Edmunds White and Fallen Family Papers
name: label: Farmer
content: White, Julius Lee
label: Former owner
content: Carter, Ethel H.
topic: label: Topic
content: Bills of Sale -- Tobacco
label: Topic
content: Church bulletins -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Financial records -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Greeting cards -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Military records -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Postcards -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Religious tracts -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Trading stamps -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Tenant farmers -- 20th century -- Virginia
label: Topic
content: Tobacco -- 20th century -- Virginia
label: Topic
content: African American families
label: Topic
content: African American -- Social life and customs
label: Topic
content: African Americans -- Employment
label: Topic
content: African American history
label: Topic
content: Banking
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Business ephemera
label: Topic
content: Funeral rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: African American weddings
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- African American couples
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- African American children
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- African American students
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Ethel H. Carter in 1988.
creator: label: Farmer
content: White, Julius Lee
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content: Edmunds White and Fallen Family Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the daily lives and activities of tenant farmer Julius Lee White, who worked on a tobacco farm in Ringgold, Virginia, and those of his extended family.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (5  boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: bulk 1894-1978, undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work Industry, 2017.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1444
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Patient medical records
label: Type
content: Recipes
label: Type
content: Newspaper clippings
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Federal government records
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into four series:

Series 1, White Family Papers, 1906-1978

Subseries 1.1, Julius Lee White, 1943-1978

Subseries 1.2, Geraldine White, 1950-1973

Subseries 1.3, Family Papers, 1906-1971

Series 2, Edmunds Family Papers, 1936-1970

Subseries 2.1, Thomas B. Edmunds, 1945-1970

Subseries 2.2, General Family Papers, 1936-1955

Series 3, Fallen Family Papers, 1949-1971

Series 4, Photographs, 1948-1967
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Bryanna Bauer, intern, 2018 and Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist, 2018.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Patient medical records
label: Genre/Form
content: Recipes
label: Genre/Form
content: Newspaper clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- newspaper -- Virginia
label: Genre/Form
content: Federal government records
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Collection of papers relating to family, work, and African American life in Virginia, and Maryland. It documents the personal and working lives of tenant farmer Julius Lee White and his extended family. The papers are particularly important regarding tobacco farming and the precarious financial nature of this type of work. The papers concern three groups the White, Edmunds, and Fallen families who are connected through the marriage of Julius Lee White and Geraldine Edmunds. These papers consist of material generated by the families in their personal and working lives and are especially strong in 20th century material. They consist of financial papers including bills, receipts, and statements relating to utilities, insurance, medical matters, housing, automobiles, loans, banking, work (such as pay statements), taxes, and other such concerns; bills of sale for tobacco; greeting cards, postcards and letters; ephemera such as trading stamps, coupons, premiums; church related materials such as programs, a hymnal, religious tracts and other printed material; the personal papers of a World War II soldier including a 1909 letter and selective service documents; and numerous portrait photographs of family members, as well as candid photographs. 

The collection is divided into four series representing the major family households. Series one is White family papers.  Series two is the Edmunds family papers. Series three contains Fallen family papers. Series four is photographs of extended family members some of which are not identified.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
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separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
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