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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 820 items) |
Abstract | M.C.S. Noble was an educator and leader in the development of public schools in North Carolina; superintendent of schools in Wilmington, N.C.; member of the University of North Carolina faculty, 1898-1942, as professor of education and dean of the School of Education; and author of History of Public Schools in North Carolina (1930) and of numerous articles and textbooks. The collection includes papers of, and collected by, M.C.S. Noble, including family correspondence and papers; letters from colleagues and friends, including Edwin A. Alderman, Charles Duncan McIver, and other North Carolinians in the field of education; scrapbooks and other volumes compiled, written or collected by Noble, including a manuscript history of the Tileston Normal School of Wilmington, founded during Reconstruction by Amy Morris Bradley of Massachusetts, and a copy of the proceedings of the board of the Lincolnton (N.C.) Female Academy, 1821-1824; and selected papers of daughter Alice Noble, including materials relating to her education at St. Mary's in Raleigh, 1908-1910, and letters from an Army officer in the A.E.F., 1918-1919. |
Creator | Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Finding aid updated in June 2010 by Kathryn Michaelis for digitization.
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M.C.S. Noble was an educator and leader in the development of public schools in North Carolina; superintendent of schools in Wilmington, N.C.; member of the University of North Carolina faculty, 1898-1942, as professor of education and dean of the School of Education; and author of History of Public Schools in North Carolina (1930) and of numerous articles and textbooks.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers of, and collected by, M.C.S. Noble, including family correspondence and papers; letters from colleagues and friends, including Edwin A. Alderman, Charles Duncan McIver, and other North Carolinians in the field of education; scrapbooks and other volumes compiled, written or collected by Professor Noble, including a manuscript history of the Tileston Normal School of Wilmington, founded during Reconstruction by Amy Morris Bradley of Massachusetts, and a copy of the proceedings of the board of the Lincolnton (N.C.) Female Academy, 1821-1824; and selected papers of daughter Alice Noble, including materials relating to her education at St. Mary's in Raleigh, 1908-1910, and letters from an Army officer in the A.E.F., 1918-1919.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Image Folder PF-1025/1 |
Three mounted black-and-white photographsIncludes photographs of Winston City High School; members of Columbus County, N.C. Teachers' Institute, August 1914; and an unidentified group of teachers. |
Image Folder PF-1025/2 |
Two mounted black-and-white photographsEast Winston Grade School and West End Grade School |
Image Folder PF-1025/3 |
Four black-and-white photographsIncludes photographs of West End Primary School; North Winston Grade School; a photograph of a portrait of Constantine John, Second Lord Mulgrave; and an unidentified woman. |
Image Folder PF-1025/4 |
Fifteen black-and-white photographsIncludes photographs of wounded World War I soldiers; several snow scenes; and various individuals. |
Image Folder PF-1025/5 |
Nine black-and-white photographsThe photographs are taken from volume 10 of "Country Home Conveniences." Seven of them show various machines in a warehouse; two show a crowd gathered outside a large house on what appears to be a farm or a plantation. |