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Louise Woods papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0369
Abstract

Contains a wide assortment of papers, reports and records accumulated by Louise Woods, while serving as the representative from the fourth district on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1995-2005.

Dates: 1967-2006
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

World War I and II Ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0539
Abstract

Assorted ephemera from World War I and World War II, including ration books, documentation from Camp Greene, and nursing recruitment posters.

Dates: 1917 - 1945
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

Martha Dorn Worrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0183
Abstract

Papers relating to Worrell's role as advisor to the Charlotte Junior Music Club and the Epsilon Chapter of Pi Mu. Includes correspondence, programs, and photographs

Dates: 1949 - 1968
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

Miles L. Wriston papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0021
Abstract Consists primarily of financial records, including Confederate and North Carolina state bonds (1862-64), shares of stock (1866) in the Rock Island Manufacturing Company, and bills and receipts (1884-85) paid by the estate of Joseph Harvey Wilson of Charlotte. Also includes a document (1829) attesting to the descent of title to Robert Neely of a 68-acre tract of land originally owned by Thomas Polk, an early settler in Mecklenburg County, a legal brief (1917) concerning the settlement of...
Dates: 1829 - 1987; 1862 - 1885
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

Writing Our Own History essays

 Collection
Identifier: MS0185
Abstract

Original handwritten and typed copies of essays written by Charlotte senior citizens in courses sponsored by the Shepherd's Center and Central Piedmont Community College and taught by Margaret Bigger in 1992-94. These are personal accounts of growing up during the Prohibition era and the Depression and of life during World War II.

Dates: 1992 - 1994
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

WTVI PBS Charlotte videocassettes

 Collection
Identifier: MS0512
Abstract

VHS tapes of television interviews with Mecklenburg County Commission chairpersons produced by Charlotte, NC area public tv station, WTVI42 in the 1990s. The series of interviews aired titled, "Mr. and Madam Chairman." Interviews are accompanied by biographical material and a rough transcript. Also includes two hour-long broadcasts from the "Charlotte and the New South" series ("A Region at Work" and "Growing a Region.")

Dates: 1990s
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

YMCA of Greater Charlotte records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0593
Abstract

Papers documenting the history of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte. Includes newspaper scrapbooks, Board meeting minutes, written histories, building campaigns, photographs and financial ledgers.

Dates: 1878-2011
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

Sarah Young papers

 Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 14
Identifier: MS0014
Abstract

Papers of a Charlotte widow, includes a deed, an insurance policy, stocks and a land survey.

Dates: 1831 - 1861; 1847 - 1855
Found in: Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

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