Collection Number:
5548
Collection Title: Gardner Family Papers, 1913-1966
This collection has access restrictions. For
details, please see the
restrictions.
| Size |
0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items) |
| Abstract |
The collection contains family letters, chiefly written during the 1920s and 1930s
by Mrs. George E. Gardner to her son Matt Ransom Gardner, a white minister in Wilmore,
Ky., Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Selma, N.C. Many letters have religious overtones or
content. Other letter recipients are Matt Ransom Gardner's wife and their daughter
Martha Gardner. Other papers include a 1946 land deed, a few photographs, a high school
report card for 1922, a 1913 letter to Santa Claus written by a child, and V-mail
received during the Second World War. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical
Collection.
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| Creator |
Gardner family. |
| Curatorial Unit |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language |
English |
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- Restrictions to Access
- This collection is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact
Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options
for consulting this collection.
- 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 Gardner Family Papers #5548, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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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This summary description was created in December 2017 to provide information about
unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith
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