John D. Mattox Papers 1860-1998

John Douglas Mattox, Sr. (1911-1987) was a photographer with the Visual Aids Department at North Carolina State University from 1949 to 1974. A native of Wendell, North Carolina, Mattox attended North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) in the 1930s and enlisted in the Army in 1941, serving in Europe. He married the former Mary Elizabeth Davis of Columbia, South Carolina, and had a son John Douglas Mattox, Jr., called Doug. Mattox was a talented amateur musician and director of the North Carolina State University R.O.T.C. Glee Club.

The John D. Mattox Papers contain photographic prints, negatives, and contact sheets, and papers depicting the personal and professional life of John D. Mattox. Personal portraits and snapshots document the lives of Mattox, his wife Mary, their son Douglas, and their extended family. Also included are photographs of the town of Wendell, North Carolina, where the Mattox family lived. The collection also includes photographs taken while Mattox served in Europe during World War II. Relating to Mattox’s professional career as a photographer at North Carolina State University, there are many images of campus scenes, student and faculty portraits, and campus publications featuring Mattox’s work. Wedding photographs, miscellaneous portraits, unidentified original and copied tintypes and cartes de visite, as well as rolled 35 mm negatives are also included. While the majority of the collection is composed of photographs, there are some papers such as news clippings, correspondence, business cards, awards, brochures, and grade reports which belonged to Mattox.

The collection is arranged into the following series: Personal Photographs; Extended Family Photographs; Wendell, NC, Photographs; World War II Photographs; North Carolina State University Photographs; Wedding Photographs; Miscellaneous Photographs; Unidentified Photographs; Rolled Negatives; and Papers. Within the series, photographs are arranged and labeled as received.

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[Identification of item], John D. Mattox Papers, MC 00261, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Donated by John Douglas Mattox, Jr., December, 1998.

Gift of Doug Mattox, 1998 (Accession no. 1998-0013).

Processed by Aaron Cusick, 2010 March; Encoded by Aaron Cusick, 2010 March