Mangum Weeks Collection, 1830s-1970

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Mangum Weeks Collection, 1830s-1970

1830s-1970s

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70024/

Mangum Weeks (1895-1977), a white government lawyer, lived in Alexandria, Va., and worked at the State Department, U.S. Tax Court, Farm Loan Board, War Department, and at the Department of Justice. Weeks also was active in several historic preservation groups and in birding organizations. The Mangum Weeks Collection consists 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; 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; 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.

64.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50,000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11653981

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Weeks, Josephine, 1902-1981

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Josephine Weeks was a longtime resident of Alexandria, Va., who was active in the restoration of that city's Old Town neighborhood and the preservation of historic buildings elsewhere. A native of Washington, D.C., she studied at George Washington University and the University of Paris. During the 1920s, she worked for the U.S. State Department and the Mexican Claims Commission. Marie Josephine Schaefer Weeks was born to Joseph and Anna Schaefer, 18 February 1902, in Washington, D.C. In 1930 ...

Weeks, Sallie Preston, 1898-1978

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Weeks, Mangum, 1895-1977

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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 bor...