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| Size | 23.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 18,000 items) |
| Abstract | E. C. (Eugene Cunningham) Branson (1861-1933) was an educator, author, and editor, president of the State Normal School of Georgia, 1900-1912, head of its department of rural economics and sociology, 1912-1914, and founder and head of the rural social economics program at the University of North Carolina. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence and writings of E. C. Branson. The collection includes papers pertaining to research into all aspects of rural life in the South and in Europe, including an international correspondence and many writings; to his activities as professor at the University of North Carolina; and to varied other public and civic issues, in particular farm tenancy, illiteracy, and rural credit. He was actively involved in North Carolina movements concerning the reclamation of farm land, better port terminal facilities, and good roads. Few papers pertain to Branson's teaching career before 1914. |
| Creator | Branson, E. C. (Eugene Cunningham), 1861-1933. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
Eugene Cunningham Branson (1861-1933) was an educator, author, and editor, president of the State Normal School of Georgia, 1900-1912, head of its department of rural economics and sociology, 1912-1914, and founder and head of the rural social economics program at the University of North Carolina. Branson was born in Morehead City, N.C., to Reverend Levi and Edith Cunningham Branson. He was educated at Trinity College and Peabody Normal College in Nashville, Tenn.
For fourteen years Branson worked in secondary education as principal of a high school in Raleigh, N.C., and in Atlanta, Ga. While in Athens, he wrote three publications for use in public schools: Methods of Teaching Arithmetic (1896), Methods of Reading and Spelling (1896), and a chapter in Pages Theory and Practice of Teaching entitled, "Fitness to Teach" (1899). Branson was appointed a professor of pedagogy at Georgia Normal and Industrial School, Milledgeville, Ga., 1897-1900; president of the State Normal School of Georgia in Athens, 1900-1914; founder of the Georgia Club; professor and head of the department of rural social economics at the University of North Carolina; editor of the weekly University News Letter; and organizer of the North Carolina Club.
In 1919 Branson was awarded a Litt.D. degree form the University of Georgia at Athens and was also appointed a Kenan professor at the University of North Carolina. In 1923 he traveled to Europe to study agriculture and wrote the widely acclaimed Farm Life Abroad (1924). Branson supervised county government studies of most North Carolina counties and wrote and spoke extensively on the problems of farm tenancy, illiteracy, and rural credit; and took an active part in statewide movements concerning reclamation of farm land, better port terminal facilities, and good roads.
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The collection includes personal and professional correspondence and writings of E. C. Branson. The collection includes papers pertaining to research into all aspects of rural life in the South and in Europe, including an international correspondence and many writings; to his activities as professor at the University of North Carolina; and to varied other public and civic issues, in particular farm tenancy, illiteracy, and rural credit.
He was actively involved in North Carolina movements concerning the reclamation of farm land, better port terminal facilities, and good roads. Few papers pertain to Branson's teaching career before 1914.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Includes letters to and carbon copies of letters from E. C. Branson and speeches given by Branson. Among the correspondence are requests and replies for information about various economic and social problems of the state; discussions with officials of professional, religious, political, governmental, and social organizations about practical solutions to current state and national problems; comments to fellow scholars about theoretical aspects of state and national problems; and correspondence with family and relatives. Topics include agriculture, particularly sharecropping; education; race relations; transportation and roads; World War I; and many other subjects.
