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Collection Number: 04459

Collection Title: Isabella Cannon Papers, circa 1920-1991

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Size 10.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6700 items)
Abstract Correspondence, subject files, photographs, tapes, clippings, and other material, circa 1920-1991, documenting the life of Isabella Walton Cannon (b. 1904), mayor of Raleigh, N.C., 1977-1979. Included is documentation of Cannon's activities as mayor, as well as material relating to her interests in women's rights, senior citizens, and other civic affairs, and correspondence and other items from her years as the wife of a U.S. State Department official serving in China and Liberia, 1945-1954.
Creator Cannon, Isabella.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
Use of video or audio tapes may require production of viewing or listening copies. Otherwise, no restrictions.
Note that this material largely is unarranged.
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 Isabella Cannon papers #4459, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Isabella Cannon of Raleigh, N.C., in July and September 1986, January 1987, September 1989 (Acc. 89111), July 1991 (Acc. 91093), and February 1997 (Acc. 97040).
Received from Isabella Cannon of Raleigh, N.C.
Received from Isabella Walton Cannon of Raleigh, N.C., on 28 February 1997.
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.
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Processed by: Connie Cartledge, Mark Beasley, Tim West, September 1986, January 1987, September 1989 and subsequent additions

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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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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Video and audio tapes featuring interviews with Isabella Walton Cannon and a small amount of printed material, chiefly relating to honors bestowed upon Cannon. A list of the contents of some of the tapes is filed with the materials.

"Oral History of the Macedonia Area," compiled and written by Isabella Cannon in 1972 for a cultural anthropology class. Photocopy of typescript, 69 p., about history and genealogy of the Macedonia community in Wake County, N.C. Original is in North Carolina Collection.

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Contents list

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Box 1-4

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Subject Files, 1920-1984. About 3500 items relating chiefly to Cannon's tenure as mayor of Raleigh, N.C. Files consist of correspondence, clippings, printed material, and other material. The majority of this material is information that Cannon collected on various issues relating to Raleigh. Also included is some material relating to her 1977 and 1979 campaigns for mayor. These files are arranged alphabetically by file title.

Box 5

Campaign Files, 1977, 1979. About 1200 items documenting Cannon's campaigns for mayor of Raleigh, 1977 and 1979. Files consist chiefly of financial records detailing Cannon's expenditures and gifts from supporters. Also included are form letters, lists of people to contact, scheduling materials, speeches and speech material, campaign memorabilia, and other material. This box is unarranged; only half of the items are in folders.

Box 6

Issue Files, 1977-1979. About 450 items relating to controversial issues during Cannon's term as mayor. Files include newspaper clippings, correspondence, memos, printed material, and other material. Topics include libraries, sewage plant, CETA, Boylan Avenue Bridge, and zoning. These files are unarranged but are clearly labeled.

Box 7

Other Material, 1920, 1977-1986. About 50 items relating to Cannon's term as mayor and her life as a public figure. Other material consists chiefly of Cannon's notes for classes and a seminar that she took in city government and political science, photographs, and her nephew's dissertation. Also included are cassette tapes, video tapes, and typed transcriptions of interviews done with Cannon by William Friday, North Carolina People, WRAL-TV, and a student participating in an oral history project.

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