Elizabeth Tannahill Bain photographic collection, circa 1890-1933.

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Elizabeth Tannahill Bain photographic collection, circa 1890-1933.

circa 1890-1933

http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0064/

The collection consists of one photographic album and loose photographic prints, circa 1890 through 1933. The album, circa 1914 to 1933, has views of Chapel Hill, N.C., and the University of North Carolina campus. Included are photographs of Coker Arboretum, Commons Hall, the University Inn, Battle Park, a 1914 football game, Chapel Hill houses, students training on the campus during World War I, University Day in 1917, and miscellaneous social activities. Also included are shots from Norfolk, Va.; Lancing, Morgan County, Tenn.; and Durant Island, Dare County, N.C. The loose photographic prints consist primarily of portraits of the family and friends of Elizabeth Tannahill Bain.

ca. 250 items (0.25 linear feet)

eng, Latn

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7506360

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.

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Bain, Isabel Plummer, 1868-1964

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Isabel Plummer Bain (1868-1964) of Petersburg, Va., married Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) of Portsmouth, Va., in 1891. Charles Wesley Bain was an educator, professor of Greek and Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C....

Coker Arboretum

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Bain 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...

Bain, Charles Wesley, 1864-1915

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Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) was the son of George McK. and Willie Frances Cherry Bain of Norfolk, Va. He was educated at Colonel William Gordon McCabe's school in Virginia, was graduated from the University of Virginia, and received an M.A. from the University of the South in 1895. He taught school at Savannah, Ga.; was joint headmaster at Rugby School in Louisville, Ky.; classical master at McCabe's School in Petersburg, Va.; and headmaster at Sewannee Grammar School. He was married in 1891...

Bain, Elizabeth Tannahill, 1893-1969

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Elizabeth Tannahill Bain (1893-circa 1967) lived at Chapel Hill, N.C. (407 East Rosemary Street, which later became the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House) and Virginia Beach, Va. She was the daughter of Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915), professor of Greek and Latin at the University of North Carolina, and Isabel Plummer Bain, a native of Petersburg, Va. As an adult, Elizabeth Bain served as department secretary to the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina. A biographica...