Finding Aid for the Francis Gibson Satterfield Papers, 1889-1988

Abstract

Frances Gibson Satterfield was a freelance journalist and an active alumna of the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG). The Francis Gibson Satterfield Papers date from 1889 to1988 and contain research material and manuscript copies of her commemorative booklet about Charles Duncan McIver, a travel journal, personal correspondence, and photographs.

Administrative Information

Collection Number

MSS 036

Extent

1 archival box

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Francis Gibson Satterfield Papers (MSS 036), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Acquisitions Information

Folders 1-8 were in the library in 1972, apparently the gift of Satterfield at an earlier date.  Folders 9-12 were given in September 2001, by Lenore Satterfield, daughter of Frances. Much of the material given by Lenore (clippings, commencement programs, reunion correspondence, minute books of class meetings) was added to the Class of 1928 folder in the classed archives.  Photographs were added to the Class of 1928 photograph file.

Biographical Note

Frances Gibson Satterfield, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, received a bachelor's degree in 1928 from the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG). She later studied journalism at Columbia, and went on to write for various trade journals and general publications on a freelance basis.

In 1942, Satterfield composed a booklet entitled Charles Duncan McIver as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of UNCG (then the State Normal and Industrial School). She was President of the Alumnae Association from 1947 to 1949, and received the Alumni Service Award in 1971.

Satterfield, who spent much of her life in Georgia, was active in many civic organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, the Democratic Party and the Girl Scouts. She died in 1993.

Description of Collection

The Francis Gibson Satterfield Papers date from 1889 to1988 and contain research material (letters, clippings and notes) for her Charles Duncan McIver booklet, manuscript copies of the booklet, a travel journal, personal correspondence, and photographs.

1. Correspondence about Charles Duncan McIver, from former students, faculty, and family members, 1937-1942.
2. Copies of correspondence between Charles McIver and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1889-1893. (The originals of these letters are in the State Archive.)
3. Notes on interviews and reminiscences.
4. Notes and notebook.
5. Manuscript/typescript of Charles Duncan McIver.
6. Variant versions of Chapters 4 and 5.
7. Speech by HEC Bryant (journalist) about McIver.
8. Clippings, 1931-1948 and undated.
9. Correspondence, 1961-1988. Primarily personal letters to Frances from her 1928 classmates. One letter of note, from Gladys Tillett, discusses efforts to gather support in Congress for human rights conventions sponsored by the United Nations.
10. Travel journal of trip to Panama, 1961.
11. Copy of Charles Duncan McIver.
12. Photographs, 1948 and undated.

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