| Folder 1A |
Original Finding Aid #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 1A |
| Folder 1 |
Biographical Information #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 1 |
| Folder 2 |
Addresses #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 2 |
Folder 3-9
Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9 |
1886-1913 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 3-9Correspondence chiefly concerns the state of Georgia and deals with illiteracy and crime, country churches, rural-urban population comparisons and Georgia county studies. Also includes speeches and essays concerning farm tenancy, "Know-Your-Home-State" clubs, the "Georgia Club, " good roads, and African American farm ownership. |
Folder 10-20
Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20 |
1914 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 10-20Correspondence deals with Branson's recommendation by the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees to the University faculty as Professor of Rural Economics and Sociology, Branson's acceptance of the invitation, and housing arrangements in Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Branson family. Other correspondence concerns Orange County, N.C., studies, long-term and low-interest farm mortgage loans, problems of race relations, effects of World War I on education and agriculture, agricultural systems in the South, community service work, farm tenancy, rural credit, the merchant-supply system, the North Carolina Club, the Orange County Club, Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) work, land ownership, and child labor. There are also reports on a survey Branson made of the Wisconsin Agricultural College and speeches made by Branson at various high schools in North Carolina. |
Folder 21-45
Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45 |
1915 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 21-45Includes correspondence concerning lynching, rural credit legislation, child labor and welfare, farm cooperatives, sanitations surveys, African American land ownership, Orange County, N.C., home and health surveys, school and church surveys, farm tenancy, the North Carolina Club, the Commission on Race Relations, the Southern Educational Council, the Chattanooga Conference for Education and Industry, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, the North Carolina State Bureau of Publicity, the University of North Carolina newsletter, typhoid fever, illiteracy, tariff policy, the crop lien law, compulsory military training, education for the blind and deaf, agriculture systems, urban problems, homicides, religious beliefs, farmers' union, handling surplus agricultural products, "open-air schools," university extension work, prohibition, the Jeans Fund, and speeches made by Branson at county fairs. |
Folder 46-66
Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64Folder 65Folder 66 |
1916 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 46-66Includes correspondence concerning lynching, immigration, rural schools, child labor, race relations, the University of North Carolina faculty, property taxes, farm tenancy, African American schools, roads and convict labor, rural churches, the presidency of Agricultural and Mechanical College, YMCA work, the Country Life Institute, summer school in Mississippi, African Americans in Orange County, N.C., farm conditions in Mississippi, the Farm Land Loan Board, crime in the United States, conditions in textile mills, African American education in Louisiana, meat inspection in North Carolina, Massachusetts illiteracy, flood disasters, speech by Governor Locke Craig, preventive medicine, and speeches by Branson for the Twin City Club at Columbia University. |
Folder 67-89
Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89 |
1917 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 67-89Includes correspondence related to African Americans in Orange County, N.C., cooperative extension work, African American schools, lynching, the University of North Carolina News Letter, social service legislation, roads in Orange County, N.C., rural church problems, YMCA work, tax valuation and collection, farm tenancy, effects of World War I on agriculture, illiteracy, effects of World War I on education, the Country Life Institute, Northern migrations of African Americans, proposal for unicameral legislature, venereal disease, Liberty Loan Bonds, cooperative farming, the North Carolina Council of Defense, conservation of food, county government studies, the North Carolina Club, juvenile delinquency, salaries and fees, the Orange County (N.C.) Food Administration, plans for a school of social work, equal suffrage, and speeches by Branson at the Rural Welfare Conference, Flatrock Baptist Association in Denison, Va., and in Army camps in Georgia and South Carolina. |
Folder 90-110
Folder 90Folder 91Folder 92Folder 93Folder 94Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97Folder 98Folder 99Folder 100Folder 101Folder 102Folder 103Folder 104Folder 105Folder 106Folder 107Folder 108Folder 109Folder 110 |
