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Collection Number: 02551

Collection Title: Mrs. Charles A. Cannon Papers, 1934-1953

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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2000 items)
Abstract Mrs. Charles Albert Cannon (Ruth C. Cannon) was an active member of the Garden Club of North Carolina and a resident of Concord, N.C. The collection is primarily notes, correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to the publication of "Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina" (1939). The materials are arranged by county and include 123 photographs of historic North Carolina houses by Bayard Wootten. Also included are pictures of Confederate leaders and battle scenes; information collected in interviews, 1937, with inhabitants of the Roanoke Farms project, Halifax County, N.C., established by the U.S. Resettlement Administration; essays on and pictures of old churches in North Carolina; and correspondence, 1946-1953, relating to the Roanoke Island Historical Association and its production of "The Lost Colony" and to the Elizabethan Gardens in th 1930s.
Creator Cannon, Charles A., Mrs., 1891-1965.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Mrs. Charles A. Cannon Papers #2551, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gifts of Mrs. Charles A. Cannon and Mrs. Lyman A. Cotton in the 1940s and 1950s.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Tracy E. K'Meyer, May 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, April 2021

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

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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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Mrs. Charles Albert Cannon (Ruth C. Cannon) was an active clubwoman residing in Concord, N.C. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was a researcher for the Garden Club of North Carolina's project on historic homes. In 1950, she served as chair of the Roanoke Island Historical Association.

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Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings collected by Mrs. Charles A. Cannon as a member of the Garden Club of North Carolina and the Roanoke Island Historical Association. The bulk of the collection is made up of information on historic homes, much of which was collected for publication in Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina (1939). Also included are photographs of historic homes, some of which were taken by Bayard Wooten. A smaller portion of the material relates to the Roanoke Island Historical Association's production of "The Lost Colony" and to the development of the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island. Volumes include a history of Roanoke Farms, Halifax County, N.C., a Resettlement Administration project, containing typed transcripts of interviews with residents.

The collection is divided into four series:

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Historic Sites Files, 1934-1953 and undated.

About 1,550 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by county name.

These papers contain the letters, memoranda, and newspaper clippings collected by Mrs. Cannon and sent to her by members of the Garden Club of North Carolina and by other interested persons. The papers document the history of old homes in 81 North Carolina counties. The material was edited and published in Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina under the auspices of the Garden Club. The original order of the files, which included slight inconsistencies in the alphabetical arrangement, has been maintained. Some photographs are included (see also series 4). Of note is a United Daughters of the Confederacy prize-winning essay on old churches.

