Orange County (N.C.) World War I Activities Record (#566)

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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/

Processed by

Library Staff

Date Completed

October 1972

Encoded by

Roslyn Holdzkom

Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title

Orange County (N.C.) World War I Activities Records (#566) 1917-1920

Creator

Orange County (N.C.).

Extent

About 100 items (1.0 linear feet)

Repository

Southern Historical Collection

Abstract

The collection includes "A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919," by Annie Sutton Cameron, a manuscript history of the local war effort, and related correspondence and lists of soldiers and members of local committees. Cameron's history covers the Council of Defense and the Home Guard, war bond and overseas relief campaigns, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic of 1918, and other matters.

Administrative Information

Access

No restrictions.

Usage Restrictions

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Provenance

Received from various sources, 1945-1972.

Online Catalog Terms

Cameron, Annie Sutton.

Epidemics--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Influenza--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Orange County (N.C.)--History.

World War, 1914-1918--War work--North Carolina.

Historical Note

The history of World War I activities in Orange County, N.C., 1917-1918, was compiled by AnnieSutton Cameron in 1919 at the request of J. S. Webb, chair of the county Council of Defense. The making of typed copies was arranged by Louis Round Wilson of the University of North Carolina Library and Robert Burton House, collector of war records for the North Carolina Historical Commission, 1919-1920. Other materials were added from from Rural Social Economic Department at UNC and from Professor E. C. Branson's papers.

Collection Overview

The collection includes "A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919," by Annie Sutton Cameron, a manuscript history of local efforts during World War I in Orange County, N.C., and related correspondence and lists of soldiers and members of local committees. Cameron's history covers the Council of Defense and the Home Guard, war bond and overseas relief campaigns, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic of 1918, and other matters.

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