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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 Eloise Whitaker Papers #4348-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Recieved from Robert N. Whitaker of Enfield, N.C., in March 1983.

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Processed by: Carolyn Roff, June 1986

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, April 2007

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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• Enfield (N.C.)--History.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College--Students--Social life and customs.
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro--History.
• Whitaker, Eloise.
• Women college students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Eloise Whitaker of Enfield, N.C., was the daughter of Methodist minister G. A. T. Whitaker. She attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in Greensboro, N.C., where she took music lessons and served as treasurer of the sophomore class in 1894.

The collection includes correspondence of Eloise Whitaker of Enfield, N.C., with her mother, sisters, and friends, and other items, 1891-1896. Materials are letters to her sisters while Eloise was a student at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in Greensboro, N.C.; letters of others; a homework paper; and other items.