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Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Herman Glenn Baity papers #4458, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Baity family.
• Baity, Elizabeth Chesley.
• Baity, George Wesley.
• Baity, Herman Glenn, 1895-1975.
• 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.

Herman Glenn Baity, 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 (1907- ); and to other Baity and Chesley family members.