1918 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 90-110Includes correspondence concerning glassmaking during World War I, county government, North Carolina schools, road building, Know-Your-Home-State clubs, education of mill village children, use of convict labor for the war effort, home demonstration work, YMCA work, African American schools, North Carolina Club, rural church work, World War I publicity campaign, the University Commission on Race Relations, the North Carolina Council of Defense, serach for an African American "draft dodger," the National Committee on Country Life, the Student Army Training Corps, Liberty Loan Bonds campaign, appointment of Branson to the Army Overseas Education Commission, lynching, readjustment problems of veterans, death of E. K. Graham, and work of Southern Publicity Committee for better race relations. |
Folder 111-140
Folder 111Folder 112Folder 113Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118Folder 119Folder 120Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123Folder 124Folder 125Folder 126Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132Folder 133Folder 134Folder 135Folder 136Folder 137Folder 138Folder 139Folder 140 |
1919 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 111-140Includes correspondence concerning the League of Enforced Peace, the National Country Life Association Conference, proposal of Harlan Fiske Stone for president of the University of North Carolina, African American wage earners, social work in rural communities, Branson's job offer from the University of Virginia, educational work with American Expeditionary Force, appointment of Branson as Kenan Professor of Rural Economics, the League of Nations, African American rights, the National Social Work Conference, bolshevism, appointment of Branson as director of War Saving Stamps, the Smith-Hughes Act, property taxes, meeting of Inter-Racial Committee, the Public Ownership League of America, the State Reconstruction Commission, farm tenancy, attempts to get Howard Odum to come to the University of North Carolina, public health in New Hanover County, N.C., a school of public welfare at the University of North Carolina, and progressive property tax. |
Folder 141-164
Folder 141Folder 142Folder 143Folder 144Folder 145Folder 146Folder 147Folder 148Folder 149Folder 150Folder 151Folder 152Folder 153Folder 154Folder 155Folder 156Folder 157Folder 158Folder 159Folder 160Folder 161Folder 162Folder 163Folder 164 |
January-June 1920 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 141-164Includes correspondence dealing with race relations, social work, the Southern Sociological Congress, Howard Odum's arrival at the University of North Carolina, water power development in North Carolina, National Social Work Conference, plans for School of Public Welfare, influenza epidemic, jail conditions in Rutherford County, attempts to get North Carolina Press Association to meet in Chapel Hill, recommendation by Branson of Frank Porter Graham for interracial work with the YMCA, legislation to accelerate organization of farmers, censorship of motion pictures, and beginning of Public Welfare Institute at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 165-183
Folder 165Folder 166Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169Folder 170Folder 171Folder 172Folder 173Folder 174Folder 175Folder 176Folder 177Folder 178Folder 179Folder 180Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183 |
July-December 1920 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 165-183Includes correspondence concerning the Orange County, N.C., church survey, the State and County Council, community service schools, departmental budget, health problems of North Carolina, the American Country Life Association, election of Branson as president of North Carolina Conference of Social Service, loss of Branson's papers in Georgia, large and small farms, agreement by Branson to serve on executive board of the American Civic Association and the National Municipal League, finances for Social Science Building, and rural population. |
Folder 184-200
Folder 184Folder 185Folder 186Folder 187Folder 188Folder 189Folder 190Folder 191Folder 192Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199Folder 200 |
January-June 1921 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 184-200Includes correspondence dealing with the North Carolina Good Roads Movement, state government finance, lynching, water power development in North Carolina, increase of racial prejudice in the South, the American Country Life Association, the University of North Carolina newsletter, cooperative farming, and inter-church movement, vacation by Branson in Ontario, Calif., army desertion, bonds for school improvement, and speeches at Southern California Sociological Society in Los Angeles, Calif., and at the University of California at Ontario. |
Folder 201-215
Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209Folder 210Folder 211Folder 212Folder 213Folder 214Folder 215 |
