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Correspondence, accounts, diary (1869), bills, deeds, wills, legal documents, and other papers (largely 1829-1897). The bulk of the collection relates to Thomas A. Person and his family, and includes letters written from Harrison Co., Tex., and New Orleans (ca. 1850s); student letters from various North Carolina schools (1835-1860); letters of Confederate soldiers concerning military life; and family and business letters with Civil War reminiscences. The early material mostly concerns Thomas A. Person's father, Presley Carter Person, of Louisburg, N.C., and the settlement of his estate. Later material concerns patent medicines manufactured by a member of the family. Other correspondents and names mentioned include W. P. Montgomery, Harriett Person Perry, Levin Perry, Theophilus Perry, Jesse H. H. Person, Joseph Arrington Person, M. P. Person, and Willie Mangum Person.

Series contains physical and digital materials related to Bright's work documenting past and contemporary civil rights movements, including digital archival prints; gelatin silver prints; image, document, video, and system files; printed flyers, postcards, exhibition booklets; journals; and other assorted materials. Most materials, including images of protests and activists, relate directly to Bright's work on the project that were later featured in #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests published in 2018. Also included are materials for related exhibitions for #1960Now or featuring Bright, talks about the project, images of the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act in Selma that occurred while the project was ongoing, and digital versions of Bright's murals under the name 1960What.

Includes information about convocation, commencement, Founder's Day, baccalaureate services, honorary degrees, and the daily business of the Office of the University Marshal. The Office files include correspondence, memos, statistics, receipts, lists of dissertation titles, memos on ceremonial procedures, lists of degree candidates, information about diplomas, and information on honors and prizes.