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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Collection Overview
| Size | 6.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5,000 items) |
| Abstract | Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) of Sumner County, Tenn., was a lawyer, editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. The collection contains the papers of Edward Ward Carmack, chiefly pertaining to his elections to the House, 1896 and 1898; his Senate re-election defeat in 1906; and his defeat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1908. Included are correspondence and papers relating to the campaigns along with speeches and letters of congratulations; political scrapbooks including one concerning the Philippines; clippings; messages received about Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s, including items relating to land in Lakeland, Fla.; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; pictures primarily of unidentified individuals, including postcards of African American agricultural laborers; and two photograph albums of African American agricultural laborers from the "Rosemary" farm or plantation, probably in Alabama. |
| Creator | Carmack, Edward Ward, 1858-1908. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011
Updated by: Laura Hart, March 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Biographical Information
Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) of Sumner County, Tenn., was a lawyer, editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. He was assassinated in Nashville in 1908 by Duncan Brown Cooper and his son, Robin Cooper.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains the papers of Edward Ward Carmack, chiefly pertaining to his elections to the House, 1896 and 1898; his Senate re-election defeat in 1906; and his defeat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1908. Included are correspondence and papers relating to the campaigns along with speeches and letters of congratulations; political scrapbooks including one concerning the Philippines; clippings; messages received about Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s, including items relating to land in Lakeland, Fla.; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; pictures primarily of unidentified individuals, including postcards of African American agricultural laborers; and two photograph albums of African American agricultural laborers from the "Rosemary" farm or plantation, probably in Alabama.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1850-1942 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence chiefly regarding Carmack's political victories and defeats, 1896-1906. The bulk of the papers consists of letters of congratulations for Carmack's defeat of Josiah Patterson in the House, 1896; his re-election in 1898; and correspondence regarding his Senate re-election defeat, 1906, to Robert L. Taylor. Other correspondence includes items from 1902 concerning Carmack's opinions on the Philippines, and letters pertaining to his failed gubernatorial campaign in 1908. Papers after November 1908 consist of letters, telegrams, cards, and resolutions sent to his wife after his assassination; and items, 1908-1942, relating to Mrs. Carmack and Edward Ward Carmack, Junior (Ned).
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Series 2. Scrapbooks, Notebooks, and Clippings, 1855-1910 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series includes political scrapbooks, including clippings and items related to the Philippines; a lettercopy book of lumber businessman Tyree Rodes of Burnside, Ky.; lists of voters and workers; visiting and greeting cards; checks and financial papers; and loose and unsorted material. Please note, volumes 13-14 were removed and renamed photograph albums 1-2.
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Series 3. Pictures, circa 1880-1930 and undated.
Arrangement: chiefly chronological.
Pictures are primarily of unidentified individuals, although there is one photograph and one poster of Carmack. Other pictures include postcards of African Americans harvesting and weighing cotton, Woodrow Wilson's inaugural parade, Jefferson Davis's home in Gulfport, Miss., and the Columbia Institute in Columbia, Tenn. There are also two photograph albums chiefly of African American agricultural laborers from the "Rosemary" farm or plantation, probably in Alabama.
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Series 4. Microfilm Copy of the Collection
The Libraries filmed the collection in 1970 and 1980.
| Reel M-1414/1 |
Microfilm copy of collection materials dated 1850-1905 |
| Reel M-1414/2 |
Microfilm copy of collection materials dated 1906-1907 |
| Reel M-1414/3 |
Microfilm copy of collection materials dated 1908-1914 |
| Reel M-1414/4 |
Microfilm copy of collection materials dated 1915-1942 and undated |
| Reel M-1414/5 |
Microfilm copy of folders 53-58 and volumes |
| Reel M-1414/6 |
Microfilm copy of photograph albums and loose pictures |
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