MacRae family papers, 1820-2004.

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MacRae family papers, 1820-2004.

Correspondence, genealogical information, school and professional materials, travel files, writings, estate materials, clippings, photographs, and other papers. The bulk of the correspondence, 1938-1980, is between the senior MacRaes and Duncan Jr., Edith, and Amy, and is about family and career news, academic interests, world events, and other topics. Genealogical materials include family trees and reflect Duncan Sr.'s steady interest in the MacRae, Shackleford, and related families. Most school materials relate to Duncan Jr.'s early education through his years as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University. Professional materials are limited to those of Duncan MacRae Sr. and Edith MacRae, and include manuscripts and reprints of scientific journal articles. The travels of Edith and Duncan MacRae Jr. are reflected in itineraries, tickets, photographs, and sometimes journals, including one written on the Ile de France ocean liner during its rescue of the passengers of the sinking Andrea Doria, 1956. Items, including professional materials, pertaining more exclusively to Edith MacRae apart from her relationship to the MacRae family are also present. Many of these materials, particularly correspondence, date from her years as a graduate student at Columbia University, 1940-1946.

About 7000 items (11.0 linear feet).

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MacRae, Edith K.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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US Army Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Research and Development Laboratories

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McRae family.

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MacRae, Rebecca Kyle, 1893-1980.

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Shackelford family.

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Macrae, Duncan, Jr.

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MacRae family.

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Members of the MacRae family, primarily of North Carolina and Maryland, included Duncan MacRae Sr. (1891-1980), who graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1908; his wife Rebecca Kyle MacRae (1893-1980); their son Duncan MacRae Jr. (1921- ); his wife Edith Krugelis MacRae (1919-1995); and their daughter Amy Frances MacRae (1958- ). Duncan MacRae Sr. was a chemist who spent much of his career at the United States Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Duncan MacRae Jr., Edith MacRae, and...

MacRae, Duncan, 1891-

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

MacRae, Amy, 1958-

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Andrea Doria (Steamship)

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