Olive Allen Notebooks
Scope and Contents
Notebook One is titled, Composition Book, with an annotated title reading, English Notes. The Notebook contains writings on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, including character analyses, plot evaluation, and notes regarding European history. Notebook Two is titled, Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry, with an annotated title reading, Olive Allen, Lab I. The Notebook contains text under the headings, Apparatus for Each Locker, Apparatus for General Use, Chemicals: Estimates for a Class of Twenty, Rules and Suggestions for the Laboratory, Model for taking Notes, Abbreviations, Table of Elements, Symbols and Names, Solutions for Reagents and Analysis, and Index of Experiments. Allen's notations begin with Experiment # 4 and continue with a few gaps throughout. Some of the notations appear to be graded and critiqued by an instructor.
Dates
- 1903
Creator
- Allen, Olive (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical or Historical Information
Olive Allen of Vance County, North Carolina was a student of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1903. Allen wrote her Representative Essay on Sowers.
Extent
0.12 Linear Feet (2 scrapbook boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Olive Allen was a student of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, graduating in 1903.
Method of Acquisition
Transferred from Classed Archives in September 2008.
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Processing Information
Processed by Andrea Cole, June 2010 Encoded by Andrea Cole, June 2010
- Title
- Olive Allen Notebooks
- Author
- Andrea Cole
- Date
- 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository