Doris J. Stanley drawings 1961-1986

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Doris J. Stanley drawings 1961-1986

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The Doris J. Stanley drawings contain floorplans and elevations for numerous residences and one funeral home. Items in the collection are described using titles found on the original drawings. Doris J. Stanley was born Farmington, Maine in 1926. She worked two years in newspaper advertising for the Bangor Daily Commercial before coming to Durham, North Carolina in 1950 with a southern friend who was attending graduate school. In Durham, she took a drafting job with architect William Van Eaton Sprinkle. Sprinkle did his initial drawings at 1/8” scale, then handed them over to Stanley to recreate them at 1/4”. Stanley retired in 1989.

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

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The North Carolina Collection is a special collection of the University Library; its purpose is to acquire and preserve all published materials dealing with North Carolina. Louis Round Wilson began developing the collection shortly after he became University Librarian in 1901, and in 1917 he hired Mary L. Thornton to be its first curator. The history of the North Carolina Collection as a distinct unit of the library dates from that time. From the description of Records of the North ...

Stanley, Doris J.

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Doris Stanley (b. 1926), a native of Farmington, Maine and graduate of the University of Maine in Orono (1948), majored in psychology but took drafting classes because she enjoyed them. She worked two years in newspaper advertising for the Bangor Daily Commercial before coming to Durham, North Carolina in 1950 with a southern friend who was attending graduate school. When the Durham employment office asked about her skills, she mentioned drafting and was told an architect was lookin...