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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Leonard Earl Fields Papers #4415, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the estate of Leonard Earl Fields, Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 1985 (Acc. 85036).

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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Farm tenancy--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Fields, Leonard Earl.
• Kinston (N.C.)--History.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Tenant farmers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Basketball--Photographs.

Leonard Earl Fields was born on 20 June 1897 in Kinston, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina for his undergraduate degree, 1917-1921, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. He married Sarah Beckton Stanley in 1924. Fields became a practicing physician in 1930 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He served as an examining physician for the Selective Service System in Orange County, N.C., during World War II. Fields died on 19 September 1984.

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, and other papers of physician Leonard Earl Fields of Chapel Hill, N.C. The bulk of the letters are from the Fields' tenant farmer and have information pertaining to the family farm in Kinston, N.C., including weather, planting schedules, and finances. There are photographs of Leonard and Sarah Fields as well as a photograph of the 1957 University of North Carolina men's basketball team arriving home after winning the NCAA championship game. The photograph shows Sarah Fields holding a flag in the center of the welcoming crowd. There are also financial records, newspaper clippings, and other items.

• Image Folder (P-4415/1)