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Guide to the Herbert Clarence Bradshaw Papers, 1953-1975

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Descriptive Summary

Title
Herbert Clarence Bradshaw Papers, 1953-1975
Creator
Bradshaw, Herbert Clarence, 1908-1976
Extent
39,585 Items
Repository
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information consult the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Papers of Herbert Clarence Bradshaw, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Papers of Herbert Clarence Bradshaw were acquired by Duke University as gifts, 1977-1987.
Processing Information
Processed by: Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Staff
Completed 1987
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
            

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Biographical Note

Herbert Clarence Bradshaw (1908-1976), a Democrat, Baptist, author-historian, journalist, churchman, educator and civic leader in both Virginia and North Carolina, was born Nov. 7, 1908, in Rice, Prince Edward County, Va. He attended Hampden-Sydney College (B.A., 1930), and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1933 in classical languages), and was awarded a Litt.D. degree from Hampden-Sydney in 1967. For twenty years he taught and served as a principal in Virginia schools. He began a full-time journalism career as Sundey Feature Editor of the Durham Morning Herald and became editor of the editorial page from 1964 until retirement in 1974.

Bradshaw is author of The History of Prince Edward County, Va. (1955), History of Hampden-Sydney College, Vol. I (1976), History of Farmville, Va. (1948), Toward the Dawn: History of the First Quarter-Centry of the N.C. State Association for the Blind, 1934-1960 (1961), and 50 articles from 1935 to 1976 on the histories of the Baptist Church, the Lions organization, the blind organizations in N.C., and historical pieces on such topics as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and historic houses.

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Collection Overview

The collection contains voluminous correspondence from 1922 to 1976 (Boxes 19-27), including 44 years of farm business papers on the 900-acre .farm in Virginia he and his brother managed.
Cataloging of the papers is primarily by inventory but more analysis of the contents has been provided in some sections.
Autograph and subject cards have been placed in the card catalog, some for eminent persons or topics that might be sought by researchers. The inventory lists the name of each file with its inclusive dates; there are 69 boxes.
Bradshaw's papers show detailed involvement as a member of the N.C. State Commission for the Blind for 18 years; member, Advisory Board, Mary Duke Biddle Art Gallery for the Blind in the N C Museum of Art, Raleigh; and President of the N. C Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
Many printed Items - rosters, programs, clippings, and photographs are scattered throughout the files where they are integral parts of personal or organizational files. Papers on Durham include histories and correspondence on city and county government (1853-1973), Chamber of Commerce, Civitan and Optimist Clubs, Merchants Association, Public Library, and the School Board. There are printed programs of cultural events held in Richmond, Durham, and Raleigh, 1929-1972.
Material prepared for the Durham (N.C.) Morning Herald centennial edition includes the histories of local organizations, 1805-1953. Bradshaw kept detailed diaries and correspondence on his Book Page and editorials, 1949-1973.
His correspondence includes the writing of the history of the Baptist Church in N.C. for years 1805-1973. There is correspondence on the Yates Baptist Association and the Watts Street Baptist Church. 1950-1971
The papers include programs, rosters, histories, minutes and correspondence on Lions Club activities in Durham and throughout N.C., 1922-1974
Important in Civil War histories is Bradshaw's account of historic events in the Appomattox area which he wrote for the Centennial Edition of the Farmville (Va.) Herald, 1865-1965. A longer local history account appears in that newspaper's Sesquicentennial Edition of 1948
Duke University Professor Mason Crum's unpublished manuscript, Washington Duke, is included in the Duke University section (Box 31) along with Bradshaw's 1949-1973 correspondence with Duke faculty. Dr. J. B. Rhine's correspondence shows the development at Duke of his Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man 1963-1972.
Bradshaw's detailed correspondence reveals a forty-four year involvement with Hampden-Sydney College (Box 42). His deep interest in genealogy led to lengthy correspondence on genealogies of the Armistead, Bradshaw, Cunningham, Chambliss, Few, Fuqua, Lockett, McGehee, Marshall, Nash, Scarborough, Venable, and Walton families. Included is a morgue of hundreds of glossy photographs of contemporary writers. And there are letters signed by William O. Douglas; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; William P. Rogers; J. William Fulbright; Governors Luther Hodges, Terry Sanford and Robert Scott; Senators Henry Jackson and B. Everett Jordan; Norman Mailer; J. B. Rhine; and Douglas M. Knight. There is correspondence with Myrta Lockett Avary, author of A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, and inclusion of her Memoirs.
Other parts of Bradshaw's papers are in the Virginia Baptist Historical Society at the University of Richmond and in the Virginia State Library.
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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
  • Duke University.
  • Baptists--North Carolina--History.
  • United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
  • Hampden-Sydney College.
  • Blind--Services for--North Carolina.
  • North Carolina--Durham County--Durham.
List of Series in Collection
Biographical and Autobiographical Information
Alphabetical Files
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Detailed Description of Collection

