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Collection Number: 00535

Collection Title: Patrick Livingston Murphy Papers, 1848-1944 (bulk 1880-1907)

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 240 items)
Abstract Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a white physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C. The collection includes professional and personal correspondence, chiefly 1880-1907, pertaining to Murphy's medical career. Also included are Murphy's fee book, Morganton, N.C., 1875-1876; two scrapbooks, 1882-1913, about the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton; a few family items; addresses by Murphy on care for the mentally ill in the South; bills of sale of slaves to John Bumgardner of Greenville, Va.,1824-1846; and other papers.
Creator Murphy, Patrick Livingston, 1848-1907.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Patrick Livingston Murphy Papers, #535, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from James B. Murphy, William Alexander Murphy, and May Murphy, prior to 1940.
Additional materials received from May Murphy of Staunton, Va., February 1959.
Received from Delores Tiberi, September 2019 (Acc. 103710).
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009; Patrick Cullom, September 2019

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a white physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C. He was married to Bettie W. Bumgardner.

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The collection includes professional and personal correspondence, chiefly 1880-1907, of Patrick Livingston Murphy pertaining to his medical career. Also included are Murphy's fee book, Morganton, N.C., 1875-1876; two scrapbooks, 1882-1913, about the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton; a genealogical items; addresses by Murphy on care for the mentally ill in the South; photographs of Murphy, his ancestors, and the hospital; bills of sale of slaves to John Bumgardner of Greenville, Va., 1824-1846; and other papers.

Notable correspondents include Richard Henry Battle, S. A. White, John Fulenwider Miller, J. M. Buchanan, J. P. Caldwell Josephus Daniels, Samuel A. Ashe, Joseph A. Waddell, Thomas Ruffin, Andrew W. Knox, Robert Broadnax Glenn, Julian S. Carr, Julian Meredith Baker, Benjamin Rice Lacy, J. G. Hall, Paul B. Barringer, and Richmond Pearson.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1774-1848

Folder 2

1854-1879

Folder 3

1880-1889

Folder 4

1890-1896

Folder 5-6

Folder 5

Folder 6

1897

Folder 6

1898-1899

Folder 7

1900-1909

Folder 8

1926-1944

Folder 9

Clippings

Folder 10

Undated

Consists of reports, speeches, and addresses regarding the care of the insane. Notable reports include "A Sketch of Psychiatry in the Southern States" and "The Colored Insane."

Folder 11

Genealogical data

Folder 12

Volume 1: Physicians' fee book, 1875-1876

Folder 13

Volume 2: Scrapbook, 1882-1913

Folder 14

Volume 3: Scrapbook, 1897

Image Folder PF-00535/1

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick Livingston, cabinet card, circa 1880-1885

1 image

P-535/1

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick Livingston, circa 1895-1905

1 image

P-535/2

Photographer: Swift, Raleigh, N.C.

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick Livingston, circa, 1895-1905

1 image

P-535/3

Image is autographed by Murphy.

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick, photographic reproduction of vintage print

1 image

P-535/4

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick and Eliza Faison

1 image

P-535/5

Two oval prints, reproductions of vintage prints on same mount.

Photographs: Murphy, James B.

1 image

P-535/6

Photograph of painting

Photographs: Lady Mosely

1 image

P-535/7

Photograph of painting

Photographs: Mosely, Arthur

1 image

P-535/8

Photograph of painting

Photographs: Faison, Susannah Mosely

1 image

P-535/9

Photograph of painting

Photographs: Faison, William

1 image

P-535/10

Photograph of painting

Photographs: Mosely, William

1 image

P-535/11

Photograph of painting

Image Folder PF-00535/2

Photographs: Morton, William J., circa 1904

1 image

P-535/12

Reproduction of engraving

Photographs: Presbyterian High School, Mebane, N.C., graduating class, 1896

1 image

P-535/13

Photographs: Morganton, N.C., State Hospital, nurses training program graduates, 1905

1 image

P-535/14

Photographs: Faison family reunion, Elliott, N.C., 1919

1 image

P-535/15

Photographer: Clement, Goldsboro, N.C.

Image Folder PF-00535/3

Photographs: Grave markers, Patrick and Elizabeth Murphy, circa 1900-1910

1 image

P-535/16

Photographs: Morganton, N.C., State Hospital, circa 1900-1910

1 image

P-535/17

Photographs: Morganton, N.C., State Hospital, 1898

1 image

P-535/18

Photographs: Child on grounds of Morganton, N.C., State Hospital, 1907

1 image

P-535/19

Photographs: Indoor scene, circa 1900-1910

1 image

P-535/20

On verso: "Inside view of Men's Building--Made as home like as possible." Probably Morganton, N.C., State Hospital

Photographs: Men around a pool table, circa 1895-1905

1 image

P-535/21

On verso: "Poolroom on Men's Manor." Probably Morganton, N.C., State Hospital.

Photographs: Large brick building with men sitting on the porch or the lawn, circa 1900-1910

1 image

P-535/22

Possibly Men's Building, Morganton, N.C., State Hospital

Photographs: Hollingsworth Hall, England

1 image

P-535/23

Photographic reproduction of vintage print

Photographs: Abner Faison home, Elliott, N.C., circa 1860-1880

1 image

P-535/24

Photographic reproduction of vintage print

Photographs: "Rolleston," Mosely family home, Staffordshire, England

1 image

P-535/25

Photograph of drawing

Image Folder PF-00535/4

Photographs: Murphy, Patrick Livingston, circa, 1895-1905

1 image

Photographs: Murphy, James Bumgardner, circa 1895-1905

1 image

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