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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 22 records found where LC Subject Heading is Education -- North Carolina -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
	To the friends of education in Durham, North Carolina The Durham Graded School Committee designed this circular to raise money for the support of Durham's graded school in the 1886-1887 school year. Eugene Morehead, R. F. Webb, Edward James Parrish, and Samuel F. Tomlinson served on the committee which sought funding for the school.
	Lavenia Blackwell report card Report card for Lavenia Blackwell from the Oxford Female Seminary in Oxford, North Carolina. While attending this boarding school in 1881, Lavenia studied four subjects: Preparatory (spelling, penmanship, written and mental arithmetic), Languages (Latin and French), Music (instrumental and vocal), and Fine Arts (crayon drawing).
	Letter from N. O. Wilkinson to Mattie Logan Southgate, January 27, 1880 N. O. Wilkinson sends this letter to her young neighbor Mattie Logan Southgate, a student at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs. Wilkinson sends news about her children, Willie, Minnie, and Tommie. Mattie's sister, Annie Southgate spent the day with Mrs. Wilkinson's daughter, Willie. N. O. Wilkinson reports the activities of Durham's young people over Christmas and notes the construction activity in town. She mentions her son's recent hunting trip and reminisces about her school days at Greensboro College. Mrs. Wilkinson closes with a request that Mattie's sister Lessie send her news from school.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, October 06, 1887 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) requests $50.00 from his uncle Richard Harvey Wright for costs associated with his attendance at the University of North Carolina. McCord tries to justify his thrift by saying that he walked from Chapel Hill to Durham "to keep from paying a dollar round trip."
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, December 15, 1887 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) provides his uncle, Richard, with an itemized statement of the costs to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including books, boarding, fees, washing, shoes, church, gym slippers, football, coal, and cigarettes.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, December 19, 1887 McCord Wright Ball thanks his uncle, Richard Wright, for his recent letter and check. He expresses his appreciation for the hardships Wright had shared in his letter and promises to do "the best I can with the privileges I have."
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, January 30, 1888 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) requests $10.00 from his uncle Richard Harvey Wright to pay some of his costs at the University of North Carolina. McCord notes that he has been studying shorthand, but is unwilling to cut his expenses by sharing a room with another student.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, January 30, 1889 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) expresses his surprise to learn that his uncle, Richard Harvey Wright, is traveling to Egypt on business. McCord asks for $10 to cover wood, washing, and society fees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, March 19, 1889 McCord Wright Ball (University of North Carolina,Class of 1891) addresses this letter to his uncle who is traveling in Egypt. McCord shares his plans to study French and German. He also includes a request for financial help so that he can pay his boarding costs.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, May 02, 1889 McCord Wright Ball(Class of 1891) acknowledges receipt of a check from his uncle Richard Harvey Wright and requests additional funds to pay his expenses. McCord tells Richard about his interest in learning to dance and mentions his own father's disapproval of dancing.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, August 20, 1889 McCord Wright Ball writes to his uncle, Richard Harvey Wright, about tuition costs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also shares family news.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, September 09, 1889 McCord Wright Ball tells his uncle, Richard Harvey Wright, about the cost of textbooks and describes the subjects he is taking at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, November 10, 1889 McCord Wright Ball tells his uncle, Richard Harvey Wright, about Methodist preacher Sam Jones, his money problems, and his medical expenses.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, January 28, 1890 McCord Wright Ball updates his uncle, Richard Harvey Wright, who is in Manila, Philippines, with family news. McCord also discusses his experience with love and courtship, being sick with la Grippe, and his finances.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, June 22, 1890 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) sends academic news to his uncle Richard Harvey Wright including information about the curriculum in his French and German classes. He also includes a list of the authors that he has read in his Latin classes. He closes the letter by sharing his aspirations to become a professor of modern languages.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, July 15, 1890 McCord Wright Ball (Class of 1891) updates his uncle Richard Harvey Wright on his social life at the University of North Carolina and defends his spending habits. The letter includes a detailed listing of costs associated with dance lessons and German language instruction.
	Letter from McCord Wright Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, July 16, 1890 In this letter to his uncle, McCord Wright Ball details some of his recent expenses associated with college life. He also discusses the medical remedies he purchased in an effort to recover from a bout of "grippe."
	Letter from Robert I. Rogers to Richard Harvey Wright, July 26, 1890 Robert Rogers, secretary and treasurer for Durham Land and Security, writes to Richard Harvey Wright about the renewal of the graded school contracts. He states that William Guthrie authorized the contract.
	Photograph of Edwin W. Kennedy Portrait of Professor Edwin W. Kennedy, Superintendent of Durham City Schools from 1882 to 1894.
	Photograph of Gilmore Ward Bryant with pupils from Southern Conservatory of Music Portrait of Gilmore Ward Bryant and his students from the Southern Conservatory of Music, Durham, North Carolina.
	Hand-book of Durham, North Carolina : a brief and accurate description of a prosperous and growing southern manufacturing town This pocket-sized handbook documents the people, businesses, social conditions, and government of Durham, North Carolina, and compares Durham's industrial and social advantages to other cities of the same size. It includes statistical records and information about Durham's government, health, real estate, taxes, buildings, streets, waterworks, fire departments, electric lights and gas, telephones, hotels, hospitals, markets, schools and colleges, churches, lodges, and social clubs. Included are lithographs of Mangum Street and Main Street and depictions of prominent buildings, such as: Bennett Place; Durham County Court House; the Fire House; Hotel Carolina; City Hospital; Durham Graded School; Trinity College's Main Building; Trinity Methodist Church; Main Street Methodist Church; the Presbyterian Church; the First and Second Baptist Church; bank buildings; the factory of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co.; Duke Tobacco Factory; and textile factories. Portraits include Isaac N. Link, ma...
	My thoughts : A book of poems. With an introduction by James E. Shepard. M. Pauline Fitzgerald, one of Durham’s first African American school teachers, penned this self-published book of poetry. Pauline’s poetry memorializes Frederick Douglass, Dr. H. M. Tupper, founder and first president of Shaw University, and Bishop Daniel Payne of the A.M.E. Church. The collection also includes some more personal pieces including “An Ode to the First Colored Drug Store in Durham, North Carolina” and “The School Mistress.” Pauli Murray, author of Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family relates a number of stories about her “Aunt Pauline” in her biographical account of M. Pauline Fitzgerald’s parents, Robert G. and Cornelia Fitzgerald.

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