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[Identification of item], in the M. C. S. Noble Papers, #1025, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts 1942, 1966, 1972, 1973, and 1975

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• Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931.
• Bradley, Amy Morris, 1823-1904.
• Education--North Carolina--History.
• Lincolnton Female Academy (N.C.)--History.
• McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906.
• Noble, Alice.
• Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942.
• Schools--North Carolina--Lincolnton--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--Wilmington--History.
• St. Mary's School (Raleigh, N.C.)--Students--History.
• Tileston Normal School (Wilmington, N.C.)--History.
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces--Officers--Correspondence.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History.

• Alice Noble Volumes (#3849-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Educator and leader in the development of public schools in North Carolina; superintendent of schools in Wilmington, N.C.; member of the University of North Carolina faculty, 1898-1942, as professor of education and dean of the School of Education; and author of "History of Public Schools in North Carolina" (1930) and of numerous articles and textbooks.

Papers of, and collected by, Noble, including family correspondence and papers; letters from colleagues and friends, including Edwin A. Alderman, Charles Duncan McIver, and other North Carolinians in the field of education; scrapbooks and other volumes compiled, written or collected by Professor Noble, including a manuscript history of the Tileston Normal School of Wilmington, founded during Reconstruction by Amy Morris Bradley of Massachusetts, and a copy of the proceedings of the board of the Lincolnton (N.C.) Female Academy, 1821-1824; and selected papers of daughter Alice Noble, including materials relating to her education at St. Mary's in Raleigh, 1908-1910, and letters from an Army officer in the A.E.F., 1918-1919.