Inventory of the Edward Ward Carmack Papers, 1850-1942
Collection Number 1414
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
- Carmack, Edward Ward, 1858-1908.
- Title
- Edward Ward Carmack Papers, 1850-1942.
- Call Number
- 1414
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 5,000 items (6.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Edward Ward Carmack Papers, #1414, 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.
- African American agricultural laborers--Tennessee--Photographs.
- Burnside (Ky.)--History.
- Carmack, Edward Ward, 1858-1908.
- Democratic Party (Tenn.)--History.
- Journalists--Tennessee--Political activity.
- Lakeland (Fla.)--History.
- Lumber trade--Kentucky--History--19th century.
- Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902.
- Plantation life--Tennessee--Photographs.
- Political campaigns--Tennessee--History.
- Prohibition--Tennessee--History.
- Real property--Florida--History.
- Tennessee--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Biographical Note
Editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907.
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Papers, chiefly from 1890, of Edward Ward Carmack, the bulk pertaining to elections: 1896 and 1898 when Carmack was elected to the House; 1906 when he was defeated for re-election to the Senate; and 1908, when he was defeated in the Democratic primary for governor. These items include papers relating to the campaigns, speeches, and letters of congratulations. Also included are political scrapbooks; correspondence, 1902, and a scrapbook concerning the Philippine question (Carmack was anti-imperialist); messages received on Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; and a collection of photographs of African American agricultural laborers and other plantation scenes.