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Collection Number: 04765

Collection Title: Lois Tomlinson Byrd Papers, 1934-2000

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Size 6.0. feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1500 items)
Abstract Lois Tomlinson Byrd, a white journalist, received her A.B. in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1935. After graduation, she worked at the Tribune in New Bern, N.C. In mid-1936, she became the first director of the Meredith College News Bureau. The original deposit consists mostly of letters, 1934-1937, to Lois Tomlinson Byrd from former fellow co-eds at the University of North Carolina. Letters discuss social life, careers, memories of university days, husbands and relatives, and other matters. Also included are a few items relating to a co-ed sponsored dance that Byrd organized at UNC in 1935, and photocopies of some of Byrd's comments about materials in the collection. The additions consist of correspondence; subject files; and printed material, including newspaper clippings, brochures, and ephemera. Topics include Harnett County cultural resources student life for women students at the University of North Carolna at Chapel Hill during the 1930s, as well as alumnae relations; women's clubs during the 1950s; the Republican Party, civic engagement, governance, and services in Lee County, N.C.; North Carolina history; get well cards; churches; and other local concerns. Also included are newspaper articles ("Social Notes" and "The Lee Scene"), biographies, and other writings by Lois Byrd.
Creator Byrd, Lois Tomlinson.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Lois Tomlinson Byrd papers #4765, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Lois Tomlinson Byrd of Lillington, N.C., in July 1995 (Acc. 95097); and from Evelyn Byrd in August 2001 (Acc. 99033) and November 2001 (99135).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2022

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Lois Tomlinson Byrd, a white journalist, received her A.B. in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1935. After graduation, she worked at the Tribune in New Bern, N.C. In mid-1936, she became the first director of the Meredith College News Bureau.

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The original deposit consists mostly letters, 1934-1937, to Lois Tomlinson Byrd from former fellow co-eds at the University of North Carolina. Letters discuss social life, careers, memories of university days, husbands and relatives, and other matters. Also included are a few items relating to a co-ed sponsored dance that Byrd organized at UNC in 1935, and photocopies of some of Byrd's comments about materials in the collection.

The addition of August 2001 consists of corrrespondence; subject files relating to the library and theater in Harnett County, a women's club in Lillington, churches, and other local concerns; and printed material, including newspaper clippings, brochures, and ephemera.

The addition of November 2001 consists of subject files relating to Harnett County cultural resources; student life for women students at the University of North Carolna at Chapel Hill during the 1930s, as well as alumnae relations; women's clubs during the 1950s; the Republican Party, civic engagement, governance, and services in Lee County, N.C.; North Carolina history; get well cards. Also included are newspaper articles ("Social Notes" and "The Lee Scene"), biographies, and other writings by Lois Byrd.

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Contents list

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Chronological, as received from donor

Acquisitions information: Accessions 99033

Processing note: Archivists assigned folder titles to correspondence in boxes 1 and 2; original folder titles for subject files have been transcribed for boxes 2-4.

Includes corrrespondence; subject files relating to the library and theater in Harnett County, a women's club in Lillington, churches, and other local concerns; and printed material, including newspaper clippings, brochures, and ephemera.

Box 1

Correspondence, 1935-1937

Correspondence, 1941-1945

Correspondence, 1946

Correspondence, 1948-1950

Correspondence, 1951-1953

Correspondence, 1954-1959

Correspondence, 1963-1974

Correspondence, 1975-1978

Correspondence, 1979-1983

Correspondence, 1984

Box 2

Correspondence, 1985

Correspondence, 1986-87

Correspondence, 1988-1990

Correspondence, 1991-1992

Correspondence, 1993-1994

Correspondence, 1995-1997

Correspondence, 1998-2000

Correspondence, undated

Miscellaneous

Brochure, Letters, Campbell University 1988-1998

Box 3

Lillington Methodist Church News Letter (1998), Harnett Library (1998) Central NC Publications

Miscellaneous Letters, brochures, notes, 1993-1996

Newspaper Clippings, 1981-1983

Byrd Newspaper Column, 1984

Friends of Harnett County Library, 1993-96

Brochures, Programs (Plays)

Argyll Colony Plus, 1992-93, Harnett County Extension, Harnett Regional Theater

UNC Alumni, LTTP, 1993-95

Paul Green, 1994-?

Lillington Business & Professional Women, 1994-95

Friends of Harnett County Library, 1994-1996

Friends of Harnett County Library (1994), notes, letters

Article Quoting Lois Byrd (Harnett County News 8/23/95)

Letters, 1995-99

Town of Lillington (1995)

Friends of the Harnett County Library, 1996

Friends of the Library (1996-1999)

Business & Professional Women 1997

Harnett Architectural Committee (1997)

Johnson County Farm Service, 1997

Box 4

Friends of Harnett County Library (1997)

Friends of the Library (October 19,1997)

Letters (1997)

Formation of Harnett County, October 19, 1997

Miscellaneous Papers, 1998

Letters, 1998

Friends of Harnett County Library, 1998

Church Brochures, Business & Professional Women, "The Bookbag," 1997-1999

Letters, Church Programs, 1998-99

Letters, Social Activities

First Aid Pamphlets

NC Governor's Award Program (Undated), Letter to the Editor

James H. Gentry Genealogy

Notes

Elections(?)

