President Charles Duncan McIver Records

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
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Topics: Schools and Colleges
North Carolina
Subject headings: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

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: Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1891; 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.

: Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1892; Letters and postcards exchanged between Dr. Charles D. McIver and Mrs Lula Martin McIver in 1892. Dr. McIver writes of the Teacher Institutes, colleagues, illnesses, missing home, and asking advice about speeches and educational positions. Mrs McIver writes mostly about their children, relatives and missing her husband. Topics include the Teacher Institute, Miss Mildred Cameron, Mr. Paul Cameron, Edwin Alderman, Dr. Forney, Josephus Daniels of The State Chronicle, and advice about a speech on 'Industrial Education of Women' to the University of Georgia at Atlanta. One letter is written by Jessie Bailey, and another is signed by J.B.Bailey.

: Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1903; Telegrams, letters and postcards exchanged by Dr. & Mrs. Charles D. McIver in 1903. There are also some letters written by Verlinda Lula McIver from the same year to each of her parents. Topics include the Southern Education Board, Dr. Anna M. Gove, the North Carolina Society of New York, W.W. Fuller, Piedmont Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, Hotel Hammond of Rocky Mount, NC., Mrs. Francis Peabody, the Peabody Fund and a clipping of the fund related to Dr. McIver.

: Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1905; Letters and notes from members of the McIver family written in 1905. There are letters by Charles D. McIver, Lula Martin McIver, Verlinda Millie McIver and Lizzie McIver (married name unclear). Topics include reports from Laura M. Coit, the Southern Education Board, Walter Page, Doubleday Page & Co., Dr. McIver's time in Europe, Paris, Hamburg, Holland, Edinburgh, a note of finanical cost of a new science building, gymnasioum and land at the State Normal and Industrial School, several recollections of illnesses in the McIver family, correspondence of Dr. McIver's trip Newark, New Jersey and Ashbury Park.

: Correspondence of Dr. & Mrs. McIver 1906; Correspondence letters, telegrams, and postcards exchanged betweem Dr. Charles D. McIver, Mrs. Lula Verlinda Martin McIver, Verlinda McIver and Lula Martin McIver from the year 1906. Most of the correspondence focuses on family friends and acquaintences of the McIvers. Topics include, the wedding of J. Crawford Briggs to Margaret Campbell Jordan, George Foster Peabody, Laura M. Coit, Robert M. Ogden, Sara Poole, Mabel Muse, Dr. Forney, traverls to New York City, Louisville, KY., a letter from Dr. McIver describing an expected fateful visit to North Carolina by William Jennings Bryan in September. Also mentioned are Lula Martin McIver's visit with her grandmother and Lizzie McIver.

: General Correspondence Con-Cur 1894; Correspondence addressed to Dr. Charles D. McIver in 1894 concerning prospective students, colleagues and business. Topics include information requests on behalf of daughters & sisters, catalog request from superintendents and attorneys, employment recommendations for Alice Maude Crocker, Turlington Institute, Greensboro Record, The Western Methodist Book Concern, The Standard a Concord, NC. Newspaper and a request for Normal and Industrial teaching students to work in Northampton county by Andrew J. Connor.

: General Correspondence N-O 1894; Correspondence documents addressed to Dr. Charles D. McIver in the year 1894 from statewide businesses, family, schools, and from various persons on behalf of prospective students or educational material. Topics include school catalog requests, school application letters & forms, dormitory applications, two essays by B. G. Northrop, the Odell Hardware Company of Greensboro, N.C., M. C. S. Noble, Thompson Orphanage and Training Institute, Oak Institute, and the Yadkin Valley Seminary.

: General Correspondence P 1895; Correspondence items written to the State Normal and Industrial School in 1895 and addressed to Dr. Charles D. McIver. Topics include, Charles J. Parker, the Teacher's Aid Association, N. C. Teacher's Assembly, offers from textbook publishers and educational suppliers like the Parker Pen, and letters from students, insurance companies, local and statewide businesses.

