Inventory of the A. J. Osborne Papers, 1879-1901
Collection Number 2837
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Osborne, A. J.
- Title
- A. J. Osborne Papers, 1879-1901.
- Call Number
- 2837
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 275 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 A. J. Osborne Papers, #2837, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Cherokee County (N.C.)--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Forgery of antiquities--North Carolina--History.
- Haywood County (N.C.)--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--North Carolina--History.
- North Carolina--Antiquities--Collection and preservation--History.
- Osborne, A. J.
- Valentine, Benjamin Batchelder.
- Valentine, Mann Satterwhite, 1824-1892.
Collection Overview
Papers of Osborne of Garden Creek, Haywood County, N.C., as agent for Benjamin B. Valentine and Mann Satterwhite Valentine of Richmond, Va., philanthropists and collectors of Indian relics of the Appalachian region. The correspondence with the Valentines and with Osborne's sub-agents and their diggers concerns the collecting process in Haywood and Cherokee counties and doubts about the authenticity of the Indian artifacts. This collection also includes eleven "Indian relics," only one of which is considered authentic.