Records of the North Carolina Collection, 1917-1972.

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Records of the North Carolina Collection, 1917-1972.

Chiefly correspondence regarding reference questions, acquisition of materials, and administrative matters. Curators whose correspondence appears include Mary Lindsay Thornton and William S. Powell.

About 1,000 items (1.5 linear ft.).

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library

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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 ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library. North Carolina Collection

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Thornton, Mary Lindsay

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Powell, William S., 1919-

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William Stevens Powell, author, historian, and professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of William Stevens Powell papers, 1880s, 1930s-2006. WorldCat record id: 44442258 William Stevens Powell, author, historian, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was born in Johnston County, N.C., on 28 April 1919. He grew up in Statesville, N.C. He graduated from the Univers...