William Lanier Hunt Papers, 1880s-1996

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William Lanier Hunt Papers, 1880s-1996

1880s-1996

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William Lanier Hunt was born in 1906 in Pomona, N.C. He studied botany under W.C. Coker at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1931, after which he traveled throughout the southeast United States giving garden lectures and short courses, consulting with various cities on parks, and writing for newspapers and magazines. During World War II, Hunt helped design camouflage for a base in Elizabeth City, N.C. After the war, he became southern region editor for and wrote weekly columns for the newspaper in Durham, N.C., and the newspaper in Shreveport, La. In the 1960s, Hunt began the process of creating the North Carolina Botanical Garden, for which W.C. Coker had begun advocating in the late 1920s. Hunt added more acreage to a gift of land from the W.C. Coker estate, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden opened in 1966 with Hunt as the garden designer and the first president of the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, which was created to receive funds and hold land for the Botanical Garden. Hunt died in 1996. House Beautiful Durham Morning Herald Shreveport Times The collection contains personal and professional materials of William Lanier Hunt. Included are Hunt's horticultural field notes with bloom dates, geographic locations, growing conditions, and other information about various species, and class notes, chiefly from courses Hunt took at the University of North Carolina. There are also photographs of Hunt, members of the Hunt and Rhodes families, and friends; of flowers, plants, gardens, and landscapes across the South; and of other locations and subjects of interest to Hunt. Included are photographs taken at the University of North Carolina beginning with Hunt's student days there. Many of the botanical and landscape photographs were taken by North Carolina photographer Bayard Wootten for use in Hunt's unpublished book Also included are lantern slides, glass negatives, and slides of botanical images; landscaping plans, photographs, notes, and correspondence from Hunt's landscaping and real estate projects; minutes, membership materials, and other information relating to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens and the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation; financial and legal materials; materials relating to Hunt's travels; newspaper clippings of articles about plants, gardens, and other topics that were written by Hunt and others; and an extensive series of Hunt's subject files on a variety of topics. Southern Flowers.

130.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 40,000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627301

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation.

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The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1966 as the endowment agency for the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The foundation, acting through its Board of Directors and Executive Committee, allocates funds to the garden's trust fund to supplement operating costs and to underwrite projects and activities approved by the garden's Administrative Board. The foundation's funds come from membership dues, private donations, ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Hunt family.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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North Carolina Botanical Garden

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The North Carolina Botanical Garden is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Garden has been a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States for more than 40 years. From the description of North Carolina Botanical Garden photographic collection, 1966-circa 1980 (bulk 1971-1973). WorldCat record id: 43026536 The North Carolina Botanical Garden is an administrative unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

Coker, William Chambers, 1872-1953

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Botanist, of North Carolina; native of Hartsville, S.C. From the description of William Chambers Coker papers, 1897-1983. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28411807 William Chambers Coker was a botanist, teacher, writer, who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1902-1945, serving as chair of the Department of Botany and editor of the journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. From the description of William Chambers Coker papers, ...

Rhodes family.

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Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959

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Bayard Wootten (Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten) was a female pioneer in the field of photography. She was successful as a photographer and studio operator from the early 1900s through the early 1950s, when the field was dominated by men. Wootten was born in New Bern, N.C., and, although she travelled across the United States during different periods of her career, North Carolina was her home. Her first studio was attached to her home in New Bern. In 1928, she opened a studio with her half-brother Ge...

Hunt, William Lanier

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William Lanier Hunt (22 May 1906-19 October 1996) served in the United States Army in World War II as a liaison officer in the Allies' Strategic Bombing Survey. He was assigned to a map room under the command of General Montgomery in Belgium, where he became interested in collecting underground and liberation material. Hunt was born in Pomona, N.C., and attended the University of North Carolina, where his chief interest was horticulture. He pursued this interest until the outbreak of World War I...