Elmer D. Johnson photographic collection, 1940-1942.

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Elmer D. Johnson photographic collection, 1940-1942.

The collection consists of 15 prints mounted in a small leather album and 12 loose photographs. Imprinted on the front of the album are the words "Snap Shots," and "Chapel Hill, N.C." (handwritten in pen). All of the photographs appear to have been made on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill between the years 1940 and 1942. Included are images of the Louis Round Wilson Library (exterior and interior), the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, South Building (exterior), Emerson Playing Field, and student Paul Hayes Etheridge Jr. in a Pettigrew Hall dorm room.

27 items (1 album of 15 images and 12 loose prints)

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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...

Johnson, Elmer Douglas

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Elmer D. Johnson attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1932 to 1951, receiving a BA (1936), MA (1942), and PhD (1951) all in history. Johnson did not take the images contained in this collection, but received them in 1942 from an unidentified fellow student who was leaving UNC to serve in World War II. From the description of Elmer D. Johnson photographic collection, 1940-1942. WorldCat record id: 43026533 ...