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A Guide to the Papers of the McKendrie-Day Family

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McKendrie Day papers.pdf

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Title

A Guide to the Papers of the McKendrie-Day Family

Description

This is a guide to the papers of the McKendrie-Day Family. The documents in the McKendrie-Day Family Papers include family history documents and materials relating to Charles and Sarah McKendrie’s four daughters, Grace, Mabel, Jessie “Boots” and Hilda “Irene”. The majority of the materials focus on Mabel and Irene McKendrie. Mabel’s documents focus on her years spent as a teenager in Roanoke, VA (1926-1928). Her diary, travel journal and high school programs document the life of a budding teenager in 1920s Roanoke, VA. Her diary lists the names of friends and
families living in Roanoke, VA. Her manuscripts, undated, show her skills as a young writer. In one of her manuscripts, “Ellen of the Westland”, there is a torn page from a magazine advertising a writing contest with a $25,000 cash prize for the best novel by a woman. The documents relating to “Irene” McKendrie focus primarily on her tragic death in a car accident in Washington DC on her 17th birthday. Compiled in a scrapbook, there are photographs, letters, newsclippings, and sympathy cards, many of them from Roanoke residents.

Creator

Roanoke Public Libraries

Publisher

Roanoke Public Libraries

Format

pdf

Type

Text

Identifier

McKendrieDayPapers

Citation

Roanoke Public Libraries, “A Guide to the Papers of the McKendrie-Day Family,” Virginia Room Digital Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, http://www.virginiaroom.org/digital/document/McKendrieDayPapers.

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