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Biographical Sketch: Billy Ebert Barnes was born in Winston-Salem, N.C. and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in U.S. Marine Corp in the early 1950s and worked for McGraw-Hill in New York and Atlanta. In 1964 he became the Public Relations Director of the North Carolina Fund, a state-chartered, non-profit corporation established by Governor Terry Sanford in late 1963 to seek new ways to address the problem of poverty in North Carolina. Barnes held this position until 1969.
Barnes' photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune, and other periodicals. Barnes has produced several motion picture documentaries, filmstrips, and slide-tape programs. He is also the author of numerous articles. He lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. and works as a free-lance photographer.
Image Caption: A construction worker, blinded on the job holding his child. Winston-Salem, N.C., 1965.
Extent: 1,495 35mm slides; uncounted 35mm and 120 roll film negatives and xerographic copies of proof sheets; 37 photographs
Collection Description: Billy Barnes made the 35mm copy slides between 1964 and 1969 for audio-visual presentations. He also prepared an inventory of these slides, preceded by a short description of the program and a biographical sketch, a xerographic copy of which was bound with a typed title page, "The Billy E. Barnes Collection on Subjects of Poverty, Poverty Programs, and Rural Life in North Carolina, 1964-1968; Located in the North Carolina Collection University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill." This bound volume (NCC call number C339.1 B26b) includes images made from Barnes' contact sheets accompanied by descriptive information and negative numbers. The copy slides in the collection correspond to the listings in the bound volume. The inventory reflects ten major subject categories assigned by Barnes:
Barnes' original negatives, arranged in numerical order, comprise the bulk of the collection. Researchers may view the bound volume, slides, xerographic copies of proof sheets, and photographs; the photographic negatives, however, will require assistance by photographic archives staff. Reproductions of the images may not be supplied by the Photographic Archives without permission from the photographer. Peter Range, who worked for Barnes circa 1965-1968 and later worked for Time, made a small percentage of images in the collection.
The Billy E. Barnes Collection, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library's digital collections, represents a selection of more than 400 negatives that have been scanned and cataloged.
Related Material: The online exhibit, Picturing the North Carolina Fund, features forty-eight photographs. The North Carolina Fund Records are in the Southern Historical Collection, a section of the Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries.
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