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The Richard B. Schnedl Papers, 1896-2011, document the professional activities of architect Richard Burke Schnedl and his architectural firms. The collection contains drawings and plans for a number of Schnedl’s projects and several historic buildings designed by other architects, which include site plans, floor plans, electrical and plumbing plans, elevations, sections, and details. The remaining records are grouped as project files, office records, and personal papers. North Carolina-based architect Richard Burke Schnedl specialized in residential design, especially at Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Schnedl received a B.Arch. from North Carolina State College and went on to work with Leslie N. Boney, Edwin Schnedl (Schnedl & Schnedl), Hayes, Howell & Associates, and later ran his own firm called Richard B. Schnedl, Architect and Richard B. Schnedl & Partner (later John W. Thompson, Architect, P.A.). Less

The Richard C. Bell Drawings and Other Materials, 1924-2017, document the professional activities of landscape architect Richard C. Bell. The collection consists of landscape plans and planting details, prospective elevations, technical drawings, and web content, as well as associated architecture plans created by partnering architectural firms. A small number of project files, which document both residential and public spaces, are also found in the collection. Bell’s projects include private residences, subdivision developments, municipal and civic structures, various businesses, and some two dozen college and universities. Richard C. (Richard Chevalier) Bell (1928- ), a native of Manteo, N.C., received a degree in landscape architecture from North Carolina State University's College of Design (then, the North Carolina State College School of Design) in 1950. Afterwards, he apprenticed under Simonds & Simonds of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Frederick B. Stresau of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. At the age of 21, he became the youngest designer to receive the Prix de Rome, allowing him to study in Europe for two years. He became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. In 1954, Bell became a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and he was elected to Fellowship in the organization in 1980. In 1955, Bell founded his first firm in Raleigh, N.C., and for many years operated the business from its award-winning office space, Water Garden Office Park. His son-in-law Dennis Glazener worked for the firm, and eventually became a partner. Bell retired in 2007. Less

Papers by many different authors, most of whom were faculty at colleges and universities, about various authors and themes in science fiction. Most are unpublished papers prepared in the late 1970s and early 1980s for presentation at meetings of the Popular Culture Association, Science Fiction Research Association, Society for Utopian Studies, and other organizations. A few reprints of published articles are included. Among the papers are several about Robert Silverberg, Kurt Vonnegut, the city in science fiction, and utopias and dystopias in science fiction. Richard D. Erlich served as a Professor in English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1971 to 2006. Less

The Richard E. Nance papers contain correspondence, articles, technical reports and reprints, manuals, periodicals, video, and other materials documenting Nance's teaching, research, and professional service, 1950s-2004, in the field of computer simulation. Richard E. Nance received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1962 from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University), followed by a Master of Science in 1964. Nance completed his Ph.D. at Purdue in 1968 and soon established himself as a founding leader in the field of computer simulation research. In addition, he taught at Southern Methodist University and Virginia Tech, served as a researcher for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and participated in a variety of professional activities. Less

Personal papers, manuscripts, correspondence, publications, Watauga Club minutes, news clippings, and books of Richard Gaither Walser. The collection chiefly reflects Walser's work as an authority on North Carolina literature and a scholar of Thomas Wolfe. Included are personal items, such as passports, articles on and some writing by Zeb Vance Walser (his father), alumni-related items from Davidson College and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and items relating to Walser's retirement from North Carolina State University. There are also publications and reviews by and about Richard Walser. The Thomas Wolfe material contains reviews of Walser's books on Wolfe, correspondence pertaining to the writing of these books, and an issue of The Thomas Wolfe Review honoring Richard Walser (Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1982). Correspondence and speeches span the years from 1970 to 1981. Brief biographies of significant North Carolina authors, including Lodwick Hartley and Guy Owen are also included. The Watauga Club material includes a manuscript for the history of the club and some sources for this history, as well as minutes, reports, financial records, a constitution and membership lists. An unprocessed box of Walser's papers and many boxes of his books are also included. Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was an authority on North Carolina literature, Thomas Wolfe scholar, English professor at North Carolina State University, writer, editor, and anthologist, veteran of the Naval Reserve (1942-1945), Guggenheim fellow, and recipient of the North Carolina Award. He earned his B.A. (1929) and M.A. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Less

Richard Hall is a Raleigh architect who worked on a number of older homes (circa 1930) in North Carolina, and especially Raleigh, during his career. In doing so, he collected a number of architectural plans and project files that comprise the Richard Hall Architectural Drawings Collection. Richard Hall is a Raleigh architect who graduated from the NC State University School of Design in 1987. He was born in Middleborough, Kentucky, and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982. Less

The Richard M. Felder Papers contain copies of articles that Felder authored on chemical engineering and on teaching, teaching aids, booklets, correspondence, newspaper and magazine article clippings, research files, projects reports, personal materials, text copies of presentations he gave, other miscellaneous paper files, a video of one of his presentations, and three plaques representing awards Felder received. The collection also include his kindergarten graduation certificate and honorary degrees that he received from various US Universities. The collection includes a few materials in Italian and Portuguese languages. Richard M. Felder joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University in 1969. He is currently (2021) Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus in the department. Less

