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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Richard B. Lupton Papers #05218, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Richard B. Lupton of Westerville, Ohio, in June 2005 (Acc. 100096), September 2005 (Acc. 100246), February 2006 (Acc. 100327), February 2007 (Acc. 100584, 100588), October 2007 (Acc. 100796), April 2009 (Acc. 101098), September 2009 (Acc. 101185), September 2010 (Acc. 101358), August 2013 (Acc. 101861), February 2015 (Acc. 102165), May 2016 (Acc. 102584), July 2017 (Acc. 103119), August 2017 (Acc. 103127), September 2017 (Acc. 103143), September 2018 (Acc. 103429), and August 2022 (Acc. 20220811.2).

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Processed by: Elise Allison, August 2005

Encoded by: Elise Allison, August 2005

Revisions: Nancy Kaiser, August 2017; November 2018; Dawne Howard Lucas, Rebecca Stubbs, and Laura Smith, August 2022

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• Cuba--Description and travel.
• Families--North Carolina.
• Hyde County (N.C.)--History.
• Latin America--Description and travel.
• Lupton, Margaret Fisher, 1911-2014.
• Lupton, Mildred Chastain, 1945-1992.
• Lupton, Richard B.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Richard B. Lupton grew up in Hyde County, N.C., from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. His wife, Mildred Chastain Lupton, grew up in Atlanta, Ga. His parents were Margaret Fisher Lupton, who worked as a florist and as a school librarian, and Walter Jones Lupton, who served one term, 1965-1966, in the North Carolina General Assembly. Richard B. Lupton has published histories of Hyde County, including Hyde County (NC) land divisions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: analyses and summaries.

The original deposit consists of Richard B. Lupton's memoirs of his school years and notes on the history of Hyde County, N.C., based on his recollections and discussions with local residents. Also included is a subject index to these notes.

The Additions of 2005-2016 consist of further installments to Richard B. Lupton's memoirs and his notes on the history of Hyde County, N.C.; family photographs; correspondence with family and friends, including at least one letter from Minnie Cooper, an African American woman from Swan Quarter, N.C., who worked for Margaret Fisher Lupton; elementary, secondary, and college level school materials of Richard B. Lupton; printed ephemera for Hyde County schools and community events; Margaret Fisher Lupton's impressions of library work and European travel in the 1970s; song sheets; deeds, chiefly for land and including a lot "to be used for burial ground for the interment of the bodies of the white race and nothing else"; writings by and notebooks of Margaret Fisher Lupton; letters from Richard B. Lupton in Mexico to his parents; and postcards and holiday cards. Other topics include an evacuation of Ocracoke Island, the Soule Methodist Church in Swan Quarter, and the Phi Gamma Delta fire at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996.

The Additions of 2017 document a white family's life and relationships, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s; decades-long friendships; observations on business and leisure travel to Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and other Latin American destinations; the experiences of teenage girls in the early and mid 1960s; high school in West Hyde County, N.C., and Atlanta, Ga., including a girls' social club, in the early 1960s; study abroad to France in 1965; college coursework in Russian literature; an Army sergeant's experience, 1969-1972; Hyde County history; reflections of a woman, who is probably white, on library work and other topics at an integrated school during the 1970s; sight-seeing in Charleston, S.C.; Triangle Oil Company; and international banking. Materials include family and business-related correspondence, personal recollections recorded on loose paper and in diaries, family and school photographs, elementary school memories notebook, a family budget book, travel itineraries, and scrapbooks.

The Addition of 2018 consists of a further installment to Richard B. Lupton's memoirs of his school years and notes on the history of Hyde County, N.C., based on his recollections and discussions with local residents. Lupton includes references to African Americans.

Photographs (PF-05218/1-15)

Scrapbook (SV-05218/1)

Oversize Papers (OPF-05218/1)