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The September 2009 addition (Acc. 101169) was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.
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| Size | 73.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 51,600 items) |
| Abstract | Albert Coates (1896-1989) was director of the Institute of Government at the University, 1931-1962, and a professor in the University of North Carolina's School of Law. In 1928, he married Gladys Jane Hall (1902-2002), who by all accounts played an important and integral role in many of the projects that Albert Coates undertook. The collection includes office and personal files of Albert Coates and his wife, Gladys Hall Coates. Boxes 1-6 (Original deposit) contain materials, 1941-1965, relating to North Carolina nonprofit organizations apparently collected by Coates in preparation for a study of these agencies at the local administrative level. Included are annual reports and publications of a variety of social and community organizations, like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Also included are materials about regional organizations arranged by place name, reports of various committees of the North Carolina Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and information about other North Carolina and national agencies. Miscellaneous items included two original manuscripts by Coates, "The Many Lives of North Carolina Women," and "Palingenesis: An Example." Boxes 8-36 (Additions of February 1993 and October 1994) chiefly contain office files, many of which relate to Coates's tenure with the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Many file folders and occasionally individual letters are annotated with summaries, topic statements, or indications of importance. Topics include the founding and operation of the Institute of Government; legal education; law enforcement training; cases and statutes on legal topics; student government; Coates's writings, speeches and talks; speaking engagements; honors and awards; and personal matters. Boxes 37-43 (Additions of February and March 2003) contain letters, telegrams, wedding invitations, bills, report cards, course materials, and other papers. Boxes 44-85 (Addition of September 2009) consist chiefly of personal letters to Gladys Hall Coates from friends and family, but there also are letters to Albert Coates and correspondence between Albert and Gladys. Letters from Gladys's family in and around Portsmouth, Va., are extensive and particularly descriptive of family relationships and women's daily lived experience in the context of the social and political climate of the 1930s through the 1970s. Non-family letters reveal more about Gladys's life, in particular her expansive circle of friends and acquaintances, her contributions to husband Albert's professional successes, and her own active civic life. Other materials in this addition include speeches and interviews, some recorded on film and audiocassette, and writings; correspondence and other materials relating to the Coates' work at the University of North Carolina and the Institute of Government, including a 1934 police school film; family papers, including diaries, military papers, newspaper clippings, fraternity and University of North Carolina pins, and memoirs and genealogical research relating to the Coates, Pollard, and Bradley families; travel papers, including itineraries, correspondence and other papers related to travel in Europe and the Soviet Union; photographic materials, 1860s-1990s, (a few signed by Bayard Wootten) including formal and informal portraits and snapshots of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates and their Coates, Hall, Pollard, and Cauthorn relatives and friends that depict University of North Carolina and Institute of Government work and events, family gatherings, vacationing at North Carolina beaches, travel to Europe and Mexico, late nineteenth- to mid twentieth-century fashion, and other subjects; and other published and unpublished papers, including printed ephemera, notebooks and clippings, Gladys Hall Coates's "Special Keepsakes," and other materials. |
| Creator | Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Coates, Gladys Hall. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English. |
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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 1993; Amanda Ross, January 2008; and Kiley Orchard and Nancy Kaiser, May 2010
Encoded by: Matt Turi, May 2004
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
The September 2009 addition (Acc. 101169) was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.
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Biographical Information
Albert Coates, founder and long-time director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, was born in Johnston County, N.C., in 1896 and died in 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1918 and an LLB from Harvard University in 1923. Upon graduation, Coates joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law and taught there until 1969. In 1931, Coates founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. He served as its director until 1962.
Coates was the author of numerous works, including Talks on the Rule of Law and the Role of Government in the Cities, the Counties, and the State of North Carolina (1971); By her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina (1975); and The Story of the Institute of Government: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981).
In 1928, Coates married Gladys Jane Hall, who was born in Portsmouth, Va., in 1902. She had earned a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon Women's College in 1924. She wrote a number of works by herself and in collaboration with her husband. By all accounts, Gladys Hall Coates played an important and integral role in many of the projects that Albert Coates undertook. In addition to their various literary collaborations, she and Albert used their personal funds to help establish the Institute of Government. Gladys Hall Coates earned the Chi Omega Fraternity Distinguished Service Medal in 1974, the Alumnae Achievement Award from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1990, the Distinguished Service Medal from the University of North Carolina General Alumni Association in 1992, and the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award in 1994. She died in 2002.
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The Albert Coates collection includes office and personal files of Coates and his wife, Gladys Hall Coates. Boxes 1-6 (Original deposit) contain materials, 1941-1965, relating to North Carolina nonprofit organizations apparently collected by Coates in preparation for a study of these agencies at the local administrative level. Included are annual reports and publications of a variety of social and community organizations, like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Also included are materials about regional organizations arranged by place name, reports of various committees of the North Carolina Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and information about other North Carolina and national agencies. Miscellaneous items included two original manuscripts by Coates, "The Many Lives of North Carolina Women," and "Palingenesis: An Example."
