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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Norman Ethre Jennett Papers, #4132, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Charlotte Jennett of Santa Barbara, Calif., April 1977.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Aerial age weekly.
• Aeronautics--Periodicals.
• American newspapers--New York (State)--New York.
• American newspapers--North Carolina.
• American periodicals--New York (State)--New York.
• Carr, Julian Shakespeare.
• Cartoonists--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
• Cartoonists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
• Flight.
• Jennett, Norman Ethre, 1877-1970.
• McFadden Publications.
• New York herald (New York, N.Y.)
• News and observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Norman Ethre Jennett (1877-1970), native of Wayne County, N.C., was a cartoonist and art editor for various publications. Jennett worked as a cartoonist for the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, 1895-1898; the New York Herald, 1901-1917; and Flying and its successor, Aerial Age Weekly, 1917-1923; and as art editor for McFadden Publications, 1923-1939.

Jennett married Helen Mary MacGinness in 1901 and they and their two children lived in Cedar Grove, N.J., until the 1950s when Jennett moved to California.

The collection includes correspondence, drawings, scrapbooks and other materials by and about Norman Ethre Jennett. Included are letters from Josephus Daniels, Julian S. Carr, and others about North Carolina and national politics, especially the campaigns of 1898 and 1900, and letters from editors, publishers, and fellow artists about Jennett's work. Other notable correspondents include William Griffith, James Gordon Bennett Junior, Walter Hines Page, and William C. Spencer. The scrapbooks contain cartoons and illustrations and clippings about Jennett and his family. The collection also contains about 65 loose cartoons, trademarks designed by Jennett, articles with Jennett's illustrations, and scattered copies of Aerial Age Weekly, Flying, and other magazines in which his work appeared. Also included are the papers and correspondence related to Jennett of H. G. Jones, curator of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Oversize volume (SV-4132/3).