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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 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

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is 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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Finding aid updated in June 2010 by Kathryn Michaelis for digitization.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931.
• Bradley, Amy Morris, 1823-1904.
• Education--North Carolina.
• Lincolnton Female Academy (N.C.)
• McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906.
• Noble, Alice, 1891-1972.
• Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942.
• Schools--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Schools--North Carolina.
• St. Mary's School (Raleigh, N.C.)--Students.
• Teachers--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Tileston Normal School (Wilmington, N.C.)
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces--Officers--Correspondence.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• Women--Education--North Carolina.
• World War, 1914-1918--Photographs.

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

M.C.S. Noble was an 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.

The collection includes papers of, and collected by, M.C.S. 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.

• Photographs (PF-1025/1-5)