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Collection Number: 04344

Collection Title: C. Horace Hamilton Papers, 1920s-1970s

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Size 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4500 items)
Abstract Charles Horace Hamilton was a rural sociologist with particular interests in rural life, the rural church, the rural family, rural health issues, the land tenure system, farm labor, internal migration, methods of population analysis, and social statistics. After teaching at many institutions, including at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Tex., the University of North Carolina, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hamilton was appointed professor of rural sociology at North Carolina State University and consulted widely in his field. The collection is chiefly Hamilton's professional and personal correspondence. Personal correspondence includes a number of letters from family members. Most of the papers cover Hamilton's years at Lon Morris College, UNC, VPI, and NCSU, and treat topics such as rural sociology, farm tenancy, interracial cooperation, and African-American education. Correspondence provides information about the interracial cooperation movement in Texas and the study of social science at UNC in the 1920s and 1930s. Correspondents include George Collins of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rupert Vance, and Howard Odum. There are also a few items relating to Jessie Daniel Ames.
Creator Hamilton, C. Horace (Charles Horace), 1901-1977.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the C. Horace Hamilton papers #4344, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. C. Horace Hamilton of Raleigh, N.C., in 1983.
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Charles Horace Hamilton was a rural sociologist with particular interests in rural life, the rural church, the rural family, rural health issues, the land tenure system, farm labor, internal migration, methods of population analysis, and social statistics. After teaching at many institutions, including at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Tex., the University of North Carolina, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hamilton was appointed professor of rural sociology at North Carolina State University and consulted widely in his field.

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The collection is chiefly C. Horace Hamilton's professional and personal correspondence. Personal correspondence includes a number of letters from family members. Most of the papers cover Hamilton's years at Lon Morris College, UNC, VPI, and NCSU, and treat topics such as rural sociology, farm tenancy, interracial cooperation, and African-American education. Correspondence provides information about the interracial cooperation movement in Texas and the study of social science at UNC in the 1920s and 1930s. Correspondents include George Collins of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rupert Vance, and Howard Odum. There are also a few items relating to Jessie Daniel Ames.

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Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained and that materials are organized as received.

Folder 1

Correspondence: A

Folder 2

Correspondence: B

Folder 3

Correspondence: C

Folder 4

Correspondence: D

Folder 5

Correspondence: E

Folder 6

Correspondence: F

Folder 7

Correspondence: G

Folder 8

Correspondence: H

Folder 9

Correspondence: I

Folder 10

Technology

Folder 11

Projections: clippings

Folder 12

Oliver Max Gardner Award, 1958

Folder 13

Notes: speeches

Folder 14

Johnston County speech: March 26, 1964

Folder 15

Committee for North Carolina Human Welfare

Folder 16

Census Committee

Folder 17

Committee for North Carolina: report

Folder 18

Education Commission: Plemmons, W. H.

Folder 19

Farm Foundation Conference: 1948

Folder 20

Hospital Survey Committe

Folder 21

Good Health Association: publications

Folder 22

Health Correspondence: miscellaneous

Folder 23

Hospital Program letters

Folder 24

Committee for North Carolina: correspondence

Folder 25

Cole, Margaret McIver

Folder 26

Applications for employment

Folder 27

Interracial Commission

Folder 28

Notes: speeches

Folder 29

Extra copy P.A.A. speech, May 1961

Folder 30

Tarver, James D. (correspondence)

Folder 31

Town and Country Church

Folder 32

Carolina Population Center: correspondence

Folder 33

Freymann: memos, 1966-1967

Folder 34

Thornberry, Owen T. Jr., 1967

Folder 35

Travel, 1966-1967

Folder 36

Travel and professional experience, 1968-1969

Folder 37

Travel, 1964

Folder 38

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station: correspondence, 1929-1930

Folder 39

Travel Requests

Folder 40

Taylor, Carl

Folder 41-42

Folder 41

Folder 42

Presentation notes, undated

Folder 43

Insurance pamphlets, 1957-1965

Folder 44

Sociological Society Pamphlets, 1948, 1963-1965

Folder 45

Miscellaneous papers

Folder 46

Publications, 1926-1965

Folder 47

Family records, 18th- 19th-century

Folder 48

Personal vita

Folder 49

DeMark, Florence: Wisconsin

Folder 50

Application and CV materials, 1966-1970

Folder 51

North Carolina Sociological Society

Folder 52

North Carolina Administration Department

Folder 53

Writings, undated

Folder 54

Miscellaneous papers, notes, correspondence

Folder 55

Break the Backbone of the Tenant System (Land Tenure)

