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Collection Number: 20048

Collection Title: Mary Anne McDonald Collection, circa 1968-1995

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 120 items)
Abstract The collection of white public health professional and ethnographer Mary Anne McDonald consists mostly of oral history interviews, 1982-1984, and documentation related to McDonald's masters folklore thesis on African American quilters in Chatham County, N.C. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Jennie Burnett, Bessie Lee, Laura Lee, Lilli Lee, Thelma Horton, and Mollie Rogers, all of Chatham County. Related documentation consists of interview transcriptions, narrative field notes by McDonald, correspondence with interviewees, newspaper clippings, funeral programs, scattered photographic prints, and other printed materials. The collection also contains additional audio recordings of Christian church services, concerts, and broadcasts compiled by McDonald, including field recordings, 1984-1987, of church concerts and services at Russell Chapel AME Zion Church and Hamlet Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsboro, N.C., as well as field recordings and radio broadcasts of church services and sermons by New Jersey based reverends. Related documentation for these recordings are also included.
Creator McDonald, Mary Anne.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
Use of audio materials may require production of listening copies.
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 Mary Anne McDonald Collection #20048, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Acquisitions information unknown (Acc. 103553, 103554).
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: Nicole Cvjetnicanin, April 2019

Updated by: Anne Wells, June 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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Mary Anne McDonald is a white public health professional at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. She received a master's degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. Her thesis was titled "'Because I needed some cover,' Afro-American Quiltmakers of Chatham County, North Carolina." In 1999, she received her Ph.D. from UNC's School of Public Health. Her dissertation was titled "An Ethnography of Helping: Lay Health Advisors in an African American Community."

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The collection of white public health professional and ethnographer Mary Anne McDonald consists mostly of oral history interviews, 1982-1984, and documentation related to McDonald's masters folklore thesis on African American quilters in Chatham County, N.C. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Jennie Burnett, Bessie Lee, Laura Lee, Lilli Lee, Thelma Horton, and Mollie Rogers, all of Chatham County. These recordings are on audiocassette. Related documentation consists of interview transcriptions, narrative field notes by McDonald, correspondence with interviewees, newspaper clippings, funeral programs, scattered photographic prints, and other printed materials. The collection also contains additional audio recordings of Christian church services, concerts, and broadcasts compiled by McDonald, including field recordings, 1984-1987, of church concerts and services at Russell Chapel AME Zion Church and Hamlet Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsboro, N.C., as well as field recordings and radio broadcasts of church services and sermons by New Jersey based reverends. These recordings are on audiocassette and open reel audio. Related documentation for these recordings are also included, consisting of church programs, tape logs of the "New Jersey Church Project" audiocassettes, an inventory of open reel tapes compiled by former Southern Folklife Collection staff, and a funeral program for Thelma B. Horton (1914-2003), one of the women McDonald interviewed as part of her thesis project.

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Contents list

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About 120 items.

Arrangement: In order as received.

Processing information: Titles and descriptions compiled from original containers.

Folder 1

Documentation: Mollie Rogers (FS-631-635)

Formerly folder 72 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/631

Quilt Project: Mollie Rogers, Chatham County, N.C., 4 October 1984

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/632

Quilt Project: Mollie Rogers, Chatham County, N.C., 17 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/633

Quilt Project: Mollie Rogers, 17 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/634

Quilt Project: Mollie Rogers, Chatham County, N.C., 30 November 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/635

Quilt Project: Mollie Rogers, Chatham County, N.C., 6 December 1984

Audiocassette

Folder 2

Documentation: Jennie Burnett and Lillie Lee (FS-636-640)

Formerly folder 73 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/636

Quilt Project: Jennie Burnett, 9 November 1984

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/637

Quilt Project: Jennie Burnett, 2 December 1983

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/638

Quilt Project: Lillie Lee, Pittsboro, N.C., 13 November 1983

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/639

Quilt Project: Lillie Lee, 9 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/640

Quilt Project: Lillie Lee, Chatham County, N.C., 9 April 1982

Audiocassette

Folder 3

Documentation: Laura Lee (FS-641-644)

Formerly folder 74 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/641

Quilt Project: Laura Lee, Moncure, N.C., 13 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/642

Quilt Project: Laura Lee, 15 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/643

Quilt Project: Laura Lee, 15 April 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/644

Quilt Project: Laura Lee, 11 December 1983

Audiocassette

Folder 4

Documentation: Jennie Burnett, Thelma Horton, Bessie Lee (FS-645-649)

