Key local figure
Louis Graves, born in Chapel Hill in 1883, became the university's first journalism professor in 1921 and published the first issue of his Chapel Hill Weekly on March 2, 1923. He left the university in 1924 and edited the paper until 1954, writing its editorials and the "Chapel Hill Chaff" columns.
Source: NCpedia: Graves, Louis
1883–1965 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
9 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Louis Graves.
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Four leaves of facts and figures about Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina, drawn from the Chapel Hill Weekly of September 13, 1940, with authorship attributed to the paper's editor, Louis Graves. The copies are bound in handmade booklets with handwritten titles. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Louis Graves (1883-1965) and Mildred Moses Graves left roughly 7,700 items in eleven linear feet, a single 1814 document and then a run from 1876 to 1992, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4010. Graves edited the Chapel Hill Weekly, and topics include North Carolina newspapers and their editors alongside family photographs, travel diaries and the social life of the Graves and Moses families.
Arthur Ruhl's 1927 New York Herald Tribune piece about the Chapel Hill Weekly and its editor Louis Graves, 1883 to 1965.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graves, Louis, 1883-1965.
Posed 1914 photograph of Louis Graves and Julia Graves, from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Four photographs of Louis Graves, founding editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, dated 1910 to 1914: a newspaper portrait, a copy of his World War I identification card, an outdoor candid, and Graves reading his own paper. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Louis Graves, founding editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, is the subject of newspaper clippings and a report in this undated folder from box 4 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Louis Graves and Ernest Graves posed with other young men from the area, possibly students, in an undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Posed photographs of Louis Graves and Mildred Moses Graves, undated, together with a negative of one of the prints. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Undated portraits of Louis Graves and Ralph Henry Graves, gathered in one photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Louis Graves and Walter Prichard Eaton outdoors among trees, an undated candid photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
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Picture: Louis Graves, newspaper photograph, 1962. No known copyright restrictions. The Chapel Hill Weekly, 1962; Library of Congress
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