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Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
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Creator
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Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
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Date Created
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2006-10-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
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Description
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Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...
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Connie Patton oral history interview 1, 2005 May 2
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Creator
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Patton, Connie, 1925-
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Date Created
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2005-05-02
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Student activities, Social values, Youth--Employment, Soldiers
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Description
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Connie Patton shares his memories of his family, school life, and the Brooklyn neighborbood in Charlotte where he grew up during the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Patton describes the Brooklyn of his youth as a close knit African American community with so...
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First war dead returned at the Charlotte train depot
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Creator
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Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
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Date Created
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1947
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Subjects--Topical
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War casualties, Soldiers, Railroad stations, Coffins, Men
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Description
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Caption on photograph: "First war dead at the Charlotte train depot." Several men, including a uniformed officer, stand near the casket, which is draped in an American flag.
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I was an Army recruiter in North Carolina
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Creator
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Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
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Date Created
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1979-07-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Soldiers--Recruiting, Soldiers, Recruiting and enlistment, Armed Forces
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Description
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Topics include: United States Army; Military recruitment; North Carolina
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Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
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Creator
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Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
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Date Created
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1974-03-25
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Subjects--Topical
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War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
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Description
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Otto Lutz discusses his time in the Swiss Army during World War II. He talks about growing up in Uster, Switzerland, ten to fifteen miles outside Zurich and how he was fourteen when World War II broke out. In 1944, he joined the Swiss Army, as all...
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William Means Stewart, Jr., oral history interview 1, 2019 August 1
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Creator
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Stewart, William Means, Jr., 1917-
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Date Created
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2019-08-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Farm life, Baseball, College students, Soldiers, Veterans, Accounting
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Description
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In this interview, William "Bill" Stewart shares memories of his life growing up in the Newell community near Charlotte, North Carolina, of his college days at Elon College in the 1930s, and of his military service in World War II. He tells about ...
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William T. Alexander oral history interview 3, 1992 Spring
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Creator
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Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
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Date Created
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1992
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Subjects--Topical
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Rich people, Work environment, Insurance agents, Rural conditions, Business enterprises, Competition, Soldiers
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Description
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In this last of three interviews, Charlotte native William T. Alexander describes his early career in the 1920s-1930s working in several places across the United States as well as his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Alexander talks ...
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World War I Photographs
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Date Created
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1917, 1918, 1917
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Subjects--Topical
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Military hospitals, American, Military camps, Soldiers, Nurses
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Description
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Photographs depicting Camp Greene in Charlotte, North Carolina during World War I.
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World War I in Charlotte
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Date Created
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1917, 1918
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Subjects--Topical
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Military hospitals, American, Military camps, Soldiers, Soldiers' writings, American
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Description
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World War I in Charlotte brings together materials from several manuscript collections held by UNC Charlotte relating to Charlotte, North Carolina's involvement during World War I. Camp Greene, a United States Army camp established in Charlotte in...