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

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4452
                 CHARLES ANDERSON FARRELL PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Charles Anderson Farrell (1894-1977) was a native
           of Yadkin County, N.C., and, in 1923, moved to
           Greensboro where he became the first professional
           photographer of the Greensboro Daily News.  In the
           1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography
           studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown
           Greensboro.  Farrell died at the age of 83 in the
           Friends Home at Greensboro, N.C.
               Correspondence, photocopies, and drafts of literay
           manuscripts, clippings, and other material, 1938-1977,
           documenting the career of Charles A. Farrell, a
           Greensboro photographer, who contributed the
           photographs for several University of North Carolina
           press books.  The majority of the material relates to
           Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), ahead of its time
           as a Southern book because it pictures blacks
           favorably as warm, intelligent human beings.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Black families--North Carolina.
   Couch, William (William Terry).
   Farrell, Charles Anderson, 1894-1977.
   Garner, Arthur, fl. 1930s.
   North Carolina--Race relations.
   Photographers--North Carolina--Greensboro.
   Sharpe, Stella Gentry, fl. 1930s.  Tobe.
   University of North Carolina Press.

Size:  About 200 items (0.5 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from Roger H. Farrell of Ithaca, N.Y., in
               June 1986.

Access:        No restrictions.

Related Collections:   See University of North Carolina Press
                       Records in the University Archives and
                       Records Service.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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

Table of Contents:
   Biographical Note
   Description
   Shelf List

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, N.C.,
and, in 1923, moved to Greensboro where he became the first
professional photographer of the Greensboro Daily News.  In the
1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio,
camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro.

   Farrell was a graduate of Wake Forest College, to which he
returned to teach English for a short time after serving in
World War I.

   Farrell married Anne McKaughan.  They had three children,
Charles B., Peter S., and Roger H.

   Highlights of Farrell's career included taking some of the
first aerial photographs of North Carolina, taking exclusive
aerial photographs of Z. Smith Reynolds's estate in Winston-Salem
following the fatal shooting of the heir to the Reynolds tobacco
fortune, and taking the pictures for Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe
(1939), a portrait of a young black boy and his family in the
1930s.

   Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at
Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1977.

                           DESCRIPTION

   Correspondence, photocopies and drafts of literary
manuscripts, clippings, and other material, 1938-1977, concerning
the various University of North Carolina Press books to which
Farrell contributed photographs, and books for which he
considered doing photographic work.  The UNC Press books
represented in the collection are E. T. H. Shaffer's Carolina
Gardens, 1939 edition; Bernice Kelly Harris's Folk Plays of
Eastern Carolina, ca. 1940; Aubrey Lee Brook's Walter Clark:
Fighting Judge, 1944; and Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe, 1939. 
Also included are papers relating to several unpublished works.

   The majority of the materials concern Tobe, which describes
the life of a young black boy and his family in the 1930s. 
Included is correspondence between Farrell and UNC Press editor
W. T. Couch, advertising manager Porter Cowles, and Stella Sharpe
concerning production and promotion of Tobe.  There is also
information relating to royalties.  Also included is
correspondence relating to the law suit that was filed by Arthur
Garner of Greensboro, N.C., regarding the use of pictures of
himself and his family in the publication of Tobe and letters
documenting public reaction from blacks and whites toward Tobe.

Folder 1     Carolina Gardens
       2     Folk Plays of Eastern Carolina
       3     Tobe, 1938
       4     Tobe, January-June 1939
       5     Tobe, July-December 1939
       6     Tobe, 1940
       7     Tobe, 1941
       8     Tobe, 1943, 1945, 1977
       9     Walter Clark: Fighting Judge
      10     Unpublished works, 1939-1943

                           SHELF LIST

   Box 1   (only)