04. Manuscripts
Found in 499 Collections and/or Records:
19th and 20th Century Diary Collection
A collection of diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries divided into three series (Juvenile, Travel, and Women). Diaries relate to personal lives of individuals and families of various backgrounds and represent a majority of regions in the US except the South.
Alice J. Abbott Gymnasium Exercise Book
Lillian M. "Jerry" Evans Adams Collection
Lillian M. "Jerry" Evans Adams (1907-2000) was a trumpeter for several all-girl jazz bands during the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s. The collection contains photographs, a VHS videotape, and a trumpet.
Juliette Adams Papers
This collection contains articles and books written by Mrs. Crosby Adams (Juliette Adams); scrapbooks of her teaching studio happenings, other musical happenings, and programs from the recitals of her students; published articles about Adams; and one folder of correspondence. Several of her scrapbooks contain her handwritten description of events, classes, and class participants.
Robert Neal Adams Papers
Robert Neal Adams was a news photographer in Washington, DC, during the 1930s and 1940s.
This collection contains mainly black and white photographs of such notable personages as the Roosevelts, Herbert Hoover, and Winston Churchill.
Dwight E. Agner Collection
Elreta Alexander Papers
Emily Alford Film
Emily Alford was an Elementary Physical Education Specialist; this film shows her performing movement education (gymnastics) with 5th graders in the late 1960s.
William Alfred Letter
William Alfred (1922-1999) was a playwright, poet and beloved Harvard professor specializing in early English literature.
This letter is from Alfred in London to the poet Robert Lowell and his wife, on the occasion of the birth of their child.
Nettie Marvin Allen Collection
Nettie Marvin Allen of Henderson, North Carolina, attended the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) from 1892-1895.
The collection contains her Physics notes from the academic year 1894-1895 and her Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry from 1893. Her scrapbook, entitled Among My Souvenirs, contains programs, photographs and autographs and comments from people she met through 1938.
Olive Allen Notebooks
Olive Allen was a student of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, graduating in 1903.
Steve Almond Papers
Steve Almond (1967- ) received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UNCG in 1997. Almond is the winner of the 2002 Pushcart Prize and the 2005 Alex Award (Young Adult Library Service Association). This collection includes manuscripts of Almond's published short stories, essays, and monographs, as well as several unpublished works.
Altrusa Club of Greensboro Records
American Association of Physics Teachers, South Atlantic Coast Section Records
The South Atlantic Coast Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers included individuals from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia committed to advancing the teaching of physics. These records include correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists, handbooks, constitution and by-laws, and other miscellaneous organizational papers.
American Crime Writers League Papers
The American Crime Writers League was founded in 1988 as a national non-profit organization geared toward professional writers of true crime, mystery and short pieces.
This collection consists of the American Crime Writers League's newsletters, directories, correspondence and misc materials.
Bonnie Angelo Papers
Arnold Doren Collection
Arts Forum Student Compositions
Warren Ashby Papers
Dr. Warren Ashby, professor of religious studies at UNCG from 1949 until his death in 1985, gathered these materials for the purpose of writing a biography of Frank Porter Graham (FPG). His book, Frank Porter Graham: a Southern Liberal, was published in 1980 after more than twenty years of research.
Ivor Aycock Notebook
Ivor Aycock was a student of the State Normal and Industrial, graduating in 1912 with a Bachelor of Music degree.
Raleigh Bailey Papers
Eugenie Baizerman Papers
Originally from Poland, Eugenie Baizerman was one of America's earliest Abstract Impressionists. Prior to immigrating to the United States in 1914, Baizerman's family lived in Bessarabia, a province of Russia, and in the city of Odessa in the Russian Ukraine.
The Eugenie Silverman Baizer collection contains drawings, sketches, paintings in watercolor and oil, as well as correspondence, diaries and journals.
Mary Frances Ballew Scrapbook
Mary Frances Ballew of Lenoir, North Carolina attended the Women's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) as a freshman for two years, 1935 and 1936. There is no record of her graduating from the University.
The scrapbook contains letters, newspaper clippings, holiday cards, telegrams, photographs, concert and play programs, and autographs and comments from classmates.
Ellen M. Barker Notebooks
Ellen M. Barker attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School from 1893 to 1896.
The Ellen M. Barker Notebooks date from 1893 to 1895. Notebook One contains Barker's Chemistry lecture notes and Notebook Two is a Physical Laboratory Manual and Note Book annotated by Barker.
Brad Barkley Transcript
This collection contains a publisher's review typescript of "Circle View: Stories" by Brad Barkley. "Circle View: Stories" is Barkley's first collection of short stories, centering on the lives of working-class men and women.
