The Manuscript Collections of the Davidson College Archives consist primarily
of unpublished documents such as diaries, letters, speeches and sermons. The
collections may be about an individual, a family or a group. The majority of the
collections relate to students and alumni of the college and to civic
organizations in the town of Davidson, North Carolina.
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Search Examples: Single term: Scrapbook
Phrase: Davidson NC
Boolean: AND Civil War AND
Letter* (retrieves records that have both the terms CIVIL WAR and
LETTER OR LETTERS)
Boolean: OR Women OR
Clubs (retrieves records that have either term in any of the fields
in the record)
Dates: 1890 (retrieves record where the date is in the
record. Dates can be birth or death dates, Davidson College class year,
or the date of a manuscript) Truncated date: 189* (retrieves dates from 1890 to 1899)
