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  Guest Book, 1940s

  Fay Webb Gardner

  This guest book contains autographs of people who have visited the Gardners. This includes notable names such as: J. M. Broughton, Alfred L. Bulwinkle, Zeno Wall, Horace Easom, E. Y. Webb, Whitey Briarhopper, and Frances Goforth.

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  Guest Book, Washington DC

  Fay Webb Gardner

  This guest book holds records of dinner parties, teas, luncheons, meetings, and events hosted by Fay Webb Gardner at her residence in Washington, D.C. and who attended. Governor O.Max Gardner passed on February 6, 1947, so some records are before his death and others are after. Notable guests include: Perle Mesta, President Harry Truman, Alben Barkley, Stanley Reed, John Garner, Elliott Roosevelt, Josiah Bailey, Kenneth Royall, and John Morton Downey.

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  Guest Book, 1929-1932 North Carolina Executive Mansion

  Fay Webb Gardner

  This guest book contains signatures of guests of the North Carolina Governor's Mansion, where Max and Fay Webb Gardner lived, from 1929-1932. Guests of the Gardner's at their Raleigh residence serves as a record of dinner parties, luncheons, holidays, meetings, and teas and who attended. Notable guests include: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles B. Aycock, Josephus Daniels, A.W. McLean, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., W.P. Few, George W. Truett, Henry Luce, Frances Perkins and Al E. Smith.

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  Guest Book, 1929-1931 North Carolina Executive Mansion

  Fay Webb Gardner

  This guest book contains signatures of guests of the North Carolina Governor's Mansion from 1929-1931. Guests of the Gardner's at their Raleigh residence serves as a record of dinner parties, luncheons, holidays, meetings, and teas and who attended. Notable guests include: Henry Groves Connor, Francis Pendleton Gaines, J. Elmer Long, Z. P. Metclaf, John Hall Manning, Josiah William Bailey, Clarence Poe, Willis Smith, and Hubert Royster.