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Carl T. Durham (1892–1974) was born at White Cross in Orange County and worked as a pharmacist at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill. He served as a Chapel Hill alderman and county commissioner before representing the district in Congress for 22 years.
Source: Open Orange: Carl Durham
Also found in catalogs as Carl Thomas Durham.
1892–1974 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
10 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Carl T. Durham.
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Congressional papers of Carl Thomas Durham (1892-1974) covering 1938 to 1960, some 60,000 items across 47.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3507. The papers concern his work on the House Committee on Armed Services and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, nuclear weapons and drug legislation, and politics in Orange, Durham, Alamance and Guilford counties.
A 1967 audiocassette about earlier Chapel Hill, concerning town history and social life. The people identified with the recording are Congressman Carl Thomas Durham, Samuel Huntington Hobbs and university chancellor Robert Burton House.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Durham, Carl Thomas, 1892-1974.
A cassette recording of Carl Durham speaking with the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1972. Part of its CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Carl Durham, recorded on cassette in 1972 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.
Two photographs of the birthplace of Carl Durham, the North Carolina congressman, dated 1951 to 1972. One shows the cabin's exterior with its outbuildings collapsing around it; the other is a front view. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Scrapbook following the construction and launch of the S.S. Chapel Hill Victory, a Second World War cargo ship that carried the town's name, launched on 4 December 1944. Baltimore figures in the story, as do Congressman Carl T. Durham and Robert W. Madry. From the North Carolina Memory collection.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Durham, Carl Thomas, 1892-1974.
Photographs of the Army-Navy E ceremony in Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, on 22 January 1943, the first such award in North Carolina during World War II. They show officers of the Pre-Flight School and of National Munitions Corporation, the audience and the presentation. Governor J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, Carl T. Durham and Frank Porter Graham are among those pictured.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Durham, Carl Thomas, 1892-1974.
R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Durham, Carl Thomas, 1892-1974.
Carl Durham, the Chapel Hill pharmacist and longtime congressman, is covered in clippings, copied newspaper articles and a Historical Society report. Undated folder from box 3 of the Individuals and Families series in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
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Carl Durham posed with his glasses in hand, undated. Durham, a Chapel Hill pharmacist, served in Congress from 1939 to 1961. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
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Picture: Carl T. Durham, 1939. Public domain. Photograph by Harris & Ewing; Library of Congress; via Wikimedia Commons
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