Fred A. Olds (1853-1935) Papers, PC.74
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Fred A. Olds (1853-1935) Papers
- Call Number
- PC.74
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1721-1934
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers of Olds, newspaperman, colonel in the state guard, collector for Hall of History, including correspondence, newspaper articles by and about Olds, and clipping files of North Caroliniana. There are a few collected documents such as promissory notes, coupons, receipts, sharecropper contract (1883), and survey of the line between Caldwell and Watauga counties (1925). Also compiled abstracts of laws (1790-1927); compiled letters of Civil War governors (news- paper clippings); and volume illustrating rooms of Hall of History and preservation of some original documents (1721-1817) by the Historical Commission, ca. 1914. Correspondents include Victor Blue, W. C. Coker, R. D. W. Connor, Josephus Daniels, R. A. Doughton, Adelaide L. Fries, William W. Holden, Charles N. Hunter, Thomas J. Jarvis, Mary Lee Swann [McMillan], James Mooney, John Trotwood Moore, Lee S. Overman, Walter Hines Page, John H. Parker, James Larkin Pearson, Clarence Poe, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Paul Rockwell, Howard E. Randthaler, Alfred M. Scales, Furnifold M. Simmons, James Sprunt, Frances Fisher Tiernan, Charles W. Tillett, Leonard Tufts, Louis R. Wilson, Bayard Wootten, Charlotte L. Yale.