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Extent: 1,015 slides, 381 negatives, 803 prints, 1 drawing, and 1 rubbing.
Biographical Sketch: Mary Claire Randolph Engstrom (1906-1997) is best known for the active role she played in the preservation of historic Hillsborough. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she earned an B.A. degree in English and B.S. degrees in history and political science from Central Missouri State Teachers' College. After earning an M.A. degree in English from the University of Missouri, she moved to moved to Chapel Hill to attend the University of North Carolina. There she specialized in eighteenth century English literature, earning her Ph.D. in 1939. She married Alfred G. Engstrom (UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of French) the same year.
Although her early specialization was in literature, she said it was "only a short step from English literature of the eighteenth century to American history of the same period, because this area was English to start with -- the same families and everything." In 1959, after she and her husband purchased the historic Nash-Hooper house in Hillsborough, she began to focus exclusively on the historical documentation of Hillsborough and its environs. In addition to writing numerous articles on local history, she was instrumental in founding the Hillsborough Historical Society in 1963. She also served as Chairman of the Historic Hillsborough Commission from 1964 to 1966.
Engstrom undertook a major project to document 122 old structures and historic sites in the Hillsborough area for the Historic American Buildings Survey (1963 - 1965). Her research helped many of these buildings qualify for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (including the Nash - Hooper House as a National Historic Landmark). It also helped establish two historic districts in Hillsborough, and it resulted in the restoration of many buildings. Other major documentation projects include a survey of cemeteries and graves in Orange County, and a survey of the whole of Orange County for an historical map. Photographs taken in conjuction with her research comprise the bulk of this collection. Engstrom's manuscripts are in the library's Southern Historical Collection.
Collection Description: A collection of negatives, prints, and slides in both black-and-white and color, primarily of Hillsborough and Orange County, North Carolina. Most of the slides are of churches and cemeteries. Many of the prints and negatives are of historic structures and persons significant to the history of Orange County. A few of the images show Mary Claire Engstrom and her husband, Alfred G. Engstrom, their dogs, cats, and home in Hillsborough. A few negatives date from the 1930s but most of the photographs are from the 1960s and 1970s.
Alderman, Emma Graves (1858-1896)
Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858)
Burke, Thomas (Grave of)
Chamberlain, Hope Summerell (1870-1960)
Chapin, Elise Hutcheson
Chapman, Robert Hett (1771-1833)
Clark, Walter (1846-1924)
Engstrom, Alfred G.
Engstrom, Mary Claire
Graham Family
Henderson, Richard
Hill, Wills (Earl of Hillsborough)
Hogg, James (1729-1805)
Hooper, William (1742-1790), and others
Hunt, Memucan
Huntington, William
Johnston, William
Kirkland Family
Lister, Francis
Maclellan, John and William Johnston (Deed)
Moore, Alfred (1755-1810)
Nash, Abner (1740-1786)
Nash, Francis
Nash, Frederick (1781-1858)
Norwood Family
Ruffin, Thomas (1787-1870)
Strudwick Family
Unidentified Portrait
Webb - Long Family
Witherspoon, John K. (1791-1853)
Anderson (Alice) House on Lot 91
Ayr Mount
Berry Brick House
Bingham School
Bingham (William J.) House (Paul Hogan's House)
Burns Log Cabin
Burnside and Ruffin Law Office
Burwell School
Cameron (Anne Call) House (Pherribo House)
Chatwood
Churton Street
Colonial Inn
Cone Mills Corporation
Cornwallis' Headquarters (Faddis' Tavern) and Office
Courthouse (Old) and Old Town Clock
Dairy Farm
Dickerson's Chapel
Dickson House
Eno Lodge and Law Office
Eno River
First Baptist Church
Grave Marker of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burns Street
Haralson Strudwick House
Hasell - Nash House (Pilgrim's Rest, Dr. H. W. Moore's House, Eliza Hasell)
Hawfields Cemetery
Heartsease
Highlands (Elizabeth Collins' Home)
Hillsborough Military Academy
Hillsborough - Miscellaneous
Hogg (James) First Home (Thomas Ruffin's "Old House")
Indian Artifacts
Jones (Henderson) House
Lockhart - Phillips Cemetery
Maple Hill (Hollingsworth Home)
Market House
Masonic Hall
Matheson Building
Montrose (Graham Home)
Moorefields
Nash - Hooper House (Exterior)
Nash - Hooper House (Interior)
Nash - Kollock School
Nash Law Office and Garden
Norwood - Jones Law Office (Cadwalader Jones' Law Office, Court St. Law Office)
Old Town Cemetery
Orange High School
Over the River (James Webb Cheshire House)
Oxford Orphanage
Parks - Richmond House
Patterson - Palmer House
Poplar Hill (Occoneechee Farm)
Presbyterian Church and Sessions House
Quaker Cemetery
Quaker School House
Regulator Marker
Ruffin - Roulhac House (Little Hawfields)
Ruffin - Snipes House (Peter Brown Ruffin House)
Sans Souci
Scott (Curtis) House
Seven Hearths (R. J. Murphy House)
St. Mary's Chapel
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
Strudwick (Edmund ) Kitchen
Stubbs (John) House
Sunnyside
Synnot (Michael) Pond and House
Turner (Josiah) House (Old Burgwyn House, The Grove)
Twin Chimneys
United Methodist Church
Webb (John Graham) House
Webb Kitchen (Webb - Matheson House)
Webb - Matheson House (Bellevue, Mrs. J. C. Webb's House)
Weights and Measures
West Point Mill on the Eno River
Whitted (William) House Well
Slides of churches, cemeteries, and graves
Slides of churches, cemeteries, and graves.
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