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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Taylor Family Papers #4873, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Gertrude Taylor of Chapel Hill, N.C., through the North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, in March 1997 (Acc. 97052) and through the Biology Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, in March 2000 (Acc. 98582).

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Christmas cards.
• Taylor family.
• Taylor, Isaac Montrose, 1921-1996.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--Social life and customs--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--Social life and customs.

Dr. Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) was dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School, 1961-1976. He and his wife Gertrude and their five children, Alexander (1947-1993), James Vernon (1948- ), Kate Child (1949- ), Livingston (1950- ), and Hugh Cole (1952- ), lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. James, Livingston, and Kate are musicians.

Christmas cards, 1958-1970s, both in albums and individual, that were sent to the family of Isaac and Gertrude Taylor in Chapel Hill, N.C., from friends and family. Also included are three line drawings commissioned by the Taylors for Christmas cards of pine trees (Pinus virginiana, Pinus echinata, and Pinus taeda).