Folder 56

ANOV: Addition Theorem for the Case of Correlated Nominal Scales

Folder 57

ANOV: Referee's Reports and Replies

Folder 58

ANOV: American Sociological Society, 30 August 1962

Folder 59

ANOV: correspondence, 1962-1963

Folder 60

ANOV: correspondence

Folder 61

Bowles, Gladys: general correspondence, 1972-1975

Folder 62

North Carolina Population Sourcebook, vols. I, II, III: letters and related materials, 1973

Folder 63

Agreement with CPC, October-December 1973

Folder 64

American Sociological Association: general correspondence, 1971-1976

Folder 65

"The Human Factor in Soil Erosion," 1935

Folder 66

Topography, 1932-1933

Folder 67

Peach, Paul: Correspondence, 1969-1973

Folder 68

Steahr, Thomas E.: Correspondence, 1971-1972

Folder 69

Hamilton, Mrs. W.C.: mother of C. Horace Hamilton

Folder 70

Hamilton, William Clark: father of C. Horace Hamilton

Folder 71

"The Church and the Rural Community," circa 1926

Folder 72

Phifer, Maurine: Mrs. C. Horace Hamilton, early letters

Folder 73

Allen, Eula: A Lon Morris girlfriend

Folder 74

Correspondence: old

Folder 75

Harvard University

Folder 76

Harvard University and related letters about SSRS fellowship

Folder 77

Personal letters before 1931

Folder 78

Foster, Garnett W.

Folder 79

Vivion, King: Methodist Minister at A. & M. and Jacksonville, Texas

Folder 80

Hamilton, Olan H.: brother of C. Horace Hamilton

Folder 81

Boon: Mary Shirley: S. M. U. girl friend

Folder 82

Applications for positions

Folder 83

Baker, Oliver E.

Folder 84

Black, John D.

Folder 85

Brown, William Oscar: S. M. U. class and roommate

Folder 86

Building and Loan Association: Montgomery County, Va.

Folder 87

Jordan, Bertha Hamilton: sister of C. Horace Hamilton

Folder 88

Mitchel, Ruth Hamilton: sister of C. Horace Hamilton

Folder 89

Drinkard, A.W.

Folder 90

Galpin, Charles Josiah

Folder 91

Garnett, William E.

Folder 92

Graham, Frank Porter

Folder 93

Charles Edward Hamilton: early letters about him

Folder 94

Miller, Minor C.: VPI correspondence 1928-1929

Folder 95

Lon Morris College, Jacksonville, Tex.: miscellaneous correspondence,1925-1926

Folder 96

Odum, Howard W.

Folder 97

Southern Methodist University and related correspondence

Folder 98

Williams, Robin M. Jr.

Folder 99

Vance, Rupert B.

Folder 100

Texas A. & M. College: correspondence, 1924-1925

Folder 101

University of North Carolina: personal letters and papers, 1926-1927

Folder 102

Virginia Polytechnic Institute: miscellaneous correspondence, 1927-1931

Folder 103

White, R. Clyde: early professor, Texas A. & M. College

Folder 104

Wakefield, Olaf

Folder 105

Winters, Rhett Y.

Folder 106

Woodward, Comer: S. M. U. professor

Folder 107

Master's Thesis, 1925

Folder 108

Community Organization

Folder 109

To be filed

Folder 110

Miscellaneous to be filed

Folder 111-117

Folder 111

Folder 112

Folder 113

Folder 114

Folder 115

Folder 116

Folder 117

Correspondence, 1931-1934

Folder 118

Personal correspondence, before 1937

Folder 119

Personal correspondence, 1936-1938

Folder 120

Personal correspondence, 1937-1938

Folder 121

Personal correspondence, 1939

Folder 122

Personal correspondence, 1940-

Folder 123-128

Folder 123

Folder 124

Folder 125

Folder 126

Folder 127

Folder 128

Correspondence, 1946-1947

Folder 129-132

Folder 129

Folder 130

Folder 131

Folder 132

Correspondence, 1947-1950

Folder 133

Personal correspondence, 1959-1964

Folder 134-135

Folder 134

Folder 135

Correspondence, 1961-1966

Folder 136

Correspondence, 1962

Folder 137

Correspondence, 1963-1966

Folder 138-139

Folder 138

Folder 139

Correspondence, 1964-1966

Folder 140

Correspondence, 1965

Folder 141

Professional Correspondence, 1965-1968

Folder 142

Correspondence, 1966

Folder 143

Correspondence, 1966-1968

Folder 144

Correspondence: L, 1967

Folder 145

Correspondence: W, 1967-1968

Folder 146

Correspondence, 1967-1970

Folder 147

Correspondence, 1968

Folder 148

Correspondence: B, 1968

Folder 149

Correspondence: general, 1973

Folder 150

Correspondence, 1974

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