Record Series and Collections

1928 - 1954

Papers include scrapbooks, speeches, and photographs of Hoey during the time that he served as governor of North Carolina, 1937-1941, and a small quantity of later material. The latter consists of Mrs. Hoey's Bible, 3 obituaries/memorials, a 1943 ...

1932 - 1960

Papers of Ehringhaus, Elizabeth City attorney and governor (1933-1937), consisting mostly of social correspondence with Democratic officeholders and other public figures. Many letters, bills, and receipts relate to his financial affairs, including real ...

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; ...

1936 - 1997

View of Governor Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877- 12 May 1954) and Members of the State Headquarters Staff Taking the First Step in Organizing the North Carolina Selective Service System. Left to Right: Captain Charles R. Jones, Captain Osborn S. ...

[ca. 1932 - 1954 ]

Portrait of Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877- 12 May 1954); Printer, Newspaper Publisher, State Legislator, Attorney General, Governor, Congressman, and United States Senator; from Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina; Photograph circa ...

1880 - 1959

Although the Charles Aycock Collection contains a few Aycock Papers, Clarence Poe accumulated the great majority of the material. Poe was married to Aycock's daughter Alice and was instrumental in establishing various memorials to the ...

1926 - 1967

Miss Ruth Current (1900-1967), a native of Rowan County, began her association with North Carolina State Extension Service in January, 1928, as home demonstration agent in Statesville and served in that capacity until November 1, 1930. Later she served ...

1941 - 1966

This collection consists of Ballentine's private papers from 1949 to 1964. (The items dated prior to 1949 are newspaper clippings concerned mainly with his election as lieutenant governor; the one item in 1966 concerns the presentation of ...

1769 - 1964

Isaac Spencer London, newspaper editor, Rockingham, N.C., was born in Pittsboro, December 11, 1885. He was the son of Major Henry Armand London, newspaper editor, lawyer, and state senator, and Bettie Louise (Jackson) London. He was a descendant of John ...

1856 - 1971

Papers of Gertrude Weil, suffragist, humanitarian, civil and religious leader, daughter of Mina Rosenthal and Henry Weil of Goldsboro, including 6,000 family letters, two thirds to or from the Weil children during college years-Lionel and Herman at UNC ...

1757 - 1963

Papers of Nunn of New Bern, president of Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company (1916), superior court judge (1926-1931), county historical society president, and chairman of county board of education. General correspondence with Nunn (1898-1940) ...

Oct 23, 1949

Pictured are Borden, Clyde Roark Hoey, William B. Umstead, and other Democrats in Goldsboro on 23 October 1949.

Jan 6, 1949

Pictured are the various activities of Governor W. Kerr Scott's inauguration day, 6 January 1949. Scott is being sworn in and featured with past Governors Hoey, Broughton, and Cherry. These pictures were taken 6 January 1949 and featured in the News and ...

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 ...

1912 - 1963

Papers of Dr. Thomas M. Grant, Methodist pastor in New Bern and Rocky Mount, secretary of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church (1925-1952), and member of the board of trustees of Duke University. Letters to Grant concern church politics ...