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Collection Number: 00703

Collection Title: William Carter Stubbs Papers, 1867-1925.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


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.

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 225 items)
Abstract William Carter Stubbs, chemist and agricultural scientist, was director of the Louisiana Agriculture Experiment Station, 1885-1895, and the United States Experiment Station in Honolulu, 1900, and was a professor at Louisiana State University and Auburn University. The collection includes manuscript speeches, articles, and reports, and a small amount of correspondence, related chiefly to Stubbs's professional activities as a professor and as director of the Louisiana and Hawaii agricultural experiment stations, particularly his activities involving the sugar industry in Louisiana and Hawaii.
Creator Stubbs, William Carter, 1846-1924.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 William Carter Stubbs Papers, #703, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received 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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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.

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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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William Carter Stubbs (1846-1924), chemist and agricultural scientist, was director of the Louisiana Agriculture Experiment Station, 1885-1895, and the United States Experiment Station in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900, and was a professor at Louisiana State University and Auburn University.

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The collection includes manuscript speeches, articles, and reports, and a small amount of correspondence, related chiefly to William Carter Stubbs's professional activities as a professor and as director of the Louisiana and Hawaii agricultural experiment stations, particularly his activities involving the sugar industry in Louisiana and Hawaii. A few early items are related to cotton.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1867-1889

Folder 2

1891-1899

Folder 3

1900-1917

Folder 4

1920-1925

Folder 5

Undated

Folder 6

Undated

Folder 7

Undated

Folder 8

Undated

Folder 9

Undated

Folder 10

Undated

Folder 11

Undated

Folder 12

Undated

Folder 13

Undated

Folder 14

Undated

Folder 15

Undated

Folder 16

Undated

Folder 17

Undated

Folder 18

Undated

Folder 19

Undated

Folder 20

Clippings

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