Inventory of the Harry Lee Harllee Films, 1927-1945

Collection Number 4773

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

Collection Information

Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Online Catalog Headings

Biographical Note

Collection Overview

Detailed Description of the Collection

Items Separated

Related Collections

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator: Harllee, Harry Lee, 1876-1952.

Title: Harry Lee Harllee Films, 1927-1945

Call Number: 4773

Language of Materials: Materials in English

Extent: Items: 41

Abstract

Harry Lee Harllee was a naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist, and founder of the Harllee Museum of Natural History in Florence, S.C. In 1927, he founded the Harllee Construction Company, also in Florence, S.C. In 1947, his nephew, Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum (1913-1987) joined the company as a partner, and it was renamed Harllee-Quattlebaum, Inc.

The collection consists of 41 reels of silent, black and white, color and tinted 16-mm film, including both home movies and commercially released films. The home movies were shot, edited, and titled by Harry Lee Harllee. Subjects include members of the Harllee, Quattlebaum, Blackwell, and Dargan families; friends; former slaves; hunting and fishing scenes in North Carolina and South Carolina; Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, S.C.; members of the Woodstone Hunting Club; and trips to Washington, D.C., the Florida Keys, and Elon College, N.C., in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Many of the films are extensively edited and contain numerous intertitles identifying people and places. Some also have identifying information written on paper inserts or on their boxes. The commercially released films are primarily short nature documentaries.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access: This collection has restrictions to access. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.

Usage Restrictions: RESTRICTED: Use of these materials may require production of viewing copies.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum Jr. through John M. Rivers Jr. of Charleston, S.C., in January and May 1995 (Acc. 95118 and 95138).

Processing Information: Processed by: Ethan Clauset, May 2008; Encoded by: Ethan Clauset, May 2008

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Harry Lee Harllee Films, 1927-1945 #4773, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

African Americans--Pictorial works.

African Americans--South Carolina--History--20th century.

Amateur films.

Blackwell family.

Dargan family.

Elon College (N.C.)--Pictorial works.

Elon College--History.

Family--South Carolina--Pictorial works.

Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.

Family--Southern States--Pictorial works.

Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.

Fishing--Southern States--Pictorial works.

Florence (S.C.)--History.

Florence (S.C.)--Pictorial works.

Florence (S.C.)--Social life and customs.

Florida--Description and travel.

Florida--Pictorial works.

Freedmen--Pictorial works.

Gardens--South Carolina--Pictorial works.

Harllee family.

Harllee, Harry Lee, 1876-1952.

Hunting--Southern States--Pictorial works.

Magnolia Gardens (Charleston, S.C.)

North Carolina--Description and travel.

North Carolina--Pictorial works.

Quattlebaum family.

Slavery--South Carolina.

South Carolina--Description and travel.

South Carolina--Pictorial works.

Southern States--Pictorial works.

Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel.

Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works.

Woodstone Hunting Club and Corp.

Related Collections

Harry Lee Harllee Papers, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
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Biographical Note

Harry Lee Harllee was born on 27 September 1876 to Harry Thomas Harllee and Mary Hart McCall. His great uncle, General William Wallace Harllee, founded the city of Florence, S.C. He served in World War I as captain, 2nd Infantry, South Carolina National Guard. He was a naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist, and founder of the Harllee Museum of Natural History in Florence. In 1927, he founded the Harllee Construction Company in Florence. In 1947, Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum joined the company as a partner, and it was renamed Harllee-Quattlebaum Inc. Harllee died on 22 February 1952.

Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum, Harry Lee Harllee's nephew, was born on 12 September 1913 to McQueen Quattlebaum and Elizabeth McCall Harllee, daughter of Harry Thomas Harllee and Mary Hart McCall. He died in 1987.

Collection Overview

The collection consists of 41 reels of silent, black and white, color and tinted 16-mm film, including both home movies and commercially released films. The home movies were shot, edited, and titled by Harry Lee Harllee of Florence, S.C. Subjects include the Harllee, Quattlebaum, Blackwell, and Dargan families; friends; former slaves; hunting and fishing scenes in North Carolina and South Carolina; Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, S.C.; members of the Woodstone Hunting Club; and trips to Washington, D.C., the Florida Keys, and Elon College, N.C., in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Many of the films are extensively edited and contain numerous intertitles identifying people and places. Some also have identifying information written on paper inserts or on their boxes. The commercially released films are primarily short nature documentaries.

