Annie L. Alexander Papers
Papers of the first woman to practice medicine in the South. Includes letters she wrote to her father while a student at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, patient records, essays on medical topics, and newspaper clippings.

John B. Alexander Papers, 1855-1911.
Papers of a Mecklenburg County physician. Includes account books, medical journals, correspondence, memorabilia, and writings. Also documents his service as a surgeon in the 37th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate Army.

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

Arithmetic Workbooks Collection
Manuscript volumes of arithmetic problems and exercises, one of which is signed by John Atkerson of Brunswick County, Va., and dated 1794 and the other of which has no ownership marks and is undated.

William H. Barnhardt Papers
Primarily non-business related correspondence of a Charlotte textile industrialist, civic leader, and philanthropist. The bulk of the collection relates to Barnhardt's donation of copies of Cornelia Wearn Henderson's Early Charlotte and Mecklenburg County for Children to local schools and colleges.

Charles Cecil Bernard Papers
Items relating to the first director of the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina, forerunner to Charlotte College and UNC Charlotte. Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a memorial resolution.

Mary Boyer Collection
Primarily copies of items placed in a cornerstone at First Ward School in Charlotte on March 13, 1900. Includes items relating to textiles, gold mining, politics in North Carolina, and a letter of U.S. Senate candidate Cameron Morrison.

Caldwell and Davidson Family Papers
Papers of the Caldwell and Davidson families of Rosedale plantation in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Includes medical account books (1824-47) of Dr. David Thomas Caldwell.

Carver College Records
Materials relating to Carver College, which was operated by the Charlotte City School Board (1949-58) and the Charlotte Community College System (1958-63) as the predominately black counterpart of predominately white Charlotte College.

Charlotte Area Educational Consortium Records
Minutes and correspondence documenting the work of an organization of local colleges and universities.

Charlotte City Board of Education Records
Primarily minute books from 1890 to the consolidation of the city and county school systems in 1960. Includes indexes, annual report (1891), and pamphlet (1935) supporting a tax levy for schools.

Dean W. Colvard Papers
Papers of the first chancellor of UNC Charlotte. Contains copies of speeches given while president of Mississippi State University and files related to the creation of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

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

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.

Elmer Henry Garringer Papers
Papers of a Charlotte educator and state legislator. Contains correspondence, photographs, awards, an essay describing the development of UNC Charlotte, and material about Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools

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

Eunice F. Hargett Collection
Items relating to UNC Charlotte course project by Eunice F. Hargett for History of African-American Women. Includes Hargett's research paper and three supporting interviews of relatives from eastern North Carolina.

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

Susan Davis Hutchison
Abridged diary of a native of Amenia, N.Y., who moved to Raleigh in 1815 to teach school. Describes her journey to Raleigh by sea and stagecoach and subsequent travels and teaching in Augusta, Ga., Amenia, Salisbury, N.C., and Charlotte.

Introduction To The English Language Oral History Collection
Material from a class taught by Dr. Boyd H. Davis of the UNC Charlotte English Department. Contains research papers and related course work materials.

Irwin Avenue Open School Records, 1957 - 2004
Collection 356 contains a diverse assortment of papers concerning the Irwin Avenue Open Elementary School mostly from 1973 to 2004. These records include such things as administrative, statistical and demographic information about the IAOS, promotional materials, papers concerning theories in alternative forms of education (with particular emphasis on the "open school" approach to teaching) and other papers generated by students. Though Irwin Avenue Open School is a public school, it is run in large part as though it were private, and depends largely on parental volunteerism and participation.

Irwin Family Papers, 1775 - 1931
The Irwin Family Papers (Mss 359) is a small manuscript collection, consisting mostly of letters, bills of sale (including bills of sale for slaves), real estate deeds and genealogical notes of a family of Charlotte, North Carolina, primarily during the nineteenth century.

W. A. Kennedy Papers
Papers of a Charlotte businessman and engineer relating to his role in promoting Charlotte College as a community college and technical institute and in securing for it status as a four year, state supported college.

Louise A. Lawing Papers
Correspondence, minutes, 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.

Mecklenburg County Board of Education Records
Primarily minutes from 1885 to the consolidation of the city and county school systems in 1960. Also includes account books (1928-31).

Mecklenburg County Health Department Records
Annual reports, minutes, and photographs of Health Department staff and clientele.

Metrolina Library Association Records
Contains official records of the association, which merged with the Mecklenburg Library Association in 1986 and retained the name of the former. Includes minutes, financial material, correspondence, and membership information.

Roslyn A. Mickelson Paper, 1959 - 2005
This manuscript collection was accumulated by Dr. Roslyn A. Mickelson, a professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, in her role as an expert witness in litigation between the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system and the parents of Christina Capacchione. Other papers include those concerning IBM Education Village and Mickelson’s research in school-to-work research.

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 School Desegregation Papers, 1955 - 1956
The North Carolina School Desegregation Papers (mss 413), is a small collection (one folder) of mostly published material, generated by the faction that was opposed to the racial desegregation of public schools. The source of this material is not known.

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.

Addison H. Reese Papers
Papers of a key supporter of UNC Charlotte, relating to his membership on the boards of Charlotte College and UNCC, the UNC system, and other state-wide groups concerned with higher education.

Robert Rieke Papers
Manuscripts and research material collected by the author of "A Retrospective Vision" (1977), which traces the development of UNC Charlotte during its first decade, 1965-75.

Oliver Reagan Rowe Papers
Primarily transcriptions of speeches supporting the expansion of Charlotte College (1958-63) and advocating the merger of the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County school systems (1957-60).

Shirley Marie Tarlton Papers
Research notes, drafts, and bound volumes of Tarlton's thesis, "The Development of the Library of Charlotte College, 1946-July 1, 1965."

United States Army Evacuation Hospital (38th) Records
Records of a medical unit, formed in 1940 by doctors at Charlotte Memorial Hospital (now Carolinas Medical Center) to support front-line aid stations during World War II in North Africa and Italy.

Lyda Caldwell Wilson Papers
Records of the North Carolina Florence Crittenton Industrial Home, Charlotte, kept by Wilson, a member of the board of directors.

Women's Literature From a Regional Perspective Collection
Material from a two-semester class taught in 1977-78 by Dr. Ann C. Carver of the UNC Charlotte English Department and funded through a grant from the Modern Languages Association.

Writing Our Own History Collection
Essays written by Charlotte senior citizens for courses sponsored by Central Piedmont Community College, including personal accounts of growing up during the Prohibition era and the Depression and of life during World War II.