Treasure Tour Celebrates University History
The Old Well, ca. 1892. Kemp Battle's scrapbook
containing this photo will be among the items shown
during the tour.
Early maps and plans of the university, student letters and diaries from the 19th century, and a photograph of John F. Kennedy's visit to campus in 1961 will be among the treasures showcased during a free public tour of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday, May 12. The tour will begin in the Wilson Library lobby at 3 p.m.
The 90-minute guided tour celebrates the history of the university, its alumni, and its donors from Carolina's founding through the present. Visitors will also be able to view an exhibition about UNC founder William Richardson Davie in the library's North Carolina Collection Gallery.
The William Richardson Davie exhibition will be on display through June 30. Also on display in Wilson Library through August is the exhibition Incunabula: The World of the Fifteenth Century.
