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Exterior view of the Louis Round Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, circa 1940-1942; P0020/0020, in the Elmer D. Johnson Photographic Collection (P0020), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Collection Overview
| Size | 15 black-and-white photographic prints in a photographic album and 12 loose prints in 3 polyethylene sheets (1.5 linear feet in 1 flat storage box) |
| Abstract | Elmer D. Johnson attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1932 to 1951, receiving a BA (1936), MA (1942), and PhD (1951) all in history. Johnson did not take the images contained in this collection, but received them in 1942 from an unidentified fellow student who was leaving UNC to serve in World War II. The collection consists of 15 prints mounted in a small leather album and 12 loose photographs. Imprinted on the front of the album are the words "Snap Shots," and "Chapel Hill, N.C." (handwritten in pen). All of the photographs appear to have been made on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill between the years 1940 and 1942. Included are images of the Louis Round Wilson Library (exterior and interior), the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, South Building (exterior), Emerson Playing Field, and student Paul Hayes Etheridge Jr. in a Pettigrew Hall dorm room. |
| Language | English |
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Elmer D. Johnson of Durham, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., receiving a BA (1936), MA (1942), and PhD (1951) all in history.
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Scope and Content
Collection contains 27 black-and-white photographic prints depicting buildings and grounds at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the early 1940s. Fifteen of the images are contained in a small leather covered album; the other 12 are stored in polyethylene sheets.There are a few individuals included in the images, but only one is identified. Included are images of the Louis Round Wilson Library (exterior and interior), the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, South Building, Emerson Playing Field, and student Paul Hayes Etheridge Jr. in his dorm room in Pettigrew Hall.
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Series 1. Photographic Album: Snap Shots, Chapel Hill, NC, circa 1940-1942.
Arrangement: Original order as found in album.
Includes images of Old South Hall, interior and exterior views of Louis Round Wilson Memorial Library, views of the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, and an image of Paul H. Etheridge Jr. in a Pettigrew Hall dorm room. Descriptions in this series have been created by processors who worked with the collection.
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Series 2. Photographic Prints, circa 1940-1942.
Arrangement: Original order.
Includes images of Emerson Playing Field, Louis Round Wilson Library, Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, and South Hall. Descriptions in this series have been created by processors who worked with the collection.
Processed by: Patrick Cullom, 2009
Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, May 2009; Elizabeth Hull, October 2010
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