Fraser Family history, Petition to Prove Will, Correspondence, and James Fraser, Jr. Transcript, 1920-1948, 2001

Contains a history/essay on the Fraser family mainly focusing on James Fraser, Sr., and how his career progressed and what paths his children took. There is also a family chart noting the birth and death dates of Fraser, his wife Cattie and their eleven children. Folder includes correspondence from the Avery Institute regarding tuition and scholarship for James Fraser, Jr. (1940s); and tuition receipts from Avery and Immaculate Conception. Photocopies of the petition to prove will for James Fraser, Sr.'s estate, which includes a list of dependents, an inventory of personal property and its value. Additional material includes James Fraser, Jr.'s 1947-1948 ledger of Real Estate Property and his page one of transcript from Iowa State College.

In regards to the building of Burke School there is correspondence from City of Charleston's lawyer to James Fraser, Jr. regarding the Quit Claim Deed for Fraser Field and the title to real estate regarding this matter. Additionally, there are family letters noting the plans of and possible tensions between the children regarding the deeding of the land to the school district. There is also a July 1946 letter from the Negro Young Men's Christian Association of Charleston to James Fraser, Jr., asking him to use his family's influence to deed the land to their organization for a community center instead of to the school district.

A 2001 note from Donald Fraser to Sherman Pyatt, who was the Avery Research Center archivist, about the material he was sending regarding Fraser Field.