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Collection Number: 05353-z

Collection Title: J. S. Dorton Papers on the Proposed Collection of War Products Exhibit, 1945

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Size 55 items
Abstract The collection of J.S. Dorton, the white manager of the North Carolina State Fair, consists of papers related to Dorton's proposed exhibit of wartime products manufactured and processed in North Carolina during the Second World War. Papers include the proposal, official endorsements of the proposal, information about related local exhibits, and Dorton's correspondence with state officials, including North Carolina Governor Gregg Cherry and Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, and with contributing individuals and corporations from across the state. Also included are portraits of many of the politicians involved with the project.
Creator Dorton, J. S.
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 J. S. Dorton Papers on the Proposed Collection of War Products Exhibit #5353, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mary Alice Dorton of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2007 (Acc. 100760).
Received from Mary Alice Dorton of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2010 (Acc. 103640).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Processed by: Joyce Chapman, October 2007; Patrick Cullom, September 2019

Encoded by: Joyce Chapman, October 2007

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J. S. Dorton was a long-time manager of the North Carolina State Fair, named to the post in 1937 by North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott. During World War II, when the State Fair was closed, Dorton served as the director of the War Manpower Commission. In that capacity, he was instrumental in planning an exhibit, to be permanently housed in Raleigh, N.C., of representative samples of everything manufactured, produced, or processed in North Carolina as a testimonial of North Carolina's civilian contribution to war effort. The display was meant to serve as a testimonial to North Carolina's civilian contribution to World War II.

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The collection consists of papers relating to North Carolina War Manpower Commission Director J. S. Dorton's proposed exhibit of a collection of war products manufactured and processed in North Carolina during World War II. Besides the formal proposal, there is correspondence between Dorton and other state officials, including North Carolina Governor Gregg Cherry and Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, and between Dorton and contributing individuals and corporations from across the state. There are also official endorsements of the proposal, information about related local exhibits, and other items.

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Contents list

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About 50 items.

Folder 1

Papers

Original accession.
Image Folder PF-05353/1

Photographs

Photographic Prints

Portraits of politicians involved with project, including Governor Joseph Melville Broughton, Governor Luther Hodges, Governor W. Kerr Scott, and Billy Carmichael.

Acc. 103640.
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