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Collection Number: 05587-z

Collection Title: Michie Family Papers, 1850-1958

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Size 50 items
Abstract The Michie Family Papers, 1843-1958, consist of letters, chiefly from Michie, Shaifer, and Briscoe family members; photographs of Michie and Flowers family members and a few newspaper clippings related to Frances Fenton Michie and her husband Robert Chalmers Todd. Family letters are scattered over decades and chiefly concern family news and genealogy. Of note are letters documenting movement of enslaved people to Virginia and attitudes toward women in 1843; gold-digging near Sacramento, Calif., in 1850; postwar plantation management and family resettlement in St. Joseph, La., in 1866; and parenting advice in 1915.
Creator Michie (Family : Vicksburg, Miss.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Michie Family Papers #5587-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Greg Todd in November 2013 (Acc. 101926).
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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Encoded by: Laura Smith

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The Michie family lived in Vicksburg, Miss., at the turn of the twentieth century. Frances Fenton Michie Todd ("Fenton"), collected these materials, possibly as her extended family's historian. She was the daughter of David Michie and Mary Elizabeth Shaifer, and niece of William C. Michie. She lived in Vicksburg, Miss., until her marriage to Robert Chalmers Todd on 28 June 1911, when the couple moved to Todd's home in Middleton, Ohio. They had one son, David Fenton Michie Todd, born 22 February 1915, who later became a renowned architect.

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The Michie Family Papers, 1843-1958, consist of letters, chiefly from Michie, Shaifer, and Briscoe family members; photographs of Michie and Flowers family members and a few newspaper clippings related to Frances Fenton Michie and her husband Robert Chalmers Todd. Family letters are scattered over decades and chiefly concern family news and genealogy. Of note are letters documenting movement of enslaved people to Virginia and attitudes toward women in 1843; gold-digging near Sacramento, Calif., in 1850; postwar plantation management and family resettlement in St. Joseph, La., in 1866; and parenting advice in 1915.

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Contents list

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Folder 1-2

Folder 1

Folder 2

Correspondence

Folder 3

Clippings

Image Folder PF-05587/1

Photographs

Black-and-white photographic prints.
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