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1909–1991 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Lyman A. Cotten.
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About 110 items dated 1927 to 1995 from Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991), a member of the university faculty at Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection 4944-z. The papers concern social life and customs in Chapel Hill, the Order of Gimghoul, other members of the Cotten family, and description and travel in Japan including Hiroshima. Faculty life at the University of North Carolina runs through the papers.
Correspondence, maps and personal narratives of John Henderson Cotten, 1913 to 1982, running from 1928 to 1968, about 975 items in two linear feet, collection 1505 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include Navy service, including maps of Okinawa Island, along with the Cotten family, race relations in Chapel Hill, and the history of the university library.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cotten, Lyman A., 1909-1991.
Organizational records of the Order of Gimghoul, a student society at Chapel Hill, spanning 1832 to 2006 with most material from 1940 to 1997. About 4,000 items in six linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40262. Subjects include the Gimghoul Corporation along with Lyman A. Cotten, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, Thomas F. Hickerson, George Watts Hill and Charles Milton Shaffer, and reach student activities and faculty social life.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cotten, Lyman A., 1909-1991.
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