Boxes 8-36 (Additions of February 1993 and October 1994) chiefly contain office files, many of which relate to Coates's tenure with the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Many file folders and occasionally individual letters are annotated with summaries, topic statements, or indications of importance. Topics include the founding and operation of the Institute of Government; legal education; law enforcement training; cases and statutes on legal topics; student government; Coates's writings, speeches and talks; speaking engagements; honors and awards; and personal matters.
Boxes 37-43 (Additions of February and March 2003) contain letters, telegrams, wedding invitations, bills, report cards, course materials, and other papers.
Boxes 44-85 (Addition of September 2009) consists chiefly of personal letters to Gladys Hall Coates from friends and family, but there also are letters to Albert Coates and correspondence between Albert and Gladys. Letters from Gladys's family are extensive and particularly descriptive of women's daily lived experience from the 1930s through the 1970s. Letters document family relationships among women, especially between mother and child; single parenting; religious practices; volunteer work; letting rooms to boarders in a Portsmouth, Va., home; and reactions to historical events, such as the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and to the social and political climate of the time, including "black power" and Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s and bussing in the early 1970s. Non-family letters reveal more about Gladys's life, in particular her expansive circle of friends and acquaintances, her contributions to husband Albert's professional successes, and her own active civic life. Other materials in this addition include speeches and interviews, some recorded on film and audiocassette, and writings; papers and correspondence relating to the Coates' professional work; family papers, including diaries, military papers, newspaper clippings, fraternity and University of North Carolina pins, and memoirs and genealogical research relating to the Coates, Pollard, and Bradley families; travel papers, including itineraries, correspondence and other papers related to travel in Europe and the Soviet Union; photographic materials, 1860s-1990s, (a few signed by Bayard Wootten) including formal and informal portraits and snapshots of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates and their Coates, Hall, Pollard, and Cauthorn relatives and friends that depict University of North Carolina and Institute of Government work and events, family gatherings, vacationing at the beach, travel to Europe and Mexico, late nineteenth- to mid twentieth-century fashion, and other subjects; and other published and unpublished papers, including printed ephemera, notebooks and clippings, Gladys Hall Coates's "Special Keepsakes," and other materials.
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Original Deposit, 1941-1965.
Boxes 1-6 contain materials, 1941-1965, relating to North Carolina nonprofit organizations. These materials were apparently collected by Coates in preparation for a study of agencies at the local administrative level. Included are annual reports and publications of a variety of social and community organizations, like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Also included are materials about regional organizations arranged by place name, reports of various committees of the North Carolina Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and information about other North Carolina and national agencies. Miscellaneous items include two original manuscripts by Coates, "The Many Lives of North Carolina Women," and "Palingenesis: An Example."
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Addition of February 1993 (Acc. 93033)
Box 7 is restricted until 2018.
Chiefly personal correspondence and office files, many of which relate to Coates's tenure with the Institute of Government or the University of North Carolina's School of Law. Many file folders and occasionally individual letters are annotated with summaries, topic statements, or indications of importance. Topics include the founding and operation of the Institute of Government; legal education; law enforcement training; student government; cases and statutes on legal topics; Coates's writings, speeches and talks; speaking engagements; honors and awards; and personal matters.
| Box 7 |
Restricted materialsCLOSED until 2018. |
| Box 8 |
Institute of GovernmentIncludes solicitations for funding for the Institute of Government; early papers relating to the Institute's founding; correspondence, including letters from businessmen Barnard Cone, Benjamin Cone, Caesar Cone, Herman Cone, and James G. Hanes; William Friday; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| Box 9 |
Institute of Government; University of North Carolina; speaking engagements; Coates familyIncludes early correspondence regarding the stages of the Institute of Government, including letters from United States senators and letters from notable national and local figures; letters from civic groups requesting Coates as speaker, 1925-1937; correspondence relating to University of North Carolina negotiations for land owned by William B. Parker; correspondence with Frank Aycock regarding a narrative of his acquaintance with Joseph P. Knapp; awards and citations, including the 1953 Oliver Max Gardner Award; materials relating to Coates's relatives, Stanton Coates and John Rufus Coates; materials relating to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including a personal letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Albert Coates in 1937 and 5 portraits of FBI officers (OP-PF-3818/1); clippings; pamphlet, "Fifty Years with Albert Coates," by Gladys Hall Coates; and obituaries upon Coates's death. |
| Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3818/1 |
Portraits of FBI officers |
| Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3818/1 |
Certificates and photographsCertificates consist of greetings to Albert Coates from the North Carolina Police Executives Association, August 1960, for 30 years of service. Photographs all appear to be posed groups of people outside of buildings. |
| Box 10 |
Honors and awards; Harvard Law School; Institute of Government; Coates writingsMaterials relating to service awards and citations, including the 1967 North Carolina Award, 1978 North Carolina Citizen Association Public Service Award, 1984 William Richardson Davie Award, and others; to the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies; to materials relating to Harvard University Law School; to his tribute to University of North Carolina Chancellor R. B. House; correspondence relating to Coates's writings; and clippings related to Coates and his work for the Institute of Government. |
| Box 11 |
Honors and awards; publicationsIncludes materials relating to service awards and honors, including nomination for the 1980 Rockefeller Public Service Award; to Coates's book My Brother, Kenneth, a Wofford College professor; to honors conferred on Coates upon retirement, including the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates portrait in the Institute of Government, the Albert Coates bust commissioned by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, the symphony concert honoring Albert and Gladys Coates, and an honorary degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and pamphlets written by Coates on legal matters, law enforcement, university societies, and the Institute of Government. |
| Box 12 |
Honors and awards; publicationsIncludes honorary degrees and related materials from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Duke University; "Tribute to Dr. and Mrs. Albert Coates," 1970; scrapbook relating to the 1979 dedication of the Albert Coates Local Government Center; volume 108 of the Congressional Record, which includes Senator Sam Erwin's speeches on Coates and the Institute; Coates's book The Story of the Institute of Government. |
| Box 13 |
Institute of Government; personal correspondenceIncludes Institute of Government staff meeting minutes and memoranda, 1956; financial records; general correspondence to Coates as director of Institute, 1928-1940; correspondence relating to Institute publicity, 1933-1940; correspondence with Dennis Brummitt, Leon Green, and John A. Livingstone; correspondence with North Carolina lawyers on legal education, 1929-1930; letters in response to Harvard speech; personal letters on retirement and on 1959 audit report of Institute; and editorials on 1962 retirement and other clippings. |
| Box 14 |
Institute of Government; personal correspondenceIncludes correspondence files that Coates labeled "Albert Coates--Personal," 1937-1962, which includes letters written to and from Coates as director of the Institute of Government as well as those of a personal and family nature. Topics include legislative activities, legal concerns, financial matters, national and international affairs, and requests for assistance with admission to the University and other matters. Also includes personal bills, 1938-1940. |
| Box 15 |
Legal materials; speaking engagementsIncludes speaking invitations by civic groups, 1930-1934; notes, articles, and analysis of legal precedents regarding the reorganization of North Carolina state government; writings and analysis related to the consolidation between the city of Charlotte and the county of Mecklenburg; and writings and analysis related to the Green versus Kitchin case related to the town of Weldon's funding expenses of a local police chief to attend the national FBI Police Academy. |
| Box 16 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; student governmentIncludes materials relating to student government, including the 1974 Student Government Code, financial information and annual budgets, analysis relating to student judiciary, judicial reform, student government and education reform, views of student government, and student fee accounting practices; to fraternity government; to residence hall government; to controversies, including the Food Workers' Strike of 1969 and a 1975 lawsuit agains the University and the Daily Tar Heel; articles from Carolina Magazine; and W. Arthur Hays Jr.'s The Development of Student Law. |
| Box 17 |
Newspaper clippingsIncludes clippings 1964-1967, on state legislation, state politics, and University affairs. |
| Box 18 |
Speaking engagements; writings; publications |
| Box 19 |
Institute of Government; speaking engagements; and other materialsIncludes materials relating to Judge Allen H. Gwyn's book Work, Earn & Save, including correspondence, readers' comments, newspaper articles; correspondence relating to Harvard Law School reunion and fund; Institute of Government materials, including report on traffic tickets; correspondence relating to "What the University of Chapel Hill Meant to Me"; speaking invitations; letters relating to L. P. McClendon; materials regarding the 1967 North Carolina Award; and general correspondence, 1965-1969. |
| Box 20 |
Institute of Government; writings; reader responsesIncludes references to Institute of Government and speeches by Coates; materials relating to professorship honoring Gladys Hall Coates; folder Coates marked as "Special Letters," 1975-1984; open letter to Swiss Olympic runner Gabrielle Andersen-Schiess and her response; general correspondence, 1925-1933 and 1979-1983; "The Albert Coates I Know" by Gladys Hall Coates; materials relating to industrialist and benefactor Paul Johnson and Senator Sam Erwin; rough draft of Coates's Bridging the Gap Between Government in Books and Government in Action; staff responses to Coates's Out of a Classroom in Chapel Hill; letters by readers of Coates's works, 1967-1988; clippings, 1980s; articles by others. |
| Box 21 |