July-December 1921 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 201-215Includes correspondence concerning illiteracy, farm to city migration, county government, the North Carolina Club, tuberculosis in North Carolina, Bible study in college, income taxes, Branson's philosophy as illustrated in his work, the American Country Life Association, and Farmers' Week at Tuskegee, Ala. |
Folder 216-233
Folder 216Folder 217Folder 218Folder 219Folder 220Folder 221Folder 222Folder 223Folder 224Folder 225Folder 226Folder 227Folder 228Folder 229Folder 230Folder 231Folder 232Folder 233 |
January-June 1922 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 216-233Includes correspondence discussing corporate law in North Carolina, illiteracy in North Carolina, home ownership in mill villages, effect of boll weevil on crops, cooperative unions, taxes in North Carolina, credit unions, Branson's appointment to the Commission on County Government, tax on securities, conditions at state prisons, the State Farm Tenancy Commission, and consolidation of secondary schools. |
Folder 234-247
Folder 234Folder 235Folder 236Folder 237Folder 238Folder 239Folder 240Folder 241Folder 242Folder 243Folder 244Folder 245Folder 246Folder 247 |
July-December 1922 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 234-247Includes correspondence dealing with tax reforms, incorporation of rural communities, freedom of speech at the University of North Carolina, money and credit, attitudes toward the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Branson's selection on Committee of American Political Science Association, good roads program in North Carolina, and evolution and religion. |
Folder 248-276
Folder 248Folder 249Folder 250Folder 251Folder 252Folder 253Folder 254Folder 255Folder 256Folder 257Folder 258Folder 259Folder 260Folder 261Folder 262Folder 263Folder 264Folder 265Folder 266Folder 267Folder 268Folder 269Folder 270Folder 271Folder 272Folder 273Folder 274Folder 275Folder 276 |
1923 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 248-276Includes correspondence concerning property taxes in North Carolina, farm tenancy, credit unions, federal aid to education, mill village life, the Giles agricultural bill, women students at the University of North Carolina, the Land Settlement Commission, Branson's departure for Europe, German cities and farms, comparison of Denmark with North Carolina, Danish fold high schools, industrial development in North Carolina, and credit union laws of North Carolina. |
Folder 274-191
Folder 274 |
1924 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 274-191Includes correspondence discussing rural credit unions, Branson's return to the United States and the University of North Carolina, finance of North Carolina government, reports of the Port Commission, diversified farming, agricultural education, the cash rent contract system in the South, cooperative marketing, property taxes, Branson's leave of absense to teach summer school at Logah, Utah, establishment of the Institute for Research in Social Science, taxes on farms, road building in North Carolina, county government studies, Wilmington Port Bill Campaign, a freight-rate discrimination controversy, water transportation, county manager plan of government, and comments on Branson's book Farm Life Abroad. |
Folder 292-311
Folder 292Folder 293Folder 294Folder 295Folder 296Folder 297Folder 298Folder 299Folder 300Folder 301Folder 302Folder 303Folder 304Folder 305Folder 306Folder 307Folder 308Folder 309Folder 310Folder 311 |
1925 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 292-311Includes correspondence dealing with farm taxes, rural credit in North Carolina, and industrial commission report, rural depopulation, jail conditions in North Carolina, Branson's interest in being appointed Ambassador to Denmark, Branson's appointment to the board of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, farm tenancy, summer school at Auburn, Ala., evolution and the Scopes Trial, compliments on Branson's book, and research in county government. |
Folder 312-324
Folder 312Folder 313Folder 314Folder 315Folder 316Folder 317Folder 318Folder 319Folder 320Folder 321Folder 322Folder 323Folder 324 |
1926 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 312-324Includes correspondence concerning tenancy and crime, cooperative farming, declining financial condition of Athens, Ga., Country Life Academy at Star, N.C., land speculation in Florida, fundamentalism and the Ku Klux Klan, county government, public waterways and port terminals, railroad and freight rates, lawlessness and crime in Orange County, N.C., sickness and death of Branson's sister-in-law in his home, and corporation and property taxes. |
Folder 325-338
Folder 325Folder 326Folder 327Folder 328Folder 329Folder 330Folder 331Folder 332Folder 333Folder 334Folder 335Folder 336Folder 337Folder 338 |
1927 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 325-338Includes correspondence discussing the handling of cotton surplus, the North Carolina tax system, the state constitutional convention, adult illiteracy, landlessness and crime, African American voting in the South, North Carolina dairy farming, the State County Government Commission, county government studies, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, bank failures in North Carolina, the death of Branson's friend A. P. Bourland, the Social Reclamation Conference in Washington, D.C., and land reclamation projects. |
