American Association of University Women, Charlotte (N.C.) Branch Records
Minutes, bulletins, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and other material reflecting activities and growth of the organization and its influence on the community from its origin as a college club for literary study.

Catawba Lands Conservancy Records
Records of a land trust established in 1991 to preserve natural areas and open spaces in the Catawba River Basin and the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina. Includes correspondence, board minutes, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.

Charlotte Civitan Club Records
Records of the club, founded in 1921. Includes reports, financial material, membership information, minutes, bound volumes of Civi-Chats (the club's newsletter), and an essay on the club's fiftieth anniversary in 1971.

Charlotte Park Association Records
Records of an association organized by the Charlotte Lions Club to develop Freedom Park. Includes correspondence, minutes, legal documents, and clippings.

Charlotte Woman's Club Records
Records of Charlotte's oldest civic organization, founded in 1899. Includes minutes, newsletters, programs, financial records, scrapbooks, correspondence, and membership applications.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records
Records of a committee established in 1961 by the mayor of Charlotte to ease racial tensions and to assist in the desegregation of public facilities. Includes materials relating to the committee and its predecessor, the Friendly Relations Committee.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Reports
Primarily narrative survey and research reports prepared to evaluate structures and sites for inclusion on the local register of historic places. Reports include information on present and former owners of the properties.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban League Records
Records of a non-profit agency, organized to promote economic self-sufficiency among African American families and to seek racial inclusion in Mecklenburg County communities. Contains miscellaneous records of the League for the year 1981 only.

Church Women United of Mecklenburg County Records
Records documenting activities of the Mecklenburg County chapter of Church Women United, a national, ecumenical Christian women's community service organization. Consists of scrapbooks containing committee lists, correspondence and minutes.

Bonnie E. Cone Papers
Personal papers of Cone, director and president of Charlotte College and vice chancellor of student affairs and community relations, UNC Charlotte. Includes correspondence, biographical material, and files relating to local civic organizations.

William Arthur Cooper Papers
Papers of an African-American artist and minister of Charlotte's Clinton Metropolitan AME Zion Church during the 1930s. Includes correspondence, clippings, and financial information on AME Zion churches in the Charlotte District (1938-39).

Harry L. Dalton Papers
Papers of a Charlotte business executive, bibliophile, and benefactor of art museums and libraries in North Carolina. Includes correspondence, biographical materials, subject files, diaries, manuscripts and ephemera, and personal and family papers.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Liberty Hall Chapter Records
Records of a DAR chapter organized in 1908 to commemorate Liberty Hall Academy, originally established in Charlotte in 1771 under the name Queen's College. Contains minutes, correspondence, programs, and financial material.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Mecklenburg Chapter Records
Records of the first DAR chapter in North Carolina, founded in 1898. Contains membership applications, including that of Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, widow of General Stonewall Jackson, and minutes of chapter and executive board meetings.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter Records
Records of a DAR chapter founded in 1912 by descendents of the signers of the disputed Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Includes membership applications, minutes, yearbooks, financial records, and memorials to deceased members.

E. K. Fretwell Papers
Personal papers of the second chancellor of UNC Charlotte (1979-90). Includes files regarding his chairing of the 1984 City-County Consolidation Study Committee and his involvement in the Boy Scouts and Rotary.

Hoyt R. Galvin Papers
Papers as chair of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Education Committee (1954 56), whose work helped to gain support and funding for Charlotte and Carver colleges.

Kathlee Cox Hicks Papers
Chiefly correspondence, minutes, and other material documenting the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Kindergarten Association. Includes material from the Mecklenburg Early Childhood Education Committee and from similar state-wide associations.

James Boyce Hood Papers
Primarily letters written by an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister during the courtship of his wife, Eva Lee Hickman. The letters describe his studies at Erskine Theological Seminary and her attendance at State College for Women (Va.).

Hopewell Presbyterian Church Records
Records of the one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in Mecklenburg County, including minutes of the Session, the Board of Deacons, the Ladies Missionary Society, Girls Aid Society, Sunday School secretary, and Women's Auxiliary.

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson Papers
Essay by the widow of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson concerning the 1905 visit of President Theodore Roosevelt to Charlotte and copies of letters from Jackson to Jessie Randolph Smith pertaining to pensions for veterans of the Mexican War.

W. A. Kennedy Papers
Papers of a businessman relating to his role in promoting Charlotte College as a community college and in securing for it status as a four-year, state-supported college. Includes minutes of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.

Edwin P. Latimer Papers
Material documenting Latimer's membership on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Energy Conservation Task Force, created in 1973 under sponsorship of the City, County, and Charlotte Chamber of Commerce.

Louise A. Lawing Papers
Correspondence and other items relating to the D. H. Hill School Parent-Teacher Association. Includes material from the Charlotte Council of Parent Teacher Associations and the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers.

Rev. Jeff Lowrance Papers, 1975 - 2007
Collection 390 contains the papers of Reverend Jeff Lowrance (1951-2007), a Presbyterian minister, who served six different congregations from 1975 to 2007. During his thirty-two year career he wrote over 1200 sermons, which make up the majority of this collection. In addition, this collection also includes notes on a variety of subject matter related to Christian and ministerial matters. Rev. Lowrance died of colon cancer on May 30, 2007.

William J. McCoy Papers
Papers of a UNC Charlotte professor and director of the Urban Institute, documenting his membership on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. Consists primarily of rezoning petitions and related papers.

Timothy D. Mead Papers
Papers of a political science professor documenting his membership on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, the Catawba River Corridor Study Committee, and the Mecklenburg County Environmental Protection Committee.

