MC 00056 Guide to the Jehu Dewitt Paulson Papers, 1922-1972

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The collection is divided into five series: Personal; North Carolina State College; Picture Clippings; Research, Writings, and Inventions; and Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, and Designs.

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Personal Papers
                                             (MC 00056 Series 1)
                                              
0.5 Linear feet
                                             (27 folders)
                                             
This series consists of various personal photographs, certificates, and correspondence, including a statement answering to
                                       charges of insubordination at North Carolina State. This series also contains Paulson's art history notebook compiled from
                                       lectures at Yale School of Fine Arts.
                                    

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       1]
                                       Personal (Correspondence, Certificates)
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       2]
                                       Art History Notebook: Introduction and Overview of Ancient - 15th Century Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       3]
                                       Art History Notebook: Egyptian and Assyrian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       4]
                                       Art History Notebook: Greek Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       5]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian (Roman) Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       6]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian (Medieval Mosaics)
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       7]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       8]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       9]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       10]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       11]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       12]
                                       Art History Notebook: Netherlands
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       13]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       14]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       15]
                                       Art History Notebook: Overview of 16th-19th Century Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       16]
                                       Art History Notebook: Italian Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       17]
                                       Art History Notebook: Flemish, Dutch Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       18]
                                       Art History Notebook: Dutch Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       19]
                                       Art History Notebook: German Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       20]
                                       Art History Notebook: French Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       21]
                                       Art History Notebook: French Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       22]
                                       Art History Notebook: Spanish Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       23]
                                       Art History Notebook: English Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       24]
                                       Art History Notebook: American Art
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       25]
                                       Photograph of Paulson (Housed in Photograph Collection, People, Faculty, Box 9)
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       26]
                                       Photograph of Paulson, his wife, and son, George (Housed in Photograph Collection, People, Faculty, Box 9)
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       27]
                                       Certificate to Practice Architecture in North Carolina, 1941
                                       

North Carolina State College (MC 00056 Series 2)
(71 folders)

The material in this series relates directly to North Carolina State College. It includes a report of Paulson's trip through several northern states in connection with the development of fine arts courses for North Carolina State. Also housed in this series are lecture notes, textbook outlines, and worksheets used in courses taught by Paulson. Finally the series contains a series of sketches and photographs of North Carolina State campus buildings. Some of these drawings were used for the set of commemorative plates sold by the North Carolina State University Alumni Association in 1946.

Report of trip North, (MC 56 Series 2.1)
(1 folder)

[Box 1, Folder 28] Report of trip North in regards to the development of fine arts courses for North Carolina State College

Materials Used in Courses Taught, (MC 56 Series 2.2)
(8 folders)

[Box 1, Folder 29] Color Change Chart

[Box 1, Folder 30] "Design of What?"

[Box 1, Folder 31] Notes and Textbook Outlines for Courses

[Box 1, Folder 32] Architecture 100: Pencil Sketching

[Box 2, Folder 1] Architecture 106: Decorative Drawing

[Box 2, Folder 2] Anatomy Drawings

[Box 2, Folder 3] The University Prints, Boston

[Box 2, Folder 4] Prints and Tracings

[Box 2, Folder 15] Holladay Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Holladay 1921 - 1950)

Building Images,
                                       (MC 56 Series 2.3)
                                        

                                       (43 folders)
                                       
                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          5]
                                          Bagwell, Berry, and Becton (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Residence Halls)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          6]
                                          Barns (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Barns)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          7]
                                          Barns (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Barns)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          8]
                                          Brooks Hall, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          9]
                                          Brooks Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Hill (Now Brooks) Exterior, Hill Library)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          10]
                                          Chancellor's Residence, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          11]
                                          Chancellor's Residence (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Chancellor's Residence)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          12]
                                          Daniels Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Daniels)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          13]
                                          Holladay Hall, plate design
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          14]
                                          Holladay Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Holladay 1921 - 1950)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          16]
                                          Holladay Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Holladay 1921 - 1950)
                                          
                                             [Box
                                             2,
                                             Folder
                                             17]
                                             Holladay Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Holladay 1889 - 1920)
                                             

