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Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection

Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968) was born in Wilkes County and lived in the Happy Valley area of the Yadkin River. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina and became an authority on highway engineering. Hickerson also published two books about his home area entitled Happy Valley (1940) and Echoes of Happy Valley (1962).The photographs in this collection came from a photograph album from the estate of Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968). They include portraits of individuals from the western piedmont of North Carolina and a photograph of the home of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina. In addition, there is an obituary card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe (d. 1889).

Title

Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection

Collection Number

PhC.38.1

Date(s)

1689 - circa 1896

Language

English

Physical Description
15.0 item(s)
Includes photographs ranging in size from 1 1/2 x 2 3/16", to 8 x 5" and 1 death notice card. The collection includes cartes de visites, tintypes, and cabinet cards.
Abstract

Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968) was born in Wilkes County and lived in the Happy Valley area of the Yadkin River. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina and became an authority on highway engineering. Hickerson also published two books about his home area entitled Happy Valley (1940) and Echoes of Happy Valley (1962).

The photographs in this collection came from a photograph album from the estate of Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968). They include portraits of individuals from the western piedmont of North Carolina and a photograph of the home of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina. In addition, there is an obituary card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe (d. 1889).

Physical Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.

Creator

Hickerson, Thomas Felix, 1882-1968.

Repository

State Archives of North Carolina

The collection is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the individual, followed by the unidentified people, the Secrest home, and the obituary card.

Available for research.

Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.

Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, December, 1990

Encoded by Dietra Stanley

Enocoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012

Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968) was born in Wilkes County and lived in the Happy Valley area of the Yadkin River. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina and became an authority on highway engineering. Hickerson also published two books about his home area entitled Happy Valley (1940) and Echoes of Happy Valley (1962).

[Identification of item], PhC.38.1, Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Transferred to the State Archives by Weymouth T. Jordan of the Publications Section on March 16, 1988. It was donated to the Archives by Tom Broadfoot, 1907 Buenavista Circle, Wilmington, North Carolina 28405; accessioned on December, 1990.

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS)  http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.

The photographs in this collection came from a photograph album from the estate of Thomas Felix Hickerson. Most of the photographs are portraits of individuals from the western piedmont. The majority of them are unidentified; however many of the pictures contain the name and location of the photographer. There are several examples of the work of Henry A. Lineback of Salem as well as A. McIntosh of Hickory. The one non-portrait is a view of the home of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina, eighteen miles from Spartanburg. The collection also contains a cabinet card of William Jennings Bryan. In addition, there is an obituary card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe (d. 1889), a native of England and an officer in the Confederate Army.

  • Leventhorpe, Collett, 1815-1889.
  • Lineback, Henry A.
  • McIntosh, A.
  • Secrest, Hoke C.
  • Architecture, Domestic--South Carolina.
  • Portraits.

Box: 38.1  
1. Henry N. Ackerman (1852-1888), Salem, N. C., Henry A. Lineback, n.d.

2669
2. William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), Compliments of the New York Journal, Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N. J.
ca. 1896

2670
3. J. (?) Hall
November 1. 1889

2671
4. Miss Jane Kern, Shuber, Bethlehem, Pa., inscription on reverse reads "for Frank," n.d.

2672
5. Belle ______, tintype, n.d.

2673
6. Gordon , A. McIntosh, Hickory, N. C., inscription on reverse reads "Estelle from Gordon," n.d.

2674
7. Five unidentified young men, Henry A. Lineback, Salem, N. C. , n.d.

2675
8. Unidentified man, Henry A. Lineback, Salem, N. C.
March, 1876

2676
9. Unidentified man, Henry A. Lineback, Salem, N. C., n.d.

2677
10. Unidentified woman, tintype, n.d.

2678
11. Unidentified woman, Henry A. Lineback, Salem, N. C. , n.d.

2679
12. Unidentified woman, snapshot, n.d.

2680
13. Unidentified man and woman (probably husband and wife), A. McIntosh, Hickory, N.C., n.d.

2681
14. Unidentified man, n.d.

2682
15. Homeplace of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina, eighteen miles from Spartanburg, after he escaped from the Western North Carolina State Hospital, n.d.

Scope and Content

Secrest had murdered his wife and child in Union County in 1882.

2683
16. Death notice card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe, died Dec. 1, 1689, aged 73 years.

Scope and Content

A native of England, he was a colonel in the 11th Regiment, North Carolina Troops and was later promoted to brigadier general in the Army of Northern Virginia. Leventhorpe operated mines in Western North Carolina before the war.