Institute of Government; publications; law enforcementIncludes folders Coates labeled "Interesting Labels, 1930-1939,""Early Memberships and Contributions, 1935-1940," and "Early Correspondence, solicited and unsolicited (Accolades too), etc." 1935-1936, correspondence with judge Junius G. Adams, 1932-1934; early Institute for Government correspondence, 1929-1935; later correspondece and other materials, 1980s; Institute publications with notes; reflection by Peyton B. Abbott entitled "The Institute of Government and Me, 1942-1947"; photographs; legal pads; drafts and final copies of "The Law of Jurisdiction Guidebook for Law Enforcing Officers in North Carolina," 1950. |
| Box 22 |
Legal education; personalIncludes personal and Law School-related correspondence, receipts, clippings and other materials, filed by year in letterboxes and alphabetized by correspondent/subject, 1925-1928; loose correspondence, clippings, and other materials relating to personal concerns and legal education. |
| Box 23 |
Legal materials; law enforcementIncludes research papers on legal matters such as arrests, obstruction of justice, affray, dueling, the status of women, and others written for the Institute of Government; research materials such as North Caolina statutes, The Status of Women in North Carolina, and adoption rulings; typed text of select 1925 News and Observer articles; study projects. |
| Box 24 |
Institute of Government; legal materials; publicationsIncludes legal research findings by others for Coates on such topics as removal from public office, malicious prosecution, and perjury; notes from annual meetings of County Accountants of North Carolina, 1935-1956; clippings and other papers; Institute of Government publications; and two sets of index cards, one with names and addresses of government workers and officials and the other of contact information for North Carolina mayors. |
| Box 25 |
Legal materials; law enforcement; publicationsIncludes research materials on scientific aids and evidence in criminal investigations; memorandum of Coates's proposal for a twelve-week program for law enforcement officers; drafts of John Jolly Jr.'s "The Citizens's Duty to Serve as a Juror and as a Witness"; letters from readers of "My Life with Albert Coates," 1980; Letters from readers of The Story of the Institute of Government, 1982; and index cards with notes on statutes and case precendent, divided by legal aspect (i.e. "arrest without warrant - felony"). |
| Box 26 |
Legal education; Albert Coates Local Government Center; personal correspondenceIncludes personal and Law School-related correspondence, receipts, clippings and other materials, filed by year in letter boxes and alphabetized by correspondent/subject, 1924-1929; and scrapbook, correspondence, and other materials related to the dedication of the Albert Coates Local Government Center, 1975. |
| Box 27 |
Newspaper clippingsIncludes clippings, 1929-1936 and 1969-1980, on Institute of Government, Coates Local Government Center, Albert Coates, training of law enforcement officers, and other matters. |
| Box 28 |
Institute of Government; law enforcement; personal correspondence; Coates writingsIncludes correspondence, 1974-1980, relating to the Institute of Government, personal friendships, Coates's retirement, Coates's intention to write a history of police training in North Carolina, and other issues; materials sent to Gladys Coates relating to Daniel Grant and the GLD Eleemosynary Foundation Inc., 1932 and 1988; letters to Gladys Coates lauding Albert Coates; copies of My Professional Life History by Sherwood Githens Jr.; articles, writings, talks, and speeches; personal correspondence; correspondence, memoranda and other materials relating to training for law enforcement officers, state government, and university affairs; and audiotape labeled "State Board Meeting, Feb. 7, 1980 11:00-11:55." |
| Box 29 |
Center for the Study of Human Values at TanglewoodIncludes materials sent in three packets from North Carolina State University to Professor E. Maynard Adams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1970s. |
| Box 30 |
Legal materials; law enforcement; legal educationIncludes research compiled for the Institute of Government on legal topics such as arrest, conspiracy, embezzlement, and larceny; pamphlets written by Coates, including "Instruction & Registration of 18 Year Old Voters" and "Co-ordinated Training Program for Law Enforcing Officers in North Carolina"; and materials related to Coates's work as a law professor, including legal questions and papers on legal topics, probably written by students. |
| Box 31 |
Legal educationIncludes materials related to legal instruction such as cases and materials, memoranda and other writings on crimes against property, murder, and slander and lecture notes for criminal law. |
| Box 32 |
Institute of GovernmentIncludes memoranda written for the Institute of Government providing cases, statutes, and analysis on legal topics centering on sex crimes and morals and criminal procedural issues. |
| Box 33 |
Institute of Government; personal correspondence; speaking engagements; publications; Coates familyIncludes personal and professional correspondence, 1930-1976; correspondence with Kennedy family members before and after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963-1964; letters in response to Coates's Law School commencement address; letters regarding Coates's illness and the "To Whom It May Concern" pamphlet, 1968; letters reacting to Talks to Student and Teachers on the Rule of Law and the Role of Government in the Cities, the Counties, and the State of North Carolina ; fundraising letters to potential donors such as the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, 1973; materials relating to Institute of Government publications; and photographs of family members. |
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Addition of October 1994 (Acc. 94147)
Chiefly office files, many of which relate to Coates's tenure with the Institute of Government.