Arrangement of Collection

1. Home movies
2. Commercial films
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Items Separated

Films (F-4773/1-40)

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Home movies, 1927-1932.

30 items.

16-mm films, acetate or diacetate base, silent, all black and white reversal except for one in color (F-4773/16). Estimated lengths from 40 to 475 feet.

Film F-4773/1

Wild goose hunting, 1928

Scenes from a wild goose hunt at Mattamuskeet Lake, New Holland, in Hyde County, N.C., in the winter of 1928. Subjects include New Holland Village and New Holland Inn, Mattamuskeet Lake pumping station, and Harry Lee Harllee and hunting companions. This film is heavily edited and contains numerous intertitles describing the pictured scenes.

Film F-4773/2

Pamlico Sound, N.C., 1928

Coastal scenes and wild duck hunting. Subjects include an African American woman in a white dress and heels, dancing; Pamlico Sound; North Wimber Creek; wild birds; an open water hunting blind; placing wooden decoys; and hunting guide Albert Murphy.

Film F-4773/11

Harllees, Quattlebaums, and others, 1927-1929

Family and friends of the Harllees and Quattlebaums, all identified by numerous intertitles. Subjects include Christmas dinner at the home of McQueen Quattlebaum in Johnston, S.C.; a picnic at Myrtle Beach, S.C.; and the Woodstone Hunting and Fishing Clubhouse on the Great Pee Dee River, S.C.

Film F-4773/12

A visit to Magic Magnolia, S.C., April 1928

Subjects identified by numerous intertitles include the estate formerly known as Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, but now called Magnolia Gardens, on the Ashley River, near Charleston, S.C.; the Ashley River Bridge; former slave "Uncle" Frazier, official gate-opener at Magnolia Gardens; and the Drayton tomb in the gardens.

Film F-4773/13

Dargan family, 1928-1929

Subjects identified by numerous intertitles include men rounding up live duck decoys on Wando River, S.C.; Cherry Hill Plantation; dancing at the Dargans' home, Florence, S.C., 1929; and family and friends of the Dargans.

Film F-4773/14

Former slaves, friends of the Harllee family, 1928-1929

Subjects identified by numerous intertitles include "Uncle" Oliver Pierce, former slave of the Harllee family, owned by Dr. Robert Harllee, of Florence County, S.C.; Mingo Jackson, former slave of the Rogers family of Florence, S.C.; Cato Brockington, former slave of the Brockington family; Oliver Wilds, "boyhood servant" of Harry Lee Harllee; and men squirreling in the Pee Dee Swamp and frying fish on Black Creek.

Film F-4773/15a

Washington, D.C., undated

Subjects include White House exterior and grounds, Washington Zoo, Washington Monument, Capitol Building and Mall, a coastal scene, unearthing eggs at the beach.

Film F-4773/16

Florida Keys, undated

Subjects include the Florida Keys and birds and dolphins at a water park. This is the only color film in this collection.

Film F-4773/17

Blackwell family, 1928

Members of the Blackwell family of Florence, S.C.

Film F-4773/18

Duck hunt outtakes, 1928

Subjects include a brace of ducks hanging from the side of a car, unidentified hunters, an unidentified person in a small boat, and open water.

Film F-4773/20

Harry Lee Harllee, 1928

Harry Lee Harllee walking with two unidentified women.

Film F-4773/21

Elon College, N.C., undated

People and scenes of Elon College, N.C.

Film F-4773/22

Coastal scenes at Beaufort, S.C., undated

Subjects include beach scenes, unidentified people, and a motorboat.

Film F-4773/23

Pelican Island, Fla.; alligator farm, undated

Subjects include Pelican Island; Mrs. Harry Lee Harllee; and an alligator farm in Saint Augustine, Fla.

Film F-4773/24

Number not used

Film F-4773/25

Elon College, N.C., 1929

Subjects include Elon College campus; Elon Mayor W.E. Lowe; residential and commercial areas of Elon; and the Southern Railway freight and passenger station.

