Hobbies, 1910 - 2015
Scope and Contents
This accession contains numerous documents relating to Ann Bowling Pearson's family history, including genealogical records and charts, scrapbooks, correspondence, wills, land deeds, and legal documents. Photographs dating from the 1800s to the late 2010s of various family members and friends are also included-notably several of Ann's maternal grandfather, Luther Noble Duncan, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Correspondence and documents from Luther Noble Duncan's time spent as Alabama Polytechnic Institute's President, as well as small personal items belonging to him such as cufflinks, are included too. In addition, there are documents and photographs relating to Ann Pearson's personal and professional life, including various manuscript drafts, diaries, postcard and stamp collections, and records from her time served on the local cemetery board and within multiple historical and genealogical societies. Other highlights of the accession include: a letter from Agatha Christie; correspondence from a European diplomat who visited Auburn; a letter mentioning the first time Mount Everest was surmounted; early photographs of Auburn Campfire Girls; a Luther Noble Duncan tapestry panel potentially created by API's School of Textile Engineering in the 1930s; and the last will and testament of Auburn's "Doc" Hodge Freeman Drake.
Dates
- 1910 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to research without restrictions.
Extent
From the Accession: 27 Cubic Feet (11 flat boxes; 2 OS flat boxes; 7 card file boxes; 1 small card file box; 1 slide box; 13 RC boxes; 4 framed photographs)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Pearson, Ann Bowling (1941-2020) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu