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John Worth McAlister

1874–1909 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By John Worth McAlister

John Worth McAlister papers, 1881-1973.

McAlister, John Worth, 1874-1909 · 1881

Some sixty items from John Worth McAlister (1874-1909), spanning 1881 to 1973, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. McAlister attended the Bingham School in Orange County and the Bingham Military School at Asheville before studying at the Lowell Technological Institute in Massachusetts, a textile school. Topics include student and family social life, and photographs from a honeymoon are among the papers.

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