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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 North Carolina Geological Survey Papers, #2306, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Joseph Hyde Pratt prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Fishery resources--North Carolina--History.
• Forest conservation--North Carolina--History.
• Holmes, J. A. (Joseph Austin), 1859-1915.
• Mines and mineral resources--North Carolina--History.
• Natural resources--North Carolina--History.
• North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905)
• North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey.
• North Carolina. State Geologist.
• Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942.
• Roads--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

• Joseph Hyde Pratt Papers (#2169).

The North Carolina Geological Survey, later known as the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, was established in 1891 to assess the natural resources of the state and suggest economic development. In 1924 the functions of the Survey were transferred to the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development.

Joseph Austin Holmes (1859-1915), professor of geology and natural history at the University of North Carolina, was state geologist, 1891-1904. Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942), professor of economic geology at the University of North Carolina, was state mineralogist, 1897-1906, and state geologist, 1906-1923.

The collection includes the correspondence, reports, and related papers of the North Carolina Geological Survey regarding North Carolina mineral resources and mining development, forest conservation, drainage, fisheries, and roads. Included are the papers, largely letters received and copies of letters sent, of the North Carolina Geological Survey; its successor, the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey; and the state geologist and state mineralogist. The papers also reflect J. A. Holmes and Joseph Hyde Pratt in their roles as industrial consultants, faculty members at the University of North Carolina, and as participants in organizations, conferences, and movements in the field of conservation and the development of natural resources.