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          18]
                                          Leazar Hall, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          19]
                                          Leazar Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Leazar
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          20]
                                          Memorial Tower, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          21]
                                          Memorial Tower, watercolor, 10" X 13"
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          22]
                                          Nineteen Eleven Building, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          23]
                                          Owen Hall, plate design
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          24]
                                          Page Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Page)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          25]
                                          Page Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Page)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          26]
                                          Patterson Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Patterson)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          27]
                                          Peele Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Peele)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          28]
                                          Peele Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Peele)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          29]
                                          Peele, Pullen, and Tompkins Halls, sketch, 11" X 15"
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          30]
                                          Polk Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Polk)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          31]
                                          Power House, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          32]
                                          Power House (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Power House)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          33]
                                          Primrose Hall, sketches and plate design
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          34]
                                          Primrose Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Primrose)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          35]
                                          Pullen Hall
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          36]
                                          Pullen Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Pullen)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          37]
                                          Reynolds Coliseum, William Neal
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          38]
                                          Ricks Hall, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          39]
                                          Ricks Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Ricks)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          40]
                                          Ricks Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Ricks)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          41]
                                          Thompson Hall, sketch
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          42]
                                          Thompson Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Thompson)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          43]
                                          Thompson Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Thompson)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          44]
                                          Tompkins Hall (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Tompkins)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          45]
                                          Watauga Hall, plate design
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          46]
                                          Zoology (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Zoology)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          2,
                                          Folder
                                          47]
                                          Zoology (Housed in Photograph Collection, Buildings, Zoology)
                                          

Picture Clippings
                                             (MC 00056 Series 3)
                                              

                                             (24 folders)
                                             
This series consists of pictures clipped from print media. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of these
                                       subjects are: costumes, furniture, interiors, landscapes, lettering, men, paintings, sculpture, and women. Whether Paulson
                                       used these files as references for his teaching or his creative work is unclear.
                                    

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       48]
                                       Architecture
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       49]
                                       Bridge Building
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       50]
                                       Ceramics
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       51]
                                       Costumes, period
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       52]
                                       Furniture, modern and period
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       53]
                                       Groups, figures
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       54]
                                       Interiors, modern
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       55]
                                       Interiors, period
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       56]
                                       Landscapes
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       57]
                                       Lettering
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       58]
                                       Men
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       59]
                                       Mountains
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       60]
                                       Mural Paintings
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       61]
                                       Ornament
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       62]
                                       Outdoors
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       63]
                                       Paintings, American
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       64]
                                       Paintings, English
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       65]
                                       Paintings, Flemish, Dutch, German
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       66]
                                       Paintings, Italian
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       67]
                                       Paintings, Spanish, French
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       68]
                                       Sculpture
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       2,
                                       Folder
                                       69]
                                       Ships, Boats, Marine Scenes
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       3,
                                       Folder
                                       1]
                                       Textiles, Decorative Designs
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       3,
                                       Folder
                                       2]
                                       Women
                                       

Research, Writings, and Inventions (MC 00056 Series 4)
(43 folders)

The research files deal largely with research involving the identification of some well-known paintings. In particular he believed that Adoration of the Kings, usually attributed to Botticelli, was really painted by Leonardo da Vinci. His writings consist of manuscripts covering the areas of art, science, and fiction. Included are The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and the Periodic Law and The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom with its accompanying plastic electron orbital models of the elementary atoms. This series also contains correspondence, paperwork, and patent applications for Paulson's inventions. These inventions were: an elevated storage tower, a container, a stool, an improved internal combustion rotary motor, and a trypent star structural form.

Research,
                                       (MC 56 Series 4.1)
                                        

                                       (20 folders)
                                       
