Louis Round Wilson photographic collection, circa 1860s-1980s.

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Louis Round Wilson photographic collection, circa 1860s-1980s.

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The Louis Round Wilson Photographic Collection consists largely of snapshots of family and friends and some studio portraits, circa 1860s-1980s. Family snapshots include members of the Edmonds, Round, Wilson, and Wright families. Among the individual images are those of William C. Friday, R.B. House, and Thomas Wolfe. Most photographs were made in North Carolina (primarily in Chapel Hill), but a few were made in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. Formats represented include black-and-white prints, color prints and negatives, silhouettes, a daguerreotype, ambrotypes, tintypes, a cyanotype, postcards, and cartes de visites.

ca. 670 items (4.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7492892

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library

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Friday, William C. (William Clyde)

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William Clyde Friday was born in 1920 in Raphine, Va., and grew up in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina in 1948, after which he served as assistant dean of students and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. Friday was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (North Carolina State College (Raleigh), the University of North Carolina...

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987

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Robert Burton House was executive secretary, 1926-1934, dean of administration, 1934-1945, and chancellor, 1945-1957, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus; lecturer in the UNC English Department, 1957-1962; author; and public speaker. From the description of R. B. House papers, 1916-1973. WorldCat record id: 30485688 ...

Wilson, Louis Round, 1976-1979.

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Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979

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Louis Round Wilson (27 December 1876-10 December 1979) was born in Lenoir, N.C., and, in the 1890s, attended Davenport College in Lenoir; Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.; and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from which he graduated in May 1899. After teaching for a few years, Wilson embarked on a long and distinguished career in librarianship, library science education, and university administration. Wilson served as librarian and first director of the School of Library...

Wright family

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Edmonds family

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Round family

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Wilson family

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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...