Record Series and Collections

1859 - 1918

Papers of Commander Guthrie, the earliest of which relate to his service as lieutenant with the U.S. Coast Survey (1859-1860) and on the U.S. Sloop Saratoga (1860-1861). His papers as Confederate commander of the blockade-runner Advance include orders ...

1755 - 1969

Miscellaneous Records boxes may include records from all other county series that were of insufficient quantity to make a full box. May also include boxes of records for which no series number was assigned, including records of enslaved and free persons ...

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1756 - 1942

Papers and scrapbooks of Heriot Clarkson, Charlotte lawyer, legislator, and North Carolina supreme court justice (1923-1942). There is much material on Charlotte and Mecklenburg Co. politics and on state and local Democratic organizations, some ...

1860 - 1964

Papers of Clarence Poe of Raleigh, editor (1899-1953) and publisher of the Progressive Farmer, and author. Poe's correspondence (1903-1964) concerns material submitted to the Progressive Farmer by writers and artists; editorial positions taken by Poe; ...

1928 - 1946

Letter from Daniels, Raleigh editor and secretary of navy (1913-1921), in favor of state provision of educational opportunity for all students through university level (1933); and letter to Daniels from Alexander H. Graham, chairman of State Highway and ...

1916

1891

Nichols sends Ashe an extract from a letter to a prominent Republican in the legislature. Nichols' purpose in writing the letter to the legislator was to give Ashe ammunition in his battle to gain a state printing contract over rival newspaper, The ...

1891

Ashe made a note on this letter that Mr. [Josephus] Daniels would probably soon take control of the News and Observer. He asks Ransom for an appointment to the Internal Commerce Commission. Ransom responded that there was tono appointment available ...

1897

1887

Daniels proposes merging the News and Observer and the State Chronicle with the stipulation that he be made editor-in-chief. He discusses at length how the merger should be undertaken and its advantages to the state.

1893

Creecy regrets that he will not attend the upcoming press convention in New Bern and comments on the lives and fortunes of several people in public life, including Josephus Daniels and T. R. Jernigan.

1918

Letter from the Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to Josephus Daniels is enclosed in letter from Daniels to Ashe.

1918

Daniels writes concerning the need for tanks and also expounds upon his idea for the use of cotton to absorb the explosive effects of torepedoes on Navy ships. A rough drawing of the plan to cushion ships with cotton is also enclosed.

1888

1917