| Box 34 |
Legal education; Harvard Law SchoolIncludes office files, 1928-1976, relating to legal education in North Carolina, course planning, 1931 addresses to law students by sheriffs and clerks of court, Harvard Law School, the 1948 gubernatorial election; personal correspondence, 1930-1984; genealogical material and letters from relative R. F. Coates; letters from Edgar Turlington, 1952, Lee Turlington, 1959, Edgar's wife Catherine Turlington, 1960, and materials to and about professor Ira Turlington, 1891-1904; speaking requests, 1942; materials relating to honors and honorary memberships. |
| Box 35 |
Institute of Government; law enforcement; honors and awards; Coates writingsIncludes correspondence regarding police training at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); requests for assistance with employment and appointments; report to the incoming and outgoing directors of the Institute of Government, 1962-1979; correspondence relating to Coates's leave of absence, 1966; letters from Bill Friday 1967-1986; letters from Coates to Friday regarding controversy surrounding law enforcement training programs, 1970-1973; correspondence with University presidents and chancellors Bill Aycock, 1962-1986, Frank Porter Graham, 1951-1970, Robert Burton House, 1952-1971, and Ferebee Taylor, 1972-1974; correspondence wiht attorney general Rufus Edmisten, senator Sam Erwin, governor Jim Hunt, superintendent of public instruction Jerome Melton, governor and North Carolina Supreme Court justice Dan K. Moore, and governor and senator Terry Sanford, 1962-1985; letters relating to the Albert Coates Fund, 1962; personal correspondence; materials relating to awards and honors, including the William Davie Award, 1984, the North Carolina Public Service Award, and the joint resolution of the North Carolina General Assembly honoring Coates, 1975; Coates's response to Henry Lewis' comments on Out of a Classroom in Chapel Hill; materials from the files of Gordon Cleveland relating to curriculum development for an Administration of Justice degree; Coates's nomination of Bill Cochrane for the North Carolina Award; speeches and articles by Coates; clippings and text from newspaper articles. |
| Box 36 |
Legal materials; speaking engagements; Coates writings; student governmentInvitations to Coates for event attendance, speaking engagements, and conference presentations, 1936-1961; personal correspondence, 1942; letters from attorneys Susie Sharp, Thomas J. Wright, George H. Wright, George B. Zimmer; materials related to student government and honor system, 1935-1942; letters to Coates on his retirement, 1962-1963; other correspondence; and remarks and writings by Coates. |
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Additions of February and March 2003 (Acc. 99420 and Acc. 99444), 1916-1970s.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly letters, telegrams, wedding invitations, bills, report cards, course materials, and other papers of Gladys Hall Coates and Albert Coates. The papers, 1916-1928, are exclusively related to Albert Coates. These papers are concerned with his undergraduate years, 1914-1918, at the University of North Carolina; his education, 1921-1923, at Harvard University Law School; and his early teaching career at the University of North Carolina Law School. The later papers contain a similar mix of materials, but are topically related less specifically to Albert alone than to the Coateses as a couple. There is also what appears to be a coursepack entitled "Legal Aspects of Journalism" that belonged to "G. H. Coates."
| Box 37 |
1916-1943 |
| Box 38 |
1943-1948 |
| Box 39 |
1949-1961 |
| Box 40 |
1961-1973 |
| Box 41 |
1973-1947 |
| Box 42 |
1978 |
Letters, undated |
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Greeting cards, undated |
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Wedding invitations, undated |
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| Box 43 |
"Legal Aspects of Journalism" coursepack, 1950s |
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Addition of September 2009 (Acc. 101169), 1841-2002.
Arrangement: Original folder titles and groupings have been maintained when possible.
This addition consists chiefly of personal letters to Gladys Hall Coates from friends and family, but there also are letters to Albert Coates and correspondence between Albert and Gladys. Letters received from Gladys's mother, sister, and niece are extensive and particularly descriptive of women's daily lived experience from the 1930s through the 1970s. Letters document family relationships among women, especially between mother and child; single parenting; religious practices; volunteer work; letting rooms to boarders in a Portsmouth, Va., home; and reactions to historical events, such as the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and to the social and political climate of the time, including "black power" and Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s and bussing in the early 1970s. Non-family letters reveal more about Gladys's life, in particular her expansive circle of friends and acquaintances, her contributions to husband Albert's professional successes, and her own active civic life. Other materials in the addition include speeches and interviews, some recorded on film and audiocassette, and writings; papers and correspondence relating to their professional work, including letters from J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Porter Graham, Sam J. Ervin, and Thomas J. White; family papers, including calendars, diaries, letters, Gladys Hall Coates's will, memoirs, military papers, newspaper clippings, fraternity and University of North Carolina pins, materials from the memorial service of Albert Coates, and memoirs and genealogical research relating to the Coates, Pollard, and Bradley families; travel papers, including itineraries, correspondence and other papers related to travel in Europe and the Soviet Union; photographic materials, 1860s-1990s, (a few signed by Bayard Wootten) including formal and informal portraits and snapshots of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates and their Coates, Hall, Pollard, and Cauthorn relatives and friends that depict University of North Carolina and Institute of Government work and events, family gatherings, vacationing at North Carolina beaches, travel to Europe and Mexico, late nineteenth- to mid twentieth-century fashion, and other subjects; and other published and unpublished papers, including printed ephemera, notebooks and clippings, Gladys Hall Coates's "Special Keepsakes," and other materials.
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Addition of September 2009: Personal correspondence, 1920s-2002.
Chiefly personal letters to Gladys Hall Coates from family and friends, but there also letters to Albert Coates, letters to Albert and Gladys, and correspondence between Albert and Gladys. Letters to Albert Coates are from friends and professional associates and are chiefly thank-you and appreciation notes in nature. Also included is "The Artist in War Time," the text of an introduction to a panel discussion led by Clarence Adler at the University of North Carolina. Letters to Albert and Gladys are interfiled with the chronological run of letters to Gladys. Correspondence between Albert and Gladys consists of love letters, sent during their courtship and the early years of their marriage.
