James Webb Papers 1903-1999

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James Webb Papers 1903-1999

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00102

The collection contains the business and design records from James M. Webb's architectural firm, as well as his personal papers and some papers of his brother, John B. Webb, and his mother, Martha Webb. The major groupings of records are Project Files, Drawings, Maps, Professional Papers, Personal Papers, Photographs and Slides, Videos, Artifacts, John B. Webb, and Martha Webb. James Murray Webb was born in 1908 and died in 2000. In 1947, he joined the new City and Regional Planning School at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, where he served as a faculty member for thirty years. He and his brother, John Bruce Webb, maintained an architectural practice in Chapel Hill and designed a number of modernist houses and other buildings in the area.

222.5 Linear feet

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6635558

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

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John, Webb, 1910-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jc0vrs (person)

Martha, Webb

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm83m8 (person)

Webb, James, 1946-1980

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68p8s33 (person)

Epithet: farmer, at Margate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x00032d James Murray Webb (1908-2000) was the son of Martha Webb and Ray H. Webb. Ray Webb was assistant general manager for the American Smelting & Refining Company in Mexico until he suffered from an appendicitis and died in the factory in 1913. James and his brother, John Bruce Webb (1910-1997), grew up in Covina, California...