Preliminary Inventory of the Charles DeWitt Watts Papers, 1960-2004

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Watts, Charles DeWitt

Charles DeWitt Watts Papers, 1960-2004

Material in English

15.2 Linear Feet

8025 Items

Pioneering African-American surgeon who was chief of surgery at Lincoln Hospital, clinical professor of surgery at Duke University, director of student health at North Carolina Central University, and vice president and medical director for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. for 28 years.

Collection (6750 items; 13.5 lin. ft.) includes correspondence, speeches, memoranda, certificates and awards, photographs, and slides. Most files date from the 1970s and 1980s and are related to several universities and medical organizations in Durham and North Carolina. Also included are a scrapbook and print materials from the Merrick/Washington Braille Magazine. The addition (2008-0312) (1275 items; 1.7 lin. ft.; 1970-2001 and undated) includes photographs, a scrapbook, a wooden plaque, and materials from board meetings of the Howard University Medical Alumni Association. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation.

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[Identification of item], Charles DeWitt Watts Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Charles DeWitt Watts Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 2005-2006.

Processed by Meghan Lyon, December 2008.

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, December 2008.

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.

The collection (6750 items; 13.5 lin. ft.) includes correspondence, speeches, memoranda, certificates and awards, photographs, and slides. Most files date from the 1970s and 1980s and are related to several universities and medical organizations in Durham and North Carolina. Also included are a scrapbook and print materials from the Merrick/Washington Braille Magazine.

The addition (2008-0312) (1275 items; 1.7 lin. ft.; 1970-2001 and undated) includes photographs, a scrapbook, a wooden plaque, and materials from board meetings of the Howard University Medical Alumni Association.

Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation.

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