Letters to Gladys Hall Coates from her mother, Blanche Pollard Hall (Mrs. William A. Hall); her sister, Marjorie (Marge) Hall Hope Marable; and her niece, Jane Hope Watson, are extensive and particularly descriptive of women's daily lived experience from the 1930s through the 1970s. Letters document family relationships among women, especially between mother and child. Blanche Pollard Hall's letters express her pride in the accomplishments of her daughter Gladys and son-in-law Albert Coates, as well as her concerns for her son Alfred Hall, who appears to have struggled to find itinerant work and with alcoholism in the 1930s, and for her daughter Marge and her granddaughter Jane, who she helped to raise. Her letters also reference letting rooms in her Portsmouth, Va., home to boarders, some of whom were connected to the Norfolk naval base. Letters from Marge Hall Hope Marable provide news of family from a different perspective. Marge described her life as a single mother, after her first husband's death and before she remarried; her concerns for their mother's health; her religious practices; and her reactions to historical events, such as the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and to the social and political climate of the time, including "black power" and Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s and bussing in the early 1970s. There are a few letters, circa 1920s, from Gladys to Marge, in which Gladys wrote about her teaching job and inquired about Marge's life at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Jane Hope Watson's letters provide news of her mother, her sons, and her volunteer work from the 1950s to 1980s. Her letters document parenting concerns of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and also mention her reaction to bussing in Virginia schools in the early 1970s.
Other letters that Gladys received reveal more about her life, in particular her expansive circle of friends and acquaintances, her contributions to husband Albert's professional successes, and her generosity and hospitality, interests, and active civic life, including her work for the Institute of Government and Friends of Person Hall. Also included in the general run of her correspondence are many postcards and invitations, as well as substantive letters from maternal aunts and sisters-in-law. There are very few drafts of letters that Gladys sent to others; these are noted in the folder list below. Lastly, there are Christmas letters and music sent by the Coateses.
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Addition of September 2009: Speeches and writings, 1920s-1990s.
Published and unpublished speeches, writings, and talks given by Albert and Gladys Hall Coates, including The Story of Student Government in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are two recorded speeches by Albert Coates, one on film and the other on audiocassette, and two videotapes of interviews with Gladys Hall Coates.
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Addition of September 2009: Professional correspondence and papers, 1920s-1990s.
Papers, awards and honors, and correspondence related to the work of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates for the University of North Carolina and the Institute of Government. Professional correspondence includes letters to Albert Coates with original signatures from J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Porter Graham, Sam J. Ervin, and Thomas J. White. Also contains printed material from the University of North Carolina, including University of North Carolina handbooks, and a 1934 police school film.
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Addition of September 2009: Family and personal papers, 1885-1990s.
Calendars, diaries, and a scrapbook of Gladys Hall Coates; an 1890s commonplace book; Coates family deeds and indentures; military papers of Albert Coates; genealogical research on the Coates, Pollard, and Bradley families; newspaper clippings regarding the Coates wedding and other family members; papers relating to Albert Coates's death; fraternity and University of North Carolina pins; school materials and memoirs of Pollard family members; condolence letters for Albert's sisters; Gladys Coates's will; and other family history materials.
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Addition of September 2009: Travel papers, 1863-1975.
Travel itineraries, European trip correspondence and related papers, passports, and materials on travel to the Soviet Union.
| Folder 1099 |
Foreign and Confederate (North Carolina and Alabama) era currency, 1863 and undated |
| Folder 1100 |
Travel itineraries, 1925-1937 |
Folder 1101-1102
Folder 1101Folder 1102 |
European trip correspondence and papers, 1965 |
| Folder 1103 |
Passports and vaccination certificate, 1965, 1972 |
Folder 1104-1105
Folder 1104Folder 1105 |
Materials on travel to the Soviet Union, 1974-1975 |
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Addition of September 2009: Photographs and slides, circa 1860s-1990s.
Photographic materials, 1860s-1990s, (a few signed by Bayard Wootten) including formal and informal portraits and snapshots of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates and their Coates, Hall, Pollard, and Cauthorn relatives and friends. Photographic formats include black-and-white prints, color prints, ambrotype, tintype, slides, and negatives. Many photographs are of unidentified men, women, and children. Photographs of Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates span youth to old age and include images of both as students, traveling, at various events related to the Institute of Government, and receiving awards and other recognition for public service. Some photographs of Albert and Gladys are collected in files titled with their names, but many are scattered throughout this series as well. Other photographs depict North Carolina beach scenes and coastal fishing; a 1924 commencement at the University of North Carolina; Harvard University and Cambridge, Mass.; garden parties of young adults; the Institute of Government, especially staff members, presentations, meetings, and Albert Coates's retirement in 1962; Highway Patrol School and other law enforcement training classes at the Institute of Government; and snapshots of family gatherings, parties, holiday decorations, graduations, weddings, and vacations. Slides consist chiefly of published and personal slides of the Coates' travel to Europe and Mexico, but also include images of family and friends and University of North Carolina portraits. Both the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century portraits and the snapshots from the 1910s to 1930s provide numerous examples of contemporary fashions for men, women, and children. There also are a few scrapbooks and photograph albums, including a memory book, circa 1920, of Albert Coates's student life at the University of North Carolina, and an album of photographs, 1971, that document holiday decorations at the Coates home.
