Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro, 1880-1945
Textiles, Teachers, and Troops makes available more than 175,000 digital images documenting the social and cultural development of Greensboro from Reconstruction to World War II. Photos, books, personal papers, scrapbooks, and oral histories demonstrate how the textile industry, education, and the massive World War II military presence helped Greensboro grow into one of the leading manufacturing and education centers in the Southeast.
Textiles, Teachers, and Troops is a collaborative project among seven cultural heritage institutions in Greensboro and was funded in part through a Library Services and Technology Act Grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
Collections included:
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- North Carolina Community Progress
- North Carolina Community Progress was an agrigultural extention publication issued by the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro) between 1920 and 1923.
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- Allen-McFarland Family Papers
- The Allen-McFarland Family Papers chiefly document an African American family in the South in the mid-twentieth century, providing considerable insight into the values and norms of African Americans during this period, as well as the opportunities and frustrations of a struggling minority. The digitized items relate primarily to Dudley High School and Bennett College.
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- Alumnae News / Alumni News / UNCG Magazine
- UNCG has published alumni magazines since January 1912. This collection contains Alumnae News (1912-1964), Alumni News (1964-1998), and UNCG Magazine (1998-present). Issued from 1998 through 2012 are currently being digitized as of February 2022.
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- Ethel Arnett Papers
- This collection consists primarily of photographs acquired by Greensboro historian Ethel Stephens Arnett for her books, particularly Greensboro, North Carolina: The County Seat of Guilford (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955).
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- Art Shop Collection
- The Art Shop was established by Charles Farrell (1893-1977) in Greensboro in 1923, and his wife Anne joined the business in 1935. The couple were both talented photographers, and over the next 25 years they captured many people, places, and events in Greensboro and across North Carolina. Many of the latter images can be found in the Charles A. Farrell Photograph Collection at the North Carolina State Archives. The Art Shop Collection held at the Greensboro History Museum consists of several thousand negatives and over 1500 contact prints. It includes numerous images of local businesses and schools, as well as some copy work and street scenes.
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- Artifact Collection
- The UNC Greensboro Artifact Collection contains three-dimensional objects relating to UNCG's history, including class rings, commemorative china, mementos from faculty, and other items significant to the institution's history.
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- Bennett College Archives
- Materials documenting the history of the college and its students, faculty, and staff.
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- Bennett College Course Catalogs
- Bulletins and course catalogs document the academic offerings as well as the facilities, activities, and other benefits offered to students.
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- Bennett College Scrapbook Collection
- This scrapbook by Willa B. Player is a collection of congratulatory letters and certificates commemorating her appointment as the new president of Bennett College in 1956.
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- Raymond and Helen Titsworth Binford Papers
- The papers of Raymond Binford (1876-1951), President of Guilford College, 1918-1934; Chairman, Board of Education, Five Years Meeting, 1930-1945; minister and professor of biology, and Helen Titsworth Binford (1885-1952), President, North Carolina PTA, c.1930; Field Secretary, Carolina Institute of International Relations; and community volunteer, were given to the Friends Historical Collection by their children, Anna Naomi Kirchner, Richard, Frederick, and Mary Margaret Bailey c.1953.
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- Board of Directors Records
- When the State Normal and Industrial School was established in 1891, it was governed by a Board of Directors. This body was charged with overseeing the administrative actions of the school, including the appointment of the president. In 1932, the school changed it name to Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and became one of the three branches in the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Administrative duties for the school were shifted from the Board of Directors to the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees. These are the records of the State Normal's Board of Directors between 1891 and 1931.
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- Board of Directors Reports
- This colleciton of biennial reports of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School contain finacial information, events summaries, the president's report, and other material documenting the operation of the college.
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- Bulletins and Course Catalogs (Undergraduate)
- The undergraduate course catalogs are annual publications containing course offerings, academic requirements, and other information about the university.
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- The Carolinian
- The Carolinian is the UNC Greensboro student newspaper. It was first published on May 19, 1919 and continues to be published today.
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- Company K Scrapbook
- Company K, Third Infantry of Asheboro, North Carolina, served at El Paso, Texas from 1916-1917. The scrapbook, annotated in black ink throughout, includes photographs.
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- Benjamin Cone Papers
- The Benjamin Cone Papers are composed of materials from the files of his personal office. As a result, it by no means represents a complete collection of his papers. Although the bulk of the material relates directly to Cone, a substantial amount deals with other members of his family.
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- Bernard Cone Photograph Albums
- Bernard Milton Cone (1874-1956) was born in Baltimore as one of the youngest of Herman and Helen Cone's thirteen children. His elder brothers, Moses (1857-1908) and Ceasar (1859-1917), built Proximity Cotton Mills in Greensboro in 1895, and later launched Revolution Mill, White Oak Mill, and Proximity Print Works, creating one of the largest textile mill companies in the South. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia Law School, Bernard Cone worked as a lawyer in New York for seven years before settling in Greensboro in 1904. Over the next 45 years, he held various positions in the family's textile empire, including that of president of Proximity Manufacturing Company from 1917 to 1938. Cone was a skilled amateur photographer, and his photos provide a rich picture of life in Greensboro in the 1900s and 1910s. Images show: members of the Cone family and their mansions on Summit Avenue, the textile mills and their employees, the mill villages and their residents, and mill-sponsored schools and recreational activities. Cone also captured street scenes in downtown Greensboro and the city's 1908 centennial celebrations. In addition, the albums include several creative self-portraits.
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- Contextual Essays
- Contextual essays created as part of the Textiles, Teachers, and Troops digitization project dealing with Greensboro's history as a textile, military, and educational center from 1880 to 1945.
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- Catherine Cox Letters
- A collection of corrrepondence from a Guilford College student.
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- Robert and Lyra Dann Papers
- Robert and Lyra Dann were former Guilford College faculty members who lived in Ireland working with the Miles Linen Company from 1924 to 1927 when they returned to this country to teach at Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. There are 14 letters in the collection, 11 from Mary Mendenhall Hobbs and 3 from Lewis Lyndon Hobbs.
