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Edgar Adolf Wohlford papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0309
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence, plats, and records relating to Wohlford’s surveying business. There are news articles and papers relating to the FHA during the 1940’s and also to the development of Little Switzerland, NC.

Dates: 1911-1976 and undated

Women Executives records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0396
Abstract

The records of the Women Executives, a Charlotte, NC organization, span from 1977 to 2008. The bulk of the records include the organization's charter and bylaws, minutes of meetings, newsletters, membership information, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1977 - 2013

"Women's Literature From A Regional Perspective" records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0043
Abstract Material from a two-semester class taught in 1977-78 by Dr. Ann C. Carver of the UNC Charlotte English Department and funded through a grant from the Modern Languages Association. Contains reports, class planning materials and course evaluations, and student cultural autobiographies, research projects, and related course work materials. Includes studies of Gertrude Weil, Cherokee women, Nell Battle Lewis, Anna Burgwyn, evangelists the Reverend Preilo and Queen Estelle Thompson, Eunice Pace...
Dates: 1977 - 1978

Harvey L. Woodruff papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0564
Abstract

Contains articles, correspondence and performance programs from Woodruff's career as choral director for UNC Greensboro and UNC Charlotte. Also contains audio recordings of choir performances from 1959-1967.

Dates: 1950 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1959

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

World War I and II Ephemera collection

 Collection — Box: SFC4 [F09.090.03.02], Folder: 539
Identifier: MS0539
Abstract

Ration books and coupons from World War II, as well as a roster poster from Camp Greene, a military training facility located in Charlotte during World War I.

Dates: 1917; 1945

World War II Oral History recordings

 Collection — Box: 1 [F09.039.06.05]
Identifier: MS0595
Abstract

Contains 19 CDs of recordings of Ben Cole discussing his experiences in the Navy during World War II. He also discusses Charlotte in the years leading up to the war and the difficulties of integration back into civilian life after the war's conclusion. Also contains an interview with Robert Benton discussing his wartime experiences.

Dates: 1930-1972

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

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

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

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

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

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

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