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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | Emma Horton Moore |
| Title: | Miss Emma Moore's A.S.T.C. Scrapbook, 1907 - 1957 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | The Emma Moore Scrapbook was compiled by Emma Moore, former librarian at the Appalachian State Teachers College. The scrapbook includes information about the college, its students, and its faculty, especially B. B. and D. D. Dougherty. It covers from ca. 1900 to 1957. Included are newspaper clippings, photographs, Moore's writings about the history of Appalachian State Teachers College, and retyped documents pertaining to Appalachian Training School and Appalachian State Teachers College. |
| Extent: | 2 linear feet, 1 archival box |
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[Identification of item], Miss Emma Moore's A.S.T.C. Scrapbook, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.
The original arrangement of the collection was originally made by Deborah Bell in 1994. The staff archivist Kathryn Staley adapted this arrangement and processed the collection in 2002.
Emma Horton Moore (1869-1962) was the daughter of Colonel William and Rebecca Blair Horton of Boone, North Carolina. She attended High Point College (1889) and Optical College (1896). She married Louis Moore in 1896, and they had one child, James Horton Moore. Moore worked as a teacher in Ashe and Wilkes Counties (1890 and 1916, respectively), the Supervisor of Girls for Appalachian Training School (1907-1915), and a Appalachian State Teachers College librarian (1921-1957). She retired to Roanoke, North Carolina.
This collection contains one extremely fragile 11" x 17" scrapbook compiled by Emma Horton Moore, original organization. Moore collected newspaper articles about Appalachian State Teachers College, wrote her own historical pieces about Appalachian State Teachers College, and retyped legal documents regarding the school. Much of the scrapbook deals with Appalachian State Teachers College's founders, B.B. and D.D. Dougherty.
| Collection 161. Miss Emma Moore's A.S.T.C. Scrapbook. (1907 - 1957) | |||||||||
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