Folder 1

Alamance-Anson

Folder 2

Alamance-Anson clippings

Folder 3

Allegheny-Alexander-Ashe

Folder 4

Beaufort

Folder 5

Beaufort clippings

Folder 6

Bertie

Folder 7

Bertie clippings

Folder 8

Bladen

Folder 9

Bladen clippings

Folder 10

Brunswick

Folder 11

Brunswick clippings

Folder 12

Buncombe

Folder 13

Buncombe clippings

Folder 14

Burke

Folder 15

Burke clippings

Folder 16-17

Folder 16

Folder 17

Cabarrus-Catawba

Folder 18

Cabarrus-Catawba clippings

Folder 19

Caldwell

Folder 20

Caldwell clippings

Folder 21

Camden-Carteret

Folder 22

Camden-Carteret clippings

Folder 23

Caswell

Folder 24

Caswell clippings

Folder 25

Chatham

Folder 26

Chatham clippings

Folder 27-28

Folder 27

Folder 28

Chowan

Folder 29

Chowan clippings

Folder 30

Cleveland

Folder 31

Cleveland clippings

Folder 32

Craven

Folder 33

Craven clippings

Folder 34

Cumberland

Folder 35

Cumberland clippings

Folder 36

Dare clippings

Folder 37

Davidson

Folder 38

Davidson clippings

Folder 39

Davie

Folder 40

Davie clippings

Folder 41

Durham-Duplin

Folder 42

Durham-Duplin clippings

Folder 43

Edgecombe

Folder 44

Forsythe

Folder 45

Forsythe clippings

Folder 46

Franklin

Folder 47

Franklin clippings

Folder 48

Gaston

Folder 49

Gaston clippings

Folder 50

Gates

Folder 51

Granville

Folder 52

Granville clippings

Folder 53

Green

Folder 54

Guilford

Folder 55

Guilford clippings

Folder 56

Halifax-Hertford

Folder 57

Halifax-Hertford clippings

Folder 58

Henderson-Harnett

Folder 59

Henderson-Harnett clippings

Folder 60

Hyde clippings

Folder 61

Iredell

Folder 62

Iredell clippings

Folder 63

Johnston-Jackson

Folder 64

Johnston-Jackson clippings

Folder 65

Jones

Folder 66

Jones clippings

Folder 67

Lenoir

Folder 68

Lenoir clippings

Folder 69

Lincoln-Lee

Folder 70

Lincoln-Lee clippings

Folder 71

Macon

Folder 72

Mecklenburg-Martin

Folder 73

Mecklenburg-Martin clippings

Folder 74

Montgomery, Moore, McDonnell

Folder 75

Montgomery, Moore, McDonnell clippings

Folder 76

Nash

Folder 77

Nash clippings

Folder 78

New Hanover

Folder 79

New Hanover clippings

Folder 80

Orange-Onslow

Folder 81

Orange-Onslow clippings

Folder 82

Pasquotank-Pitt

Folder 83

Pasquotank-Pitt clippings

Folder 84

Person

Folder 85

Person clippings

Folder 86

Polk

Folder 87

Randolph

Folder 88

Rockingham-Robeson

Folder 89

Rockingham-Robeson clippings

Folder 90

Rowan

Folder 91

Rowan clippings

Folder 92

Rutherford-Richmond

Folder 93

Rutherford-Richmond clippings

Folder 94

Sampson

Folder 95

Sampson clippings

Folder 96

Scotland

Folder 97

Scotland clippings

Folder 98

Stanly

Folder 99

Stanly clippings

Folder 100

Stokes

Folder 101

Stokes clipping

Folder 102

Surry

Folder 103

Surry clippings

Folder 104

Transylvania

Folder 105

Tyrrell

Folder 106

Tyrrell clippings

Folder 107

Vance

Folder 108

Vance clippings

Folder 109

Wake

Folder 110

Wake clippings

Folder 111

Washington-Wayne

Folder 112

Washington-Wayne clippings

Folder 113

Warren-Wilson

Folder 114

Warren-Wilson clippings

Folder 115

Wilkes-Watauga

Folder 116

Wilkes-Watauga clippings

Folder 117

Yancey-Yadkin

Folder 118

Yancey-Yadkin clippings

Folder 119

Garden Tour clippings

Folder 120

Miscellaneous historic churches, gardens, homes

Folder 121-123

Folder 121

Folder 122

Folder 123

Miscellaneous clippings

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About 450 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

This series contains correspondence, chiefly 1950, relating to the Roanoke Island Historical Association, its production of "The Lost Colony," and the Elizabethan Gardens project. Also included are related clippings and other materials.

Folder 124

Correspondence, 1946-1949

Folder 125

Correspondence, January-June 1950

Folder 126

Correspondence, July-December 1950

Folder 127

Correspondence, 1951-1953 and undated

Folder 128

Elizabethan Gardens

Folder 129

The Lost Colony

Folder 130-131

Folder 130

Folder 131

The Lost Colony (clippings)

Folder 132

Roanoke Island Historical Association

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280 items.

The bulk of the photographs, many of them taken by Bayard Wooten, are of old homes in North Carolina. There are a smaller number of pictures of gardens as well. Also included are photographs of Confederate leaders, including Bernard E. Bee, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Bushrod Johnson, and a few battle scenes.

Image Box IB-2551/1-2

IB-2551/1

IB-2551/2

Photographs

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-2551/1

Oversize Photographs

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Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-2551/1

Oversize papers

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