Charles Anderson Farrell papers, 1938-1977.

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Charles Anderson Farrell papers, 1938-1977.

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The collection includes correspondence, photocopies and drafts of literary manuscripts, clippings, and other material documenting the career of Charles A. Farrell (1894-1977), a Greensboro photographer, who contributed the photographs for several University of North Carolina Press books. The majority of the material relates to Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), ahead of its time as a Southern book because it pictured blacks favorably as warm, intelligent human beings.

About 200 items (0.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 6825623

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina Press

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The University of North Carolina Press was incorporated as a non-stock company in 1922. Its original purpose was threefold: to publish periodicals devoted to the research and writing of University of North Carolina faculty; to publish catalogs and other documents for the university; and to promote the arts, sciences, and literature by publishing generally deserving works. Throughout its history, the Press has been espeically strong in the areas of Southern history and literature. Although suppor...

Sharpe, Stella Gentry, fl. 1930s.

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Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988

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William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964. From the description of William T. Couch papers, 1926-1988. WorldCat record id: 27190223 Publisher. From the descrip...

Garner, Arthur E.

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Farrell, Charles Anderson, 1894-1977.

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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 i...