Special Collections & Archives

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <ead xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"> <eadheader repositoryencoding="iso15511" countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b"> <eadid url="http://hdl.handle.net/10339/27728 "/> <filedesc> <titlestmt> <titleproper>Inventory of the James Henry Foote Papers, <date normal="1849/1866">1849-1866</date> <num>MS296</num> </titleproper> <author>Finding aid prepared by Processed by: John Woodard; machine-readable finding aid created by Apex</author> <sponsor>Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.</sponsor> </titlestmt> <publicationstmt> <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher> <address> <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline> <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline> <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline> </address> <date>2005</date> </publicationstmt> </filedesc> <profiledesc> <creation>This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit <date>2019-05-23T15:34-0400</date> </creation> <langusage>Description is in <language langcode="eng">English</language></langusage> </profiledesc> </eadheader> <archdesc level="collection"> <did> <unittitle>James Henry Foote Papers</unittitle> <unitid>MS296</unitid> <repository> <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname> </repository> <langmaterial> <language langcode="eng"/> </langmaterial> <container id="cid165026" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container> <physdesc> <extent>0.25 linear feet</extent> <extent>1 half letter box </extent> </physdesc> <unitdate normal="1849/1866" type="inclusive">1849-1866</unitdate> <physloc id="ref2" label="Location">For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives.</physloc> <abstract id="ref3" label="Abstract">J.H. Foote, Iredell County, received his A.B. from Wake Forest College in 1852, and his A.M. in 1856. He was a teacher in Farmington and Taylorsville, 1852-1859, and professor at Wake Forest College, 1859-1861. During the Civil War he was Capt. of County I, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regt. and was in charge of the "Roll of Honor" office, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a teacher in Warrenton, Raleigh, and Wilkes counties. He served as Assistant U.S. Marshal, and as member of the General Assembly of North Carolina.</abstract> <origination label="creator"> <persname source="naf">Foote, James Henry, 1825-1909</persname> </origination> </did> <accessrestrict id="ref5"> <head>Access Restrictions</head> <p>Collection is open.</p> </accessrestrict> <userestrict id="ref6"> <head>Copyright Notice</head> <p>Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question or their descendants, unless otherwise designated. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.</p> </userestrict> <prefercite id="ref7"> <head>Preferred Citation</head> <p>MS 296, James Henry Foote Papers, 1849-1866, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.</p> </prefercite> <acqinfo id="ref8"> <head>Acquisitions Information</head> <p>Hawthorne, Mrs. Betty Thomas [Granddaughter], Salisbury, North Carolina Gift, Nov. 8, 1993 (daguerreotype)</p> <p>PCMS 0296.</p> </acqinfo> <processinfo id="ref9"> <head>Processing Information</head> <p>Processed by John Woodard</p> <p>Encoded by Apex, March, 2005</p> <p>Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through <extref ns2:href="http://www.ncecho.org/">North Carolina ECHO</extref>.</p> </processinfo> <bioghist id="ref10"> <head>Biographical and Historical Note</head> <p>J.H. Foote, Iredell County, received his A.B. from Wake Forest College in 1852, and his A.M. in 1856. He was a teacher in Farmington and Taylorsville, 1852-1859, and professor at Wake Forest College, 1859-1861. During the Civil War he was Captain of County I, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment and was in charge of the "Roll of Honor" office, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a teacher in Warrenton, Raleigh, and Wilkes counties. He served as Assistant U.S. Marshal, and as member of the General Assembly of North Carolina.</p> </bioghist> <scopecontent id="ref11"> <head>Collection Overview</head> <p>His papers consists of biographical data; a carte-de-vista of Foote, circa 1865-1866; a daguerreotype of the ten members of the Wake Forest College Class of 1852 [Foote, <persname>James Bond,</persname> <persname>Benjamin Franklin Biddle,</persname> <persname>Bedford Brown,</persname> <persname>Joseph John Freeman,</persname> <persname>Gerard James Hinton,</persname> <persname>Benjamin James Lea,</persname> <persname>John Mitchell,</persname> <persname>William Gaston Simmons,</persname> and <persname>Samuel Owen Tatum</persname>], and a positive print.</p> </scopecontent> <controlaccess> <persname source="naf">Foote, James Henry, 1825-1909</persname> </controlaccess> <dsc/> </archdesc> </ead>