Written donation card pasted in the front cover of the Arabic Bible. "Old Uncle Moreau's Arabick Bible Presented to the Williams Missionary Association, Davidson College, by Mrs. Ellen Guion, Charlotte, N.C. April, 1871
Modern Students quarters meeting all requirements in construction, lighting and plumbing of U. S. Air Forces, the 24th Training Detachment of which was domiciled here during World War II.
Post cards printed in September, 1946, with historical data supplied by Dr. Chalmers G. Davidson. From photographs belonging to the Public Relations Department, most taken several years earlier. Examples of cards printed in 1946 for sale at the college pharmacy (better known at "Hugo's") in Davidson.
Post cards printed in September, 1946, with historical data supplied by Dr. Chalmers G. Davidson. From photographs belonging to the Public Relations Department, most taken several years earlier. Examples of cards printed in 1946 for sale at the college pharmacy (better known at "Hugo's") in Davidson.
Charlotte, N. C. The Industrial Centre of the New South, First Baptist Church [printed on front].
Postcard sent to Miss Cornelia Shaw in Davidson, June 6, 1911, from Eugene Alexander (Class of 1912). Cornelia Shaw was Davidson College's first full-time librarian (she also served as the college's registrar).
Text of postcard: "Mother seems better at times but is so weak all the times Does not take any nourishment at all. This warm + dry weather is very much against her. Everything is almost burned up here on farm. I have had little chance to farm any yet. Hope you have rested from [. . .]. Eugene A."
Postcard sent to Cornelia Shaw, Davidson College's first full-time librarian (she also served as the college's registrar), from Joseph Treloar Wearn (Class of 1913). Shaw authored the first history of the college ("Davidson College", Fleming H. Revell Press, 1923).
Text of the postcard:
"Things are almost as quick in Charlotte as in Davidson. [But] am having a good time any way. Haven’t forgotten the 35¢ I owe the library, al. though I did forget it when I left. Pleasant summer to you. Treloar Wearn."
1805 Boulevard [handwritten on front] No. 2892 [printed on back].
The postcard is addressed to Mrs. Stirewalt in Davidson, September 16, 1908. Mrs. Stirewalt is Sarah Ann Hampton Stirewalt, whose daughter Sallie Paisley ran a boarding house in Davidson and whose son Bynum Stirewalt graduated from Davidson College in 1884.
Text of the postcard: "Dear Mrs. Stirewalt how are you I hope you are well and doing fine. I miss you for I [. . . ] like you to go to see in Charlotte. Come down and I'll go to see you."
1815 First Presbyterian Church, West Trade Street, Charlotte, N.C. [printed on the front]
Postcard sent to Mrs. Sallie Paisley in Davidson, June 12, 1907. Postcard reads: "My Dear Sallie: How are you + dear Mrs. Stirewalt? I've thought of you so often I've been under the weather [. . . .], I hope to see you now very soon, will drop you a card. With love for you + Mother, [off] Julia."
Sallie Stirewalt Paisley was the widow of Porter Paisley (class of 1880). After her husband's death in the late 1880s, Sallie returned to Davidson to manage a boarding house.
Lake Norman is the largest man-made lake in North Carolina-32510 acres with 520 miles of shore line. The concrete dam is 1279 feet long with 11 flood gates and a total length of 7387 feet of earth and concrete dams. Lake Norman offers excellent fishing, boating and swimming. . .more variety to North Carolina's Variety Vacationland. When Lake Norman was completed, the riverboat Robert E. Lee was moored just above Davidson. It had a happy life-but brief. It burned within a couple of years after it was launched.