Farrell, Charles Anderson, 1894-1977.

Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, North Carolina, and in 1923 moved to Greensboro where he became the first professional photographer of the Greensboro Daily News. In the 1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro. Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1977.

From the description of Charles Anderson Farrell papers, 1938-1977. WorldCat record id: 14341177

In 1923, Charles Anderson Farrell, a native of Yadkin County, N.C., became the first professional photographer for the "Greensboro Daily News" in Greensboro, N.C. In addition to his work for the newspaper, Farrell operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply shop in downtown Greensboro. Farrell contributed photographs to several University of North Carolina Press books.

From the description of Charles Anderson Farrell photographic collection, 1938-1940, 1943-1944. WorldCat record id: 43026539

Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, N.C. He graduated from Wake Forest College, and after serving in the First World War, he returned there to teach English for a short time. Farrell married Anne McKaughan, and they had three children: Charles B., Peter S., and Roger H.

In 1923, Farrell moved to Greensboro where he became the first professional photographer for the Greensboro Daily News. In the 1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro. Highlights of Farrell's career included taking some of the first aerial photographs of North Carolina, taking exclusive aerial photographs of Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, N.C., following the fatal shooting of the heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune Z. Smith Reynolds; and taking the pictures for Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), a portrait of a young African American boy and his family in the 1930s. Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at Greensboro, N.C., in 1977.

From the guide to the Charles Anderson Farrell Photographic Collection, 1938-1940, 1943-1944, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.)

Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, N.C., and, in 1923, moved to Greensboro where he became the first professional photographer of the Greensboro Daily News . In the 1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro.

Farrell was a graduate of Wake Forest College, to which he returned to teach English for a short time after serving in World War I.

Farrell married Anne McKaughan. They had three children, Charles B., Peter S., and Roger H.

Highlights of Farrell's career included taking some of the first aerial photographs of North Carolina, taking exclusive aerial photographs of Z. Smith Reynolds's estate in Winston-Salem following the fatal shooting of the heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune, and taking the pictures for Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), a portrait of a young black boy and his family in the 1930s.

Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1977.

From the guide to the Charles Anderson Farrell Papers, 1938-1977, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)