Preliminary Inventory of the Norine Shipley Norris Papers, 1895-2000
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Norris, Norine Shipley.
Title
Norine Shipley Norris Papers, 1895-2000
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
1.8 Linear Feet
200 Items
Abstract
200 Items
Norine Shipley Norris attended Southern Female College (also known as Cox College) in 1897-1899, and taught Sunday school in Atlanta at Kirkwood Baptist Church in the early 1900s.
This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.
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Administrative Information
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Copyright Notice
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Norine Shipley Norris Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Norine Shipley Norris Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in 2009.
Processing Information
Accessioned by Meghan Lyon, May 2009
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, May 2009
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Norine Shipley Norris was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Sarah Armistead and R.J. Shipley. Not much is known about the events of her life, but she did attend Southern Female College for at least two years, in 1897-1899; she also taught at the Kirkwood Baptist Church in the early 1900s. She was courted by Earnest Sevier Cox around that same time. She married James P. Norris on January 12, 1909, and appears to have lived most of her life in the Atlanta area.
[top]Collection Overview
This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.
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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.
- Norris, Norine Shipley.
- Cox, Earnest Sevier.
- Daughters of the American Revolution.
- Southern Female College.
- Baptist universities and colleges--United States--19th century.
- Women's institutes--19th century.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- United States--Race relations.
- Atlanta (Ga.)
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Books.
- Clippings, newspaper.
Related Material
Earnest Sevier Cox Papers
Duke University
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Preliminary Description of Collection
Accession (2009-0129)
(3 boxes)
This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.
Box 1
Earnest Sevier Cox correspondence, 1905-1906
Correspondence, 1900s
Kirkwood Baptist Church Sunday school class, 1901-1904
Norrine's notebooks: College Looseleaf scrapbook clippings inserts
Norine's notebooks (3)
Photographs
General
Preachers
Shipley photographs
Armsted photographs
No label
Box 2
Angie Norris Hauser, 2000
Angie Norris Hauser tintypes and autograph book
Books
Riley, James Whitcome: An Old Sweetheart of Mine, 1902
Book of poetry given to Norine Egbert Shipley by Earnest Sevier Cox, Dec. 25, 1904.
Clay, John Cecil: In Love's Garden
Book of poetry given to Norine Egbert Shipley by Earnest Sevier Cox, Dec. 25, 1905.
Gray, James M.: Synthetic Bible Studies, 1900
Painter, F.V.N.: Introduction to American Literature, 1897
Mack, Anna E.: Heaven's Distant Lamps, 1900
Eleventh International Sunday School Convention: The Development of the Sunday School, 1780-1905, 1905
The Poems and Drama of Lord Byron, 1884
Hamill, H.M.: Practical Outline: Study of the Four Gospels; Life of Christ; Acts, 1904
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Princess
From E.S. Cox.
Longfellow's Complete Poems, 1898
Box 3
Correspondence, Norine Shipley, J.P. Norris, 1900s-1940s
Southern Female College reports, 1897-1899
Daughters of the American Revolution application, 1918
Photographs
Family
Unknown
Daniels and McDaniels family
Landscapes
Coloring book scraps, James Hauser
Miscellaneous commericial advertisements and materials, 1910s-1930s
Clippings, notecards, scraps, 1900s-1930s
Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, 1882
Lamb, Charles and Mary: Tales from Shakespeare, 1807
Above the Clouds of Old New York (Woolworth Building tower), 1913
Oversize Image Folder
1
Environs of Cox College and Conservatory, College Park, Georgia, 1907
Portraits (2)