Biographical and Autobiographical Information

This information is filed in the first box of the collection. It includes a vita, letters, articles, awards, clippings, a formal photograph, and other items. Box 1 also contains an inventory of the collection and the Virginia State Library inventory.

Alphabetical Files

Box 1

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1927-1929, 1950-1955, 1967-1968
Box 2

Avary, Myrta Lockett: 1903, 1933, 1940-1946, 1846, 1866
Correspondence
Legal Documents
Memoirs (undated)
Photos
Poetry
Writings
Sherwin article on Avary
Box 3

Baptist Church, North Carolina:
Baptist Church Histories 1930, 1935-1973
Baptist State Convention of N. C. 1960, 1971
Churches of Durham 1805-1951 1952-1968, 1971-1972
First Baptist Church, Durham 1970-1973
Greater Durham Evangelistic Crusade 1965
Religion - Articles, news clippings, etc. 1859, 1930, 1954-1973
Box 4
Watts Street Baptist Church 1950-1970
Box 5
Yates Baptist Association 1953-1971

Blind:
Box 6-7
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness 1964-1973
Box 8
N. C. Association for the Blind 1948-1974
Box 9
N. C. Association for the Blind. 1960-1967
Glaucoma Clinics
Box 9
N. C. Association for the Blind. 1947, 1956-1973
"The White Cane"
Box 9
N. C. Eye and Human Tissue Bank 1960-1971
Box 10
N. C. Society for the Prevention of Blindness 1966-1974
Box 11
N. C. State Association for the Blind, 1934-1960
"Toward the Dawn: History of the N. C. State Association for the Blind"
Box 12-16
N. C. State Commission for the Blind 1943, 1948-1973
Biennial Reports 1950-1968
Manual
Publications
Vocational Rehabilitation Plan
Box 17-18
N. C. State Commission for the Blind and N. C. Bureau of Employment for the Blind:
Quarterly Reports 1964-1970
Box 18
The Seeing Eye, Inc. 1957-1958

Book Reviews Scrapbook (Bradshaw's) (see at end of Papers) 1931-1945

Bradshaw, Herbert Clarence:
Box 69
Book Reviews Scrapbook (see in box at end of Papers) 1931-1945
Box 19
Personal and Family Clippings and Memorabilia 1952-1974
Box 20-22
Personal and Family Correspondence (Farm) 1929-1973
Box 23-26
Personal and Family Correspondence (General) 1922-1975, undated
Box 27
Speaking Engagements 1956-1973
Box 28-29
Writings 1935-1976

Campbell College, Buie's Creek, N. C.
Graham A. Barden Chair of Government (See N. C. Campbell College)

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission (See N. C. Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission)
Box 30

Civil War:
Bennitt Place 1962-1964
Civil War Centennial Commission 1958-1965
Confederate Veterans Reunions 1929, 1932
Farmville Herald Centennial 1965
Farmville Herald Sesquicentennial 1948
Fortifications at High Bridge, Appomattox River 1865
Johnston, Joseph E., General 1959-1963
N. C. Confederate Centennial Commission 1958-1965
"Tell Ma to send me some meat to boil with peas." Soldier's Letter. Apr. 1864
Box 31

