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Small hide-covered trunk decorated with round nailheads that form the initials A.T. The trunk may have belonged to Turner's mother, whose maiden name was Anne Huntington Adgate. The hide still has animal hair on it, possibly deerskin.

The notebooks were created during Dorothy Whitlock's time at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Oteen, North Carolina, and contain Whitlock's manuscript notes on various topics in medicine taken in an unknown context, graphite sketches of medical procedures and practices, and notes on crafts such as weaving, beading, and leather work. Arranged alphabetically by title.