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Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

1881–1953 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Order of Gimghoul records, 1832-2006 (bulk 1940-1997).

Order of Gimghoul (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1832

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: Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt, 1881-1953.

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Life and Orange County connections

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1914 Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton commissions a house on North Street from N. C. Curtis In 1914 J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, head of the UNC history department and later founder of the Southern Historical Collection, had N. C. Curtis design a one-story house with a pyramid roof at 517 North Street. Two rooms were added in 1924. People: Nathaniel Cortlandt CurtisSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 47

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J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton 1 entry: Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton commissions a house on North Street from N. C. Curtis (1914)

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State Archives catalog: 1 collection naming Nathaniel Cortlandt CurtisState Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina

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NC LIVE: prepared search for Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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