Film F-4773/26

Elon College, N.C.: Titles

Titles only, no images.

Film F-4773/27

Goose hunt outtakes, 1928

Subjects include a coastal area; ducks and geese; and George E. McNutt of Raleigh, N.C.

Film F-4773/28

Flooded Pee Dee River, S.C., 1928

Subjects include a flood in the Pee Dee River and friends of the Harllee family.

Film F-4773/29

Outtakes, 1929

Subjects include Jennie McRae Johnson of Florence, S.C., and deer hunting.

Film F-4773/30

Outtakes, 1928

Subjects include ducks on Cooper River, S.C., and people and scenes of Elon College, N.C.

Film F-4773/31

Birds, 1928

Subjects include various birds and an unidentified man climbing a tree to a birds' nest.

Film F-4773/32

Elon College, N.C., 1928

Elon College, N.C., campus and students.

Film F-4773/33

Virginia Ariail, 1928

From intertitles: "Miss Virginia Ariail strolling in the park, Spartanburg, S.C."

Film F-4773/34

Pocataligo River, S.C., 1928

Subjects include a picnic on the Pocataligo River; scenes of the Pocataligo River near Yemassee, Beaufort County, S.C.; family and friends of the Harllees; African American children watching a boat; crabbing in the Pocataligo River; and an African American man, possibly Tom Barringer, doing a clog dance on the river bank.

Film F-4773/35

Spear fishing, 1931

Subjects include spear fishing on a river, birds, a cotton field, unidentified people, a beach, and a hunting party in a field.

Film F-4773/36

Military drill, 1931

Subjects include buildings and a military parade or drill, possibly at Battery Park, and the Citadel Military College in Charleston, S.C.

Film F-4773/37

Hopewell Church cemetery, undated

Subjects include Hopewell Church cemetery and ruins of Melrose Plantation.

Film F-4773/38

Heron rookery, 1932

Subjects include Sander's Heron Rookery, birds, nests, and a coastal area.

Film F-4773/39

Birds, 1932

Subjects include birds' nests and a boy climbing trees to retrieve eggs.

Film F-4773/40

Buzzard Island, S.C., hunting, 1931

Subjects identified by a handwritten note include family and friends of the Harllees, fishing, coastal area, hunting deer, a dying buck, dogs, Buzzard Island, ducks at Hutton's on Edisto River, deer killed at Woodstone Dee, a bee hive on Witherspoon Island, and a large group of people eating dinner on Witherspoon Island and cutting shirt tails.

2. Commercial films, 1927-1945.

10 items.

16-mm films, acetate or diacetate base, silent, all black and white positives. Some of the films are tinted: F-4773/3, F-4773/5, F-4773/8, F-4773/9, F-4773/10, F-4773/15b.

Film F-4773/3

Going up to Iguaza, Kodak Cinegraph

Chumming with the animals, New York Zoological Park

Housekeeping at the zoo, New York Zoological Park

Donald R. Dickey presents: Wilderness lives: a naturalist's intimate record of unmolested game

Film F-4773/4

Abbott and Costello: Rodeo

Mose and Mike up to mischief

Film F-4773/5

Field and Stream presents wild animals of the Rockies

Film F-4773/6

World War I

Trains

Film F-4773/7

Paris, Kodak Cinegraph

Killing the killer, UFA

Wild men & beasts of Borneo

Film F-4773/8

Hunting wild turkey in Maryland, Field & Stream

Salmon fishing in Newfoundland

Flowers growing and opening, Missouri Botanical Gardens

Tiniest soul in feathers: the hummingbird, American Nature Association

Film F-4773/9

National Park series no. 1: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

National Park series no. 2: Geysers of the Yellowstone

Bird and animal life of Yellowstone Park

Film F-4773/10

Some Rocky Mountain wild folk

Natural history series no. 7: Glimpses of Greenland

Adventure series no. 2: Capturing big fish in Pacific waters

Adventure series no. 1: Whaling in the South Pacific

Film F-4773/15b

Felix the cat fights the Indians

Film F-4773/19

End titles

Short segments of end titles ("The End") from commercial films.