Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4458
                    HERMAN GLENN BAITY PAPERS
                       Initial Description

Abstract:      Herman Glenn Baity (1895-1975), internationally
           known sanitary engineer and professor of sanitary
           engineering at the University of North Carolina,
           1926-1955.
               Correspondence, writings, subject files, travel
           diaries, photographs, film strips, and other materials
           documenting Herman Glenn Baity's career as an
           academician and international consultant, particularly
           in South America; his role in developing water and
           sewer plants throughout North Carolina; and his tenure
           as director of sanitary engineering for the World
           Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.  Also
           included are materials relating to Baity's father,
           George Wesley Baity; to his wife, ethnologist
           Elizabeth Chesley Baity; and to other Baity and
           Chesley family members.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Baity, Elizabeth Chesley, 1907- .
   Baity family.
   Baity, George Wesley.
   Baity, Herman Glenn, 1895- .
   Chesley family.
   Ethnologists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   Sanitary engineering--Study and teaching--North Carolina.
   Sanitary engineers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--
       20th century.
   Women social scientists--North Carolina--History--20th
       century.
   World Health Organization.

Size:      About 6,800 items (19.5 feet).

Provenance:    Received from School of Public Health, University
               of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in July 1986 and
               June 1991.

Processing Note:   Unprocessed, but may be used with staff
                   assistance.  Letters in box 8 are still in
                   envelopes.
                   For biographical information, see entry in the
                   Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.

Access:        No restrictions

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Box List

                       Original Accession

   Boxes 1-3       Chiefly materials relating to Baity's career
                   in North Carolina.

          Additions of June 1991 (Acc. 91072 and 91075)

   Boxes 4-8       Professional and personal correspondence,
                   writings, and other materials, 1900s-1970s,
                   chiefly relating to Baity's tenure in South
                   America and in Europe.  Much of the material
                   is personal and includes items relating to
                   Baity's father George Wesley Baity, to Baity's
                   wife Elizabeth Chesley Baity, and to other
                   members of the Baity and Chesley families.

   Boxes 9-13      Travel diaries; scrapbooks; notebooks
                   containing the personal correspondence of
                   Baity and Elizabeth Chesley Baity; notebooks
                   containing writings illustrated with
                   photographs, chiefly by Elizabeth Chesley
                   Baity; photographic prints and negatives and
                   film strips relating to various organizations
                   with which Baity was affiliated and countries
                   in which the Baitys lived; and other items.