16 collections related to Manuscripts (document genre)

The C. Edward Stevens Papers, 1957-2005, contain course materials, lecture notes, slides, and publication files related to Stevens' work in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. The bulk of the material is copies of articles by Stevens and others and files related to the preparation of Stevens's publications. C. Edward Stevens was a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. Stevens was a renowned gastrointestinal physiologist and the author of Comparative physiology of the vertebrate digestive system, 1996 (Cambridge University Press). He received doctorates at the University of Minnesota, established his career at Cornell, and came to NC State in 1980. He died in 2008. Less

The Carolyn R. Miller papers consist of correspondence, articles, essays, and commentary related to the publication of Miller's "Genre as Social Action." The correspondence demonstrates the struggles and obstructions in publishing her landmark study that was developed from her dissertation in the early 1980s. Today, this article is one of the most-cited articles ever published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech and is considered a monumental interdisciplinary explanatory construct. Also, included in this collection are letters and articles in response to Miller's opinion essay for the Raleigh News & Observer. Documents related to opinion pieces published in the Raleigh News & Observer are about cultural shifts in the teaching of English and writing during the 1980s and their influences on faculty in NC State’s Department of English. The collection also includes Miller's general professional records from across her career, including correspondence, conference materials, and her 2003 portfolio. Carolyn Rae Miller received her B.A. (honors) and M.A. in English from the Pennsylvania State University in 1967 and 1968. After several years of working as an instructor at North Carolina State University, she attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980 to earn her Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric. Soon after her graduation, she joined the faculty at North Carolina State University and served in different key roles in the Department of English. During her years at NC State, Miller helped with the development of new graduate courses and programs. She is a founding director of NC State’s Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, established in 2005, and of the M.S. in Technical Communication, started in 1988. In her interview with Master's in Communications, she mentions that NC State's Department of English was a traditional one focusing on the study of literary art. She established the graduate degree programs not only to teach the things she was interested in and trained to investigate, but also to justify courses and attract students with similar interests. Dr. Miller retired as SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication in June 2015. For more information on Miller's outstanding career, check her bio. on the College of Humanities and Social Sciences web page. Less

The Catherine Roberts Papers contain various writings relating to animal rights. These papers include a selection of Roberts's published writings, correspondence received by Roberts, and a collection of philosophical publications that contain articles written by some of her colleagues. Born in California in 1917, Catherine Roberts trained as a microbiologist and geneticist, but then turned away from a career as a scientist and dedicated herself to writing about science, ethics, and religion. Less

Ernest L. Gooden (1903-1970) was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. Gooden graduated from Duke University, and taught at Glen Alpine High School in Glen Alpine, North Carolina, from 1927 to 1930. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an assistant scientific aide in September of 1930. Gooden had a 40-year career as a physicist with the USDA and specialized in pesticides. The Ernest L. Gooden Papers consists of materials documenting Gooden's career with the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. Drafts and manuscripts of articles by Gooden include "Report of Physical Properties of Pesticides" and "Optical Crystallographic Properties of DDT." Research files contain notes, graphs, charts, and articles with labels like "Viscosity," "Zinc Arsenate," "Sodium Arsenite," and "Rotenone." This collection also contains electron microscope micrographs, patents and patent applications by Gooden, and hundreds of 3 x 5" x-ray diffraction data cards published by the Joint Committee on Chemical Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction Methods. These x-ray diffraction cards contain notes, calculations, and authors and their publications. Also included in this collection are glass slides, photos and negatives of electron microscope images, approximately a thousand 3 x 4" cards of chemical compounds and other notes, and materials from the annual meetings of the Electron Microscopy Society of America from 1949 to 1966. Less

The Frederick L. Wellman Papers contain items relating to Wellman's plant pathology research. The collection includes correspondence, reports, publications, newspaper articles, manuscript materials, and photographs detailing Wellman's work on Fusarium and coffee rust disease (Hemileia vastatrix). Items in this collection date from 1915 to 1981, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Frederick Lovejoy Wellman (1897-1994) was a plant pathologist most known for his reasearch on coffee rust disease (Hemileia vastatrix). Wellman also studied other plant diseases, chiefly in Latin America. Less

This collection contains material documenting the career of Hayne Palmour, North Carolina State University Professor Emeritus of Ceramic Engineering. Included are biographical files, general correspondence, manuscripts, patents, administrative files, and research material generated by Palmour over a period of nearly six decades, from 1948 to 2004. Hayne Palmour began his career at North Carolina State University in 1958, retiring in 1994. During his tenure at North Carolina State, Palmour was active as a researcher, educator, advisor, and administrator. Specific research interests included mechanisms of flow and fracture in spinel structured ceramics, materials processing and rate controlled sintering, and precision digital dilatometry. His focus was in the development of processes for the firing of complex ceramics. His involvement with the international scientific and technical research community and many contributions that he made to the field of advanced ceramics engineering, the defense industry, and the world of nuclear power are documented in the collection. Dr. Palmour died in 2017 at the age of 91. Less

Joseph Deadrick Clark (1893-1985) served as a professor of English at North Carolina State College from 1923 to 1961, and as head of the English Department from 1929 to 1934. The papers contain Joseph Deadrick Clark's manuscripts including "Commonly Misspelled Words," "Cures, and Cures for the Senior Citizen," "Limericks: Sense and Nonsense," "North Carolina State College, Whither," and "Celebration of the Ramp." Joseph Deadrick Clark's typescripts include "Commonly Misspelled Words," "Cures, and Cures for the Senior Citizen," "Limericks: Sense and Nonsense," "North Carolina State College, Whither," and "Celebration of the Ramp." Less

The Polk Family Papers, 1850-1961, contain correspondence, newspaper articles, recipes, printed booklets, typed manuscripts, and a nineteenth-century memory book relating to the personal life and professional activities of Leonidas Lafayette Polk and members and friends of his family. Included are a small number of documents concerning Polk's daughter Juanita Polk Denmark and the Turrentine family of Hillsborough, North Carolina. Polk family of North Carolina includes Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892), who was a North Carolina government official, Civil War veteran, politician, farmer, businessman, and journalist. Throughout his career, Polk supported and led campaigns on behalf of educational institutions and agricultural development. He organized the state's farmers to lobby for a state agricultural college; joined with the Watauga Club, they successfully established the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) in 1887. Less

This collection contains original and photocopied manuscripts, typescripts and illustrations for three different edited draft versions of Thomas Noble Walter's juvenile novel, Always Next August, and one original piece of correspondence from Paul Green, author of the symphonic drama, The Lost Colony. Thomas Noble Walters (1933-1983) was an award-winning poet and author as well as a faculty member of the English Department at North Carolina State University from 1964 until his death in 1983. Less