Personal and professional papers of Nathan Carter Newbold and his relatives, including his father William A. Newbold and grandfather William Newbold (Sheriff of Pasquotank County, North Carolina), his first wife Mabel Wooten, and his second wife Eugenia Bradsher. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, photographs, financial and property records dating from the 1840s, and recorded speeches given at Nathan Carter Newbold's retirement dinner. Some photographs have been identified as being of South Carolina during the late 19th century-early 20th century, which include portraits, street scenes (in Charleston), sail boats, as well as a few photographs of people of color, including photographs of "Lascar Sailors."Some photographs are of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point during the 1890s. Many of the legal and financial papers were generated by Nathan Carter Newbold's father and grandfather. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Nathan Carter Newbold's role as an administrator for North Carolina public schools and to his tenure as the Director of the Division of Negro Education during segregation and Jim Crow.
Nathan Carter Newbold was the Director of the Division of Negro Education for the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction from 1913-1950. Born in 1871 in Pasquotank County, N.C., Newbold lived and worked in North Carolina most of his life. He attended Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1895 and went on to work in education at schools across North Carolina first as a teacher, principal, and superintendent, and then as the Director of the Division of Negro Education in Raleigh during segregation and Jim Crow. He was a founding member of the North Carolina Commission for Interracial Cooperation and served as director of the Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations.
Nathan Carter Newbold married Mabel Wooten in 1900. Wooten was born in La Grange, North Carolina in 1875 and died in 1903. She attended the State Normal and Industrial School in North Carolina (which later became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1895.
In 1905 Nathan Carter Newbold married Eugenia Bradsher, who was born in 1875 in Person County. Eugenia Bradsher was a classmate of Mabel Wooten at the State Normal and Industrial School in North Carolina (UNCG) and also graduated in 1895. She died in 1960.
William Newbold was Nathan Carter Newbold's grandfather. He was the Sheriff in Pasquotank in the 1850s and died in 1864.
