Indexed works
Works about or by John R. Bittner. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Denise Bittner Photograph Collection
Bittner, Denise Alexander, 1950- · 1980
Denise Alexander Bittner's photographs, 1980 to 2001, 37 prints and 36 negatives. Most show the torch run for the 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival as it passed over Ocracoke Island, with Denise and John Robert Bittner among the runners. Chapel Hill ties include UNC's Lineberger Cancer Center and School of Journalism, and Kay Yow, Brad Daugherty and Helen Thomas are among the people named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Bittner , John R., 1943-.
John R. Bittner papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1998-2002.
Bittner, John R., 1943-2002 · 1998
Research papers gathered by John R. Bittner, a Chapel Hill faculty member who lived from 1943 to 2002, dated 1998 to 2002 and running to roughly 500 items in two linear feet. The collection number changed from CW2.3 to 70008 in April 2020. Topics include criticism of Thomas Wolfe, conferences on Wolfe and his family, and journalism in North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bittner, John R., 1943-2002.
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