Duke University:
Bradshaw's Correspondence with Duke Faculty 1949-1973
General Telephone Issue 1972
Rhine's Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man 1963-1972
Rule of Law Research Center. Arthur Larson 1960, 1966
Sanford, Terry 1962, 1964, 1970-1972
"Washington Duke" by Mason Crum ca. 1951
Box 32

Durham:
Chamber of Commerce 1961-1973
City and County Government 1853-1953, 1957-1973
Civitan and Optimist Clubs 1952
County Association for the Blind 1949-1959
Golden Age Society 1956
Merchants Association 1956, 1969-1972
N. C. College at Durham 1950-1952, 1968
1963 - All-America City Award 1963
Public Library 1897-1936, 1953-1961
Research Triangle, History of 1953-1965
Scarborough Nursery School 1950
School Board 1951, 1965-1966
School Study Committee 1959-1960
Social Scene 1960-1963, 1965
United Fund Campaign 1962-1973

Durham (N. C.) Morning Herald:
Box 33
Book Page 1949, 1955-1973
Box 33
Book Page. Correspondence 1950-1973
Box 69
Book Reviews by Bradshaw 1931-1945
Box 34
Centennial Edition. Correspondence 1953
Box 34
Centennial Edition, Histories of Organizations 1805-1953
Box 35-36
Diaries of Book Reviews and Editorials 1951-1972
Box 37-39
Editorial Background Material 1929-1973
Box 39
Editorials 1960-1967
Box 40
Editorials. Correspondence 1949-1973
Box 39
Editorials by Bradshaw 1961-1963
Box 34
Features. Correspondence 1953-1958, 1973
Box 34
Frank S. Hickman's "Just a Minute" Column 1952-1964
Box 34
Monthly Bulletins 1950-1973
Box 34
Personnel Directories 1954-1973
Box 34
Style Book 1949

Eggleston, Joseph DuPuy - McAllister, James Gray (See Hampden-Sydney Correspondence. Eggleston, Joseph DuPuy - McAllister, James Gray Correspondence) 1929-1956
Box 41

Genealogies:
Anderson
Armistead
Bradshaw
Carrington
Chambliss
Cunningham
Davis
Fain
Few
Flippen
Fuqua
Goodrich
Holcombe
Jenkins
Kennon
Kerr
Ligon
Lockett
McGehee
Marshall
Nash
Osborne
Pallmore
Pankey
Scarborough
Thomson
Townes
Venable
Walker
Walthall
Walton
White
Wimbish
Woodson
Box 42

Hampden-Sidney 1927-1973
Box 42

Hampden-Sidney. Bradshaw's Correspondence 1927-1973
Eggleston, Joseph DuPuy - McAllister, James Gray Correspondence 1929-1956

Historical Book Club of N. C., Greensboro, N. C. Annual Town Meeting on Books (See N. C. Historical Book Club)

Hospitals. North Carolina (See Public Health)

Human Betterment League of N. C. (See N. C. 1947-1976 Human Betterment League)

Lions:
Box 43
Apex to Zebulon 1969-1972
Box 44
Conventions, National 1960, 1970-1973
Box 44
Conventions, State (N. C.) 1961-1973
Box 45-46
District Governors 1960-1972
Box 47
District 31G 1960-1974
Box 48-49
Durham 1950-1973
Box 50
History of Lionism 1922-1960
Box 50
International 1951-1952, 1966-1973
Box 50
International. Candidates for Director 1970-1972
Box 50
International. Constitution and By-laws Committee 1970-1972
Box 50
International. Politics 1969-1970
Box 51
State Council 1968-1973
Box 51
Zone Chairman 1967-1970
Box 51
Zone Club Reports 1967-1970
Box 69

Lockett Genealogical Chart (See in box at end of Papers)

Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind, N. C. Museum of Art, Raleigh, N. C. (See N. C. Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind, N. C. Museum of Art, Raleigh, N. C.)
Box 52

National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Broadcasters. Washington, D. C. 1964, 1970, 1972

