Charles P. Wofford Papers
Scope and Contents
The Charles P. Wofford Papers document Dr. Wofford’s life and experiences in Johnson City, Tenn., his personal interests, family history, and local history of the Johnson City area. The collection includes correspondence, photographs and photograph albums, oral interviews and other recordings, unpublished family histories of the Wofford and Harris families, memoirs of Dr. Wofford, books and other miscellaneous publications, post cards, tobacco cards, family Bibles, and scrapbooks.
Dates
- 1809 - 2005
Creator
- Wofford, Charles Parker, 1908-2010 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Extent
18.60 linear feet (20 Boxes; 69 Photographs; 203 Slides)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in five series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1855-2005 and undated; Series 2, Publications, 1809-1992; and Series 3, Photographs and Photograph Scrapbooks, 1880-1985 and undated; Series 4, Postcards and Tobacco cards, 1907-1967 and undated; and Series 5, Recordings, 1996-2004 and undated.
Method of Acquisition
The original donation to the Charles P. Wofford Papers was made to the Archives of Appalachia on January 11, 1995 by Dr. Charles P. Wofford, Johnson City, Tenn.
Accruals and Additions
Additional materials were donated by Dr. Wofford on March 7, 1996, March 14, 2001, December 1, 2004, and August 15, 2005. A copy of Dr. Wofford’s memoirs “The Oldest Boy Scout” was donated on August 21, 2007 by Ellen and John Wofford, Fort Mill, S. C.
Processing Information
The original donated material was processed by Ned Irwin in 1997.
- Compact discs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Europe -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harris Family
- Johnson City (Tenn.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Scotland--pictorial works Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Slides (photographs) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States--description and travel Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Wofford family
- World War, 1914-1918 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Author
- Ned Irwin & Mary Dykes
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu