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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Orange County (N.C.) World War I Activities Records #00566, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from various sources, 1945-1972.

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• Cameron, Annie Sutton.
• Epidemics--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Influenza--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Orange County (N.C.)--History.
• World War, 1914-1918--War work--North Carolina.

The history of World War I activities in Orange County, N.C., 1917-1918, was compiled by AnnieSutton Cameron in 1919 at the request of J. S. Webb, chair of the county Council of Defense. The making of typed copies was arranged by Louis Round Wilson of the University of North Carolina Library and Robert Burton House, collector of war records for the North Carolina Historical Commission, 1919-1920. Other materials were added from from Rural Social Economic Department at UNC and from Professor E. C. Branson's papers.

The collection includes "A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919," by Annie Sutton Cameron, a manuscript history of local efforts during World War I in Orange County, N.C., and related correspondence and lists of soldiers and members of local committees. Cameron's history covers the Council of Defense and the Home Guard, war bond and overseas relief campaigns, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic of 1918, and other matters.