North Carolina Collection image reference cards, 1839-1990.

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North Carolina Collection image reference cards, 1839-1990.

The collection consists of cards containing reference copies of selected images, chiefly 1839-1980, and information related to content and origination of each image. Most of the items come from collections in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives and the North Carolina Collection. Each index card includes information about a copy negative made of a photograph or printed item. Most cards also include a contact print of the image, as well as the approximate date, subject, photographer or source, and some indication of provenance. The images are in four alphabetical runs: North Carolina counties; portraits; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; miscellaneous subjects; and printed items, which include reproductions of book covers, book title pages, maps, pamphlets, engravings, newspapers, and journals.

ca. 9000 items (11.0 linear feet)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...