Inventory of the Dudley Warren Bagley Papers, 1846-1964
Collection Number 3338
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Bagley, Dudley Warren, 1889-1964.
- Title
- Dudley Warren Bagley Papers, 1846-1964 (bulk 1920-1964).
- Call Number
- 3338
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 9,000 items (15.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Alternate Form of Material
- Partial microfilm copy (volume 7, The Story of the Joseph P. Knapp I Knew) available.
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Dudley Warren Bagley Papers, #3338, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Agricultural education--North Carolina.
- Agriculture and politics--North Carolina.
- Agriculture--Experimentation.
- Agriculture--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Albemarle Sound (N.C.)--History--20th century.
- Bagley, Dudley Warren, 1889-1964.
- Bagley, Ida Frost Bray, b. 1896.
- Currituck Sound (N.C.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
- Farm produce--Cooperative marketing--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Farm produce--Marketing.
- Knapp, Joseph Palmer, 1864-1951.
- MacNeill, Ben Dixon, 1889-1960.
- North Carolina State College--History.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- North Carolina. Rural Electrification Authority.
- Outer Banks (N.C.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Philanthropists--United States--Biography.
- Rural electrification--North Carolina--History.
- Seed industry and trade--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- United States. General Accounting Office--Officials and employees--History.
- Warren, Lindsay C. (Lindsay Carter), 1889-1976.
- Women--North Carolina--Political activity--History--20th century.
Biographical Note
Native of Currituck County, N.C., experimental farmer and seedsman, state and federal official.
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Personal and business papers of Dudley Warren Bagley, chiefly from the 1920s, relating to Bagley's activities as officer of many local, state, and national organizations concerned with cooperative marketing, political, practical, and scientific aspects of agriculture; as state legislator, 1933 and 1935; as trustee of North Carolina State College (now University) particularly interested in agricultural education; as an active Democrat; as civic leader for the multi-county area in the Albemarle-Currituck sounds region of North Carolina; and as 1st chairman, 1935-1940, of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority (unofficial papers). Considerable correspondence and two manuscript biographies concern Joseph Palmer Knapp (1864-1951), New York magazine publisher with a home in Currituck County, particularly relating to his interest in wildlife conservation and philanthropy. Ben Dixon MacNeill (1889-1960), North Carolina newspaperman, author, and authority on the North Carolina Outer Banks, was a regular correspondence. Bagley was a close friend from the early 1920s of Lindsay Carter Warren (born 1889), United States representative and comptroller-general and was in Washington, D.C., as Warren's assistant, 1940-1946 (unofficial papers). Separately arranged papers pertain to business affairs and plant experiments at Bagley's own farm where he bred new varieties of corn and other crops and grew high quality plants for sale as seed. Also included are papers of his wife, Ida Frost (Bray) Bagley (born 1896).