Comments on: Chapel Hill Time Capsule? http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/28/chapel-hill-time-capsule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chapel-hill-time-capsule Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jason Tomberlin http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/28/chapel-hill-time-capsule/comment-page-1/#comment-705610 Jason Tomberlin Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:56:19 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=17022#comment-705610 OK, it is now 2012…who is arranging and managing the competition in 2015?

]]> By: Jason Tomberlin http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/28/chapel-hill-time-capsule/comment-page-1/#comment-705608 Jason Tomberlin Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:54:26 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=17022#comment-705608 I finally remembered that I did know something about this!! See this description from the Southern Historical Collection:

Collection Title: Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers, 1915, 1962-1966
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Battle,Kemp_P.html

Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer and president of the Chatham Railroad. He was active in state affairs during the Civil War and served as state treasurer and as University of North Carolina president, 1876-1891, and professor of history, 1891-1907. The collection includes correspondence and other papers relating to a competition established by Battle in 1915 for students at the University of North Carolina to write an essay on technological changes reflected in the Montgomery Ward catalogs of 1915, 1965, and 2015. Included are the catalogs of 1915 and 1965 (two copies); photocopies of the 1965 winning essay, Great and Important Changes: The Machine Age in North Carolina as seen by comparing Montgomery Ward & Company’s catalog of 1915 with that of 1965 by R. B. House; correspondence, 1962-1966, about arrangements for the the competition, chiefly between Battle’s grandson Kemp D. Battle of Rocky Mount, N.C., and James W. Patton, curator of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC; financial materials, 1965-1966, relating to the Kemp P. Battle 1915 Fund; a metal box in which the 1915 catalog had been preserved.

]]> By: Jack Hilliard http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/02/28/chapel-hill-time-capsule/comment-page-1/#comment-704871 Jack Hilliard Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:57:15 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=17022#comment-704871 Wasn’t there a time capsule connected with the Morehead Planetarium dedication in May of 1949?

If so, what happened to that one?

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