Tintype collection, circa 1856-1900 [graphic].

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Tintype collection, circa 1856-1900 [graphic].

The Tintype Collection contains 19 images taken of individuals seated or standing for portraits, circa 1856-1900. Individuals appearing in the images have been identified whenever possible. Known individuals are listed as subject access points, as are identified locations. Few of the images remain in their original paper encasements due to their fragility. Included are an images of the Carroll family of Danbury, N.C.; a slave referred to as "Uncle Caesar," who was owned by the Roulhac family of Hillsborough, N.C.; graduation marshals at the University of North Carolina in 1861; and Henry Speck Harris (1837-1863) of the "Flat River Guard" Company B, 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.

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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...

Roulhac family.

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 6th

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Harris, Henry Speck, 1837-1863.

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