Josephine Doub Bennett (1885-1973) Papers, PC.1628

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Josephine Doub Bennett (1885-1973) Papers, PC.1628

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Title
Josephine Doub Bennett (1885-1973) Papers
Call Number
PC.1628
Creator
Bennett, Josephine Doub
Date
1906-1974
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Scrapbooks of Mrs. Josie Bennett of Rocky Mount, containing clippings, letters, programs, and photographs concerning her activities in garden, civic, and historical organizations, including DAR, Red Cross (WWI and WWII), USO and Civilian Defense (WWII), Rocky Mount Bi-Racial Commission Meeting (minutes, 1956), and the Governor's Committee for Clean Highways (1957). Also message on public service activities of town delivered for husband John R. Bennett, retiring mayor (1949), and notes from Inglis Fletcher concerning Elizabethan Gardens at Roanoke Island. See also P.C. 1554.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Bennett, Josephine Doub
  2. Bennett, John R.
  3. Fletcher, Inglis
  4. Daughters of the American Revolution
  5. Red Cross and Red Crescent
  6. Rocky Mount Bi-Racial Commission Meeting (1956)
  7. North Carolina. Governor's Committee for Clean Highways (1957)
  8. United Services Organizations
  9. World War, 1914-1918
  10. World War, 1939-1945
  11. Civil defense
  12. Mayors
  13. Retirement
  14. Cities and towns
  15. Women's Societies and Clubs
  16. Race relations
  17. Gardens
  18. Clubs
  19. Volunteers
  20. History--Societies, etc.
  21. Public service
  22. Women
  23. Citizenship
  24. Associations, institutions, etc.
  25. Roanoke Island
  26. Rocky Mount
  27. Elizabethan Gardens (Roanoke Island, N.C.)