Mecklenburg Historical Association Records
Records of Mecklenburg County's oldest and largest historical organization from its establishment in 1954. Includes minutes, programs, financial records, and information on historic preservation projects sponsored by the association.

Metrolina Library Association Records
Records of the Metrolina Library Association, an association open to anyone affiliated with or interested in libraries in the twelve-county "Metrolina" area.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Charlotte Records
Records documenting the operation of the Plaza Midwood office of a national, non-profit agency concerned with neighborhood revitalization. Includes correspondence, administrative files, client files, financial records, clippings, and photographs.

North Carolina College Personnel Association Records, 1966 - 2007
The records of the North Carolina College Personnel Association includes annual conference materials, bylaws, correspondence, financial material, membership information, minutes and reports, since its inception in 1966. Additions to the collections are periodically made as newer records become available.

North Carolina Counseling Association Records, 1938 - 2008
Records of the state professional association for persons engaged in counseling, personnel, and guidance work Includes minutes, correspondence, publications, financial reports, convention programs, membership records, and photographs.

North Carolina Fund Records
Records of an anti-poverty demonstration project. Includes grant proposals, annual reports, studies of housing and community development problems, and speeches and articles by George Esser, the executive director.

Oasis and Omar Temples Records
Primarily correspondence of the Widows's Fund, a life insurance program for lodge members. Also includes general material on local lodges and architectural drawings for the Masonic Temple in uptown Charlotte (demolished 1987).

Douglas M. Orr Papers
Material documenting Project Catalyst, a collaborative effort of the Citizens Forum and Johnson C. Smith University to revitalize the Biddleville/Five Points area surrounding the University in northwest Charlotte.

Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood Association Records
Records of a homeowners association established in 1975 to revitalize Plaza-Midwood, one of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs. Includes subject files, minutes, photographs, and information on the history of the neighborhood from 1914 to 1949.

Margaret Whitton Ray Papers
Papers of the chair of the Citizens Advisory Group, formed in 1973 to develop pupil assignment guidelines for desegregating Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. Includes correspondence, reports, worksheets, and the group's plan for pupil assignment.

George K. Selden Papers
Primarily demographic studies conducted as a volunteer and paid consultant for such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, and Health and Hospital Council.

Sharon Presbyterian Church Records, 1840 - 2006
Records of the Sharon Presbyterian Church, of Charlotte, NC, from 1840 to 2006, including minutes of the Session, 1840-1984; the congregation, 1967-1976; deacons, 1950-1991; and Christian Education Committee, 1956-1965; records of women’s auxiliary organizations, 1870-1983; and correspondence, 1970-1973.

H. Milton Short Papers
Papers relating to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Consolidation Study Committee and Crestran Corporation, a non-profit corporation established to analyze the feasibility of high-speed rail passenger service between Raleigh and Anderson, S.C.

Herbert Spaugh Papers
Papers of the pastor of Charlotte's Little Church on the Lane, bishop of the Moravian Church in America and leader in the Charlotte community. Includes correspondence relating to the church and to his denominational and civic activities.

Morris Speizman Papers
Papers of a Charlotte businessman and Jewish community leader. Includes biographical material, typescript of his book, Our World to Come (1975), manuscript autobiography of his father, David S. Speizman, and correspondence with Harry Golden.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church Records
Records and histories of a northern Mecklenburg County congregation, founded in 1884. Includes minutes, membership lists, financial accounts of the Women's Auxiliary and Women's Guild, and a church history by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr.

Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection
Ephemeral publications of a monastic press established in England in 1876, operated by nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation, and dedicated to the art of fine printing and perfection in typographical design.

Travelers' Protective Association of America
Records of an organization that served as a commercial traveler "watch-dog" group against abuses by hotels, transportation providers, and other interests. The Charlotte group (Post C) was founded in 1897 and by 1961, had 650 members.

Minette Trosch Papers
Papers of a Charlotte city council member. Includes material relating to her service with the National League of Cities and as a member of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Committee of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Joseph Samuel Nathaniel Tross Collection, 1927 - 1971
Papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and radio broadcast transcripts of Dr. Joseph Samuel Nathaniel Tross, a minister in the AME Zion Church, editor of the Charlotte Post, and civil rights leader in Charlotte, NC from the 1930s until his death in 1971.

Unitarian Church of Charlotte Records
Records of the first Unitarian church in North Carolina, founded in 1946. Contains correspondence, minutes and reports of the board of trustees and of church committees, bulletins and newsletters, and material relating to the Women's Alliance.

A.Grant Whitney Papers
Papers of a Charlotte civic leader documenting the founding and operation of Festival in the Park. Contains material on the visits of presidents Eisenhower (1954) and Ford (1975), and the City of Charlotte bicentennial (1968).

Beaumert Whitton Papers, Part 2
Like the first accession of Beaumert Whitton papers, this collection (mss 117) contains a variety of materials concerning Whitton’s career in the construction industry and his many personal interests—such as the Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte, NC, the Presbyterian Church and the Boy Scouts.

Lyda Caldwell Wilson Papers
Records of the North Carolina Florence Crittenton Industrial Home, Charlotte, kept by Wilson, a member of the board of directors. Contains a handwritten description of the home (n.d.) and a two-page typed history of the home (ca. 1929).

Martha Dorn Worrell Papers
Papers relating to Worrell's role as advisor to the Charlotte Junior Music Club and the Epsilon Chapter of Pi Mu. Includes correspondence, programs, and photographs.