: General Correspondence T 1893; Correspondence addressed to Dr. Charles D. McIver in 1893 about prospective students and employment recommendations. Topics include recommendations and request for school information from the following: C. W. Pierce General Merchandise and Grain, H. B. Tatum Livery and Feed Staples, J. A. Thomas editor of the Franklin Times, the Tomlinson Manufacturing Company, and Fallston Institute. Also includes offers from the American Book Company, and request for scholarship information.

: General Correspondence. Applications A 1906; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include, student applications, recommendations, letters of attendance, and covers letter written with letterheads of the companies with which the applicant had training experiences. Also letters from the following: Charles H. Dorsett Dry Goods, Millinery and Carpets of Greensboro, a hygiene inquiry from the North Carolina State Board of Health and The Associated Press.

: General Correspondence. Applications Ba-Bo 1906; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include, student applications, recommendations, letters of attendance, and covers letters some of which from Dell School of Defway, N.C., Yadkin Valley Institute of Booneville, N. C., and Trinity College of Durham, N.C., several promotional letters from the Barnes-Crosby Company, and letters from C. Bentheim a N.C. sculptor about medals and medallions for the State Normal.

: General Correspondence. Applications Br-By 1906; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include, E. S. Willis Bookseller and Broadhurst & Stern, Kinston Public Schools, E. E. Brooks and Goldsboro Public Schools, University of Pennsylvania, Dixie Lee Bryant and The Science Agency, and letters from the State Department of Agriculture to recruit young ladies to the Farmer's Institute.

: General Correspondence. Applications F 1905; Correspondence and academic items which were addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver and Miss Laura H. Coit, at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1905. Topics include applications to the Sate Normal, a request for information about the State Norman for The Foreman Company publishers, also letters various educational institutions like the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, Thomas R. Foust superintendent of Guilford County Schools, Siler City Institute, Robert B. Fulton of the University of Missisippi, David Felmley of the Illinois State Normal University and offers from the Hudson Furniture Company.

: General Correspondence. Applications Ho-Hy 1906; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver and Miss Laura H. Coit at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1906. Topics include letters of applications and re-admittance, including one from Nell Hoskins a relative of J. A. Hoskins a Guilford County Highway Commissioner. Also there are letters from author Alexander Hogg promoting his book "The Railroad in Education", writings about the construction of the Carnegie Library and new buildings from Hooks and Rogers Architects of Charlotte, N.C., and the Central Carolina Construction Company of Greensboro.

: General Correspondence. Applications I-J 1906; Correspondence materials addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1906. Topics include letters of recommendation from employees of many organizations including the Internal Revenue Service and Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, several letters from Mr. Jackson R. Johnson 1st vice-president of The Planters Hotel Co. St. Louis on behalf of his sister Minnie Johnson and letters from J. Y. Joyner superintendent of N.C. public instruction,

: General Correspondence. Applications K 1905; 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.

: General Correspondence. Applications K 1906; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1906. Topics include some requests for job vacancy information from colleges and public schools, applications for the music teacher position once held by late music teacher Brown, letters from the North Carolina Agricultural Society concerning Dr. McIver's involvement with the Forty-Sixth North Carolina State Fair, and materials from the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs

: General Correspondence. Applications L-Le 1905; 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 and scholarship applications to the State Normal , S. Albert Ives of the Siler City Institute, J. W. Landreth of the Department of Industries at the Agricultural and Mechanical College, a request to print an abstract of Dr. McIver's by "The School Journal" records of cooking and laundry purchases at the State Normal, and a complaint from the State Board of Health concerning improper lighting at the college.

: General Correspondence. Applications Li-Ly 1905; 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 applications to the State Normal, Young Women's Christian Association, Lucy Cobb Cottage, the Lucy Cobb Institute, the Due West Female College, Little-Long Company, the Library Bureau and an invitation to an informal dinner of the Tri-State Medical Association of Virginia and the Carolinas.

: General Correspondence. Applications Ma-Mi 1905; Correspondence items addressed to Dr. Charles Duncan McIver at the State Normal and Industrial College in the year 1905. Topics include, application forms with letters in particular, the application of Nattie Pearl Mann comes with her Trinity College certificates. Also included are letters and forms related to the North Carolina Library Association, Presbyterian Orphan Homes, the North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Normal and Collegiate Institute of Asheville, N.C.

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