Inventory of the William Picard Jacocks Papers, 1910-1965
Collection Number 3120
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Jacocks, William Picard, 1877-1965.
- Title
- William Picard Jacocks Papers, 1910-1965.
- Call Number
- 3120
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 12,000 items (12.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the William Picard Jacocks Papers, #3120, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Diaries.
- Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- India--Social conditions.
- Jacocks, William Picard, 1877-1965.
- North Carolina--Genealogy.
- Public health--India--History--20th century.
- Public health--Sri Lanka--History--20th century.
- Rockefeller Foundation.
- Sri Lanka--Social conditions--20th century.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Alumni and alumnae--History--20th century.
Related Material
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Jonathan Jacocks Papers (#372), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
Physician, native of Bertie County, N.C.
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Correspondence, reports, articles, and other papers of Jacocks. Included are correspondence and other materials relating to his work as a public health specialist in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1914-1942. Also included is correspondence from the years following his retirement in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1942, dealing with family matters, genealogy, and University of North Carolina alumni affairs; his diaries, 1939-1965; papers he wrote on public health issues; and clippings.