Jerome Friar Photographic Collection and Related Materials, 1978-2010

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Jerome Friar Photographic Collection and Related Materials, 1978-2010

1978-2010

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0090/

The Jerome Friar Photographic Collection contains over 50,000 images created by Jerome Friar, 1978-2010. Included are images that cover broad areas of North Carolina, including Durham, Franklinton, Ocracoke Island, Portsmouth, Roxboro, Topsail Island, Warrenton, and Yadkinville, and topics relating to activities in the state. In addition to materials related to North Carolina are images related to Washington, D.C., where Friar lived for nearly 20 years. These materials primarily focus on issues related to economic injustice, poverty, gun violence, homelessness, civil rights, gay rights, environmental racism, neo-Nazi and Ku-Klux Klan activity, pollution and the environment, and Central American issues. Included are photographs of individuals involved in those issues. During his time in Washington, D.C., Friar paid particular attention to events related to North Carolina.

50 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50,000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 8078064

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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