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[Identification of item], in the Mary Anne McDonald Collection #20048, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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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.

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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• African American churches--North Carolina.
• African American quiltmakers--North Carolina.
• African American quiltmakers--interviews.
• African American quilts--North Carolina.
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
• Church music--African American churches--North Carolina.
• Church music--North Carolina.
• McDonald, Mary Anne.
• Oral history.
• Quilting--North Carolina.
• Quiltmakers--North Carolina--interviews.
• Quilts--North Carolina.
• Sermons, American--New Jersey.
• Sermons, American--North Carolina.

• Mary Anne McDonald Collection of Orange Factory Oral History Materials (#04381)

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."

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.

• Audiocassettes (FS-631-660, FS-1620-1637)
• Audiotape (FT-6076-6079)