William Arthur Cooper Papers
Papers of an African-American artist and minister of Charlotte's Clinton Metropolitan AME Zion Church during the 1930s. Contains correspondence and clippings, lectures and exhibits, reports on his lecture tours, material relating to his book A Portrayal of Negro Life, and photographs.

Harry L. Dalton Papers
Papers of a Charlotte business executive, bibliophile, and benefactor of art museums and libraries in North Carolina. Contains biographical materials, diaries, manuscripts and ephemera, personal correspondence and family papers, publications, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Harriet Doar Papers
Papers of a journalist and book review editor with The Charlotte News (1939-46) and The Charlotte Observer (1959-82). Includes copies of her articles, correspondence with authors and editors, and research files.

Harry Golden Papers [Part One]
Papers of a journalist, best selling author, and civil libertarian. Consists chiefly of material generated as editor of the Charlotte-based Carolina Israelite but also documenting his involvement in the Democratic Party, the civil rights movement, and Jewish issues.

Gail Haley Collection, 1842 - 2005
This collection contains primarily artistic work and book drafts for many of Gail Haley's children's books.

Bertha Harris Papers
Drafts and a published copy of her novel Catching Saradove. Contains two typescript drafts with holograph corrections, excerpts from a handwritten draft, one set of galley proofs, and one published copy of Catching Saradove.

Howell Family Papers
Papers of the Howell, Poole, O'Rorke, and Claney families concerning various aspects of their entertainment careers. Individuals featured in the papers include Conza Howell and her husband, Howard Moorehead Claney. Contains correspondence and photographs.

Mary Norton Kratt, 1886 - 2000
Collection 113 consists of manuscripts and other material relating to Mary Norton Kratt’s writing: including some of her books and articles, and a great deal of her poetry (published and unpublished). The collection also includes taped interviews that she used in researching her writing, and photographs that she used in the development of Legacy: The Myers Park Story, and Charlotte: Spirit of the New South.

Leary Love Family Collection, ca. 1875 - 1996
The Leary Love Collection includes primarily the papers of George Leary Love and his mother, Rose Leary Love. Rose Love was an elementary school teacher in the Charlotte, NC public school system for nearly forty years. In addition to her teaching career, she also wrote poetry, music, and short stories for children. George Leary Love had a notable career as a photographer, a vocation that he used, in part, to fulfill his interest in environmental issues. In the early 1960s, he was involved with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee as a field photographer. By the late 1960s he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he was employed with the Sao Paulo Light and Power Company. In addition to his work for ElectroPaulo, Love spent many years photographing the Amazon River Valley and the Brazilian rain forest.

James Lineberger Papers
Primarily drafts and revisions of screenplays of North Carolina writer James Lineberger. Also includes poetry, lyric sheets for a musical, and manuscripts for a stage play and a novel.

Amon Liner Collection
Material relating to this poet and native Charlottean and his appearance on New Voices, a program on WUNC-FM radio about seven young North Carolina writers.

North Carolina Print and Drawing Society Records
Records of the North Carolina Print and Drawing Society from its establishment to its termination. Includes minutes, financial records, newsletters, and correspondence. Also includes information on exhibitions sponsored by the group and on its collection of prints and drawings.

North Carolina Writers Collection
Black and white photographs of 54 writers with North Carolina connections.

Eugene Payne Cartoons
Original cartoons by an editorial cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer and WSOC TV. Includes reprints of his 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoons.

T. J. Reddy Papers
Papers of a Charlotte artist, poet, civil rights activist, and UNC Charlotte alumnus, highlighting his role as one of the Charlotte Three and his interest in the civil rights movement.

Bruce Roberts Collection
Original photographs by Roberts and copies of other photographs used in books for which he was photographic editor. Includes typescripts and proofs, related clippings and correspondence, and texts of works by Nancy Roberts, LeGette Blythe, David Stick, Dick Gorrell, and Frances Griffin.

Marian McCamy Sims Papers, 1922 - 1961
Chiefly printed copies of short stories by a Charlotte writer. Also includes an incomplete typescript of her novel, Beyond Surrender, drafts of an untitled and unfinished novel, manuscript and typed copies of 15 short stories, and articles about her writing.

R. T. Smith Papers
Literary manuscripts of a poet, teacher, and UNC Charlotte graduate. Includes correspondence, promotional material, and drafts, typescripts, and printed copies of poems, stories, and reviews.

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. Includes several items with hand-colored illustrations.

Alice Lindsay Tate Papers
Papers of a Charlotte native who moved to New York City in the 1930s to pursue an operatic career. Includes correspondence with T. J. Reddy and the North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee, notes on Buddhism and Judaism, and diaries (ca. 1928-52).

John A. Tennant Papers
Papers of the editor and publisher of The Photo-Miniature (1899-1935), an early photography magazine. Contains advertisements, correspondence, Tennant's reminiscences on the development of photography, programs of cultural events in New York City (1905-55), and other ephemera.

Kenneth Wilson Whitsett Papers
Papers of a Charlotte historian, artist, and co-founder of Pictorial Engraving Company. Includes World War I correspondence, photographs of former slaves of the Rosedale Plantation, Caldwell and Whitsett family photographs, and photographs of early twentieth-century Charlotte.

Women's Literature From a Regional Perspective Collection
Material from a class taught by the UNC Charlotte English Department. Contains student cultural autobiographies, research projects, and related course materials. Includes studies of Cherokee women, female evangelists and merchants, and women in ECKANAR.