Mary Boyer is the compiler of an extensive collection of postcards of Charlotte in the twentieth century. The postcards are divided into eleven sections and concern such things as views of the city, prominent homes, buildings (both public and private), schools, churches, hospitals, parks, and historical monuments.
The Mary Boyer …
Steve Perille is a prolific photographer and an award winning photojournalist. While working for The Charlotte Observer, he was the 1975 Southern Photographer of the Year, but his images are more about the social landscape than hard news.
Perille, a native of Wisconsin, was introduced to photography as a young boy by his uncle, Jim …
The William Hoke Sumner, Jr. collection includes selected digitized images of news events, weddings, buildings, business meetings, sports events, store openings, ribbon cuttings, social gatherings, and numerous other activities. Sumner was a North Carolina photographer who worked in Charlotte; he focused on subjects that interested him …
Aerial Photographs of UNC Charlotte and University City illustrate the rapid and extensive growth of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the surrounding neighborhood, University City. The photographs begin in 1959 with the site chosen for Charlotte College and show the progressive area growth through 2008. These images are …
This is a bill of sale dated January 2, 1865 for a slave named Loney. The buyer was N. A. Wingate & Co. of Charlotte, North Carolina; and the seller was J. A. Bisaner, of Lincolnton. At the time Loney was about twenty seven years old and was sold for $6,000 in Confederate currency.
This broadside is an introduction of a document asking for North Carolinians' reactions to two articles reprinted from the Springfield (Ill.) Journal titled: Compromise not to be thought of, and The forts must be taken--the revolution must be checked.
This three-page letter, dated December 15, 1864, was sent from Andrew Baxter Springs to Confederate Congressman F. B. Sexton. In the letter, Springs expresses his optimism about the Civil War, with specific references about Union general William T. Sherman and Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. Springs also extends an invitation to …
The Richard Lee Clark Collection includes Civil War documents relating to the daily operations of the Union Army at their camp at Port Royal, South Carolina.
The Patterson Family Papers feature selected documents from the Patterson family of northern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The Pattersons owned and lived on a large plantation near Davidson. The papers mainly concern their business activities, real estate purchases, wills, and family correspondence. Also includes papers from …
Student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are now available through DigitalNC. The online volumes include UNC Charlotte yearbooks from 1966-1985, as well as yearbooks from Charlotte College from 1950-1965 and Carver Junior College yearbooks from 1950-1966.
The Wilkes Family Papers digital collection includes selected documents relating to the Wilkes family of North Carolina, which settled in Charlotte in the 1850s. These digitized letters and documents pertain primarily to the Wilkes Family's business transactions, specifically the purchase of slaves.
The Torrance and Banks Family Papers digital collection includes selected documents from the papers of Hugh Torance (1743-1816) and his descendants, including especially his son, James Galbraith Torrance (sic) (1784-1847), and his grandson Richard Allison Torrance (1833-1927), concerning their extensive mercantile, planting, and milling …
These records document the plans for the urban redevelopment of Charlotte in the 1960s and 1970s. Created in 1957, the Charlotte Redevelopment Commission was charged with projects which cleared rundown areas of Charlotte but also projects for rehabilitation of declining older neighborhoods. The areas where these projects took place …
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 …
Sketches of Charlotte, published by Wade H. Harris, illustrates Charlotte as it stood in 1904. The subtitle calls Charlotte "North Carolina's finest city and the recognized cotton milling centre of the southern states." The publisher notes that the book was "issued for the purpose of advertising the manufacturing, commericial, …
UNC Charlotte Architecture is a collection derived from the Visual Resources Collection of the College of Arts + Architecture. It illustrates campus buildings and landscape architecture as it existed in the 1980s through the early 2000s.
Digital Collections at Atkins Library works to expand and provide access to rare and unique materials through the creation, support, and preservation of digital collections.
Digital Collections at Atkins Library seeks to collaborate with libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina and the Southeast to create valuable, robust digital resources that enhance learning and scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and in the greater Metrolina area.
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