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1887–1968 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Robert A. (Robert Allison) Fetzer.
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.
Robert A. Fetzer and Oliver K. Cornwell describe the new gymnasium at the University of North Carolina, Woollen Gym. The paper was detached from the proceedings of the forty-second annual meeting of the College Physical Education Association and printed at Ohio State University in 1938. It concerns college buildings in Chapel Hill.
Short film from about 1956 to 1958 on the founding of the Morehead Awards, the merit scholarships for University of North Carolina students named for John Motley Morehead III and later renamed the Morehead-Cain program. Robert A. Fetzer and William C. Friday figure among the people shown. From the North Carolina Sights and Sounds collection.
About 1,860 photographs made by Francis Lavergne Johnson (1901-1971) between 1948 and 1971, 1.8 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Johnson photographed university faculty and employees, and subjects include William Aycock, Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, Albert Coates, Paul Green, Charlie Justice, Josephina Niggli and Louis Round Wilson among those who worked at Chapel Hill in those years.
Account of the celebration held on 7 June 1947 for Robert A. Fetzer's twenty-five years as director of athletics at the University of North Carolina, signed at the end by Jake Wade and published by the university at Chapel Hill. Topics include athletic directors in Chapel Hill and Fetzer himself, who lived from 1887 to 1968.
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.
Departmental records of athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, running from 1919 to 1997 with some material from 2000, about 88,000 items across 92.5 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40093. Topics include baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field and wrestling, along with Title IX and the athletic directors Robert Fetzer and John Swofford. Includes photographs.
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