Alexander Family Collection
Primarily material about Hezekiah Alexander, member of a large and influential family that settled in Mecklenburg County in the 1760s. Includes material relating to his home, built in 1774 and the oldest surviving building in Mecklenburg County.

Kelly M. Alexander Papers
Papers documenting Alexander's service with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and his presidency of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches. Includes Alexander family correspondence and photographs.

Arthur and Farrar Family Papers
Materials created and collected by James Harrison Arthur, his wife Katherine Miller Arthur, and his uncle Benjamin Franklin Arthur Jr. Consists primarily of correspondence and subject files of James and Katherine, residents of Gaston County, N.C.

Autograph Books Collection
Autograph books of Charlotte children (1883-1890).

Banks Family Papers
Papers of several generations of a family active in the Presbyterian Church. Includes a transcription of a letter (1838) from Samuel Banks, possibly the first of the family in America, to his son, the Rev. Alexander Robinson Banks.

Aaron D. Boggs Papers
Biographical and genealogical material about the Boggs family and collateral lines, including the Alexander, Calhoun, Garner, Living-ston, and Prince families. Also includes photographs of Charlotte (ca. 1890-ca. 1910).

Ken Brotherton Papers
Includes a nine-part newspaper article based on the Civil War letters of Joseph and Margaret Brawley Lipe of Iredell County, an essay, "Caldwell Family History," about descendants of the Lipe family.

Caldwell and Davidson Family Papers
Papers of the Caldwell and Davidson families of Rosedale plantation in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Includes medical account books, land records and surveys, plantation account books, and photographs of family members and of Rosedale.

William Gueston Carter Collection, 1931 - 1998
The William Gueston Carter, junior Collection contains primarily diaries that Carter recorded from 1975 to 1998, documenting in minute detail everything that he did, as well as the weather conditions in Cornelius, North Carolina, where he lived.

Clarkson Family Papers
Papers of Judge Francis Clarkson. Includes an autobiography by Jane Woodruff describing life in Charleston, S.C., reminiscences of life in Charlotte in the 1880s by Margaret Bland, and a history of the First Presbyterian Church property.

Selby A. Daniels Papers, 1803, 1952-2003
Essay by a Wayne County, N.C., native about the social history of Fremont, N.C., 1859-1918, primarily as reflected in the everyday lives of the Aycock family. Includes reminiscences of the author's boyhood in the 1920s and 1930s.

Davidson Family Papers
Papers of the Davidson family of Rural Hill Plantation in northern Mecklenburg County, N.C. Includes correspondence, family Bibles, financial records, land records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and plantation records for Rural Hill.

Emma Echols Collection
Transcripts of the antebellum and Civil War papers of William Leonidas Faulkner, who served in the South Carolina Volunteers and died in a Union prison camp. Includes papers and genealogical information about related families and stories by Echols.

W. G. Frye Photographs
Primarily photographs of Mecklenburg County scenes, including the family and the family business, W. A. Frye & Sons Garage, automobile accidents, the first S & W Cafeteria in Charlotte (ca. 1913), and Dr. E. C. Boyette.

Nicholas Biddle Gibbon Papers, 1799 - 2000
Thirty-page typescript transcription of the Civil War memoirs of Nicholas Biddle Gibbon. Includes genealogical information about Gibbon's family and that of his wife, Harriet Cornelia Alexander, a descendant of Hezekiah Alexander.

Harry Golden Papers [Part One]
Papers of a journalist, best selling author, and civil libertarian. Includes correspondence, research materials for books and articles, speeches,publications, photographs, and material by and about the Golden and Carl Sandburg and families.

Virginia Caroline Goodwin Papers
Various papers, including three drafts of a love letter to Goodwin from David R. Autry, a Confederate soldier stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, two poems, photographs, genealogical information, and biographical sketches.

Gossett Family Papers
Papers of a prominent Charlotte family, primarily consisting of photographs and records regarding the commemoration of a bust donated to the U.S. Naval Academy museum in honor of Admiral Halsey.

Harrell Family Papers
Manuscript autobiographies of William Bernard Harrell, songwriter, physician, and Baptist minister, and of his son, William Peyton Harrell, a conductor on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and a bank clerk in Norfolk, Va.

Roy E. Hoke Papers
Family, and professional papers of one of Charlotte's first psychologists, who established the Psychological Service Center in 1946. Includes correspondence, copies of his newspaper columns, transcriptions of radio broadcasts, and photographs.

Howell Family Papers
Papers of the Powell, Poole, O'Rorke, and Claney families of Charlotte and New York City, concerning their entertainment careers. Individuals featured in the papers include Conza Howell and her husband, Howard Moorehead Claney.

Hutchison And Caldwell Family Papers
Photocopied papers of the Caldwell family of Charlotte, N.C., and the Hutchison family of York District (Rock Hill), S.C. Contains a diary by Adeline Caldwell, the second wife of Dr. D.T. Caldwell of Rosedale Plantation in Charlotte, N.C.

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.

George M. Ivey Papers
Primarily papers and photographs of a president of the J. B. Ivey department store chain, which was later absorbed into Dillard's. Includes prints, negatives, and slides illustrating the Charlotte area, family scenes, and travels.

Jenkins Family Papers
Documents pertaining to the family of William Abram Jenkins (1850-1922), second generation native of Gaston County, who married Laura Jane Leonhardt (1854-1929). Includes photographs, survey maps, and biographical information.

W.H. & S.E. Jetton Papers, 1908 - 2007
Collection 391 is a small collection of papers generated primarily by William Howard Jetton and his sister, Sarah Elizabeth Jetton, from 1908 to 2007.

