Inventory of the James King Hall Papers, 1751-1949
Collection Number 1563
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
- Hall, James King, d. 1948.
- Title
- James King Hall Papers, 1751-1949 (bulk 1920-1948).
- Call Number
- 1563
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 30,000 items (38.5 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 James King Hall Papers, #1563, 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.
- Church records and registers--North Carolina--Iredell County--History.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Supplies and stores.
- Criminal psychology--Study and teaching.
- Ebenezer Academy (Iredell County, N.C.)
- Hall family.
- Hall, Hugh Roddy, 1800-1856.
- Hall, James King, d. 1948.
- Iredell County (N.C.)--Church history.
- Iredell County (N.C.)--History.
- Nesbitt family.
- Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Presbyterians--North Carolina--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Virginia--History--20th century.
- Psychiatrists--Virginia--History--20th century.
- Psychiatry--United States--History--20th century.
- Schools--North Carolina--Iredell County--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
Related Material
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John Nisbett Papers (#943), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
James King Hall (1875-1948) was a psychiatrist who founded and directed, from 1911 to 1918, Westbrook Sanitorium, Richmond, Va.
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Professional correspondence and medical writings, chiefly 1920-1948, of James King Hall, including letters from friends and associates in the medical profession, mainly in North Carolina and Virginia; copies of letters he sent concerning all phases of medicine but particularly psychiatry and its institutions and organizations; letters from political leaders of North Carolina and Virginia concerning state mental institutions; letters pursuing Hall's interst in the relation of crime and mental illness; and letters reflecting his interest in the history of Iredell County, N.C., his birthplace. Early papers are of Hall and Nisbet ancestors in Iredell County, including records of the Bethany congregation (Presbyterian), 1775-1872; a physician's day book, 1867-1871; and records of the Ebenezer Academy, an Iredell County school conducted by Hugh Roddy Hall (1800-1856). Also included are pictures, scrapbooks, notebooks, and an inspection report, 1864, of a Confederate medical purveyor's depot.