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Elizabeth Blackwell

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Isabel Plummer Bain and Charles Wesley Bain papers, circa 1900s-1960s

1917

Joint papers of Charles Wesley Bain, 1864 to 1915, a college teacher at the University of North Carolina, and Isabel Plummer Bain, 1868 to 1964, dating from about the 1900s to the 1960s. One hundred items in half a linear foot, collection 1327 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers include material on the Civil War in North Carolina and the social conditions of women.

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Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 3 collections naming Elizabeth Blackwell State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 13 Orange County pages naming Elizabeth Blackwell DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Elizabeth Blackwell NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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