James E. Wadsworth papers, 1909-1995 [manuscript].

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James E. Wadsworth papers, 1909-1995 [manuscript].

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Papers, 1942-1945, relating to the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, N.C.; papers, 1946-1973, relating to student housing at the University of North Carolina; files, 1957-1976, relating to Morehead Planetarium; papers, 1954-1970, relating to WUNC-TV; and photographs, chiefly of people and places at the University of North Carolina. Included are memoranda about housing policy; correspondence about student housing; information about the histories of dormitories and housing at the University; scripts for shows at Morehead Planetarium; and materials relating to "Science and Nature," a WUNC-TV show coordinated and moderated by Wadsworth for junior high and senior high school students. Also included are photographs of people at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, of dormitories at the University of North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, of people at Morehead Planetarium, and of Wadsworth and others on the "Science and Nature" set.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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