Folder 339-357
Folder 339Folder 340Folder 341Folder 342Folder 343Folder 344Folder 345Folder 346Folder 347Folder 348Folder 349Folder 350Folder 351Folder 352Folder 353Folder 354Folder 355Folder 356Folder 357 |
1928 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 339-357Includes correspondence dealing with reclamation of farm land and planned rural development, county government, Mormonism, the candidacy of Al Smith for the American presidency, "Search and seizure, " diversified farming, tenancy in the South, bank failures in Georgia, discussion of Andrew Johnson's paternity, alcoholic control laws, nomination of Herbert Hoover for president, inheritance and estate taxes, crop conditions in the South, an illness, and election loss of Al Smith. |
Folder 358-369
Folder 358Folder 359Folder 360Folder 361Folder 362Folder 363Folder 364Folder 365Folder 366Folder 367Folder 368Folder 369 |
1929 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 358-369Includes correspondence concerning tax delinquency, reclamation of farmland, the Poole Bill to abolish the county government advisory commission, mobility of white tenant farmers in the Virginia-Carolina cotton belt, the Crisp-McKellar bill to organize farm communities, mill strikes, farm forecasting, county government studies, trial of labor organizers in death of a Gastonia, N.C., police chief, an automobile accident involving Branson's family, water supply competition in North Carolina, North Carolina's cooperation with other Southern states on county government studies, and a survey of Chapel Hill, N.C.,'s mosquito and malaria control. |
Folder 370-384
Folder 370Folder 371Folder 372Folder 373Folder 374Folder 375Folder 376Folder 377Folder 378Folder 379Folder 380Folder 381Folder 382Folder 383Folder 384 |
1930 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 370-384Includes correspondence discussing the Simmons-Whittington Bill, farm diversification, the University of North Carolina News Letter, decreasing land values in Florida, worsening agricultural conditions in Georgia, tenant farm failures, county government studies in Mississippi, faculty salaries reduced, local campaign to rid community of flies and mosquitos, labor conditions in cotton mills, a family vacation in Canada, lawsuit related to automobile accident, worsening of national financial situation, and the failure of 56 North Carolina banks. |
Folder 385-402
Folder 385Folder 386Folder 387Folder 388Folder 389Folder 390Folder 391Folder 392Folder 393Folder 394Folder 395Folder 396Folder 397Folder 398Folder 399Folder 400Folder 401Folder 402 |
1931 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 385-402Includes correspondence dealing with farm group activities in the South, cooperative marketing, life in central China, bronchitis and pneumonia epidemic in Chapel Hill, N.C., consolidation of the University of North Carolina, capital punishment, county government studies, more bank failures in North Carolina and Virginia, the Lindberg kidnapping, the Scottsboro case, effect of the Depression on education and politics, commercial and industrial development of Wilmington, N.C., activities at Shanghai University, farm colonies and federal sponsorship, the "back-to-the-farm" movement, discussion of the Federal Reserve Act, automobile accident lawsuit, academic freedom of speech, and the Koonce Plan to relieve national depression. |
Folder 403-422
Folder 403Folder 404Folder 405Folder 406Folder 407Folder 408Folder 409Folder 410Folder 411Folder 412Folder 413Folder 414Folder 415Folder 416Folder 417Folder 418Folder 419Folder 420Folder 421Folder 422 |
1932 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 403-422Includes correspondence concerning the effect of the depression on local community, the University of North Carolina News Letter, economic plans for economic recovery, University of North Carolina faculty salary cuts, farm tenancy in Mississippi, Japanese military activities in Shanghai, China, illiteracy in the South, banking reforms, progressive land tax, Wilmington, N.C., interwaterway development, the Southern Economic Council, population migration to the farms, Purnell Act and agriculture experimental stations, the Roosevelt-Hoover campaign, establishment of the Institute of Government by Albert Coates, money and credit, Rockingham, N.C., strike, the social gospel, consolidation of the University of North Carolina, and southern agriculture diversification. |
Folder 423-425
Folder 423Folder 424Folder 425 |
1933 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 423-425Includes correspondence discussing the organization of farmers, consolidation of government, the money and banking system, and Branson's illness and death. |
| Folder 426 |
1935, 1949 #02610, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1886-1933 and undated." Folder 426Includes correspondence relating to the disposition of Branson's library and personal papers |
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Series 2. Other Materials, 1895-1933 and undated.
