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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mangum Weeks Collection #70024, North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #NCC0002 to #70024 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Received from the estate of Mangum Weeks and Josephine Weeks in 1982 (Acc. 103650).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser and Caitlin Rivas Sullivan, July 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2019

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from NCC0002 to 70024

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic 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 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 ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.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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• Alexandria (Va.) -- History.
• Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Virginia.
• Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
• Mangum family.
• Ornithology.
• Rare books -- Collectors and collecting.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962) -- Students.
• Weeks family.
• Weeks, Josephine Schaefer.
• Weeks, Mangum.
• Weeks, Sallie Preston.

Mangum Weeks (1895-1977), a white government lawyer, worked at the State Department, U.S. Tax Court, Farm Loan Board, War Department, and at the Department of Justice, where he handled claims relating to the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Weeks was active in several historic preservation groups, including the Alexandria Association for Historic Preservation, and in birding organizations, including the Northern Virginia Ornithological Society.

Mangum Weeks was born in Washington. He was a 1915 graduate of the University of North Carolina and held advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins and Harvard University. He was married to Josephine Schaefer Weeks and had a sister, Sallie Preston Weeks Leach.

The Mangum Weeks Collection consist chiefly of professional and personal correspondence, journals, writings, and related research materials. Topics include the Weeks family; student life at the University of North Carolina in the 1910s; ornithological research, including information about the history of the Audubon collection held at Wilson Library; collecting prints and rare books relating to North Carolina and other topics; adjudication for the U.S. Department of Justice in response to claims filed against Spain and Cuba regarding the Strobel-Figuera agreement and by Japanese-Americans following forced removal and incarceration during World War II; the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Education; the Thornton Club; the Philosophers Club; historic preservation and architectural history of landmark locations, including Resurrection Manor and Alexandria, Va.; and the study of law. Also included is the correspondence of Sallie Preston Weeks Leach, the sister of Mangum Weeks, and courtship correspondence between Mangum Weeks and his wife Josephine Schaefer Weeks.

• Oversize papers (OPF-NCC0002/1)