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Collection Number: 04873

Collection Title: Taylor Family Papers, circa 1950s-2000s

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Size 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 800 items)
Abstract 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. The collection contains greeting cards, particularly Christmas cards sent to the family of Isaac and Gertrude Taylor from friends and family betweens the 1950s and 1970s; artwork, some commissioned by the Taylors for Christmas cards including line drawings of pine trees (Pinus virginiana, Pinus echinata, and Pinus taeda); papers, posters, copies of family photographs, video and audio recordings including oral history interviews with Gertrude Taylor, and ephemeral and printed materials about the music career of James Taylor.
Creator Taylor (Family : Taylor, James Cole, 1855-1925)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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). Additions received in September 2010 (Acc. 101359), July 2013 (Acc. 101829 and 101830), and July 2015 (Acc. 102285).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Adera Scheinker, July 1997

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated: April 2019

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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.

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The collection contains greeting cards, particularly Christmas cards sent to the family of Isaac and Gertrude Taylor from friends and family betweens the 1950s and 1970s; artwork, some commissioned by the Taylors for Christmas cards including line drawings of pine trees (Pinus virginiana, Pinus echinata, and Pinus taeda); papers, posters, copies of family photographs, video and audio recordings including oral history interviews with Gertrude Taylor, and ephemeral and printed materials about the music career of James Taylor.

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Contents list

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Box 1-4

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Papers, 1958-1979

Acquisitions Information: Accession 97052. (Original deposit, March 1997)

Chiefly greeting cards.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4873/1

Posters

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102285. (Addition of July 2015)

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4873/2

Artwork

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102285. (Addition of July 2015)

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4873/1

Artwork

Acquisitions Information: Accession 98582. (Addition of March 2000)

Watercolors.
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