October was North Carolina Archives Month, and the Special Collections Research Center at Appalachian State University celebrated with an open house for the campus and the public on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. The theme for North Carolina Archives Month was “North Carolina in The Great War.”
We displayed materials from the following collections in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection archives:
- Samuel F. Horton Papers (Letters and photographs of a Watauga County resident who participated in WWI) Pictured below.
- Lloyd Franklin Miller and Ola Mains (Miller) Papers (Stereographs) Pictured below. Viewer uses a paper stereoscope to view the images as they were intended to be seen.
- James Thomas Broyhill Papers (Constituents contacted then-Congressman Broyhill to express their views on WWI veterans’ benefits) Pictured below.
- Joseph Gordon Greenwood World War I Journal
- Thornton T. Perry, Jr. Papers (Photographs)
- George Antone Furniture Industry Research Papers (while Dr. Antone researched western North Carolina furniture company history, he also captured many WWI headlines and stories)
- Cratis D. Williams Papers (Williams wrote about his experience growing up during World War I in Caines Creek, Kentucky)
- Appalachian Regional Ephemera Collection (World War I poster)
We also included secondary and fictional materials from the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection that relate to or are set in World War I:
- German Invasion of Western North Carolina: A Pictorial History
- The Cove by Ron Rash
- A selection of books relating to Sergeant York
- A Short Time to Stay Here: A Novel by Terry Roberts
To view any of these materials or learn more, please contact us at spcoll@appstate.edu or 828–262–4041.
Contributed by Greta Browning, Reference and Instruction Archivist
North Carolina in the Great War, NC Archives Month 2017