                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          3]
                                          Research in Progress
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          4]
                                          Correspondence Regarding Identification of Paintings (1933 - 1934)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          5]
                                          Adoration of the Kings, Botticelli
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          6]
                                          "La Belle Ferroniere," Da Vinci (an essay by Paulson)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          7]
                                          "Leonardo da Vinci: His Madonna with the Lamb"
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          8]
                                          People Makers: A Fantasy of Evolution, by Jehu D. Paulson and Patricia McManus, unpublished manuscript, Chapters 1 - 3, with
                                             miniature illustrations
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          9]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 4 - 6
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          10]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 7 - 9
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          11]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 10 - 12
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          12]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 13 - 15
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          13]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 16 - 18
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          14]
                                          People Makers, Chapters 19 - 20
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          15]
                                          The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom, 1952 (for 14 pen and ink illustrations, 15" X 19", see flat file; for plastic electron
                                             orbital models of the elementary atoms, see museum items)
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          16]
                                          The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and the Periodic Law, 1955
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          17]
                                          The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and the Periodic Law, 1956
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          18]
                                          Appreciation of Painting (Textbook), unpublished manuscript
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          19]
                                          Appreciation of Painting (?), Information about artists and paintings
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          20]
                                          Appreciation of Painting (?), Plates for book
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          21]
                                          Appreciation of Painting (?), Plates for book
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          3,
                                          Folder
                                          22]
                                          Appreciation of Painting (?), Plates for book
                                          

                                          [Box
                                          5,
                                          Folder
                                          2]
                                          Graphic Demonstration of the Measurement of Emission Spectra of the Helium Atom,
                                             1954
                                          

Writings, (MC 56 Series 4.2)
(10 folders)

[Legal Box 4, Folder 1] Escape from Atlantis (earlier version), pp. 1-45

[Legal Box 4, Folder 2] Escape from Atlantis (earlier version), pp. 46-90

[Legal Box 4, Folder 4] Research, Writings, and Inventions

[Legal Box 4, Folder 3] Escape from Atlantis (earlier version), pp. 91-135

[Legal Box 4, Folder 4] Escape from Atlantis (earlier version), pp. 136-182

[Legal Box 4, Folder 5] Escape from Atlantis (later version), pp. 1-50

[Legal Box 4, Folder 6] Escape from Atlantis (later version), pp. 51-100

[Legal Box 4, Folder 7] Escape from Atlantis (later version), pp. 101-150

[Legal Box 4, Folder 8] Escape from Atlantis (later version), pp. 151-199

[Legal Box 4, Folder 9] "Simple Measured Perspective"

[Legal Box 4, Folder 10] Notes for Future Writings

Inventions, (MC 56 Series 4.3)
(5 folders)

[Legal Box 4, Folder 11] Elevated Storage Tower, 1959-61

[Legal Box 4, Folder 12] Container, 1961

[Legal Box 4, Folder 13] Stool, 1962

[Legal Box 4, Folder 14] Improved Internal Combustion Rotary Motor, 1972

[Legal Box 4, Folder 15] Trypent Star Structural Form, n.d.

Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, and Designs
                                             (MC 00056 Series 5)
                                              

                                             (8 folders)
                                             
Examples of Paulson's original artwork make up this series. The media used include oil, watercolor, pencil, and pen and ink.
                                       The works vary in size and subject matter. The full size paintings used to illustrate his book The People Makers are located
                                       in this series. Of particular note in this series is a booklet about North Carolina signed by Governor Scott.
                                    
Oversized materials include paintings, drawings of male and female models; sea scenes; various buildings (including Joel Lane
                                       House); religious themes; outdoors themes; work winning First Medal in USA competition at Beaux Arts Institute of Design New
                                       York City; drawing of William Neal Reynolds Coliseum "preliminary to construction; NCSU plate design; bird's eye campus view;
                                       Cleopatra; "Adoration of Magi" by Sandro Botticelli; a Greek theme drawing; 14 lessons on "perspective"; heads with wings;
                                       NC Board of Architecture certification of Paulson, 1941; drawings of perspectives of furniture; Burlington nuclear reactor,
                                       1950-51; drawings on Tryon Palace, 1949 including "Proposed Restoration of"; blueprint on chair designed for Hall of Representatives
                                       NC State Capital, 1950; "Speculative Study of the Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom".
                                    

