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Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves

1886–1950 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The North Carolina Association of Professional Artists holds its first exhibition, in the music building The association's first show, which the Weekly called the first exhibition ever held by the state's professional artists, opened for ten days in the University music building with oils, watercolors, prints and drawings by Elliott Daingerfield, Francis Speight, Charles Baskerville, Mabel Pugh, Isabelle Bowen, Mary deB. Graves, William Steene and others. Clement Strudwick of Hillsboro showed portraits of himself, of Mrs. Strudwick and of his brother in a stage role. People: Francis Speight, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves Place: Music building, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Clement Strudwick, Elliott Daingerfield, Charles Baskerville, William SteeneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1931, p. 1
  2. Former students give the University a portrait of Horace Williams A portrait of the philosopher Horace Williams, painted by Mary deB. Graves (Mrs. Rees), was presented to the University in the Graham Memorial by Kemp D. Battle for the alumni who gave it and accepted by President Graham. Williams himself stayed away. People: Henry Horace Williams, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves, Frank Porter Graham Place: Graham Memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Kemp D. BattleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1934, p. 2

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By Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves

A history of the Old Well

Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950 · 1941

Mary de Berniere Graves wrote this four page folded brochure on the Old Well, the campus landmark at the University of North Carolina, issued at Chapel Hill in 1941. The illustrated piece doubles as advertising for a lamp made in the shape of the well.

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The College Well, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950

Ink drawing of the College Well by Mary deB. Graves, printed as a postcard. Its caption recalls that the old shed over the well gave way in 1897 to a small columned temple built under President Edwin Alderman, and that a pump later replaced the oaken bucket. Undated.

The Old East Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950

Mary deB. Graves drew Old East for this postcard. Her caption calls it the first building put up by a state university in the country, recalls the Masonic ceremony for its cornerstone in 1793, and notes that its bricks were fired on university land with mortar made from shells hauled from Wilmington. Undated.

Wisteria Arbor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950

Ink drawing by Mary deB. Graves of the Wisteria Arbor, printed as a postcard. The caption places the arbor along Cameron Avenue near the east gate, at the southern edge of the university's Arboretum, which botany professor W. C. Coker laid out in 1904 on what had been a marshy pasture. Undated.

About Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves

Louis and Mildred Graves papers, 1814 ; 1876-1992.

Graves, Louis, 1883-1965 · 1814

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950.

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