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Children's autograph books
Collection — Oversize Box: 1 [F09.135.01.05]
Identifier: MS0013
Overview
Autograph books of Charlotte children from the post-Civil war 1800s.
Dates:
1883 - 1890
Dan Kirsch papers concerning the Charlotte LGBT community
Collection
Identifier: MS0358
Overview
Papers documenting Kirsch's work in the LGBT community as well as his work in theatre throughout the country. Includes press releases, brochures, newsletters, correspondence, playbills, CDs and VHS tapes.
Dates:
1990 - 2000
Mecklenburg and Lincoln County land records
Collection — Oversize Box: OF13 [F09.002.07.01], Folder: 1
Identifier: MS0028
Overview
Miscellaneous records (3 oversize documents, 1 framed), pertaining to property in Mecklenburg and Lincoln counties.
Dates:
1801, 1811, 1862
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0321
Overview
The collection consists of materials associated with the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Included are souvenir facsimiles of the Mecklenburg County Declaration of Independence; reproductions of pen and ink drawings of Mecklenburg County landmarks; reproductions of articles and book reviews pertaining to the declaration in the Mecklenburg gazette, Harper's monthly, and other publications; a special Mecklenburg Independence Day edition of the Charlotte observer issued in 1975; and copies...
Dates:
1775 - 1975
North Carolina school desegregation collection
Collection — Box: SFC4 [F09.090.03.02], Folder: 413
Identifier: MS0413
Overview
The N.C. School Desegregation collection, 1955-1956 (mss 413), is a small assortment (one folder) of mostly published material, generated by the faction that was opposed to the racial desegregation of public schools. The organizer of this material is not known.
Dates:
1955 - 1956
North Carolina writers photographs (lists in folders)
Collection
Identifier: MS0032
Overview
Black and white photographs of 54 writers with North Carolina connections.
Dates:
1960 - 1987; 1960
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
United States Courthouse and Post Office Building (Charlotte, N.C.) lithograph
Collection — Box: SFC3 [F09.090.03.01], Folder: 236
Identifier: MS0236
Overview
Contains a lithograph of an architectural rendering of the United States Courthouse and Post Office Building that was located on W. Trade St. in uptown Charlotte.
Dates:
1889