Records of the Rare Book Collection, 1928-1979.

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Records of the Rare Book Collection, 1928-1979.

Correspondence and other files relating to the establishment of the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book, and the subsequent development and administration of the Library's Rare Book Collection.

About 4,500 items (4.5 linear ft.).

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

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The Library's Rare Book Collection had its origin in the establishment, in 1929, of the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book, which was made possible by an endowment from the family of John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes. The Hanes endowment enabled the Library to acquire a fine colleciton of incunabula, which became the core of its rare book holdings. Other endowments were later obtained and valuable collections added, including collections of Shakespeare, John...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library

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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

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London, Lawrence Foushee

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Lawrence Foushee London (1908- ) is a retired Curator of Rare Books at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an active member of Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and the Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and an avid family historian. London was blinded in a childhood accident. From the description of Lawrence Foushee London papers, 1740-2003. WorldCat record id: 56037110 Lawrence Foushee London was born 12 February 1908, in Pittsboro, N.C., to Ar...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Rare Book Collection.

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Hanes foundation for the study of the origin and development of the book

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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