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Size | 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3000 items) |
Abstract | The collection documents several generations of the related white Culp and Browne families of Union, S.C., and Johnston, S.C. The two families are related through the marriage of chemist Francis Bartow Culp (1905-1981) and Agnes Nora Dunlap Browne Culp (1908-2008), whose extensive correspondence from the 1930s through the 1960s forms a large part of the collection. Also included are family letters, financial documents, photographs, photograph albums with tintypes and cartes de visite, travel diaries and ephemera from European trips in the early twentieth century, manuscript cookbooks from the 1850s and 1930s, genealogical material including an application for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and mid and late nineteenth-century plantation journals possibly from the Culp House, which was built for merchant Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1888). The antebellum journals contain references to enslaved people. |
Creator | Culp family.
Browne family. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Laura Hart, 2018; Meaghan Alston, March 2021
Encoded by: Laura Smith
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2021
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The white Culp and Browne families of Union, S.C., and Johnston, S.C., were united through the marriage of Francis Bartow Culp (1898-?), a chemist, and Agnes Nora Dunlap Browne Culp (1908-2008).
Back to TopThe collection documents several generations of the related white Culp and Browne families of Union, S.C., and Johnston, S.C. The two families are related through the marriage of chemist Francis Bartow Culp (1905-1981) and Agnes Nora Dunlap Browne Culp (1908-2008), whose extensive correspondence from the 1930s through the 1960s forms a large part of the collection. Also included are family letters, financial documents, photographs, photograph albums with tintypes and cartes de visite, travel diaries and ephemera from European trips in the early twentieth century, manuscript cookbooks from the 1850s and 1930s, genealogical material including an application for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and mid and late nineteenth-century plantation journals possibly from the Culp House, which was built for merchant Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1888). The antebellum journals contain references to enslaved people.
Back to TopProcessing Note: The original arrangement as received from the donor has been retained. Folder titles derived from original folder names are indicated with quotation marks (""). The processing archivist expanded initials and dates for clarity. Where quotation marks are not used, the processing archivist derived the folder title from descriptive metadata found within the files.