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OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONSSource: The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (April, 1969), pp. 196-199Published by: North Carolina Office of Archives and HistoryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23518128 .

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The author chronicles every change in top management personnel and loads his narrative with names and trivialities which for most

readers have no significance. He seeks to chronicle all important events

in the company's history and to give an evolving picture of the town

of West Point and of its people and transportation facilities. An appen dix provides numerous tabulations which measure the company's

growth and to some extent reflect its problems. The author, however,

gives an inadequate picture of the dynamic growth of the southern

pulp and paper industry and of the Chesapeake Corporation's position in it.

James F. Doster

University of Alabama

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Collectors of North Caroliniana will want to acquire a copy of A

Sketch of the Ufe of Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818, by Mary Myers Dwelle, "A Bicentennial Tribute from Her Namesake," published by the Charlotte Bicentennial Commission. In a very brief text Charlotte

Sophia, youngest daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who

became the wife of George III of England, has been portrayed interest

ingly and sympathetically by Mrs. Dwelle through the use of one of

the young girl's letters, by glimpses at the Queen's family life, and by a description of the age of Queen Charlotte in eighteenth-century

England. A remarkable and popular woman, Queen Charlotte's likeness will be found today in hundreds of portraits and miniatures which

were produced by such famous artists as Gainsborough, Hogarth, Allan Ramsay, Joshua Reynolds, and Josiah Wedgwood. A list of some

of the portraits of Queen Charlotte and the names of their owners is

provided by the author. The book has been produced in a most

attractive format by Heritage Printers, Inc. On the cover of the hard

board binding of simulated leather is a color reproduction of Ramsay's oil painting of the Queen which hangs in the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, as a gift of Mrs. Westray Battle. The wide margins of the

30-page work and the endpapers are decorated with artistic symbols of the period. The price is $2.50, and copies can be obtained from the

publisher at 510 West Fourth Street, Charlotte, N. C., 28202.

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The Windsor Story, 1768-1968, not only preserves for posterity in

pictures and words the events of the bicentennial celebration held in

Windsor on November 28, 29, and 30, 1968, but is also a "how-to-do-it"

book thoughtfully prepared and published for use by officials of the

many towns, cities, and counties who may want to undertake similar

celebrations but are at a loss as how to proceed. The 200-page "scrap book" includes specially written articles on more than fifty aspects of

Windsor's past, from etiquette to peanuts, from the town charter to the

arrival of automobiles, as well as excerpts from the Colonial Records,

newspapers, letters, and diaries. Dozens of interesting and entertaining

photographs, sketches, and other illustrative material add heartbeat

to the text. The citizens of Windsor are to be commended for their

initiative, industry, and creativity in producing both the celebration

and the book with such style and enthusiasm. The Windsor Story, 1768-1968, has been printed by photo offset on Sh-by-ll inch size

paper, and it is paperbound. Postpaid copies may be ordered from the

Windsor Bicentennial Commission, Box 1768, Windsor, N. C., 27983,

at $5.45 each.

The Gaston County Historical Society has made available a reprint edition of Our Kin, by Laban Miles Hoffman, a genealogical work

originally published in 1915. The book covers the histories of seventeen

families, most of German ancestry, who were among the pioneer settlers of the southwestern Piedmont area of the state: Hoffman,

Bhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley (Schattle), Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers (Weathers), Cansler

(Genseler), Clemmer, and Lineberger. The compiler, who died in

1934, included an autobiographical sketch in the preface and in

addition interspersed reminiscences, anecdotes, and historical data

throughout the genealogical listings. Sixteen photographs and a partial index to names are included. The 585-page clothbound book has been

republished photographically by the Genealogical Publishing Com

pany on a good quality of paper. Copies are available from the Gaston

County Historical Society, 2915 Whitson Road, Gastonia, N. C., 28052,

at $10.50 each.

A primer manual which will be useful to professional archivists and

to those researchers who have been frustrated and confused by one

aspect of the application of technology to preservation of resource

materials is Microphotography for Archives, by Albert H. Leisinger, Jr., secretary of the microfilming committee of the International

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Council on Archives. The manual has been published for the purpose of advancing "the use of microfilm as a means of publication with the

hope that many archival institutions that are interested in facilitating access to their records for scientific and scholarly researchers as well

as in preserving the records themselves will find it of value." The text

describes the various forms of microfilm, its uses and disadvantages, microfilm equipment, and archival operations, including storage and

maintenance of film. In addition to a brief bibliography, the 44-page paperbound handbook includes 10 pages of illustrative material (33

photographs and sketches). Copies may be obtained by writing to Mr.

Leisinger at the International Council on Archives, National Archives,

Washington, D. C., 20408.

Preservation Through Documentation is a handsome paperbound booklet based on the 400-item graphic exhibition gleaned from the archives of the Historical American Buildings Survey on its thirty-fifth anniversary and shown at the Library of Congress from September 26

to December 31, 1968. The 16-page publication includes fifty black and white reproductions of photographs and drawings representative of American architecture from the colonial era to the twentieth century. There is a brief introductory essay by S. K. Stevens, chairman of the

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, describing the work of the

HABS which, under the administration of the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation of the National Park Service, has recorded

exterior and interior dimensions of more than thirteen thousand structures since its establishment in 1933. Orders for the brochure,

accompanied by 25 cents per copy, should be sent to the Superin tendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington D. C., 20402.

John M. Taylor, a career foreign service officer, is the author of From the White House Inkwell: American Presidential Autographs, an informative and fascinating discussion of the calligraphy of thirty five chief executives. The book provides a pleasant explanation of the technical angles of collecting presidential autographs, a burgeoning hobby which, for the present at least, is economical enough to be

pursued by a broad segment of the population. Facsimile copies of the

penmanship of every president from George Washington to Lyndon B. Johnson are reproduced, and the author has supplied pertinent historical facts to accompany the samples. Mr. Taylor's choice of material and style of writing make this such an absorbing book it can

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be read from foreword to index at one sitting. The 147-page work has

been printed in a 9-by-12 inch format on a good quality of paper and

bound in navy blue canvas. The publisher is the Charles E. Tuttle Co.,

Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 05701, from whom copies may be ordered at

$10.00 each.

The Historical Branch of the United States Marine Corps has

reissued four publications of interest to historians. Three titles are

included in the Corps' Historical Reference Pamphlet series: The

United States Marines in North China, 1945-1949, by Henry I. Shaw, Jr. (printed 1960, revised 1962, reprinted 1968; 26 pages), is a narrative account of the activities of Marine units in China from the end of

World War II until the defeat of the Nationalist Chinese armies in

1949, with maps, notes, and three appendixes; Marine Corps Women's

Reserve in World War 11, by Lieutenant Colonel Pat Meid, USMCR

(printed 1964, revised 1968; 98 pages), is a narrative history of 65

pages, plus notes and seven appendixes; and A Brief History of the

5th Marines, by Major James M. Yingling, USMC (printed 1963, revised 1968; 79 pages), is a narrative of 64 pages covering activities

of the regiment from July, 1914, to September, 1967, with maps, notes, and three appendixes. An Annotated Bibliography of the United States

Marines in the Civil War, by Michael O'Quinlivan and Rowland P. Gill (first printed 1963, revised 1968) is a 15-page pamphlet in the

Corps' Historical Reference Bibliographies series. Any or all of these

paperbound, Sía-by-11 inch booklets may be obtained from the Histor

ical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, Washing ton, D. C., 20390.

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