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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.

Acquisitions Information

Gift, 1952

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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.

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• 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.

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.