: an advertisement card highlighting the spring water in Connelly Spring (1886), the Connelly Springs Company Prospectus (1891), and a booklet highlighting the town, the water, and the local hotel (1890).

Scope and Contents This collection of 51 letters were written by Boston native Connie Murphy to his sweetheart Ruth Lacy. The letters are dated from 1941 to 1943 and detail Murphy's time with the U.S. Navy from early training days in Rhode Island through his time with the Hospital Corps in Australia. After joining the Navy, Murphy entered the Hospital Corps. Early on, he tested to be part of a pharmacy program through the Navy where, as a cadet, he spent half his duty studying and working at a naval...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a one page manuscript dated June 27, 1859. The manuscript is a contract between Marcellus Jordan of Guilford County and John Stoops, contractor on Route No. 5159, which allowed Jordan and his heirs to "carry the mail of the United States for John Stoops" from Greensboro by New Garden, Friendship, Kernersville, and Waughtown to Salem and back twice a week. Jordan agrees to the work for payment of $350 annually from July 1, 1859-June 30, 1863. The document is signed...

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This collection is a small 14-page typed booklet "Contract Jingles" by Charles Griffith Moses, printed by C.A. Hamill, Cinderella, West Virginia, 1939.

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The Cook Family Land Deeds contain three land deeds dating 1793, 1796, and 1844. The 1793 land deed concerns the land acquisition for the Three Forks Baptist Church in Alexander County; the 1796 land deed is for land in Wilkes County; and the 1844 land deed is for land in Ashe County.

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The Cornett Family Papers contains historical legal documents, deeds, and receipts from various members of the Cornett Family and others of Grayson County, Virginia and surrounding areas dating prior to, during, and after the Civil War.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the 1905-1906 announcement for Corona Industrial College, located in Corona, Alabama. The third annual session was scheduled to open on September 4th. The announcement includes background information about the school as well as promotes why people should attend. The pamphlet says that men can earn from $1.50 to $5/$6 a day in the mines and that those with families can send all of their children to school for $1.00 per month. The school also provided young men and...