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P20: Elmer D. Johnson Collection

Creator: Unknown

Extent: 27 items in a photographic album

Format(s): Black-and-white photographs; photograph album

Access: Not restricted

Usage Restrictions: The current policies of the North Carolina Collection define the conditions of use.

Provenance: The photographs were a gift in 1990 from Elmer Douglas Johnson, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the photographs from an unidentified fellow student who was about to enter World War II. (Accession no. 30423.)

Collection Description: The Elmer D. Johnson Collection consists of twelve loose photographs and fifteen prints mounted in a small leather album. Imprinted on the front of the album are the words "Snap Shots, Chapel Hill, N. C." All of the photographs appear to have been made on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

The subject matter of the photographs includes the Louis Round Wilson Library (exterior and interior), the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, South Building, Emerson Field, and student Paul Hayes Etheridge Jr. in his room in Pettigrew Hall.


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