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/1 |
Portrait: Framed ambrotype of Ann Weller Pollard, circa 1850s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/2 |
Portrait: Framed tintype of unidentified man, circa 1860s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/3 |
Portrait: Tintype of Martha Woodall Lassiter, circa 1860s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/4 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified man, circa 1860s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/5 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified woman, circa 1860s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/6 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified man and woman, circa 1880s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/7 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified woman and child, circa 1890s |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/8 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified girl and boy, circa 1900 |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/9 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified girl, circa 1900 |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/10 |
Portrait: Framed print of unidentified woman, circa 1900 |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/11 |
Portrait: Tintype of William Alfred Hall, circa 1900 |
| Special Format Image SF-P-3818/12 |
Portrait: Tintype of unidentified man, circa 1900 |
Image Folder PF-3818/1-15
PF-3818/1PF-3818/2PF-3818/3PF-3818/4PF-3818/5PF-3818/6PF-3818/7PF-3818/8PF-3818/9PF-3818/10PF-3818/11PF-3818/12PF-3818/13PF-3818/14PF-3818/15 |
Portraits, circa 1860s-1950sFormal and informal portraits, chiefly unidentified, Coates, Pollard, Hall, and Cauthorn family members. The early portraits provide numerous examples of contemporary fashion for men, women, and children. Includes prints signed by Bayard Wootten. |
| Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3818/2 |
Portraits, circa 1880s-1980sOversize portraits of Albert Coates, Gladys Coates, John Rufus Coates, Robert Floyd Coates, and an unidentified man, circa 1960. |
Image Folder PF-3818/16-18
PF-3818/16PF-3818/17PF-3818/18 |
Beach, 1920s-1960sSnapshots taken at Ocracoke and Nags Head. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/19 |
Boys State, 1948 |
Image Folder PF-3818/20-21
PF-3818/20PF-3818/21 |
BuildingsIncludes images of family homes; the interior and exterior of the Coates' home at 508 Hooper Lane, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Michener Mansion in Johnston County, N.C.; Turlington Grade School in Smithfield, N.C.; and other buildings. There is also a circa 1920s aerial of the University of North Carolina campus. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/22 |
Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1920 |
| Image Folder PF-3818/23 |
Christmas album, 1971Photographs of holiday decorations at the Coates home |
Image Folder PF-3818/24-25
PF-3818/24PF-3818/25 |
Christmas cards (photographic) received, circa 1940s-1970s |
Image Folder PF-3818/26-35
PF-3818/26PF-3818/27PF-3818/28PF-3818/29PF-3818/30PF-3818/31PF-3818/32PF-3818/33PF-3818/34PF-3818/35 |
Coates, AlbertPhotographs span youth to old age and include images of Albert as a student at the University of North Carolina, circa 1918; at Onslow Bay and on a camping trip to Blowing Rock in 1921; at various events related to his work at the Institute of Government; receiving awards and other recognition for his public service; and at his 85th birthday in 1981. There are also portraits from the studios of Wootten, Siddell, Bachrach, Sulkin and Rosenthal, and others. |
| Oversize Volume SV-3818/1 |
Coates, Albert: Memory book, 1917-1920Photographs of University of North Carolina students and faculty, some in the graduation procession, and Central Officers Training School; printed material related to university actitivities, including Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society debates, social banquets, alumni events, and Y.M.C.A. patriotic meetings; and letters, 1918-1920, from classmates and others. |
Image Folder PF-3818/36-38
PF-3818/36PF-3818/37PF-3818/38 |
Coates, Albert and Gladys HallInformal portraits and other images of Albert and Gladys Hall Coates at events, including the North Caroliniana Society dinner, unveiling of the building design for the Local Government Center in Raleigh, N.C., and the "Pirate Ball and Spanish Night" on the S. S. Reliance (1935); on vacation in the western United States, circa 1958; |
Image Folder PF-3818/39-44
PF-3818/39PF-3818/40PF-3818/41PF-3818/42PF-3818/43PF-3818/44 |
Coates, Gladys HallImages of Gladys at Randolph-Macon Woman's College; with Mrs. Knapp at the Knapp Building; with the University Woman's Club and Faculty Wives Club; at her birthday party in 1992; and at various other events, some in honor of her. There are also formal and informal portraits. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/45 |
Davie Poplar |
| Image Folder PF-3818/46 |
Durants Station, circa 1940 |
| Image Folder PF-3818/47 |
Graham, Frank Porter, as United Nations mediator with President Sukarno at Pope Air Force Base, 1956 |
| Image Folder PF-3818/48 |
Harvard University/Cambridge, Mass., circa 1920 |
Image Folder PF-3818/49-56