The Richard Montali Papers document Montali's 29-year career as the chief veterinary pathologist at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., as well as his work at the Taronga Zoo in Australia, at Johns Hopkins Medical School, with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Also documented are many conferences Montali attended or presented at. The collection includes slides, photographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other research materials. While the majority of the collection has documents ranging from the 1970s through to the 2010s, there are a few items that date back as far as 1908. Richard Montali worked for 29 years as Chief Pathologist for the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where he performed diagnostic pathology, investigated zoo animal and wildlife diseases, and provided residency training for veterinarians working in zoo and wildlife pathology. Montali has written (or co-authored) more than 240 scientific articles about zoo and wild animal diseases. His research interests have included infectious diseases of carnivores (especially red and giant pandas), New World primates (especially tamarins and marmosets), and ungulates (especially elephants and black rhinoceros) with an emphasis on mycobacterial and viral infections. Less

This collection contains several photographs of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 1904 graduating class, as well as collected materials documenting the organization of that class's reunions between 1929 and 1974. Risden Patterson Reece was a member of the Class of 1904 at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (North Carolina State University) and worked for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Throughout his life, Reece was active in the North Carolina State Alumni Association and helped organize reunions for the Class of 1904 through the mid-1970s. Less

This collection contains files on Rice's teaching in the Department of Engineering at North Carolina State College (later University), as well as papers relating to his involvement with various branches of the United States Armed Forces. Types of materials include paper files, blueprints, and photographs. Robert Barton Rice was administrator, teacher, and engineering consultant. During World War II, Rice directed the Naval Diesel School, a designated North Carolina State College training facility for national defense. While teaching at North Carolina State College (later University) in 1950, Rice and two partners formed Enginerring Development Associates, a corporation offering services in design, construction, supervision, and consultation in many branches of engineering and architecture. Rice was a member of the faculty at NC State for more than 25 years. Less

The Robert Burns Architectural Drawings include nine architectural drawings by Robert Paschal Burns (1933-2005) that were transfered from the College of Design to Special Collections through the assistance of Dean Marvin Malecha. They include a set of 4 drawings of an international airport from 1957 that Burns had submitted for the 44th Paris Prize in Architecture. He won the competition and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. To support his international travel, Burns had been awarded the Lloyd Warren Fellowship in 1957 while he was a student at North Carolina State College. The collection also includes 3 undated drawings for an apartment hotel development in Raleigh and 2 undated drawings for a Highway Island Development (these last two are likely by Burns, but his name is not on the drawings). This collection also contains slides from Burns' classes, studio and architectural travel. Professor Robert Paschal Burns (1933-2005), a native of Roxboro, North Carolina, was the head of the Architecture Department at NC State University's School of Design from 1967 to 1974 and from 1983 to 1991. He was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1979 and was awarded the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence in 1996. Professor Emeritus Robert Burns died in an automobile accident on October 28, 2005. Less

The Robert C. Browning Papers contains material from the professional engineering work of Robert C. Browning, and his father, R. Getty Browning. Robert C. Browning's materials contain project files, drawings, project photographs, engineering instruments related to his work as a consulting engineer. The project files are a sampling of Browning's engineering projects from the 1950s until the mid-1990s. His projects are mainly located at hospitals, colleges, and warehouse facilities. The types of documents found most often in Browning's project files are notes, sketches, working drawings, specifications, correspondence, budgeting and costs, engineering standards, and equipment catalogs. The equipment catalogs were put out by the manufacturers of machines and industrial equipment that Browning either installed or considered installing in project locations. Browning's collection also contains a box of personal information. This box includes diplomas, conferences attended, papers given, and Browning's resume at various points in his career. Also included is a profile of the Robert C. Browning Consulting Firm and a projects list. Engineering drawings in the Robert Browning Collection are shop drawings or blue prints. Some are drawn in the original pencil, others are copies. Copies of drawings often contain new revisions and added notes. The drawings illustrate plans for plumbing, electrical, lighting, structural, floor plans, exhaust, air conditioning, and heating. The Robert C. Browning Papers also include are materials from R. Getty Browning's work as Chief Locating Engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (previously named Highway Commission). Included in the collection are project files, biographical papers, and artifacts. In the project files are materials relating to Getty Browning's work in the planning and construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway. These files contain correspondence, notes, maps, sketches, photographs and publicity materials. Biographical papers include newspaper clippings, photographs and publicity created by or about Getty Browning before and after his death. Also included are papers related to his work in the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The artifacts in the collection are engineering and surveying equipment used by Getty Browning. Robert C. Browning (1919-2007) and his father, R. Getty Browning (1884-1966), worked as engineers in North Carolina. Robert C. Browning earned a degree in consulting engineering from North Carolina State University in 1941. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War II, Browning came back to the United States and started his own consulting engineering firm. As a consulting engineer, Robert C. Browning worked on the construction and renovations of schools, hospitals, industrial plants, and commercial buildings from 1953 until the mid-1990s. Projects at these locations included air conditioning, plumbing, heating, electrical, communications, storm drainage, water and sewer, grading, site planning, structural, central heating plants, steam distribution systems, highway right-of way acquisition, claims investigations, and highway location. R. Getty Browning worked as the Chief Locating Engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation from 1925 to 1958. He is best known for planning the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina starting in 1934. Less

