Weston Carr Hooper (May 5, 1903–December 8, 1981), a native of Jackson County, North Carolina, married Ruth Hooper in 1931. After obtaining a degree from the Teachers College at Western Carolina University, Carr worked as...
This edition is created from the manuscript of Mrs. Laura Mack Kephart’s letter to Leonard Kephart on October 11, 1946Within this letter, Laura Mack Kephart details her current life situation to her son, Leonard Kephart. She...
Horace Kephart was a renaissance man of his day. A librarian, author, and impassioned outdoorsman, he maintained a career at the St. Louis Mercantile Library before moving to North Carolina in 1904. Kephart wrote extensively on...
This letter was written by Jackson County businessman C.B. Robinson to the president of Western Carolina Teacher’s College, H.T. Hunter. In the letter, Robinson discusses the state of Western Carolina Teacher’s College, now...
This letter is part of the Dan Tompkins Collection housed in the special collections library of WCU in box MSS 80-14. It was written to Dan Tompkins from Charles Webb, associate publisher of the Citizen, during the 1920...
This letter was written by Dan Tompkins to his mother and family, in Sylva, NC, while he was staying in Raleigh for business. As the letter heading reflects, Tompkins was a North Carolina State Representative during this time,...
Robert Venoy Reed (1915-1984), a native of Jackson County, North Carolina, enlisted as a private in the United States Army October 13th, 1942 at Camp Croft, South Carolina. His personal narrative begins in April of 1944, before...
Creator:
Fulp, Kris, Greener, Michelle, and Randolph, Samantha
This postcard was sent by Dr. John R. Brinkley in 1937 from the Schöbrunn Palace in Vienna to Mrs. Amanda Jackson in East LaPorte, North Carolina. It depicts the birth-room of Emperor Francis-Joseph I, and Brinkley notes that...
Subject:
Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Interior decoration, and Travel
John R. Brinkley II, a self-proclaimed doctor, was born July 8, 1885. He is best known for his practice of xenotransplantation of goat testicles in an attempt to cure issues related to the prostate or sexual function, and he...
Subject:
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, and Travel
This postcard was written by Dr. John R. Brinkley to Amanda Jackson, a woman who looked after Brinkley after his aunt Sally passed. In the postcard, dated June 13, 1937, Brinkley writes to Mrs. Jackson from the Tower of Pisa in...
Subject:
Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy), and Travel
