Hill, George Watts, 1901-1993. George Watts Hill papers, 1859-2000.
Title:
George Watts Hill papers, 1859-2000.
The collection includes professional, personal, and family correspondence; photographs; clippings; reports; financial and legal information; and other material. Many items relate to the University of North Carolina and address general planning issues, medical and veterinary school planning, the sale of public utilities in the 1970s, the Speaker Ban debate of the mid-1960s, consolidation, and other issues faced by the boards of trustees and of governors. There is also information about North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges, professional organizations and businesses with which Hill was affiliated, Hill's Guernsey cattle operation and home at Quail Roost Farm, and Hill's service in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Organizations documented in the collection include the Hospital Care Association; Watts Hospital; the North Carolina Forestry Foundation; the Research Triangle Institute; and the Black Solidarity Committee, a North Carolina group that addressed racial problems. Also included are architectural drawings for buildings of personal or professional interest to Hill, many of which were built in Durham. The Addition of November 2008/April 2009 is includes correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings relating to Research Triangle Park, Central Carolina Bank, the Chapel Hill Weekly newspaper, the Hospital Care Association, and the Health Planning Council (HPC), and other organizations. Correspondence and related materials, 1913-1992, include early letters from George Watts Hill's mother and sister; correspondence, 1939-1945, received by Hill during his service in World War II; and later correspondence documenting the wide variety of Hill's activities in the Durham area. There are also five propaganda posters illustrated by the British cartoonist Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887-1965), who used the pen name Fougasse; materials related to Hill's ten-month honeymoon around the world with his first wife, Ann McCulloch Hill, in 1924; genealogical, legal, and financial materials relating to members of the Watts and Hill families, including George Watts Hill, George Washington Watts, John Sprunt Hill, John Sprunt Hill II, and others; and clippings and other printed material. Audiovisual materials relate to George Watts Hill, the Hill family, and Durham. There are some family photographs, including one of John sprunt Hill taken in Puerto Rico in 1898. Many photographs were taken by George Watts Hill while a student at the University of North Carolina, 1918-1924, and apparently as a photographer for Yackety Yack, the campus yearbook; they document athletic events, student organizations, campus buildings and athletic fields, and other aspects of campus life. Other photographs appear to have been taken in Europe where Hill traveled in 1922 and 1924. There are also later photographs, including aerial photographs of Durham and the Research Triangle Park area.
ArchivalResource:
ca. 25600 items (28.0 linear ft.)
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