National Health Council (See Public Health)

National Policy and Performance Council 1968-1972 (See U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. National Policy and Performance Council)

National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (See Blind. National Society for the Prevention of Blindness)

North Carolina:
Box 53
N. C. Advisory Council to the Peace Corps 1962-1964
Box 53
N. C. American Revolution Bicentennial Committee 1971-1973
Box 53
N. C. Awards 1966-1967, 1971
Box 53
N. C. Bowles for Governor 1972
Box 53
N. C. Campbell College, Buies Creek , 1962, 1967-1968, 1973
N. C. Graham A. Barden Chair of Government
Box 53
N. C. Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission 1961-1963
Box 53
N. C. Council on World Affairs 1959-1963
Box 54
N. C. Democratic Party. Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. Raleigh, N. C.1963
N. C. Fund 1966
N. C. General Assembly, 1969. Interest Rate Study Commission 1969-1973
N. C. Governor's Conference on Planning for Higher Education. Raleigh, N. C. 1968
N. C. Governor's Conference, Richmond, Va. Official Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington 1932
N. C. Governor's Study Committee on Structure and Organization of Higher Education. Raleigh, N. C. 1971
N. C. Historical Book Club, Greensboro, N. C. Annual Town Meeting on Books 1961-1971
Box 55
N. C. Huguenot Society 1953-1972
Box 56
N. C. Human Betterment League 1947-1976
N. C. Literary and Historical Association 1963-1972
N. C. Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind, N. C. Museum of Art, Raleigh, N. C. 1966-1969, 1972
N. C. Political Campaigns 1972
N. C. Rehabilitation Association 1966-1967
N. C. Salem Academy 1969-1970
N. C. Society Sons of the American Revolution 1956-1971
Box 57
N. C. Study in Vocational Rehabilitation 1965-1969
N. C. Wake County Courthouse Speech. Professor Albert Coates Sept. 13, 1970

Photographs:
Box 58
List of Photographs
Buildings, places, scenes
Genre
Box 58-59
People
Box 59
Transportation

Political Campaigns (North Carolina). (See N. C. Political Campaigns) 1972
Box 69

President Nixon's Proclamation: "Save your Vision Week, 1973" (See in box at end of Papers) 1973

Press Associations:
Box 60
American Press Institute Seminar 1967
Press Associations 1929-1963
Box 61
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Seminars for Southern Journalists 1967-1972
Box 62
Southern Regional Education Board, Seminars for Southern Journalists 1966-1968

Public Health:
Box 63
Durham County TB and Health Association 1952, 1954-1957
Hospitals. North Carolina 1965-1972
Medical Education. North Carolina 1971
National Health Council 1967
N. C. Comprehensive Health Planning Council 1968-1971
Box 64
N. C. Comprehensive Health Planning Project 1970
Box 65
N. C. Comprehensive Health Services 1968-1969
N. C. Comprehensive Health Services, Financing 1969-1973
Box 63
Psychiatric Hospitals, North Carolina 1957, 1966-1967
Box 63
Smoking and Health 1969
Box 66

Race Problems:
Desegregation Plan. Durham School Board 1965
Durham Negro Grievances. School Integration 1967-1969
"Durham Plan." Race Relations 1963
National Commission on Civil Order. Riot Report 1968
Segregation. Articles, etc. 1954-1969
Segregation. Richmond, Va. Newspaper Clippings 1955

Salem Academy (See N. C. Salem Academy)
Box 67

Salvation Army. Cases from Social Services Department n. d.

Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. Seminars for Southern Journalists (See Press Associations)

Southern Regional Education Board. Seminars for Southern Journalists (See Press Associations)
Box 67

State and Local Revenue Potential. Southern Regional Education Board 1969
Box 68

U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. National Policy and Performance Council 1968-1972
Box 68

University of North Carolina:
Black Student Movement 1968
Election of Trustees 1966
Installation of Chancellor Nelson E. Taylor 1972
Newsletter 1970-1973
Box 68

Virginia Historical Society 1967