Inventory of the M. C. S. Noble Papers, 1860-1971

Collection Number 1025


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Collection Information


Contact Information:
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942.
Title
M. C. S. Noble Papers, 1860-1971.
Call Number
1025
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
814 items (2.5 linear feet).
Abstract
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.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gifts 1942, 1966, 1972, 1973, and 1975
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 M. C. S. Noble Papers, #1025, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Related Material

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

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.

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Collection Overview

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.