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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Carter Stubbs Papers, #703, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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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• Agricultural experiment stations--Hawaii--History.
• Agricultural experiment stations--Louisiana--History.
• Agriculture--Study and teaching--United States--History.
• Chemists--United States--History.
• Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station.
• Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.
• Stubbs, William Carter, 1846-1924.
• Sugar--Hawaii--History.
• Sugar--Louisiana--History.

William Carter Stubbs (1846-1924), chemist and agricultural scientist, was director of the Louisiana Agriculture Experiment Station, 1885-1895, and the United States Experiment Station in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900, and was a professor at Louisiana State University and Auburn University.

The collection includes manuscript speeches, articles, and reports, and a small amount of correspondence, related chiefly to William Carter Stubbs's professional activities as a professor and as director of the Louisiana and Hawaii agricultural experiment stations, particularly his activities involving the sugar industry in Louisiana and Hawaii. A few early items are related to cotton.