Knox Family Papers, 1762 - 1945
The Knox family papers is a small collection generated by the Knox and related families (including the Dunlap, Lowrie, and Porter families) documenting much of their daily activities, mostly from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Most of the papers in this collection are letters to and from family members, promissory notes that document short-term loans between friends and family members, papers concerning the settlement of estates of deceased people, the ownership of slaves and events during the Civil War.

Knox Family Tree Diagram
Family tree (copy) drawn in the shape of a tree by Katie S. Goodman of Woodleaf, N.C. in June, 1914.

Latta Family Papers
Letters written to James Latta, his wife Jane, and their daughter Nancy. Writers are Robert Latta, William A. Latta, and Eliza Dilworth Latta (Robert's second wife), who are writing from their home in Yorkville, S.C.

Liddell Family Papers
Papers of the family of Walter J. F. and Anna Brubaker Liddell, who moved to Charlotte from Wisconsin in 1875. Includes photographs, postcards depicting scenes in early 20th-century Charlotte, and copies of letters of the Little and Myers families.

R. Stewart Lillard papers, 1771 - 2000
Primarily R. Stewart Lillard’s papers on Ralph Ellison; and also a few papers collected R. Stewart Lillard, senior’s papers collected from Spiro T. Agnew, Eugene McCarthy and Jimmy Carter.

McCoy Family Papers, 1796 - 2001
This collection contains papers and photographs generated by the McCoy and related families in Mecklenburg County from 1796 to 2001. Most of the papers were produced by Albert McCoy, who lived from 1843 to 1925. Other papers were generated by some of his children. Other families related to the McCoys were the Gluyas, Houston, and Nisbet families. Because the McCoys owned slaves, some of the files in this collection concern a slave cemetery and traditional stories told by slaves that the McCoy family owned.

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

Moore Family Papers
Papers of the Moore family, including Lynford Lardner Moore (1869-1925), his wife, Mary Torrance Moore, his son, Wilson Wallace Moore (b. 1902), and daughter, Eliza Gaston Moore (b. 1901).

Newell Family Papers
Miscellaneous papers of the family, particularly those of Leon B. Newell, a Charlotte physician. Includes certificates, correspondence, genealogical materials, a household inventory (1916), newspaper clippings, photographs and receipts.

Pegram Family Papers
Primarily letters to Miles Pinckney Pegram, Sr. from his sons Miles, Jr., and Tom. Also includes letters of congratulations on the senior Pegram's election as president of the First National Bank of Charlotte.

Pharr And Walker Family Papers
Papers of the Rev. Samuel Caldwell Pharr and of his descendants, particularly his son, Walter Springs Pharr, and his daughter-in-law, Mary Jane (Jennie) Walker Pharr. Includes 19th and early 20th century deeds for land in Mecklenburg County.

J. Walter Potts Family, 1776 - 1942
The collection contains a small quantity of papers, and includes materials from John Neely in 1776, the Grier family (a.k.a. Greer family), the Hunter family and the J. Walter Potts family; all from the Steele Creek Township in southwestern Mecklenburg County, NC. The papers include documentation concerning real estate transactions, receipts for taxes and consumer goods, promissory notes, letters to and from various family members, and documentation concerning slaves.

Rankin Family Papers, 1753 - 2006
The Rankin Family papers consist of a wide variety of materials, though the majority of the collection concerns this family’s ownership and stewardship of the land that they have owned in Gaston County, NC since the late eighteenth century.

Sample Family Papers
Copies of surveys for land in northern Mecklenburg County along the Catawba River owned by the Sample Family. Some of the papers relate to land owned by James Latta, whose house is the centerpiece of the present-day Historic Latta Plantation.

Spratt Family Papers
Copies of correspondence and memoirs relating to the descendants of Thomas Spratt, one of the first settlers in Mecklenburg County. Includes a memoir (1875) of Thomas Dryden Spratt referring to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.

Springs Family Papers
Papers of the Springs family of Mecklenburg County, N.C. and York County, S.C. Contains deeds relating to property at the Square in uptown Charlotte, including a lot owned by Thomas Polk.

Ella Hargrove Sullivan Papers
Primarily papers of a Montgomery, Ala., native who married Walter Bernard Sullivan, co-owner of The Columbia Record and The Charlotte Observer. Includes business records and family papers of the Sayre family.

Tate and Wilson Families, 1765 - 1992
Papers of Sarah Wilson Tate, including travel diaries, correspondence, and reminiscences of Christmas-time visits to Coldstream plantation in Sumter County, S.C. Also includes business correspondence of her husband, John Austin Tate.

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 of George K. Tate and his wife, Alice Lindsay Tate, and correspondence with her friends, and associates.

John A. Tennant Papers
Papers of the editor and publisher of The Photo-Miniature, an early photography magazine. Contains correspondence among members of the Tennant family, in particular to and from Tennant's daughter Clare and her husband J. Eckard Crane.

Torrance and Banks Family Papers
Papers of Hugh Torance and his descendants, including his son, James Galbraith Torrance, and grandson Richard Allison Torrance, concerning their extensive mercantile and planting operations at Cedar Grove Plantation in Mecklenburg County.

Van Landingham Family Papers
Papers of four generations of the Van Landingham family of Charlotte and of the Harwood family of New England and Atlanta. Includes correspondence, genealogical information, photographs, and blueprints of the family home in Charlotte.

Wilkes Family Papers
Papers of a family that settled in Charlotte in the 1850s. Contains extensive records involving the purchase and operations of gold mines, mills, and other businesses owned by the family in North and South Carolina beginning in the 1820s.