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       16]
                                       Watercolors
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       17]
                                       Plate Designs
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       18]
                                       Lettering
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       19]
                                       Booklet about North Carolina, signed by Governor W. Kerr Scott
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       20]
                                       Maps and Architectural Drawings
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       21]
                                       Logo Designs
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       22]
                                       Drawings and Sketches
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       5,
                                       Folder
                                       1]
                                       Drawing and Sketches: various atoms and elements,
                                          1955 and undated
                                       

                                       [Legal Box
                                       4,
                                       Folder
                                       23]
                                       Photographic Color Slides
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       1]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       2]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Box
                                       1]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Box
                                       2]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Box
                                       3]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Box
                                       4]
                                       Paintings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       3]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       4]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       5]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       6]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       7]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       8]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       9]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       10]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       11]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       12]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       13]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       14]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

                                       [Flat Folder
                                       15]
                                       Paintings and Drawings
                                       

[Box 5, Folder 1]

Photographs (MC 00056 Series 6)

[Box 5, Folder 3] Photographs: various types of atoms and elements, undated

Creator

Paulson, Jehu Dewitt, 1893-1972

Quantity

11.5 Linear feet 5 boxes, 15 flat folders, 4 flat boxes

General Physical Description note

5 boxes, 15 flat folders, 4 flat boxes

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff external link .

Language

English

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mr. James Devlin, February 24, 1972; Gift of Mrs. Stanley Ballenger, April 21 and 28, 1972; Gift of Donald J. Mack Jr., 2009

Processing

Processed by: Edith Woodcock;machine-readable finding aid created by: Linda Sellars; updated by Aaron Cusick; updated by Judy Allen Dodson, July 2010

Scope and Content Note

This collection documents Jehu Dewitt Paulson's career as an artist and educator and contains drawings, paintings, prints, plates, photographs and illustrations for published and unpublished manuscripts. The Personal files include Paulson's application for a Guggenheim Fellowship (1934), photographs of Paulson and his family, certificates of memberships to various societies and fraternities, a curriculum vitae, and notes from his college years. The North Carolina State College series includes class notes, a partial history of the Department of architecture, course materials and notes on the appreciation of paintings. The Building Images subseries contains photographs, pencil sketches and plates of various campus buildings, including Memorial Tower, Primrose Hall, and Pullen Hall. Files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.) comprise another series. The Writings, Research and Inventions series contains identifications of paintings (by painter and subject), correspondence regarding the identification process, and published writings, including The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom (1952), and unpublished manuscripts ("Appreciation of Painting," "Escape from Atlantis," and "People Makers, a Fantasy of Evolution"). Among the inventions are plans for an elevated storage tower and for an improved internal combustion rotary motor. The Paintings, Sketches, Drawings, and Designs series comprise a good representation of Paulson's original artwork. For Howard M. Ellis's drawings from Paulson's Elements of Design Class (1926-1927), see North Carolina State University Library Manuscript Collection 175. This series also contains drawings and related papers on The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and The Periodic Law. The Photographic series contains undated photos of various atoms and elements.

Biographical Note


December 20, 1893	Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (At some point in his childhood he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended public school.)
1911 - 1913	Attended Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania
1913 - 1914	Completed Business Course at Meadville Commercial College, Meadville, Pennsylvania
1914 - 1915	Attended Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut
1915 - 1918	Employed as a stenographer and statistical draftsman for the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
1918	Became a statistical draftsman for the Ordnance Department of the U.S. War Department
1918 - 1919	Served in the U.S. Army with Infantry in France as a private, first class
1919 - 1921	Employed as a statistician with the U.S. Rubber Company
1921 - 1924	Employed as clerk at Witlock's Book Store, New Haven, Connecticut while in school
1920 - 1924	Attended Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut; Earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in mural decorating and painting (1924)
1924 - 1925	Employed as a commercial artist for Witlock's Book Store, New Haven, Connecticut
1925 - 1960	Employed by North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina as a professor of architecture and drawing. During his tenure he often did artwork for the college, including the NCS emblem on the floor at the entrance of Reynolds Coliseum. He retired in 1961.
1941	Certified to practice architecture in North Carolina
1943	Initiated into Sigma Chi Fraternity at North Carolina State University
1946	Designed set of six North Carolina State University commemorative plates which were sold by the Alumni Association
February 13, 1972	Died in Raleigh, North Carolina; Survived by his son George W. Paulson, daughter Mrs. Pat McManus, and six grandchildren

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Access to Collection

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.

For more information contact us via mail, phone, fax, or our web form.

Mail

Special Collections Research Center
Box 7111
Raleigh, NC, 27695-7111

Telephone

(919) 515-2273

Fax

(919) 513-1787

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jehu Dewitt Paulson Papers, MC 56, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Access to Collection

The nature of the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NCSU Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.

The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.