Arrangement: by type.
Includes classroom material, pamphlets, clippings, undated manuscripts, and volumes of E. C. Branson's writings and notes. Clippings are mainly about Branson.
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Series 3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, statistical data, and other material of E. C. Branson representing his day to day work and business affairs. Materials in this series concern matters more routine than those of the main correspondence series, such as requests for information from county surveys or the rural social economics library, job recommendations, and acceptances to speak at high school commencements or meetings of civic clubs. The statistical data in this series was gathered by Branson and his research assistants and was used in the University of North Carolina News Letter, Georgia Club meetings, classroom lectures, reports of county government studies, and various speeches by Branson.
Folder 505-522
Folder 505Folder 506Folder 507Folder 508Folder 509Folder 510Folder 511Folder 512Folder 513Folder 514Folder 515Folder 516Folder 517Folder 518Folder 519Folder 520Folder 521Folder 522 |
Undated #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 505-522Includes correspondence and statistical data relating to county government, illiteracy, and Orange County churches; agricultural and financial survey material; and papers by various people with titles including: "Rural School Extension Work," "The Solution of the Rural School Problems," "The Georgia Club: The Home Mission Aspect," "Rural School Extension Work in Laurens County, Ga.," and "Farm Tenancy in South Carolina." |
| Folder 523 |
1896-1913 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 523Includes correspondence relating to illiteracy statistics, cotton export to Japan, Georgia education and agriculture statistics, and the Georgia Club. |
Folder 524-524
Folder 524 |
1914 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 524-524Includes statistics on homicides, schools, and Georgia economy; and a list of reference on county government. |
Folder 526-537
Folder 526Folder 527Folder 528Folder 529Folder 530Folder 531Folder 532Folder 533Folder 534Folder 535Folder 536Folder 537 |
1915 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 526-537Includes statistics and correspondence relating to North Carolina banks, agriculture, and commerical ports; statistics on slave ownership in North Carolina and North Carolina hospitals; a list of references on county government and results for a survey of Forsyth County churches and Sunday schools. |
Folder 538-551
Folder 538Folder 539Folder 540Folder 541Folder 542Folder 543Folder 544Folder 545Folder 546Folder 547Folder 548Folder 549Folder 550Folder 551 |
1916 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 538-551Includes statistics and other information relating to state bureaus, North Carolina agriculture, banks, the North Carolina Club, county government surveys, and the country church; lists of publications relating to publicity for the states and of social research studies made at the University of North Carolina and a questionnaire relating to the Watauga County, N.C., Farm-Home Study. |
Folder 552-563
Folder 552Folder 553Folder 554Folder 555Folder 556Folder 557Folder 558Folder 559Folder 560Folder 561Folder 562Folder 563 |
1917 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 552-563Includes correspondence and information regarding county government surveys, North Carolina banks, manufacturing and agriculture, and surveys of Orange County; a list of reference works on county governments; and a paper by C. A. Williams entitled, "County School Studies: Report on Forsyth County." |
Folder 564-571
Folder 564Folder 565Folder 566Folder 567Folder 568Folder 569Folder 570Folder 571 |
1918 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 564-571Includes correspondence relating to the job of surveying counties and to the North Carolina Club; and surveys of church membership in High Point, N.C. |
Folder 572-591
Folder 572Folder 573Folder 574Folder 575Folder 576Folder 577Folder 578Folder 579Folder 580Folder 581Folder 582Folder 583Folder 584Folder 585Folder 586Folder 587Folder 588Folder 589Folder 590Folder 591 |
1919 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 572-591Includes correspondence and information dealing with the North Carolina Club, county representatives and county surveys. |
Folder 592-607
