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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Jane Simpson McKimmon Papers, #1289, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Aeronautics, Military--Study and teaching--United States--History.
• Blind--North Carolina--Correspondence.
• Blind--Printing and writing systems--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Ensley (Ala.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Georgia Institute of Technology--History--20th century.
• McKimmon family.
• McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957.
• McKimmon, William Simpson.
• North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind--History.
• Park Field (Memphis, Tenn.)
• Plattsburgh (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Simpson, J. A.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--Military life.
• World War, 1914-1918--France.

Jane Simpson McKimmon was the first home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina, and an author of Raleigh, N.C.

The collection contians family correspondence of McKimmon, primarily during World War I, including letters from her to her sons, written at Raleigh, N.C.; and letters from her son, William S. McKimmon, about training and war experiences at aviation school at the Georgia School of Technology, at Park Field, Memphis, Tenn., and in France. Also included are scattered letters from other sons at Ensley, Ala., Chapel Hill, N.C., and Plattsburg, N.Y., and four letters in Braille to John A. Simpson at the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, Raleigh, N.C.