Formerly folder 75 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/645

Quilt Project: Jennie Burnett, Chatham County, N.C., 21 November 1983

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/646

Quilt Project: Jennie Burnett, Chatham County, N.C., 21 November 1983

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/647

Quilt Project: Jennie Burnett, Pittsboro, N.C., 14 December 1982

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/648

Quilt Project: Thelma Horton, Apex, N.C., 12 December 1984

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/649

Quilt Project: Bessie Lee, Moncure, N.C., 15 April 1982

Audiocassette

Folder 5

Documentation: Thelma Horton (FS-650)

Folder includes funeral program for Thelma Betts Horton (1914-2003) of Chatham County, N.C. Thelma Horton was a Sunday school teacher, musician, wife, mother, and grandmother, who worked at the Chatham County Fair for many years. Her hobbies included sewing, quilting, and cooking.

Formerly folder 76 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/650

Quilt Project: Thelma Horton, Apex, N.C., 6 April 1982

Audiocassette

Folder 6

Documentation: Jacob Hart, Randy Hart, and Bob Watson (FS-651-653)

Formerly folder 77 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/651

Jacob Hart, Randy Hart, and Bob Watson, Granite Falls, N.C., 23 April 1985

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/652

Jacob Hart, Randy Hart, and Bob Watson , Granite Falls, N.C., 23 April 1985

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/653

Jacob Hart, Randy Hart, and Bob Watson , Granite Falls, N.C., 23 April 1985

Audiocassette

Folder 7

Documentation: Joy Bells of Hamlet Chapel Church (FS-654-656)

Formerly folder 78 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

Quilter Lillie Lee was an officer and member of the Joy Bells, a bible study and prayer group located at Hamlet Church Chapel in Pittsboro, N.C.

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/654

Joy Bells Anniversary, Hamlet Chapel Church, Pittsboro, N.C., 18 July 1987

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/655

Joy Bells Anniversary, Hamlet Chapel Church , Pittsboro, N.C., 18 July 1987

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/656

Joy Bells Anniversary, Hamlet Chapel Church, Pittsboro, N.C., 18 July 1987

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/657

Russell Chapel AMEZ Senior Choir 2nd Anniversary, Pittsboro, N.C., 21 October 1984

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/658

Russell Chapel AMEZ Senior Choir 2nd Anniversary, Pittsboro, N.C., 21 October 1984

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/659

Joy Bells Twentieth Anniversary, Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 July 1985

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/660

Joy Bells Twentieth Anniversary, Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 July 1985

Audiocassette

Folder 8

Documentation: New Jersey Church Project (FS-1620-1637)

Formerly folder 171 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

Tape inventory and log compiled by former Southern Folklife Collection staff

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1620

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Book of Ruth, 11-12 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1621

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, morning and evening service, 12 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1622

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Saturday night, 12 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1623

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Tuesday and Wednesday night, 13-14 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1624

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, morning and evening service, 14 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1625

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Wednesday and Thursday morning services, 14-15 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1626

New Jersey Church Project: Thursday and Friday night services, 15-16 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1627

New Jersey Church Project: Rev Beattie, Wednesday morning service, 16 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1628

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Friday morning service, 16 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1629

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Thursday service, 21 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1630

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Thursday evening service, 17 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1631

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Friday night service, 18 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1632

New Jersey Church Project: Rev. Beattie, Friday morning service, 18 June 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1633

New Jersey Church Project: McIntire broadcasts, 20-21 March 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1634

New Jersey Church Project: McIntire broadcast, 22 March 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1635

New Jersey Church Project: Wes Auger, old time religion and Sunday school lesson, 10-11 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1636

New Jersey Church Project: Wes Auger, Dispensations and Lord's Prayer, 12 June 1972

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20048/1637

New Jersey Church Project: music

Audiocassette

Folder 9

Documentation: Open reel audio (FT-6076-6079)

Formerly folder 910 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

Tape inventory compiled by former Southern Folklife Collection staff.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20048/6076

World Prophetic Ministry, "When Russia Meets her Waterloo", "Russia: Interview with Reverend Garnet Jenkins"

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20048/6077

Reverend Brian Green at Christian Admiral: "Soldiers"

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20048/6078

Reverend Brian Green at Christian Admiral: "Elijah"

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20048/6079

Reverend Brian Green at Christian Admiral: "Vessels" and "The Second Coming of Christ"

1/4" Open Reel Audio

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