The Robert Eugene Messick Papers, 1966-1970, contains documents written by Robert Eugene Messick. Included is his undergraduate thesis on a unified graphic system for the various campus documents and bulletins at North Carolina State College. The collection also contains two reports published by Messick. The first is entitled "The Gray Area Report" and describes his account of the events and issues surrounding his early release as Theater Assistant Technician with Thompson Theater. The second, entitled "Death of a Union," contends that students had lost all voice in the operation of the College Union at North Carolina State University by 1969. The final item is a text regarding the state of the College Union that Messick prepared for a meeting before the Executive Committee on the Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. Robert Eugene Messick, born in 1941, attended North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1959 to 1966. In May 1966 he received a bachelor's degree in product design, and then worked as a product design instructor and as a technician and designer in campus theatre productions at North Carolina State University. Less

The Robert F. Davis Papers includes correspondence, high school summer workshop and North Carolina State University course materials, and a large series of article reprints that relate to the processing of glass and ceramics. The material dates from 1932 to 1992, and bulks in the two decades of his career as educator and researcher. Topics include his academic life and materials science engineering research and education. Less

The Robert F. Stoops Papers, 1946-1950, 1963, contain class notes, assignments, tests, and textbooks from Stoops's time as an undergraduate ceramic engineering major at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University), as well a lab report written by one of Stoops's students at N.C. State. Robert F. Stoops (1921-2005) received his B.A. in ceramic engineering from N.C. State and his M.A. and Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from Ohio State University. He joined the faculty at N.C. State in 1958 and was appointed director of engineering research in 1968. He also served as the director of the N.C. State Minerals Research Laboratory. Less

The papers of Robert M. Fearn, professor emeritus of economics at North Carolina State University, include correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to his roles as chair of Faculty Senate, Athletics Council member, and economics professor. Information related to athletic affairs, faculty senate, Nelson Hall, U.S. Department of Labor project, and the Barney Huang legal case are included in the collection. Robert M. Fearn was a professor of economics at North Carolina State University, former chair of the Faculty Senate, and member of the Athletics Council. Less

This collection includes documents and hosiery samples from the Kellwood Company of Siler City, North Carolina. Robert McKinley, who worked at the Kellwood Company for ten years, was in possession of the documents found in this collection. However, many documents, patents, agreements, and financial records originally belonged to Robert M. Matthews. The collection contains both business-related documents as well as documents, photos, slides, and samples pertaining specifically to the garments themselves. There are many articles within the collection. The bulk of the material comes from the 1980s about twenty years after the company was established. Robert McKinley began by working for Sears as a buyer in New York and Chicago. McKinley worked at Kellwood Company in Siler City, North Carolina for ten years. Robert M. Matthews worked for Robert McKinley. During his career at Kellwood Company, he was able to acquire two patents regarding hosiery and panty-hose creation and material during early 1970s.Kellwood Company was formed in 1961 due to the merger of Sears and other companies. Kellwood company still exists today and is acquired by a Hong Kong-based investor group. Less

This collection contains photographs taken by Dr. Robert N. Elliott, Jr. A professional photographer by training, Dr. Elliott took the majority of these photographs during his tenure as a history professor at North Carolina State University. The photographs span from 1965 through 1985 and the bulk of the photographs were taken in the 1970s. The photographs are primarily outdoor shots in North Carolina, but images from Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina are included. Some themes of the photographic collection include the historic sections of Raleigh and Old Salem, North Carolina; South Carolina cemeteries; beaches and waterscapes; rural landscapes; outdoor winter landscapes; North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina campuses; plants and flowers; and trees. While the collection is primarily made up of photographs, it also contains some of Elliott's drawings of rural landscapes. Dr. Robert Neal Elliott, Jr., was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1915. He was trained as a professional photographer by M. F. Dunbar. During World War II, he utilized his photography skills as a camera operator for the United States Army Air Force’s First Motion Picture Division, based in Hollywood, California. After the war, Elliott earned a bachelor’s degree from Appalachian State University and a doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he specialized in North Carolina history. He taught at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1956, then at North Carolina State University from 1956 until his retirement in 1981. He is the author of The Raleigh Register, 1799-1863. He maintained an active interest in photography throughout his life and on at least one occasion exhibited his photographs at North Carolina State University. Elliott died in 2003. Less