PF-3818/49PF-3818/50PF-3818/51PF-3818/52PF-3818/53PF-3818/54PF-3818/55PF-3818/56 |
Institute of Government, 1939-1960sIncludes images of the 1939 dedication of the Knapp building; portraits of staff members and class groups; formal and informal snapshots of presentations, meetings, and Albert Coates's retirement from the Institute of Government in 1962; interior and exterior shots of the Knapp building, including the mural; the 1945 Saturday Evening Post article about the Institute of Government |
| Image Box IB-3818/2 |
Institute of Government, circa 1930s-1970sChiefly images related to the Highway Patrol School and other law enforcement training classes at the Institute of Government; the UNC Photo Lab (see also P0031: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Photographic Laboratory Collection) created many of the images, with a few from outside studios, including Wootten-Moultin in Chapel Hill, N.C. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/57 |
Judges' Conference, circa 1960 |
| Image Folder PF-3818/58 |
Landscapes taken from a train, circa 1920s |
| Image Folder PF-3818/59 |
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners meeting, Pinehurst, N.C., 1976 |
Image Folder PF-3818/60-62
PF-3818/60PF-3818/61PF-3818/62 |
PublicationsCopy negatives for illustrations in a Harvard Law School publication, a photograph that accompanied a story about Gladys in the Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.), and an article about Kenneth Daniel Coates. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/63 |
Scrapbooks, 1979, 1981"New Year's Eve at the Coates', 1979" and Mint Julep Party, Derby Day, 1981, as well as a few related letters. |
| Image Box IB-3818/1 |
Travel, circa 1970s-1980sApproximately 1600 published and unpublished slides of travels throughout Europe and Mexico, as well as a few images of family. |
| Image Folder PF-3818/64 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill commencement, 1924 |
| Image Folder PF-3818/65 |
Watson, Jane Hope: "Snapshots" album, circa 1930sPhotographs of Gladys Hall Coates's niece as a baby and young child |
Image Folder PF-3818/66-72
PF-3818/66PF-3818/67PF-3818/68PF-3818/69PF-3818/70PF-3818/71PF-3818/72 |
Miscellaneous: Black-and-white pritnsIncludes informal portraits of individuals and families, snapshots of garden parties, gatherings of young people, children, and coastal fishing. The early portraits and snapshots provide numerous examples of the contemporary fashion for men, women, and children. There also are pictures of a Pope Paul VI procession, Benjamin Swalin and the North Carolina Symphony, and Paul Green with Johnsie Burnham. |
Image Folder PF-3818/73-84
PF-3818/73PF-3818/74PF-3818/75PF-3818/76PF-3818/77PF-3818/78PF-3818/79PF-3818/80PF-3818/81PF-3818/82PF-3818/83PF-3818/84 |
Miscellaneous: Color photographs, 1950s-1990sChiefly snapshots of family gatherings, such as for graduations and weddings; parties, including birthday celebrations for Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates; holiday decorations at the Coates home; travel vacations; and other routine subjects. |
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Addition of September 2009: Other papers, 1841-1990s.
Published and unpublished papers, including pamphlets, mailings, menus, and other ephemera; World War II letters of Private Gaston Smith Jr.; notebooks and clippings; Gladys Hall Coates's "Special Keepsakes" and Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell award; Randolph-Macon Woman's College materials; and other materials.
| Folder 1106 |
Newspaper clippings, 1920s-1990s |
Folder 1107-1109
Folder 1107Folder 1108Folder 1109 |
Printed materials, 1920s-1990sPamphlets, including The Art of Attracting Men: An Analysis of the Factors in the Development of Fascinating Womanhood, Part 5 (1922), mailings, menus, and other ephemera. |
| Folder 1110 |
Writings, 1923-1990sPublished and seemingly unpublished prayers and writings about and from various sources. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3818/2 |
"An Historical and Geographical Map of the State of North Carolina," 1934 |
| Folder 1111 |
War letters of Private Charles Gaston Smith Jr., 1943 |
| Folder 1112 |
Guest book, 1950s |
| Folder 1113 |
The North Carolina Gardener: 1951 Engagement Calendar and related material, 1951 |
| Folder 1114 |
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1897, 1938, 1967 and undatedIncludes copies of 1897 photographs of students and the basketball team |
| Folder 1115 |
High school reunion, 1970 |
| Folder 1116 |
Notebooks, notes, and clippings, circa 1970s |
| Folder 1117 |
"Special Keepsakes," 1841, 1990sIncludes letters, programs, an 1841 memory album of Elizabeth Cauthorn Weller Nunn, newspaper articles, and other papers. |
| Folder 1118 |
Congressional Record, 1991 |
| Folder 1119 |
"Proceedings and Membership List of the Thomas Wolfe Society," 1993-1996 |
| Folder 1120 |
Old lists and memorabilia regarding Christmas, undated |
| Videotape VT-3818/3 |
Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award, 1994Recorded reenactment of Cornelia Phillips Spencer ringing the bell that signalled the reopening of the University of North Carolina in 1875 and ceremony in which Gladys Hall Coates received the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award. |
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