Kate Barrett Collection of Scottish Country Dances
Kate Barrett (1935- ) spent several decades as a professor and award-winning leader in the field of physical education. She is still active on the UNCG Board of Trustees and was responsible for securing many of the physical education and dance collections in the UNCG archives. The Kate Barrett Collection dates from 1911 to 1963 and contains manuscript notes, a book, and 17 pieces of dance music.
Eddie C. Bass Collection
Mary Sue Beam Scrapbooks
Mary Sue Beam of Shelby, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) from 1919-1923.
The scrapbook includes correspondence, clippings, place cards, receipts, University letters, telegraphs, tickets, transcripts, photographs, classmate autographs and addresses.
Alan Beeler Papers
Alan Beeler (1939-2016) is remembered as a performer, educator, and a prolific composer. Acquired in November 2016, the Alan Beeler Collection contains over a hundred manuscript compositions and arrangements, in addition to other music for a variety of instrumentation. The collection also contains a small amount of Beeler's personal papers, including teaching materials.
John H. Beeler Typescript
John H. Beeler was a UNCG professor and a scholar in the area of European military history. This manuscript is for his book Warfare in England, 1066-1189.
Titsa G. Beleos Scrapbook
Titsa G. Beleos of Camden, South Carolina, attended the Woman's College at UNC (now UNCG) from 1954-1958.
The scrapbook, includes photographs, receipts, cards, newspaper clippings and booklets.
Thelma and Corydon Bell Papers
Thelma Harrington Bell (1896-1985) and Corydon Whitten Bell (1894-1980) were a husband and wife team from North Carolina who wrote and illustrated a number of award-winning children's books.
The Thelma and Corydon Bell Papers date from 1956 to 1972 and include original typescripts and drawings.
Hilaire Belloc Manuscript
Joseph-Pierre Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was an historian, poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, and travel writer. This original autographed typescript bears the title "Napoleon," on the cover and "The Death" on both the half-title page and first leaf.
Arnold Bennett Letter
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist, playwright and critic. This undated, unsigned autograph draft of a letter is written to Mr. Lewell Collins and discusses fiscal matters related to the writing of one of Bennett's plays.
Sir Walter Besant Manuscript
Walter Besant (1836-1901) was an English author and social critic. The signed manuscript in this collection is contained in a case bearing the title "Queen Victoria's Jubilee," and explores social improvements in England under the reign of Queen Victoria.
Black Mountain College Collection
Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students, and before closing in 1956 due to lack of funding, secured a place in American cultural history as an important community of artists and intellectuals.
The Black Mountain College Collection dates from 1975 to 1977 and includes correspondence, manuscripts, broadsides, and photographs.
Black Mountain College Publications
Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students, and before closing in 1956 due to lack of funding, secured a place in American cultural history as an important community of artists and intellectuals. The Black Mountain College Publications include announcements, course descriptions, published articles, and programs.
Antoinette Black Scrapbook
Antoinette Black of Wilmington, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina State and Industrial College (now UNCG) from 1907-1911.
Scrapbook, annotated throughout contains photographs, clippings, newspaper clippings and programs.
Mattie Lou Bolton Notebooks
Mattie Lou was a member of the first graduating class at the State Normal and Industrial School.
Cora Paul Bomar Papers
Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers
Nellie Ashburn Bond was a member of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) Class of 1897 and later worked as an assistant in the English department.
The Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers date from 1893 to 1967 and contain correspondence, speeches, diary, notebooks, and the typescript of an article for Alumni News.
Lillian Robinson Boney Papers
The Lillian Robinson Boney Papers include materials related to Lillian Boney, who was an alumna of UNCG. She graduated from the University in 1946 and worked for NACR/NASA for nearly 40 years.
The collection includes correspondence, publications, and school materials created by or related to Boney.
Bonnie Smith West Papers
Joyce Boorman Papers
Joyce Boorman was an award winning pioneer in children's dance education. The Joyce Boorman Papers date from 1968 to 1983 and contain papers, brochures, memoranda, correspondence, reel-to-reel tapes and videotapes.
Jean Booth Scrapbook
Jean Booth of Oxford, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) from 1907-1909.
The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, photographs, cards, autographs and programs.
Isabel Carter Bouldin Scrapbook
Isabel Carter Bouldin of Greensboro, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) from 1913-1917.
The My Memory Book scrapbook includes mounted photographs, pictures, invitations, correspondence, clippings, cards, booklets and advertising matter.
Elisabeth Ann Bowles Manuscript
Dr. Elisabeth Ann Bowles was an Emeritus faculty member at UNCG's School of Education.
This manuscript is for Bowles' book, A Good Beginning.
Claire Hartsook Boyce Papers
Harriet Augusta Braun Manuscript
Braun's translation into English of her grandfather Johannes Braun's 1818 treatise on slavery.