Box SFC2 [F09.090.02.02]
Container
Contains 27 Collections and/or Records:
Sunshine Co-op letter
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 227
Identifier: MS0227
Overview
Handwritten letter by an unidentified woman named Sydney [no last name given] to her "family" in which she informs them that she, her husband Walter, and their daughter Heather, have joined a commune of people who travel around the country in transformed school buses. Of note is her reference to the Sunshine Co-op in Charlotte, which received discarded food items from supermarkets and used it as their primary food source. The "Uncle Julius" mentioned in the letter is possibly Julius Levitch of...
Dates:
circa 1970
Rufus Clay Barringer papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 223
Identifier: MS0223
Overview
Items relating to Confederate General and Charlottean Rufus Clay Barringer. Photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles and a copy of Barringer's diary while imprisoned at Fort Delaware in 1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1995; 1863 - 1993
William H. Barnhardt papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 204
Identifier: MS0206
Overview
Primarily non-business related correspondence of a Charlotte textile industrialist, civic leader, and philanthropist. The bulk of the collection relates to Barnhardt's donation of copies of Cornelia Wearn Henderson's Early Charlotte and Mecklenburg County for Children (1968) to local schools and colleges.
Dates:
1959, 1966, 1968-70, undated; 1966 - 1969
Selby A. Daniels papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 211
Identifier: MS0211
Overview
Contains essays, newspaper clippings and magazine articles concerning Abraham Lincoln's paternity. Also includes an essay by Daniels about the social history of Fremont, NC and Aycock family genealogy.
Dates:
1805, 1952-2003
Ken Brotherton papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 152
Identifier: MS0152
Overview
Papers documenting the history of northern Mecklenburg county and the Lake Norman area. Includes newspaper and magazine articles as well as an essay entitled "Caldwell Family History," concerning descendants of the Lipe family.
Dates:
1985 - 1991
Seaboard Air Line Railway timebook
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 144
Identifier: MS0144
Overview
Time book for the railway's Charlotte yard. Includes employees's names, job assignments, hours worked, and wages paid.
Dates:
1926 - 1927
Charlotte Checkers Hockey Club programs
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 143
Identifier: MS0143
Overview
Primarily official programs (1970) for five home matches during the 1969-70 season of the original Charlotte Checkers minor league hockey team, which played in the Eastern Hockey League and Southern Hockey League. Also includes a page of players' autographs and a 1970-71 season ticket order form.
Dates:
1970
Ingenuin and Herbert Hechenbleikner papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 155
Identifier: MS0155
Overview
Photocopied material relating to the career of Ingenuin Hechenbleikner Sr. in the field of chemical engineering and work for Duke Power. There is also photocopied material about Herbert Hechenbleikner, a UNC Charlotte biology professor which resulted in a magazine feature for one of the university's publications, compiled for a story in the university magazine.
Dates:
1909 - 1988
Unidentified Confederate soldier , circa 1861-1865
Item — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 209, Item: P209/1
Dates:
circa 1861-1865
Child laborers in a textile mill , circa 1910
Item — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 209, Item: P209/2