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Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Daughters of the American Revolution, Davie Poplar Chapter Records, #891, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by Mrs. David J. Sessoms, June 1941 and March 1946.

Loaned by Mrs. John B. MacLeod, July 1964 and 1965, August 1966, and June 1973.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Daughters of the American Revolution. Davie Poplar Chapter (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Patriotic societies--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Societies and clubs--History--20th century.
• World War, 1939-1945--War work--North Carolina.

The Daughters of the American Revolution is a patriotic and genealogical society for women with ancestral ties to Revolutionary soldiers. The Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Chapel Hill, N.C., was organized from the General Davie Chapter of the organization, Durham, N.C., in December 1928.

The collection contains the records of the Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including minutes of meetings; membership data; yearbooks containing lists of chapter and national officers; and scrapbooks of letters, photographs, and clippings.

• Oversize volumes (SV-891/1-4)
• Three scrapbooks from this collection may be found at the North Carolina Collection: Scrapbook for the years 1939-1940 and 1940-1941 (FC970 - D23d - 1939-41), Scrapbook for 1943-1944 and 1944-1945 (FC970 - D23d - 1943-45), and D.A.R. Scrapbook of Orange County World War II Honor Roll (FC971.68 - D23s - 1941-46)