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Ralph Henry Graves (1878–1939) took his A.B. at the University of North Carolina in 1897 and a master's degree the next year, then worked as a university librarian for two years before leaving for New York journalism in 1899. He was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Source: NCpedia: Graves, Ralph Henry, III
Also found in catalogs as Ralph H. Graves.
1878–1939 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person.
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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.
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.
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Picture: Ralph H. Graves, photograph, 1918. No known copyright restrictions. Photograph by Brown Bros. for the American Red Cross; Library of Congress
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