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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Keister Family Papers #5456, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Crown Collectibles of Chesterfield, Va., in February 2010 (Acc. 101259).

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Processed by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

Encoded by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

This collection was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.

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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• Families--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• India--Description and travel.
• Keister family.
• Keister, Albert S.
• Keister, Alice Virginia, 1927-.
• Keister, Mary Elizabeth.
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Faculty.
• Woman's College of the University of North Carolina--Faculty.
• Woman's College of the University of North Carolina--Students.
• Women teachers--India.

The Keister family of Greensboro, N.C., included Dr. Albert S. Keister, an economics professor beginning at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, which later became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; his wife; and his six daughters, including Alice Virginia Keister, who received a Bachelor's degree in history from the Woman's College in 1948, and Dr. Mary Elizabeth Keister, who apparently worked as a teacher in India and was also involved in research in early childhood education.

The collection consists of three photograph albums of the Keister family, 1920s-1960s, that document family, friends, and Dr. Mary Elizabeth Keister in India, including photographs of Mary with Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan; one scrapbook of magazine illustrations, 1930, belonging to Alice Virginia Keister; and Alice Virginia Keister's 1948 yearbook from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina with handwritten messages from classmates.

• Photograph albums (PA-5456/1-3)
• Oversize volumes (SV-5456/1-2)