NC School of the Arts, Harnett County

Lillington United Methodist Church

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Acquisitions information: Accessions 99135

Processing note: Original folder titles have been transcribed for boxes 4-12.

Includes subject files relating to Harnett County cultural resources; student life for women students at the University of North Carolna at Chapel Hill during the 1930s, as well as alumnae relations; women's clubs during the 1950s; the Republican Party, civic engagement, governance, and services in Lee County, N.C.; North Carolina history; get well cards. Also included are newspaper articles ("Social Notes" and "The Lee Scene"), biographies, and other writings by Lois Byrd.

Box 4

Awards

Carolina Living Legends

Clippings (3)

Box 5

Committee on Constitutional Integrity

General Assembly of North Carolina Session 1991

Handbook for Women Students at UNC-CH, 1933-1934

Harnett County

Harnett County Historical Tour (2)

Henry Marshall Turner Surgeon of the Cape Fear, Press Release for Doris Betts (1941-?)

History of South Notes, Alumni Review (1935)

Journalism 54 and 58 Assignments (1935)

Lee County Development Plan, 1977

New Bern Tribune, 1935-1936 (2)

Lois Byrd wrote "Social Notes" column.

NC History

NC Republican Party

Image Folder PF-4765/1

Photos

Color, Black-and-white photographic prints; Black-and-white sheet film

Includes miscellaneous images of western North Carolina; the Crouches at a University of North Carolina alumni reunion in 1993; Dennis Foushee, who "led Ford slate"; William Russell "Buddy" Makepeace of the Lee County Republican party; Norman A. Wiggins, president of Campbell University, and Phillip Kennedy, director of public information, 1985; Future Farmers of America chapter members, livestock, and a burial tent in Broadway, N.C; a female friend of Bill Johnson in Sanford, N.C.; and a deteriorating brick wall.

Box 5

Sampler of New Bern Tribune 1935-36

Playmakers 1933-35

The University of NY State

Notes (5)

Box 6

Notebook (7)

Box 7

Get well cards and letters, 1960-1997

Get Well Cards, 1960

Letters and Notes (1972)

Letters, Cards, Notes, News clippings (1960)

Lillington Women's Club (1952)

Virginia Federation of Business & Professional Women's Club Emblem (1953)

Box 8

B.P. Gentry (1956?)

Newspaper Articles by Lois Byrd (Sanford Herald 1959-?)

Booklets, Letters, Harnett County Courthouse 1959-1996

Lee County Budget Report (1961), Trial Docket (1961), Yuletide Festival Parade and Dance(1961)

Alumnae Magazine (Meredith College) 1964-1974

Miss Sanford Pageant (1965)

NC General Assembly letter, Freedoms Foundation (1965)

Tax information, NC Department of Revenue, 1965

Box 9

Notes, Meredith & Campbell Brochures (1968-1999)

Board of Elections, Court of Justice (Lee County), 1969-1973

1972 Elections (2)

Roberts Company (1972) Town of Vass history, Ruth Todd

Box 10

News clippings

Editorials

Editorials and Lee Scene

For Sanford

Ephesus Fellowship and Morris Chapel

Notes

Notes and Writing

Notes and Writing

Agriculture

Architecture

Barclaysville

Benhaven School

Dr. J E Adams Biography

Biography: Billy Ray Cameron

Biography: Jimmy Love

Biography Thurman Nance '81 party

Thurman Nance dips

Sarah and Charles Reeves Biography plus article on Michael Novak

T. Avery Nye Biographical

Biography: Frank Wicker

Biography Thomas Luther Wicker

Margaret Murchison's Black History

Box 11

Campbell

Carolina Community College

Chamber of Commerce

Colorful Heritage

Column

Committee on Constitutional Integrity

Constitutional Amendment Vote

Court House

D-Day Story, 1984

David Clegg

Feature

Ella Nash Footman (Line to Sadat)

Harnett Arts Council

Harnett Co.

Harnett Architectural Committee

Harnett Historical Soc, 1977

Harnett Historical

Heins Telephone

Peter Height

JF Hackaday

Berry G. Huffman of Hickory and her primitive paintings, Catawba County

1997 Trip to Ireland

P. Lazzari and Mural at the Courthouse

The Leader

Lee County

Lee County pull out public health

Lee Democrats

Lee Planning Board List of Members

Lee Scene col

Legislature

Libraries

Lillington B.P.W., 1986-87

Lillington B.P.W.

Box 12

Lillington NC, 1984

Living Legends

Saco-Lowell

James McIntyre

Methodist College

Miscellaneous

Miss NC Pageant

Municipal Voting

NC Art Society

Newspapers

NC's 400th Anniversary

Obits

Odds and Ends

Old Wake Forest History by I. Beverly Lake

Politics

Retirement

Terry Rollins

Soil Conservation

Tours

Image Folder PF-4765/2

Tours: Photographs

Black-and-white photographic prints

Images depict people and buildings on historical tour in Harnett County, N.C.

Box 12

Tea Topics

Tea Topics Club, 1985-86

Thought Provoking

UNC

VFW

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