Local figure
Collier Cobb taught geology at UNC for forty years from 1892 and became head of its geology department. In Chapel Hill he chaired the Public School Committee for many years, ran the Baptist church's Sunday school for twenty years, and after 1915 turned a gullied tract into the residential park now called Cobb Terrace.
Source: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Cobb, Collier
1862–1934 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
10 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 5 works by Collier Cobb.
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Collier Cobb's memorial sketch of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, the Chapel Hill writer who died in 1908, reprinted that year from the April number of the University of North Carolina Magazine and issued by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Pages 261 to 269 with a portrait plate. Topics include women of Chapel Hill and the town's social life and customs.
Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.
Packet of miniature picture postcards of buildings and scenes on the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill, from about the 1890s to the 1920s. The packet was made by the Grogan Photo System of Milwaukee, and the pictures seem to be copies of photographs by Collier Cobb (1862 to 1934), who taught geology at the university. Named for B. Perry Morrison, Jr.
Collier Cobb's piece on the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest College, first printed in the North Carolina University magazine in June 1898 and reissued that year as a separate at Chapel Hill. Topics include the history of Wake Forest College and universities and colleges in North Carolina.
Collier Cobb's sketch of William George Randall, the North Carolina painter, printed at Chapel Hill in 1894 by the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies and detached from the North Carolina University magazine for December of that year. Cobb signed the piece at the end. Randall was a North Carolina artist and university alumnus.
Collier Cobb Jr. of Chapel Hill, interviewed in 1974 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. There is no summary of the conversation. Oral history cassette, Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Collier Cobb, recorded on cassette in 1973 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Minutes and committee files of the University of North Carolina System Board of Trustees from 1932 to 1972, 1,937 items in 2.4 linear feet, University Archives collection 40002, with a master microfilm made by the university library in 1999. Topics include campus buildings and planning, the design and construction of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and trustees including Gordon Gray and George Watts Hill.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934.
Courtship is a major subject of the Lucy Plummer Battle papers of 1903 and 1904, 148 items in half a linear foot, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4155. Betrothal in North Carolina, college students and teachers at the university, and the Department of Geology are among the subjects, with the geologist Collier Cobb named. Battle lived from 1861 to 1905.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934.
Collier Cobb's house in Chapel Hill, shown from the front with the lot around it cleared. One photograph, dated 1896. Cobb taught geology at the University of North Carolina.
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Collier Cobb, the University of North Carolina geology professor, is represented by materials he produced himself. Undated folder from box 3 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
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Headshot of Collier Cobb, the University of North Carolina geologist, undated. One photograph in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
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Picture: Collier Cobb, portrait plate, 1907. Public domain. Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. VI (1907); via the Internet Archive
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