Folder 592Folder 593Folder 594Folder 595Folder 596Folder 597Folder 598Folder 599Folder 600Folder 601Folder 602Folder 603Folder 604Folder 605Folder 606Folder 607 |
1920 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 592-607Includes correspondence and surveys regarding white churches in Orange County, southern universities and rural improvement projects, and a roster of participants at the State Social Work Conference in Goldsboro, N.C. |
Folder 608-625
Folder 608Folder 609Folder 610Folder 611Folder 612Folder 613Folder 614Folder 615Folder 616Folder 617Folder 618Folder 619Folder 620Folder 621Folder 622Folder 623Folder 624Folder 625 |
1921 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 608-625Includes correspondence regarding rural electrification, telephones, and making surveys; and a list of Branson's publications. |
Folder 626-649
Folder 626Folder 627Folder 628Folder 629Folder 630Folder 631Folder 632Folder 633Folder 634Folder 635Folder 636Folder 637Folder 638Folder 639Folder 640Folder 641Folder 642Folder 643Folder 644Folder 645Folder 646Folder 647Folder 648Folder 649 |
1922 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 626-649Includes correspondence dealing with county surveys; a paper by E. C. Branson and Dickey, "How Farm Tenants Live;" and an outline on the county church. |
Folder 650-661
Folder 650Folder 651Folder 652Folder 653Folder 654Folder 655Folder 656Folder 657Folder 658Folder 659Folder 660Folder 661 |
1923 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 650-661Includes correspondence regarding various county surveys. |
Folder 662-679
Folder 662Folder 663Folder 664Folder 665Folder 666Folder 667Folder 668Folder 669Folder 670Folder 671Folder 672Folder 673Folder 674Folder 675Folder 676Folder 677Folder 678Folder 679 |
1924 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 662-679Includes correspondence dealing with various county surveys; a report made at the University of Chicago, "1923 Report of Local Community Research." |
Folder 680-695
Folder 680Folder 681Folder 682Folder 683Folder 684Folder 685Folder 686Folder 687Folder 688Folder 689Folder 690Folder 691Folder 692Folder 693Folder 694Folder 695 |
1925 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 680-695Includes correspondence discussing the results of various county surveys. |
Folder 696-703
Folder 696Folder 697Folder 698Folder 699Folder 700Folder 701Folder 702Folder 703 |
1926 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 696-703Includes correspondence dealing with county surveys and court cases. |
Folder 704-711
Folder 704Folder 705Folder 706Folder 707Folder 708Folder 709Folder 710Folder 711 |
1927 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 704-711Includes correspondence relating to county surveys and research assistants. |
Folder 712-717
Folder 712Folder 713Folder 714Folder 715Folder 716Folder 717 |
1928 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 712-717Includes material on county surveys; a report on farm taxation; and notes on Carteret County, N.C. |
Folder 718-719
Folder 718Folder 719 |
1929 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 718-719Includes correspondence discussing county surveys; papers entitled, "Data on Arkansas Revenue and State Needs" and "A State Finance Plan for 1929 Legislature." |
Folder 720-725
Folder 720Folder 721Folder 722Folder 723Folder 724Folder 725 |
1930 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 720-725Includes correspondence and other material dealing with county surveys, a survey of the Chapel Hill (N.C.) Mosquito Control, and the Chapel Hill budget for 1929-1930. |
Folder 726-733
Folder 726Folder 727Folder 728Folder 729Folder 730Folder 731Folder 732Folder 733 |
1931 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 726-733Includes correspondence regarding county surveys; questionnaires on German families near Ridgeway, N.C.; and correspondence on the Warren County farm survey. |
Folder 734-748
Folder 734Folder 735Folder 736Folder 737Folder 738Folder 739Folder 740Folder 741Folder 742Folder 743Folder 744Folder 745Folder 746Folder 747Folder 748 |
1932 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 734-748Includes survey material on credit unions and savings banks. |
Folder 749-751
Folder 749Folder 750Folder 751 |
1933 #02610, Series: "3. Routine Correspondence, 1896-1933 and undated." Folder 749-751 |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2010
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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