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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.
Size | 5.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 13 items) |
Abstract | The collection includes scrapbooks compiled by Mary Gilchrist McNeill of Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., containing newspaper and magazine clippings on national and international affairs and people and events of general interest, including war, politics, and the arts. |
Creator | McNeill, Mary Gilchrist. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 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.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
Back to TopThe 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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Mary Gilchrist McNeill resided in Lumberton, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes scrapbooks compiled by Mary Gilchrist McNeill containing newspaper and magazine clippings on national and international affairs and people and events of general interest, including war, politics, and the arts. There are many clippings about Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and European royalty and statesmen. There are also handwritten entries of deaths of prominent persons and other local events in Robeson County, N.C.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Volume 1: November 1916-June 1917World War I, international affairs |
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: "VI", June 1917-January 1918World War I |
Folder 3 |
Volume 3: "VIII", 1918-1919 |
Folder 4 |
Volume 4: "I", January 1919, 1940-1942 |
Folder 5 |
Volume 5: "II", 1919-1920, 1942 |
Folder 6 |
Volume 6: "III", October 1920-June 1921Wilson, Armistice, Russia |
Folder 7 |
Volume 7: "IV", 1921-1922 |
Folder 8 |
Volume 8: "V", April 1922-April 1924Europe and prominent people |
Folder 9 |
Volume 9: "VI", 1924-1944Wilson's death and funeral |
Folder 10 |
Volume 10: 1932-1934National affairs |
Folder 11 |
Volume 11: 1934F. D. Roosevelt and national affairs |
Folder 12 |
Volume 12: 1941-1942World War II |
Folder 13 |
Volume 13: 1943World War II |