President Charles Duncan McIver Records
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Account book
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Account book with sales notes dating back to 1874, possibly from the store of Matthew Henry McIver near Sanford, N.C . Individuals mentioned include T.C. Blalock, H. & D.F. McIver, A.D. McIver, D.C. Gilmore, and William McNeill, Contents include financial records of corn, wheat, and mill lumber sold, lumber sawed, and pork killed.
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Address on "Local Taxation", by President Charles D. McIver, December, 1903
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Address on "Local Taxation" by Dr. Charles Duncan McIver which was delivered before the Southern Educational Association at Atlanta, Georgia in December of 1903. In this address Dr. McIver discusses criticism of taxation for the payment of public education, the role of communities and philanthropy in taxes for public schools, and persuading communities opposed to tax supported education. This printed address also included maps of North Carolina counties.
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Advertisements found in papers
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Collection of advertising clippings for materials most likely ordered for the State Normal and Industrial College during its first decade. Topics include advertisement clippings, flyers and brochures for local manufacturers like the Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company of High Point, High Point Bed Spring Company, and the Charles J. Parker School Furniture & Supplies of Raleigh, N.C., as well as national manufacturers of ladies shoes, desks, school desks, school stationaries, bookshelves, heaters, laundry machines, iron fences, and complete instructional brochures for various styles of typewriters.
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Alumni Association 1891 n.d.
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Notes and papers chiefly concerning the financial activities of the Alumni Association of the State and Normal College for Women in 1891. Topics include froms and notes from the Citizens National Bank, a possible draft for the schools alma matter, and a typed report to the executieve commitee concerning the fundraising of the alumin association. There are several lists of names of donors, their contribution amounts and location from which they were recieved. Some of the letters detail the creation of alumni based scholarships.
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An Act to Establish A Normal...
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Pamphlet titled, "An Act to Establish a Normal and Industrial School For White Girls" the act enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina in 1891 which created the State Normal and Industrial Institute, currently known as The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Autobiographical information
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An autobiographical essay by Dr. Charles D. McIver, with a possible draft copy of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly constitution. Topics include Moore County, N.C., Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Washington Duke, Dr. Kemp P. Battle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peace Institute, the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, and McIver's resume and autobiography.
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Commencement Address-Walter Clark, 1899
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Commencement address given by Walter Clark to the State Normal and Industrial College on May 24th, 1899. Topics included in the speech are the growing suffrage movement, the benefits of a state education, and the history of the foundations of the State Normal and college education for women in North Carolina.
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Compositions, n.d.
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Compositions penned by Charles D. McIver on various topics during his school days, between 1873 to . Includes compositions titled "Home", "Winter", "Industry", "The Sabbath", "Friendship", "Education", "Nature", "Night", "Minerals", "Grow", "Contrast Between Morning and Evening", "Gold", "Horses", "Water". Also contains notes on John Bunyan, John Milton, English history, contemporaneous writers, history of English Literature, and Shakespeare"s Othello. An essay on Latin, and an essay called "A criticism on Locksley Hall" are also included.
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Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1891
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Clippings, letters and postcards exchanged between Dr. and Mrs. McIver in 1891. There are several items focusing on the beginnings of a new normal and industrial school for girls, and the Teachers Institute. Topics include the wedding of Maggie McIver to Henry Watkins, the Cateret Institute, the Teachers Institute sessions and press coverage, the Mecklenburg Times, Young Men's Christian Association of Winston-Salem, N.C., a bill by the General Assembly of North Carolina for the establishment of a normal and industrial school for white girls, the teachers journals of E.L. Kellogg & Co., Charles Duncan McIver Jr., Annie McIver.
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Declaration of Principles as adopted by The National Educational Association at its meeting in Charleston, SC, July 10-13, 1900
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A pamphlet of the National Educational Association's Declaration of Principles from 1900 of which Dr. Charles Duncan McIver, president of the State Normal and Industrial College was one of the committee members. The Declaration states ideas like an education for all children, the extension of the American school system to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, the increase in secondary and higher education and formulating admissions policies to colleges. This document also includes statistics on many leading American colleges.
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Diaries and autobiographical material 1884, 1891-1892, n.d.
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Diary entries and autobiographical writings by Dr. Charles D. McIver in 1884 and from 1891 to 1892. Dr. McIver describes incidents of his childhood, motivations, and goals for his career in education. Contents include beginnings of an autobiography geared to his children which begins with a childhood story about a child slave called 'Dick' and another called 'Uncle Make McNeill', memories of his father and the Civil War, a biographical form for the 'Men of Mark in North Carolina' noting f sucesses and failures, notes of travels, NcIver's early courthsip with Lula Martin McIver, an outline for a chapter autobiography.
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Fragments of speeches and notes
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Incomplete sections of various writings, most by Dr. Charles D. McIver. Many of the documents detail Dr. McIver's efforts to build the education of women and of the needs of the Normal and Industrial College. Contents include an article profiling some educated and professional women, including Dr. Miriam Biting, 'Miss Bryant', 'Miss Boddie', 'Miss Mendenhall'. Also included are items mentioning the Peabody Funds and Jos. J. Stone & Company, a biography of Dr. McIver credited to J.Y. Joyner, several notes and writings about the needs for women's education, charts and financial records of teachers' salaries, material on the expanision of the Normal and Industrial College, Citizens National Bank, and Simmons Liver Regulator.
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General Correspondence. Applications C-Cl 1906
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Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include application forms, letters, and recommendation letters one of which is from the James Sprunt Institute. Also invitational correspondences from H. H. Caldwell principal of Marshville Academy of Marshville, N.C., letters from the Baptist Orphanage of Thomasville, N.C., plus a list of colleges and universities to share in the Carnegie Fund from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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General Correspondence. Applications Co-Cu 1906
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Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver or Miss Laura Coit at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include application forms, letters, and recommendation letters, an invitational letter from the North State Fire Insurance Company of Greensboro, Andrew J. Conner, Consolidated Granite Company of Winston-Salem, and letters from other insurance companies concerning actions with the State Normal.
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General Correspondence. Applications K 1905
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Correspondence, academic and business letters which were addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1905. Topics include applications to the State Normal, Durham Hosiery Mills, U.S. War Department Bureau of Insular Affairs, Maine Teachers Association, Trinity College, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, North Carolina Agricultural Society, a report from Thomas J. Kirk superintendent of public instruction of California.
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General Correspondence. Applications McIver 1905
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Correspondence, academic and business letters which were addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver and Dr. Julius I. Foust at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1905. Topics include a few application forms and several speeches and essays by Dr. McIver, A biographical essay called "The Life of Phoebe Pegram" subscription offer to the North Carolina Progress, an address welcoming a committee to the city of Greensboro, "North Carolina Educationallly" a report of the state progress regarding illiteracy and another uncredited essay possibly written as a dedication to Dr. McIver following his death.
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General correspondence January-July 1895
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Notes and documents, mostly addressed to Charles D. McIver in 1895. Some of the notes are transcribes by McIver to colleagues and students. Topics include: correspondence with the United States Senate, Teachers Aid Association, W.D. McIver, Horner Military School, American Art Association, the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, various staff members of the State University of North Carolina, Winthrop Normal & Industrial College of Columbia, South Carolina, and various textile manufacturing companies in the American southeast.
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